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Chapter 43: The Kidnapping And The Rival
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Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 99: The Call
POV: HaileyI left the kitchen while Evans was still talking.Not because I didn't want to hear the rest of it, but because if I sat at that table for one more minute looking at the test and listening to the shape of everything that had been built around me without my knowledge I was going to stop being composed and I needed to stay composed for a little longer.I went upstairs and sat on the floor of the bedroom with my back against the bed and took out my phone and found the number I had for Calix, the one I had saved years ago and never deleted even after it stopped working, the way you keep things that used to matter.I called it.The line didn't even ring. Just the flat, immediate tone of a number that no longer existed.I sat there and went through every version of his contact I had ever had, the number from before he disappeared, the one he had given Mabel at some point, an email address I had found on an old message thread, a third number that Nancy had given me once and said
Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 98: Iris knows
POV: IrisI had been standing in the hallway for four minutes.I hadn't meant to listen. I had come downstairs for water and then heard Hailey's voice through the kitchen door and stopped because the tone of it was the kind that makes you stop, flat and precise and working very hard to stay that way, and I had stood there with my hand on the wall and listened to all of it.When she asked the question, what does she want with our child, I pushed the door open and came in.Everyone looked at me. Hailey looked at me the longest."How much did you hear?" Evans asked."Enough," I said, and pulled out the chair across from Hailey and sat down, "and I need to tell you something, all of you, something I should have said last night but I didn't because last night there was too much happening and I wasn't sure how to say it and I was also, honestly, still deciding how much I trusted this room.""And now?" Nancy said."Now I've decided," I said, "so listen."Nobody moved. Mabel set the kettle do
Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 97: The Test
POV: HaileyI sat up slowly.Evans was on the edge of the bed watching me with the careful stillness of someone who has just said something they can't take back and is waiting to find out what it costs them, and I looked at his face and then I looked at the folded page in his hand and I said, "Show me."He handed it over.I read it. I read it again. The numbers meant less to me than they would to him but the confirmation note at the bottom was written in plain language and I understood plain language perfectly well."Six weeks," I said."That's what Marcus says.""And you've known for three days."He didn't look away. "I wasn't certain.""You just showed me a confirmed lab result, Evans.""I know.""So you were certain."He was quiet for a moment. "I was afraid of what it meant if I was right," he said, "I kept thinking I needed more time to work out what to do with it before I told you, and that was wrong, I should have told you the moment I saw the data, I'm sorry."I looked at the
Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 96: What Evans Knows
POV: EvansHailey fell asleep just before five.I felt the exact moment it happened, the way her hand went slightly heavier in mine, the small change in her breathing, and I lay there in the dark and held her hand and did not move and did not sleep and stared at the ceiling and thought about the data.Marcus had sent it three days ago. A full breakdown of everything the monitoring devices had been transmitting, every biological marker, every reading across the weeks they had been active, and I had gone through it the way I went through everything Marcus sent, carefully, methodically, cross-referencing against the medical files I had spent two years reading when I was trying to understand what Nancy was and what she needed and what her physiology meant.I had not been looking for what I found.I had been looking for evidence that the devices had transmitted our location, our movements, our conversations, anything that would explain how Frost's people always seemed to be one step ahead,
Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 95: Sleepless
POV: HaileyEvans came to bed just after four.I heard him come up the stairs, heard him stop outside the guest room for a moment the way he did when he was checking on something, and then he came into our room and moved around to his side in the dark, quiet the way he was always quiet when he thought I was asleep, and I lay still and let him think that because I didn't have the energy for a conversation and I could tell from the way he moved that he didn't either.He lay down. The mattress shifted. He was on his back, not touching me, which was how he slept when his mind was still running.I stared at the ceiling.My ability was doing the thing it did sometimes when I was too tired to manage it properly, running at a low frequency underneath everything like a radio left on in another room, not loud enough to make out specific words but present enough that you couldn't quite ignore it. What I was picking up from Evans wasn't deception, it wasn't the sharp specific signal of someone hi
Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 94: The Name
POV: EvansI looked at the paper for a long time.The name sat there in Frost's small, controlled handwriting and I read it once and then I read it again and then I put the paper flat on the table and pressed my fingers against it like I could push it back into being something else, something I didn't recognise, something that didn't immediately attach itself to thirty years of memory.Everyone was watching me.Hailey was watching me the way she always watched me when she was trying to decide if I was about to lie to her, which was a look I had earned and had no right to object to. Nancy was watching me with the same focused stillness she brought to everything. Iris was watching me with an expression I couldn't read yet, which made sense because I had known her for approximately four hours.Mabel was pretending to look at her mug.I picked the paper up and folded it along its original creases, carefully, each fold deliberate, and I put it in my jacket pocket."Everyone should get some
Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 18: The Unwanted Call
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Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 17: Fighting for Us
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Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 16: The Choice to stay
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Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 15: Losing Control
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