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Chapter 51: The Break_In
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Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 102: Evans Confesses
Evans POVThe silence in the kitchen stretched so tight that I could hear the faint hum of the refrigerator. Hailey stood directly across the marble island from me, her small hands flat against the edge, leaning forward as if the distance between us was the only thing keeping her upright. Her question hung in the air, cold and sharp, cutting through the quiet room.I looked down at the old photograph lying between us. The black and white image was grainy, but the face of the man standing next to Helena Frost was unmistakable. It was her father, looking decades younger, his jaw set in that familiar, formal way. I had looked at that exact same image months ago, in the dark of my study, feeling the exact same sickness that was currently washing over her face."Eight months," I said, my voice sounding rougher than I intended. I didn't try to look away from her. I owed her that much. "Marcus found the connection when he was digging into the early financial backers of the initial facility."
Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 101: Her Father
Hailey POVThe table between Calix and me felt like it was miles wide, and my eyes stayed glued to the yellowed edge of that second photograph. My breath caught in my throat, thick and dry, because the man standing next to Helena Frost had the exact same square set of the shoulders that I used to watch from the back seat of our old car. It was him. It was the man who had tucked me into bed, the man who had checked my homework, the man who had held my hand when I scraped my knees."Hailey," Calix said, his voice coming from somewhere far away, rough and careful, "you need to breathe."I didn't answer him right away because my lungs wouldn't work, so I just stared at the ink on the paper until the edges went blurry. "He was there," I whispered, the words scraping against my teeth as I forced them out. "He wasn't just a bystander, Calix. He was standing right next to her.""He was one of the primary reasons she had the money to build the first facility," Calix said, leaning forward, his
Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 100: Calix
POV: HaileyI told Evans I needed air.He looked at me for a second longer than was comfortable and then he nodded and said, "Don't go far," and I said, "I won't," and walked out the front door and down the street and didn't look back.The café was three streets away, small and quiet at this hour, the kind of place with steamed-up windows and mismatched chairs that nobody goes to on purpose. I pushed the door open and saw him immediately, in the corner with his back to the wall and his hands around a coffee he hadn't drunk, and five years collapsed into nothing because he looked up and it was just Calix, it was still just Calix, except older, yes, something in his face had been filed down by whatever the last five years had been, but the way he looked at me when I came through the door was exactly the same as it had always been, checking first that I was alright before anything else.I sat down across from him.Neither of us said anything for a moment."You look terrible," I said."Yo
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 58: Choosing the Fight
Hailey's POV I stood on the stairs with my phone pressed to my ear, Marcus' words sitting heavy in my chest."I will be there in thirty minutes," I said quietly. "Send me the address."I hung up and stood completely still for a moment. The address came through immediately. A warehouse on the east
Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 54: David's Attack
David’s POVI watched the sunrise from my office window with a glass of whiskey in my hand.Not because I was celebrating. Because I was thinking.Evans had finally done it. He had told her everything. My people inside the mansion had confirmed it last night — Hailey went to the guest room at eleve
Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 53: The Last Chance
POV: Hailey WilsonI was in my office, staring at the blueprints of the mansion on my computer screen, when my phone rang. It was Evans."Hailey," his voice sounded broken, hollow. "I need you to come home. Right now. Please.""Evans, I'm in the middle of—""Please," he interrupted. "This can't wai
Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion Chapter 52: The Ultimatum
POV: Evans WilsonI watched the needle slide into Nancy's arm, and something inside me snapped.I stopped struggling against the guards. I stopped pleading. Instead, I looked directly at Valarie and said, very calmly, "Marcus, execute protocol seven."Valarie's smile faltered. "What?"I repeated my
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