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Chapter 31: Signing away
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2026-10-06 15:08:38The internship officially ended on a Friday, and Tia used the excuse of it to finally say the thing she'd been turning over in her head for a week.
She found Dylan in his study that evening, door open, though he hadn't been using the space much beyond hiding in it. He looked up when she knocked on the frame, something wary crossing his face — the particular caution of a man who knew he still owed her a conversation he hadn't figured out how to have. "My internshi
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Married To My Ex-Brother-in-Law Chapter 37: Home
Ten months later, the ballroom at the same hotel where a contract marriage had once been negotiated over careful, businesslike terms was full of flowers that had nothing to do with appearances at all. Tia stood at the top of the aisle, one hand resting on the small, steady weight of the baby carrier Dylan had insisted on bringing right up to the ceremony itself, refusing to let their daughter miss a single minute of it even from the sidelines. Rebecca walked ahead of her, seven now, scattering petals with the exaggerated seriousness of a girl who considered flower-girl duty a position of enormous importance. Dylan waited at the end of the aisle, and this time, when Tia reached him, he didn't look at her like a signature line he'd already decided to sign. He looked at her like a man who'd nearly lost everything and understood, completely, exactly what he'd been given back. "I love you," he said, when it was his turn, departing entirely from whatever the officiant had scripted
Married To My Ex-Brother-in-Law Chapter 36: New terms
Dylan showed up at Maddy's apartment on a Saturday morning, no flowers this time, no careful distance either, standing on the doorstep like a man who'd finally run out of ways to avoid saying the thing he'd come to say. Tia opened the door and found him there, hands shoved in his pockets, something nervous and unguarded in his expression that she hadn't seen from him since a candlelit restaurant on her twenty-first birthday. "Can I come in?" he asked. "I have something I need to say, and I'd rather not say it on a doorstep." She stepped aside, and he came in, and for a moment neither of them said anything at all, the air between them charged with everything neither had found the courage to name yet. "I need to go first," Tia said finally, before he could speak, her own nerve threatening to fail her if she waited any longer. "Before you say whatever you came here to say. I need you to hear this first." "Okay." She led him to the kitchen table, sat down across from him, and
Married To My Ex-Brother-in-Law Chapter 35: No note attached
The first bouquet arrived at Tia's new office three days after the charity gala, sitting on her desk when she came in from a meeting, no card, no note, nothing to identify who'd sent it. She assumed it was Blake, at first, and felt a small twist of guilt she wasn't ready to examine. It wasn't Blake. The second bouquet arrived a week later, then a third the week after that, always the same — white peonies, her actual favorite, a detail she'd only ever mentioned once, in passing, months ago, at a kitchen counter over risotto. She never asked the front desk who delivered them. She suspected, deep down, that she already knew, and asking would only make the knowing feel more real than she was ready for. --- The following started sometime after that, though she couldn't pinpoint exactly when. A car, always half a block behind, always gone by the time she pulled into her own driveway, never close enou
Married To My Ex-Brother-in-Law Chapter 34: Silence is an answer
The test sat on the bathroom counter for a full three minutes before Tia let herself look at it, sitting on the edge of Maddy's tub with her head in her hands, counting each second like it might change the outcome waiting for her. Two lines. Unmistakable, impossible to argue with, exactly as clear the second and third time she checked as it had been the first. She did the math without wanting to, counting backward with shaking hands, and there was only one night it could have happened, one night that mattered, one night that had ended with her walking out a door telling a man it didn't count. It counted. Apparently, it counted enormously. --- She didn't tell anyone for two weeks. Not Maddy, not her parents, not Dylan. She told herself she needed time to think, though mostly what she did with the time was stare at ceilings and try to imagine a version of her life that made any sense at all, a si
Married To My Ex-Brother-in-Law Chapter 33: Doesn't count
The invitation had arrived weeks before the divorce finalized, back when Tia had still technically been Mrs. Hart, and by the time the charity gala actually rolled around neither of them had quite worked out how to gracefully decline attending the same event. Tia came because her parents' company was a sponsor now, a small step toward rebuilding bridges that had cracked a year ago and never fully mended. Dylan came because Hart Enterprises' name was carved into the program in gold lettering, and some obligations didn't care whether a marriage behind them was still standing. They spotted each other within the first twenty minutes, across a room full of candlelight and quiet orchestral music, and neither of them moved toward the other for almost an hour after that. It was Dylan who finally crossed the room, two glasses of champagne in hand, setting one down in front of her without quite meeting her eyes. "You look well," he s
Married To My Ex-Brother-in-Law Chapter 32: Too late for justice
Zoe was found nine days after Tia moved out, in a small coastal town three states away, living under a name that wasn't quite hers with a passport that wasn't quite legal. Dylan heard about the arrest from a detective's phone call while he was standing alone in a kitchen that had felt entirely too large since Tia and her boxes had gone. "We picked her up early this morning," the detective said. "She didn't resist. Frankly, Mr. Hart, she looked relieved, if I'm being honest. People who run for a year sometimes get tired of running before anyone catches them." "What did she say?" "Not much yet. Her lawyer's already involved. But we found enough on her laptop before she could wipe it — financial records, some old messages to the mechanic, even a partial confession she'd apparently drafted once and never sent to anyone. Guilt does strange things to people, even the ones who think they've buried it well." Dylan cl
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