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Chapter 7: The weight he carries
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Married To My Ex-Brother-in-Law Chapter 8: Terms and Conditions
The private room at the hotel was too quiet, the kind of quiet that made every small sound feel enormous. Tia arrived four minutes early. Dylan was already there. He sat at the far end of the table, a single folder squared perfectly in front of him, like he'd walked in for a board meeting instead of this. He stood when she entered. It wasn't warmth. It read more like a reflex — the kind of manners drilled into someone so young they no longer required thought. "Tia." "Mr. Hart." "You don't have to call me that." His voice was clipped, even. Not unkind. Just efficient. "What should I call you, then?" She sat across from him, hands folded in her lap to keep them from shaking. "Given the circumstances, 'Dylan' feels a little casual for a business meeting about my future." Something flickered in his expression. Not quite a smile. "Fair enough." He studied her then. Not subtly. His eyes moved over her face and stopped, lingering somewhere around her cheekbones, her mouth. She kne
Married To My Ex-Brother-in-Law Chapter 7: The weight he carries
Dylan Hart was still at his desk at nine on a Tuesday night, which wasn't unusual, and that was exactly the problem his mother had come to talk to him about."You're doing it again," she said from the doorway of his home office, arms crossed, not bothering to knock."Doing what.""Living in this house like it's a hotel you check into between meetings."He didn't look up from the screen. "I have a board call at ten.""Of course you do."Something in her tone made him finally set the pen down. His mother rarely came upstairs after dinner. When she did, it usually meant something he wasn't going to enjoy."Sit down for five minutes, Dylan. Please."He sat.She lowered herself into the chair across from him slowly — she'd been moving more carefully lately, something he'd noticed and not let himself think too hard about — and folded her hands in her lap."I want you to remarry."The words landed strange, like they belonged to a different conversation entirely. "Excuse me?""You heard me."
Married To My Ex-Brother-in-Law Chapter 6: No room to refuse
Tia sat on the porch steps until the cold stopped feeling sharp and started feeling numb, which was somehow worse.The door opened behind her. She didn't turn around."There's more," her father said quietly. "You should hear all of it before you decide anything.""I already decided.""Tia." Her mother's voice, closer now, sitting down on the step beside her without asking. "Please. Five more minutes. Then if you still want to walk away, we won't stop you."Tia stared out at the dark street for a long moment before she finally stood and walked back inside, arms crossed, refusing to sit back down at the table this time."Fine," she said. "Talk."Her father set his phone on the table, screen up, and slid it toward her. "Dylan's mother has a heart condition. Has for two years.""It's gotten worse this past winter — bad enough that her doctors have told her, in plain terms, to reduce her stress or risk another episode. A serious one.""I'm sorry to hear that. I still don't see what it has
Married To My Ex-Brother-in-Law Chapter 5: The Ultimatum
The house smelled like her mother's cooking, which should have been comforting and instead just made Tia's stomach twist tighter.Her mother only cooked like this — the good rice, the dish Tia had loved as a kid — when she was trying to soften something.Her father was already at the dining table when she came down, laptop closed in front of him, which was its own kind of alarming. Tia had never once seen her father sit at a table without his laptop open."Sit," he said. Not unkind. Just final.She sat.Her mother came in a moment later, set down a pot of tea neither of them would drink, and sat too, hands folded in her lap like she was bracing for something."Is someone sick?" Tia asked, because the silence was worse than anything they could actually say. "Is it Rebecca? Is it one of you?""No one's sick," her father said. "This is about the company."Tia blinked. "The company.""You know our families have known each other for years," he said, like he was opening a meeting instead of
Married To My Ex-Brother-in-Law Chapter 4: Petty Justice- Part 2
She found Molly outside the library two days later — by design, clearly, since Maddy seemed to know Molly's Thursday schedule better than Molly probably did herself.Molly was sitting alone at one of the outdoor tables, hood up, looking like someone who'd spent two days getting quietly torn apart in a forum thread and a team group chat she wasn't even in.She looked up, saw Tia, and her whole body went rigid."Tia." She glanced around like she was checking for an exit. "If this is about the post—""It's not about the post." Tia sat down across from her without being invited. Her heart was going hard, but her voice came out steadier than she expected. "It's about the four hundred dollars you borrowed for your sister's wedding gift eight months ago that you never paid back.""Tia, I was going to—""And it's about the Chanel bag you took for 'one event' fourteen months ago that I still haven't seen since."Molly's face cycled through several stages of panic. "I can explain all of that, o
Married To My Ex-Brother-in-Law Chapter 3: Petty Justice- Part one
"Three?" Tia repeated. "Three plans? You've had three plans this whole time and you let me sit in your guest room in a stinky sweatshirt for three days?""I needed you emotionally ready," Maddy said, entirely serious. "Revenge doesn't work if the person executing it is crying into a throw pillow. Timing matters. Presentation matters.""You sound like you're running a business.""I am. It's called Justice For Tia, Incorporated, and it is currently accepting no other clients." Maddy pulled her laptop onto her knees, then hesitated, which was so unlike her that Tia sat up straighter just watching it happen. "Okay. Plan one.""I need to show you something, and I need you to know I only got this two nights ago. I wasn't sitting on it. I would never sit on something like this.""Sitting on what? Maddy, you're scaring me.""Reagan had a party Tuesday. Tyler was there, being loud and pathetic about single life already, and at some point he set his phone down on the counter to get another drin
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