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Chapter 10: I Was Buried
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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 211: Margaret
Xena“The key,” Okafor whispered beside me, gripping my wrist hard enough to leave marks. “Xena, nobody in this room said the word key.”I turned to stare at him. His face was close to mine, his glasses sliding down his nose, while Pell sat back down at the side table.At the front of the room, the chair lowered her pen. She conferred with the two men in murmurs I couldn’t hear, her hand covering the microphone in front of her. Dante sat rigid at his table with his palms pressed flat against the wood.When the chair looked up again, she spoke directly to him.“Mr. Cross, this board was prepared to rule today,” she announced, folding her hands on top of her notes. “Given this complaint, we can’t. Our decision is deferred until bar counsel completes a review. We’ll reconvene in fourteen days.”Dante’s shoulders dropped an inch, and he kept his eyes on the table.“I understand, Madam Chair,” he answered, every word clipped short. “Thank you for your time.”“For what it’s worth,” she adde
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 210: The Hearing
Xena.“Fix my tie,” Dante muttered, stopping me in the hallway outside the hearing room. “Please. I’ve tied it four times, and it still looks like I did it in the dark.”I reached up and loosened the knot. His collar was damp under my fingers, and I could feel his pulse jumping against my knuckles while I worked. Down the corridor, a clerk with a cart of file boxes rolled past without looking at us.“It’s straight now,” I told him, smoothing the silk flat against his shirt. “Herald would approve.”A short laugh escaped him. He caught my hand before I could lower it and pressed it flat over his heart while he breathed in through his nose and out through his mouth.“First row,” he reminded me under his breath.“First row,” I promised. “I’m not going anywhere.”Footsteps came up the corridor behind us. Okafor hurried toward us with his b
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 209: Bryne Freight
Xena“Get out of my way,” Foster growled, his face blotched red. “I’m taking it to the police myself. Right now. My mother can hate me for it after.”“Which station are you going to, and which officer?” Dante asked, standing his ground. “If you walk in off the street and hand that key to whoever’s at the front desk, there’s no record of where it came from. Any defense lawyer will get it thrown out before a jury ever sees it.”“Then let them throw it out!” Foster shouted. The man in the wheelchair turned his head toward us. “My brother’s been dead for fifty-two years, and the police never questioned a single person!”I took two steps toward them with my hands raised, unsure which of them I meant to calm. Behind me, I heard the soft hiss of the room door again, and I turned around.Cassandra stood in the doorway of 412, gripping the frame with one hand and
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 208: Chain Of Custody
Xena“I have no idea how Gerald got that key,” Dante answered, rubbing the back of his neck. “I swear it to you, Cassandra. I barely knew the man. He was a name at the head of the table at Christmas, and I was a kid at the far end of it.”Cassandra kept the key raised between them. Her hand trembled, and the brass caught the light from the window each time it moved.Foster came around the foot of the bed. He stopped an arm’s length from Dante, close enough that I could smell stale coffee on his breath.“Your family,” he said, cold and very quiet. “Your family had my brother’s key in a gift box for eleven years while my mother kept a spare in her kitchen drawer and wondered.”“Foster,” I began, rising from my knees. “Dante didn’t...”“Let him answer,” Foster snapped, without taking his eyes off Dante. “He’s a lawyer. He can speak for himself.”I bit the inside of my cheek and closed my mouth when Dante’s fingers squeezed my shoulder once.The nurse at the computer cart had stopped pret
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 207: The Spare Key
Xena“You’ve had this for how long?” Foster demanded, staring at the brown paper box in my hands with his fists clenched. “Since your wedding? Since before I even knew your name?”We were standing just inside the door of room 412. It was barely eight in the morning, and the breakfast cart was still parked in the hallway behind us, filling the air with the smell of powdered eggs and burnt coffee.“Eleven years,” I admitted, holding the box against my stomach with both hands. “I didn’t know what was inside, Foster. I opened it for the first time last night.”“Eleven years.” He laughed once, a hard, ugly sound that made the nurse at the computer cart look up. “You’ve been carrying my brother’s picture around in a box for eleven years, and you never once thought to look inside?”The nurse kept her eyes on her screen, though her fingers had stopped typing. Heat spread across the back of my neck, and the brown paper crinkled under my tightening grip. I made myself stand still and hold his s
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 206: Brown Paper And String
Xena."Tell me now," I said softly, setting two mugs of tea on the kitchen table. "All of it. You said later, and it's later."Dante sat with his elbows on the table and his chin resting on his laced fingers. The wall behind him still showed the patch of new plaster he had put up the night after our fight, and the paint we had rolled on together had dried into uneven stripes.He looked at the mug for a long time without picking it up."I had just finished college," he started, his voice so low that I leaned in to catch it. "I was still living in the room over my parents' garage. Everyone at dinner talked about Herald like he was already dead. My mother said his name once, and my father put his fork down so hard that a plate cracked."I wrapped both hands around my own mug. The heat stung my palms, and I held on anyway."Nobody told me the date of the sentencing," he went on, tracing the rim of the mug with one finger. "I found it in the news
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 1: I Slept With My Ex-husband's Uncle
Xena.I gasped for breath, my legs still aching from the last round. Yet Dante stood over me like this was nothing but probably another of his one night stands.The bed was wet beneath me, wet from my juices. I stared at the ceiling for a while, the memories of his cock inside of me played over an
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 5: I Had Married A Dead Man
Xena.The ceiling in Dante's room was different from the one in the guest room.I noticed that first, which probably said something about the state of my brain. I stared at it and waited for regret to arrive.It didn't.What arrived instead was a very thorough physical awareness of every decision
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 4: Will You Satisfy Me?
Xena.The night air hit me the moment we stepped outside and I realized it was the first clean breath I'd taken in hours.Dante's car was already waiting. The long black car didn't need a logo to tell one it cost fortunes. A driver stood at the rear door without being summoned and I got in without
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 2: I Have A Deal For You
Xena. Was Hannah drunk?I stood there waiting for the punchline. April Fools was months away but maybe someone had lost track of the calendar. Maybe this was some elaborate Yale family bit that I hadn't been briefed on. Maybe —Adrian crossed the room to stand beside her."It's true." He turned to
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