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Chapter 100: You Terrify Me
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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 100: You Terrify Me
Xena.The door opened at 6:14.I'd been sitting at the desk with Cross's documents on one screen and Viktor Hale's paper trail on the other and the forty eight hour clock somewhere underneath all of it and I hadn't moved since I ended the call with Dante.Dante walked through the door.He looked at me first. Not at the screens, not at the documents, not at the Viktor Hale chain still open on the laptop. At me. Direct. His jaw loose. His eyes not moving away.I looked back at him."Sit down," I said.He sat beside it. Close enough that the screens were visible to both of us without either of us having to turn away from each other to see them.Neither of us looked at the screens."The file," I said."I read it," he said. "Twice.""And.""And Viktor Hale registered as a legal consultant in Chicago in 1981 and built forty years of infrastructure and inserted himself into my operation in 2009 and I've been running everything he wanted me to run ever since." He looked at the desk. "I know.
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 99: The Call
Herald.I sat in the car for three minutes before I dialed.Not because I wasn't sure. Because I wanted to be sitting down when I heard his voice for the first time.Adrian Yale's number was in Gerald's contacts under a name that wasn't Adrian Yale. Gerald had been careful about that. I had the number. I had the calendar. I had the Harlow connection and the succession filing and forty years of architecture that had been built on the assumption that Adrian Yale was the fixed point everything else moved around.He wasn't the fixed point. He was just the man Gerald had started with before he decided he needed something better.I called.Four rings. Then:"Who is this?"His voice.I'd heard it before — in recordings Gerald kept, in rooms where Adrian had been on the phone and I'd been close enough to the wall to hear both sides. I knew the flatness of it, the way he compressed his sentences when he was already ahead of whoever was talking to him.I knew his voice the way I knew everything
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 98: What I’m Actually Doing
Herald.Victor came back and sat down and his face was exactly the same.That was the tell.I'd been watching people walk back into rooms after difficult phone calls for fifteen years. The adjustment happened before they sat — a half-second of recalibration, the face deciding what it was going to do before it had to do it in front of someone. Victor had done none of that. He'd come through the door and crossed to the table and sat down with the same expression he'd had when he left and the sameness of it was so complete that it was its own kind of information.A man who received neutral news adjusted slightly.A man who received news that required management went still and managed it before he sat.Victor had received something that required management.I'd said nothing about it.We'd talked for another forty minutes — about the board filing, about the Yale succession claim, about what Victor called the next phase of the operation. He'd laid it out with the same precision he brought
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 97: Viktor Hale
Dante.I was in the car when the file came through.Parked two blocks from Xena's building, engine off, phone in my hand. I'd been sitting there since she called. Not because I didn't believe her — I told myself that on the drive over and told myself that again when I walked out and told myself that a third time sitting in this car and the thing about telling yourself something three times is that by the third time you're aware you're doing it.I opened the file.Read it once. Start to finish, every attachment, every sourced connection, every date and company name and jurisdiction. Xena had built it clean, ordered, nothing assumed and each piece connected to the next.I read it again.Viktor Hale. Chicago. 1981.The professional registration. The specialty — regional asset acquisition and succession planning. The Singapore holding company in 1987. The law firm in 1989. The dissolution in 1993 with the unnamed successor clause. The eight year gap. Victor appearing in my life in 2009 wi
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 96: The Origin
Xena.The file came through at 2:14.Hannah's name on the notification. Three attachments — the Singapore registration, the director chain, the Chicago address. I opened them before I'd finished reading her message.Singapore holding company, 1987. Director chain leads to two dissolved entities. Chicago address is the only constant across all three. Pull that address.I pulled it.The Chicago address returned four results across three decades. A property record from 1987. A business registration from 1989. A legal filing from 1991. A dissolution notice from 1993.I opened the business registration first.A law firm. Small, two partners, registered at that address in 1989. Specializing in regional asset acquisition and succession planning.Graves' specialty.Except this predated Graves by two years. Graves hadn't started his Chicago practice until 1991. Which meant this firm wasn't Graves. This was the thing Graves had been brought into. The structure that had existed before him and ha
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 95: The Hidden Foundation
Hannah.Four times through the same document and I still hadn't found anything.I closed the laptop. Opened it again then scrolled back to the property chain and started from the top.Adrian had left at seven. He didn't always say where he was going and I didn't ask. We'd arrived at that arrangement without discussing it. I made coffee in the mornings. Left a cup on the counter for him if he hadn't left yet. He left one for me when he was up first. Neither of us commented on it.We talked about the case. The board filing. The documents. What Xena had found and what Victor had said and what Dante was doing about the forty eight hour window.We didn't talk about anything else.I'd thought about how to start that conversation approximately forty times in three days and arrived at the same conclusion each time — no clean entry point, everything I could say with too much attached to it.Adrian, as far as I could tell, had arrived at the same conclusion.So we talked about the case.I hear
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
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 36: You Don't Even Know Your Own Family
Dante.I pulled up at the abandoned driveway. Looking out the window, I immediately cursed under my breath.I hadn't seen this place since I was a kid. The buildings had overgrown weeds. Some already climbing the walls.Even a blind man would obviously sense the loneliness of the surroundings. "Th
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Xena."It's me Xena."My eyes went wide.“ Dad?”There was silence on the other end. For a brief second, no one spoke, not a single word was said.I stood in Dante's study. We hadn't contacted each other since Adrian's promotion ceremony.“Darling I—” he pauses then heaves a sigh. “How are you doin
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