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Chapter 109: Not Done
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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 109: Not Done
Dante.Xena had fallen asleep on the couch.Not intentionally. One moment she was talking — something about the studio in River North, the north-facing windows, whether diffuse light was actually a design choice or just something she'd told herself — and then she wasn't. Mid-sentence. Gone.I looked at her for a moment.Then I got up and found a blanket from the hall cupboard and put it over her and went back to the kitchen and stood at the window with cold coffee and looked at the city.1:47 AM.The filing was blocked. Osei had ruled. Harlow's eleven claims were under review and the Yale succession filing was dead until further notice. I should have been able to sit with that. Let tonight be enough, I'd said, and I'd meant it, and for approximately forty minutes in this kitchen with eggs and the community centre in Bronzeville and Xena's hand turning over under mine I had managed it.But I'd been running operations for fifteen years.Operations didn't stop because you told them to.I
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 108: Four Words
Herald.The gap in November was the one that changed everything.Adrian had found it twenty minutes ago — a lunch on the fourteenth, Gerald's calendar showing Adrian Yale and a man named Castellano, no further details, no location, no follow-up entry."You were there," Adrian said. Not a question."Yes.""Castellano.""Yale board member," I said. "Twenty three years. Gerald introduced us at a rooftop dinner in September and called it a coincidence. The November lunch was the follow-up. Castellano wanted to know if Adrian Yale was going to be a problem when the succession filing moved forward."Adrian looked at the screen."What did you tell him.""That Adrian Yale understood the family's long-term interests and wouldn't be an obstacle." I looked at him. "Gerald's words. I delivered them."He was quiet for a moment."Castellano voted for the filing," he said."Yes.""Because of that lunch.""Yes."He sat back. Not angry. The stillness of a man building a picture from pieces that kept a
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 107: Tracking
Victor.Harlow called at 12:09."It's blocked," he said. No greeting. "Osei issued an emergency stay. Eleven claims under review. The Yale filing is dead until further notice."I looked at the window."Who approached her," I said."Adrian Yale," Harlow said. "Testified to the Harlow dinner eight months ago. Quoted me verbatim. Things I said in a private room to three people." A pause. "Victor. Nobody outside that dinner knew that language.""I know," I said."That means—""I know what it means Harlow," I said. "Don't call this line again tonight."I ended the call and stood at the window.Someone presenting as Adrian Yale. Which meant Dante had deployed Herald. I picked up my phone and called Dante.He answered on the second ring."I heard," I said. "Osei's stay. Are you alright?""We're managing," Dante said. His voice was level and operational."The Adrian Yale testimony," I said. "That's a problem. Whoever presented themselves as Adrian in front of a judge has created a legal expo
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 106: The Name
Xena."The director chain goes back to 1961," Hannah said. "The Singapore company was just the most recent shell. Before it there was a holding company in the Cayman Islands. Before that a land trust in Illinois registered in 1971. Before that—" She stopped. "Xena I need you to listen to me carefully.""I'm listening," I said.Dante had gone still across the counter."The original director," Hannah said. "The person who registered the Illinois land trust in 1961. The name on the founding document of everything Victor inherited." Another pause. Shorter. "It's Cross."The kitchen was very quiet."Which Cross," I said. My voice came out even."Elias Cross," Hannah said. "I've been cross-referencing. He was grandfather to—" She stopped. "He was our grandfather Xena."I looked at the counter.Dante's hand was still over mine."Say it again," I said."Our grandfather founded it," Hannah said. "The Covenant. The channel. The infrastructure that Viktor Hale inherited and built on and used to
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 105: Two Hours
Xena.Axel called at 10:04."Osei's reviewing," he said. "Two hours. Herald was—" A pause. "He was something."I put the call on speaker. Dante was already reading my face."Go home Axel," Dante said."I'll wait outside the—""Go home," Dante said. Quieter this time.A pause."Yeah," Axel said. "Alright."He ended the call.Two hours. I looked at the screen. 10:04. Two hours until Osei's decision. Two hours of holding the line and not calling Victor and acting like the operation was running normally."Kitchen," Dante said.I looked at him."We haven't eaten since this morning," he said. "Come on."I'd watched him cook before. Not like this. In passing — a pan on the stove, the sound of it. Filed and set aside.Tonight I sat at the counter and actually watched.He moved through the kitchen without thinking about it. Knew where everything was without looking. The eggs from the second shelf not the first. The pan he wanted without opening the wrong cupboard. The salt from the left side o
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 104: Harvey
Axel."They've got to be shitting me."I said it to the windscreen because there was nobody else in the car to say it to. Herald was in the passenger seat looking at Gerald's calendar on his phone and had been looking at it since we left Adrian's building and hadn't said a word. I'd been driving for eleven minutes in the silence of a man who didn't know what to do with the person sitting next to him.To be fair I hadn't known what to do with this situation since Dante called.We need Herald. Tonight. As Adrian. Placing Harlow at a Covenant dinner eight months ago.I'd been in the room when Dante said it. Standing in the doorway of the study — the same doorway I'd backed out of twenty minutes earlier. Dante had said it. I'd thought about the last twelve hours. Decided this was apparently the kind of operation we were running now.Then Xena said call Adrian. Dante called. Adrian picked up and said he's sitting across from me right now. I thought good great wonderful. Then Dante looked
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
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 35: Stay Away From Dante.
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
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
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