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Chapter 110: The Room He Didn’t Plan
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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 145: Recipient Declined
Xena.I got the packing tape off the top of the crate and started pulling it back in one long strip."Xena.""You've got a courier coming Thursday." The tape came away with a noise that filled the whole hall. "You've packed the wrong things. That's the kitchen crate and you've put books in it.""Leave it.""You've labelled it in pencil.""Leave it, Xena."I stopped with about four feet of tape hanging off my hand.It was ten past eleven. Adrian had gone forty minutes ago with two keys in his coat pocket and a registration slip folded into his wallet. He'd refused a lift. I'd stood at the window like an idiot watching him get to the corner."Then say something." Anger came up my throat with nowhere useful to go."I don't have anything.""You had eleven hundred words for him.""That was an account." Dante was still in the study doorway. He hadn't sat down since eight. "I've been rehearsing that one for seventeen years. Ask me something I haven't rehearsed and you'll get what you're gett
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 144: Give It To Him At Eighteen
Xena."No.""Read it.""No." Dante put the notebook down on the desk and took two steps back from it. "You read it.""You've read the other two.""I know what I've done."Adrian didn't touch it."That's the first thing you've said all night that came out crooked," Adrian noted, and he still didn't move toward the desk.Dante went and stood at the window with his back to the room. The rain had stopped an hour ago. There was nothing out there to look at except a wet street and a car with its lights off."Take the book, Adrian.""Why won't you read it?""Because I've had seventeen years of hearing it in my own voice."That's not the reason.I don't know how I knew. I'd been in that house nine times and I'd learned exactly one thing about the man, which is that when he stops being able to say a sentence properly he is at the part he actually cares about.Adrian picked up the notebook.He found the page himself. He had to go back twice, because the third entry is short, and short entries a
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 143: The Third Of November
Xena."Don't get up. I've got a key."Adrian said it into the hall in Evanston at twenty past eight at night, and he said it in a voice I'd never heard him use, and he came past me without taking his coat off.Dante was standing in the study doorway.The notebook was on the desk behind him. He'd left it out. That was the first thing I saw, and it stopped me in the hall, because a man who leaves it out has spent the last four hours deciding something."Adrian—""2008 to 2010." Adrian stopped in the middle of the rug. "That's all I want. You can keep the rest. Burn it, give it to Osei, put it in the sea. I want three years.""Sit down.""I've had two people tell me to sit down today." His hands were shaking. He didn't hide them, which was new. "I'd like somebody to say a true sentence to me standing up."Dante didn't move out of the doorway."Ask me the question you actually came with," he said."Did my mother talk to you."The house made the sound old houses make when the heating's bee
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 142: The Specification
Xena."I'm not coming in, Adrian. Come down.""It's raining.""I know what it's doing. Come down."There was a pause on the line long enough for me to hear him find his shoes.Adrian Yale lives in a two-bedroom on Roscoe with a buzzer that hasn't worked since March, and he came out of the door in a jumper with no coat over it, the way a man does when he's decided the conversation will be short.He stopped four feet away on the wet path."You've been crying," he said."I've been in a courtroom.""Those aren't different things any more." He almost smiled. It didn't hold. "Xena, what's happened."I'd rehearsed it in the car for twenty minutes. Every version came out like an accusation, which it wasn't, and every softer version came out like something I'd decided to protect him from, which he'd never once forgiven anybody for.So I gave it to him flat."Your grandfather opened a file on me in March 2019," I said. "He paid my mother twelve thousand dollars to report on me. He had a photogr
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 141: Nobody Yet
Xena."You're not coming in until you tell me you've eaten.""Move.""Xena.""Dante, move."He moved.The house in Evanston had a hall I'd been in nine times and had never once liked. Every room in it is arranged so a man can see the door. There were two crates by the stairs with a courier docket taped to the top one, thirty-day close, four per cent under asking.I got my coat off and my phone out and I put it in his hand face up."Look at it," I said.Dante looked.He looked f
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 140: The Ninth Of May
Xena."You didn't know."Michael Halloway said it in the corridor outside 1804 with his back against the wall and a paper cup of water he wasn't drinking.I kept walking."Miss Cross." He came off the wall. "You didn't know.""Don't.""I need you to answer me."I turned round in the middle of a public corridor on the eighteenth floor of the Daley Center, and a man in a suit stepped sideways to get round us, and I heard my own voice come out of me at a volume I don't use."Your lawyer just read my name out of a dead man's ledger," I said. "You've had eleven days to decide what kind of person you are. Decide somewhere else."Michael put the cup down on the window ledge."I've had it since Friday," he said.The corridor kept moving around us. I stopped hearing it."What?""Exhibit F. Four pages. It came in the Friday production with three hundred others." His jaw was working the way his grandfather's had in the courtroom on Thursday, the same muscle, the same place. "I read it Saturday m
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 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 3: Where Do I Sign?
Xena.I have had some strange experiences in my lifetime.Being born illegitimate into a family that kept me like a footnote. Being sent to a wedding that wasn't mine with twenty minutes of notice. And spending three years married to a man who looked through me at dinner every night.But none of th
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