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Chapter 128: Two Exits
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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 133: Nine Seconds
Xena."You're the Cross girl."The clerk hadn't looked up from her terminal, and I hadn't given her a name."I'm sorry?""Cardigan pocket." She tipped her chin at a folded printout on the counter beside her elbow. "Your face was in the packet they sent round at seven. Media protocol. I've been told not to answer questions and to give you the index if you asked for it.""Who sent a packet round about my face?""Above my pay grade." She clicked twice. "You want to watch it or not? Because I'm doing it at nine either way and I'd rather not have you leaning over the counter when I do."I stepped back a foot. "I'll watch it."She typed something. Looked at the screen. Typed something else."That's it.""That's what?""Case is unsealed. Public docket." She turned the monitor half an inch toward me and turned it straight again. "There's a lag on the press feed. Twenty minutes, maybe less."A hundred and thirty-nine years came off a seal because a woman in a cardigan pressed a key at four min
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 132: The Thirtieth
Xena.The waitress put down two coffees nobody had ordered and left."You always do that," I said."Do what?""Order for me before I've sat down.""You always want coffee." Dante turned his cup around without drinking it. "Should I stop?""No." I pulled mine closer. "I'm stalling. Let me stall for one more minute."He let me.There were four cars in a car park and a fluorescent tube with a fault in it over the counter, and there was a family in the corner booth with a kid asleep across two seats. Two exits. Forty strangers. I'd have picked it too."Okay," I said. "I'll go first.""Go.""I've known you for eight months." I put both hands flat on the table. "In eight months my father died, my sister came back from two years in a locked room, I found out my grandfather founded the thing that killed him, and I watched a man die on the floor of the kitchen I learned to cook in. You were in every one of those rooms.""I was.""So when I say I love you, I don't know how much of that is you a
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 131: The Blank Line
Xena."You've got twenty minutes and they'll cut it at twenty," the officer said, and pointed me at table four.Herald was already sitting.Three weeks in the county had gone to five. He'd stopped shaving the way he used to and the county blues fit him worse than the suit had. "You came.""Don't." I put the folder down between us. "Don't do the thing where you sound surprised. It's been five weeks and I've come every week and you know exactly how many times.""Four.""Four." I opened the folder. "I'm going to read you something and then I'm going to ask you something, and I need you to let me get through the first part before you start working on the second.""You've rehearsed this.""In a car park for eleven minutes. Shut up."His mouth moved, barely.I put the photocopy on the table and turned it toward him. "My grandfather. Elias Cross. This was in the sealed material — it's a letter he never sent to anybody. Osei let me copy it."Herald read it. He was quick, and I watched him ge
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 130: The Smallest Fear
Xena."You're allowed to be nervous," Dante said, both hands on the wheel. "It's a courthouse, not a performance review.""I'm not nervous.""You've checked that folder four times since Belmont."I put my hand flat on it to stop myself doing it a fifth. "It's the last thing I have of his handwriting that I haven't read."Dante pulled into the garage and killed the engine and didn't get out."Then don't rush it in there," he said. "Whatever she puts in front of you, take the time. Nobody in that room is going to hurry a woman who handed them the file.""You could come up.""I could." He reached over and tucked the folder tighter under my arm, and left his hand there a second. "I'm not going to. This one's yours and you'll want to have done it alone. I'll be on the fourth-floor bench with a bad coffee."I kissed him quickly, and went.Osei's chambers smelled like paper and radiator heat. She stood when I came in, which I hadn't expected, and shook my hand across the desk."Sit. This wil
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 129: Cross Is A Name
Xena.The row filled up by eight-forty.Diana came first, in a coat Hannah must have bought her, sitting down without a word and folding her hands in her lap. Then Adrian, who took the aisle seat and kept his eyes on the door. Then Foster Byrne, which nobody had expected, least of all me."He asked to come," Adrian said, without turning around. "He called Hannah at six this morning."Foster sat at the end of the row, three feet from anyone, hands on his knees.Axel arrived last, stood at the back for a moment counting exits out of habit, then came down and dropped into the seat beside Dante.Herald came out at nine with a court officer on each side.He'd been in the county for three weeks. It showed in the way the suit hung on him — his own suit, sent over by someone, and now a size too generous through the shoulders. He looked at the gallery once on his way to the table.He stopped walking.The officer beside him touched his elbow and he started again, and he sat down, and he didn't
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 128: Two Exits
Xena.She'd chosen a diner, which told me something before I'd even sat down.Hannah checked the window for the fourth time in ten minutes. "She could have picked anywhere. A hotel lobby or a park. But she picked a place with two exits and forty strangers in it.""She's been running eleven months." I turned my coffee cup around on the saucer. "Let her have the exits."The bell over the door went. Hannah stopped talking.I wouldn't have known her from across a street. The hair was short now, grey coming through it with nothing dyed over the top, and she'd lost weight in a way that wasn't diet. She stood inside the door and scanned the room for four full seconds before she let herself look at our table.Then she looked. Her hand went out to the counter and gripped it.Hannah got up. I didn't. My legs had made a decision without consulting me.Diana crossed the room and stopped a foot short of the booth. Her hands weren't steady either."You cut your hair." The stupidest available senten
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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
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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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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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