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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 172: The One With The Apple Tree
Xena."This is the one."Dante said it standing in the middle of an empty kitchen, before I'd even got both feet through the door, sunlight coming through a window that faced east instead of the street. Something in his voice had none of its usual caution in it."You said that about the last one too.""The last one had a crooked chimney and a surveyor who used the word imminent. This one has neither."He turned in a slow circle, taking in the room."This one has a kitchen a person could actually cook in. A garden that isn't a postage stamp. A door I don't hate on sight."I walked to the window.Below us sat a small, overgrown garden.A single old apple tree leaned at an angle that suggested decades of surviving Chicago winters on stubbornness alone."It needs work," I said, though I couldn't stop smiling at the tree."Everything worth having needs work. I've become something of an expert on that this year."I laughed despite myself.He came and stood beside me at the window, close eno
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 171: Nothing Left Unsaid
Xena."There's something I still haven't told you," I said, before I could talk myself into waiting another day.Dante looked up from the box he was unpacking, one of the last from Evanston, a stack of old photographs he hadn't sorted through yet."About Adrian?" His face gave nothing away, though I could see him bracing anyway."About Adrian."He set the photographs down.I watched him do it, deliberately, the way he'd learned to do things lately instead of reaching for them fast.Not defensively. Just carefully, the way a man sets something aside when he wants both hands free for whatever comes next."I'm listening." Dante's voice had gone gentle, bracing for whatever came next.I sat down across from him on the floor, the way we'd taken to doing lately, no furniture between us, nothing to hide behind."When I closed the door with him, he told me something. About our wedding morning." My voice came
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 170: Talking To Each Other
Xena."In the matter of Halloway."The clerk's voice carried flat across a courtroom that had filled up more than I'd expected for a case this quiet, and the whole gallery seemed to lean forward at once.Three weeks had passed since the emergency motion.Three weeks in which Okafor had built something real instead of something rushed, full briefing, medical experts, a proper record instead of nine handwritten pages faxed through the night.Cassandra sat beside me in the second row, gloved hands folded on her lap.She watched the front of the room with the particular stillness of a woman who has sat through worse and knows how to wait.Robert Halloway sat where he always sat.Same coat.Michael was two seats down from him again.This time the distance between them felt different.Less like a boundary. More like a man giving his grandfather room to breathe, the way you give a wound room to close on its own in
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 169: Twenty Minutes
Xena."You came without calling first," Adrian said, before I'd even stepped through the door."I didn't trust myself to call first. I thought I'd talk myself out of it before I got here."Adrian stood back to let me into the flat on Roscoe, the buzzer still broken, and something in his face told me he already knew, in the way people know weather is coming before the first drop falls."Sit down," I said, my voice already unsteady. "I need to say something, and I'd rather say it properly than let it happen standing in a doorway."He sat. I sat across from him, close enough to see his hands go still in his lap the way they do when he's bracing, the same stillness he'd had on the porch on Roscoe, waiting for whatever came next to land."I need to close something." My hands were shaking in my lap. "What's been sitting open between us since Wolcott. I think you already know that's why I'm here.""I had a feeling."I made myself keep going before I could soften it into something less true.
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 168: The Condition
Xena."I read your message eleven times before I could make myself reply to it," Dante said, before I'd even fully opened the door.Dante was standing in my doorway at nine in the morning, unshaven, a paper coffee cup in each hand that had clearly been bought as something to do with his hands rather than because either of us wanted coffee."You could have replied at any point in those eleven readings," I said, something like relief already threading through the words."I know. I didn't trust what would come out if I answered too fast." He held one of the cups toward me, and I took it, and neither of us moved from the doorway for a moment. "Can I come in properly this time. Not for a fight. I think we're past the fighting part, or at least I hope we are."I stood back and let him in.He sat on the arm of the sofa rather than the sofa itself, the same spot I'd sat in four days earlier when I hadn't known what I wanted to say to him yet, and I realised I still didn't fully know what I wa
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 167: Nothing At All
Xena."You've alphabetised my spice rack," Diana said, from the doorway, before I'd even heard her come in."It needed doing." I didn't look up from the cumin."Xena, I have never once in my life alphabetised a spice rack. I'm seventy-one years old and I've made do perfectly well without cumin being anywhere near coriander." Diana stood in her own kitchen doorway with her arms folded, watching me refold a tea towel that was already folded. "You've been here three hours already. You reorganised my bookshelf yesterday. The day before that you drove Hannah's dry cleaning across town because, and I quote, it seemed like something that needed doing.""I'm being useful.""You're being avoidant, which in this family we like to dress up as useful because it's less embarrassing to admit to." My mother came and took the tea towel out of my hands and put it back exactly where it had been, unfolded. "How long has it been since you've heard from him.""Four days.""And how many times have you chec
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 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
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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