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Chapter 223: Every Kitchen Needs One
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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 228: Two Copies
Xena"No." I lowered the phone to my hip and faced him. "You don't get to hear her."Peter stood on the top step with one hand on the rail, his coat buttoned to the throat. He had crossed the road without hurrying, and his shoes had left damp prints on our boards."Mr. Cross." Reyes's voice carried from the street, flat and hard. "Step off that porch.""I'm speaking with my sister-in-law, Detective, in front of this entire street." Peter did not turn his head. "I'm not touching her, and I'm not inside her door.""Dad." Adrian had stopped working the key, and the lock clicked back against his fingers as he let go of it. He stood with his back against the door and the key hanging from his fist. "Go home."Peter's eyes moved to his son, and for the first time that morning his voice lost its polish. "Adrian. Come away from that door.""No.""I said come here.""I heard you." Adrian's chin shook once, and he held it level. "I live here this week."Peter's face did not change, but the knuck
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Xena"Yes, he's with me." I turned my back to the street and dropped my voice. "Mom, how do you know that?""Because Peter called me at eight this morning." My mother's voice came low and fast. "He wanted to know what I remembered about the church door. He told me Richard gets confused and says things, and that I shouldn't take any of it to heart.""What did you tell him?""That I'd forgotten all of it. Then I hung up." A cupboard door slammed on her end. "He had my number, Xena, and he knew which church.""What exactly did he say?""That you'd been asking questions and might upset me." Her breath caught on the line. "I hadn't said a word about that church door in eleven years, and he knew exactly where to push."Behind me, the older medic raised her voice. "Folks, we're moving him.""Mom, stay on the line." I pressed the phone flat against my coat and turned around.The paramedics had Richard on a stretcher with a gray blanket drawn to his chest. His red scarf had been left on, and t
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 226: Half A Way
Xena.“Shut it off, Mr. Cross.” Detective Reyes stood in front of the sedan’s bumper with one palm raised and her other hand resting on the radio at her shoulder.The driver’s window slid down two inches.“Detective, I need to go.” Peter’s face filled the gap, pink from the cold. “My father has his lunch at noon, and he does poorly when it’s late.”“Where is your father right now?”“Where he is every Sunday morning.” Peter folded his hands on the wheel. “I’d be grateful if you’d step aside.”From the far sidewalk, the man with the rake called out. “He’s got somebody in the back. Old fellow in a scarf. He was sitting there before your cruiser pulled up.”Reyes turned her head. “How long before?”“Twenty minutes, easy. I watched Mr. Cross park and walk off.”Reyes looked at the sedan’s rear windows, tinted nearly black, and walked down the driver’s side to the back door.“Step out of the car, Mr. Cross.”“Am I under arrest?”“You’re a man who left a vulnerable adult alone in a parked ca
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 225: What The Officer Wrote Down
Xena.“Ma’am, stop right there.” The young officer had left the curb and was walking toward me with one hand resting on his belt. “Hands where I can see them.”I stood in the middle of the pavement with Mrs. Delacroix’s fingers closed around my sleeve. Behind me, Dante called my name once, and his footsteps stopped at the curb.I opened both palms at my sides. Then I took one step backward, and another, until my heels touched the curb beside him.“Mrs. Delacroix, please let go of my arm.” I kept my voice low and my palms open. “He needs to see that you aren’t holding me here.”She looked at the officer, then at her own hand. She let go slowly, and I lowered her wrist to her side. Her husband met her at the edge of their walk and took her elbow.“Name,” the officer said, his notebook already out.“Xena Cross. I live in the house behind you.”He wrote it down. On the far sidewalk, the woman with the phone had moved two steps closer for a better angle. The man with the rake had not looke
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 224: Statements On The Lawn
Xena.“Peter,” Dante growled at the radio in his hand, “if you can hear me, then hear this.”Okafor crossed the kitchen in three steps and closed his fingers around Dante’s wrist.“Put it back where it was,” he ordered, pressing down until Dante’s grip loosened. “Leave it plugged in and leave it facing the room.”Dante stared at him. The cord hung slack between the radio and the outlet. Then he lowered the radio to the windowsill, turned the clock face toward the room, and took his hands away.Okafor pointed at the back door. Nobody spoke until all four of us stood in the driveway with the door shut behind us.“You just told him we found it,” Okafor said, his eyes on Dante. “So the only thing left to protect is the evidence. I want it photographed and bagged by a police officer before anyone can claim we planted it.”“On a Sunday?” Adrian’s voice climbed. “Who answers on a Sunday?”“Detective Reyes owes me a favor from 2019.” Okafor already had the phone against his ear, and he walked
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 223: Every Kitchen Needs One
Xena“Saying what, Adrian?” I demanded, before he could finish. “Say the rest of it.”He stared at me with his mouth half open. Across the street, Mrs. Delacroix and her husband had come down their front steps in church clothes. He was holding the car keys, she had her Bible tucked under one arm, and neither of them opened a car door.“Inside,” Dante ordered, stepping back to make room. “Now, before half the street hears it.”I took Adrian by the sleeve of his hoodie and pulled him over the threshold. Mrs. Delacroix watched me do it. When I glanced back before the door closed, her husband had put his keys back in his pocket.Adrian stopped in the middle of our kitchen. His eyes went from the half wall to the bucket, then to the folder lying open on the counter.“Dad played it for me at midnight in his study,” he explained, pulling his phone out of his hoodie pocket. “He said I could sign the affidavit, or you could hear it for the first time in open court with the judge watching your
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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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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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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
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