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Chapter 49: Flight Cancelled
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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 152: Careful With That One
Xena."Careful with that one.""It's a lamp, Dante.""It's my grandmother's lamp.""It's a lamp shaped like a heron and it's ugly." I set it down on the porch anyway, gently, because he was watching. "You could just say you like it.""I like it.""See. Simple."The movers went past us with the sofa at an angle that made both of us wince, and somewhere behind me a man shouted a number that meant nothing to either of us, and the house in Evanston stood there getting emptier by the box.Closing was Thursday. This was the last Sunday it would ever be his.A mover leaned round the door frame."Where's the piano going, boss?""There's no piano," Dante said."There's a piano in the truck.""That's not mine.""Address says this address."Dante looked at me. I looked at him."Not our problem," I said."Absolutely not our problem," he agreed, and went to go and find out whose problem it was, leaving me alone on the porch with a heron."You're doing the face," Dante observed, amusement warming h
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 151: Cowardice With Better Paperwork
Xena."Say it again.""Dante, I need you to actually hear me before you—""Say it again." He hadn't moved from the doorway of his own kitchen. "The word. Just the word.""Guardianship."Something went out of his face. Not colour — colour had gone already, in the car, the second I'd started talking. This was something under the colour."When." His voice had dropped almost to nothing."Herald didn't give me a date. He said Victor told him you were helping build the paperwork. Somebody inside the family. Somebody who'd sign off on it and never lose a night's sleep." I made myself keep going, because if I stopped now I don't think I'd have started again. "That's what he said.""I didn't—" Dante stopped himself. Started again. "I need to think.""Take your time.""No. Actual time. Not the kind where I say something clever in four seconds because I can't stand the silence." He put both hands flat on the counter and stood there like a man bracing for weather. "Give me a minute, Xena. A real
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 150: Who I'd Protect
Xena."You brought her."Herald stopped three feet from the table, and for the first time since I'd known him, something that wasn't calm got all the way to his face before he could stop it."Sit down," Cassandra said, in the voice she must have used on grown men for sixty years. "I'm too old to have a conversation looking up at somebody."He sat."You've been writing to me about the weather," he said to her. "And now you're here.""Paper wasn't doing either of us any good." She folded her hands on the table, steady as stone. "Victor Hale. March. Twice. I'd like to know what he said.""She already knows some of it," I offered, wanting to spare him the worst of the telling. "I told her about the question."Herald looked at me."You told her.""I told her he asked who you'd prot
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 149: Deciding Out Loud
Xena.Cassandra Byrne answered her own door in a cardigan the colour of weak tea, and she looked at me for a long moment before she said anything at all."You've got your father's mouth," she observed, not unkindly, as though noting the weather. "I keep meaning to tell you that and then deciding it isn't mine to give you.""You can give it to me now.""I can." She stood back to let me in. "Come through. I've made too much coffee for one person, which is a lie old women tell so nobody feels they're intruding."Her flat in Streeterville has almost nothing in it. A chair. A second chair that looked unused. A window with a view of the river that she wasn't looking out of.I sat in the used chair."You know why I've come." I didn't bother with an opening."I know you've come about Sunday." Cassandra poured without asking w
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 148: Fear Wearing A Better Coat
Xena."You're back.""You're still up."Dante was at the kitchen table in the house on Wells — my flat, not his, because I'd driven there without deciding to and only noticed when I was already parking. He had his coat still on. There was a mug in front of him he hadn't touched."How did it go with Osei," I got out, before I'd even taken my coat off."Sit down first.""Dante.""I'm not being dramatic. You've been driving for an hour and you look like you haven't eaten." He got up and put the kettle on without asking, a thing he does now, and which I have stopped minding. "Sit down, and then I'll tell you, and then you can be angry at whichever part of it you like."I sat down."She took it," Dante said, relief and dread tangled up in the same breath. "Nine fifteen this morning. I sat in the corridor from nine, like I said I would. Her clerk let me in at quarter past. I put the notebook on her desk and told her what it was before she'd opened it.""And?""She read the Eleanor pages fir
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 147: Everyone Who's Ever Known A Whole Thing
Xena."Time," the officer called, from the wall."Herald—""You've got ninety seconds." He leaned in over the table, and for once he wasn't calm about it, and that frightened me more than anything he'd said all afternoon. "Listen to me. Don't go to Osei with this. Not yet.""Why not?""Because I don't know what he told her already, and if you walk in asking about March visits before she's raised it, you'll look like you knew something and sat on it." His hands had come off the table. "You're named in a federal matter, Xena. Everything you do from today gets read by somebody looking for a reason.""Then tell me what he said.""Wrap it up, Cross." The officer was already moving."He asked me who I'd protect," Herald said, fast, low, the words falling over each other for the first time since I'd sat down. "First visit, he asked me who I'd protect if it came to it. Second visit, he told me why he was asking.""Herald—""Sunday. Same time. Bring nothing." A guard had a hand near his shoulde
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 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 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 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
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