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Chapter 59: First Crack
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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 60: The Truth Between Us
Xena.The phone rang twice before I picked up.I nearly frowned when I saw the name. Reeves. I looked at the screen for one second then answered."Your father is gone," he said.I sat up."Someone got to the property tonight." His voice had a quality I hadn't heard before. "The arrangement we discussed is no longer—""Gone how," I said."Removed.""By who."A pause that had weight in it."That's not your concern right now.""It's entirely my concern." I was already standing. "You told me he stays breathing as long as I stay useful. You told me—""The arrangement has changed.""Is he alive?"Silence."Reeves." My voice came out flat. "Is my father alive?""As far as I know," he said. "Yes."The guest room held its expensive quiet around me. I stood in the middle of it with the phone against my ear and looked at nothing in particular and let that land.Alive.As far as he knew."The agreement is void," Reeves said. "You're free to—"I hung up and stood there.Then I called Dante.It ra
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 59: First Crack
Hannah.I'd stopped trying to sleep an hour ago.The bed was fine. The room was fine. Everything in this house was technically fine in the way of things chosen for function rather than comfort and I'd learned the difference between those two things early enough in life that I stopped expecting them to be the same.I was looking at the ceiling when his phone rang.Not the first call tonight. Reeves made calls at hours that had nothing to do with whether the rest of the world was awake. I'd learned his patterns the same way I'd learned everything about this house — by listening through walls and filing what I heard and saying nothing about any of it.This one was different.The calls usually ended and then there were footsteps. This time the call ended and there were no footsteps.Just silence.I sat up.His study door was open.That was the first thing wrong. Reeves didn't leave doors open. Every room he occupied he closed behind him. But the door was open.I stopped in the hallway.He
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 58: What The Hell Is Cross Doing Here?
Dante.The guard was smoking.Victor was already moving before I finished clocking him. Axel started forward and I put my hand on his arm without looking at him.We watched.Victor crossed the open ground in the specific way he moved when the situation required it. The guard heard something at the last second — started to turn — and then Victor's hand was on his neck. He was down without a sound.Victor looked back at us.We moved.The front door was unlocked."Someone left in a hurry," Axel said quietly behind me.I didn’t respond to that as we walked in. Inside Axel made a sound. "Smells like food. Coffee. People were here recently.""Recently isn't now," Victor muttered. Axel was about to make a comment but he shut it the moment Victor glared at him. Jeez I was too old for all these drama. We moved through the ground floor. Three rooms. All empty. Kitchen with dishes still in the sink. Study with the desk lamp on and nothing on the desk — they'd taken whatever was on it and left
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Axel."It's a farmhouse," Henry’s voice came out rough. "Single structure. Access road off the county route. No neighbors within two miles.""Activity.""Vehicle tracks shows that someone's been moving in and out regularly." A pause. "Axel I don't know what you're into but—""Send me everything you have."The line went dead.I looked at my phone. The files came through in three separate attachments. A satellite imagery, property records and a rough sketch of the access road my contact had pulled from county surveying records.I called Dante.He picked up before the second ring."I have it," I said.He arrived twenty minutes later.No knock. I'd left the office door open and he came through like the space had already decided to accommodate him before he arrived. Victor was two steps behind him with a jacket and the specific expression of a man who had already assessed the room before entering it.I slid the satellite image across the desk.Dante looked at it. Victor leaned over his sh
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 56: Xena
Dante.I knew before I sat down.The second my eyes found her across the table the information arrived with the specific clarity of something that doesn't require processing. The posture was Hannah's. The earrings were Hannah's. The way she held the water glass with both hands was practiced enough to be convincing to anyone who hadn't spent six weeks watching the person she was imitating do it differently.Xena held a glass by the stem.Always.I pulled out my chair and sat down and said nothing and looked at the presentation screen like it was the most interesting thing in the room.It wasn't.She was two seats to Adrian's right and she hadn't looked at me since I walked in. That restraint alone told me she'd clocked me the moment the doors opened. Xena not looking at something she was aware of was its own kind of looking.I opened the folder in front of me.What are you doing here?Was she here because someone had put her here.The divorce. The timing of it. I felt it when the door
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 55: The Consortium
Xena."The glass," I said.Adrian looked at me."I knocked it off the table." I held his gaze with Hannah's specific steadiness. "Reaching for my clutch. It was an accident." A beat. "Margaret was dramatic about it."Something moved across his face.He looked at me for three seconds. He had weight in every one of them.Then he looked back at the document in his hand."She was dramatic about it," his smile dropped a bit."She's a dramatic woman."He turned the page.I looked at the window and let my shoulders do absolutely nothing that would tell him what the last thirty seconds had cost meThursday arrived the way days arrive when you've been dreading them. Even I didn’t get it, all of a sudden it was morning and the consortium building was waiting somewhere on the other side of it.I stood in the guest bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror.Hannah Cross.I'd spent the last two days becoming her in the small ways that mattered. The way she held her coffee. The way she moved thro
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Dante.“Run it again.”Elias stayed silent for half a second too long before answering.“We already did.”I looked up from the documents spread across my desk.“Then you'll probably find the same thing twice.”The study went quiet after that.Elias gave a single nod and stepped back out of the room
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Xena.Nobody moved.The ballroom stayed suspended in one long stunned breath while Dante stood beside me like he belonged exactly where he was.The MC remained frozen near the podium clutching cue cards with visibly trembling hands while conversations around the room died one by one.A woman near t
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Xena.The bell above the studio door rang softly behind Hannah.Then she was gone.Nobody moved for a second.The envelope stayed open on my worktable beside scattered sketches and fabric samples like it belonged there. Like the last five minutes hadn't just happened.Chloe looked between me and th
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Xena.“You’re leaving?”I looked up from the foyer table where I was reaching for my keys.Maria stood halfway down the staircase in her uniform, eyebrows pulled together. Behind her, the Yale house stretched quiet and expensive and watchful in the gray early morning light.“Just for a few hours,” I
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