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Chapter 61: Pick Up
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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 75: What He Didn't Know He Had
Xena.The phone had been quiet for two hours.I'd checked it three times in the last hour. Not because I expected anything yet — Dante had said he'd call when it was done and Dante did what he said he would do, which was one of the few things about him I'd learned to count on. I checked it because waiting without checking felt like pretending I wasn't waiting, and pretending required energy I'd rather spend elsewhere.Adrian was at the other end of the dining table with his laptop and the particular focused stillness of a man who had decided the best thing he could do with his hands was keep them busy.We'd been working since this afternoon.The legal pad between us had four pages of notes in two different handwritings. His were precise, minimal, the kind of notes that assumed the writer would remember the context. Mine were the opposite — everything written out, nothing assumed, each connection mapped to the thing before it and the thing after because I'd learned a long time ago that
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 74: What Gerald Is Worth
Reeves.The call came from a number I didn't recognize, which meant it was someone I'd paid to use a number I wouldn't recognize."Gerald Yale left his building forty minutes ago," the voice said. "Private car. No driver on record. He's running the route himself."I looked at the window."How far out," I said."At current pace. Ninety minutes. Maybe less."I ended the call and set the phone on the table and looked at it for a moment the way you look at something that has confirmed what you already suspected but hoped wouldn't arrive this quickly.Gerald had found the address.I'd known it was possible. Mason was thorough — the kind of thorough built from twenty years of making an employer feel secure — and thorough men with enough resources eventually found what they were looking for. I'd factored Gerald finding this location into my timeline. What I hadn't factored was tonight. Before I'd finished what I needed to finish here. Before Hannah had given me what I needed from her.I sto
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 73: Before He Moves
Dante.Victor came in without knocking, which meant it wasn't a question."Gerald has the address," he said.I set the glass down."How long.""Mason called one of ours twenty minutes ago. Fishing for a county cross-reference. He already had the property — he was looking for confirmation it was current." Victor crossed the room and put a single sheet on the desk between us. "It's current."I looked at the address. The same one I'd been sitting on for eighteen hours, waiting for the right moment to move on it without Gerald knowing we had it.That window had just closed."He'll go tonight," I said."My read too."I stood and crossed to the window. Below, the city moved through its early evening — people finishing work, finding dinner, a Thursday doing what Thursdays did. None of it aware of what was about to happen inside it."If Gerald gets to Reeves first," I said."Reeves kills him or the Covenant does. Either way whatever Gerald knows about the channel dies with him. And Reeves bur
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 72: The Wrong Adrian
Xena.Adrian had cleared the dining table completely — two laptops, a legal pad, three folders I didn't recognize, a pot of coffee between them he'd poured without asking. That was how he operated when he'd already decided something was happening. You sat down or you didn't.I sat down.He poured without looking up."Gerald confirmed Reeves has been running something through Yale longer than he's held the chair," he said. "Seven years before Gerald's appointment, at minimum. Based on the subsidiary restructure timeline.""Twenty-seven years," I said. "Victor traced it that far back."Adrian looked up."Dante's people have the financial channel mapped," I said. "A shell company connected to a dead lawyer named Ellison Graves. The registered correspondence address was a building in the Yale patriarch's private property portfolio."Something shifted behind his eyes."The patriarch," he said."Yes.""Not Gerald.""Gerald climbed into something that was already built," I said. "He didn't b
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 70: The Silent Treatment
Gerald.Mason had stopped offering to call Reeves' secondary line.That was the first thing I noticed about the morning — not Reeves' continued silence, not Adrian's absence, just the small adjustment in Mason's behavior that told me he'd read the room correctly without being told to. He set the coffee down. He didn't ask if I needed anything else. He left.I'd trained good staff. That was one thing the last twenty years had given me cleanly, without complication.I looked at my phone.I'd called Adrian four times since yesterday afternoon. Four rings, each time, then voicemail, then nothing — no callback, no text, no acknowledgment that the calls had registered at all. I knew the gesture. I'd used it myself, on Reeves, twice now, in the last two days. There was a specific cruelty in recognizing your own move being run against you, a cruelty sharper than if Adrian had simply screamed at me and hung up.He'd learned that from me.I sat with that for longer than I wanted to.The thing
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 70: The Name On Nothing.
Herald.I didn't go to the car right away.The elevator came and went twice while I stood in the lobby of Gerald's building doing nothing that looked like anything from the outside — a man checking his phone, adjusting a cuff, the kind of stillness that passed for ordinary in a building full of people too busy to look twice at anyone not actively in their way.I wasn't checking my phone.I was thinking about the word don't.Don't you dare call me Adrian.I'd said it before I'd decided to say it, which had never happened to me before, not once, not in however many years I'd been doing this. Every word I'd ever spoken as Adrian had gone through a process first — a brief internal check, instinctive by now, fast enough that nobody watching could see it happen. Would the real one say this. Would the real one stand this way, hold this expression, choose this exact phrasing. I'd built an entire self out of that question, asked and answered a thousand times a day until it stopped feeling li
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 34: I Couldn't
Xena.“I said no.” Dante stared at me like I'd lost my mind. He stood at the entrance of his study room. For a moment it seemed like the room was holding its breath. “Xena…” I raised my hand, cutting him off entirely. “Don't do that.” His eyes narrowed on me.“After Gerald left, you acted all c
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 33: Twenty-Seven Years Of Lies
Dante.I didn't sleep.That wasn't unusual. But the reason was.Gerald had been gone for four hours. But his words hadn't left with him.I sat behind my desk staring at a financial report that seemed to blur together the more I'd tried to understand it.It was no use. My attention remained elsewher
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 32: Go Upstairs, Xena.
Xena.“What did you just say?” Dante’s voice intensified as he pressed Gerald against the wall.Gerald grunted, struggling to get free. Meanwhile, his men still had their guns raised at Dante.And the Yale elder seemed not to give a fuck. Personally, I didn't care for the comment. But Dante...“Don
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 31: Don't Say Her Name
Dante."I just met Reeves."At first, I wasn't sure if I'd heard correctly. But after three seconds, I realized my brain was working fine."Are you sure you didn't see someone else?" I asked, immediately getting up and heading toward my wardrobe."Oh, because someone would just walk past me, lean i
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