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Chapter 64: What It Cost
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2026-06-30 01:52:03
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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 76: The Empty House
Dante.The house was dark.Axel cut the headlights fifty meters out and we rolled the last stretch on the gravel with nothing but the tree line on either side looked deliberately empty. I'd seen it before — a house that had been lived in this morning and wasn't anymore had a particular look, curtains at the wrong angle, a stillness too complete to be natural rest.Victor was already reading it."He's gone," he said, before we stopped."I know."We sat in the car for a moment. Axel had both hands on the wheel and said nothing, which was the correct response. The three of us looked at the dark house and I ran the arithmetic of what it meant.Reeves had known we were coming, or he'd moved for other reasons, and either way whatever we'd driven three counties to find was not here."Gerald?" Axel glanced at me."Possibly." I looked at the tree line. "Or the channel moved him.""Same result either way," Victor said. "He's gone and we're standing in front of an empty house."I opened the door
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 71: 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 a
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 24: You Could Have Stopped It
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Dante.The library should have felt safer after Xena left.Instead, I found myself staring at the dark window for the third time in ten minutes.The security lights still cut across the estate grounds. Guards still moved along the perimeter. Cameras still watched every entrance and exit. Nothing ou
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 22: A Dead Child
Dante.“...He brought flowers?”Xena laughed. She actually laughed.The sound caught me off guard enough that I immediately regretted asking the question.I genuinely did not care about the flowers.Not at all.“That's what you're focused on?” she asked.“No.”“It absolutely is.”“It isn't.”“Dante
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Dante.By the morning of the birthday gathering, the evidence package had grown thick enough to qualify as a small weapon.Which felt appropriate.I stood in the study flipping through the final copies while Victor reviewed security placement near the door.“Hannah's confirmed attendance,” he said.
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