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Chapter 66: The Man Who Took Her
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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 198: Who She Told
Xena."You actually came," Foster said, holding the door open with one hand and a folded sheet of yellowed paper with the other. "I didn't think you would.""She asked us to," I answered quietly, stepping in out of the cold. "Before she hung up."Dante came in behind me and shut the door. Foster looked at him for a long second. Dante held still and let him look. Then Foster stepped aside to let him pass.Cassandra sat in the chair by the window, a blanket over her knees and an empty cup on the table beside her. She looked smaller than she had four days ago. Her hands were folded in her lap, but her thumbs kept moving against each other."Sit, both of you," she said, her voice worn thin. "I won't have anyone looming over me in my own house."Dante took the end of the sofa nearest the door. I sat beside him, close enough that our knees touched. Foster stayed on his feet in the middle of the rug, the paper held against his chest."You said it was a cold," he said to his mother, the words
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 197: Third Board From The Window
Xena."It's Xena, sweetheart," Cassandra said, her voice going soft in a way I had never heard from her. "Go back to bed.""At one in the morning?" Foster asked, suspicion sharpening the sleep out of him. "Nobody calls anybody at one in the morning with good news."Dante's hand tightened around mine. On the screen between us, the call timer kept counting, one second after another."Give me the phone, Mom," Foster said, closer now, firm in a way that left no room for her to argue.There was a rustle, then a muffled bump, as if the phone had knocked against the arm of a chair. When his voice came back, it was right against the speaker."Xena," he said, low and tight. "Is this about Herald? Did he change his mind?"I looked at Dante. He gave me one small nod, and I let out the breath I had been holding."He said yes," I told Foster, choosing each word before I let it go. "He'll see you. That part is real."The sound that came down the line was half a laugh and half a cough. Then it stopp
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 196: The Nineteenth
Xena."Pick up. Come on, pick up," I muttered, pressing the phone so hard against my ear that the case bit into my cheek.The line rang once, then clicked over to Okafor's breathing, close and a little winded."Sorry," he said, the apology clipped short by the hour. "I walked into the kitchen and lost the signal. This building eats calls.""The date, Okafor," I said, too sharp to bother with hello."The nineteenth." He paused, his voice dropping lower. "Earliest possible. It could slide later. It won't slide earlier, if the clerk's right, and clerks are right more often than wardens."I counted on my fingers under the table without meaning to. Dante watched my hand do it."Eleven days," I whispered, my fingers still folded against my palm."Eleven days," Okafor agreed, flat and careful. "After that, Herald's three hundred miles north. Every visit becomes a full day in a car for a woman who may not have many full days left to spend that way."Dante's thumb stopped moving against my knu
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 195: The Final Four Weeks
Xena."Weeks," Cassandra said, finishing the sentence she'd left hanging. "Not months, the way I let you believe this afternoon. The doctor gave me a range, and I've spent the last two weeks watching myself land closer to the short end of it every single day.""Cassandra.""I told you not to do that earlier, and I meant it just as much now." Her voice held steady, though I could hear the effort it took to keep it there. "I'm telling you because you need to know what you're actually planning around, not because I want you carrying it for me.""How many weeks?""Four, if I'm being generous with myself. Possibly fewer." She said the number plainly, the same way she'd said everything else that afternoon, each word set down without a single tremor in it despite whatever it must have cost her to keep them that steady. "I didn't want you making arrangements for a woman who has all the t
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 195: Two Clocks
Xena."Weeks," Cassandra said, finishing the sentence she'd left hanging. "Not months, the way I let you believe this afternoon. The doctor gave me a range, and I've spent the last two weeks watching myself land closer to the short end of it every single day.""Cassandra.""I told you not to do that earlier, and I meant it just as much now." Her voice held steady, though I could hear the effort it took to keep it there. "I'm telling you because you need to know what you're actually planning around, not because I want you carrying it for me.""How many weeks?""Four, if I'm being generous with myself. Possibly fewer." She said the number plainly, the same way she'd said everything else that afternoon, each word set down without a single tremor in it despite whatever it must have cost her to keep them that steady. "I didn't want you making arrangements for a woman who has all the t
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 194: What She Asked For Instant
Xena"I'm still here," I said, my voice steadier than I felt with Dante's hand still wrapped around mine."I know it's a great deal to ask," Okafor said, the courtroom caution back in his voice. "I told him as much myself, before I called you. He wasn't interested in negotiating it down.""Did he say why? Why her specifically, and not just Foster alone?""He didn't explain himself. Herald rarely does, in writing or otherwise." A pause, papers shifting somewhere on his end. "I can push back on the condition if you want me to. I can tell him it isn't feasible and see whether he holds his ground or lets Foster in without her.""Don't push back yet." I looked at Dante, who was watching me with the particular stillness he got when he already suspected where a decision was headed before I said it out loud. "Give me a day. I need to talk to her before anyone tells Herald anything."
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
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 3: Where Do I Sign?
Xena.I have had some strange experiences in my lifetime.Being born illegitimate into a family that kept me like a footnote. Being sent to a wedding that wasn't mine with twenty minutes of notice. And spending three years married to a man who looked through me at dinner every night.But none of th
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 2: I Have A Deal For You
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
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
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