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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 140: The Ninth Of May
Xena."You didn't know."Michael Halloway said it in the corridor outside 1804 with his back against the wall and a paper cup of water he wasn't drinking.I kept walking."Miss Cross." He came off the wall. "You didn't know.""Don't.""I need you to answer me."I turned round in the middle of a public corridor on the eighteenth floor of the Daley Center, and a man in a suit stepped sideways to get round us, and I heard my own voice come out of me at a volume I don't use."Your lawyer just read my name out of a dead man's ledger," I said. "You've had eleven days to decide what kind of person you are. Decide somewhere else."Michael put the cup down on the window ledge."I've had it since Friday," he said.The corridor kept moving around us. I stopped hearing it."What?""Exhibit F. Four pages. It came in the Friday production with three hundred others." His jaw was working the way his grandfather's had in the courtroom on Thursday, the same muscle, the same place. "I read it Saturday m
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 139: Subject File
Xena."State your name for the record.""Diana Ruth Cross.""And your relationship to the respondent, Robert James Halloway?""None." My mother's hands were flat on the rail of the box. "I met him once. For fifty minutes. On the twelfth."Courtroom 1804 in the Daley Center has forty seats and about nine people in it. Probate on a Monday morning is a room full of exhausted families and one bailiff who has seen everything. Nobody in there knew what they were sitting in the middle of except the six of us.Robert Halloway was in the second row again. Same coat.Michael sat across the aisle from his grandfather with two feet of public floor between them, which is the closest they'd been since Thursday, and he hadn't looked over once."Mrs. Cross." Michael's lawyer stood up. Priya Raman, forty-something, no notes in her hand. "You filed a sworn affidavit in this matter on Friday evening.""I did.""You filed it voluntarily.""I did.""Nobody compelled you.""Nobody knew," my mother said. "I
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 138: A Room Somebody Built On Purpose
Xena."That's the wrong coffee.""That's the right coffee." Dante put both cups down on the only flat surface in the room, which was a box. "That's what you drink.""That's what I drank in March, when I was living on four hours a night and I needed it to be sweet enough to be a meal." I took the lid off and looked at it. "This is a dessert.""Then don't drink it.""I'm going to drink it.""I know you are." He said it into his own cup, and I heard the smile in it before I saw it, and I turned away so he wouldn't get the satisfaction.Eleven boxes. Eleven, in a room with a radiator that knocked and a south window that had been painted shut by whoever rented the place after me. I'd paid storage on them for fourteen months. I'd walked past this door in June and not stopped."You're not opening them," Dante said."I'm looking at them.""You've been looking at them for twenty minutes.""I'm doing them in order." I crouched down at the end of the row and put my hand flat on the top of the fi
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 137: Two Names On The Page
Xena."You should have called first."My mother said it with her back to me, at the sink, running water over a mug she'd already washed."You should have called me eleven days ago." I put the petition on the counter between us. "Paragraph nine. Read it.""I've read it.""You've—""Mine came at four." She turned the tap off. "Courier. He knocked twice and waited, which I thought was polite of him."She dried her hands on a towel that had been folded over the oven rail since Dante moved out of this flat, and she did it one finger at a time, and I stood in the doorway of a kitchen with no photographs in it and felt the day catch up with me all at once."You knew this morning," I said."I knew this afternoon.""You let me sit in that courtroom—""I wasn't in that courtroom, Xena." Diana turned around at last. Her hair was still short. She'd cut it herself in a bus station in Toronto eleven months ago with a pair of nail scissors, and it had grown out uneven at the left temple, and she had
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 136: Don’t Sign It
Xena."Don't sign it."The doors at the back of Cheng's courtroom banged against the stops, and the whole gallery turned at once — sixty heads, one motion, like water tipping in a glass.Halloway's grandson stood in the aisle in a grey suit with rain still on the shoulders. He wasn't looking at the bench. He wasn't looking at Herald, who was standing at the defence table with his hands folded in front of him and a marshal at either elbow.He was looking at the old man in the second row."Grandad." His voice cracked on it, and he didn't care who heard. "Don't sign anything."Cheng didn't raise her voice. She never did."Sir, you will step back through those doors or you will be removed through them," she said, and something in the flatness of it made two people in the front row sit up straighter. "This court is in the middle of a sentencing.""I'm aware of what this court is in the middle of." The grandson came another three steps down the aisle. "That's why I'm here."The marshal near
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 135: The Caption
Xena."Counsel, I've read four hundred pages since Thursday and I'd like to start by telling you what I'm not going to do."Cheng had her glasses off before anyone had finished sitting down."I'm not going to pretend this is an ordinary sentencing, and I'm not going to pretend the federal matter that unsealed at nine o'clock this morning has nothing to do with the man standing in front of me." She set the glasses on the bench, her patience already thinning. "Both of those pretences would be dishonest and the transcript will show I declined them. Mr. Reyes, your submission."The public defender rose. He was younger than I'd expected for someone carrying this."Your Honor, my client instructed me not to raise mitigation. He's instructed me three times." He planted both hands on the table, a stubbornness in it that hadn't been there in the corridor. "I'm raising it anyway and he can complain about it on appeal.""Noted. Go on.""Herald Cross was raised without a birth certificate. He was
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 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
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