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Chapter 9: Her Husband
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2026-05-29 20:18:47
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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 41: Or There Were Two Of Them
Dante.The numbers on the screen had stopped meaning anything useful twenty minutes ago.That was the detail I kept circling back to. Not the Thursday meeting. Not Victor's last update on Axel. Not the particular shape of Gerald's moves that still wasn't sitting right. The numbers had stopped meaning anything and I'd been staring at them anyway because the alternative was acknowledging why.The front door opened at 9:43.I didn't look up.Her footsteps crossed the entrance hall. I paused at the kitchen. Then continued toward the study. She stopped in the doorway without me turning around to confirm it."You're back," I said."I am."Neither of those sentences carried anything useful. We both knew it.She moved into the room. Took the chair across from my desk and sat. The study was quiet. Chicago pressed itself against the glass."Did Victor find him yet?"I set my pen down."Darwin's phone last pinged near O'Hare." I kept my voice level. "He's either already out of the city or makin
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 40: Like Hell I'd Do That
Adrian.The gates opened the moment I approached. Dexter fell into step beside me with a towel, draping it over my neck without being asked."Welcome home, sir."I didn't respond. He had a way of making it feel like one — the penthouse, the quiet efficiency, the complete absence of questions. Xena would have liked him. I handed the towel back and pushed toward the entrance.What I couldn't let pass was the park.I have never apologized to you.I'd meant it when I said it. That was the part that kept snagging. Not the accusation — I'd been accused of worse by people with better evidence — but the way she'd looked when I denied it. It was like those of someone whose internal math had just stopped working.Xena didn't make that kind of mistake.Light bled through the glass panel beside the front door.I stopped.I had switched them off before I left. Not the vague certainty of habit — the specific kind. I'd stood there with my hand still on the switch, the room already dark, nothing part
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 39: The Apology Never Happened
Xena.For a solid three seconds neither of us moved.He looked at me like he was checking whether I was real. I looked at him like I was asking myself what exactly I had done to deserve this particular morning."Xena." He pulled out his earphones. His breathing was still slightly elevated from the jog. "What are you doing here?""Walking." I said it flatly. "What does it look like."He glanced behind me briefly like he was checking for someone else. Then back at me. "Alone?""Obviously."He nodded slowly. The specific nod of someone buying time while they figured out what version of this conversation they were willing to have.I didn't give him the time."Why did you frame me?"His expression shifted immediately. "Excuse me?""The gala." I kept my voice level. "The video. Hannah standing beside you pointing at me in front of half of Chicago." I held his gaze. "Why."Adrian stared at me.Then he laughed.Not a real laugh. The short humorless kind that meant he found something more offe
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 38: Holy Fuck. Adrian?
Xena.The park was empty enough at this hour that my footsteps were the loudest thing around.Good.I needed loud footsteps and nothing else for a while.The cold hit my face the moment I'd stepped outside. I pulled my jacket tighter and kept moving. If I stopped now it would feel like an invitation for everything I'd just left behind to catch up with me. The house. The sitting room. Dante's eyes moving from my face to the room and back again with that specific quiet that meant he was already three steps ahead of whatever I was willing to give him.I'd walked out before he could get to four.My phone buzzed.I didn't check it.It buzzed again before the first one finished. Then twice more in quick succession.I put it in my other pocket and kept walking.The park in the early morning had its own population. Joggers who took it seriously. Dog owners who didn't. A man on a bench with a coffee cup reading something on his phone like the rest of the world didn't exist yet.I envied him.
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 37: Find Axel Darwin
Dante.I stepped on the accelerator. The car sped past the traffic. What was I thinking? Leaving Xena at home alone. If Reeves had sent men there, I doubt the guards would be able to stop them.Note to self, upgrade security.I took a turn, narrowly missing a car. No time to waste.I tried the house line again.It rang four times before going to voicemail and I ended the call before the automated voice finished its sentence.The accelerator was already on the floor.Chicago at this hour existed in a strange in-between state — not quite night anymore but not yet morning, the streets were half empty in a way that usually felt peaceful. That tonight just meant there was nothing between me and every worst case scenario my mind was constructing with remarkable efficiency.*You don't even know your own family.*Reeves' voice was still sitting in the back of my head like he'd placed it there deliberately. Which he probably had. Everything about that meeting had been deliberate — the locat
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 36: You Don't Even Know Your Own Family
Dante.I pulled up at the abandoned driveway. Looking out the window, I immediately cursed under my breath.I hadn't seen this place since I was a kid. The buildings had overgrown weeds. Some already climbing the walls.Even a blind man would obviously sense the loneliness of the surroundings. "This better be worth it." I muttered under my breath as I stepped out Coming here alone was a bad idea. Even though the contract stated none of my family members could touch me. It said nothing about Reeves.I signaled Victor with two fingers.He moved to the left entrance. Two others took the right. I went straight through the middle because I'd spent seven years learning that the direct path told you more than the careful one.The building smelled like dust and old paper. Something underneath both of those things felt wrong but I couldn't immediately place itMy footsteps were the only sound.The ground floor was empty. Filing cabinets rusted shut. Desks that hadn't been touched in years. A
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