เข้าสู่ระบบแชร์
Chapter 41: Hollow Creek
วันที่เผยแพร่:
2026-09-01 09:57:03
บทล่าสุด
Married To My Ex’s Step-Father Chapter 45: The Weight of Old Sins
POV: VictoriaJaxon's questions lingered long after he left my sitting room, old guilt stirring awake beneath twenty years of carefully constructed denial. I had convinced myself, over the decades, that the memory of that morning had faded into something distant enough to no longer feel entirely real, a nightmare half-remembered rather than a truth I had lived through and caused.I rose from my chair, pacing the length of the room as memories I had spent so long suppressing rose unbidden to the surface. My husband's face, twisted with the same dismissiveness he had always shown me, even in our final conversation. His voice, careless and cruel, explaining once more why I would never truly matter within this family, why Magnus's approval meant more to him than whatever partnership we had built together as husband and wife.I had not planned it, not truly. The push had come from somewhere deeper than calculation, somewhere born of twenty years of accumulated resentment finally boiling ov
Married To My Ex’s Step-Father Chapter 44: Questions He Cannot Unask
POV: JaxonI found my mother in her private sitting room, staring out toward the eastern gardens with an unusual stillness that immediately caught my attention. She startled slightly when I entered, quickly composing her expression into its familiar, guarded pleasantness."Jaxon," she said. "I did not hear you approach.""You seem troubled, Mother," I said, settling into the chair across from hers. "More than usual, even given everything currently surrounding this household.""It is nothing," she said, though the tightness around her eyes suggested otherwise. "Simply the strain of Corwin's continued presence, wearing on all of us equally."I studied her carefully, the question I had been turning over since our conversation in the stables finally demanding voice. "Corwin questioned the kitchen staff about you yesterday," I said. "About your behavior, around the time you first married Father."Victoria's composure flickered, just slightly, though she recovered quickly. "Servants gossip
Married To My Ex’s Step-Father Chapter 43: Holding the Line
POV: RoxanaMagnus's absence stretched longer than either of us had anticipated, each passing day adding fresh strain to a household already stretched thin by suspicion and secrets. I told the staff he traveled on urgent pack business, a vague enough explanation that satisfied most, though Corwin's pointed questions during breakfast suggested he found the timing considerably more curious than convenient."The Alpha departed rather suddenly," Corwin observed one morning, his pale eyes studying me carefully across the dining table. "I do not recall him mentioning such travel during our previous conversations.""Pack matters do not always allow for advance notice," I said, keeping my voice light despite the tension coiling beneath my composure. "I am certain he will explain further upon his return.""Of course," Corwin said, though his tone carried the same careful skepticism he applied to everything within these walls. "I only mention it because my own investigation grows considerably m
Married To My Ex’s Step-Father Chapter 42: The Journey North
POV: MagnusThe message from Tormund reached me eight days after his arrival at Hollow Creek, carried by a fast rider whose exhausted horse nearly collapsed at my gates. I read the account twice, my chest tightening with a complicated mixture of hope and dread at Marta's condition.She would speak, but only to me directly.I found Roxana in the garden, her expression shifting to concern the moment she registered the letter clutched in my hand. "What does it say?" she asked."Marta has been found," I said. "She has agreed to share what she witnessed, but only if I travel to hear it myself."Roxana's eyes widened. "You intend to go?""I do not see another option," I said. "If she has carried this truth silently for twenty years, I will not risk losing it now over a demand I am unwilling to honor.""The journey is dangerous," Roxana said, worry sharpening her voice. "And you cannot simply abandon this household, not with Corwin's investigation still unresolved, not with Victoria growing
Married To My Ex’s Step-Father Chapter 41: Hollow Creek
POV: TormundThe village of Hollow Creek sat nestled between two steep ridges, a scattering of modest wooden homes surrounded by thick pine forest that muffled every sound beyond the occasional bark of a dog or the distant ring of an axe against timber. Renn and I approached slowly, our travel-worn cloaks marking us clearly as outsiders long before we reached the first cluster of buildings."Discretion," I reminded Renn quietly, though the younger tracker hardly needed the warning. "The Alpha was clear. We approach carefully, or risk losing her entirely."We found a small trading post near the village center, its keeper a weathered man who eyed our unfamiliar faces with the wary curiosity of someone accustomed to strangers rarely passing through such isolated terrain. "Looking for supplies?" he asked, though his tone suggested he already suspected otherwise."Looking for a healer," I said. "We heard word of a woman known locally as Old Mara. A relative of ours, we believe, lost to us
Married To My Ex’s Step-Father Chapter 40: The Answer From the North
POV: MagnusNine days after Roxana's letter departed north, the same weathered trader returned to my gates, requesting audience with the Luna once more. I met him alongside her this time, unwilling to leave any correspondence involving Hestia entirely outside my own oversight, regardless of how much I trusted Roxana's judgment in the matter."She responded quickly," the trader said, producing a small, carefully sealed letter from within his cloak. "Though she seemed considerably more cautious this time, asking me twice whether I had been followed before agreeing to carry her reply."We thanked him, ensuring his payment and lodging were handled generously before retreating to the privacy of my study to read whatever Hestia had written. Roxana's hands trembled slightly as she broke the seal, her eyes scanning the contents before reading aloud for my benefit.*Roxana. Your request reached me, and I confess some surprise at how quickly you turned my warning into an opportunity. Very well.
บางทีคุณอาจจะชอบ
Contract Luna
Raelyn Karson543.2K viewsTaking Alpha's Twins Away After Divorce
AlisTae884.8K viewsThe Heartless Alpha’s Beloved Luna
Jane Above Story2.2M viewsThe Forbidden Alpha
JP Sina679.7K viewsFalling for my bully's boyfriend
Derick Wilcher 59 viewsMy Ex's Alpha Is My Baby Daddy
Ann E.105 viewsClaimed By The Alpha Billionaire
Bam Bam259 viewsTHE ALPHA'S REVENGE ON HIS MATE
GRACIE70 views
