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Chapter Fourteen

Penulis: Bonnie Jay
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-08-30 15:05:08

The call came at seven the next morning, before either of us had managed more than two hours of sleep on the pull-out couch in Desmond's private room, our new marriage exactly one day old and already tested by something neither of us had expected.

"There was a compound in his bloodwork," Voss said, without preamble. "Not something that occurs naturally, not something anyone in that room would have been taking for a legitimate reason. It's consistent with some

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  • Married To The Wrong Twin   Chapter Forty Three

    I was clearing my bag off the hall table that evening when my elbow caught the shopping bag that had been sitting there for three days and nearly knocked it to the floor."Careful," Callum said, appearing in the doorway a half second too fast, one hand already half reaching for it like he'd been listening for exactly this."It's fine, I caught it." I picked it up properly, mostly just to steady it, and felt the shape of something solid inside through the paper. "What's this, anyway.""Nothing. It's nothing." He said it too quickly, already crossing the room, and the sheer speed of it made me hold onto the bag a second longer than I otherwise would have, curious now in a way I hadn't been a moment ago."It's clearly not nothing. You look like I caught you doing something illegal.""I'm not doing anything illegal. It's a candle." He said it like a man confessing to something considerably worse, rubbing the back of his neck, not quite meeting my eyes. "I bought a candle. It's not a compl

  • Married To The Wrong Twin   Chapter Forty Two

    I made it almost to lunch before Theo cornered me properly, which was longer than I expected, given the week I'd apparently been visibly having."You've redrawn the same stair detail three times," he said, not looking up from his own desk. "And you keep touching your stomach when you think I'm not looking. Twice in the last hour alone."I stopped, my hand still resting exactly where he'd just accused it of resting, and felt something in my chest give way before I'd fully decided to let it."Close the door."He did, slowly, something careful moving across his face like he already half suspected what was coming and wasn't sure yet whether to be happy about it."Odessa.""I'm pregnant." I said it plainly, the way I hadn't managed to say it to anyone yet, not even fully to myself. "Confirmed yesterday. I haven't told anyone. I'm not entirely sure why I'm telling you first, except that I genuinely didn't have anyone else I actually wanted to tell."Something in his face did several things

  • Married To The Wrong Twin   Chapter Forty One

    Dr. Chen's office looked exactly the way I remembered it, same beige walls, same slightly too-cheerful watercolor print above the exam table."You're quiet," Callum said."I'm nervous.""About the results, or about whatever's actually been sitting on you the last few days.""Both, probably.""You could tell me which parts belong to which. It might make one of them easier to carry.""I'm handling it.""That's not what I asked." He said it without any real edge to it, more tired than accusing. "I'm not trying to corner you into a conversation you're not ready for. I'd just rather you knew I'd noticed, instead of both of us pretending I hadn't.""I know you noticed. I'm not pretending you didn't.""Alright." He let it sit there, unresolved, and I appreciated it more than I probably showed, the fact that he didn't need an answer right now badly enough to keep chasing one.I didn't answer that, mostly because I genuinely didn't have a version of the truth ready that wouldn't require handin

  • Married To The Wrong Twin   Chapter Forty

    I stood there staring at that faint, barely-there line longer than I needed to, waiting for it to either resolve into something I could trust or vanish back into nothing, and it did neither. It just stayed exactly as faint as it had been the first second I saw it, and I found myself feeling two entirely different things at once, so completely that neither one canceled the other out. Something that might have been joy, if I'd let it all the way in. And underneath that, quieter, more stubborn, the memory of her mouth on his, still sitting in my chest exactly where I'd left it three hours ago."It's early," Callum said, quiet, still crouched beside me on the bathroom floor. "Too early to know anything for certain from a line that faint. We should call the clinic in the morning. Get the actual blood work done.""Okay.""Are you alright.""I don't know what I am right now, honestly." That much, at least, was true, even if I let him believe it meant something simpler than it did."That's fa

  • Married To The Wrong Twin   Chapter Thirty Nine

    Callum's POVI'd meant to say something to Odessa that morning. I'd stood in the kitchen with the sentence half formed, something about the distance, something about how tired I was of both of us pretending we didn't notice it, and she'd left for the studio before I found the nerve to finish it. I told myself I'd try again that evening. I didn't yet know how badly the evening was going to get away from me.Ivy came by around six, ostensibly for the last of the transition paperwork, though we'd finished that inside twenty minutes and she'd made no move to leave."Can I ask you something. Off the record.""That depends entirely on the question.""Are you two still doing the clinical rounds. The appointments, the scheduling, all of it." She said it lightly, turning her cup a slow circle on the desk without drinking from it."That's not a conversation I'm having with you.""I'll take that as a no, then." She studied me a moment, something almost sympathetic in it, which somehow made what

  • Married To The Wrong Twin   Chapter Thirty Eight

    It was well past seven by the time I reached his floor, the last of the daylight already gone from the windows lining the hallway, most of the other offices dark, just one door at the far end still lit.I heard her before I saw either of them, a sound I didn't immediately place, low and broken, nothing like any version of Ivy I'd ever encountered."...I don't even know why I fought so hard to come back here," she was saying, voice thick, unsteady. "Everyone in that boardroom still looks at me like I'm something to be managed. My own mother hasn't called once since the vote. Warrick was right about one thing, at least. Nobody in this family actually wants me here. They just didn't want the lawsuit.""That's not true." Callum's voice, quiet, careful."Isn't it.""I wanted you back, Ivy. Not because of the lawsuit. Because you're good at your job, and because whatever else is true about the last year, I don't actually think you deserved to lose everything over one leaked article.""You'r

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