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Chapter Twenty-Four: The Jacket
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2026-06-24 05:17:43
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Caiden was in Singapore for three days.Leo had informed her on Monday morning with his usual clean efficiency. *Mr. Wolfe will be travelling Tuesday through Thursday, Mrs. Wolfe. The household schedule remains normal.*She had not required anything. She taught her classes, held her tutoring sessions with Cullen, marked papers, ate dinner with Cullen on Tuesday and alone on Wednesday, and finally finished the mock-exam planning she had been putting off. The house functioned exactly as it always did. She noticed Caiden's absence anyway.The gallery event on Wednesday evening had been in the diary for two weeks. A private foundation reception, the kind that Nadia had learned to navigate with the specific competence she had been developing since the first gala. Leo had checked in the previous Friday about whether she still intended to attend, given that Caiden would be travelling. She had said yes. She was Caiden's wife at these functions whether he was there or not, and Caiden's wife di
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The call came on a Thursday evening, just after seven.Nadia was in the small sitting room on the second floor, her legs tucked beneath her, a stack of Year Eleven practice essays balanced on the arm of the chair beside her tea. The house was quiet. Cullen was studying, and Caiden was in his study.Her phone lit up on the cushion beside her.*Amara.*Nadia picked up already suspecting this wasn't a social call."Hey," she said."Hey." Amara’s voice had that careful quality Nadia recognized immediately. It usually meant she wanted something. "Are you busy?""Marking," Nadia said. "What is it?"The pause told her exactly where this was going."I need a bit of help," Amara said. "It’s not much. I just need to cover something until the end of the month, and then I’ll be completely fine.""How much?""Three thousand."Nadia set her pen down on the essay she had been annotating. The student had made the same mistake three paragraphs in a row. Not carelessness. Just a misunderstanding they h
Married to My Enemy's Son Chapter Twenty-Five: Marcus
Marcus had been careful ever since the announcement in the staffroom. He hadn't been cold. He hadn't been overly warm, either. He had settled into a scrupulous neutrality that was far more comfortable than the alternative. Nadia had no desire to manage his feelings about her marriage; she had enough to manage already. For six weeks, the arrangement held. A polite good morning in the corridor. A brief conversation about the exam timetable. A nod across the staffroom. Nothing required either of them to address the day Caiden had walked into the room and said *my wife, Nadia*, with the flat certainty of a man stating an absolute fact. It was a Wednesday. She had a free period at eleven, her marking spread across a corner table in the staffroom while her tea went cold beside her laptop. The room was quiet. Two teachers stood at the far end, talking in low voices about an administrative matter she wasn't following. Marcus came in at eleven-twenty. He made a coffee, then sat at the tabl
Married to My Enemy's Son Chapter Twenty-Four: The Jacket
The temperature dropped overnight. By six-fifteen, every surface on the estate was edged with frost. The gravel on the driveway was frozen solid. Nadia looked out her bathroom window, thinking briefly that she should find her heavy coat before going downstairs. She didn't look for it. She had been awake since five-thirty, turning over a name she had seen on a board paper Caiden left on the kitchen counter three days ago. She hadn't meant to read it—she had put the paper back the moment she realized what it was—but the name stayed with her. By the time she showered and dressed, she was running behind. The coat was in the bottom drawer of the wardrobe. She left it there. She told herself the car and the school were both heated. The walk between them was less than a minute. She gathered her bag, her lesson folders, and the stack of marked Year Twelve papers, and went downstairs. The kitchen was empty. Caiden was usually at the counter making coffee by six, but he was already gone. Na
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Nadia heard the car at exactly nine-forty-seven. She was sitting at her desk, deep into a stack of Year Twelve practice papers, when the low hum of tires on gravel reached her through the window. She did not look up immediately. Her pen hovered over an unpunctuated sentence in Tobias's essay, but she noted the time automatically. In a house this quiet, every sound carried. Nine-forty-seven was late. On evenings when Caiden had board commitments in the city, the car usually rolled down the driveway by seven-thirty. A two-hour delay was unusual. She did not stand up to peer through the curtains. She simply waited. Downstairs, the heavy front door opened and shut with a dull, muffled thud. There was the low murmur of Mrs. Park’s voice, and then the house settled back into silence. Footsteps crossed the marble floor of the grand hall. Nadia held her breath, listening to the cadence of his stride. They didn't turn toward the west wing, where his study was. Instead, the steady, unhurrie
Married to My Enemy's Son Chapter Twenty-Two: Cullen's Progress
By the fourth week, the tutoring sessions had become routine. Cullen arrived on time. Nadia was usually already there. Neither of them mentioned it, but the sessions had become the easiest part of the week. He complained about the reading material in the specific, vocal way that meant he had actually done it, because students who hadn't done the reading tended to complain in much vaguer terms. Cullen's complaints were precise. He had opinions about specific passages, specific word choices, and specific moments in the argument where he felt the author had made a decision he disagreed with. This was, as Nadia had learned, the clearest possible sign that he was engaged. What she had not fully appreciated until now was how methodically he was also extracting information about her. It had started subtly. A question about whether she had always wanted to teach, slipped in between two annotations. A comment about the estate that was phrased as an observation but was actually a question ab
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Nadia walked out of Caiden Wolfe's apartment with a single thought looping through her head.*Pay attention to your brother.*She had delivered the line with as much composure as she could manage and then shut the door behind her a little harder than necessary. The sound echoed down the corridor. N
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Caiden looked at her with the same cool patience he probably applied to difficult board meetings. "So," he murmured, his eyes locking onto hers. "What is your final answer, Miss Verne?""Still no," she said, making sure every word landed.He studied her for a long, quiet moment. There was no flash
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Nadia stumbled back two steps before she managed to catch her balance.The car window was already gliding down smooth and silent. She froze on the pavement because, out of all the black Bentleys in the city, of course it had to be his.Caiden barely glanced her way before his attention shifted to C
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