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Chapter 45 - The Chessboard
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2026-10-25 23:25:33
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Married to the wrong twin, loved by the other Chapter 49 - The Woman In The Shadows
The interrogation room was small, gray, and windowless.I watched from behind the two-way mirror as the woman sat at the metal table, her hands cuffed in front of her. She was younger than I expected—maybe thirty, with sharp cheekbones, dark hair pulled back in a severe ponytail, and eyes that held no fear. She looked like a soldier. A trained one."She's not talking," Marcus said beside me. "We've been at it for three hours. She hasn't said a single word.""Who is she?""We ran her fingerprints through the database. Her name is Nadia Volkov. Former Russian intelligence. She was dishonorably discharged five years ago and went off the grid. Since then, she's been working as a freelance operative for the highest bidder.""Adrian's bidder," Julian said from the corner of the room, his voice flat."Most likely." Marcus crossed his arms. "But we can't prove it. She's too smart to leave a trail."I stared at Nadia through the glass. She sat perfectly still, her eyes fixed on the wall in fro
Married to the wrong twin, loved by the other Chapter 48 - The Bait
The hospital room was a lie.Every detail had been meticulously staged—the beeping monitors, the IV drip, the pale blue blankets. Even the doctors and nurses were federal agents in disguise. But the centerpiece of the deception was the tiny figure in the incubator: a doll wrapped in a hospital blanket, its face hidden by a breathing mask and a tangle of wires.Alexander was safe at the estate, guarded by Marcus and a team of private security. The baby in the incubator was nothing but silicone and lies.But Adrian didn't know that.We had leaked the information through the one channel he still controlled—a corrupt guard who had been feeding him messages for months. We told him Alexander was dying. That he needed a rare bone marrow transplant. That the procedure could only be performed at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.And that if Adrian signed over his parental rights, he would be allowed one final visit with his son before the surgery.He agreed within twenty-four hours.---The tr
Married to the wrong twin, loved by the other Chapter 47 - The Web
The journal sat on the kitchen table like a coiled snake.Julian had read it three times. Each time, his face grew harder, his eyes colder. I watched him from across the table, my hand resting protectively on my belly. The baby inside me kicked—a small, fluttery movement that grounded me."Names," Julian said finally, sliding the journal toward me. "He listed names. People on the outside. People who owe him."I scanned the pages, my eyes catching on the names I recognized. Business associates. Former employees. A judge. A senator. And then—"Marcus," I whispered.Julian's jaw tightened. "Not our Marcus. A different one. Marcus Webb. He was Adrian's personal driver for five years. Fired six months ago for stealing from the estate.""Where is he now?""According to this, he's in Brooklyn. Running a small security firm." Julian stood up and walked to the window. "Adrian listed him as his primary contact on the outside. The man who would 'make sure the child never sees his first birthday.
Married to the wrong twin, loved by the other Chapter 46 - The Cage Closes
The prison transport van was a wreck.Bullet holes spiderwebbed the reinforced glass, and the tires had been blown out by the FBI's spike strips. Adrian was on his knees in the mud, his hands cuffed behind his back, his face bloodied from where a federal agent had slammed him against the pavement.Julian and I watched from the safety of our armored SUV. The rain had stopped, leaving the air cold and sharp.“He’s smiling,” I whispered.Julian’s jaw tightened. “He knows he lost. He’s just trying to get under our skin.”The FBI agents hauled Adrian to his feet. As they dragged him toward a waiting armored vehicle, he turned his head, his dark eyes scanning the line of police cars until they landed on our SUV. He couldn’t see us through the tinted glass, but he knew we were there.He mouthed two words: “Not yet.”The doors slammed shut, and the convoy sped away.---The fallout from the escape attempt was immediate and brutal.Gregory Shaw, the warden who had signed the transfer order, wa
Married to the wrong twin, loved by the other Chapter 45 - The Chessboard
We gathered in the study the next morning.Marcus, Victoria, and a new addition to our inner circle—a former FBI profiler named Dr. Elias Thorne. Julian had hired him the week before, after the first threat letter arrived. Elias was a quiet man with sharp eyes and a mind that worked like a lockpick. He had spent fifteen years studying men like Adrian, and he understood the psychology of obsession better than anyone."Let's lay everything out," Julian said, standing at the head of the table. "Adrian has three weapons. The first is his reach from inside the prison. He has a guard or someone on the inside passing messages. The second is his connections to the cartel and other criminal networks. The third is time. He knows we have the baby, and he knows we'll do anything to protect him."Elias nodded, tapping his pen against the table. "What does he want? Specifically.""He wants the baby," I said. "And he wants to destroy us. Those are his two primary goals.""Then we use that against hi
Married to the wrong twin, loved by the other Chapter 44 - A House Full Of Secrets
The flight back to New York was quiet.The baby—Alexander, though we couldn't bring ourselves to use the name Adrian had chosen—slept peacefully in a carrier Marcus had somehow procured at the Zurich airport. He was a tiny thing, barely six weeks old, with a tuft of dark hair and the unmistakable Blackwood jaw. Every time I looked at him, my heart twisted in a complicated knot of pity, love, and a grief I couldn't quite name.Julian sat beside me, his hand resting on my knee, staring out the window at the clouds. He hadn't spoken much since we left Switzerland. I knew he was processing—trying to reconcile the innocent child in front of him with the monster who had created him."What are we going to do with him?" I finally asked.Julian turned to me, his gray eyes exhausted. "I don't know. I've been trying to figure that out for the last six hours.""We can't just hand him over to social services. If the cartel finds out he's still alive, or if Adrian's allies get wind of it—""I know.
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