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20 ~ Zane
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2026-06-20 18:18:50
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Marrying The Wrong Brother 23 ~ Sloane
Who am I when I am not wearing my mask?Nobody had ever asked me that.In my twenty-five years of existence, the question had never come up and no one had cared enough to know who I was beyond the surface.This man wanted to know me?He wanted to see I was when I wasn't being Sloane Reed?I rummaged through the question in my head.People rarely asked me personal questions. It was always about Reed Industries, the board, my five-year projections and succession plans and opinion on quarterly earnings. If they wanted to go deeper, then they asked about Cole, and now, about Zane and my marriage. Nobody had ever looked at me and wondered what was underneath the version of me that did all of that.Zane was looking at me like he actually wanted to know.“Do you really want to know?” I asked incredulously.“Yes. Why is that surprising? We're supposed to be married, aren’t we?” he questioned back. It shouldn't be weird that someone wanted to get to know me for who i was truly and not what
Marrying The Wrong Brother 22 ~ Zane
"Why is your office playing the worst music I've ever heard in my life?"I looked up from my laptop.Sloane stood in the doorway looking personally offended by the existence of sound.For a second, I just stared.Not because of what she'd said.Because of what she was wearing.Plaid pajama pants and an oversized Reed Industries hoodie with bare feet Her hair was twisted into a bun that had clearly started the evening with ambition and steadily deteriorated over the course of the night.She looked nothing like the woman who spent her days intimidating board members and negotiating billion-dollar deals.She looked... cute.The realization annoyed me.Sloane pointed toward the speakers."This."I blinked. "This what?""This song."The music blasted through the office. It was bright, cheerful and extremely upbeat..It was the kind of song that felt like it had been manufactured specifically for dancing around a bedroom with absolutely no witnesses.I frowned. "What about it?""What about
Marrying The Wrong Brother 21 ~ Sloane
The coffee kept happening.I always made extra in the morning when I was the first to wake up and he drank it. Then he made extra on some mornings. Before I came down, and I drank that. Neither of us really mentioned it or actively talked about it. It was just a quiet moment we decided to share without labeling it or acting like it was there. It occurred frequently now. It was as normal as the way the sun came up or the housekeeper restocked the fridgem. It was an established fact of the house nobody needed to discuss.That was all I thought it was.Except it wasn't. Not quite, because somewhere in the second week he started asking how or if I'd slept at all.He started asking not because he just wanted to make small talk and fill the silence but because he was actually concerned and in those moments his eyes inquired more than what a basic "fine" and moving on could answer.He actually wanted the answer, and the first time it happened I was so surprised by his next statement."You
Marrying The Wrong Brother 20 ~ Zane
I looked at her across the counter where she sat in her robe with her hair down and arms crossed like she was bracing for something. Sloane had schooled her face into being expressionless and unwavering. I turned and took a mug from the cabinet.“Couldn’t sleep either?" I broke the silence."Coffee?" I added before she could form a response."I didn’t say I couldn’t sleep, you know."I nodded slightly. " I know. Do you want coffee or not?"She stared at me for a long moment, probably calculating whether to push back or take the coffee and find another angle to argue with me. I had learned in the two uninterrupted weeks we spent together that whenever she paused, it meant she was trying to choose her battles."Fine," she went with the latter option."I wouldn't mind the coffee.” Without another word, I went about making it the way I knew she liked it. I had never in my life imagined making coffee at midnight for anyone. I mean, that was one of the reasons I had a team of kitch
Marrying The Wrong Brother 19 ~ Sloane
What the hell are you hiding from me? I had opened my mouth to ask him that when he received a phone call and his countenance changed. The rooftop was empty and the last few guests had left. I had turned to him with the question that had been sitting on my mind since midnight in the villa but at that moment, when I watched his face change, I couldn't approach him anymore. It told me that whatever he'd said through that wall last night wasn't nothing and that I needed to know what it was because it was the only thing that explained this hot and cold I was experiencing. His expression shifted like a door closing. And everything that had been open at dinner, where our elbows had touched and neither of us moved, was completely gone, reminding me that in the truth of it, this man was a stranger. He held up a finger, a gesture to ask to be excused and walked to the far edge of the rooftop where he knew I couldn’t hear him with the phone in his ear. I stood where I was and watched hi
Marrying The Wrong Brother 18 ~ Zane
She was looking at me differently now and it wasn't the cold look from the morning after the ruin or professionally neutral look she'd worn for the last three days. This was weighted, suspicious and in the mix it was almost as if I could sense disdain. She looked like she was missing a piece of information and was trying to find the details at all cost. She suspected something. I noticed it at breakfast when she looked up from her phone and held my gaze for half a second longer than neutrality required and then asked me a very interesting question. “Is there anything I should know?” She was calm, her face devoid of emotions. “Not that I know of, or is there anything you think I should be telling you?” I asked back. “Not that I know of, either. I,'m asking, just in case.” She said and simply went back to her food. I noticed it again at lunch, when I mentioned the final event and she responded too normally, like she wasn’t too certain of my words or what I was saying.
Marrying The Wrong Brother 17 ~ Sloane
Did he want to belittle me or make me feel small?As he opened the door, I stood in the hallway with my phone held up, screen facing him. On it was the Instagram post, with specifically, the comment section, which had apparently grown considerably since I'd last looked at it.I was furious with how
Marrying The Wrong Brother 16 ~ Zane
I could never have thought the mighty Sloane was sacred of a little darkness.She was still holding on to me like her life depended on me.The lightning had gone, the thunder moved east and the rain had softened from light ropes to a steady grey curtain. The ark interior had settled into the dimnes
Marrying The Wrong Brother 15 ~ Sloane
Was his heart beating that hard for me?That was what my mind kept coming back to.I was in the shower the next morning and his heartbeat was there, the thought in my mind. The way his chest had felt under my palm, warm and solid, beating with urgency that told me everything I suspected but was not
Marrying The Wrong Brother 14 ~ Zane
She didn't come down for breakfast. At that point, I knew she must have misunderstood what happened in the garden but why did it matter? When I woke up, I had expected she would join me for breakfast as usual but she didn’t. At eight, when the coffee sat untouched across from mine, I confirmed
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