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Forty

Autor: lily
last update Última actualización: 2026-01-22 16:41:27

KADE'S POV

The sound of the flatline was the worst sound that I ever heard.

Worse than gunshots. Worse than screams. Worse than anything in my violent life.

That one, very long note meant my mother was dead.

A team of doctors mobbed her bed, someone immediately beginning chest compressions while another started drawing up medications. Dr. Chen was barking instructions, her voice crisp and controlled.

But all I could hear was that flatline. That endless, sustained note.

"Clear!" Someone shouted.
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  • Mistaken Bride Of The Mafia CEO   Sixty Two

    KADE'S POVI was looking out the window of my office, and there was Raven and Marcus having lunch in the garden outside. It was two weeks since we first learned she had an uncle. Of two weeks spent watching her slowly unfurl to the family she had thought she lost.Marcus visited daily now. Brought photos and stories. Bits of Arthur’s life Raven had never known. I witnessed the miraculous healing as it was taking place. I saw her laughing more. Saw the shadows in her eyes brighten."They look happy." Oh, that guy is fucking hot,” Javier said, coming to flank me."They are." I agreed. "She needed this. Someone who knew her father. Somebody who can tell her she’s like him.”“You turning back the pages on Marcus was pretty much a clean sweep.” Javier said. "FBI confirmed his story. He really did go undercover on Xaviero.”"I know." I’d spent days checking out every name that Marcus had given us. Pulled strings with contacts in the federal government. Dug through classified files. Everythi

  • Mistaken Bride Of The Mafia CEO   Sixty One

    RAVEN'S POVI was seated across from Marcus in his cramped apartment, watching his face. I was reminded of my father in every angle. The crinkle of his eyes when he talked. The small angle of his head while he listened. Even his hands were like them."I know this is overwhelming." Marcus said quietly. “Discovering you have an uncle.”"Overwhelming is an understatement." I cradled the coffee cup in my hands. You are my life.” “But I don’t know anything about you.”"What do you want to know?" Marcus leaned forward."Everything." I said. "'Let me begin with you and my father. What were you like as kids?"Marcus's face softened. "We were in trouble. Identical twins who confused everyone. I pretended to be Arthur for his tests. He would pretend to be me to shirk chores.”"You were close.""Inseparable." Marcus took out a photo album. "Until we grew up. Arthur wanted a quiet life. The bakery. I wanted adventure. Joined the FBI."He showed me photos. Two identical boys grinning. Teenagers pl

  • Mistaken Bride Of The Mafia CEO   Sixty

    KADE'S POVWithin the hour, I had my team out working on this. Security footage from Oakwood Cemetery. Traffic cameras on surrounding roads. All the tech at his disposal to locate a single shadowy figure of a man who’d given Raven a start.Raven and I sat in my office, waiting for reports to come in, and she hadn’t said much since we left the cemetery. Gazed at the wall, trying to absorb what she had witnessed."Boss." Javier entered with a tablet. "We got something."He pulled up security video from the entrance to the cemetery. The man with the long coat walked in with his head down, partially exposed. Javier zoomed in on his face.I heard Raven gasp. The resemblance was uncanny. Have the same bones as Arthur Statham. Same dark eyes. But older. Weathered."Keep going." I said.Javier scrolled through more footage. "He visits every week. Same day, same time. Spends about an hour there. Visits two graves. Arthur Statham's and Ethan Statham's.""For how long?" Raven asked quietly."Rec

  • Mistaken Bride Of The Mafia CEO   Fifty Nine

    RAVEN'S POVI couldn’t get Ethan out of my mind. During all my silent moments, I returned to the brother I didn’t know. My brother who died saving our dad when I was hiding in the closet. A boy I had been expunged from my mind.The next morning, very early, the day after my mother had twisted my frame of mind apart with her revelation, I rose and took myself to my study. Took out all of my boxes of old family photos I kept stashed. Pictures I hadn’t seen in years because they cut too deeply.Kade returned to find me, two hours later, in a nest of photographs."Raven." He knelt beside me. "What are you doing?""Looking for him." I showed the bakery a photo of my dad. “Surely there are photos of Ethan somewhere. Proof he existed.""You don't need proof." Kade said gently. "Your mother was honest with you.""I need to see him." My voice cracked. “I want to know what he looked like. What we looked like together."Kade sat next to me and assisted in going through the photos. Most of them w

  • Mistaken Bride Of The Mafia CEO   Fifty Eight

    KADE'S POVI stood in the doorway watching Raven square off with her mother. I’d gotten back from a meeting and saw Cameron’s text that Katherine had arrived. The harm had already been done by the time I got there."You had no right." Raven's voice shook. “No right to hide this from me for fifteen years.”Katherine sat in the rocking chair, but she looked even smaller than I remembered. “I was just trying to keep you safe.”"Protect me?" Raven laughed bitterly. “You made me feel I was on my own. You stole my brother from me twice.”“The doctors told us it would be better this way. Katherine's hands twisted. "You were so traumatized. When the memories receded, I used to think it was something for which to be grateful.”"A blessing." Raven repeated flatly.Behind Raven, I stepped into the room, near enough for support but not overt in any way. This was her pain. My only job was to keep her from falling."Tell me about him." Raven demanded. "Everything."Katherine's eyes filled with tear

  • Mistaken Bride Of The Mafia CEO   Fifty Seven

    RAVEN'S POVI sat in front of the ultrasound screen, looking at it, trying to work out what I was seeing. Two distinct shapes. Two flickering heartbeats beating ever so slightly out of rhythm. I couldn’t even wrap my head around it."I'm sorry, what?" More like I whispered my response.Dr. Chen smiled warmly. "See here? And here? Two separate gestational sacs. Two babies. You're having twins, Mrs. D'Angelo."Kade was motionless beside me. His hand squeezed mine with such force I thought my bones would warp. For a moment, nobody spoke. The only sound was the quick whoosh-whoosh of two little heartbeats.Then Kade started laughing. Not a polite chuckle or nervous, anxious laugh. An actual, what sounded like real laugh from deep in his chest. Pure, unfiltered joy. His head fell forward, and with it his shoulders shook."Twins." He said between laughs. "Of course it's twins."I stared at him like he was nuts. "You're laughing? Two babies and you laugh?”"I'm terrified." He admitted, still

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