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CHAPTER 40 PART 1
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2026-09-19 23:58:53
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(Lara’s POV)Three years should have felt like enough.I stood in that courtroom with the judge’s words still ringing in my ears, and I waited for the relief to come. It never did. I felt empty, like someone had taken everything out of me and handed back a hollow shell.Maxton was still shouting. Two deputies had him by the arms, and he fought them like a dog on a chain.“You think three years is going to stop me?” His voice cracked across the room, wild and ugly. “I’ll find you, Lara! I’ll make you wish you never opened your mouth! You hear me? I’ll tear you apart!”My hands were shaking. Fear crawled up my spine, the old fear, the kind that lived in my bones. But then I thought about the walls of that prison, and the locked doors, and the years stacked between him and me.He was going away. Whatever he screamed, he was going away.I stepped forward. Kyle’s hand tightened on my elbow, but I gently pulled free and walked until I stood only a few feet from Maxton.“I’ll be waiting,” I
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(Lara’s POV)The judge ended the session with a tap of his gavel and told everyone to come back in two weeks for the verdict.Two weeks. After everything, I still had to wait.Maxton was not in handcuffs yet, but two deputies walked him out through the side door while Hartley whispered in his ear. He did not listen. His eyes stayed on me the whole way, cold and bright and full of everything he could not say out loud.Then he stopped at the courtroom doors and the mask fell off completely.“You think this is over?” he shouted, shaking off the deputy’s arm. “I’ll make you pay for this, Lara! You hear me? Every day of your life, you’ll pay!”The cameras were waiting right outside. Every reporter on that front step heard him. Every microphone caught it. By the time the deputies dragged him away, his own voice was already racing across the internet.My phone would not stop buzzing that night. I finally opened it and read the comments, one after another. People who had called me a gold digg
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(Lara’s POV)Kyle was shaking with anger. I could feel it through his hands, still wrapped around my face in the courthouse hallway.“Let me go talk to him,” he whispered. “Just two minutes. He won’t whisper to anyone after that.”“No.”“Lara, he threatened you.”“I know he did.” I pulled his hands down and held them tight. “If you touch him here, Hartley gets everything he wants. The jury will see a violent man protecting his mistress, and nothing we say after that will matter.”His jaw worked. His eyes were still burning, but he stayed where he was, and I loved him a little more for it.“You’re too calm,” he muttered. “How are you this calm?”“I’m not. I’m scared out of my mind. But I want to see Maxton lose more than I want to be afraid.”He let out a slow breath and pressed his forehead to mine. “You’re going to be the death of me, Lara Morrison.”“Good. Then you’ll have to stay close to make sure I don’t.”The corner of his mouth lifted, just barely. His thumb brushed my lip, and
My Abusive Ex Watched Me Marry His Stepbrother CHAPTER 79 PART 2
I looked at Kyle. He was sitting in the gallery with his jaw locked and his eyes burning and his hands gripping the bench in front of him so hard I could see the tendons standing out against his skin. He looked like a man using every ounce of self control he possessed to keep himself from vaulting over that railing and putting his fist through Kenneth Hartley’s face.Our eyes met. And in that single, silent exchange, he gave me everything I needed.Courage.I turned back to Hartley and stood up in the witness box.“He beat me until I lost our baby.” My voice came out loud. Clear. Steady in a way I did not recognize because it belonged to a version of myself that I had buried under three years of silence and fear and the desperate, exhausting effort of staying alive. “I didn’t seduce anyone. I ran for my life because I thought he would kill me next time.”Hartley opened his mouth.I did not let him speak.“I married Kyle because I had nowhere else to go and Maxton was stalking me. I’m
My Abusive Ex Watched Me Marry His Stepbrother CHAPTER 79 PART 1
(Lara’s POV)Hartley was not finished with me.He walked back to the defense table, picked up a folder, and returned to the center of the courtroom with the slow, measured steps of a man who believed he was about to deliver a killing blow. The folder was thick. Red. The kind of folder lawyers used when they wanted the jury to notice what was inside before it was even opened.“Mrs. Morrison, let’s talk about your pregnancy.”My blood went cold.“You claim my client caused you to lose your child. Is that correct?”“He beat me while I was seven months pregnant. I went into premature labor and lost the baby at the hospital.”“That is your version of events.” Hartley opened the folder. “But isn’t it also possible that you terminated the pregnancy voluntarily because you had already decided to leave Maxton and a child would complicate your exit strategy?”The words hit me like a punch to the throat. My fingers gripped the railing of the witness box so hard my knuckles turned white.“That is
My Abusive Ex Watched Me Marry His Stepbrother CHAPTER 78 PART 2
Hartley nodded slowly. Sympathetically. Like he cared. Then the warmth drained from his expression and something sharper took its place."Mrs. Morrison, isn't it true that within seventy two hours of leaving your husband, you were living in the penthouse apartment of Kyle Morrison, a man whose net worth is approximately forty times that of your former husband?""Kyle offered me protection. I had nowhere else to go.""Protection. Interesting word." Hartley paced in front of the jury box. "So you left a man you claim abused you and moved directly into the home of his significantly wealthier stepbrother. Would you say the financial upgrade was a coincidence, or was it part of the plan?"My blood heated. I could feel the anger rising in my chest, climbing up my throat, begging me to scream at this man who was standing in a courtroom twisting the worst night of my life into a gold digger narrative for twelve strangers.But Brennan's voice echoed in my head. Stay calm. Answer the question.
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