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My Ex Called Me Fat, Now His Father-in-Law Wants Me Under the Table
Chapter 90: Under the TablePOV: OdetteMy mother laid the table herself, which told me how much weight she had put on tonight mattering. Crystal instead of the usual china, three forks at every place setting, candles down the center already lit by the time I came downstairs, their flames trembling slightly every time the front door opened somewhere down the hall.I hadn't seen Julian Thorne since I was Eighteen, at some pack function I barely remembered, a tall boy with a hard mouth standing near his father, uninterested in anything happening around him. Five years had turned the boy into something sharper. He walked in wearing a suit that fit too well to be anything but tailored that week, every hair in place, a smile already arranged for my mother before he'd fully crossed the threshold."Alpha Sinclair." He shook my father's hand first, firm, easy, the particular confidence of a man who'd never once doubted his welcome anywhere. "Luna Sinclair." A small bow over my mother's han
My Ex Called Me Fat, Now His Father-in-Law Wants Me Useful Men
Chapter 89: Useful MenPOV: JulianThe lounge my father kept on retainer sat on the top floor of a building he half-owned, the kind of place with no sign out front and a man at the elevator whose only job was deciding who didn't belong. I'd chosen it on purpose. Beckett Rhodes needed to understand, within thirty seconds of walking in, exactly how far outside his own weight class he'd wandered.He arrived four minutes late, which I noted, and dressed like a man who'd spent an hour deciding what casual-but-impressive looked like and gotten it slightly wrong anyway. Good watch, wrong jacket. I could smell the desperation on him before he'd even crossed the room, something sour underneath the cologne."Mr. Thorne." He stuck his hand out. I looked at it long enough to make the gesture uncomfortable before I took it, brief, dry."Sit."He sat. A waiter appeared without being summoned, poured two glasses of something dark and expensive, and left without a word. Beckett watched the whole tr
My Ex Called Me Fat, Now His Father-in-Law Wants Me Not a Possession
Chapter 88: Not a PossessionPOV: OdetteThe door didn't open. Whoever had touched the handle thought better of it, footsteps retreating down the hall a second later, unhurried. My father's man, probably, checking the clock on our ten minutes without actually crossing the threshold.I stepped back anyway, putting space between us. Nikolai's hand fell away from my jaw slowly, like he was reluctant to let the moment go even as I pulled myself out of it."Take it back," I said."Odette...""Take. It. Back."My voice cracked on the last word, and I hated it. Hated that I was already shaking before I'd even gotten to the part that actually mattered."You don't get to stand in this house and tell me I'm yours.""I didn't mean...""You meant exactly that."I crossed my arms, nails digging into my sleeves just to have something to hold onto."You stood there looking at me like you'd just solved something, like saying mine was supposed to fix my entire life. And all I could think about was ev
My Ex Called Me Fat, Now His Father-in-Law Wants Me What's Mine
Chapter 87: What's MinePOV: OdetteThe east sitting room was cold even with the fire going, the kind of cold old houses never fully shook once the sun went down. Nikolai pulled the door shut behind us, and the click of the latch sounded too loud in the quiet.I stood near the window, arms crossed, watching rain streak sideways across the glass, my own reflection ghosting back at me, pale and tired."You shouldn't have come," I said."I'm aware.""My father is going to use this." My voice shook more than I wanted it to. "Every second you're standing in this house is one more thing he gets to hold against me tomorrow.""I know that too.""Then why are you here?"I spun to face him, and whatever I meant to say next caught in my throat at the sight of him. Rain still soaked through his shoulders, his jaw tight, his eyes darker than I'd ever seen them."Because I read the report behind the headline this morning, and I couldn't sit in my office another hour pretending it didn't apply to me
My Ex Called Me Fat, Now His Father-in-Law Wants Me Two Fronts
Chapter 86: Two FrontsPOV: OdetteI heard the car before I heard the knock, tires loud on wet gravel, headlights sweeping bright across my bedroom ceiling through the gap in the curtains.I knew the sound of that engine. I'd know it anywhere now."No," I said out loud to the empty room, already moving for the door, bare feet cold against the hardwood. "No, no, no."By the time I made it to the top of the stairs, the front door was already open, rain and cold air gusting across the marble. Nikolai stood framed in the doorway, rain-damp, his jacket crooked on one shoulder like he hadn't bothered straightening it since he'd left the car. Water dripped from his hair down the side of his jaw, and he didn't wipe it away.My father stood a few feet behind him in the foyer, and whatever I expected from his face, it wasn't the particular stillness he wore now. Something caught between fury and calculation. His hands hung loose at his sides in a way that somehow looked more dangerous than fist
My Ex Called Me Fat, Now His Father-in-Law Wants Me No Protocol Left to Follow
Chapter 85: No Protocol Left to FollowPOV: NikolaiA council contact called mid-morning, ostensibly about a shipping dispute, and dropped it near the end almost casually, the way men in my position drop things specifically to watch other man's reaction while they say it. I could hear him smiling through the phone."Quite the merger the Sinclairs are putting together. Thorne territory and Sinclair holdings, combined. Should settle a lot of nerves on the council.""When was this announced?""This morning. You hadn't heard?"I ended the call badly. I don't remember what I said, only that it was short, that the word I used wasn't one I'd normally use with a council contact, and that my hand was shaking slightly by the time I set the phone down on the desk.I pulled up the announcement myself. My own reflection hung faint in the dark screen before the page loaded, and I didn't like the look of it, my jaw already tight.The photograph loaded. Odette beside Julian Thorne, her face arranged
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