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CAT OUT

Author: Angelblosom
last update publish date: 2026-10-28 03:02:13

The Vale mansion looked exactly the same when they returned.

That was the strange part. Elena had half expected a change or something. The staff bowed their heads in perfect, as they passed. Her suitcase was in one hand and her new haircut brushing her shoulders.

Nobody asked where she had been.

Nobody asked her anything at all.

Elena unpacked in silence. She pressed the dried rose deeper between the pages of her book, slid the book to the back of a drawer, and told herself she was perfectly ca
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  • OBSESSED WITH MY BROTHER-IN-LAW   UNFAITHFUL IN THE DARK

    ELENA'S POVThe kiss never came.His phone buzzed on the nightstand with a small ping and he immediately stopped just an inch away from my mouth and glanced at it. Only for a second. But it was long enough for my eyes to open again.He gave me a half smile, apologetic, and reached over to pick it up.FUCK!I didn’t know whether what I felt was relief or disappointment. I was afraid it was both.He sat against the headboard beside me and didn’t look up. His thumb moved across the screen. He frowned, typed something, deleted it, typed again. When I shifted on the pillow, he tilted the phone a little away from me, and I don’t think he knew he had done it. Hiding things from me was now a reflex.“Work?” I asked.“Mm. Something else.”I waited regardless, conscious of myself now. I was wearing the pale blue nightgown I hadn’t put on in months, and I suddenly felt ridiculous in it, like a girl who had dressed up for a boy who hadn’t noticed.The screen lit his face again and again, and ever

  • OBSESSED WITH MY BROTHER-IN-LAW   THE FIRST WIFE

    Damon had made two cups of chamomile because he couldn’t think of another reason to knock.That was the honest version. The kettle, the cups, the walk up the stairs, all of it was an excuse. Elena hadn’t come to the library to tell him what she’d found, and he had sat there for two hours without reading a word, until sitting still became impossible. Tea was something a decent person could carry to a door at one in the morning. He held on to that.The corridor was dark except for a strip of light at the far end. Her door stood open a few inches. It had never latched properly. She had mentioned it once, laughing, and he had told himself to have it fixed and then hadn’t, for reasons he had not examined.He was about ten steps away when he heard her voice.It was low and easy, almost fond. He hadn’t heard her sound like that since the country house.“Go back to sleep.”He froze in his tracks.Who was she talking to?He told himself to leave the tea outside the door and go. But his curiosi

  • OBSESSED WITH MY BROTHER-IN-LAW   A BETTER MAN

    Adrian stood in the east corridor at midnight with his hand on the wall.He had cut Lena off the way a man cuts off an infected limb, cleanly and without ceremony, and the sudden shift to silence was worse than anything he had imagined. There had finally been a trace of warmth around him in this house for two days, a voice that asked questions and listened to the answers, and now he had put it out with his own hands. Because she was his sister-in-law.He turned his head with a deep exhale.At the end of the hall, a thin line of light showed beneath a door. Elena’s door.She had started sleeping in another room. At first it wasn't even a problem for him. But now they no longer even tried to hide that this wasn't a happy-couple setting.This was all his fault. He knew she had tried to make them work.His wife. He had no right to go to her. He knew that, too.But he was so tired. He was so lonely that it felt like a physical thing, a hollow behind the ribs, and the only light left in the

  • OBSESSED WITH MY BROTHER-IN-LAW   YOU'LL SEE

    At the end of the hall, a stained-glass window threw colored light across the floor.A woman stood beneath it, one hand resting on the sill.“Good morning, Lena.”Victoria turned slowly. She was dressed in cream silk, her hair loose over her shoulders, and she looked entirely at ease, like a cat lying in a sunbeam.Lena’s stomach dropped. She forced herself to keep walking.“Morning.”“You look tired.” Victoria’s voice was soft and pleasant. “It’s the house. It wears on people. Takes some time to get used to.”“I’m fine.” Lena answered.“Of course you are.”She stepped into Lena’s path, graceful. Lena stopped because she had no choice. They were close enough that she could see the tiny flecks of gold in Victoria’s eyes, and the perfectly composed smile that held nothing warm.“I wanted to say thank you,” Victoria said with a smile.“For what?” Lena asked with her brows raised.“For last night.”The corridor went silent.Lena kept her face blank. It was the only thing she could do. “I

  • OBSESSED WITH MY BROTHER-IN-LAW   SOLUTIONS

    Morning came without mercy.Lena had not slept. She had lain awake until the window turned from black to gray, listening to the house tick and settle, replaying the same ten seconds over and over until they lost all meaning.By six, she gave up. She pulled on a sweater, tied her hair back, and went downstairs to the kitchen, because it was the only room in the Vale mansion that did not feel like it was watching her.It was empty. The staff had not yet arrived. A pale light lay across the long marble counter, and the only sound was the low hum of the refrigerator.She filled the kettle and stood with her back to the door, gripping the edge of the sink.“You’re up early.”She did not turn around at once. She had known he would come. Some part of her had been waiting for it since the moment the study door swung shut.Adrian stood in the doorway in yesterday’s shirt, creased and open at the collar. He had shaved, but badly. A faint nick marked his jaw. His eyes were red-rimmed and clear,

  • OBSESSED WITH MY BROTHER-IN-LAW   FALLING FOR HIM?

    He didn’t tell her that night. Not then.But hours later, when the mansion had gone dark and quiet, Lena found herself at the door of the study again, a small tray in her hands.She had meant to go to bed. She had walked in the other direction twice. But the thought of him sitting alone in that room, the whole weight of that house resting on his shoulders, had pulled at her until she finally gave up and went to the kitchen to make tea.The door was open a few inches. A single lamp burned inside.Adrian sat on the leather sofa with his tie pulled loose and a crystal decanter on the low table in front of him. It was already half empty. Two glasses stood beside it, though only one had been used.Elena was nowhere near.“You’re still awake,” he said without turning.“So are you.” She set the tray down. “I brought tea.”“I have whiskey,” he answered.“I noticed.” She pushed the cup toward him anyway. “Drink one of them. I’ll let you choose.”He laughed, low and tired, and took the whiskey.

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