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Chapter 113: The Courier Stop
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One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 115: She Fixed It
(Marcus POV) "Fixed what?" The question had been sitting in Marcus's notes since the call, and he waited until the meeting was arranged — the three of them in the small private office on Blackthorn's east side, which was neutral in the sense that it wasn't the legal meeting room or the corporate boardroom, just a room with chairs and a table and the kind of quiet that existed in old houses between the occupied spaces. Adrian had come. He'd come, Marcus suspected, because refusing to come would have looked worse than whatever he planned to say when he arrived. He looked at Marcus now with the expression of a man who had spent the hours between the call and this meeting deciding on a position and wasn't entirely confident in it. "I don't know what you think you heard," Adrian said. "I heard four seconds of silence and then a phrase." Marcus kept his voice the voice of someone reading back a note. "The room recorder on my call system is standard compliance documentation. It caught
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 114: Vivienne's Scarf
(Marcus POV) The still wasn't clear. Marcus had pulled it from the building security footage — the oblique angle, the low resolution, the thirty-meter distance — and the image enhancement software he'd run it through had done what enhancement software could reasonably do without manufacturing detail. The woman's face was a blur. Age and build were inferable — adult, probably between twenty-five and forty-five, which was not a useful range — and the posture gave nothing additional. What wasn't blurred was the scarf. Silk, from the way it moved in the freeze-frame — a lightweight fabric catching a slight wind at the corner of the building before the woman turned to enter the side door. The color was visible: a pale cream with a narrow diagonal stripe pattern. The stripe was specific enough that he'd noted it and searched for it, because specific fabrics sometimes had specific sources. He'd found a match in three minutes. The interview photograph — the lifestyle magazine shoot wher
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 113: The Courier Stop
(Marcus POV) The traffic camera footage arrived at nine-forty in the morning through a contact Marcus had cultivated three years ago in the city's infrastructure security office — not a favor, exactly, and not a bribe. Just the kind of professional relationship that existed between people who understood that information had legal channels and that legal channels moved at the speed of legal channels, unless someone with appropriate standing made a specific, documented request. The request had been appropriate, documented, and specific. The footage was legal. He opened it. The camera in question was mounted at the intersection forty meters from the secondary road's junction with the main distribution corridor — a traffic management camera, not a security camera, which meant it recorded vehicles but not faces, and it archived on a forty-eight-hour cycle before overwriting. They'd requested the footage twenty-three hours into that cycle, which was close enough to the limit that Marcus
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 112: Not Another Test
(Keyla POV)I walked into the meeting holding the printed seal photo, and I put it on the table before I sat down.Not aggressively — just there, placed. The comparison side by side, the creases going in opposite directions, the zoomed corner with the fold that shouldn't exist. Marcus's summary at the bottom: *physical irregularities*, *potential interference*, *no conclusions drawn as to paternity.*I'd been awake since one-fourteen reading this. I'd had six hours with it. I was not calm, but I was organized, and organized was what the situation needed.Draxler and Marcus were already there. The glass-walled conference room, the agenda on the table, no one else."You're saying," I said, voice steady as I stayed standing, "that the result may be false.""We're saying," Marcus answered, eyes on the photo rather than on me, "that the sample box logged into the lab was not the box I sealed at collection. The seal serial number matches, but the physical characteristics of the seal applica
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 111: I Need to Tell Her
(Draxler POV) Draxler wrote the agenda himself. He'd been sitting at his desk since Marcus left, with the seal comparison on his secondary screen and the upload timestamp problem in a separate window, and he'd looked at both of them until the decision resolved into something that wasn't a choice so much as an obligation. He opened the meeting request template. *Subject: Possible DNA chain irregularity — factual documentation attached.* He typed the subject line, looked at it, kept it. Not *result concerns*, not *new information* — factual documentation, attached. The kind of language that said what it was before she even accepted the meeting, which was the way he'd decided to do this. *Agenda item 1: Summary of evidence Marcus has compiled regarding the chain-of-custody documentation.* *Agenda item 2: Documentation attached below for your review before this meeting. No request is being made. No conclusion is being drawn on paternity.* *Duration: Your discretion.* He attached
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 110: The Wrong Photograph
(Marcus POV) The email arrived at eleven forty-seven p.m. Marcus had been at his desk since nine, which was not unusual, and would continue to be at his desk until the work was done, which was also not unusual. The authorization Draxler had signed had gone through to the lab's records division that morning; the high-resolution intake file had taken the rest of the day to process, which the lab attributed to archive retrieval protocol and which Marcus attributed to the fact that nobody wanted to work faster than their process documentation required. He opened the file. Three images, high resolution. The same three that had been in the standard chain-of-custody file — external seal at intake, tube label confirmation, check-in receipt — but now at a resolution where the physical details were visible rather than implied. He put his original seal photo on the left side of his screen. The lab's intake photo on the right. He looked at both. The serial number: identical, as before. He
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 5: The Bride Who Disappeared
(Keyla POV) The other side of the bed had already gone cold. I noticed it before I was fully awake, before I understood why the room felt wrong — that specific absence, the kind you register in your body before your brain catches up. I sat up. The space beside me was empty. Near the door, somethi
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 4: Before He Woke Up
(Keyla POV) Voices. That’s what pulled me out of sleep — low, somewhere in the corridor outside, two people talking in the muffled way hotel staff do when they’re trying not to wake guests. I was awake before I understood why I was panicking, and then I remembered, and the panic made complete sen
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 3: The Brother I Should Have Feared
(Keyla POV)The phone lit up again at 11:47 p.m. Adrian. Again. I’d stopped counting after the sixth call but apparently he hadn’t stopped trying. I looked at the notification without picking it up, and then the message came through underneath it. Come downstairs. Don’t embarrass me.I read it twic
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 1: The Bride Who Opened the Wrong Door
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