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Chapter 13: Churchill Blood
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2026-05-20 09:45:56
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(Keyla POV) The legal request was still sitting on the bed where I'd put it after breakfast, and my hands were shaking slightly as I folded Leo's pajamas around it. Not enough for most people to notice. Leo probably would. I'd learned long ago how to pack without looking frightened. Slow hands. Calm movements. Leo always noticed more than people assumed. each item placed rather than thrown. I didn't look up. "Nora." I kept my voice level. "Call the car.." She'd already anticipated it, service we'd used from the airport. Without interrupting the call, she lifted one finger — *one minute* — Her voice faded into the hallway. When I looked over, Leo was on the other bed, watching me. He had his backpack on his lap and his toy car in his hand, and he was doing the reading he did when he was trying to understand something from watching rather than asking. He asked it quietly. "Did I do something wrong?" he said. I answered before he could finish worrying. "No." I zipped the main comp
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 65: The First Blood Demand
(Keyla POV) Eleanor placed the document on the breakfast table beside the toast rack, in the specific position of something that was going to be discussed whether anyone wanted to discuss it or not. I'd come down early — Leo had woken at six and wanted cereal, and there was something about mornings in this house that made staying in the room feel worse than being in a room with Eleanor, which was a measure of how much I disliked that guest corridor. Leo was at the far end of the table with his bowl, more interested in whether the cereal floated than in anything the adults were doing. I looked at the document. It had a legal header. The name of a firm I didn't recognize, though the address was local, which meant it had been retained here rather than abroad. The language in the first paragraph was the formal kind — estate proceedings, minor named in protected clause, verification of familial connection required before provisions activated — and the second paragraph was brief and ver
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 64: The Room Beside His
(Keyla POV) The last person I expected to see was Draxler. He had his key in his hand and he was already in the hallway, and we both stopped at the same time, apparently we'd had the same idea to find the other person three feet away at ten-thirty at night. The silence stretched between us. The hallway was lit by the lamp on the end table — the low, amber kind that Blackthorn used in the residential wings, which cast everything in the specific tone of a house that had been keeping secrets for a long time and had learned to make it look comfortable. He spoke first. "I didn't arrange the rooms," he said. I leaned lightly against the doorframe. "I know." I hadn't said anything, hadn't accused, but he'd read whatever was in my face and answered the question before I asked it, maybe he'd read my face that the same thought had occurred to him. He gave a small shrug. "Eleanor's staff handles room assignments. I had nothing to do with it." He hesitated before finishing "I can move to th
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 63: The Missing Floor
(Draxler POV) Nobody spoke while the archive loaded, old hotel systems were never in a hurry— the interface designed for a generation of IT infrastructure that treated speed as optional, the footage files large and uncompressed, the whole thing running on hardware that predated the renovation. Marcus had sourced the archive through a contact at the hotel's corporate parent rather than through Eleanor's formal request, which meant we had access to the same material Eleanor was waiting on, several hours ahead of her. The advantage was narrow and would close. Marcus clicked through the archive without rushing. Five years condensed into one timestamp. We were in the east study, door closed, Marcus's personal laptop rather than anything networked. The screen showed a grid of camera feeds — stills first, the way these archives presented — and Marcus moved through them methodically, the floor plan of the Aurelia Grand reconstructing itself in my memory as he went. Main entrance. Lobby.
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 62: Do Not Leave Yet
(Keyla POV) The decision had already been made in my head. "We are leaving before dinner." Nora looked up from her phone. Leo, who was already wearing his coat because he'd decided wearing it was easier than packing it, looked up too. "Good," Nora said, and started folding the clothes she'd laid out on her bed. I pushed one last toy car deeper into the corner before pulling the zipper — it took two tries because his toy cars were taking up more space than they should — and set it by the door. We'd been at Blackthorn for two days. In forty-eight hours, Eleanor had already requested hotel security footage. Vivienne had managed to feed a story to the press. My name had made headlines, and Leo had nearly become one too. Blackthorn had already taken more than I intended to give it.She didn't stop folding as she spoke. "We still have the legal meeting tomorrow," Nora said. "Priscilla can handle the preliminary review by video." I checked another pocket. "I'm not required to be phys
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(Keyla POV) Leo's excited voice cut through my thoughts. "Mom, is this treasure?" Leo held up the cufflink, tissue paper dangled from his other hand. Anything tiny and mysterious immediately became important to him that were small and interesting and obviously adult — with the combined energy of as far as Leo knew, he'd found a shiny object. I was halfway across the room. My head snapped up. I'd been packing the side pocket of my bag — passport, Leo's documents, the folder Priscilla had given me — and The search had already scattered things across the bed looking for his crayons. Leo trusted his own theories more than my answers were in my bag rather than his own, which they weren't, but convincing him otherwise would've taken longer than simply letting him look. His little hands always found the one thing I didn't want him touching. He'd found the velvet pouch in the outside pocket. I'd stopped keeping it in the inside zip months ago, complacency of a life abroad where no one kne
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