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Chapter 139: The True Collection
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2026-09-19 14:10:40
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One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 140: No One Touches the Box
(Marcus POV) Marcus rode with the box like it was a bomb with paperwork. Not literally — he was in the second vehicle, the escort car that followed the primary courier at close distance, with the live tracking feed open on his tablet and the chain-of-custody form on his lap and the contact number for Dr. Farrow's associate saved as a quick-dial in case anything changed between the collection facility's exit and the laboratory's loading dock. Nothing was going to change. He had made very specific arrangements to ensure nothing changed. Two independent couriers, neither of whom had any prior connection to the case, selected through Castillo's vetting process from a list of four certified medical transport operators. They'd been briefed separately, under documentation, on the collection, the route, the mandatory no-deviation policy, and the two designated stop allowances — a fuel break if needed, with live photo documentation, or a traffic delay with timestamp. Everything else was a
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 139: The True Collection
(Keyla POV) This time, Marcus photographed everything before anyone breathed too close to the box. The forensic team had arrived at seven — two people from Dr. Farrow's firm, one from Castillo's office, and an independent chain-of-custody monitor who had no prior connection to anyone named in the case. The facility was a pediatric clinical space in a building that had been selected from the three-option shortlist, verified by Castillo's office, and confirmed as having no prior relationship with the Vale Family Foundation or any Churchill estate contract. Marcus had photographed the empty room before anyone entered. The empty sealed cases. The sealed containers inside them. The technician's equipment, still in its sterile packaging. Each photograph timestamped, geotagged, added to the evidence file. I checked every label. Not because I didn't trust Dr. Farrow's team — I did, or at least I trusted the process that had produced them — but because Leo was going to be in this room and
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 138: Wait Outside Again
(Keyla POV) Leo brought the paper monster drawing to the psychologist appointment. He carried it in his backpack — I didn't know it was there until Dr. Osei asked him to take out anything he'd brought, the way she started all her sessions, making the room familiar before the conversation got to anything that mattered. He pulled it out and unfolded it and set it on the low table between them with the specific deliberateness of someone presenting evidence. Dr. Osei looked at it. "I made this," Leo said. "After the first test. That's what the box looked like." She studied the teeth, the label, the handwriting at the top. "The paper monster." "Yes." He sat back in his chair with the self-possession of a child who had been in this room before and had decided it was safe. "The test lied." "I heard that," Dr. Osei said. "Do you want to tell me what you understand about what happened?" Leo had thought about this. I could tell from the way he answered — the phrasing was more prepared t
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 137: Vivienne Smiles Wrong
(Eleanor POV) Vivienne brought flowers. White dahlias, which was either a coincidence or a studied choice, because Eleanor had once mentioned, at a dinner table six years ago, that she preferred dahlias to roses for cut arrangements. The kind of detail most people didn't retain. Vivienne retained most details about Eleanor, which had always been one of her more useful qualities. Eleanor accepted the flowers through the staff, had them arranged, and came to the sitting room. "Thank you for seeing me," Vivienne said, when Eleanor entered. She was already seated — not presumptuously, in the chair that Eleanor would have offered rather than in Eleanor's own, but seated, which meant she'd been waiting without standing, which was the kind of thing you noticed about a person. "I know things have been — complicated." "They've been complicated for some time," Eleanor said, and sat. The tea had been laid out before she came in, which was the staff's reading of the situation — a visit from
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 136: The Clinic Ledger
(Marcus POV) The clinic had not recorded the courier. It had recorded the money. Marcus had the clinic's financial ledger through the court order — obtained on the same authorization that had pulled the security camera footage request, expanded after Castillo filed the criminal referral documentation. The ledger covered twelve months of operating transactions, and he'd been working through it since seven that morning. Most of the entries were what a community health clinic's ledger looked like: supply orders, staff costs, utility payments, the routine accounting of a small facility that ran on foundation funding and grant cycles. The entry from the DNA collection day was not routine. It appeared in the *Special Services* column — a catch-all category that the ledger used for ad hoc arrangements, the things that didn't fit the standard budget lines. The amount was specific in the way that medical handling fees were specific: not a round number, not a flat rate, but the precise fi
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 135: The Second Test Terms
(Keyla POV)Eleanor called it a delay. I called it the only reason Leo was still in the room.We were back in Castillo's office, which had become the default location for anything that needed to happen without Blackthorn's walls or Churchill Sentinel's glass. The external counsel had proposed the meeting; Castillo had structured it. Present: Keyla Tamara, Priscilla, Castillo, Eleanor and her counsel, Draxler, Marcus. The mediator's representative via video link.My condition list was already on the table. The same one I'd written the first time, updated with three additional clauses that hadn't existed before the forensic review confirmed the first test was manufactured.Eleanor looked at the list the way she looked at things she'd decided were excessive before reading them."The conditions from the first collection agreement are already documented," her counsel said. "If the concern is chain-of-custody, the forensic review has identified the breach point. Additional restrictions—""T
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 2: Floor 27
(Keyla POV) The door opened before I could decide whether to knock. Draxler Churchill stood in the frame, jacket off, sleeves rolled to the elbow, a glass of whiskey in one hand that he hadn’t touched recently enough for the ice to melt. He looked at me the way people look at things they were half
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 1: The Bride Who Opened the Wrong Door
(Keyla POV) The door wasn’t supposed to be unlocked. I only realized that later, when it was too late to matter. The security light was already green when I reached for the handle. I remember thinking that was weird for a private suite — groom’s waiting rooms were always locked during the hour b
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
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