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Chapter 63: The Missing Floor
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2026-07-05 08:52:25
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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
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 61: The Cufflink in the Bag
(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
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 60: Old Churchill Eyes
(Keyla POV) Eleanor had planned this before I arrived. Tea had already been arranged. Not casually — Everything had been placed with intention. Quiet enough that every word would stay between us, the small sitting room on the first floor, curtains half-drawn against the grey afternoon, a porcelain service on the low table with two cups already poured, steam still curled from the cups, and a silver spoon laid beside each. She'd already decided how this conversation was supposed to happen that Keyla would sit across from her and they would have the conversation Eleanor had been working toward since yesterday. I didn't even reach for the chair. I took one look at the room. Then I moved to the window instead. Nothing flickered across her face. She carried on anyway and picked up her own cup, crossed her legs, and settled into the chair with the ease of someone for whom the chair had always belonged to her. She waited until I stopped moving. "I thought we might speak privately," she
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 59: The First Article
(Keyla POV) Nora appeared beside me without a word and shoved her phone into my hand. "Don't read the comments." Which meant I read them immediately. Of course I did. The article had gone up sometime in the last two hours — I didn't know the outlet, one of those gossip sites pretending to be society news. It hit me before the article did. The names looked fake enough that no one could be held accountable.. The headline was: *Churchill Funeral Draws Unexpected Guest: Runaway Bride Returns — With a Child.* The article wasn't long. It didn't need to be. Every sentence knew exactly where to cut. Somebody had fed them exactly what they needed. It mentioned my name. Then Leo. — not by name, which was the only mercy, but as "the mystery child accompanying Ms. Tamara," enough detail that anyone from today would've recognized him. I dragged my eyes away from the screen. "How long has it been up?" I asked. Nora didn't stop scrolling. "Forty minutes, maybe." She glanced up at me. "I found
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 58: Sweet Poison
(Keyla POV) The smile was already there before she spoke. Vivienne smiled at me like the wedding night had never happened, either she'd forgotten, or she expected me to. I heard her heels before I saw her. She'd found me in the garden corridor during the half hour between meetings — the passage that ran along the back of the house, open to the garden on one side, with windows onto the frost-killed hedgerows and a runner that had been there long enough to show paths in it. More to avoid thinking than because I expected an immediate reply. I'd been checking my phone, waiting for a response from Priscilla about the afternoon's legal schedule. Vivienne appeared from the far end with the unhurried pace of someone who'd timed the encounter. She didn't call my name right away. "Keyla." Warm. Genuinely warm-sounding, which was the thing about Vivienne — She'd always known exactly how much warmth to put into her voice with enough technical accuracy to delay the moment of recognition. Her e
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 47: Blackthorn Manor Waits
(Keyla POV) The rain started somewhere around the last mile of private road, and by the time the gate came into view — iron, tall, the kind that seemed designed to remind you whose territory this was — the windows were streaked and the late afternoon light had gone flat and grey. Blackthorn Man
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 46: Three Tickets Home
(Keyla POV) Leo never took his eyes off the window. "Are we going to meet the monsters or the family first?" Leo asked this with his face pressed against the airplane window, watching clouds slide past like he'd never seen any before, even though we'd flown twice for client work and he'd been b
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 44: Blackthorn Goes Silent
(Draxler POV) Every hallway at Blackthorn was too quiet. I'd grown up in this house, and I knew its sounds — the particular creak of the east staircase, the way voices carried from the breakfast room if the kitchen door was left open, the staff moving through corridors with the kind of practiced
One Night with My Ex-Fiancé’s Ruthless Brother Chapter 41: Eleanor Opens a Drawer
(Third Person Limited Eleanor POV) Years of marriage had taught her exactly when Augustus stopped being a risk. Then she went to his study. Curiosity had stopped being curiosity sometime during dinner. She pulled on the gloves automatically, the same way other people locked doors. There had been
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