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Chapter 80

Author: Vela Raven
last update publish date: 2026-09-17 22:22:30

Marcus didn’t speak for several blocks.

That should have been a relief. Instead the quiet made every turn feel intentional, like he was rearranging the night around whatever he’d seen when my hand went to my stomach. I kept my face toward the window and tried to breathe like a person who had not just collapsed in public after failing to tell Damien Voss he had gotten her pregnant.

Marcus’s jacket was still around my shoulders. I hated how much I needed the weight of it.

“You’re quiet,” he said
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  • Pregnant By My Ex's Brother    Chapter 80

    Marcus didn’t speak for several blocks.That should have been a relief. Instead the quiet made every turn feel intentional, like he was rearranging the night around whatever he’d seen when my hand went to my stomach. I kept my face toward the window and tried to breathe like a person who had not just collapsed in public after failing to tell Damien Voss he had gotten her pregnant.Marcus’s jacket was still around my shoulders. I hated how much I needed the weight of it.“You’re quiet,” he said finally.“I’m exhausted.”“You’re something.” He changed lanes. “If you’re going to throw up, warn me. This is a new interior.”“You’re disgusting.”“I’m practical.” A beat. “You’ve gone green twice since we left the plaza.”I didn’t answer. The city lights smeared across the glass. Somewhere in that same city Damien was with Victoria in a dress built to be remembered, and the thought made my throat close so hard I had to swallow against it. Missing him had become physical. It sat under the ribs

  • Pregnant By My Ex's Brother    Chapter 79

    I didn’t see him come closer so much as feel the air change.One moment I was folded into myself on the plaza stone, face in my lap, the sound of Damien’s car already gone into the city. The next, a shadow stopped in front of me and a familiar voice said, very quietly:“Ellie. Get up.”Marcus.Of course it was him. Of course the one person left watching me break was the man I’d once planned a life around and then caught inside another woman. I kept my head down. If I looked up, the night would become real in a different way.“I’m not doing this with you,” I said into my knees.“You’re doing this in front of a security camera and two valets.” Fabric shifted. He crouched. Not touching me yet. “Come on. Up.”“Don’t.”“I’m not asking as an ex.” His voice had almost no performance in it. That was what made me finally lift my face. Marcus looked pale in the streetlight, jaw tight, eyes moving over the wreck of me with something harder than pity and cleaner than triumph. “I’m asking because

  • Pregnant By My Ex's Brother    Chapter 78

    The second the elevator doors shut on him, guilt hit so hard I bent forward over his desk.I had thrown water on a woman in his office. I had made a scene. I had asked for distance and then lost my mind the moment someone else stepped into it wearing a dress and certainty. And underneath all of that, worse than all of that, sat the thing I still hadn’t said.I came here to tell him.Instead I gave him every reason to walk out.My eyes burned. I pressed the heel of my hand against them and dragged in a breath that shook on the way down. Then I ran.The executive floor felt endless in the wrong direction; glass, corridors, a turn I took too fast, a bank of elevators already closed. I hit the call button hard enough to hurt my finger and stood there whispering his name under my breath like an idiot, like the building might take pity and bring him back up. When the next car came I took it alone, stomach rising with the drop, hands clenched so tight my nails cut half-moons into my palms.

  • Pregnant By My Ex's Brother    Chapter 77

    For one stupid second I thought he would say no.Not because I deserved it. Not because I had earned some public claim after asking for distance and then showing up late with a secret stuck in my throat. Damien looked at her.That was the first cut. Just the fact of his attention leaving my face and landing on the doorway where she stood, all bare legs and open intention, smiling like she had arrived on schedule.“You’re early,” he said.“I’m punctual,” Victoria corrected, and stepped fully inside. The dress moved with her like liquid money. “You said eight. I got bored of waiting in the car looking like this for no one.”She said looking like this the way some people said I missed you. A woman who liked him enough to risk being obvious.My hands went cold.Damien’s jaw tightened. “I’m in the middle of something.”Victoria’s eyes slid to me, soft and assessing, and whatever she saw made her mouth curve. “I can see that. Hello, Miss Harper. Working late again?”The politeness was wor

  • Pregnant By My Ex's Brother    Chapter 76

    I came in with the decision already made, which should have made the day cleaner and instead made every hour feel like a countdown I couldn’t stop hearing.I was going to tell him.Not in a text. Not after another public humiliation. Not after another night of lying on my couch with my hand on my stomach and Marcus’s voice still under my skin and Victoria Hale’s silhouette glued to the inside of my eyelids. I was going to stay late, wait until the floor emptied, walk into his office like a person instead of a rumor, and say the sentence that had been living in me like a second pulse.I’m pregnant.Once I admitted it to myself as a plan, the building changed shape. Every glance at his glass office became heavier. Every time Victoria crossed the floor in that calm, expensive way of hers, the decision flinched and then hardened again. I had asked for distance. I had gotten it. Distance had not saved me. It had only given the rest of the world room to decide what Damien and I were without

  • Pregnant By My Ex's Brother    Chapter 75

    I came in because not coming in would have looked like surrender.The floor already knew something had shifted. People were quieter when I passed, not with the old scandal hunger exactly, but with that newer, crueller politeness reserved for women who had lost the center of the story. Damien’s office was occupied. So was the conference room beside it. Through the glass I could see Victoria’s profile, the movement of her hands, the way she occupied the space next to him like it had always been reserved. No one had to announce it. The building performed understanding all by itself.He did not come out. He did not call my name across the floor.He did not send a message.He did not look up when I walked to my desk and sat down like a person still employed by the same company as him.That silence was different from the distance I had asked for. That silence had teeth. It said: you pushed, I stopped colliding with the door.I opened my laptop and stared at a file I had already read twice.

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