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CHAPTER 20: The Lie We Keep
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Ana's POV The night guard didn't even rise from his stool."Visitors' desk opens at eight, miss." He nodded at the glass doors, the turnstiles dark behind them, the lift lobby lit and empty. "No pass, no way past that line. Not tonight."It was ten past ten. I stood on the pavement with my bag on my shoulder and the stamp still burning behind my eyes, and the problem arrived the way problems do once the first rush was gone, one hard fact at a time.I had no pass. I had handed it over myself. I could ring Evelyn, but a call to board counsel left a line in a minute, and she would ask what business I had on the third floor of a building I had resigned from. Alder's contract sat in my bag with a clause across its last page that I had fought for in blue ink. One careless afternoon near Strauss Technology, and I could lose a job I had signed for that very morning.So I went back to Emily's and didn't sleep.At half past ten the next morning I sat on a low wall across from the staff entran
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 87: My Own Handwriting
Ana's POV The envelope came on a Thursday, between a gas bill and a catalogue of garden furniture, and I nearly dropped all three into the recycling together.It was thick and brown, franked by a records office in a city I had last seen through a windscreen. Thirty days I had waited. Somewhere in the third week I had stopped checking the mat, and now it lay there looking like nothing. An ordinary piece of post on an ordinary morning.I set it on Emily's kitchen table and squared it against the edge. Then I left it shut, because I had a contract to sign at nine.°°°°°°°°°°The recruiter's email had sat unanswered for three weeks. On Monday I wrote back in four lines. By Wednesday I was sitting across from a hiring partner named Alder, at a firm that had lost two pitches to Strauss Technology and wanted the woman who had saved Hendricks. The salary was a third lower than my last. I did the math on the back of my hand on the train, and it came out in my favour by a hair.On Thursday he
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 86: Collateral
Sebastian's POV The telephone rang at ten past nine, nine days after I flew home from her door, and a man I had never heard of asked whether I could see him that afternoon."Who is this?""Halloway. It would mean nothing to you." His voice was dry and unhurried, with a rasp in it like paper dragged across a table. "Your name is on a court filing I have read four times. I would like to sell you something, and I would like to do it before I lose my nerve.""Sell me what?""There's a café under the departures board at the central station. Three o'clock. I'll be the one in a raincoat who would rather be anywhere else."He rang off before I could answer. I stood at the window with the receiver in my hand and heard Ana's voice in a yellow kitchen. Whatever you can prove. In writing. Then nothing else.A stranger with something to sell wasn't a visit. So I cleared my afternoon.°°°°°°°°°°He was easy to find. A raincoat the colour of wet pavement, steam lifting off its shoulders, a grey m
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 85: Forty-One Minutes
Caspian's POV The fourth-floor landing smelled of wet wool and old paint, and a single yellow bulb hummed above a door I had never stood in front of.I had climbed four flights without thinking about it. My knuckles were an inch from the wood when the spyhole went dark. The chain rattled, and the door opened a hand's width on a grey jumper with the sleeves shoved past the elbows.She wasn't surprised. Her eyes went over my shoulder to the stairwell window, where the street lay black and wet and the curb stood empty, and a muscle moved in her jaw."Was he in here?" I asked.She stepped out and pulled the door shut behind her. "A man sat in a car outside this building every night since August," she said, very low. "Tonight the curb is empty and you're on my landing. Ask me again about my visitors.""That is not an answer.""It's the only one you've earned."I put my hand flat on the frame beside her head. She looked at it, then at me, and didn't move."Forty-one minutes," I said. "Yo
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 84: Everything She Has Read
Caspian's POV I waited three days for a man who hums to find his nerve, and on Wednesday morning I stopped waiting.Pryce's office was on the third floor, at the end of a corridor of grey carpet and unmarked doors. It held a desk, a fern, a kettle on a filing cabinet, and a wall calendar with every past day crossed through in pencil. I sat in his chair at ten to eight with my coat on and the door shut. When the handle turned at five past, he took two steps inside and stopped with a paper bag in his hand."Mr. Strauss.""Sit down." I nodded towards the visitor's chair. "You rang me at a traffic light on Sunday. Finish it."He sat. The bag stayed on his knee. Three notes of a tune escaped him, and he caught them and swallowed them."I want to say first that I haven't done anything improper.""I haven't said you did.""No. People usually do, once they're sitting where you are." He tried a smile and put it away. "It came through the family office. A written instruction, two years ago, o
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 83: The Visitor
Ana's POV I had rejected one car already. It had come on Sunday at eleven, a black sedan with a driver in a suit, and it had waited with its engine running for forty minutes. I looked at it for the first ten. Then I turned my back on the glass and read a paperback I didn't take in for the other thirty.I hadn't rejected it because Caspian asked me to. I had rejected it because I was done being sent for by people with that surname.In the morning I paid the records fee on the subject access request I had filed the day after I resigned, and the payment page made me look at my balance, which I had spent a week not doing. There was no salary coming. What was left of my own money would last a few weeks. Past that was fifty thousand dollars I would sooner starve than touch. Emily refused rent, so I had started buying the groceries without being asked, the only way I knew to pay for anything. A recruiter's email sat unanswered in my inbox, because answering it meant admitting I needed i
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother CHAPTER 4: The Man Who Never Forgets
Caspian’s POV I knew her the second I walked through that door.I had told myself I wouldn't. I had told myself a man doesn't remember one face out of a crowded club, one night out of a hundred forgettable nights, one woman he left before the sun came up. I had told myself a lot of things on the f
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother CHAPTER 3: The Stranger and the Cash
Ana's POV I looked at the floor he wanted me to kneel on.Then I looked at my husband, sitting there so sure of himself, and I almost laughed."No," I said.His smile slipped. "Ana.""I will never kneel to her." My voice was steady now. The shaking was gone, burned clean out of me. "Keep your sign
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