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RUINED BY DADDY: defiled by my stepdad. Chapter fifty nine:
ThomasAriaI read the message four times.Each time hoping my brain would file it somewhere manageable. Each time it refused.Thomas Cole. David’s mother’s brother. Which made him David’s uncle, which made him connected to my father through marriage rather than blood, which made him someone who had existed in the orbit of everything this week without ever appearing in any file, any document, any conversation.Something Romano never found.That was the part that sat in my chest like something pointed.Romano had found everything. Files on my father, my mother, me, Caden, everyone connected to anyone connected to this family. He’d built a system of surveillance and leverage that had taken Sophia twelve years to fully map and had still produced surprises every single day this week.If Thomas Cole had something Romano never found, it either meant it didn’t exist or it was the best-kept secret this family had produced.“Show David,” Caden said quietly beside me.I looked up.He was right.
RUINED BY DADDY: defiled by my stepdad. Chapter fifty eight:
The Morning He Said ItAriaI woke up to his mouth on my shoulder.Not urgent. Not the kind of waking up that meant something was happening or someone needed something or the world had decided to deliver another crisis before breakfast. Just his mouth, warm and slow, pressing against my shoulder like he’d been awake for a while and had decided this was a reasonable thing to do with the time.I didn’t move.Didn’t let him know I was awake yet.Just lay there and felt it — the specific luxury of being woken up gently by someone who wanted to and had nowhere to rush to, his mouth moving from my shoulder to the curve of my neck, his arm already around my waist, his body warm against my back.“I know you’re awake,” he said against my skin.“I was enjoying the deniability,” I said.He made a sound that was half laugh, pressed his mouth to my neck one more time, and settled.We lay there in the particular golden quiet of a morning that had decided to be beautiful about it, the light coming
RUINED BY DADDY: defiled by my stepdad. Chapter fifty seven:
First DateAriaHe took me to a restaurant that had no right being as beautiful as it was on a Tuesday night in Minnesota.Not flashy. Not the kind of place designed to impress through volume — no towering ceilings or aggressive lighting or waitstaff who recited the menu like a performance. Just warm. Low lit. The kind of place that felt like it had been there forever and intended to stay, with dark wood and candles and the particular quiet of somewhere people came to actually talk to each other.I slid into the booth across from him and looked around and then looked at him.“How long have you known about this place,” I said.“Years,” he said. “I come here when I need to think.”“Alone,” I said.“Always alone,” he said. “Until tonight.”Something warm moved through my chest.I picked up the menu.He watched me read it with that attention he gave everything — unhurried, complete, like I was the most interesting thing in the room which I knew for a fact wasn’t true because Caden Voss i
RUINED BY DADDY: defiled by my stepdad. Chapter fifty six :
WilliamCadenI stared at the message for a long time.*I'd very much like to speak with my son.*His son.I was somebody's son in a way that had never once applied to Romano — not really, not in any sense that felt true rather than documented. Romano had claimed me, kept me, competed with me, tried to dismantle me from the inside out, and written mine regardless at the bottom of a paternity test he'd buried for twenty-three years.William Ashford had texted me my son in a single line and it landed somewhere Romano's forty-two years of ownership never had."Caden." Aria's voice, quiet. "Breathe."I breathed."He called you his son," she said."Yes," I said."He already knows," she said. "Eleanor told him everything. He processed it and he picked up his phone and he called you his son in the first sentence." She paused. "That's who he is."I looked at the message again.Typed back before the controlled part of my brain could suggest waiting, suggesting timing, suggesting the careful m
RUINED BY DADDY: defiled by my stepdad. Chapter fifty five:
Finally.AriaI woke up the next morning and nobody had tried to destroy anything overnight.I checked my phone before I was fully conscious, which had become a reflex over the last three weeks — the specific anxious alertness of someone who had learned that mornings could arrive carrying things. Unknown numbers. Screenshots. Recordings. Filing cabinets. Half siblings. Genealogy results.Nothing.Eight hours of genuine nothing.I put the phone face down and lay there in Caden’s bed in Caden’s room with Caden asleep beside me and let the nothing be everything for a few minutes.Outside the window Minnesota was doing something that looked almost like proper morning — actual sunlight, the kind that committed rather than suggested, coming through the curtains at an angle that made the room look warmer than it probably was.I turned my head.Caden was asleep on his stomach, face turned toward me, one arm stretched across the mattress in my direction like he’d been reaching for something in
RUINED BY DADDY: defiled by my stepdad. Chapter fifty four:
James.CadenI read the message three times.Each time the words stayed exactly the same, which meant I was going to have to deal with them rather than hope they rearranged into something less significant.I think it means I have a brother I didn’t know about. If that’s you, I’d very much like to talk.Direct. Clean. No performance, no drama, just a man in London who had received an unexpected notification and decided the honest response was the honest response.I already liked him slightly. Which was an absurd thing to feel about a stranger whose existence I’d known about for approximately forty minutes.“He moves fast,” Aria said beside me.“He’s an architect,” I said. “They’re decisive.”She looked at me. “You don’t know any architects.”“I know William Ashford designed two significant buildings in the eighties that I apparently studied in a business context without knowing he was my biological father,” I said. “Which is a sentence I need a moment with.”Aria pressed her lips toget
RUINED BY DADDY: defiled by my stepdad. Chapter four
Broken OpenAriaI didn’t cry prettily.I want to be clear about that because I’ve read enough books to know that women in stories cry in ways that are somehow still attractive — single tears, trembling lips, quiet dignity. That is not what happened to me on Caden’s couch at eight thirty in the mo
RUINED BY DADDY: defiled by my stepdad. Chapter three
Mrs. BertramCadenI took the phone from Aria’s hand before she could respond.Mrs. Bertram looked back at me through the screen with the pleasant, patient expression of a woman who had been in service her entire life and had learned to perform calm so thoroughly it had become her default setting.
RUINED BY DADDY: defiled by my stepdad. Thirty two
MargueriteAriaI grabbed the phone before Caden could stop me.The photograph sat on the screen — Marguerite in a parking lot, that hand on her shoulder, the casual menace of it making my stomach turn completely over. She was looking at the camera with an expression that was trying very hard to be
RUINED BY DADDY: defiled by my stepdad. Thirty one
UnknownCadenI saw Aria’s face change and crossed the room before she could say anything.She held the phone out without a word.I read the message.Hello Aria. You don’t know me. But I know everything about you. And I think before this day is over you’re going to wish you’d stayed in Boston.New
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