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Chapter 53
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2026-08-21 23:52:49
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LilyThe screen trembled slightly in Ralph's hand, but the woman's face remained perfectly still, poised, radiant even under the harsh glare of camera flashes. My mother…a woman I'd only ever known through faded childhood photographs and a phone call eighteen years too late. She was estranged to me, just like how other people were with no meaningful existence to me which wasn’t even surprising."Turn up the volume," I said, my voice barely audible over the pounding of my own heart.Ralph fumbled with the screen, and her voice filled the hospital room, smooth and practiced, the voice of someone who'd spent decades perfecting the art of public performance."...and it's with a heavy heart that I come forward today," she was saying, hands folded neatly in front of her, dressed in an elegant cream suit that made her look every bit the grieving matriarch rather than the woman who'd orchestrated my kidnapping mere hours earlier. "For eighteen years, I believed my daughter had died alongside
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Chaise"Submitted where?" My voice came out low and dangerous with every muscle in my body coiled tight enough to snap."The medical ethics board," Dr. Reed said, utterly composed despite Norman and Tyron flanking me on either side, both radiating barely restrained violence. "Standard protocol whenever paternity discrepancies arise in cases involving prominent families. I had no choice but to file it the moment the preliminary results came through.""You had every choice," Lily said sharply from the bed, her arms tightening protectively around our daughter. "You chose to falsify a blood test and you chose to work for a woman who abandoned her own children for money."Something flickered across Reed's face, guilt showing visibly with whatever leverage my mother-in-law held over him. "You don't understand the position I'm in.""Then explain it," I said, stepping closer, forcing him to either hold his ground or retreat. He held it, though his composure had begun weakening at the edges
SORRY MR. CROWNELL YOU'RE TOO LATE Chapter 54
LilyDr. Reed stood at the foot of my hospital bed, his expression carrying none of the warmth I'd grown accustomed to over the past few months. My daughter stirred faintly in my arms, and something instinctive made me pull her closer, some primal awareness that the ground beneath me had shifted without my noticing. I didn’t know what this meant but I'd be damned as hell if I didn't protect her with everything I had."What kind of urgent matter?" I asked, phone still pressed to my ear, Chaise's silence on the other end stretching taut and uneasy."Lily," Chaise said quickly, his voice sharpening with something close to panic, "don't let him near the baby. Do you understand me? Keep her close, and stall until I get there."The way he talked, I could tell that whatever it was that had gotten him worked up to this extent had to be really serious. He wasn’t one to give false alarms, just like that but I had come to learn that with so many things that had happened, it was best he was alarm
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Chaise"This means it's time to accelerate our other plans," the voice continued, smooth and unbothered, utterly unaware that six pairs of eyes were fixed on the phone trembling in Joan's grip. "I need the documents sent to Reed's office by morning. He knows what to do with them once they're in hand."Joan's mouth opened, closed, opened again, panic flooding her features as she struggled to formulate a response that wouldn't betray the fact that her kitchen was currently full of the very people this woman intended to destroy. It was ironic when you thought about it but here we are, in the very thing we hoped to avoid. I hated to think that this was how everything was going to be, this and the fact that no matter how much I tried to think about where we had it wrong, I came back to square one with nothing to show for it."I..." Joan started, voice wavering dangerously.Tyron gestured sharply, mouthing stall her, and Joan swallowed hard, forcing something resembling composure into her
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Chaise"What do you mean, something worse?" I demanded, closing the distance between us in three sharp strides.Joan flinched, but held her ground, her fingers still trembling as she scrolled through her phone with visible urgency. It just felt like she wanted to show me something, like all of this would compliment everything that had happened. At this point, my trust issues were at an all time low and I didn’t know who I could trust anymore. I hated to think that I had been played for a fool for many years and it was only now I was starting to realize how much that had cost me."Two days ago, I overheard her on a call. She didn't know I was still in the hallway, she thought I'd already left for the evening.""What did she say?" Tyron pressed, his voice tight with barely restrained tension."She mentioned a second child," Joan said, and the words hung heavy and cold in the kitchen air. "She said something about how one heir wouldn't be enough leverage, that she needed... insurance. In
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ChaiseThe name refused to make sense no matter how many times I turned it over in my mind. Joan, who'd worked for my family for over a decade. Who'd bounced me on her knee as a child before I was old enough to remember it clearly, and wept openly at my mother's funeral, resumed her position in my kitchen the very week Lily disappeared, insisting she only wanted to help. This was the most surprising thing I had ever experienced in my life and with each moment that passed, I was getting increasingly worried about the kind of people that were close to me. "That's impossible," I said, though even as the words left my mouth, uncomfortable feelings began surfacing, details I'd dismissed at the time without a second thought. Joan resumed her duties without my explicit consent and she was always somehow aware of Lily's whereabouts before I was and her insistence on preparing meals the same week Ralph mysteriously rehired her. I hadn’t even thought that she could do something like this. "
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