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Chapter 35: A question
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2026-09-24 14:45:39
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Scheming Against My Ex-Boyfriend's Uncle Chapter 40: One year later
The tomatoes on the balcony had finally started producing something recognizable, which Sam considered a minor miracle given how many of them she'd accidentally killed over the past year. "Elena would be appalled," Liam said, surveying the slightly lopsided plants with visible affection. "In the best way, I think." "I'm improving," Sam said, swatting his arm. "Give it another season." They'd kept the ritual going since that first evening on the balcony — a small garden in memory of the mother-in-law she'd never met, planted a little more competently each year, tended by two people who'd learned, slowly, how to build something ordinary out of an extraordinary amount of wreckage. Sam had left her old marketing job within the month, unable to muster interest in quarterly reports for a company she didn't care about once she had controlling interest in one that actually mattered to her. She worked with Eva now, part-time, helping structure the fund meant to protect other families from
Scheming Against My Ex-Boyfriend's Uncle Chapter 39: Everything we built
The garden looked exactly like Sam had pictured it — string lights woven through the greenhouse glass, soft golden light spilling over rows of white chairs, none of the marble or chandeliers that had haunted her for months after that terrible engagement dinner. "Nervous?" Bria asked, adjusting Sam's veil with careful, practiced hands. "Not even a little," Sam said, and meant it completely. "I think I used up all my nerves months ago, in a parking garage." Bria laughed, eyes already glassy. "I still can't believe we're here. After everything." "Neither can I," Sam admitted. "But I wouldn't trade a single terrible moment of it, if it meant not ending up exactly here." --- Her mother walked her down the aisle, a detail Sam hadn't been certain about until the morning arrived — but standing there, watching her mother's careful, steady composure finally crack into open, unguarded tears, Sam understood it had been the only right choice all along. "I love you," Morgan whispered, just b
Scheming Against My Ex-Boyfriend's Uncle Chapter 38: Choosing everything themselves
The venue search took exactly one afternoon, which surprised everyone except Sam. "Not the ballroom," she said firmly, the moment the wedding planner suggested it, some elegant, gilded space downtown with the same marble floors and towering windows as the room where her whole story had started unraveling. "Anywhere but there." "Understandable," the planner said, flipping to another page. "What about outdoors? A garden venue, something with more warmth than formality?" Liam squeezed Sam's hand under the table. "That sounds right." They settled on a small botanical garden an hour outside the city by the end of the meeting, string lights and greenhouse glass instead of chandeliers and marble, a space that belonged to neither family's history — just theirs, built fresh. --- Sam's mother came to the second dress fitting, quiet and attentive in a way that still occasionally caught Sam off guard, six months into their slowly rebuilt relationship. "You look beautiful," Morgan said, wat
Scheming Against My Ex-Boyfriend's Uncle Chapter 37: Just the two of us
The engagement party invitations could wait until morning. So could the calls to caterers, venues, and every relative suddenly eager to be included in a wedding that hadn't even reached its planning stages yet. Tonight, Sam wanted exactly one thing. "Come here," she said, tugging Liam back toward the bedroom the moment the last of their friends had finally gone home, the apartment settling into its familiar late-night quiet. "I thought you were tired," he said, laughing, letting himself be pulled anyway. "I changed my mind." She turned to face him in the doorway, firelight from the living room catching the ring on her hand. "I want to remember tonight properly. Not just the proposal. All of it." Liam's expression shifted, warmth deepening into something slower, more deliberate. "I can help with that," he said, closing the distance between them. --- He kissed her slow this time, unhurried, no war left to distract either of them, no family drama waiting just beyond the door. Jus
Scheming Against My Ex-Boyfriend's Uncle Chapter 36: The garage, again
Bria's excuse turned out to be almost embarrassingly simple — a fabricated emergency about a flat tire, delivered with such convincing panic that Sam had grabbed her keys and rushed out the door without a second thought. "You're always doing this to me," Sam muttered, pulling into the same parking garage where this entire story had started, scanning the rows for Bria's car. "I swear, if this is another prank—" She stopped walking the moment she saw him. Liam stood exactly where he had that first morning, dark coat, unhurried posture, except this time there was no broken-down car between them, no elaborate excuse, nothing but the two of them and the quiet, empty garage holding its breath. "There's no flat tire," Sam said slowly, her heart already picking up speed. "No," Liam agreed. "Bria helped me lie to you. I hope you'll forgive her, eventually." "What is this?" "This is where I first noticed you weren't just unlucky with car trouble," he said, closing the distance between th
Scheming Against My Ex-Boyfriend's Uncle Chapter 35: A question
Liam had rehearsed the words in his head so many times over the past two weeks that they'd started to lose meaning, the way any sentence does when you repeat it enough times alone in an empty room. "You're doing the thing again," Claire said, watching him pace her office for the third time that week. "The thing where you look like you're about to present quarterly earnings to a hostile board." "I'm thinking." "You're spiraling. There's a difference." Claire set down her tablet, giving him her full attention. "Just ask her, Liam. You've faced down Edward, Halloway's entire legal team, and a board vote that could have ended your career. A proposal shouldn't be the thing that finally breaks you." "This is different." "Obviously it's different. It's terrifying in a way none of that was, because this time you actually have something to lose." Claire's voice softened, uncharacteristically gentle. "For what it's worth, I've never seen you like this with anyone. Not once, in all the year
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