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Chapter 42: The Cage
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2026-04-13 05:46:23
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Main chapter She put the pen down. Just set it on the table next to the annulment document, stood up, and walked to the window.The drive was empty. The garden was grey. Rowan was outside her door.Everything exactly the same as it was yesterday.She looked at the document from across the room. At her real name printed on it. The first time any official paper had ever carried her name on it.She was not going to sign it.Not because she had a plan. Not because she had resources or allies or any clear path forward. She was not going to sign it because Marcelline had walked in here and placed that document on the table like the outcome was already decided, and something in Arwen had gone very certain the moment she’d touched it.She may have entered this house under someone else's name.But she was not leaving it as no one at all.She asked Rowan for paper the next morning.He looked at her. “Paper?”“And a pen. The one I had yesterday is almost running dry.” She held his gaze. “I just
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THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 42: The Cage
She couldn't sleep.She lay on the bed in the dark with her eyes open and Caelum’s words echoing in the room, and she stared at the ceiling until the sky outside the window started going grey.He never came back to the room.She listened for footsteps in the corridor, for the door handle, for any sound that meant he was still somewhere close. Yet nothing. Just the quiet of the estate and the distant, occasional sound of his voice somewhere below.She was still in her clothes from the glass house when the door opened at seven.Rowan.He stood in the doorway with his hands at his sides and looked at her with the expression of a man carrying out instructions he hadn’t written.“Mr. Ravencroft has asked me to stay close today,” he said.She sat up slowly. “How close?”“Outside your door.”She looked at him for a moment. “Am I being guarded or watched, Rowan?”He held her gaze. “Those were my instructions, ma’am.”By nine she understood the full shape of it.Her phone was gone from the nig
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The drive back to the estate was completely silent. Caelum drove with both hands on the wheel and his eyes on the road the entire way. Arwen sat in the passenger seat with her hands folded in her lap and watched the city lights appear gradually as they left the coast behind. He hadn’t asked her to pack. He’d just said they were leaving and walked to the car and she’d followed because there was nothing else to do. The glass house was behind them. Everything it had held — the proposal, the ring, the album, the last few hours of something that had felt real and safe, was behind them too.-----He slammed the bedroom door behind them, and stood in the middle of the room with his jacket still on and looked at her with an unreadable expression she’d never seen him wear before — the look of a man who had made a decision and was executing it. “Sit down,” he said, trying to keep his voice neutral even though he was furious inside. She sat on the edge of the bed, keeping her eyes steadily
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