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Chapter 56: Frame up
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2026-04-26 05:05:29
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THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 80: The Hunter Returns
The office was quiet.She was building a kingdom. And she hadn’t left him a door.Rowan came back at midnight. And found Caelum still at his desk.He hadn’t moved in two hours. The phone was in front of him, the photo still open, and the necklace was beside it and he hadn’t touched either one since Rowan left.Rowan set a folder on the desk without being asked.Caelum looked at it.“Everything?” he said.“Everything we have so far.”He opened it.The first page was a map. The Garment District marked in sections, fourteen businesses circled in red, connecting lines drawn between them showing the network structure.The second page was a business breakdown. The co-op. The print shop. The boutique. The café where she worked evening shifts. A fund registered under community development finance law with a board structure so clean that his own lawyers had not been able to find a weakness in it.On the third page, there was a photo.Not the tabloid shot. A different one, taken
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 79: The Obsession Reignited
He went straight to his office and locked the door.He stood in the middle of the room for a second, and then went to his desk and sat down.He put both hands on the surface and buried his head in his hands.He never did that, he wasn't raised to be that kind of person. He was always in control but at this moment…He brought himself to think about the cliff house again. He hadn't let himself go there in five months. He couldn't because it held memories he couldn't retrieve.He lifted his head, and opened the drawer.The necklace was still there… exactly where he'd left it. He picked it up and held it looking at the wall.He remembered how he placed it round her neck, and how her face lit up.His eyes darted to the space where the painting usually leaned. It was still there just facing inward. He'd turned it that way two months ago because he thought it'd keep his memory of Arwen away.He stood up and turned it around.The garden. The iron gate. The road beyond, in pencil lines she’d n
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 78: The Calculation
Nobody moved.The senior counsel had stopped writing mid-sentence.“Caelum.” The senior counsel’s voice came out careful. “We don’t have to…”“Give us the room,” Silas said quietly.She looked at him.“Both of you,” Silas said. “Now… please.”She gathered her folders and stood up. The junior counsel was already standing. The door opened and closed and then it was just the two of them in the room with Viktor’s proposal still on the screen.The room was completely quiet.Caelum hadn’t moved. He was standing at the end of the table with the phone in his hand and his eyes on the screen and some expression on his face that Silas had never seen before in several years of working with him.Silas waited. The silence stretched.Caelum put the phone on the table.“The timeline,” Caelum said.His voice came out rough at the edges.“Caelum…”“The press conference was five months ago.” He wasn’t talking to Silas. He was talking to the photo. “Before that, the estate. Before that…”He stopped. And
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 77: The War Room
Silas glanced at the phone, turned it face down again, and kept his pen moving.“So if the legal challenge only buys us two weeks,” Caelum said finally, “we go directly to the shareholder before Viktor’s Thursday meeting.”The senior counsel nodded.“Not through lawyers. I go myself.”The senior counsel looked at him. “Are you sure that is…”“I know what it is.”“It could read as pressure. If the shareholder feels…”“I’m not pressuring anyone. I’m just going to have a conversation.” He stood up and moved to the whiteboard. “Viktor has been talking to this man for weeks. He has been building a relationship. Making him feel like he’s being seen.” He picked up the marker. “While we’ve only been sending documents. That stops now.”Silas sat up in his chair. “Caelum, if you approach him directly and it goes wrong…”“Then it goes wrong and we’d be exactly where we are right now.” He wrote the shareholder’s name on the board. “What else do we know about him personally.”The junior counsel sh
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 76: The Photo Sells
The paparazzo had been going through the shots for two hours. Most of them had blurry edges, the wrong angle, the subject half-turned away. That was fine.But the third one.He stopped on the third one and just sat there at his kitchen table with his cold tea looking at it.The woman was laughing at something. Head tilted back, completely unguarded. Her left hand was resting on her stomach. Not deliberately. It was natural.And the stomach it was resting on was unmistakably, five or six months pregnant.He pulled up the Crowe article on his laptop. The comparison photos from eight months ago. The same grey eyes, same jaw, and the slight build.He put them side by side with his shot.Completely different hair but that wasn’t a disguise, that was just a Tuesday.He picked up his phone.His editor picked up almost immediately, which meant she was still awake, which meant he wasn’t the only one working late.“I’ve got Arwen Valehart,” he said.She didn’t say anything for a second. “The Rav
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 75: The Bump
It was already twenty-two weeks. Her coat had stopped buttoning.Arwen stood in front of Cora’s bathroom mirror on a Tuesday morning, both hands pulling the front panels together, and they just… didn’t meet anymore.She looked at herself in the mirror for a moment.Then she went to find Cora.Cora looked at the coat, went to a box at the back of her wardrobe and came out with two loose linen shirts and a pair of drawstring trousers that had belonged to her daughter.“She won’t miss them,” Cora said. “She lives in Barcelona.”“Cora…”“Try them on.”She tried them on and they fit. She looked at herself in the mirror again.The bump was there. It had always been there, but now it was… visible. No more hiding it under a baggy jumper or a strategic coat.She put her hand on it.Felt the baby shift slightly under her palm.“Right,” she said to the mirror. “Okay.”-----She’d called the meeting for eleven.The park on Renner Street had a cluster of benches under old trees at the far end, aw
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 45: The Gambit
The next morning, Arwen sent a message through Rowan.She wrote it on a torn corner of her notepad, folded it once, and handed it to him when he brought her breakfast.“Give that to Caelum,” she said. “Please.”Rowan looked at the folded paper. Then at her. And he took it without a word and left.S
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 44: The Defiance
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 n
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She noticed it first on the third day.She’d been sitting at the window, which was her default position now, when something outside caught her attention. On Rowan’s phone, which he’d left face-up on the small table in the corridor when he stepped away briefly. The screen was visible through the gap
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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 s
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