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THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 69: The Insider
The bakery owner introduced Arwen to his brother.She’d pictured someone loud. Someone with the same energy as his brother.This one was the opposite.Quiet, late twenties. He sat at the end of the counter on a Tuesday evening nursing a black coffee like it had personally offended him and said almost nothing for the first twenty minutes he was there.She only knew who he was because the bakery owner had come in earlier that day and said, “My brother’s stopping by tonight. He works at…” He’d paused. “Actually can he just talk to you? He’s having a thing and I don’t know what to tell him and you seem like a better person to help.”“What kind of thing?”“A work thing.” He’d shrugged. “Just talk to him.”The evening crowd thinned out around eight.She wiped down the counter and refilled his coffee without being asked.Then, he looked up.“My brother says you help people,” he said.“I make coffee.” She raised an eyebrow.“He says you helped him with a contract thing. And the co-op on Renne
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 68: Caelum’s Spiral - The Hunt
Three days later, Caelum found Rowan in the corridor outside the east wing and stopped him right there.He kept his voice low enough that nobody passing would catch it.“I want you to find her,” he said.Rowan looked at him. “Sir…”“I’m not asking you to bring her back. I’m not asking you to make contact.” He kept his eyes level. “I want to know she’s not starving in a gutter somewhere. That’s all.”Rowan was quiet for a moment. “And if she is?”“Then I want to know that too.”“And then what?”Caelum looked at him. “Find her first. Then we’ll see. Do not question me further.”Rowan nodded once. “I’ll need a few days.”“You only have two.”He went back to the office and sat at his desk with the necklace still on the surface where he’d left it three days ago.He went through the Verdant acquisition documents and the Ashbourne regulatory referral and four other things that needed his attention and had been waiting for over a week.He got through two pages of the first document before he
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 67: Caelum’s Spiral - The Emptiness
Back at the estate, everywhere was too quiet.Caelum had spent years wanting less noise in this house — fewer people, fewer obligations, fewer conversations that went nowhere. Now he had all of it and he couldn’t stand to be in any room for longer than ten minutes.He moved from the office to the study to the dining room and back again like something was chasing him.Nothing was chasing him.*He snapped at the housekeeper on Monday morning because the coffee was wrong.Not wrong exactly. Just… not how he wanted it. He couldn’t explain how he wanted it because he’d never had to explain it before. It had just always been right.“I’ll remake it, sir…”“Don’t bother.”He left the cup on the counter and went to his office.He stood at the window for twenty minutes staring at nothing in particular.-----Silas came by on Tuesday.He sat across from the desk with a folder.“The Calloway filing came through,” he said. “Protected status confirmed.”“Good.”“The regulatory referral on Ashbour
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 66: The Fortress of Solitude
The baby needed a room.That was the thought she woke up with at five in the morning, three days after the test.She had only a café job that paid just enough to cover rent and crackers.She needed something more. For proper food, prenatal vitamins, and some baby things she had to save for.She lay there in the dark doing the numbers.They didn’t work.She got up.Cora was already in the kitchen when she came downstairs at half past five with her sketchbook and her laptop — the old one, battered, that she’d bought secondhand the first week with cash because she’d needed something and couldn’t use anything connected to her old accounts.Cora looked at her, looked at the laptop, then at the time on the kitchen clock.“Sit down,” she said. “I’ll make eggs.”“You don’t have to...”“I know I don’t have to.” She was already at the stove. “Just sit.”Wren sat, opened the laptop, and pulled up the freelance design platform she’d created an account on two days ago under the Wren Archer name.“
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 65: The Body’s Betrayal
She made it through the four o’clock shift.Barely.She was fine until about seven, when the smell of the milk steamer hit her wrong and she had to put the cup down, walk to the back, and stand over the sink for a full minute, trying to talk herself out of being sick.She managed it and came back out. Because she had to finish the order.She handed it to the customer, smiling.It happened again at eight-fifteen with someone’s reheated sandwich.By nine she was running on nothing but water and whatever biscuits Cora had left in her coat pocket that morning.Her feet and back hurt and she felt like her body was quietly staging a protest she hadn’t agreed to.She told herself it was the long shifts.She told herself that on Tuesday when she threw up before work. And Wednesday when it happened again. And Thursday when it happened twice and she had to sit on the bathroom floor for ten minutes before she could stand up properly.Then she missed her second period.And she stopped lying to
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 64: The Web Begins
She couldn’t stop noticing things.That was the problem.She’d walk into a shop and see a supplier contract pinned behind the till and immediately spot where the owner was being cheated.She’d overhear someone arguing on the phone with their bank and already know three ways they could push back.She couldn’t turn it off — all that knowledge she’d picked up inside the Ravencroft estate, sitting in meetings nobody thought to exclude her from, reading documents nobody thought she was paying attention to.It just kept showing up. Everywhere she went.So she stopped fighting it and started using it.-----It started with the print shop on Colvin Street.It was run by a father and son. The kind of place that did wedding invitations and business cards and smelled permanently of ink.It looked like it had been there long enough that the sign outside was slightly faded. She went in to print something for Cora and ended up waiting twenty minutes because the son was on the phone
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 23: Damage Control
“Call Silas,” Caelum said immediately, his hand finding Arwen’s under the table. “We need to get ahead of this before Viktor can weaponize it.”Marcelline was already reaching for her phone. “I’ll have him here within an hour.”Arwen couldn’t breathe. The signature, the one she’d practiced a hundre
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 20: The Message
“Don’t answer it,” Arwen whispered again, her fingers tightening on his shoulders.The phone buzzed a third time.Caelum reached back without looking and grabbed the phone. He silenced it with one quick motion before tossing it somewhere across the room. They didn't even notice it clatter on the fl
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 15: The Performance
Arwen stood in Caelum’s study, waiting for him to destroy her.He moved to the bar, poured two glasses of whiskey and held one out to her.She took it with shaking hands.“Sit.”She sat.Caelum leaned against his desk. “I’m going to ask you a question. I want the truth.”“Okay.” Her heart was beati
THE WRONG SISTER Chapter 10: Vows Written in Shadow
Arwen stood in a side room, staring at herself in a floor-length mirror. The wedding dress swallowed her, looking like a train that needed two people to carry.Her mother circled her, tugging at the veil.“Stop fidgeting.”“I’m not fidgeting.”“Your hands are shaking.” Celeste grabbed them, stillin
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