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Tempted by my brother-in-law. LANDING
LANDINGPOV: HazelI woke up when the wheels hit the runway.The specific jolt of it and then the sound of deceleration and the city lights moving past the window and Nikolai beside me already awake, which meant he had been awake the whole flight, which I had expected.I looked at him.He showed me his phone.I read Kaden's message.I read it twice.Isabella had confessed. Fully. On the record. Including what she had done to Mikhail.I looked at the window.The city was outside doing its late night thing, the specific glow of it from the ground, and we were back and the air was different from Lisbon, colder, the city's particular quality of cold that had nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with the density of things happening in it."Mikhail," I said."Yes," Nikolai said."He does not know yet," I said."No," he said."You need to call him," I said."Yes," he said."Not tonight," I said. "It is late and it is a significant thing to receive by phone at this hour."He lo
Tempted by my brother-in-law. KEEPER
KEEPERPOV: NikolaiI answered.Dr Anand's voice came through clear and direct the way it always did, the voice of a woman who did not waste time on preamble when she had something to say."I found something," she said. "In my father's papers. I have been going through them since we spoke yesterday and I found something I did not know existed.""Tell me," I said."A package," she said. "Wrapped in oilcloth the way you wrapped things to protect them from mountain weather. My mother kept it with his research notes. She did not know what it was. She said he brought it home three weeks before he died and put it with his papers and told her it was important and that she should keep it safe."The room was very quiet.The old man by the window was watching me.Hazel was very still."What is in it," I said."Documentation," she said. "Field notes. In a handwriting I did not recognise until I compared it to the photograph of Margaret that was in the news." She paused. "It is Margaret's handwri
Tempted by my brother-in-law. SOFIA
Chapter 100SOFIAPOV: HazelI sat up properly.Nikolai was already sitting beside me and I held the phone between us so he could hear and Sofia's voice came through small and careful in the dark hotel room."Sixty years," I said. "He was there when Margaret died.""He was nineteen," she said. "He was a local guide. He knew the mountain and the researchers hired him sometimes to help with equipment and navigation." A pause. "He has been in this area his whole life. He is eighty now.""Why is he calling now," I said. "Why tonight.""He reads the papers," she said. "He has been reading about the investigation and the foundation and Margaret's name being attached to it. He saw the photograph." Another pause. "He said when he saw her photograph in the news he understood the time had come."I looked at Nikolai.His face was still and focused in the specific way it was when he was listening to something he needed to hold carefully."What did he see," I said. "On the mountain.""He will not
Tempted by my brother-in-law. FREE
FREEPOV: HazelI read it three times.The handwriting was Kaden's. I knew his handwriting from a year of signed documents and formal notes left in the entrance hall and the one card he had given me at the beginning of the marriage that said welcome to the family in his precise even script and nothing else.This was his handwriting.The marriage was annulled this afternoon. You are free.I sat with those two sentences.Nikolai was very still beside me."He put it in your phone case," he said."Before we left," I said. "He must have done it before we left. He knew the annulment was moving fast and he put it there for me to find.""He did not call," Nikolai said. "He did not send a message. He wrote it down and put it somewhere he knew you would find it during the one day you were not supposed to be reachable."I looked at the note.Kaden who had said it was just paperwork. Kaden who had told his brother to stop acting like it required justification. Kaden who had come down to breakfast
Tempted by my brother-in-law. YES
YESPOV: HazelHe did not say anything immediately.He looked at me the way he looked at things that mattered, completely, without the managed surface, just his eyes on mine and the city warm around us and the box in my hand.Then he took the ring out and held it and looked at me."You are sure," he said."I said yes," I said."The paperwork is not done," he said."I know that," I said."And there is still a great deal that needs to settle," he said. "The family. The foundation. All of it.""Nikolai," I said."What," he said."I said yes," I said. "I did not say let me think about it. I did not say ask me again when the paperwork is done. I said yes and I meant it and if you keep listing reasons it might not be the right time I am going to take the ring and put it on myself."He looked at me.Then he took my hand and put the ring on and it sat there on my finger in the Lisbon morning and I looked at it and it was simple and right and exactly the kind of thing he would have chosen."I
Tempted by my brother-in-law. MORNING
MORNINGPOV: HazelWe met him at nine.A café near the workshop, small, the kind of place that had been there long enough to stop trying to be anything other than what it was. Tables outside on a narrow pavement, the morning light coming at an angle between the buildings, the smell of coffee and bread.Mikhail Varyn was already there when we arrived.He was sitting at a table at the end with his hands around a cup and he looked up when we came around the corner and I watched him look at his son first, the specific quality of a father looking at a child he has not been in the same room with for ten years, and then he looked at me.I looked back.He had Nikolai's eyes. Or Nikolai had his. The same quality of attention in them, the same way of looking at something without performing the looking.We sat down.The waiter came and we ordered and nobody said anything significant for the first few minutes because the coffee needed to arrive and the morning needed to be in the room with us bef
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