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Tell Me Everything

Author: Nyra Vale
last update publish date: 2026-07-22 12:17:36

She was awake when Lucian came back in.

Not the fractured half-consciousness of the depot, not the shock-blunted state she'd been in during the transfer. Fully awake, sitting upright against the pillows, both hands resting open on the blanket in front of her, her eyes tracking him from the moment the door moved.

The doctor had been in already. Lucian knew this from the particular quality of the silence in the room and from the way Mira was holding herself, very still, very deliberate, the postu
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  • The Dead Bride's Revenge   Wren

    He told her everything.It took ninety minutes. He didn't abbreviate and she didn't ask him to. She listened the way she'd listened to the doctor an hour before, with her whole attention and without interrupting, absorbing each piece and placing it against the others until the shape of the full thing became visible to her in a way it hadn't been while she was living inside it.Her father's audit trail. The affair. The internal report that reached the wrong desk. Sera Voss, currently living under a different name in another country, who had been quietly relocated the same week Mira's father died because the patriarch had decided that removing every thread at once was cleaner than leaving any of them loose. The twins inheriting the knowledge at twenty-six and making the same calculation their father had made: contain, control, eliminate risk.She had been the risk.She had walked into their plan wearing her own heart on the outside and handed them every advantage they

  • The Dead Bride's Revenge   Tell Me Everything

    She was awake when Lucian came back in.Not the fractured half-consciousness of the depot, not the shock-blunted state she'd been in during the transfer. Fully awake, sitting upright against the pillows, both hands resting open on the blanket in front of her, her eyes tracking him from the moment the door moved.The doctor had been in already. Lucian knew this from the particular quality of the silence in the room and from the way Mira was holding herself, very still, very deliberate, the posture of someone who had received the worst available information and made the private decision to stay upright anyway.He pulled a chair to the side of the bed. No desk between them. No distance."Who are you," she said. "The real answer.""My name is Lucian Voss." He kept his hands still on his knees and his eyes on her face. "Months ago I was outside a hospital on the other side of the city. You dropped paperwork in a corridor. I picked it up and I saw your name, and I saw Wrexley on the header

  • The Dead Bride's Revenge   Don't Say Her Name In This House

    The whiskey appeared on the edge of Damon's desk without being requested.He heard the door open, heard the soft sound of a glass being set down, and did not turn from the window. The city spread out below him in the particular way it did after midnight, when the lit windows outnumbered the dark ones and everything looked ordered from up here in a way it hadn't felt from ground level in days."She's gone," Ingrid's voice said.He turned then.She was standing near the door in something he recognised before he understood why. The fabric, the cut, the shade of it. One of Mira's dresses, something she'd left in the estate's guest wardrobe months ago. And underneath that, or maybe layered over it, a scent that reached him from across the room and landed in his stomach like a fist.Mira's perfume."What are you wearing," he said. Not a question. A very quiet, very controlled statement of observation.Ingrid moved closer, her expression doing something calculat

  • The Dead Bride's Revenge   Keep Her Off The Channels

    The depot door had been forced from the inside.Lucian saw it before his torch beam reached it, the buckled panel, the gap where someone had used their bodyweight and refused to stop until something gave. He pressed his palm flat against it and pushed.The main bay opened up in front of him, vast and dark and smelling of rust and old water. His team spread out behind him without being told to. Three of them. Enough for what he hoped they were about to find.She was against the far wall.Knees pulled to her chest, both arms wrapped tight around her stomach, her head tipped back against the concrete. The wedding dress had gone dark with river water from the waist down. Her hair covered most of her face. But her chest was moving. Shallow and unsteady, the kind of breathing that came from cold and shock and too long in moving water, but moving.He crossed the bay in eight strides."I've got her." He dropped to one knee beside her. "She's still inside."His medic was already there, two fin

  • The Dead Bride's Revenge   What the River Kept

    They buried an empty casket two days later.The service ran short. White tent, a grey sky threatening rain that never quite arrived, and a priest reading words that fell on people too distracted by their phones to absorb them. Damon stood in the front row with his hands clasped in front of him, his expression arranged into something that passed for grief from a reasonable distance. Killian stood slightly apart, which nobody commented on. Twins processed things differently. Everyone knew that. Nobody questioned it.The official report used the word accidental. A stolen vehicle. Wet roads. A guardrail two years past its replacement date. Body not yet recovered, which happened sometimes with that particular stretch of river. The current ran deep and pulled fast where the shoulder gave out, and what went in there didn't always surface in any condition worth identifying. The coroner signed off without visiting the site. The investigating officer filed his paperwork before lunch.Ingrid han

  • The Dead Bride's Revenge   Out of Road

    Rain hammered the windscreen so hard the road ahead dissolved into smears of black and grey.Twenty minutes of driving with no destination. Just forward. Just away. Mira's hands had locked so tight around the wheel her knuckles ached, and the headlights filling her mirror hadn't wavered once, closing the gap no matter how far she pushed the engine.The road narrowed without warning. Guardrails pressed in from both sides, and then the asphalt simply stopped. Black water churned beyond the barrier's broken end, the sky above it the same colour as a week-old bruise.She hit the brakes. The van shuddered and stopped inches from the edge.A door opened behind her. Footsteps splashed through the downpour, unhurried, like the man making them already knew exactly how this ended."Open the door, Mira." Killian's voice carried clean over the storm. "It doesn't have to end this way."She didn't turn around.Her hands moved on their own, settling flat against her stomach the way they had a hundre

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