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Chapter Twenty Four

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Lenora

By the time I walked back into the mansion, smoke was curling faintly from the kitchen and the unmistakable sound of something being aggressively stirred, I stopped dead in the doorway and just stared.

Elias Vance—in a dress shirt with the sleeves shoved up to his elbows, a smear of what might have been tomato sauce on his jaw, standing over a pan like it had personally wronged him.

Don’t tell me he was the one making dinner for tonight.

I didn’t know whether to laugh or continue look
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  • The Discarded Heiress: Married To My Ex Fiancé’s Brother   Chapter Forty Eight

    Elias"We can beat their flight time by forty minutes if we leave now," Dominic said, already rattling off logistics before I'd finished asking the question. "Your jet's faster, and their flight plan has a scheduled refueling stop theirs doesn't need to make if the wind cooperates. It's tight. It's not impossible.""Do it.""Elias." A pause, weighted with something I couldn't quite place over the phone. "If Weston's the one waiting on the other end of this, walking in there isn't just confronting your brother anymore. You understand what you're actually flying into.""I understand exactly what I'm flying into." I looked at Lenora, already pulling on her coat, jaw set with a determination that had nothing hesitant left in it. "That's precisely why I'm not doing it alone.""I wasn't suggesting you should," Dominic said, something almost wounded in his voice, and I filed that away too, the way I filed everything now, unable to fully silence the small, cold voice in the back of my mind th

  • The Discarded Heiress: Married To My Ex Fiancé’s Brother   Chapter Forty Seven

    LenoraDominic sent the footage before Elias had even finished asking him to.It was grainy, timestamped, the angle awkward the way airfield security cameras always seemed to be, built for liability rather than clarity. But it didn't need to be clear. I knew her the second she stepped out of the car—the particular way she tucked her hair behind her ear, a habit I remembered now from a handful of visits so long ago I'd nearly convinced myself I'd imagined half of them.Marie.She crossed the tarmac toward Liam like they'd done this before, like the choreography of it was already familiar, and handed him something small enough to fit in one hand before he pulled her into a brief, tense embrace and they both disappeared up the stairs of a waiting jet.I watched it three times before I could make myself say anything."She called me," I said finally, voice strange and distant even to my own ears. "She called to warn me. About your mother, about the rumors, about all of it. I thought—" I st

  • The Discarded Heiress: Married To My Ex Fiancé’s Brother   Chapter Forty Six

    EliasThe first page meant nothing to me. A wire transfer, a date, a routing number. It took Marcus turning to the third page and tapping it once, deliberately, before I understood what I was actually looking at."That account was opened eight months before the accident," he said quietly. "Funded in increments small enough not to raise questions at any single bank, large enough that by the time of the crash, there was more than enough sitting in it to make a very specific problem disappear.""Whose name," I said, though some cold, sinking part of me had already started arranging the shape of the answer before he gave it to me."Liam's."The room tilted slightly, or maybe that was just me."That's not possible." I heard myself say it even as every instinct I had told me it was exactly, precisely possible, that it explained things I'd spent four years refusing to look at directly. "Liam doesn't plan. He reacts. He's never had the patience to build something over eight months in his life

  • The Discarded Heiress: Married To My Ex Fiancé’s Brother   Chapter Forty Four

    LenoraI hadn't thought about Marcus Hale in years, not really, not beyond the vague, unpleasant shape of him in the back of my memory—a tall, silver-haired man who always smelled faintly of cedar and spoke to my father in a low, unhurried voice that made everyone else in the room feel like they were interrupting something.But sitting there with Elias's phone still warm on the bed between us, I found the memories coming back sharper than I expected, details I hadn't realized I'd kept."He was at the house the week before I left," I said slowly. "Not for anything to do with me. Some routine visit, the kind he made a few times a year. I remember because he asked me a question that felt strange at the time, and I never thought about it again until right now.""What did he ask?""He asked if I was happy." I frowned, turning the memory over like it might reveal something new if I looked at it from a different angle. "Not in a casual way. He asked it like it actually mattered to him, which

  • The Discarded Heiress: Married To My Ex Fiancé’s Brother   Chapter Forty Three

    EliasShe was still asleep when the light came up gold through the curtains, curled toward me with one hand loosely fisted in the sheet like even unconscious she hadn't quite let go of the night before.I'd spent four years training myself out of stillness. Stillness meant vulnerability, meant giving whatever was watching you a clean shot at whatever mattered most. I lay there anyway, watching her breathe, and let myself be still for the first time in longer than I could remember without once flinching at how exposed it made me feel.*This is what I almost didn't let myself have,* I thought, and the thought landed harder than I expected it to, close enough to grief that I had to look away from her for a moment to steady it.I'd built my whole adult life around the assumption that wanting something this much was how you handed someone the exact leverage they needed to destroy you. My father had taught me that without ever meaning to teach me anything. My mother had perfected the lesson

  • The Discarded Heiress: Married To My Ex Fiancé’s Brother   Chapter Forty Two

    LenoraI kissed him back before I'd even decided to.There was no careful thought behind it, no measured weighing of consequence the way I'd approached almost everything since the wedding—just his mouth against mine and every reason I'd been giving myself for weeks collapsing at once, quiet and complete, like a building finally admitting it had been condemned all along.His hand found the curve of my jaw, then my neck, then lower, and I heard myself make a small, helpless sound against his mouth that I would have been embarrassed by in any other version of my life. I wasn't embarrassed now. I didn't want to be careful. I didn't want to be sensible. I'd spent so long being both of those things for other people's comfort that doing neither, finally, for myself, felt like something close to relief.His hands were in my hair, mine fisted in the front of his shirt, both of us breathing like we'd run the length of the beach instead of simply lying still on it, and it was Elias—of course it

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