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CHAPTER 10: SIGNING AWAY SAFETY
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2026-06-20 01:53:24
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The wrong vow: I MARRIED MY EX'S SUPPOSED UNCLE CHAPTER 83: BREAKING NEWS
Maya's hands shook as she pulled up the news stream in the hospital parking lot, Elias reading over her shoulder, both of them braced for something they couldn't yet name. The headline loaded a beat too slowly, her mother's ragged breathing still audible through the phone pressed against her ear.FEDERAL RAID HITS PRIVATE MATERNITY CLINIC — RECORDS SEIZED IN SURPRISE OPERATIONMaya's stomach dropped as she scanned the accompanying footage — agents in windbreakers carrying out file boxes, a reporter standing outside a building Maya didn't recognize, speaking in the clipped, breathless tone reserved for developing stories nobody yet understood."Mom," Maya said, "is this—""It's the clinic," her mother said, her voice cracking. "The one I told you about. Where I worked. They're saying it's a federal raid, but Maya, I need you to understand something — I don't think it's real.""What do you mean, not real?""I mean I don't think the federal government did this." Her mother's voice climbe
The wrong vow: I MARRIED MY EX'S SUPPOSED UNCLE CHAPTER 82: TOO CLOSE
Medical staff shoved Maya and Elias bodily out into the hallway, the door swinging shut behind them on a scene of controlled chaos — shouted instructions, the frantic beeping of monitors, a nurse's raised voice calling for something Maya didn't understand. She stood frozen against the corridor wall, Elias beside her equally rigid, both of them staring at the closed door like it might tell them something the muffled noise behind it couldn't.Reyes appeared moments later, phone already pressed to his ear, barking orders in the clipped, efficient tone of a man used to crisis. He ended the call and turned to them, his own composure visibly rattled despite his training."She's stable," he said. "Barely. The nurse caught the tampering fast enough — whatever was introduced into her IV line, they flushed it before it did permanent damage. She's going to survive this."Maya exhaled hard, relief flooding through her so fast it nearly buckled her knees. "How? How did someone get access to a fede
The wrong vow: I MARRIED MY EX'S SUPPOSED UNCLE CHAPTER 81: WHAT THE WITNESS SAW
The hospital room was guarded by two federal agents Maya didn't recognize, Reyes waiting just outside the door with the particular stillness of a man bracing for whatever came next. Maya and Elias moved past him quickly, urgency overriding the exhaustion of everything that had already happened that night, and found the witness propped up in the hospital bed, pale and bandaged but unmistakably, mercifully conscious."You came," the woman said, her voice weak but steady, relief flickering across her face at the sight of them."We came," Elias confirmed, pulling a chair close to the bed. "Reyes said there's something you need to tell us.""Before anyone else hears it," she said, glancing briefly at Maya, something apologetic in her expression. "I'm sorry. I know that sounds strange, given everything. But you'll understand why once I say it."Maya sat down on the room's second chair, bracing herself, and the witness began, her voice growing steadier as the story finally, after a decade of
The wrong vow: I MARRIED MY EX'S SUPPOSED UNCLE CHAPTER 80: THE TRUTH MY MOTHER KEPT
Maya gripped the phone with both hands, her back pressed against the hallway wall for support, Elias and Damien standing silently in the drawing room doorway behind her, watching without daring to interrupt."Mom," she said, her voice unsteady. "Tell me. Please."Her mother's breath came shaky through the line, the sound of someone gathering courage she'd clearly avoided gathering for over two decades. "I worked for the Carter family, Maya. Briefly. Decades ago, before you were born — around the same time this Elias you're telling me about would have been brought into the household as an infant.""You worked for them," Maya repeated, the words feeling foreign in her mouth. "Doing what?""I was a nurse," her mother said. "At a maternity clinic the family quietly funded. I witnessed something there — something involving what they called, at the time, a 'family restructuring.' It frightened me badly enough that I left the job within the month, and eventually left the city entirely, witho
The wrong vow: I MARRIED MY EX'S SUPPOSED UNCLE CHAPTER 79: WHO I WAS TO YOU
Maya turned fully to face Elias, Margaret's words still hanging heavy in the drawing room air, the weight of every deflected question from the last several weeks finally arriving at a point he could no longer talk his way around."Elias." Her voice came out steadier than she felt. "What is she talking about?"He didn't answer immediately. She watched him look at Margaret, some silent, furious exchange passing between them — an accusation that Margaret had orchestrated exactly this moment, exactly this cornering, with the same patient precision she'd applied to everything else. Margaret simply sipped her tea, unbothered, letting the silence stretch until it became its own kind of pressure.Elias turned back to Maya, and whatever composure he'd maintained through the entire evening finally, completely gave way."The woman in the photograph," he said slowly, "the one from before you ever met Damien. She was your mother."The words landed somewhere Maya couldn't immediately process. "My m
The wrong vow: I MARRIED MY EX'S SUPPOSED UNCLE CHAPTER 78: THE ESTATE
The Carter family estate looked exactly the way it always had — manicured hedges catching the last of the evening light, warm gold glowing from every window, the kind of picturesque beauty that felt, tonight, like a carefully constructed lie. Maya climbed out of the car beside Elias and Damien, the atmosphere thick with dread despite the deceptively welcoming grounds stretching out before them.Margaret received them at the door herself, dressed impeccably as always, her smile warm and unbothered in a way that made Maya's skin crawl now that she understood exactly how deliberate that warmth had always been."Elias. Maya. Damien." She said each name with the same unhurried grace, as though this were any ordinary family gathering rather than the reckoning it so clearly was. "Please, come in. I've had tea prepared in the drawing room."They followed her through the familiar halls, past portraits of ancestors Maya had never once questioned the authenticity of, and settled into the drawing
The wrong vow: I MARRIED MY EX'S SUPPOSED UNCLE CHAPTER 2:THE BEST LIAR
“Did she find out?”. Maya Thought on her way home, maybe it is about work or he is planning a surprise. Ciara was in the sitting room pressing her phone,The second she saw Maya she flipped the phone face down.Maya sat across from her. "Tell me everything.""He is completely obsessed with me." Cia
The wrong vow: I MARRIED MY EX'S SUPPOSED UNCLE CHAPTER 5: TERMS AND CONDITIONS
"Deal," Maya said. She said it the way you say a thing when you have already decided and are just waiting for your mouth to catch up. Elias did not smile. He did not exhale with relief. He nodded once, the way someone nods when a number comes in where they expected it, and then he took out his ph
The wrong vow: I MARRIED MY EX'S SUPPOSED UNCLE CHAPTER 4: THE DOOR
"You look beautiful," Victoria said, pressing both hands to Maya's face. "He is going to lose his mind when he sees you." Maya blushed. "I hope so. I really hope so."The stylist was still working. Ciara came up behind her and hugged her from the mirror's reflection."You look absolutely stunning
The wrong vow: I MARRIED MY EX'S SUPPOSED UNCLE CHAPTER 3: PROPERTY
Elias!" Irene's voice lifted. "Come see, doesn't she look wonderful?"He shook Maya's hand and looked at her the way someone looks when they are fitting a face to information they already have.Congratulations.”"Thank you." Maya kept her voice even, "Damien didn't mention you'd be here.""I'm su
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