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Chapter 27
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2026-09-29 13:53:51
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Too Late To Love Me Chapter 102
Gerald's POV"Careful with that one," Ari said, nodding at the box in my arms. "It's got my only good mugs.""Your only good mugs weigh about forty pounds.""They're ceramic. Quality has weight.""Quality has a bad back." I carried it up the last stairs and set it down in the middle of the living room. "Where does it go?""Kitchen. Anywhere on the counter.""You have a counter?""I have a half of a counter." She grinned. "Come see."The apartment sat above the bakery, and the whole place smelled like warm bread. It was small, one room that served as living room and kitchen, a narrow bedroom, a bathroom with a window the size of a book. The walls were bare. The floors creaked. There was a single armchair by the window and a folding table she'd borrowed from the baker downstairs."It's perfect," Ari said, spinning in a slow circle with her arms out."It's empty.""It's perfect and empty."We finished in one afternoon. That was the sad part. A month in the mansion, and everything she own
Too Late To Love Me Chapter 101
Gerald's POV"I found an apartment."Ari said it so casually, over a mouthful of toast, that for a second I thought I had misheard her.Nobody spoke. Mabel had just set down a fresh pot of coffee, and I watched her hand pause on the handle before she moved away from the table."An apartment," Osborne repeated."A small one. Above a bakery, about ten minutes from the bar." Ari brushed a crumb off her sweater. "The landlord showed it to me yesterday. It's nothing fancy, but it's clean, and the rent is fair. I can move in by the end of the week.""The end of the week," I said."Friday, probably." She set down her toast and looked around the table. "I wanted to say thank you. All of you. You took in a stranger at three in the morning, you fed me, you gave me a room and a lock on the door. I don't think I'd have gotten through this without it. But I don't want to overstay.""You haven't overstayed," I said, a little too quickly."It's been almost a month, Gerald.""That's not long.""It's
Too Late To Love Me Chapter 100
Ariana's POVI didn't sleep.After Leo left, I sent the rest of the night into the files. The monitors dimmed to their night setting, and the house across town went quiet around me. I had made a decision, but I did not yet know what it meant. A decision without information was only a gamble, and I had stopped gambling years ago.If I was going to give Vitz what he wanted, I needed to understand exactly what I was dealing with.I pulled up the Fernandez files from the beginning. Not the five years my father had handed me, but everything. I had spent weeks looking at the money. This time I looked at the man.Mr. Fernandez. Silver-haired, careful, well loved by his staff. He gave to charities. He sat on hospital boards. In every photograph he looked like a man who had never done anything he couldn't explain to a priest. I had watched his press conference six times, and each time I had felt the same thing, a cold anger that he would protect his sons at the cost of my sister's truth.But I
Too Late To Love Me Chapter 99
Leo's POVIt took me most of a day and three favors, but by the next evening I had what Ariana needed.His name was Walter Brandt. Fifty-eight years old, lived alone in a rented flat above a dry cleaner on the east side, worked nights as a security guard at a storage facility. He had a bad left knee from an old fall and a sister in another state he called every Sunday. He owed money to a man who played cards in the back of a bar, and he drank more than he should.What mattered was the rest of it. Brandt had worked for Vitz for two seasons, nearly twenty years back, and left after a falling-out over pay. Nobody I talked to could say exactly what was said, only that Vitz had called him ungrateful and Brandt had called Vitz something worse. After that, nothing. No holiday cards. No favors. The two men hadn't been in the same room since.I drove across the river, parked three streets from the house, and took the long way in. Ariana was in the hidden room, sitting at the steel table with h
Too Late To Love Me Chapter 98
Ariana's POV"Iris."Leo said it again, quieter this time, like he was handing me something fragile. The name stayed in the room long after he stopped talking. I could hear the monitors humming and my own breath, and nothing else."Say it once more," I said."Iris.""Exactly like that? Not a question?""Not quite a question." He frowned, pulling the memory back. "He said it the way you say a word you haven't used in years. Like he was checking if it still fit in his mouth."I sat down. I hadn't planned to. My legs just stopped holding me up.Iris was the first one. She was the girl I became when I was fourteen and the Vitz house decided I was ready to leave it. She had a different hair color, a different accent, and a different way of laughing. She had no past and no family, and she did what she was told. I had worn her for almost three years, until I got good enough to build new names myself and bury the old one so deep that no one could dig her out.I had thought no one was left who
Too Late To Love Me Chapter 97
Ariana's POVI waited until the house across town went quiet before I opened the file.Alex had gone to bed an hour ago. The monitors hummed along the walls, and on the main screen the Fernandez mansion slept in a dozen small squares. I sat down at the steel table and pulled up the folder I had been avoiding for weeks.Mr. Fernandez looked back at me from the screen. Silver hair, tired eyes, one hand on a car door. The same photograph hung on the board, with a note beneath it in my own handwriting. I had written it the night my father gave me the envelope. Three words, pressed hard into the paper.I hadn't looked at them since."You're staring at it again," Leo said from the doorway."I'm reading.""You're staring." He came in and dropped into the chair across from me. "Has Vitz called?""Twice. I let both go to voicemail.""That's a bad habit to start.""I know." I rubbed my eyes. "I'll call him tomorrow.""And say what?"I didn't answer. Leo leaned back and folded his arms. He had b
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