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Chapter 112-SMOKE SIGNALS.
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Twice His Wife Chapter 116-BY FIRE AND SIGNAL.
By the time the sun reached the valley floor, the town below was already stirring.From the ridge, Anaïs watched cars begin to pull onto the main road, watched storefronts unlock their doors, watched a man in a red cap hose down the pavement outside a bakery. It looked harmless. Forgettable. But that was the danger of places like this. They didn’t need weapons or drones or guard dogs. All they needed was one good pair of eyes and a phone call, and everything would come crashing down.She adjusted the scarf around her face and turned to Maris. “You take the pharmacy. Cassian and I will handle the comms and food.”Maris checked the child, who was curled beneath a blanket under the overhang, still half-asleep. “She stays up here.”Anaïs hesitated. “You sure?”“She’s safer in the trees than on the street.” Maris brushed her thumb gently over the child’s temple. “I’ll double back every twenty. If anything moves, I’ll signal.”Cassian secured the satchel across his back. “Let’s make this fa
Twice His Wife Chapter 115-THE QUIET ONES FIRST.
The rain didn’t fall. It waited.Like everything else.Anaïs stood beneath the blackened sky with her coat pulled tight, the child’s head tucked under her chin. The field stretched wide before them—open, wet, and exposed. No more forest to shield them. No more time to hesitate. The back wall of the facility had gone up in flames hours ago, and the smoke still lingered. So did the silence it left behind.Julien was gone. But his plan was still breathing.Cassian moved ahead, scanning the edge of the field with the same restless energy he’d carried since they left the woods. His jaw was clenched. His hand never strayed far from the sidearm he’d stolen.Maris brought up the rear. She hadn’t spoken since morning. Not a word since the shot near the river. Her shoulder was still bleeding through the wrap, but she hadn’t complained, hadn’t asked for help. Just kept walking.“I don’t like this,” Cassian muttered.Anaïs adjusted the child’s weight on her hip. “We don’t have to like it. We just
Twice His Wife Chapter 114-WHAT FOLLOWS THE FIRE.
It wasn’t the sound that woke her—it was the stillness.Anaïs opened her eyes to a dawn that looked like it hadn’t made up its mind yet. Fog clung to the trees like breath held too long, and the light filtering through the canopy was weak and colorless, like someone had drained all the heat out of the sky.The child was still asleep, her small body curled into Anaïs’s chest. But Maris was already up, kneeling at the edge of the ridge with her back to them. Cassian sat a little farther off, cleaning the same knife he’d used the night before. He hadn’t looked at Anaïs once since taking over the last watch. That silence hadn’t healed overnight. Nothing had.Anaïs didn’t move. She just stared up through the wet leaves, listening. No birdsong. No crackle of comms. No low hum of drones overhead. That was what had woken her. Not a sound—but the absence of one.The forest wasn’t silent. It was waiting.She ran her hand gently down the child’s back, then whispered into her hair, “Time to wake
Twice His Wife Chapter 113-NOT THE SAME SKY.
The wind changed before the sun came up.Anaïs noticed it first. A subtle shift. The air carried a different weight—less forest, more metal. She opened her eyes without moving, listening. Beside her, the child was still asleep, curled into the warmth of her side. Cassian’s silhouette stood at the edge of the clearing, watchful. Maris was a few feet away, crouched low, tension sharp in her frame.No birds. No rustle. The quiet wasn’t natural.Anaïs whispered, “Something’s wrong.”Cassian didn’t turn. “I know.”Maris motioned for them to stay low. Her hand was already on the grip of her pistol. Anaïs gently shifted the child behind her, heart thudding now, but steady.Then came the hum.Low, distant, mechanical—too low for an aircraft, too consistent for weather. It sounded like it came from underground and overhead all at once. Cassian crouched beside her, voice low.“They’re scanning.”Anaïs nodded. “Thermals?”“Probably. Drones first. Then boots.”The sky had started to gray, but the
Twice His Wife Chapter 112-SMOKE SIGNALS.
They didn’t sleep.Not really. Just stretches of stillness, broken by the occasional twitch, the rustle of movement, the dry cough of someone too tired to care who heard. The barn creaked with the wind, and every creak sounded like footsteps.Anaïs was the first to rise. She sat by the open barn doors, watching the horizon bleed slowly into gray. The child was still curled against her, arms locked around the stuffed cat, face slack with exhaustion. Maris snored softly in the corner. Cassian leaned against a post, half-awake, eyes watching nothing.The air felt thinner this morning. The kind of thin that came before something broke.Cassian finally stirred. “What do you think Crane found?”“She said she’d reach out,” Anaïs replied, not turning.“And if she doesn’t?”“Then she’s either dead or running.”Cassian ran a hand over his face. “Or both.”Anaïs reached into her coat, pulling out the burner phone. No signal. She powered it off again.“We wait one more day,” she said. “Then we mo
Twice His Wife Chapter 111-THE FACE IN THE GLASS.
Dawn didn’t come softly.It broke over the ridge like something snapping, light tearing across the valley and catching on every wet leaf, every blade of flattened grass. The fog was thin but fast, crawling over the forest floor like it had somewhere to be. Cassian was already up, crouched with his back to a tree, scanning the slope below with the stolen scope. Maris hadn’t slept at all.Anaïs sat with the child curled beside her, both of them draped in a mylar blanket that shimmered like something out of a broken future. She hadn’t closed her eyes. Not really. Sleep was a memory she didn’t trust anymore.Cassian looked over his shoulder. “You two ready?”“No,” Anaïs said quietly. “But we’ll go.”Maris adjusted the strap on her thigh holster. “We go in, split up. Get what we need. No contact. No lingering. No second guesses.”Anaïs nodded. “Where do we meet?”Cassian pointed toward the far end of the town, where the buildings thinned into countryside. “Barn outside the mill. Looks aban
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