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DAMIAN JUST MADE SCARLET'S CONDITION MORE COMPLICATED

Penulis: Roxxanne
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-04-12 20:54:44

Damian's Pov

"And keeping this from her is going to work how? When Lucas files his motion and it becomes public record? When reporters start calling asking for comment about whether Scarlet is mentally fit to raise children? She's going to find out eventually and it's going to be so much worse if you've been lying to her about it."

"I'm not lying. I'm protecting her."

Eleanor gave me a look that was equal parts sympathy and exasperation.

"You lied to her about Jace's kidnapping for three days t
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  • Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother    DAMIAN JUST MADE SCARLET'S CONDITION MORE COMPLICATED

    Damian's Pov"And keeping this from her is going to work how? When Lucas files his motion and it becomes public record? When reporters start calling asking for comment about whether Scarlet is mentally fit to raise children? She's going to find out eventually and it's going to be so much worse if you've been lying to her about it.""I'm not lying. I'm protecting her."Eleanor gave me a look that was equal parts sympathy and exasperation."You lied to her about Jace's kidnapping for three days to protect her and it almost destroyed your marriage. Don't make the same mistake twice.""This is different—""It's exactly the same. You're making decisions about information she deserves to have because you've decided you know what's best for her. That's not protection, Damian. That's control."The words hit harder than I wanted to admit because they echoed things Scarlet had said to me during our worst fights, accusations I'd denied but maybe hadn't fully processed."If I tell her and she goe

  • Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother    WE NEED TO LET SCARLET KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING

    Damian's POVI was in the middle of a conference call with my board when Thomas texted me three words that made my stomach drop: "We need to talk.".I wrapped up the call as quickly as possible, making excuses about needing to get back to the hospital, and called Thomas before I'd even left my office."What's wrong?""The SEC investigation is getting serious," he said without preamble, and I could hear traffic in the background which meant he was already on his way to see me. "They've assigned a full team to it. They're requesting documents going back five years, interviewing employees, talking to business partners. This isn't just a cursory look because someone filed a complaint, Damian. They're actually investigating whether you committed insider trading."I sat down heavily in my desk chair and tried to process what he was telling me. The SEC investigation had been worrying me for weeks, ever since Marcus's anonymous tip had triggered it, but I'd convinced myself it would blow over

  • Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother    LUCAS ISN'T TAKING IT EASY

    Lucas Pov "She's not sick. She's pregnant. With twins. Damian's twins." I watched his face carefully as I delivered this information, saw the way he flinched like I'd physically struck him. "She's been carrying them for months without even knowing it. Now she's on complete bedrest because her body is trying to deliver them too early. If she makes it to viability, those babies will tie her to Damian permanently. She'll never leave him, never look back, never think about you or what you sacrificed for her.""I didn't sacrifice anything for her. I kidnapped her son. I'm a criminal who deserves to be here.""You're a man who loved a woman and made bad decisions trying to get her back. There's a difference.""Is there? Because from where I'm sitting they look the same."He was more clearheaded than I'd expected, which made this harder. I'd been hoping the isolation and instability would have broken him down more, made him more pliable."You sent me a message," I continued, changing tactic

  • Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother    MICHAEL IS NOT INTERESTED IN HELPING LUCAS ANYMORE

    Lucas's POVI heard about Scarlet's hospitalization from Marcus, who had someone watching the hospital as part of his investigation into ways to damage Damian's reputation, and the news hit me like a blow even though it shouldn't have mattered to me anymore.Twins.She was pregnant with twins and had been this whole time, carrying Damian's children while I'd been plotting revenge and drowning in rage and losing custody of the one child that was actually mine. The unfairness of it was so overwhelming I had to sit down on my apartment floor surrounded by empty bottles and takeout containers and just breathe through the wave of fury that threatened to consume me entirely."Are you sure?" I asked Marcus, even though I knew he wouldn't have called if he wasn't certain. "She lost the baby in the accident. Everyone knows that.""She lost one baby. Apparently she was carrying triplets and two survived. Nobody knew until she collapsed downtown and they did an emergency ultrasound." He paused a

  • Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother    DID YOU REGRET MARRYING ME?

    Scarlet's POV Twenty-two weeks became twenty-three. Each morning I'd wake up and check the monitors first thing, making sure both heartbeats were still there, still strong. Some days the babies would move and I'd feel it, these strange fluttering sensations that didn't quite feel real. Other days they were still and I'd panic until a nurse came to do an ultrasound and show me they were fine, just sleeping. Damian read to me. Brought in his laptop and showed me funny videos. Told me about what was happening at the company even though I'd explicitly said I didn't want to hear about work because stress. He was careful, though, editing out anything that might upset me, giving me sanitized versions of reality that probably bore little resemblance to actual events. Eleanor visited daily, sometimes with updates about Jace, sometimes just to sit quietly and keep me company while Damian ran down to the cafeteria for food. We didn't talk about her faking her death or the fifteen years she'd

  • Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother    WILL THESE BABIES DIE TOO, MUMMY?

    Scarlet's POV By day three I was ready to claw my way out of my own skin.The hospital bed had become my entire world, this narrow rectangle of mattress and starched sheets where I was supposed to lie perfectly still for weeks, maybe months, while my body tried to expel the babies I was fighting so desperately to keep. I couldn't sit up more than thirty degrees without risking the cerclage. Couldn't stand except for brief, supervised trips to the bathroom with a nurse on each side of me like I was an invalid. Couldn't even shift position without carefully considering whether the movement might trigger a contraction.The ceiling had seventy-three tiles. I'd counted them approximately four hundred times.Damian had pulled strings to get me a private room with a window, which helped marginally because at least I could watch the world outside continue spinning while I was trapped in this bed. People walking on the sidewalk below, cars passing, clouds moving across the sky. Normal life ha

  • Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother    TWENTY THREE MISSED CALLS

    DAMIAN'S POVI woke up to sunlight stabbing through my eyelids and a headache that felt like someone had taken a hammer to the inside of my skull.Everything hurt.My head. My eyes. Even my teeth somehow.I opened my eyes slowly and immediately regretted it because the light was brutal and the ceil

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  • Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother    LOVE ISN'T AN EXCUSE TO TRAUMATIZE CHILDREN

    Damian's Pov The girl tilted her head. Listening. "Ten years. Since before she was ever mine. Since my brother brought her home and she sat at our family table trying to take up as little space as possible." I laughed but it came out bitter. "I watched him destroy her for almost a decade. I watch

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  • Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother    LUCAS AND DAMIAN IN ONE ROOM

    Scarlet's Pov"Check if the turnout has shifted to the other part of the brain," I groaned into my mask as I swuibteed at the opened skull in front of me. The nurse beside me immediately nodded. I don't know how I caught myself in this situation, because last I could remember, today was my day of

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  • Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother    DON'T TELL YOUR MUM WHAT WE JUST SAID, OKAY?

    MARGARETS POV"Fine." My eyes said otherwise. "Jace just came to find me."Gerald looked at Jace. Jace looked back at him with those unsettlingly perceptive eyes."Grandpa," Jace said, settling back down at the coffee table, "does Mr. Damian actually care about me?"The question came from nowhere.

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