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SCARLET AGREES TO TAKE THE RISK

Author: Roxxanne
last update publish date: 2026-03-24 20:54:10

CHAPTER 95: THE PLAN

POV: Damian

I had called the detectives before we even got to the penthouse.

The three officers arrived at Lucas’s building twenty minutes after we did. Two in uniform, one in plain clothes —Detective Morrison, the lead on missing persons cases in this city.

“Mrs. Cole,” she said.

“It’s Scarlet.” She didn’t look up from the window. “Tell me what you know.”

We spread out in Lucas’s living room — the four of us, plus Savannah who had retreated to the bedroom and, as far as I
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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    SAVANNAH CONSPIRACY THEORIES

    " What?,” I stared at her, dumbfounded by her accusation. I was tired of her numerous conspiracies that involved me. Like she knew anything about me! “Don't be foolish, Savannah! You knew how much I wanted a child with Lucas!” “No…no, you only pretended to,” she said with disgust and then turned t

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  • Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother    The child is Lucas's

    Scarlet's Pov "Wh-what are you doing?” “Nothing. I'm not doing anything to you, scarlet. What you feel right now is all your doing,” he said softly, the timbre I'm his voice carrying a sensual vibration to my skin. Jace shifted in my arm, and that's when I realized I was still holding him in

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  • Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother    THE SUSPICION

    THE SUSPICION The question hung in the air, stinging me like she'd just sliced me with a knife I couldn't move, neither could I breathe. How could they accuse me of such a thing when they were the one who had watched Savannah cheat with my husband. Because they believed I was fucking barren?

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  • Under the Mistletoe with my Ex's Brother    I'm here sweetheart

    I'M HERE, SWEETHEART The cab dropped me off at the hotel just after three in the morning. I was still in my scrubs. No coat despite the freezing December air. My hair was falling out of its ponytail. I probably looked like hell. But none of that mattered. I just needed to see my son. The

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-17
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