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He watched her grow up. Now he can't stop watching her. Ayana Marcus came home for Christmas expecting family dinners and small-town boredom. What she didn't expect was Nelson Ward looking at her like she was something he'd been starving himself of for twenty years. He's forty-five. She's twenty-four. He's her father's best friend, the town's moral compass, a man who hasn't touched a woman since his fiancée died and took every good thing in him with her. She's the pastor's daughter. The good girl. The one who was never supposed to want something this dangerous. One kiss changes everything. Now she's sleeping in his bed, her father won't speak to her, the whole town is watching — and Nelson Ward, who spent two decades convincing himself he didn't deserve happiness, is learning what it costs to finally take it. Some men are worth the scandal. Some Decembers are worth burning everything down. UNHOLY DECEMBER — because the most sacred thing she ever did was love a man everyone told her was forbidden.
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Unholy December CHAPTER 26: SILENCE FROM MARCUS
Its been five days without a word from her father since the letter. Five days of nothing — no call, no text, no Catherine arriving with containers of food and careful translations of what their parents couldn't say directly.Just silence.Ayana had expected it. Had told herself she was prepared for it.She was not prepared for it.It lived in her chest like a stone — not heavy enough to stop her functioning, just present enough that she was always aware of it. At the Harlow interview Thursday it had sat quietly in the back of her throat while she answered questions about youth programme design and community outreach strategy. On the drive home it had pressed against her ribs at every red light.She hadn't told Nelson how much it was costing her.He knew anyway.---"You're doing it again," he said.Friday evening. She was supposedly reading, he was supposedly reviewing consulting proposals. Neither of them was doing what they were supposedly doing."Doing what?" she said."Holding it
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2026-05-06Unholy December CHAPTER 25: WHAT THE LETTER SAID
Marcus's handwriting was careful. The script of a man who had started and stopped several times before committing pen to paper._Ayana,I have been sitting with this for four days. I have prayed more in four days than I have in four months. I have asked God what a father is supposed to do when his child chooses something he doesn't understand. I have not received a clear answer. I suspect that means the answer has to come from me.I am angry. I want you to know that I am still angry. Not at you — or not only at you. I am angry at the situation. At the timing. At the fact that I had to find out the way I did instead of being trusted with it sooner. I am angry that my best friend of twenty years sat at my table and looked me in the eye and said nothing.But I am also your father.And I know my daughter. I know the difference between rebellion and conviction. I know the difference between a girl chasing something forbidden because it's forbidden and a woman who has looked at something cl
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2026-05-02Unholy December CHAPTER 24: BOARD MEETING
"Ana, they're going to bring up the relationship."Nelson said it without looking up from his tie. Ayana leaned against the doorframe, watching him while he's in one of the best suits, his careful hands, oh my his jaw set like a man walking into a courtroom goshhhhhhhh."Let them," she said."You keep saying that.""Because apparently that's the only answer."He finally looked at her in the mirror. Something in his expression shifted — the board meeting armour not quite fully assembled yet, still enough of him visible underneath that she could see what it was costing him."Mrs. Chen has held the line twice," he said. "There's a limit.""Then today you hold it yourself." She crossed the room and straightened his tie it was so uncallrd for though, just her hands needing something to do with the worry she wasn't going to show him. "Say it clearly, just the truth, no apology whatsoever."Okay! then the truth is?""That you fell in love with a grown woman who gave you no choice in the mat
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2026-05-02Unholy December CHAPTER 23: MILLER'S DINER
Sara was already in the corner booth when Ayana arrived, a pastry bag on the table and the expression of someone who had been sitting on information for approximately forty-eight hours too long."Sit," Sara said. "I have things.""Good morning to you too.""Good morning. Sit. I have things."Ayana sat. Accepted the coffee the waitress brought without asking — Miller's remembered regulars, and Ayana had apparently already become one again. Three weeks home, and the diner had reclaimed her.Three weeks.So much had happened in three weeks that the person who had stepped off that Greyhound bus felt like someone she'd read about."Talk," she said to Sara.Sara leaned forward. "Okay. So. The town.""The town.""Is divided. Obviously. But here's what's interesting—" Sara pulled her coffee closer. "The divide isn't where your parents think it is. Everyone assumed it would be church people versus everybody else. Old guard versus progressives. But it's not.""What is it?""It's people who know
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2026-05-01Unholy December CHAPTER 18: MORNING AFTER
Nelson woke first as the light came through the curtains in thin grey lines.He lay still for a moment, cataloguing the unfamiliar — the warmth against his side, the weight of an arm across his chest, the smell of her hair. His first instinct, twenty years of conditioning, was to brace for the guil
Unholy December Chapter Eleven: Corruption Exposed
Tuesday morning arrived with the weight of consequences.Ayana sat in the community centre's main room, helping a fifth-grader with fractions, trying to focus on anything except the closed-door meeting happening in the conference room. Nelson, Dr. Hayes, the board chair, and two lawyers had been in
Unholy December Chapter Six: Stolen Moments
The affair began in earnest.Three days of stolen moments. Three days of Nelson texting her late at night—Can't stop thinking about you. Three days of volunteering at the centre, brushing past him in hallways, feeling the electricity every time their eyes met across rooms full of oblivious people.
Unholy December Chapter Five: Dangerous Territory
Nelson didn't show up for Sunday service.Ayana sat in the family pew, hyperaware of the empty space where he should have been. Her father kept glancing toward the door, frowning. Her mother whispered speculation about illness. Catherine shot Ayana knowing looks that she steadfastly ignored.But Ay
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