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Chapter 59: Just like your mother
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2026-06-10 11:54:21
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Vows Written In Silence Chapter 75: I Didn’t
"Then ask what you're actually asking." He came close enough that she had to choose to hold her ground or step back. She held her ground. "I'm asking," he said, quieter now, "what you're trying to prove. In that courtroom. Every day." His eyes were on her face. Reading it the way he always had, the way that used to make her feel seen and trapped simultaneously. "You could have settled months ago. You could have gotten more for those families without putting them through a trial. So what is this actually about." She looked at him steadily. "Corporate accountability," she said. "Which you would know about if you'd read the environmental impact assessment that your own scientists buried." "Zoya." "That is my answer, Raiyan." “Is that all? Why didn’t Mr. Moss settle today? Everything was there. There’s no reason to drag this?” She also knew this. In fact she had wanted to settle today. The terms were reasonable. The victims would have been compensated. She had been ready.
Vows Written In Silence Chapter 74: A Moment
The call had come at eight-fifteen.“Zoya, it’s back on,” Adrian had said. “The settlement meeting. You asked them to push it once already — now they’re asking for tonight. Mr. Mansoor requested it personally.” Zoya hadn't answered immediately. That was the first mistake she made without realizing it. She had been in the middle of putting Raiyana to bed, half her hair still damp, glasses on, no intention of going anywhere. Joseph had taken one look at her face when the phone rang and said nothing. Just went to sit with Raiyana while she listened to Adrian explain that the Mansoor legal team had requested an emergency settlement meeting. Tonight. She said fine. She hadn't even dried her hair. Zoya grabbed her bag, her glasses, the first outfit she touched. She was in the car before she'd fully decided to go. The Mansoor Corp building was all glass and cold light at this hour. She walked through
Vows Written In Silence Chapter 73: The Fish Took The Bait
In Switzerland, The lounge at Hotel Baur au Lac was the kind of place that understood discretion the way old money understood everything — quietly, completely, without needing to announce it. Adam was on his second whiskey. Files open on the table in front of him. Three shell company restructurings that needed to be clean before Friday. Zurich was efficient for this — neutral ground, no questions, excellent whiskey. He had been here four days and had spoken to approximately six people and intended to keep it that way. He was not paying attention to the couple at the bar — not consciously, at least. Then the woman’s voice cut through the low murmur of the lounge. Not loud. Just — sharp. The sound of someone trying to keep something contained and losing. He looked up. The man had her wrist. Thick fingers. The grip of someone who had done this before and had never bee
Vows Written In Silence Chapter 75: Zoya I didn’t
"Then ask what you're actually asking." He came close enough that she had to choose to hold her ground or step back. She held her ground. "I'm asking," he said, quieter now, "what you're trying to prove. In that courtroom. Every day." His eyes were on her face. Reading it the way he always had, the way that used to make her feel seen and trapped simultaneously. "You could have settled months ago. You could have gotten more for those families without putting them through a trial. So what is this actually about." She looked at him steadily. "Corporate accountability," she said. "Which you would know about if you'd read the environmental impact assessment that your own scientists buried." "Zoya." "That is my answer, Raiyan." “Is that all? Why didn’t Mr. Moss settle today? Everything was there. There’s no reason to drag this?” She also knew this. In fact she had wanted to settle today. The terms were reasonable. The victims would have been compensated. She had been ready. She loo
Vows Written In Silence Chapter 72: Mommy My Head Hurts
She dropped Riyana at Joseph’s at seven forty. Riyana had opinions about this. She communicated them clearly, at volume, in the elevator, and then again at the front door, and then one final time as Melissa appeared in the doorway and Riyana immediately forgot every grievance she had and walked inside without looking back. Zoya stood at the door for one second. Then she got back in the car. Forty-first floor. Eight fourteen. Alan at the elevator doors registered her arrival. “The geologist confirmed for Thursday,” he said, falling into step beside her. “Good.” “Harrison filed a motion to extend the exhibit submission deadline.” “Denied. I filed the opposition at six this morning.” She turned the corner. “What else?” “Mrs Katherine Hale wants to see you.” She did not break stride. “Why?” “Not sure.” “I will find her.” She did not find her immediately. She went to her desk first. ⸻ The exhibit chain was where she had left it. Alan had added three new
Vows Written In Silence Chapter 71: Everything She Left Behind
The site visit was scheduled for two hours. It ran three and a half. Not because anything went wrong. Because Amirah kept asking questions. Not performing questions — the kind associates asked to appear engaged, the kind that announced themselves as questions without actually needing answers. Real ones. The kind that required the site manager to go back to his drawings twice and recalculate something he had assumed was settled. Matthew stood slightly apart from the group and watched her work. He had brought her because Raiyan had said bring her and because the Meridian site required someone who could read a compliance gap in a structural brief and she had demonstrated in forty-one slides that she could. That was the reason. He watched her crouch down beside the eastern drainage channel in her good coat — completely unbothered about the good coat — and ask the site manager something that made the man pause for four seconds before answering. He looked at his watch. He looked bac
Vows Written In Silence Chapter 19
The Reyes estate was quiet in the late afternoon. Staff moved discreetly. No one raised their voice in this house unless it was deliberate.At the head of the table sat Joseph Reyes.Silver hair. Straight posture. Dark suit, even at home. Not for appearance. For routine. His face carried age withou
Last Updated : 2026-03-23Vows Written In Silence Chapter 18
The phone buzzed again and this time the sound felt louder in the small kitchen, sharp enough to scrape across Raiyan’s nerves. Zoya didn’t move toward it. She didn’t even look down. She didn’t need to. Raiyan was already reaching for it before he consciously decided to. His thumb slid across th
Last Updated : 2026-03-22Vows Written In Silence Chapter 13
Zoya went into the bedroom and shut the door.The click of the latch sounded louder than it should've, like the apartment itself was listening.She stood with her back against the door for one second—one breath—then forced herself to move.Coat. Bag. Phone.Simple actions. Rules. Steps.If she let
Last Updated : 2026-03-20Vows Written In Silence Chapter 14
Raiyan didn't get back into the car right away.He stood by the open door, staring at the building entrance like staring harder could undo time. Like Zoya might reappear, coat swinging, eyes softened, say his name the way she used to—with room in it.She didn't.The glass doors closed. The lobby li
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