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Less Time Than We Think

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last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-09-19 03:11:19

( Torin)

I watched her go white reading whatever was on that screen, and for the first time since I'd built my career on staying three moves ahead of everyone in every room I ever walked into, I felt something considerably less controlled than strategy taking hold in my chest.

"Give me the phone," I said.

She handed it over without argument, which told me more than the message itself did. Rhoswen Calloway did not surrender control easily, not after two years spent building an entire second self
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  • Vows of vengeance: His contract wife    The net tightens

    (Rhoswen)The laptop screen glowed too bright in the dark garden, Torin's expression going carefully, deliberately still as he scrolled through whatever his team had flagged, and I watched two years of careful planning threaten to unravel in the space of a single silent minute."What is it," I said, though something in his face had already told me it wasn't good."The freeze went through," he said slowly. "Calloway Holdings' liquid assets are locked, exactly as planned. But someone leaked the filing to the press three hours early before we controlled the narrative, before we had Graham in custody, before any of this was supposed to be public." He turned the laptop toward me, and my stomach dropped straight through the garden stones beneath my feet.BREAKING: Blackwood Holdings Freezes Calloway Assets Amid Fraud Allegations Sources Say Missing Heiress May Be Alive."Someone talked," I said, my voice gone very quiet, very careful, the particular controlled stillness I reserved for the m

  • Vows of vengeance: His contract wife    After the Storm

    (Torin)It wasn't a gun. I understood that half a second too late to fully stop the surge of pure animal terror that had already taken hold of me, my body moving between Rhoswen and Graham before my mind had finished processing what his hand had actually produced from that jacket pocket a small silver flask, catching the moonlight the same way a blade would have, empty of any threat beyond whatever he'd been drinking to get himself through the drive here.My security team had him on the ground regardless, pinned and restrained before the flask had even finished clattering against the garden stones, and the anticlimax of it the sheer, deflating ordinariness of what had nearly stopped my heart left the whole garden in a strange, ringing silence once the shouting died down.Graham didn't fight the restraints. He simply lay there, face pressed against the grass, sobbing in a way that sounded less like a man caught and more like a man finally, after two years, allowed to stop pretending he

  • Vows of vengeance: His contract wife    Caught in the Open

    ( Rhoswen)We found him in the garden, standing beneath the same window that used to be my bedroom back when the house belonged to a different family entirely, and something about the stillness of him hands loose at his sides, no weapon visible, no security team flanking him the way I'd braced myself to see made the whole scene feel considerably more unsettling than if he'd arrived with an army."Rhoswen." He said my name like it cost him something enormous to finally say it out loud, two years of careful denial collapsing in a single syllable. "I wasn't certain, at the gala. I told myself it couldn't be. And then Hale confirmed it, and I've spent the last three hours trying to understand how I'm supposed to exist in a world where the thing I did two years ago didn't actually work."Torin's hand found the small of my back, steadying, and I felt his security team fanning out silently around the garden's edges, closing the distance without alarming Graham into anything sudden."You push

  • Vows of vengeance: His contract wife    Graham's Gambit

    (Torin)I got Hale into the car myself, his face bloodied but his eyes sharp and lucid in a way that told me the damage was considerably more superficial than it looked, and the first thing he said, before I'd even finished checking him for injuries that needed more than a car ride to the nearest private clinic, made my blood run considerably colder than the night air already had."He knows about the ring," Hale said, gripping my sleeve with a strength that surprised me given the state of his face. "The wedding ring you gave her. He's known for three hours. He has a man watching your house, Blackwood, and if he's not there yet, he's close.""How does he know about the ring?""Because I told him." Hale's expression crumpled, guilt and exhaustion warring across a face that had clearly given up a long time ago on the idea of getting through tonight unscathed. "He beat it out of me an hour before his own men arrived to finish the job. He came alone first, before he sent for them, because

  • Vows of vengeance: His contract wife    Sisters in the Wreckage

    (Rhoswen)Delphine insisted on coming, and I found I didn't have the strength left to argue with her the way I'd argued with Torin over the same point an hour earlier. Something in the last two years had worn down whatever certainty I used to have about who deserved to be kept safe at a distance, and watching her climb into the back seat beside me, her hand finding mine in the dark without either of us discussing it, felt like the first genuinely uncomplicated comfort I'd allowed myself since the water closed over my head."I should have known," she said quietly, as the city lights thinned out behind us and the road narrowed into the dark, tree-lined stretch I remembered with a clarity that made my chest ache. "At the funeral. Something about the way Graham talked about it was too smooth, too rehearsed, like a man reciting lines instead of grieving. I told myself I was imagining it. Grief makes people strange, I told myself. I wanted so badly for it to be nothing.""You couldn't have

  • Vows of vengeance: His contract wife    The Half-Sister's Ledger

    (Rhoswen)We met Delphine forty minutes later at a service station on the edge of the city, the kind of anonymous, fluorescent-lit place that felt appropriately surreal for a reunion I'd never expected to have under circumstances this desperate. She was standing beside her car when we pulled in, arms wrapped around herself against the night chill, and the moment she saw me step out of Torin's car, whatever composure she'd managed to hold together on the phone came apart completely."You're alive." She said it like she still hadn't fully believed it until the exact second she saw my face under the harsh station lighting, and then she was crossing the distance between us fast, her arms around me before I'd decided whether I wanted them there, and I stood stiff inside the embrace for one long moment before something in my chest, some wall I'd built specifically to survive two years without this exact contact, finally gave way."I'm alive," I said, my voice cracking on the second word in

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