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Torin's Protection
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2026-10-10 04:13:20
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Vows of vengeance: His contract wife Torin's Protection
TorinI'd spent the morning telling myself the quiet, after Graham's disappearance, was a good sign that silence meant regrouping, maybe even retreat. I should have known better. Silence from a man like Graham had never once meant retreat in all the months I'd been studying him. It meant he was choosing his next move carefully, and careful men don't stay quiet for nothing.Mateo called before Rhoswen did, which told me everything about how fast the situation had actually moved before anyone thought to loop me in. I was in a board meeting, half-listening to a discussion of quarterly projections I didn't care about, when my phone lit up with his name and I stepped out without apologizing to the room."She's safe," he said first, which is the only sentence that matters at the start of a call like that, and the only one I actually heard clearly before the rest of what he said. "A note on the windshield. A photo of the three of them at lunch, her face circled, a warning to stop digging. I'
Vows of vengeance: His contract wife A Threat Delivered
RhoswenMy phone had buzzed twice before I'd even finished my coffee that morning, both times Torin, both times some variation of the same question: are you sure about this lunch, are you sure you want all three of them in one room. I'd said yes both times. I was less sure by the second yes than I'd been by the first, but some stubborn part of me had stopped wanting to wait for certainty before acting on anything.The enhanced image turned out to be nothing. A smear of pixels Mateo's team had sharpened into a face-shaped blur that could have belonged to half the pale, dark-coated women in Madrid. Torin stared at it a long time anyway, the way you stare at a word you almost recognize in a language you used to speak, before he finally closed the file and told the team to keep working.I didn't have the luxury of staring at blurred faces all afternoon. I had lunch with Beatrix and Delphine to get through, the first time the three of us had ever been in a room together without Graham's sh
Vows of vengeance: His contract wife Redefining the Contract
RhoswenNeither of us had slept more than an hour. I'd come downstairs to find Torin already at the counter, tie absent, shirt from yesterday still on, a man who'd clearly given up on the idea of sleep sometime before dawn and simply kept working instead.The footage was useless in the end. Grainy, distant, a petrol station camera that caught a woman's shape beside Graham's for less than four seconds before she turned away from the lens like she'd known exactly where it was mounted. Dark coat, pale hair pulled back, nothing a court or a search engine could do anything with. Torin watched it eleven times before he finally set the tablet down on the kitchen counter and rubbed both hands over his face."She knew the angle," he said. "That's not luck. That's someone who's done this before."I didn't answer right away. I was still catching up to the morning Graham was gone, the ankle monitor cut clean in the grass, a stranger's shoulder in a four-second clip that told us everything and not
Vows of vengeance: His contract wife The Morning After
RhoswenI woke twice in the night to the sound of Torin's phone buzzing on the nightstand, and both times I felt him ease out from under my arm as carefully as he could, trying not to wake me, and both times I stayed awake anyway, listening to the low murmur of him taking reports in the hallway, unwilling to let sleep pull me under while any part of this was still unresolved.They found Graham's car abandoned at a petrol station forty minutes from the lake house, keys still in the ignition, engine cold, no sign of where he'd gone from there. Torin's security team searched through the night. By the time the sun came up over Madrid, thin and gray through the bedroom curtains, Graham Calloway had simply vanished, and I was lying in Torin's bed our bed, I made myself think it properly for the first time trying to work out how a man wearing a court-ordered ankle monitor had managed to disappear without triggering a single alert."They cut it clean," Torin said, from the doorway, phone stil
Vows of vengeance: His contract wife First Kiss
(Rhoswen)Neither of us had said much since the kitchen, since the words I love you had finally left our mouths and settled into the room like something too large to fully absorb before the next crisis arrived. I kept catching Torin's eyes in the reflection of the car window, checking the way you check a wound to see if it's actually stopped bleeding.I read Graham's message four more times in the car, looking for a trick in the wording, some hidden edge I could use before I even arrived. Meet me at the lake house. Come alone, or don't come at all. He'd never once, in four months of careful cruelty, been this direct. It frightened me more than any of the anonymous texts had, because Graham unmasked was a Graham who believed he no longer needed the mask.Torin sat beside me in the back seat, jaw tight, his hand wrapped around mine so firmly I could feel his pulse through it. He hadn't argued about coming. I hadn't expected him to try; some battles you learn not to fight twice in one re
Vows of vengeance: His contract wife Closer Than Ever
(Torin)I'd told Mateo to stand down for the night, an unusual order, but I wanted the house quiet, no radios crackling in the hall, no reminder that the world outside this study still had teeth. In hindsight I understand that was its own kind of denial, as if silence in the hallway could buy us silence from everything the papers on the desk were about to say.Neither of us slept. We stayed at the desk until the lamp felt like the only honest light left in the world, going through page after page of a will that had stopped being about inheritance and started being about excavation, and somewhere around three in the morning Rhoswen put her head down on her folded arms and simply stopped, not asleep, just finished, the way a person stops when there's nothing left in the tank to keep going on.I didn't move her. I sat beside her in the quiet and watched the way her shoulders rose and fell, and thought about my mother's name sitting on a stranger's estate document, a debt neither of us ha
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