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57: What Marcus Knows
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You Broke My Heart, Now Watch Me Rise 59: What Vera Wants
What Vera WantsTHE restaurant had no sign outside. It was just a door and a man beside it who looked at them and stepped aside without being spoken to.Inside, there were four tables. Three were empty and Vera Sinclair was already at the fourth. She looked exactly like her voice, fifty years old, perhaps older, with eyes that moved slowly and missed nothing. A glass of water sat untouched in front of her, and she kept her eyes on them from the minute they pulled the door open.Elena walked toward her in brisk steps and Eamon followed behind, half a step back. She hadn't asked him to do but, but he still did anyway.Vera looked at Elena first."Ms. Brooks." A small smile. "You look well.""Thank you for saying so," Elena said and pulled a chair out, sitting down without waiting to be told so.Vera's eyes moved to Eamon and something passed between them, as if the tension just thickened."Eamon," Vera nodded in acknowledgement."Vera." The muscles on his face remained the same without
You Broke My Heart, Now Watch Me Rise 58: The Voice on the Line
The Voice on the LineTHE phone was still warm in her hand when she got back in the car. Eamon was parked at the curb, engine off. He watched her get in without saying anything. She sat with the phone in her lap and stared through the windscreen and didn't speak for a moment.Then she held the phone out and showed him the numberbtgat just called her. Eamon looked at it and his entire body went still."You know it," the expression on his face confirmed it.He didn't answer straight away, instead his eyes were still fixed on the screen. Elena looked at him worriedly."Eamon.""Yes." His voice was flat. "I know it.""From where?"He leaned back slowly. "Three years ago. The day after I refused Krix." He paused. "This number called me. I didn't pick up."Elena looked at her phone and then at him."She has been sitting on my number this whole time.""She sits on a lot of things." He turned to look at her. "What did she say?""That Marcus has gone off-script, and she wants a meeting." Elen
You Broke My Heart, Now Watch Me Rise 57: What Marcus Knows
What Marcus Knows"HOW bad is it?” Elena asked with an alarm written all over her face. Why were so many things happening all at once? She could barely wrap her head around one thing, and now this?Eamon had ended the call and was sitting very still."Eamon." Elena called his name again, her voice tighter and more pressured."It's manageable," he said, dismissing it as if it was a trivial matter."You are saying that the way people say I'm fine when they are not fine."He let out a breath. "My documentation is legitimate. It's just... layered. There are gaps in the public record that a determined lawyer could point at.""Gaps like what?" Ever curious, she asked. He looked at her. "Like the fact that I don't appear in any records before the age of nineteen."She processed that. "Because of the curse?""Because of the circumstances under which the curse was placed. By the time I had to exist on paper, certain things had to be... constructed.""Constructed," she repeated. "So you have
You Broke My Heart, Now Watch Me Rise 56:The Blood
The BloodSHE told him to pull over, and he did so without hesitation because he understood what was going through her mind now.Elena got out of the car, stood on the pavement, and breathed in deeply to clear her head. Eamon got out too, but didn't touch her. Instead, he stood nearby with the same instinct a person has when someone is about to fall, close enough but not too close."I need a minute," she said."Take all the time you need Elena," he told her calmly.She stood there. Across the street, a woman was buying plantain from a roadside seller. A child on a bicycle swerved around a pothole and laughed. The ordinary world still kept moving."He was going to hand my son to them," Elena started after a while, her voice starting off shaky but steadying the more she spoke. "To people who exist to use people as leverage." Her body wasn't shaking too, she was somewhere past that. "He would have done that. He would have looked Evan in the face and...""But he didn't," Eamon said."But
You Broke My Heart, Now Watch Me Rise 55: Krik
Krix"SAY that again," Elena said as she slid into her side of the car, making sure not to break eye contact with him.They were in Eamon's car and he hadn't started the engine yet because Elena wanted to hear everything, and how this Krix Holdings of a place or thing mattered in the court case."Marcus's address," Eamon started, "the one he filed with the court for visitation, is connected to Krix Holdings. Even through two layers of shell companies, it traces back cleanly.""What is Krix Holdings?" Elena still didn't understand what he was going on about. "I understand what shell companies mean, but are they like a company too? Are they terrible? Is Marcus putting himself in something dangerous that can affect Evan?"Eamon was quiet for a moment. That particular kind of quiet that meant he was deciding how much to say."Tell me," she said. "All of it. Not the managed version." She saw through his pensive mood and watched as he looked away from her, as if he didn't want to meet her e
You Broke My Heart, Now Watch Me Rise 54: Temporary Custody?
Temporary Custody?THE hearing lasted four hours and twenty minutes.Elena sat beside Kemi at the plaintiff's table in a grey dress she had chosen deliberately. It was professional, unassuming, and nothing that could be described as flashy or inappropriate. She had her documentation folder, her composure, and most of all, she had Kemi.What she also had was Eamon in the public gallery, which she had specifically told him not to do.She noticed him the moment she sat down. He sat in the third row at the aisle seat with a plain jacket and no aide. He looked like a moderately successful accountant. He had clearly dressed to disappear into a room and had almost managed it.Elena didn't acknowledge him. She pretended like she didn't even see him. She didn't want the lawyer to point it out and weaponize her with the fact that he was here.Rachel Coker was everything the name had suggested: in her early forties, immaculately dressed, and an unhurried speech. She spoke to the judge the way a
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