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You Broke My Heart, Now Watch Me Rise 61: Paper Walls
Paper WallsTHE motion landed on Kemi's desk at eight-fifteen on a Tuesday morning. By eight forty-five, Kemi had called Elena. By nine, Elena was sitting across from her in the office, reading the filing with the particular stillness of someone managing a very strong reaction.Marcus's new motion: expert witness. A man with documented precise observations of Eamon Valerius displaying behaviour consistent with severe and dangerous psychological instability. Unsuitable, argued the filing, for ongoing contact with a minor child.The expert mentioned was Daniel Carr.Elena set it down before speaking. "He moved fast," she said."Overnight, by the look of it." Kemi leaned back. "Which means Marcus had Carr ready to go before our settlement meeting. He sat across from you with this already in motion.""I know.""Does that make you angry?" Kemi leaned in "Yes." She said it simply. "What do Carr's credentials look like?""On paper? It's credible. Ten years of clinical psychology, three publ
You Broke My Heart, Now Watch Me Rise 60: What He Did
What He DidSHE waited until they were inside, and that took a lot of discipline from her. The whole drive back she'd sat with the document in her lap and said nothing. He'd driven in silence, eyes on the road, hands careful on the wheel. She'd watched him from the corner of her eye and thought about everything and nothing at the same time.Inside his kitchen, she set the document on the counter between them, and he stood across from her, silent and waiting for her to speak."Tell me," she began after massaging her temples. Elena was clearly frustrated."Elena—""Tell me yourself. Before I ask you about specific lines. Tell me what's in it."He looked at the document and then at the window above the sink. Then he made a decision she could see him make, the way you could always see it in someone who was used to choosing silence and choosing differently."Twelve years ago," he said. "Someone found evidence. Not rumours... like, actual documentation.... photographs of me across decades,
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
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