All Chapters of Tangled Hearts: In Love With My Ex Husband's Boss: Chapter 81 - Chapter 83

The peace did not last.It broke on a Tuesday afternoon. The rain had finally stopped, leaving the coastal air heavy, damp, and cold. I was sitting on the wooden porch bench, trying to relax. I was knitting a small white blanket for the baby. The click of the wooden needles was the only sound in the yard. It was supposed to be a quiet day.Then, a noise came from the woods.A sleek, silver sports car turned down our long dirt driveway. It looked entirely out of place. The car was low to the ground, shiny, and shaped like a bullet. It purred like a wild cat as it drove over the deep mud tracks. It came to a stop right next to Thomas’s rusty red pickup truck.The engine died. The silence returned, but it felt different now. The air felt tense.The driver's side door swung upward into the air.A woman stepped out onto the wet gravel. She wore a long, cream-colored cashmere coat that looked immaculate. Her dark hair was cut into

Avery’s POV The truck did not come back that night.The rain returned instead. It was a cold, hard rain that beat against the windows of the empty cabin. I stayed on the floor by the door for a long time. Then I moved to the sofa. I did not go to the bedroom. The big bed felt too large and too cold without Caspian.I slept for only a few hours. When the morning sun finally broke through the gray clouds, the house felt ghostlike. The silence was heavy.I looked at my stomach in the morning light. "It is just you and me today," I whispered to the baby.I could not stay in the cabin. The walls felt like they were pressing in on me. The doubt in my mind was too loud. I needed to know what was happening in the village. I needed to see the truth with my own eyes.I put on my yellow raincoat and my boots. I grabbed the keys to the old jeep we kept in the shed.The drive into the coastal village was slow. The dirt roads we