All Chapters of Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

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Chapter 61: Nancy's Condition

HaileyEvans was still on the phone when I hung up and went downstairs.The monitors had been flickering for twenty minutes before I called him. I had been standing in the kitchen watching the basement door like it might open on its own, telling myself it was just an electrical issue, telling myself everything was fine.It wasn't fine.I pushed through the study, pressed the hidden button, and descended the stairs alone for the first time without Evans walking ahead of me. The corridor felt longer than usual. The hum of the machinery seemed louder. My footsteps echoed off the clean white walls and I focused on breathing steadily.I pulled a chair close to the tank and sat down.Nancy floated exactly as she always did. Still. Peaceful. Her dark hair drifting slowly around her face in the pale blue fluid. Her hands loose at her sides. Her eyes closed.My face.Every time I sat here I had to take a moment to absorb it all over again. The identical line of her nose, the exact shape of her

Chapter 62: Lena

Evans PovI knew about Calix's origins before Hailey did.That was the honest answer to the question I had just asked her. I knew and I had filed it away as irrelevant because Calix was supposed to be gone for five years and the information had seemed safe to sit on.It was not safe anymore."Tell me what Marcus found," Hailey said on the other end of the line. Her voice was very steady. Too steady."Tomorrow," I said. "When Lena comes. We deal with one thing at a time."A pause. "Evans.""I promise I will tell you everything tomorrow," I said. "Tonight I need to meet Lena first. What she tells me changes how I explain everything else."Another pause, longer this time. Then, "Fine. But tomorrow. First thing.""First thing," I confirmed.I hung up and sat in the car outside Lena's building for a moment. The street was quiet. A small café on the corner was still open, warm yellow light spilling onto the pavement. Normal life continuing around the edges of everything falling apart.Lena

Chapter 63: The Ask

Hailey's POV Evans came inside looking like he had seen a ghost.He closed the front door behind him slowly, locked it, then stood in the hallway without moving for a moment. I watched him from the kitchen doorway. His face was doing that thing it did when he was processing something too large to immediately put into words."Sit down," I said.He came into the kitchen and sat. I put a fresh cup of tea in front of him. He wrapped both hands around it but didn't drink."Tell me about Lena first," I said, sitting across from him. "Then whatever else happened outside."He looked up. "You saw?""I saw you stop on the front step and stand there for two minutes," I said. "Something happened. But tell me about Lena first because I need to understand Nancy's situation before anything else."He nodded and set the cup down.He told me everything Lena had said. The compound. The ten weeks. The cellular deterioration. The neutralizing agent that could slow things down but not reverse them. I list

Chapter 64: David's Move

Evan's POV I watched Hailey stare at those three words on her phone screen.Hello, little sister.She looked up at me slowly. Neither of us spoke for a moment."Eli," she said quietly."Eli," I confirmed.She typed back immediately. I watched her fingers move without hesitation. She turned the screen toward me so I could read what she wrote.Who are you and what do you want.Not a question. A statement. That was Hailey now. Direct and unafraid in a way that still caught me off guard.The response came within seconds.Not here. Not like this. When you are ready, you will find me. You already know how.She read it twice. Then she put the phone face down on the table and looked at me. "He means the ability," she said. "He knows about it.""He would," I said. "If Frost created him first, he has been living with whatever ability he has for longer than either of you. He probably understands the mechanics better than Lena does.""He called me little sister," Hailey said."Yes.""Which means

Chapter 65: The Runaway

Hailey's POV Eli had not called.I had sent that message to Evans to get him home faster and I was not sorry about it. He needed to be here and I needed to tell him what had actually happened, which was that Eli had sent one more message while Evans was at the board meeting and then gone silent completely.The message said simply: The collection. Use it. It is the right move. I am watching.I had stared at that message for a long time. He knew about the collection. He knew about the board situation. He had been watching us closely enough to understand the details of a corporate power struggle happening inside a building he had never entered.Or had he.Evans came through the front door at ten past ten looking like someone had wrung him out and hung him up to dry. I handed him coffee and told him the truth about the Eli message before he could ask anything else. He read it twice and sat down heavily."He is right though," Evans said. "The collection is still the right move.""I know,"

Chapter 66: The Cost of the Truth

HaileyMy fingers clamped around the small plastic drive, the edges digging into my skin as Valarie leaned in closer, her breath smelling faintly of peppermint and anxiety."Take it and go, Hailey," she whispered, her eyes darting toward the crowd. "Before he sees us together.""David is already here," I said, my voice tight as I felt the weight of the phone in my other hand. I didn't need to look at the screen to know Evans was moving. I could feel the shift in the room, that heavy, pressurized air that always followed David Wilson like a storm front.Valarie paled, her gaze snapping toward the main entrance. "I can't be here for this. If David sees me giving you anything—""Then move," I snapped, grabbing her elbow and steering her toward the service corridor behind the fabric displays. "Go through the kitchens. Just get out."She didn't argue. She vanished behind a heavy velvet curtain just as the sound of polished leather shoes clicking against the marble floor grew louder. I turn

Chapter 67: The Transfusion

HaileyThe words felt like heavy stones falling from my lips, echoing against the cold glass of the tank. My arm was numb, the skin around the needle site pale and stinging, but the physical pain was nothing compared to the storm inside my head."What did you say?" Evans asked, his voice cracking as he leaned over me, his face a blur of shadow and light."The white room," I whispered, my eyes tracking the last few drops of my blood as they pulsed through the clear tubing. "The hands, Evans. We were holding hands."Lena was moving fast, her gloved hands flying across the monitor screens to silence the screaming alarms. "Pressure is stabilizing, but her vitals are still erratic. Hailey, look at me. Stay focused on the room.""I am here," I said, though it felt like a lie. My mind was still half-caught in that memory, the smell of sterile air and the sound of a child’s muffled sobbing. "She was crying because they were taking me away. We were both in those little white gowns."Evans grip

Chapter 68: The Mark

HaileyThe sunlight hitting my face didn't feel warm. It felt heavy, like a physical weight pressing against my skin. I didn't wake up with the usual slow drift from sleep to reality. Instead, I snapped awake, my eyes flying open as if a silent alarm had gone off inside my skull. The air in the master suite felt different. It was vibrating. I could hear the distant, muffled hum of the refrigerator in the kitchen three floors down. I could hear the rustle of the wind against the ivy on the outer walls.I sat up, and the silk sheets hissed against my skin. The sound was deafening. My body felt light, but there was a strange, buzzing energy coiled in my muscles, like I was a wire carrying too much current. I swung my legs off the bed, my feet hitting the marble floor. Usually, the stone was freezing in the early morning, but today it felt perfectly temperate.I walked to the vanity mirror, my movements fluid and strangely precise. I didn't stumble. I didn't feel the morning ache in my jo

Chapter 69: The Ability

EvansThe air in the kitchen was thick enough to choke on. Hailey stood there, clutching that serpent key like it was a holy relic, her eyes glowing with a fire I had never seen in her before. I watched the way her fingers wrapped around the brass, her knuckles white, and I felt a cold dread sink into my stomach. She wasn't the same girl I had married months ago. The transfusion had changed the chemistry of her soul."Put the key on the table, Hailey," I said, my voice low and steady. "Please. Just put it down and come sit with me. We need to talk about what is happening to you.""I know what is happening," she snapped, her gaze sharp enough to cut. "I am waking up. You spent years keeping me asleep, Evans. You and my father and David. You all liked me better when I didn't know who I was.""That is not true," I said, taking a slow step toward her. I held my hands out, palms open, showing her I wasn't a threat. "I kept you in the dark because the light in that lab was blinding. It kill

Chapter 70: She Opened Her Eyes

HaileyThe elevator couldn't move fast enough. Every floor we passed felt like a lifetime of wasted seconds. Evans stood beside me, his hand gripping the brass railing so hard his knuckles looked like white stones. He didn't speak, but I could hear the jagged rhythm of his breathing, heavy and panicked. My own heart was a drum beating against my ribs, fueled by the echo of Lena’s voice on the phone.She said my name. Nancy said my name."Stay behind me when the doors open," Evans commanded, his voice tight. "We don't know the state of the room, Hailey.""She called for me, Evans," I said, my voice vibrating with a strength I didn't recognize. "I’m not hiding behind you anymore."The doors slid open with a hiss, and we burst into the facility. The air was cold, smelling of ozone and salt. Lena was hunched over the main console, her hair a wild mess of curls, her eyes wide as she stared at the scrolling green data on the monitors. The room was bathed in a pulsing blue light from the tan

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