I AGREED TO MY HUSBAND'S OPEN MARRIAGE RULES のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 151 - チャプター 154

STACY'S POVThe silence in our bedroom stretched, thin and sharp as glass. His hands were a mess. I’d known, of course. Davis had sent a curt update hours ago. Secured the target. I’d lain here in the dark, waiting, my heart a frantic bird against my ribs. Now I watched him, standing in the doorway like a stranger caught in the light.“Where were you?” My voice didn’t sound like mine.He looked down at his hands, then back at me. A war played out on his face—the lie, the easy excuse, warring with something heavier. He sighed, a rough, tired sound. “The warehouse on Dock 12.”I let the words hang. He’s telling me. “And?”“And I caught David. He’s… secured. I wanted to teach him a lesson. A permanent one.” His jaw worked. He took a step into the room, the light catching the purpling bruises, the split skin. “I lost my temper.”A strange relief flooded me, hot and immediate. He wasn’t hiding it. He was giving me the ugly truth, raw and bloody. I pushed the covers back and swung my legs o

MIACHEL'S POVThe silence in the car was a physical thing, thick and heavy. I watched Stacy’s sedan turn into the parking garage of the Verve Dynamics building, my fingers tight on the steering wheel. She thinks she’s alone. The thought was a splinter under my skin. I’d seen the set of her jaw this morning, that fierce, stubborn light in her eyes. She had a plan. She always had a plan. But plans against men like Robert Vance were made of tissue paper.I hadn’t told her I’d follow. If I had, she would have argued. She would have seen it as me not trusting her. This wasn’t about trust. This was about the cold, hard fact that the world contained predators, and my wife was walking into a den of them. David’s cousin, his allies… they wouldn’t play by her rules. They’d just take.So I’d been quiet. I’d slipped the tiny listening device into the inner pocket of her handbag while she was in the shower. The guilt was a sour taste in my mouth, but it was drowned out by a sharper, more primal fe