All Chapters of THE WRONG SISTER : Chapter 41 - Chapter 44

The drive back to the estate was completely silent. Caelum drove with both hands on the wheel and his eyes on the road the entire way. Arwen sat in the passenger seat with her hands folded in her lap and watched the city lights appear gradually as they left the coast behind. He hadn’t asked her to pack. He’d just said they were leaving and walked to the car and she’d followed because there was nothing else to do. The glass house was behind them. Everything it had held — the proposal, the ring, the album, the last few hours of something that had felt real and safe, was behind them too.-----He slammed the bedroom door behind them, and stood in the middle of the room with his jacket still on and looked at her with an unreadable expression she’d never seen him wear before — the look of a man who had made a decision and was executing it. “Sit down,” he said, trying to keep his voice neutral even though he was furious inside. She sat on the edge of the bed, keeping her eyes steadily

She noticed it first on the third day.She’d been sitting at the window, which was her default position now, when something outside caught her attention. On Rowan’s phone, which he’d left face-up on the small table in the corridor when he stepped away briefly. The screen was visible through the gap in the door.A notification from a social media platform. And above the preview text was a name.Isolde Ravencroft.She couldn’t read the full notification from where she sat.“What’s happening to my public profile?” She asked Rowan directly when he came back.He looked at her for a moment. “I don’t have information about that.”“Rowan.”“I genuinely don’t, ma’am.” He said it in the way he said things that were true but incomplete. “That would be handled through Mr. Ravencroft’s communications team.”“Simone?”He said nothing, which confirmed it.She turned back to the window.So that was how it was starting.By the following morning she could feel it even from inside a locked room.Simone