All Chapters of Claimed by my Husband ruthless Uncle : Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Josie’s POVWe stepped back into the bright lights of the ballroom like we had never left.The music was still playing but the whole room had gone quiet. Every head turned. Every mask tilted our way.My gown was stained dark with Julian’s blood along one side but I didn’t try to hide it. I walked beside Alexander with my chin high and my hand in his. No one whispered now. They just stared.Alexander’s cuff had a smear of red on it from where he had touched Julian’s face. He pulled a crisp white handkerchief from his pocket and wiped it away slow and calm like he was brushing lint off his sleeve. The blood came off clean. He folded the handkerchief and slipped it back inside his jacket without looking at anyone else.He turned to me then his eyes soft in a way only I ever got to see. “Are you satisfied Josie?”I looked up at him at the man who had waited twenty years in the shadows just to stand here with me now. My chest felt full and light all at once. I laced my fingers tighter wit

Josie’s POVI closed the laptop and walked down the hall to the bedroom where Alexander was waiting. He pulled me into bed and wrapped himself around me like he always did. I closed my eyes and let his heartbeat steady mine. Tomorrow we would keep building. Tonight I just let myself believe that the shadows we had finally stepped out of would stay behind us for good.But the shadows never really left. They just waited for the right moment to crawl back in.The next morning I woke up before anyone else. Lily was still asleep down the hall and Alexander’s arm was still heavy across my waist. I slipped out of bed, careful not to wake him and went straight to the office. The encrypted email from the night before was still sitting in my inbox like a splinter under the skin, I stared at it for a long time then opened the family trust documents the lawyers had sent over when we renamed the company, I had skimmed them before but now it’s best I read every line slow and careful.Page after

Alexander’s POVI woke up with Josie’s head on my chest and her breathing was even but something felt wrong. She had slipped out of bed in the middle of the night, I felt the mattress shift, even heard the soft click of the door. When she came back she smelled like the waterfront salt and rust and the faint trace of someone else’s cologne. She crawled in beside me and curled against me like nothing had happened but I knew her too well. Twenty years of watching her had taught me every small change in the way she held her body.I didn’t say anything that morning, I kissed her like always, made her coffee watching her laugh with Lily over breakfast, but the doubt sat heavy in my gut like a stone. I know she is hiding something, and in our world hiding something usually meant danger.I had my men check the security logs while she was in the shower, the car had left the garage at 11:47 p.m. and returned at 1:12 a.m. The GPS showed the old dockyard. The same place I used to meet fixers whe

Josie’s POVWe stood there in the hallway for a long time just holding each other while Lily slept down the hall. Alexander’s arms felt like the only solid thing left in the world and I let myself sink into them.We had promised each other alot, but the second I closed my eyes I felt the weight of Victor’s folder still sitting in my desk drawer and the words he had said at the dockyard echoing in my head. I told myself I would show Alexander everything in the morning so that we would face it together like we always did.Morning came too fast.I woke up feeling off. Not sick exactly. Just… different. My breasts were tender in a way they hadn’t been before and the smell of Alexander’s coffee made my stomach roll in a way that wasn’t normal. I slipped out of bed before he stirred and went straight to the bathroom. The little white box had been sitting in the back of the cabinet for weeks. I had bought it on a whim after one too many late nights and never opened it. Until now.I peed on t

Josie’s POVThe jet engines hummed steady beneath us as we climbed into the sky, Alexander had insisted we fly out together to meet one of the last holdouts in Chicago. Victor’s people were still dumping shares trying to force a panic sell-off, I sat across from him in the wide leather seat with the folder of future-knowledge open on my lap. Numbers date patterns I remembered from the first timeline when the same kind of sabotage had almost broken the old Hart empire. I pointed them out one by one and watched Alexander’s jaw tighten the way it always did when he shifted into that ruthless mode I both loved and feared.“We hit their offshore accounts at exactly 2:17 p.m. their time” I said. “That’s when the big transfer always hits. Freeze it before it clears. Then we leak the internal audit we just finished, make it look like they’re the ones hiding debts not us.”He nodded once and made the call, his voice was low and cold when he spoke to the traders, I watched him work and felt