《Stolen Night With My Brother In Law》全部章節：第 151 章 - 第 160 章

KATHRYN'S POVThe drive back to the penthouse was really quiet, not like the drive to the hotel. This time the silence felt different. Before the silence was filled with not knowing what would happen. Now it felt like we were heading somewhere.I could not stop thinking about what Mrs. Mayers said at the end.Get her out.It stuck with me because she said it calmly. She did not try to convince me or make me feel sorry for her. She just said it like it was a fact. That scared me more than if she had been crying or yelling.When we got to the penthouse floor Iris was already waiting outside the apartment.He looked up as soon as he heard the elevator.Our eyes. He looked at my face to see how I was doing.He did not ask me any questions.He just quietly said, "How did it go?" after he unlocked the door.I went inside. Put my bag on the table."It was weird, " I said.He closed the door. Did not rush me to talk."Was it good weird or bad weird?" he asked.I looked at him."I am not reall

IRIS’S POVKathryn's words were still in the room even after she stopped talking. The apartment was quiet again. I could still hear the hurt in what she said. She was not asking me to fix things. She was not asking me to explain myself. She just wanted to show me how my being away had affected her and for the time I was not trying to avoid it.She was standing by the window with her back to me wiping away tears. I could see the city lights on the glass. It made her seem close but also really far away.I took a breath before I said anything."If you decide to move out " I said slowly "I will not stop you."Kathryn did not say anything."Not tonight," I added.She turned around. Looked at me."Iris...""You have nowhere to go tonight," I said calmly, trying not to sound desperate, because she was already feeling a lot. "Every hotel will feel like a place every apartment will feel empty and you will be making decisions while you are still hurting."She looked away again."I do not want

IRIS’S POV I leaned forward resting my forearms on my knees and stared at the wine sitting between us. For a moment I wondered if I should stop there. She had already heard the truth to change everything she thought about my disappearance. Then I remembered why I promised myself no secrets. "There is one thing," I said quietly. Kathryn looked at me. "There always seems to be one thing." There was no sarcasm in her voice now. There was exhaustion. I nodded. "I know." She pulled her chair closer. Folded her hands on the table. "Then don't protect me this time." "I won't." I took a breath. "After I isolated myself in this penthouse Jacob visited me often." Her eyebrows went up a bit. "He said I shouldn't be alone." I gave a smile that went away quickly. "At the time I thought he was being a brother." Kathryn stayed quiet so I kept going. "He arranged everything." "My doctor visits." "My medications." "My meals." "When my doctors said I should have someone watching m

IRIS’S POVKathryn did not say a word after I finished speaking. I did not blame her because everything I had found out was really hard to believe. The apartment was very quiet. The city lights outside the windows just kept shining like nothing was wrong. I rubbed my hands together not because I was nervous. Because some memories still felt very heavy to me.I said to Kathryn, "I wish that were the end of it." I looked at her across the kitchen island. "I wish I could tell you that I found out the truth fired everyone who was involved and just walked away from all of it. By then I knew there had to be something much bigger going on."Kathryn looked at me carefully before she said anything."You did not think Jacob did it all by himself " she said.I said, "No I did not think that." My voice was steady because I had thought about all of this for a time before talking about it. "A man cannot make up a lie that's so complicated overnight and he cannot keep it going for years without a g

IRIS’S POVKathryn's tears would not. Every time she tried to wipe them away more came. She put her head in her hands and her shoulders shook with a kind of tiredness that sleep could not fix. Watching her like this hurt me more than all the things I found out about Jacob because even though we had proof of what he did it could not erase the years he took from her.I went closer to her. I did not say anything right away. I gave her space to breathe because I learned that when people are sad they need time to feel their emotions. After a while, I put my hand on the table between us so she could decide whether she wanted me to comfort her."Kathryn," I said, "look at me."She did not.Another tear fell from her eye onto the table. Her voice was shaky. "I do not know what is real anymore," she said. Those words felt heavy between us.She laughed,. It was not a happy laugh. It was a broken sound. "For years I asked myself what I did wrong," she said. "I blamed myself for losing you. Then I