All Chapters of After Rebirth, I Married My Ex-husband's Enemy : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

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I Remember Her in Blood

**ATLAS**I should have shut this down the moment she said her name, but my body reacted before my mind could—because dead people do not just come back, but Calista made Lily sound so alive…so real.Now she was staring me down in the moonlight, demanding answers that stripped me bare, because by god…I did not know.Ledger's shallow breathing mirrored mine, and I glanced over my shoulder at the open road behind us, goosebumps crawling over my neck.“Look, if we are spotted here, we will have more problems than we do now,” Ledger's voice bristled, but she just folded her arms. “Nonsense, I am staying right here until I get my answers.” Her jaw shivered.I saw the goosebumps crawling over her arms, and I knew that she would not move until I spilled my truth.But only one truth was certain, and even though it would not be enough to quench the fire in her eyes, it had to count for something. It had to.So I forced myself to say the one name I vowed never to talk about, breaking my promise

Not Yours to Protect

**CALISTA**Something about the word fiancée did not fit—not with the man in front of me, and not with the life I thought I knew…I just could not tell which part of it was the lie. My hand slipped from the crook of his arm and hung useless at my sides. My mind raced endlessly. Atlas had never mentioned a fiancée in my past life, and the name did not fill in any gaps no matter how hard my brain wracked. I sucked in a breath, tasting dust on my tongue and my cracked lips.“When did this happen?” I heard my voice, but Atlas kept his head down, shoulders unmoving, just…staring at his hands.“Atlas,” He lifted his head slowly, fixing me with a blank stare. “When did what happen?” he asked, voice low.“Lily…when did you meet her?” His jaw locked, vein pulsing on his forehead.“I cannot tell you that…it is personal.”I blinked, mind fogging.“Your fiancée is trying to kill me. I do not see how much more personal this can get.”“Ex fiancée. She…” his voice hitches, “...she died, Calist

If I Let You Go

**ATLAS**This was the part where I was supposed to feel nothing…Where I walked to my car and drove to my hangar, pretending that she did not just choose death over me…again. So, no…I did not feel nothing. I felt a dark pulsing starting in my chest and spreading through my body as I stood there, half choking on the smell of the freshly painted door.I fought the urge to walk back in there and tie her to the bed so she would not leave. I wanted to call her name like venom and poison her with my words like she did to me.Instead, I walked.My feet thudded against creaking wood, and my hands clutched the staircase railing to stop the world from spinning.Her words stayed lodged in my skin like shrapnel, burrowing deeper with each shaky breath I took. I thought that the memories had faded…that if I did not remember, then maybe it did not happen. But now they were vivid as ever, and I saw the hazel of Calista's eyes glowing as she turned me away…as she chose Merrick and the life he had

Delusion in a Limo

**MERRICK**They didn’t kill me. That was their first mistake.“I told you to stay out of trouble. Instead, you went and got your finger cut off.” “I'm not dead, am I? At least I survived the night,” and unfortunately, so did everyone who wanted me dead.“You won't be alive for much longer if you keep playing your silly games.”Lydia sat opposite me in the limo, glaring like I had ruined world peace. Her shirt dipped between her cleavage, and I let my eyes drift…anything to ease this error inside me.Two days. That's how long I sat in that cold cell, how long it took me to realize that the game had changed—and so must I.“Atlas had help,” my throbbing hand rested on my knee, “I want to know who the hell that is.” “Way ahead of you,” Lydia flipped open her laptop and pored at the screen, jaw tight.Astrid better have a reason for not picking up the phone. My good hand curled in my palm and formed a fist.“Ledger Bennett,” Lydia read, brown eyes lit up by the screen, “twenty nine year

Soulmates

**CALISTA**The cigarette pack sat untouched on the vanity table while I stared at my reflection, because if I started smoking tonight, I feared I would never stop.There was something deeply pathetic about trying to prepare for war with smeared mascara, trembling hands, and a half-empty wine glass.For the longest time, I used to think mirrors reflected the truth, but as I sat in front of mine, all I saw was a woman trying to numb herself before the war reached her doorstep.One more glass, and I would be ready. My silk robe slipped down my shoulders, and I cursed the shower for being too warm, for not burning off the memories etched in my brain. Sleep was a luxury I could not afford—not even on the jet. With every passing hour, I had perched by the oval window, teeth chattering at the slightest turbulence.So many questions had plagued my mind, forcing me to take my first Bloody Mary in months.What the hell was I doing? Cutting Atlas out of my survival plan felt less like survival

The Full Package

**ASTRID**“Baby…look at me.”I used to love it when Merrick said that, but the human mind was a cruel thing. Once suspicion entered it, even love began to rot.I did not look at him. Not when Calista's words played over and over in my head, and trust me when I said that my sister knew exactly where to cut.I could not reconcile the man sitting across from me in his living room, to the one who held me like I would never break.Not that he was the purest of the lot, no. Like a moth to a flame, I was drawn to the abyss that was Merrick Fairfax. There was something invigorating about finding a soulmate, a person in whom you found a mirror that did not just hold your beautiful, but your ugly too. Every shred of it.But as dark as he could be, Merrick was no rapist…not until I had to believe the words that came from Calista's lips. I had spent the entire drive home trying to decide which terrified me more—the possibility that Calista was lying…or the possibility that she was not.“Astrid

Heartbeats and Heat Signatures

**ATLAS**If Calista Winslow ever discovered the things I did in the name of keeping her safe, she would run from me too.Maybe I should have run from me too, for somewhere between protecting Calista and obsessing over her, the line disappeared.I should have left for home that night. Instead, I bought surveillance equipment. The next morning, Calista was gone, but not before fixing me with a glare that sat in my chest like a rock.Ledger did not wait around no matter how much I begged. Calista was dead to him, he said. Ungrateful, he said. Cruel, even. And I hated that he was right, hated that I clung to that truth viciously…until I thought of her again, and all I saw was a trapped doe chewing off its own limb to escape a bloody trap.I hated that I understood.So I did the only logical thing—I let her go…with a tracker in the necklace that she never took off. That was all…save for the one in her phone and the button of her coat.Yes, you read that right. Merrick Fairfax was not th

How To Lose an Empire

**CALISTA**I watched the black Mazda vanish into traffic through the lobby windows, unease settling heavy in my aching ribs because that car had been behind me all morning.I barely noticed the receptionist greeting me, not until the plate numbers vanished into traffic, fading from my memory like a hallucination.But I was not seeing things. That car had been at the coffee shop, putting enough distance between us to not look too sketchy.Paranoia wrapped its claws around my throat and held tight.I gulped, missing the cup of coffee I handed to the valet as I nodded to the receptionist and walked towards the elevator down the hall. I felt it all—the stares, the whispers and exchanged glances, the confused frowns because God forbid a woman runs her empire without a husband leading the way.Every move hurt, every click of my heels against the bright marble floors a constant reminder of the spectacle that I was now.But for the first time in my miserable existence, their glares did not

The Psycho He Loved

**MERRICK**My mother survived the fall. The version of Astrid that loved me did not. The metal chair bit into my back, but it was a mild comfort compared to the state of Grace Fairfax. I could not tear my eyes from the oxygen mask covering her face, the neck brace, the tube that kept her jaw hanging open…My good hand gripped my left knee, squeezing tight as Astrid's words played in my head like a fucking curse.I kept replaying the moment Astrid’s fingers let go and my mother disappeared down the stairs, searching for the exact second she stopped loving me.She had looked right at me, like she wanted me to hear every crack, and I did. Every single one. The world had blurred before my eyes, and I had scrambled to the edge of the staircase, racing down to find a small pool of crimson forming under my mother's head.I had looked up to the staircase, and she was gone, door slamming in the hallway as I held my mother's limp body.I was right. The Winslow women were all shades of crazy,

One Bullet

**MERRICK**The moment I saw Astrid sitting across from me, I felt the walls closing in, leaving no exit for my next breath.The air in the room grew heavy as Boss's eyes drilled into mine, and I realized I had nothing left but my next lie.“Mr Fairfax, you must have had quite the eventful past few days. Care to…share with the room?” Boss waved her glass around, but I could not take my eyes off Astrid.She had no right to look so devastatingly beautiful in her betrayal, but she was. And she glared back at me with eyes like daggers.“Some chemistry you two have.” “There is no chemistry,” said Astrid, eyes still bleeding my soul, “...there is just Merrick, and his multiple failed attempts at providing results.”“Trust me, I'm well aware of that fact.” Boss lifted the glass to her lips.“I see what this is about,” I smiled, nodding in Astrid's direction, “but I don't understand how she climbed to the top so fast.”Bloody snake.“I'd forget about the logistics, if I were you, and focus o

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