NOT WHILE SHE'S THIS FRAGILE

Chapter 101Hailey Whitmore had watched Riley face on three different magazine covers this month alone, and every single time, something bitter curled tight behind her ribs.She sat in her penthouse living room with her tablet propped on her knee, scrolling through yet another glowing profile*Riley Creed: From Tabloid Punchline to Hollywood's Next Leading Lady* and felt the old, familiar heat crawl up the back of her neck.Two years ago, Hailey had been the one people wrote profiles about. The golden social elite, invited to every gala, photographed on every red carpet that mattered. Then her marriage with Ashton had quietly ended, and Ashton had gone back to Riley like she had never existed at all...and somehow, impossibly, it was Riley who kept climbing while Hailey's own name slid further and further out of anyone's mouth.She told herself it wasn't about Ashton. Not really. She'd built a life without him, mostly. But watching the woman who'd replaced her in his life also repla

CLOSER THAN I EVER IMAGINED

Chapter 102Grace Malu called on a Tuesday, nine days after she'd pushed them out of her office and locked the door behind them.Riley was folding laundry when her phone rang from an unknown number, and something in her gut told her to answer before she'd even fully registered the ring."Is this Riley?" The voice was hushed, urgent, unmistakably Grace. "I don't have long. I need you to listen carefully."Riley's heart slammed into her throat. She dropped the shirt she'd been folding and pressed the phone hard against her ear. "I'm listening. I'm right here.""Not on the phone," Grace said. "There's a diner off Route 9, past the old grain mill, about forty minutes outside the city. Rosie's. Tomorrow, two in the morning. Come alone. No lawyers, no recording devices, nothing that could trace back to me if this goes wrong.""Two in the morning?""Because at two in the morning, nobody who'd care is awake to notice." A pause, brief and heavy. "I saw the news, Riley. About the leak. I'm sor

RILEY WAS HOLDING IRIS RIGHT NOW

Chapter 103Riley found Iris awake when she got home that night, curled on the living room couch under a blanket with the television murmuring low, Aniya dozing upright in the armchair beside her."She wouldn't sleep until you got back," Aniya whispered, stirring awake as Riley stepped through the door. "Said she wanted to wait up. I tried, Riley, I promise I tried.""It's okay." Riley crossed the room and sank onto the couch beside her daughter, and Iris blinked up at her, sleepy and solemn in a way that had become far too familiar these past weeks."You went to see the lady who might know the truth," Iris said. Not a question. Riley had stopped trying to shield her from the broad strokes of what was happening days ago, after the school fence, after realizing that silence only ever left room for someone crueler to fill in the blanks."I did." Riley smoothed a hand over Iris's hair, tucking a loose curl behind her ear. "It's late, baby. You should be asleep.""Did she tell you who it

THE DAUGHTER I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS WHOLE TIME

Chapter 104Evelyn's office smelled like coffee and printer toner by the time Riley and Ashton arrived the next morning, files stacked in uneven towers across every flat surface, evidence of a woman who'd clearly worked through most of the night."Sit," Evelyn said, not looking up from her laptop. "I've been chasing your nickname since you called me at midnight.""And?" Riley perched on the edge of the chair across from her desk, hands clasped so tight her knuckles had gone pale."And I want to caution you both before I say another word." Evelyn finally looked up, her expression unusually careful. "Grace gave you a fragment. A nickname, secondhand, filtered through a decade of memory and fear. That's not proof. That's a starting point, and starting points can lead you somewhere real, or they can lead you somewhere that costs you everything if you act on it too fast.""We understand," Ashton said. "Show us what you found." Evelyn turned her laptop screen toward them. "I pulled every

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NOT WHILE SHE'S THIS FRAGILE

CLOSER THAN I EVER IMAGINED

RILEY WAS HOLDING IRIS RIGHT NOW

THE DAUGHTER I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS WHOLE TIME