Chapter 11 — The Eye of the Storm

The cold silence in the room was louder than any argument we could have had.Adrian sat at the edge of the hotel bed, his head bowed, fingers laced tightly together. I stood near the window, watching the slow drizzle outside blur the lights of Prague. We had not planned to come here. Prague had not been on any itinerary, not part of any step in the careful, methodical plan we had been building since Dubai. But plans have a way of dissolving when events move faster than the people trying to manage them. The SEC filing had triggered something we hadn’t fully anticipated a response from Cole’s side that had been faster, and more dangerous, than either of us had accounted for.We had forty-eight hours of warning. Enough to move. Not enough to feel safe.Now we were here, in a hotel room above a cobblestone street in a city that had nothing to do with us, and the silence between us was doing the thing it had stopped doing weeks ago pressing in, filling the space with everything unsaid.I

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Chapter 12 — Echoes of the Past

The sun cast long shadows over the ancient city of Prague, its golden hues dancing upon the cobblestone streets. The city’s timeless beauty stood in stark contrast to the turmoil brewing within me. I had woken early. Earlier than Adrian, which was unusual he was typically the one already at the window with his coffee when I emerged, looking as though he had never quite gone to sleep. But this morning the suite was quiet, the study door closed, and the only sounds were the distant bells of a church somewhere in the old quarter counting out the hour.I dressed quietly and went out alone.It was not something I had planned. I had simply needed air, and movement, and the particular kind of thinking that only happened when I was walking. Prague offered all of those things in abundance. The city was extraordinary in the early morning ancient and unhurried, its stone bridges and baroque spires still wrapped in the low mist that came off the river, its streets not yet crowded with the day’

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All Chapters of MARRIED TO MY ENEMY’S SON: Chapter 11 - Chapter 12

Chapter 11 — The Eye of the Storm

Chapter 12 — Echoes of the Past