All Chapters of Two Can Play: I Became My Ex's Mother-in-law : Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

ClarissaThe car pulled up to the driveway and stopped right in front of the steps. Getting off and seeing the house where Chloe was staying cleared my head a little bit. For a second, the cold air hitting my face made the panic in my chest feel a tiny bit lighter.I dragged my weekender bag out of the back seat, paid the driver, and walked up to the front porch. My fingers trembled as I reached out to knock on the door, my knuckles barely hitting the wood before the latch clicked open.Chloe stood right there in the entryway, wearing a loose hoodie and soft pants. Her eyes widened the second she saw my face.I didn't even get to say hello. The moment my feet crossed the threshold, my knees buckled.My bag dropped onto the floorboards with a dull thud. I collapsed straight into Chloe’s arms, my forehead hitting her shoulder as tears burst out of my eyes, hot and uncontrollable. My chest heaved, short jagged gasps ripping through my throat until I could barely catch a breath.Chloe wra

ValentineI stepped across the threshold, my boots hitting the hardwood in the entryway.Clarissa sat on the cushion, her frame small, her hands pressed together in her lap. My gaze locked straight onto her face, and a sharp, heavy drag hit the center of my chest. Her eyelids were puffy, red, and swollen, her eyelashes still wet from crying.Fuck. She’d been sobbing for hours because of Victoria. That vicious, bitter woman coming into my home, digging through my safe, and spreading her toxic filth everywhere. I wished there was a faster way to drag Victoria off my property, strip her name off every legal deed, and wipe her existence off the face of the earth so she could never breathe near my family again.My chest burned. Seeing Clarissa like this made my blood run cold, every protective instinct in my body screaming at me to pull her against my shirt and never let her go. I opened my mouth, taking a step forward to fix this nightmare, to explain everything, to tell her she was the o

Clarissa Layla’s screen lit up blue.Her phone vibrated twice against her leg, and her skin drained white in three seconds.Her thumb jammed against the glass to lock it, but her hand shook so bad she dropped the whole device onto her lap. She grabbed it, flipping it screen-down on her thigh, her knuckles turning white. Her breath hit her chest fast and short, her whole body slumping into herself.She glanced up at me, then at Valentine, swallowing hard over and over like she was trying not to throw up. She pressed her back deeper into the cushions, shoving the phone deep into the gap between the couch seats, acting like she could just pretend it wasn't there.I leaned forward on the cushion, releasing Valentine’s hand. Layla stared straight down at her shoes. Her teeth dug right into her bottom lip until the skin turned pale.Landon moved.His boots hit the floorboards, three steps taking him around the glass table. He stood right over her, his shadow covering her lap and her shakin

Clarissa The front doors of the Gaston estate swung open, letting in the cool hall air.The whole place felt different. Usually, Victoria’s sharp voice bounced off the high ceiling before we even crossed the threshold, complaining about the staff or arguing on her phone.She didn't come running down the stairs. She didn't stand at the top glaring down at us. She stayed locked away in her room upstairs, keeping out of sight for once."She hasn't left her room all morning," Valentine said, sliding his coat off and handing it to the butler."Good," I said, unzipping my sweater. "I don't need her screaming at me today.""She knows better than to cause a scene right now," Valentine said, resting his hand against the small of my back.Footsteps clacked fast against the marble stairs.Brittany came marching down the steps, her heels clicking loud in the quiet hallway. She folded her arms tight across her chest, her chin tilted up, but her eyes looked red and tired.She stopped right in fron

Clarissa "Say that again," I said, hitting the speaker icon on my phone screen while grabbing the keys off the store counter."The front entrance is blocked," Chloe’s voice rattled through the phone speaker, static cutting in and out. "There are moving trucks outside, Clarissa. Men in black polo shirts are pulling boxes right out of the hallway.""I'm on my way right now," I told her, grabbing Layla’s wrist and pulling her out the glass door toward the parking lot. "Don't touch anything. Just stay out of their way."I threw the store bags onto the back seat of the car and slammed the door shut. I jammed the key into the ignition, spun the wheel hard, and hit the gas, pulling out into traffic.I tapped Valentine's number on the dashboard screen with my thumb. He picked up on the second ring."Clarissa?" Valentine asked, noise shuffling in his background."Victoria is at the secondary mansion," I said, keeping both hands locked on the steering wheel while I shifted gears. "Chloe just c