All Chapters of Brother-in-Law, I’m Your Dirty Secret: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

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CHAPTER 36 PART 2

"It is the most honest thing anyone in that house has said in months." Her eyes were steady and I realized with a jolt that the woman sitting in front of me was not the same woman I had locked in a storage closet at the promotion ceremony. This Jia was harder and calmer and she was looking at me like I was something she had already figured out how to handle. "What do you really want, Mia?""I want you to stop pretending." I dropped the smile because it was not working and there was no point in wasting energy on a performance she could see through. "I know there is something between you and Marcus. I have known for weeks. And if you think you can keep hiding it behind hospital visits and late night drives to the east side of the city, you are not as smart as everyone thinks you are.""Even if you have suspicions, that does not give you the right to threaten me." Jia's voice did not waver by even a fraction. "Suspicion is not proof, Mia.""I have more than suspicion." I leaned forward i

Last Updated : 2026-09-22

CHAPTER 36 PART 3

I stood up and walked out of her office without saying another word because for the first time in my life I did not have a response ready. My heels clicked down the hospital corridor and every step felt heavier than the last because the ground underneath me had just shifted in a direction I was not prepared for.Jia was not trying to survive anymore. She was fighting back. And that changed everything.I did not go to Liam immediately. I drove around the city for an hour letting my thoughts settle and my anger cool down enough for me to think clearly.By the time I pulled into the parking lot of the hotel where Liam and I always met, I had made a decision. I needed stronger evidence before I made my next move.The photograph and the video were powerful, but Jia had just proven that she had weapons of her own. If I fired first without enough ammunition, she would fire back and I might not survive the return shot.Liam was already in the hotel room when I arrived. He was pacing near the

Last Updated : 2026-09-22

CHAPTER 37 PART 1

Liam's POVI was losing control and I could feel it slipping through my fingers like sand pouring out of a cracked hourglass. Jia was no longer afraid of me. Mia was starting to question my decisions instead of following them. And Marcus was sitting at the top of the Collins empire with his hands on every financial lever while I scrambled to cover the tracks I had been leaving for the past eighteen months.I arrived at the office at six thirty in the morning before anyone else was there. The building was dark and silent and the only sound was my shoes echoing across the marble lobby as I walked toward the private conference room on the fourteenth floor. Three men were already waiting inside. Grant Holloway, my financial consultant. Dave Pearson, the accountant who had been helping me move funds through the subsidiary accounts. And Neil Carter, the lawyer who had been drafting the paperwork to make the transactions look legitimate.I closed the door and locked it behind me."Tell me wh

Last Updated : 2026-09-23

CHAPTER 37 PART 2

The words were not an accusation but they landed on my chest like a warning shot fired across the bow of a ship that was already taking on water. Marcus did not suspect me yet, but he was putting everyone on notice that he was watching. And when Marcus Collins started watching, people started falling.After the meeting I sat in my office staring at my phone until a message came through from Dave. Some of the records may be impossible to alter without attracting attention from the external auditors. I typed back immediately. Find another way. I do not care how. Just do it.I needed to stop thinking about the money for a moment and start thinking about Jia because both problems were closing in on me at the same time and I could not afford to fight on two fronts without a strategy for each one.The best way to protect myself from Jia's divorce was to make sure she looked like the unreasonable one when it happened. If everyone in the family and everyone at the company believed that Liam C

Last Updated : 2026-09-23

CHAPTER 38 PART 1

Jia's POVMy lawyer's office was on the twelfth floor of a glass building downtown, far enough from the Collins mansion and far enough from St. Victoria's that I could sit in her leather chair and breathe without feeling like someone was watching me through the walls.Her name was Rachel Whitfield. Mid forties. Sharp eyes. Short gray hair that she wore like a crown instead of an apology. She had been handling high profile divorces in this city for over fifteen years and the first thing she told me when I walked into her office three weeks ago was that she did not care who my husband was or how much money his family had. The law was the law and the law was on my side."I have reviewed everything you submitted last week," Rachel said, sliding a folder across her desk toward me. "The financial disclosures, the joint account statements, the property records. Based on what you have provided, you are entitled to a significant portion of the marital assets acquired during the three years of

Last Updated : 2026-09-24

CHAPTER 38 PART 2

"I came to take my wife to dinner." He walked in and set the roses on my desk like he was laying flowers on a grave. "There is a new Italian place on Fifth Street. Private dining room. Candles. The whole thing. I made a reservation for two.""I am busy, Liam." I pushed the roses to the side without touching them. "I have patients to see and notes to finish.""You are always busy." He sat down in the chair across from me and crossed his legs with the casual confidence of a man who believed every room he entered belonged to him. "I am trying here, Jia. I am trying to be a better husband. I am trying to show you that I can change. And every time I make an effort, you push me away like I am some kind of insect crawling across your dinner plate.""Because your effort is not real." I set my pen down and looked at him. "You are performing, Liam. You are putting on a show for everyone around us so that when I file for divorce, you can stand in front of the family and say look how hard I tried

Last Updated : 2026-09-24

CHAPTER 39 PART 1

Jia's POVThe red mark on my palm was still stinging from where it had connected with Liam's face and I could still feel the ghost of his mouth forced against mine like a brand he was trying to burn into my skin. My lip was swollen from where my teeth had cut into the soft flesh when he grabbed me and the metallic taste of blood was still sitting on my tongue.Liam was standing three feet away from me with his hand pressed against his cheek and his eyes full of something that looked like a wounded animal deciding whether to attack or retreat. His jaw was working back and forth and I could see the muscles jumping under his skin like wires being pulled too tight."You are going to regret making things difficult, Jia." His voice was low and quiet and controlled in a way that was more frightening than screaming because it meant he had already decided what he was going to do next and was simply choosing when to do it. "You will always be mine. Whether you like it or not. And while we are s

Last Updated : 2026-09-25

CHAPTER 39 PART 2

"I cannot guarantee how everyone will react." He reached out and tilted my chin up with his thumb the way he always did when he wanted me to look directly into his eyes. "But I can guarantee that I will never deny loving you just to make things easier for the people around us. I would rather lose every person in that family than stand in front of them and pretend you mean nothing to me."I stopped breathing. The words hit me so hard that everything else in the room disappeared for a moment and all I could see was his face and all I could feel was his thumb against my chin and all I could hear was the steady rhythm of his breathing mixed with the wild hammering of my own heart.I grabbed the front of his shirt with both hands and pulled him into me and kissed him with everything I had. His arms wrapped around my waist and lifted me off the desk and pressed me against his chest so tightly I could feel every beat of his heart pounding against my ribcage like it was trying to break throug

Last Updated : 2026-09-25

CHAPTER 40 PART 1

Marcus's POVI spent the entire morning in my office with the door locked and the blinds drawn, going through every financial document my team had collected over the past two weeks. Spreadsheets covered my desk like a paper battlefield and each one told me the same story. Something in the numbers was not adding up.Three transactions across three different deals. The Austin acquisition, the Seattle logistics purchase, and the Boston medical equipment contract. Each one had figures that did not match the original budgets submitted to the board. The discrepancies were not massive enough to trigger automatic flags, but they were consistent enough to tell me that someone had deliberately adjusted the numbers before they reached the final reports.I did not want to believe it was Liam. I had raised him. I had trained him. I had handed him the Vice President title because I believed he was ready to carry part of the weight this family had been carrying for generations. Accusing my own broth

Last Updated : 2026-09-26

CHAPTER 40 PART 2

The room went quiet. Jake was watching the exchange with the focused intensity of a man who was taking mental notes on every word being spoken and every expression being made. I could tell from the way his eyes kept moving between my face and Liam's that he had already picked up on the tension underneath the polite surface of our conversation.He knew about me and Jia. That meant he was watching me for personal reasons as well as professional ones. But I also noticed something else in his expression. He was watching Liam too. And the way he was watching Liam told me that Jake had started noticing the same things I had noticed.Mia sat through the entire meeting without saying a word. She watched all three of us the way a spider watches flies landing on different parts of the same web. Calculating which one to catch first.The meeting ended with me telling Liam that I would personally review the relevant accounts before any new spending was authorized. Liam agreed with a smile that did

Last Updated : 2026-09-26

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