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Bred for Betrayal Chapter 89: Co-Parenting Therapy
POV: Nora The court-ordered co-parenting session had been on the calendar for three weeks before it actually happened, scheduled as part of the six month review the original custody determination had required. I had assumed it would be procedural, a box to check, twenty minutes of a counselor confirming we could communicate about Aria without incident. It turned out to be a full hour, weekly, with an actual therapist who had opinions about how we were doing it wrong. Her name was Dr. Patel and her office had two chairs angled slightly toward each other instead of facing directly, which she explained on the first visit was deliberate, designed to reduce the confrontational quality of direct eye contact while still allowing connection. Elias sat in his chair with the careful posture of someone used to controlling a room and finding himself in one he couldn't. "Tell me how communication has been going," Dr. Patel said, looking between us. "Functional," Elias said. "We coordinate sc
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 88: Test Me
POV: Nora I told Leo the following week that I wasn't going to keep seeing him romantically. I did it kindly, in person, over coffee rather than dinner because dinner had started to feel like a setting that implied something the relationship wasn't building toward. He took it well, with the same steady grace he brought to everything, and said he understood and that he hoped we could stay connected given the history between our families. I said I would like that too, and I meant it, and we left it there without drama. It felt like closing a door gently rather than slamming one. The right kind of ending. I didn't tell Elias right away. I needed a few days to sit with what I actually wanted to say before saying it, because the conversation in the doorway had opened something I wasn't ready to leave half finished. I went to the new building on a Tuesday afternoon, the security business that was still smelling faintly of fresh paint in places, and found him in his office reviewing so
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 87: Not Just
POV: Nora Marsh's message turned out to be about a financial detail, not a danger detail. Leo's classification had shifted from passive recipient of information to someone who had actively profited from timing his business moves around what he learned. It was a meaningful legal distinction but not one that suggested any threat to me personally, and Marsh confirmed that directly before I let myself spiral. I told her I appreciated knowing and went back to my actual life, which at that point involved a toddler with strong feelings about which socks were acceptable on a given morning. I kept seeing Leo through the following weeks. Not often, and with a clearer sense now of what the relationship was and wasn't. He remained kind. He remained level. The absence in my chest remained equally consistent, which was its own kind of useful information. Elias never said a word about it. That was the part that surprised me most. I had braced for the controlling version of him to surface the mo
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 86: No Spark
POV: NoraMarsh told me to wait before deciding anything about Leo.The investigation into his connection to Roland's network was still establishing whether he had been a willing participant or someone who had received information without fully understanding where it came from. She said it would take a few more weeks and that nothing about my personal choices needed to wait for that determination, but that I should know the picture wasn't complete yet.I told her I understood and made my own decision anyway, which was to see him. Carefully, with eyes open, treating the uncertainty as part of what I was evaluating rather than something I needed resolved first.He took me to dinner on a Friday.It was a quiet restaurant, nothing performative about the choice, the kind of place where the food was good and the conversation didn't have to compete with anything. He pulled out my chair. He asked about Aria and listened to the answer with actual attention rather than the polite waiting that s
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 85: Choice
POV: Nora I called Marsh from the studio parking lot. She confirmed it within four minutes. Leo Carver had been named by the cooperating witness as someone connected to the outer edges of Roland Vance's network, not a core Syndicate member, not someone involved in operational decisions, but someone who had received information from the network and had used it for his own business positioning. Marcus's vulnerabilities, his company's weaknesses, the specific timing of Wolfe Industries' difficulties had been information that Leo had accessed through a source he had not been transparent about. He had used my father's network to get close to me. Or he had used his closeness to my father to get close to the network. Marsh wasn't certain yet which direction the relationship had run and she needed more time to establish it. Either way the man who had sat across from me and offered stability and safety had a connection to the people who had destroyed my father's life. I sat in the car and
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 84: Leo
POV: Nora The investigation into the third name moved quietly in the background of my ordinary life for three weeks before Marsh told me they had enough to proceed. I had maintained my Wednesday dinners during that period as instructed, kept my behavior unchanged, listened to conversations with the new awareness of someone who knew they were sitting across from a person who was something other than what they appeared. It was an uncomfortable thing to practice at a dinner table with someone who passed the bread and asked about Aria's latest words and seemed entirely like a friend. I had gotten good at keeping my face still. That skill, at least, had been useful across multiple situations I had not anticipated needing it for. The formal contact from Marsh came on a Thursday. The person had been approached and had chosen to cooperate with the investigation rather than contest it, which meant the information Roland had provided was being corroborated and the Wednesday dinners were no
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 56: Aftermath
POV: Nora The man from the treeline was not alone and he was not the one who had fired. That took me three seconds to understand, because the voice from the vegetation and the figure stepping out of it were the same person and my brain had fused them. But the shot had come from a different angle,
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 55: Standoff
POV: Nora Elias made the call to split. His two people took the house. He, Marcus, and I moved toward the western dock, which Marcus said was where the yacht was moored when the island was in private use. The logic was simple. If someone had warned Jade we were coming, she was either fortified i
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 54: The Rescue
POV: Nora Getting Elias and Marcus in the same room without a physical incident required more management than the logistics of the actual rescue. I handled it by telling each of them separately before they arrived at the dock, and framing it not as a choice but as a fact. Elias was already there
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 52: Coordination
POV: NoraAria was dehydrated and running a mild fever.Not serious, the attending physician told Marcus in the corridor while I sat in the waiting area and watched through the glass. Treatable, manageable, the kind of thing that looked alarming on admission and resolved within twenty-four hours wi
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