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CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE: WHAT SHE LEFT BEHIND
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2026-07-10 00:02:24
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CHASING THE WIFE HE FORCED TO DIVORCE CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT: WHAT ADRIAN KNOWS
He wasn't looking at the photograph. He was looking at the hospital. I watched his face and something cold and terrible settled inside my chest because Adrian Knight didn't react to things, not really, not visibly, three years of marriage had taught me that, he absorbed everything behind that wall he had spent a lifetime building and nothing got through, nothing showed, nothing cracked the surface.But this did."Adrian."He didn't answer."Look at me."Nothing, he was still staring at the photograph, at the building in the background, at something I couldn't see yet, something that existed behind his eyes in a place I had never been allowed to reach."Adrian."His name came out sharper this time, he blinked, slowly, like someone surfacing from very deep water, then he looked at me and whatever I saw in his eyes made me take one step backward without deciding to."How long have you been going to that hospital"It wasn't a question, it was something else, something careful and control
CHASING THE WIFE HE FORCED TO DIVORCE CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN: DON'T OPEN THE DOOR
Nobody moved. The knock didn't come again, just silence from the other side of the door, heavy and deliberate, the kind of silence that wasn't empty but full, full of something waiting, something that already knew we were standing on the other side not breathing.Adrian's hand found my arm, not grabbing, not pulling, just there, steady, and I hated that I let it stay."Step back."His voice was barely a sound.I didn't argue, I moved back two steps, my eyes fixed on the door, my heart somewhere in my throat, the letter still folded inside my palm, my mother's handwriting pressed against my skin like it was trying to burn through.Adrian was already moving, slow and careful, positioning himself between me and the door the way he had been doing all night without being asked, without being thanked, without expecting either."How did she find us?"He shook his head slightly, that was the wrong answer, Marcus had chosen this safe house, only Marcus knew where we were, which meant either s
CHASING THE WIFE HE FORCED TO DIVORCE CHAPTER TWENTY SIX: THE MAN SHE TRUSTED
Adrian was still facing the wall.He hadn't moved, hadn't spoken, hadn't done anything except sit there with his back toward me the way I asked, and somehow that was the most unbearable thing in the room because I was standing three feet away from him holding a sentence that may have just destroyed the last thing I had left to feel about him. I folded the paper slowly. My hands weren't shaking anymore, they had gone completely still the way everything went still when the body ran out of ways to react, when shock became something quieter and colder and far more dangerous than panic."You can turn around."He did, immediately, like he had been waiting, his eyes going straight to my face the way they always did when he was trying to read something I wasn't saying out loud, three years of marriage had taught him that much at least.Whatever he saw made him go very still."What was in it?"I looked at him for a long moment, this man I had loved completely and stupidly and at great persona
CHASING THE WIFE HE FORCED TO DIVORCE CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE: WHAT SHE LEFT BEHIND
The gun fired.Everything exploded at once, shouting, movement, bodies colliding in the dark, I couldn't tell who was running toward me and who was running away, someone hit the ground beside me and for one terrible second I thought it was my mother."Elena."Adrian's voice, right in my ear, his body coming down over mine, pressing me flat against the concrete before I could resist, before I could think, before I could do anything except gasp from the impact."Get off me.""Stay down.""Adrian""There's a shooter, stay down."Another shot cracked through the harbor, closer this time, the sound bouncing off every wall, I couldn't tell where it was coming from, the darkness had swallowed everything whole."My mother.""I don't know.""Where is she?""I don't know Elena."The honesty in his voice scared me more than anything else, Adrian always had answers, Adrian not knowing meant the situation had moved past anyone's control.Marcus's voice cut through the chaos somewhere to my left."
CHASING THE WIFE HE FORCED TO DIVORCE CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR: THE FACE IN THE DARK
Nobody moved.The harbor stayed silent. The figure at the edge of the light hadn't moved either. Just standing there, watching. Patient in a way that felt deliberate. Like someone who had been waiting a very long time for this exact moment and wanted to make sure we saw them clearly.Adrian stepped forward, Marcus grabbed him. "Don't.""I know who that is.""So do I."Something passed between them. I looked from one face to the other. Both men knew. Both men recognized the figure standing in the shadows. And neither of them wanted to tell me. That terrified me more than anything. "Who is it?"Silence."Someone tell me right now."Adrian turned toward me. His face was stripped of everything. No coldness. No control. Nothing left but something raw and devastated that I had never seen on him before."Elena.""Don't say my name like that.""I need you to stay calm."A bitter laugh escaped me."I am calm.""You won't be."The words landed quietly. My pulse hammered. Behind me Marcus hadn
CHASING THE WIFE HE FORCED TO DIVORCE CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: THE LETTER
I moved before I thought about it.The envelope was on the ground. Someone was already crouching toward it. I didn't see a face. I only saw a hand, gloved, reaching. I threw myself forward and grabbed it first. My fingers closed around it just as the person's hand swiped the air where it had been."Elena."Adrian's voice, sharp and closer than I expected.Someone grabbed my arm and yanked me backward hard. I stumbled. The harbor erupted immediately. Shouting,movement and footsteps scattering in every direction. I couldn't tell who was running toward us and who was running away."Stay behind me."Marcus. His voice was ice. He stepped in front of me with something in his hand. I didn't look at what it was. I pressed the envelope against my chest and looked toward the ground.Daniel.He was still where he fell. One hand pressed weakly against his shirt. Blood spread dark and fast beneath his fingers. His eyes were open. Barely."Daniel."I pulled away from Marcus. He grabbed me again."D
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