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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
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Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER EIGHTY SIX
CHAPTER EIGHTY SIXA wheelchair was waiting by the entrance when we got there. He was helped in and rolled to the ward. David came in and said no words but Cassie could see how upset he was in his eyes. Dom sat quietly like a puppy, making it obvious to Cassie that he had seen it too.He examined Dom's leg with careful hands, asking questions in a measured sequence, watching Dom's face for the answers his words wouldn't give. Dom answered everything in the clipped cooperative manner he used when he was trying to speed a process along that couldn't be sped.When David finished he sat back and looked at his notes and Cassie watched his face for any hint. She saw none. "The knee joint," David finally said, "is showing a stress response that I was starting to see indicators of two weeks ago and was hoping would self-resolve if you modulated the intensity." He paused. "It hasn't self-resolved because the intensity hasn't modulated."Dom said nothing."This isn't catastrophic," David con
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER EIGHTY FIVE
CHAPTER EIGHTY FIVE“Babe, are you sure about this? You haven't left this hospital since you got here and the doctor says you need to sit still.”“But I am healing very fast and tired of walking around this room. I need some fresh air.”“Then we can take a walk to the back.”“Which is still inside the hospital.”“But… what if.. what if your leg can't carry the pressure?”“We won't know if we don't try.”“Babe… okay, how about the doctor?”“The doctor doesn't have to know until I am gone and the cafe is just two blocks away from the hospital. I was strategic about it. He comes in for the check at seven and doesn't come again till twelve. If we leave by nine, after the first check, we will be back before twelve.”Cassie sighed heavily and shook her head. “Looks like your mind is already made up.”“I am afraid, it is.”………….The cafe was Dom's kind of place.Cassie noticed it the moment they walked in. It didn't need to advertise its own exclusivity because the exclusivity was structural
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER EIGHTY FOUR
CHAPTER EIGHTY FOURMarcus was arrested on a Thursday.Cassie found out from a news alert the same way the rest of the world did, which was not how she had imagined finding out, not that she had spent much time imagining the specific mechanics of it, but somehow she had assumed there would be a call from Chen. Like some sort of direct line from the process to her, some acknowledgment that this was not just a news story but the resolution of something that had been trying to kill her.Instead her phone buzzed on the kitchen counter while she was making coffee and she picked it up and read the words and stood very still for a moment and then set the phone face down and finished making the coffee.Dom came in from the therapy room with his crutches and looked at her face."What happened?"She picked the phone back up and handed it to him.He read it with a look of indifference then he set it down on the counter and picked up the cup she had just poured and drank from it. Then he looked o
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER EIGHTY THREE
CHAPTER EIGHTY THREE By morning, it was everywhere.Cassie woke up to forty- seven notifications and a missed call from Officer Chen. The early morning light she was beginning to associate with bad news because bad news seemed to prefer arriving before she had fully woken up. She sat up and looked at her phone and scrolled through the alerts and felt something cold settle in her stomach.The story had legs. It had been picked up overnight by four major outlets and by morning it had spread to the kind of coverage that didn't disappear with a news cycle, the kind that fed on the family name and the wealth and the dramatic shape of a story about a man who may have tried to have his brother killed. Every headline had some version of the Hale name in it and every version of it was worse than the last.Dom was already awake. He was exercising his leg with his phone in his hand and the expression he wore when he was processing something at depth."Chen called," she said."I know, he called
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER EIGHTY TWO
CHAPTER EIGHTY TWOLeo arrived within the hour.He came in as always, reading the room in the first three seconds and adjusting accordingly. He looked at Cassie with a questioning look and she nodded and his eyes shifted to Dom. He stared at him like someone who already knew the conversation had moved to a different place.Dom told him what Cassie had told him and Leo listened without interrupting. When Dom finished, Leo put his coffee down. "I want to bring the investigator in this week and have him sit with Chen's team," he said. "Make the evidence chain official so it's usable.""Do it," Dom said. "But first I want to see my dad."Leo looked at him carefully. "Is that a good idea right now?""Probably not," Dom said. "Do it anyway."Cassie called Elena, who answered on the second ring and asked her to please help them find a way that her father in law would be at the house the following morning and that she would find a reason to be absent. Her voice on the phone was steady in the
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER EIGHTY ONE
CHAPTER EIGHTY ONECassie had finally decided, it was time to talk. Three days of sitting beside him while he did his exercises and eating breakfast with him at the kitchen counter and watching him navigate the penthouse suite on the crutches with the particular grim determination that had replaced the cold withdrawal of the hospital weeks, three days of smiling at the right moments and asking the right questions and being exactly the wife he needed her to be while the information sat inside her chest like something with a heartbeat of its own, alive and insistent and impossible to ignore.On the third morning she woke up before him and lay in the dark and listened to him breathe and made the decision.She couldn't do it anymore. Not because she was weak or because the weight had become too much but because she understood finally that carrying this alone was its own kind of betrayal. She had spent weeks watching Dom shut people out and then watching him come back from it and she had
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER TWO
Her dress was pooling around her like a deflated parachute. As she cried so hard her entire body shook terribly. She wiped away the tears that had completely blocked her vision.Three years.Three years of dinner parties with the Hales where Eleanor critiqued everything from Cassie's posture to her
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER ONE
"To Marcus and Cassie," someone called out, and the sea of champagne flutes lifted in unison like a choreographed wave. The sound of glass clinking filled the air in celebration, each clink another nail in the coffin of Cassie's composure.The crystal chandeliers of the Grand Rosewood Ballroom cast
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER FOUR
The coat room suddenly felt smaller with both of them standing, Cassie still in her rumpled engagement dress and Dom in his perfectly tailored tux. She was still holding his hand, she realized. His grip was warm and firm and nothing like Marcus's carefully measured touches.She dropped it."So," Ca
Dumped by the Heir, Claimed by his Brother CHAPTER THREE
Cassie blinked and suddenly burst into a sharp and disbelieving laugh. "What?""You heard me.""This is insane, you're insane.""Probably." Dom shifted, still crouched at her level, his expression serious despite the absurdity of what he was proposing. "But think about it. Marcus wanted you for the
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