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Chapter 105: Two Hours
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Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 106: The Name
Xena."The director chain goes back to 1961," Hannah said. "The Singapore company was just the most recent shell. Before it there was a holding company in the Cayman Islands. Before that a land trust in Illinois registered in 1971. Before that—" She stopped. "Xena I need you to listen to me carefully.""I'm listening," I said.Dante had gone still across the counter."The original director," Hannah said. "The person who registered the Illinois land trust in 1961. The name on the founding document of everything Victor inherited." Another pause. Shorter. "It's Cross."The kitchen was very quiet."Which Cross," I said. My voice came out even."Elias Cross," Hannah said. "I've been cross-referencing. He was grandfather to—" She stopped. "He was our grandfather Xena."I looked at the counter.Dante's hand was still over mine."Say it again," I said."Our grandfather founded it," Hannah said. "The Covenant. The channel. The infrastructure that Viktor Hale inherited and built on and used to
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 105: Two Hours
Xena.Axel called at 10:04."Osei's reviewing," he said. "Two hours. Herald was—" A pause. "He was something."I put the call on speaker. Dante was already reading my face."Go home Axel," Dante said."I'll wait outside the—""Go home," Dante said. Quieter this time.A pause."Yeah," Axel said. "Alright."He ended the call.Two hours. I looked at the screen. 10:04. Two hours until Osei's decision. Two hours of holding the line and not calling Victor and acting like the operation was running normally."Kitchen," Dante said.I looked at him."We haven't eaten since this morning," he said. "Come on."I'd watched him cook before. Not like this. In passing — a pan on the stove, the sound of it. Filed and set aside.Tonight I sat at the counter and actually watched.He moved through the kitchen without thinking about it. Knew where everything was without looking. The eggs from the second shelf not the first. The pan he wanted without opening the wrong cupboard. The salt from the left side o
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 104: Harvey
Axel."They've got to be shitting me."I said it to the windscreen because there was nobody else in the car to say it to. Herald was in the passenger seat looking at Gerald's calendar on his phone and had been looking at it since we left Adrian's building and hadn't said a word. I'd been driving for eleven minutes in the silence of a man who didn't know what to do with the person sitting next to him.To be fair I hadn't known what to do with this situation since Dante called.We need Herald. Tonight. As Adrian. Placing Harlow at a Covenant dinner eight months ago.I'd been in the room when Dante said it. Standing in the doorway of the study — the same doorway I'd backed out of twenty minutes earlier. Dante had said it. I'd thought about the last twelve hours. Decided this was apparently the kind of operation we were running now.Then Xena said call Adrian. Dante called. Adrian picked up and said he's sitting across from me right now. I thought good great wonderful. Then Dante looked
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 103: Four Hours To Midnight
Xena.My phone pinged.I looked at it. Yale Industries board filing — validation window modified. Original window: 48 hours from submission. Updated window: expedited review requested by secondary claimant. New deadline: midnight tonight."Dante."He was already reading it over my shoulder."Victor moved it," he said."He knows," I said."He knows something shifted." Dante straightened. "He doesn't know what we have. If he knew what we had he'd have done more than accelerate the filing.""Accelerating the filing is enough," I said. "We have four hours. Axel's investigator has been working on Harlow for eighteen months but we need something usable tonight not eventually."I called Axel.He picked up on the second ring."I saw it," he said."Tell me you have something on Harlow.""My investigator has been building a case for eighteen months," he said. "Harlow's firm has been filing succession claims on behalf of entities that don't legally exist. Shell companies with no registered direc
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 102: The Weight Of Silence
Victor.Harlow called at 7:23.Not the scheduled check-in. The scheduled check-in was tomorrow morning, eight o'clock, the standing arrangement we'd maintained for fourteen months without variation. Harlow calling at 7:23 on an unscheduled line meant something had moved.I answered on the first ring."Someone's been asking about the firm," Harlow said. No greeting. "Due diligence. Deep due diligence. The kind that goes back eighteen months and doesn't stop at the public filings."I looked at the window."When did it start," I said."This afternoon. My compliance officer flagged it an hour ago. Whoever is running it has access to court records that aren't publicly indexed and knows which questions to ask in which order." A pause. "This isn't a routine check, Victor. This is someone who knows what they're looking for.""Do you have a name?""Not yet. The requests came through three different intermediaries. Professional." Another pause. "I thought you should know before I do anything ab
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 101: The Ticket
Axel.I sat in the stairwell.Not because there was nowhere else to go — the building had a lobby, a car park, three floors of corridor I could have walked down without running into anyone. I sat in the stairwell because the stairwell was the first place I'd stopped moving.The key was still in my hand.I looked at it.Dante's house key. He'd given it to me six weeks ago when the alliance started and the operation needed me available at hours that didn't correspond to normal access. I'd been using it for six weeks without thinking about what it meant to have it. It was operational. Keys were operational.I put it in my jacket pocket.The stairwell was quiet. One flight up, through a door, down a hallway, in a study — two people who weren't looking at the Viktor Hale chain on the laptop anymore. I knew what I'd walked into. I'd understood it before that, if I was being honest.I'd understood it for a long time.Jakarta.The ticket had been sitting on my desk for four days before I put
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 4: Will You Satisfy Me?
Xena.The night air hit me the moment we stepped outside and I realized it was the first clean breath I'd taken in hours.Dante's car was already waiting. The long black car didn't need a logo to tell one it cost fortunes. A driver stood at the rear door without being summoned and I got in without
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 3: Where Do I Sign?
Xena.I have had some strange experiences in my lifetime.Being born illegitimate into a family that kept me like a footnote. Being sent to a wedding that wasn't mine with twenty minutes of notice. And spending three years married to a man who looked through me at dinner every night.But none of th
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 2: I Have A Deal For You
Xena. Was Hannah drunk?I stood there waiting for the punchline. April Fools was months away but maybe someone had lost track of the calendar. Maybe this was some elaborate Yale family bit that I hadn't been briefed on. Maybe —Adrian crossed the room to stand beside her."It's true." He turned to
Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle Chapter 1: I Slept With My Ex-husband's Uncle
Xena.I gasped for breath, my legs still aching from the last round. Yet Dante stood over me like this was nothing but probably another of his one night stands.The bed was wet beneath me, wet from my juices. I stared at the ceiling for a while, the memories of his cock inside of me played over an
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