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Chapter 114: The Room

作者: Charis Jackson
last update 公開日: 2026-07-30 18:01:41

Xena.

The lobby was empty except for a man behind the security desk who didn't look up when I walked in, which told me Herald had already made the arrangements. Nobody stopped me at the elevator. Nobody asked me to sign anything. That kind of quiet cost money, and I understood, walking into it, that I was standing inside a small piece of the machine I'd spent three months trying to dismantle.

The elevator opened straight onto the fourteenth floor.

Herald was waiting in the hallway, arms crossed
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  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 115: What Diana Knew

    Xena."You're lying," I said, though even as it left my mouth I didn't believe it. Nobody built a lie that specific. Nobody handed you a federal judge's blind spot as an opening move unless they meant it as exactly what he'd called it."I'm not." Victor didn't blink. "Check it yourself if you don't trust me. Cook County property records, 1887, parcel four-one-one through four-one-four. The Osei name is spelled differently — Ossei, one S — but it's the same family. Immigration clerk's error, never corrected. Nobody's looked hard enough to find it because nobody had a reason to.""Except you.""Except me." He said it without pride. "I've had forty years and nothing to do but read old paper."Herald shifted by the door, the first movement he'd made since I sat down. "Tell her about Diana."The room went a degree colder. Victor's hands, which had stayed folded and still through everything else, moved apart on the table."That wasn't part of what we agreed to," he said, and for the first t

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 114: The Room

    Xena.The lobby was empty except for a man behind the security desk who didn't look up when I walked in, which told me Herald had already made the arrangements. Nobody stopped me at the elevator. Nobody asked me to sign anything. That kind of quiet cost money, and I understood, walking into it, that I was standing inside a small piece of the machine I'd spent three months trying to dismantle.The elevator opened straight onto the fourteenth floor.Herald was waiting in the hallway, arms crossed, wearing a suit that fit him the way Adrian's never quite had — like he'd built the posture from the outside in, learned it as a discipline instead of inheriting it. Three years of being someone else had left something behind in the way he stood."You came," he said."You sound surprised.""I'm not. I said you would." He fell into step beside me, not quite leading, not quite following. "He hasn't moved in forty minutes. Hasn't asked for water, hasn't asked what time it is. He's not performing p

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 113: Before Morning

    Xena.I called him before I put my coat on. If I waited any longer, I wasn't going to call him at all.He picked up on the second ring. "Hey." Just that, warm and half-asleep, like he hadn't been sitting up waiting for something all night."I need to tell you something and I need you to let me finish before you say anything."The warmth dropped out of his voice instantly. "Xena.""Adrian called me. Victor's in a room in the West Loop. Herald's got him there. He's not talking until I say he can, and he's asking for me. Not you. Me."Silence on the line. I could hear him moving — a door, maybe, or a chair pushed back."You're not going alone," he said."I already told him my conditions. Herald stays in the room. I can leave whenever I want. I'm bringing the letters and nobody touches them but me." I kept my voice even, the way I'd practiced in my head walking from the kitchen to the bedroom to get my coat. "You're not on the list, Dante. That was my choice, not Adrian's.""He killed you

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 112: The Wrong Cross

    Xena.My phone was already ringing when I picked it up off the counter."Don't hang up," Adrian said, before I'd even said hello."I wasn't going to." I was lying. My thumb had been half an inch from the red circle."He's in the room. Herald's got him in the West Loop building, third floor conference space, and he hasn't said a word since we walked him in. He asked for you specifically. Said he wouldn't talk until you told him he could."I sat down at the kitchen table, the one with the water ring from Dante's glass still visible if I turned it into the light. I didn't turn it into the light."Victor arranged my father's death," I said. "You understand that's the man you're asking me to go sit across from.""I understand it better than you think." Adrian's voice had an edge I hadn't heard from him before. "Herald showed me the gaps in my own calendar today. Eight months of my life I don't remember living. So don't tell me I don't understand what it costs to sit across from the person

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 111: The Letters

    Herald."The letters," Victor said.Adrian looked at him. "What letters?""Cross's three letters." Victor's eyes didn't move from Adrian's face. "The ones your sister has been using as evidence against the channel. The ones that established the channel's origin and the patriarch's direct involvement." He paused. "They're not just evidence of the channel. They never were."I looked at him."They're part of the original transfer records," I said.Victor looked at me."Yes," he said.Adrian sat back. "Say that again.""The documents Elias Cross spent twenty years trying to decide what to do with," Victor said, "didn't stay in one place. He was careful — careful the way people were careful in 1961 when they understood that paper was the most dangerous thing a man could own. He split them. Distributed fragments across multiple parties who didn't know what they were holding or why." He looked at the folder. "Your father was one of them."The room went very still."My father," Adrian said. N

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 110: The Room He Didn’t Plan

    Herald.I'd chosen the location.A conference room on the fourteenth floor of a building in the West Loop that Adrian's firm used for client meetings — neutral, clean, the kind of room that belonged to no one and therefore belonged to whoever arrived in it first. I'd told Victor the address at 8AM. He'd replied with one word.When.Noon, I'd sent back.He said nothing after that.Adrian and I arrived at eleven forty. We sat on the same side of the table — not planned, just where we both ended up when we came through the door and looked at the room and made the same calculation about sightlines and exits and which side put us closer to the door if something went wrong.We didn't talk about what we were doing sitting on the same side.We didn't talk much at all.Adrian had a folder on the table in front of him. Gerald's calendar, printed. The November lunch. The December dinner. The February board meeting. Three years of gaps reduced to paper, sitting on a conference table at eleven for

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 36: You Don't Even Know Your Own Family

    Dante.I pulled up at the abandoned driveway. Looking out the window, I immediately cursed under my breath.I hadn't seen this place since I was a kid. The buildings had overgrown weeds. Some already climbing the walls.Even a blind man would obviously sense the loneliness of the surroundings. "Th

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 35: Stay Away From Dante.

    Xena."It's me Xena."My eyes went wide.“ Dad?”There was silence on the other end. For a brief second, no one spoke, not a single word was said.I stood in Dante's study. We hadn't contacted each other since Adrian's promotion ceremony.“Darling I—” he pauses then heaves a sigh. “How are you doin

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 5: I Had Married A Dead Man 

    Xena.The ceiling in Dante's room was different from the one in the guest room.I noticed that first, which probably said something about the state of my brain. I stared at it and waited for regret to arrive.It didn't.What arrived instead was a very thorough physical awareness of every decision

  • 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

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