All Chapters of The wrong vow: I BECAME MY EX'S AUNT : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

40 Chapters

CHAPTER 1: THE GRAVE

CHAPTER 2:THE BEST LIAR

“Did she find out?”. Maya Thought on her way home, maybe it is about work or he is planning a surprise. Ciara was in the sitting room pressing her phone,The second she saw Maya she flipped the phone face down.Maya sat across from her. "Tell me everything.""He is completely obsessed with me." Ciara wrapped both hands around her mug. "He texted this morning already.""Already? What did he say?"Ciara's smile broke through,"That last night was perfect…"Maya reached across the table and grabbed her hand, "Ciara. I'm so happy for you."Ciara looked down at their joined hands, Something moved through her expression, quick and flat and gone before Maya could name it and then the smile covered it back up like it had never been there.Maya looked at the bracelet. “Birthday gift, That is all”. "How's Damien?""Good, He had an early morning.""He always has an early morning..." Ciara picked up her mug”.Maya pulled her hand back slowly, "Is there something specific you're not telling me?"C

CHAPTER 3: PROPERTY

Elias!" Irene's voice lifted. "Come see, doesn't she look wonderful?"He shook Maya's hand and looked at her the way someone looks when they are fitting a face to information they already have.Congratulations.”"Thank you." Maya kept her voice even, "Damien didn't mention you'd be here.""I'm sure he didn't." He was looking at Damien when he said it, pleasantly like a man setting something down on a table and waiting to see who picked it up.Damien stepped forward nervously. "I...I didn't know you were back, I thought you were still in Dubai.""I came back early…I had reasons."Damien chuckled nervously at that word 'reasons'Victoria, across by the champagne, had gone very still for exactly two seconds. Then she smiled and turned back to refilling glasses.Maya filed it, smiled at Irene and turned back to the mirror.The dress was the right one. She decided that while Ciara was fussing with a veil and Irene was already crying again while Damien was standing somewhere behind her be

CHAPTER 4: THE DOOR

"You look beautiful," Victoria said, pressing both hands to Maya's face. "He is going to lose his mind when he sees you." Maya blushed. "I hope so. I really hope so."The stylist was still working. Ciara came up behind her and hugged her from the mirror's reflection."You look absolutely stunning.""Thank you." Maya met her eyes in the glass. "Are you okay? You seem…""I'm happy." Ciara stepped back. "I'm so happy for you."She did not hold Maya's gaze.The perfume…Heavy, Expensive, Something with a dark base amber and something woody and specific.Maya had smelled it once sitting on the shelf in Damien's bathroom and asked what it was and he had said a client gifted it, he didn't know the name. She had picked the bottle up and looked at it and set it back.“Not today, Get through today, Get to the other side of today and then deal with all of it.”Maya thought.Twenty minutes before the ceremony, the guests were seated. Victoria came in alone and closed the door behind her, sat b

CHAPTER 5: TERMS AND CONDITIONS

"Deal," Maya said. She said it the way you say a thing when you have already decided and are just waiting for your mouth to catch up. Elias did not smile. He did not exhale with relief. He nodded once, the way someone nods when a number comes in where they expected it, and then he took out his phone and made two calls in the time it took Maya to crouch down and pick the flowers up off the floor. She didn't know why she picked them up. She just did. The first call was four words. The second was six. She couldn't hear either of them clearly and she didn't try. "My things." She straightened up. "The box in the bridal suite I need it." "Felix will get it." "He doesn't know which room". "He'll find it." A man appeared at the end of the corridor. Large, quiet, moving without sound in a way that said he had practiced moving without sound for a very long time. He looked at Maya once. Then at Elias. "Which suite?" "Third floor," Maya said. "The one with the white garland on the door

CHAPTER 6: THE LETTER

She opened the letter at two in the morning and her mother's handwriting stopped her before she finished the first line.Not the words yet. Just the sight of it, the specific slant, the deliberate spacing, the way Helen had always written like she was making a record rather than sending a message. Maya sat on the bed with the envelope open in her lap and looked at the page and breathed.Then she read it."Maya.""If you are reading this through unconventional means, then you found your way to someone I believe is trustworthy. I hope they are treating you well.""Your inheritance is not only money. In the box, the real bottom of the box, below the lining there is a document. It explains everything. It is yours. It has always been yours.""Do not let anyone rush you. Do not sign anything until you have read it.""There are people who have known about this document for years and have been hoping you never find it. Now that you have, be careful who you trust with it and be faster than t

CHAPTER 7: THE ELEVEN CALLS

."She Watched Them Go Dark".Damien called for the first time at eight fourteen in the morning. Maya watched the screen light up with his name and felt nothing except very, very clear.She was at the kitchen counter. Coffee going warm in her hand, phone face-up beside the kettle. She watched it ring and saw it stop. She took a sip.Three minutes later, again.Elias came in. He saw the phone. He saw the name on the screen and said nothing for a moment."You're not going to answer.""No.""He'll escalate. He'll go to his father.""He already has." She set her cup down. "That's what he does when he doesn't know what else to do. He goes to Roland."Elias looked at her with the particular attention he gave things he was recalibrating against."You paid closer attention than he realized.""Everyone always does."---"Eleven calls by noon. She counted every one, watched each name appear and watched each screen go dark and she did not move toward the phone once.""She thought about the vers

CHAPTER 8: THE NEGOTIATOR

"Roland Comes Smiling".---Roland Voss arrived at Elias's office building looking like a man making a social call. That, Maya decided, watching him come through the lobby, was the most dangerous thing about him.She was in the adjacent room. One-way glass, Elias had told her he'll see his own reflection. She had her arms crossed and her coffee going cold in her hand and she watched Roland cross the marble floor with the unhurried ease of someone who had never once walked into a room he wasn't certain of.Warm face, Easy smile. The kind of man who knew your name, your children's names, the name of the restaurant you'd mentioned once in passing six months ago.Her mother had sat across a table from this man. She was almost certain of it. Had smiled back at him and not known what he was arranging on paper while he did it."Or maybe she had known. Maybe that was exactly why she hid the document in the box."---Elias had told her twenty minutes before, in the hallway outside the study.

CHAPTER 9: THE SISTER

"What Ciara Knows".---Ciara was already at the table when Maya arrived, and she looked like someone who had not slept in three days and was only still sitting there because she had nowhere else to go.Maya had chosen the coffee shop. small, busy enough to be anonymous, a corner table with sightlines to both exits. Felix was already inside when she arrived, three tables back with a newspaper he wasn't reading. She had not told Ciara about Felix. She had not told Ciara much of anything, just a time and an address and, "come alone."She sat down across from her stepsister. She did not hug her, not smiling, She ordered a coffee from the server who appeared immediately and then she folded her hands on the table and waited.Ciara opened her mouth."I need you to know that I" She stopped. She looked at her hands. "I don't know how to""Then don't try." Maya kept her voice even. "Just tell me what you came to tell me."Ciara looked at her hands for another moment. Then she started."Six mo

CHAPTER 10: THE LAWYER

"What Marcus Grey Knew".---He looked like a man who had been afraid for a very long time and had gotten so used to it that the fear had just become the shape of his face.Marcus Grey walked into Elias's private study with a briefcase held close to his body and eyes that checked the room before he fully entered it, not paranoid, practiced. The specific watchfulness of someone who had learned that being caught off guard was no longer something they could recover from.He was older than any photograph she'd found. Thinner. He sat down across from them and placed three folders on the table in a precise row, left to right, and folded his hands on top of them like a man who had rehearsed this moment many times in many different rooms and had finally arrived at the real one.He looked at Maya."I want to begin by saying I am sorry." He said it without performance, not an apology designed to be accepted, just a fact he had been carrying. "I should have come forward sooner. I was afraid, and

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