I texted my brother, Miles: *Do you know where Connor is?*
Then I sent the exact same message to my best friend, Nora.
Their replies popped up almost simultaneously.
My brother, the lawyer: *Sis, Connor’s in New Hampshire for a charity foundation meeting. He told us.*
My best friend, the therapist: *Evelyn, Connor went to New Hampshire for a meeting. Stop projecting your anxiety onto other people.*
The stories matched, word for word, as if they’d coordinated their lies in advance.
A dry laugh escaped me as I opened my phone’s location app. Connor’s dot was moving slowly through Greenwich, Connecticut.
That “foundation” he was supposedly attending was a fiction I’d invented for him a week ago.
I’d only wanted to confirm whether my fiancé of seven years, my own brother, and my best friend had really joined forces to play me for a fool.
Now I had my answer.
He Chose His Secret Family So I Destroyed His World Chapter 17 Beyond the car window, Boston slipped away behind me. The Back Bay townhouse, and every memory folded inside its walls, had already been sold. The car rolled steadily on toward Logan Airport. I was flying to Chicago. With the money from the sale, […]
He Chose His Secret Family So I Destroyed His World Chapter 16 I looked at her in silence and said nothing. Gideon walked over, his face even grayer than Odette’s, as though every last bit of strength had been drained out of him. “Sabine,” he said hoarsely, “I know I don’t deserve to be your
He Chose His Secret Family So I Destroyed His World Chapter 15 After I was discharged from the hospital, I didn’t go home. I retained the best criminal defense attorney in Boston and handed over the Ring footage, the yacht club surveillance, my medical report, and every last piece of related evidence to the district
He Chose His Secret Family So I Destroyed His World Chapter 14 Smack. Damon raised his hand and struck himself hard across the face. His eyes were red as he lifted them to Sabine. “I’m sorry.” His voice was raw, a penance for the child that would never be. “Give me one more chance, Sabine.
He Chose His Secret Family So I Destroyed His World Chapter 13 He stayed silent a long time, his throat clenched tight. At last, beneath Sabine’s cold gaze, Damon sank slowly to his knees. The man who had once ruled over everything now looked as though every ounce of strength had been wrung out of
He Chose His Secret Family So I Destroyed His World Chapter 12 The moment Damon made bail, he went straight to Massachusetts General Hospital. When he shoved open the door to the hospital room, his breathing was still ragged. Sabine sat propped against her pillows, calmly turning the pages of an architecture magazine, sunlight slanting
He Chose His Secret Family So I Destroyed His World Chapter 11 Somewhere in the middle of the chaos, Seraphina finally realized Damon was gone. She lurched toward the door, one thought hammering in her skull: find him. But when she wrenched it open, it wasn’t Damon standing there. It was several police officers, their
He Chose His Secret Family So I Destroyed His World Chapter 10 Odette’s head cracked against the doorframe, and the sharp jolt of pain snapped her spiraling thoughts to a halt. Through the haze, a memory rose from years ago. She had only just started seeing Gideon, and Sabine had taken her hand with a
He Chose His Secret Family So I Destroyed His World Chapter 09 Silence bore down on the room. Odette suddenly rounded on Seraphina, her eyes blazing with pure hatred. Smack. She slapped Seraphina across the face. “You! This was all you! You dragged me into this! You ruined everything!” The living room erupted into chaos.
He Chose His Secret Family So I Destroyed His World Chapter 08 Those two words landed like a sledgehammer, smashing what remained of Odette’s hope. Her knees folded, and she sank to the floor. Seraphina, white-faced, darted to Gideon and clutched his arm. “Are you out of your mind? Gideon! You can’t admit that! This
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