The Hockey Captain’s Unwanted Wife (Blair and Grayson) novel Chapter 289

Chapter 289

-MARCO-

It got loud fast.

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Loretta’s mother pointed at me, finger trembling. “You forced my daughter into that car. You took her Don’t stand there and pretend otherwise.”

Her face was flushed, mouth tight, eyes bright with something that looked a lot like hate. Her husband stood half a step behind her, jaw locked so hard I could see the muscle jumping.

“I didn’t kidnap anyone,” I said. The denial came out flat. “She got in the car. She has been living with me as my wife should. She is not missing. If you really believed she was, why haven’t any of you called the police yet?”

They flinched. Her mother’s hand dropped. The lawyer shifted his weight. They knew I’d caught them.

“Then where is she?” her father demanded, moving closer. His voice cracked on the last word. “You came all the way here to visit your parents but you didn’t think to bring our daughter? Why is that?”

Every answer I had was worse than the question. Drunk. In my bed. Dress half off. I kept my face still despite the panic crawling up my spine.

“She didn’t want to come,” I said. “She doesn’t want to deal with this. Neither do I. We are in love. We want to be together. Nothing you do can end our marriage.”

The words came out easier than I expected. Her mother’s mouth opened, then shut. My own mother’s head turned sharply toward me.

Why was it so easy to lie? It was just a contract marriage, but it came out like I meant every word.

“I’m not letting her go.” My voice rose before I could stop it. “Never letting her go.”

Even that sounded real. But I knew deep down I would eventually have no choice but to let Loretta go. That was the point of the contract. It was why I’d chosen someone who hated me in the first place. Someone who wouldn’t want to stay married to me.

Her grandfather leaned on the table, both hands braced on the wood. The veins stood out on the backs of his hands. “Answer me something, boy. Are you with my granddaughter because you want her, or are you playing her the way your great-aunt played me? Used a man. Took his vineyard. Smiled while she did it. Is that the blood in you?”

I frowned. The old story. Always the old story. I was tired of hearing the same thing over and over again. Part of me wanted to tell him to take his vineyard and shove it. If I did, my family would lose their minds. It wasn’t even in my name.

Though my great-aunt had mentioned she might leave it to one of us by the end of the year. She was still deciding who.

“You’re the one that signed it to her willingly,” I said. “No one held a gun to your head. I find it insane that your family has held a grudge over something you willingly gave to my great-aunt.”

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“My choice?” the old man spat. “I loved that lady. And all she wanted was my money.”

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grandfather’s cane hit the stone with a sharp crack. “Watch your mouth. Do not speak about my sister like that. You old man.”

Old man. I almost laughed. My grandfather spoke as though he were decades younger. He was in fact older.

“Your family enjoys the thing that was once in my name,” Loretta’s grandfather snapped back, voice rising “You sit in that house and drink the wine from vines I planted while my granddaughter is dragged off like

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“Then you should have kept your name on it if you didn’t want anyone else to have it,” my father growled. His face was dark.

Everyone lost it.

Both sides. My mother telling someone to lower their voice and then raising hers until it cut through everything.

Loretta’s brother saying the word lawyer like a threat, half-rising from his chair. Her mother pointing again, voice filled with fury.

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