Unmatched Wife: Not His To Claim Anymore novel Chapter 197

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e was Rivera himself.

the most delicate thread, and I handled it with the most care, because Rivera was not a simple man and he knew the he thought I was in a way that most people did not know their partners. He had been watching her for months. He had logued her habits and her responses and the specific texture of how she moved through the world, and while the memory transfer had given me access to that texture from the inside, living it convincingly from the outside was a different kind of challenge.

He had come to talk to me on the third evening.

I had known it was coming. Had read the signs during the day – the specific quality of his attention when he looked at me, the way Klaus and Elijah had been in the study for two hours and then left with the careful demeanor of people who had said something significant and were now leaving it to land. Rivera had been moving through the house afterward with the purposeful indirection of someone

I had prepared.

He had come to the bedr

be okay.

The question h

Too mu

behin

Wh

working up to a conversation.

ting on the edge of the bed, and he had sat beside me and asked if we were going to

een wrong

the real woman was not someone who offered comfort she couldn’t stand

little would have alarmed him. I had given him the true-sounding version of uncertainty, y transfer suggested she would actually give – honest, unperformed, containing genuine

ed them in the right register and delivered them in the dark, and he had believed them because they

she would give.

in the dark for a long time before his breathing changed toward sleep.

and let him believe.

day, Roy made progress.

e kitchen making lunch when I heard it meant someone had found something rabl over four days of peripheral listenin

hed the sandwiches and car

ch,” I said.

the specific shift in the conversation coming from the study, the change in

ing for something. I had learned to distinguish these tonal

ked up. Kl

ross it. Roy had a specific

is face was the expression of

h the automatic gratitude of someone whose mind was mostly

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“What is it?” I asked, the way she would ask-direct, interested, without performance.

Soy looked at the photograph. “The secondary location,” he said. “I found a registration document from forty years ago that imes a specific practitioner family as the site’s historical operators. Cross-referenced against the current property ownership

He paused, the pause of someone deciding how much to say. Then, because I was present and trusted: “The family name appears in Voss’s known academic network. A colleague from her Council scholarship years.”

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“So the location is confirmed as connected to her,” I said.

“Strongly suggested,” Roy corrected, in the careful way he always corrected things. “Not confirmed. But strongly suggested.” He set the photograph down and picked up his tablet and began pulling up the next layer of documentation, and I could see from the direction he was going that within an hour he would have the confirmation that moved strongly suggested to confirmed.

I ate a sandwich and watched.

“The surveillance approach,”

is confirmed

what’s the

“Remote first,” Elijah

commit to anything

“How long doe

‘Depen

bet

a few minutes, in the thoughtful voice of someone turning something over. “If the site

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