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Chapter Thirteen
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Bared To You Chapter Forty Five
Maximillian The pig farm was a different beast entirely. The smell hit harder than I expected—strong, sour, and absolutely unforgiving. It clung to my clothes, my skin, even the inside of my nose. The noise was worse—grunts, squeals, the constant slosh of mud and feed underfoot. It was chaos, noisy and foul, nothing like the quiet kind of work I used to imagine when I thought about “normal jobs.”But Mr. Matthias didn’t sugarcoat anything. He gave me clear instructions—muck out the pens, scrub the troughs, stick to the feeding schedule. It was brutal work, no doubt about it. Even though I’d never actually done something like this before, it didn’t feel entirely foreign. I knew all about pig farming—at least in theory. I'd heard enough, read enough, seen enough. And hard labor? That never scared me. It never had. I reminded myself of that as I rolled up my sleeves, trying to shake off the creeping doubt gnawing at the edge of my mind. My body still knew how to push through—muscle me
Bared To You Chapter Forty Four
EdwinaThe morning sun hadn’t fully crested the horizon when I stepped out of the house, wiping my damp hands on my worn jeans. The sky was still blushing pale orange, the air crisp and cool with dew. I’d barely slept—my mind had been too alive with thoughts of everything that could go wrong… and everything that might go right. I kept playing out different scenarios in my head, imagining the worst outcomes and then daring to hope for better ones. It was exhausting.Beside me, Justice stood silently, adjusting the collar of the shirt I’d loaned him—one of my father's old work shirts. It was a little snug across his shoulders, but he didn’t complain. He never did. And somehow, he looked more put together than usual, though the shadows beneath his eyes still clung stubbornly. I noticed them and wondered if he, too, had spent the night wrestling with his thoughts.We walked side by side, barely speaking. The silence between us wasn’t awkward—it was the kind that wrapped around you like
Bared To You Chapter Forty Three
Maximillian I was sitting on a bench near the emergency exit, nursing a bottle of water and feeling like I hadn’t slept in days. My shirt was still wrinkled from the night before, and I probably looked like hell. My back ached, my limbs were heavy, but I was awake. Hyperaware.“There you are,” I said when I saw her coming. I managed a faint smile. “You disappeared.”“I had something to take care of,” she replied, slightly breathless. There was something different in her voice. It hovered just beneath the surface—something she was holding back. “Actually… I have news.”My brows lifted. “What kind of news?” Please let it be good. We hadn’t had any of that in a while.“I asked Mr. Matthias for a job,” she said, her words quick, excitement barely contained. “On his poultry farm. And he said yes.”I blinked, then sat up straighter. A smile cracked across my face—real and immediate. “Are you serious?”She nodded. “I start tomorrow. He said they need more hands, and he’s willing to pay.”“T
Bared To You Chapter Forty Two
EdwinaAs soon as Matthias drove off, I turned and hurried back toward the hospital. My feet were moving faster than my thoughts, heart fluttering—not from nerves, but from something else. Something warmer. Hope.It was strange how light I felt. Like something had finally cracked open in the darkness. A job. A real one. Not scraps. Not handouts. Not some false promise dangled and then ripped away.I could already see the look on Dad’s face when I’d tell him. Not that it would fix everything, but it would mean one less unpaid bill. One less worry to stack on top of the others.Maybe... just maybe, tomorrow won’t feel like surviving. Maybe it’ll feel like moving forward.I spotted Justice sitting on a bench near the emergency exit. He looked like hell—clothes wrinkled, face drawn, like he hadn’t slept in a week. But there was something about the way his eyes lifted when he saw me. Alert. Like part of him still refused to quit, even if the rest of him was breaking.I told him. About the
Bared To You Chapter Forty One
All he had left were what-ifs, unspoken regrets, and a lukewarm affection for the woman he had married—Lillian, Steven’s mother. Sometimes, when the nights were too quiet and the house too still, Matthias wondered if she could tell. If, after all these years, she had sensed that his heart had never truly been hers.That his heart had long belonged to another woman—a woman who was never his to lose, and yet not his to love either. A woman who wasn’t her. A woman who had married his best friend.Priscilla. He often questioned how different his life might have been if he’d spoken up years ago. Maybe he would’ve been the one praying with her in hospital corridors instead of offering help as an outsider.He was pulled from his thoughts by the warmth in Priscilla’s voice.“Thank you for the food items you gave us, Matthias. You didn’t have to,” Priscilla said, her voice warm and genuine, her grateful smile enough to stir something buried deep in him.He shrugged lightly, spreading his hands
Bared To You Chapter Forty
For as long as Cyril Jonas could remember, he and Matthias had been friends. Their fathers were friends, and their great-grandfathers before them. It felt like something passed down through bloodlines—the kind of loyalty that didn’t need to be spoken to be understood. So it only seemed natural that the third generation would continue that legacy of friendship.Even though Matthias’s family was wealthy and Cyril’s was not, it had never affected how they saw each other. Status never factored into their bond. It was that very sense of equality that led Matthias to believe it made perfect sense for his third eldest child and second son, Steven, to be betrothed to Cyril’s youngest daughter, Edwina. It wasn’t just about preserving tradition; it was about deepening the bond between their families—making it permanent.For the sake of peace, and perhaps out of fear, Cyril chose to withhold the truth from Edwina until the time was right. But the more he watched her around Steven, the clearer i
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