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Ivy rests her head on her car's wheel.

A feeling of fear and doubt clouding her reasoning.

She had been on top of the world when Richard proposed to her, so happy and had felt it was right and felt completely and utterly fulfilled.

Now, she's going it again. She feels fine with Ashton, like she's getting the cream of the crop, like he's very right for her and that she'll feel fulfilled but the same feelings are the same ones she felt when she was getting married to Richard as well.

It's like deja vu to an extent.

She sighs, again and again, wondering to do.

Should she call off the wedding?

Should she just run away and come back when the scandal would have been forgotten?

Should she...

Her train of thoughts is interrupted by a knock on her car's glass.

Startled, she looks up, right into Ashton's eyes.

"What..." She starts as she wounds down the window of the car. "What are you doing here? You should be in your office."

"I can't concentrate anyway. Wanna go out and grab a cup of tea wit
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  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   YES, Again.

    The waiter nods and leaves."You were staring." Ivy comments."Was I? I didn't notice until now but you have this aura around you."What aura?""I would rather keep it to myself for now. As I was saying, I and Richard are different. I would never, never treat you the way he did, which of course, he's still going to pay for." His eyes stray down slowly to her hand where the burn has faded but it's still a little splotchy around where the burn once was."I know. But... I can't help but feel scared. The same way I feel around you now is the same way I felt around Richard when we got married. It felt so right...""No, that marriage was never right. Your family wasn't involved nor invited and neither was ours." Ashton states plainly. Ivy looks down, realizing he is right. How did she miss all those red flags? He always had an excuse, an answer for every question, every probe, which means that Richard had always thought of them before she even asked.Ashton watches her, noticing the confli

    최신 업데이트 : 2024-01-29
  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   Disgraceful Options

    Richard exits his car and enters his house before crumbling down on the couch, exhausted and frustrated at how short and terrible the day went.His hand suddenly fly to his nose. "What's that terrible smell?" He gets up from the chair and walks around, trying to sniff out where the smell is coming from. "Gosh, this is so bad. What is this?!" He grumbles to himself, dropping his hands and taking all the smell in after getting tired of breathing with his mouth.He suddenly stops short, his eyes widening in fear. "What the fuck is that?!" He asks no one in particular as his hands fly to his nose once again. He uses a stick to pry open the black trash bag. As soon as it opens, the contents spill out in massive numbers.Richard jumps back, screaming and flinging the rod away from him. "ANTS! ANTS! HELP ME!" He screams repeatedly as he runs into his room and slams the door behind him.Out of the trash bag, thousand and thousands of small sugar ants and different kinds of ants spill out of t

    최신 업데이트 : 2024-01-30
  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   Officially Worldwide News

    Early the next morning, the first call Ivy receives is from Judith."Hello?""Good morning dear, I hope you don't mind that I'm calling so early.""Not at all ma'am.""Oh, you don't need to be so formal with me. You can call me Judith. I have a few things to discuss with you, about the wedding and some other things. Would you mind coming over today?""Of course not ma... Judith. I don't mind coming over. What time should I be there?""I'm at home all day so I don't mind anytime. Just let it still be daytime." Judith jokes and Ivy laughs."Of course. I'll be there today, in the daytime." She emphasizes, making Judith chuckle."Have a great day darling.""You too Judith, at least before I get there."Judith bursts into laughter over the phone. "I guess I should be dreading your visit now right?" She retorts as she hangs up.Ivy rolls over, fully awake.Grant knocks her door on the outside. "Come in."Grant opens the door and shakes his head. "Ever the clean woman right? How is there no

    최신 업데이트 : 2024-01-30
  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   Tears and Triumph

    Her first time entering the place, she's wowed as she looks around, hoping to see everything at the same time."Ma'am, it's pretty much your place already. Don't break your neck, if you need a tour, just let me know, you will be my madam soon enough."Ivy smiles politely. "I'll hold you up to that... Miss?""Oh, pardon me. My name is Yen." She smiles politely, bowing slightly."Yen? Like the currency?" Ivy asks to affirm, a small smile growing on her face."Yes, like the currency ma'am. I don't know what my parents were thinking naming me that."Ivy bursts into laughter. "Ask mine too who named me Ivy, like the poisonous vine. We should be so offended but here we are laughing about it." Ivy manages to say, laughing without restraints.Yen laughs as well, liking Ivy already. "Anyway, we'll soon get to the Madam's room now.""Okay, thanks.""You're welcome ma'am. Here it is..." Yen points and opens the door for her to enter. Ivy nods to Yen as she closes the door gently behind her, lea

    최신 업데이트 : 2024-01-31
  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   In the throes of Danger

    "Aha!" Judith exclaims suddenly, seeing what she has been searching for right above her head. "Here it is." She pulls down the small peach coloured box above the shelf and smiles.Ivy watches her curiously, she had been looking for that hours on end while keeping her in conversation, asking about her parents, educational background, life's dreams and wishes and all those unimportant things just to keep Ivy from becoming bored or sleeping off, although Ivy wouldn't have slept off even if the place was silent.Judith opens the box and brings out the one dress that's neatly folded inside the box.Ivy's eyes light up. "Wow.""Right? I love this dress so much but I couldn't wear it on my own wedding..." Judith leans in and whispers "I ended up eating too much the night before due to wedding jitters so it didn't fit the the next day. You can have it."Ivy bursts into laughter, and then stops."But it's white..." Ivy mentions, running her hand on the neckline of the fabric."And you've marri

    최신 업데이트 : 2024-01-31
  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   Hunter and Prey

    Ivy pays the taxi driver as she exits the car.She had come to the town along with Grant so she didn't have a her own car with her.She had called Richard earlier when she was leaving the Wrights home and now she's here.Standing outside for a couple of minutes, looking on the exterior of the home she had lived for three years. The house in itself was the only solace she had to herself whenever Richard went out to work or to any other place that didn't require her tagging along with him.She stands by the door and knocks.No response.She knocks again but there's still no response on the inside. She tries the door handle and the door opens.That's weird.What if something happened... She enters the house and looks around and seeing nothing out of the ordinary. She closes the door gently behind her."Richard?!" She calls out and still there's no response from him.She drops her bag and the small box on the couch and walks past the couch into the dining room.Richard isn't there, and ne

    최신 업데이트 : 2024-01-31
  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   Physical Scratches

    "He's banging the door very hard on the outside sir, no one is responding although I can see two silhouettes inside the house in the living room. One's obviously a woman with her long hair and the other is a man." A man across the street in a small mini cooper reports on the phone while watching the incident in the house ahead with a binocular held firmly in his hands.Outside, Ashton suddenly grabs the flower pot and slams on the door's handle, hard. On the second hit, both the flower pot and the door handle come apart.He pushes open the door and rushes inside."I can't see them anymore but Mr Ashton has gone inside..."Inside the house, Ashton opens the door to see a half naked Richard trying to force open Ivy's Jean trouser's zip while she's fighting back, hitting him with the handbag in her hand snf trying to push his straying hands away."Come on, don't be so shy. Didn't you always want this?" Richard laughs drily, only having eyes for what he's after. Seeing red at that moment

    최신 업데이트 : 2024-02-01
  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   Plight and Wright

    Richard groans loudly on the cold, hard floor for about twenty minutes before he can even move any part of his body. Managing to shift to his other side so he's turned to the door, he curses. "Those mother fuckers. They didn't even have enough courtesy to close my door."He looks closely at the door and then notices the clay on the ground along with the heaps of sand. "He broke it?! And my door handle? He'll pay me back for it. I'll make sure. And I'll make sure I get my..." He groans loudly again, the pain in his crotch stinging like a mother fucker.Suddenly, a movement by the door catches his eye and he looks up abruptly. "Who's there?"A man with a huge build comes inside, bending slightly to avoid hitting his head on the door frame. "Hello Mr Richard."Richard frowns slightly, unable to see his face as he's backing the dimming evening sun. "Who are you and why are you inside my house?""I don't think you should be the one asking the questions but for the sake of clarity, I'll say

    최신 업데이트 : 2024-02-02

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  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   EPILOGUE

    "Calm down, she'll be fine." "How can I be calm when I can hear her screaming her lungs out here!" Ashton half yells at Grant and then composes himself. "Sorry but I can't help feeling like this when her screams seem to be pushing at my heart right now." Grant smiles and puts a hand on his shoulder. "You'll be fine." In a little bit, the agonizing screams stop and there's calm. Ashton springs to his feet the third time in a minute. A nurse comes out. "She delivered safely. It's a baby girl. She's been dressed now. You can..." She hears her name being called again and goes back inside, not finishing her sentence and the look she gave to Ashton makes him three times more scared. Ivy is in the labour room, her contractions had suddenly started while on a road trip so Ashton had drove like his life depended on it. Well, maybe because his wife's life depended on it and so did his. The baby had come two weeks earlier than the date she's supposed to arrive which has got all of them

  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   All that Wright-ly Matters.

    She hugs him gently on the bed and presses a blue button above his head.In about a minute, the doctor with his levy of nurses open the door and come inside. Ivy leaves them to it and steps out for the moment. As soon as she steps out, everyone crowds around her."What's wrong?""Why are the doctors rushing in like that?"Ivy smiles and motions them to calm down. "He woke up just now. I called the doctors for their routine check. We may be able to see him after his checkup."They all sigh in relief and some even hug in relief.She waits with them outside and after a little while, the doctors and nurses finally come out of the room."He's fine now. You all can go in to see him."Without waiting for any other confirmation of any sort, they all push past them like the really big family they are portraying and go inside the room, Ivy goes in last but Veronica gives her the chair so she won't stay standing, tired because of the life growing in her belly.At first, there's nothing but then

  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   Appropriate and Acceptable.

    The next three hours is a flurry of activities as their families begins to troop in, Grant joining them at a point."Where is he?" Judith asks as soon as she arrives, talking Ivy's in his."They just wheeled him out of the surgery room. I was told to wait outside while they set him up or something."Judith nods. "Oh thank goodness. How did you find him?"She glances at Grant who shrugs right back at her. "I had help from a police officer. He helped me locate him.""Don't tell me it was that one on the news?" Veronica chips in as she comes by, coming into the discussion."Yes, it was him. He just wanted Trust Financials as a reward but I knew he was going to betray me anyway so I didn't really give him.""But the news didn't say you were there?" Judith quips this time."Well, I left there with Ashton and came to the hospital so I wasn't really there. Just popped in and out." She smiles, turning slightly red as she covers one lie with another.Grant laughs and then quickly masks it with

  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   Twisted Truths.

    "Grant! Watch out!" Ivy yells as she grabs the gun laying closest to her.Grant whips around and stares right into the barrel of a Beretta '94 that had been left behind by one of Mike's own men.Mike chuckles painfully. He glances momentarily at Ivy who's fiddling with the gun in her hand and scoffs. "You can't even handle it, how can you use it?" He takes his eyes off of her and focuses it on Grant. "So you killed my little brother because he raised the gun at you first? Why am I not dead yet?"Grant rolls his eyes. "Is this one of those villain long talks? I'm sick of them, come on. Just drop the gun and accept your fate. Is that so hard? You lost the fight. Well, leave then." Grant mutters disinterestedly even though he's looking right at a loaded gun.Mike shakes his head. "A fight isn't over until it's really over. Do you know why I took that man? Her husband? After she passed out, I was determined to make him a widower who lost his baby by not letting her to go the hospital on t

  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   Horror!

    Recovering from the gunshot and sudden appearance of Grant, Ivy runs for Ashton's who's very weak and his pulse is irregular. She looks around and her eyes land on a bunch of keys on one of Mike's men's trousers.He smirks at her when he sees her eyeing the keys. "Come get them darling."There's a second gunshot and a glaring hole appears right in the middle of his forehead and he falls to the ground. Wordlessly, Ivy runs for his body and removes the key. Mike's men all flee seeing that one dead. They all drop their weapons and run away, leaving Hank and Mike.The fact that her brother just murdered someone doesn't count at in the current circumstances. She loses the chains that he's been tied down with and he falls limply down into her arms. She holds him up with her strength, not letting him hit the ground, the same way he had cushioned her head that night Mike had hit her in the stomach.He moves ever so slightly and his hand come to rest on her legs before he closes his eyes, a ve

  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   Retribution.

    True to his words, Hank calls her in thirty minutes. Reminding her that she has thirty minutes to get there. "Where am I meet you?" She asks him on the call."Grey Street Garage..."She immediately springs up from her chair, grabs all the documents from the table and hisses, remembering that place. She had been locked in a warehouse on the same compound for two nights. She inhales sharply and she's sure she's ready to go there.Not like she has a choice anyway.Anita sees her breeze right by but she doesn't say anything, guessing it's about the call that brought back her appetite momentarily. She sighs, wishing her boss well. If everyone in the whole wide world has to go through such thing, she'd never wish it on Ivy. She's basically the best boss she's ever had.The best of the best.Which is why she wishes her luck silently as the elevator doors close with Ivy inside.As soon as she's on the ground floor, she dashes for her car, checking the time every few seconds. It takes about t

  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   Reds in Blood.

    The first day went by...So does the second.On the third day, it has Ivy in a bind, pacing in her office.Anita comes in with a plate of vegetable salad and mashed potatoes, and steak in another plate along with another takeout cheeseburger and fries, even chicken nuggets as well, hoping she would eat one of the many dishes.She hardly acknowledges her entrance as she sets all of them down on the table and looks at Ivy as she paces around her table, her eyes not leaving her phone.Even Anita has no idea what she's waiting for but it seems to have so much importance to her so she can't interfere but she can eat while waiting... Right?"Ma'am, you won't eat lunch again? This is the third day you're skipping your breakfast and lunch."Nobody knows about the baby except her family, his family and himself.She looks askance at Anita and then looks away again. "I'm fine. I ate a lot last night.""Really? I was the one who threw the dishes away this morning."Anita has been the one bringing

  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   Dropping the Bait

    "Ma'am!" The officer yells as he bangs his palms flatly on the table. "This place is no joking area. There are conclusive evidence against you, all of this interrogations are simply formalities! Do you accept the fact that you did kill Tiara or not?"Yale scoffs. "Technically, Richard killed her not me."In the interrogation room directly upstairs, Richard scoffs. "That bitch said so? She's just trying to shift blames. She was the one who absolutely killed Tiara. As Ivy said in the press conference, I only aided and abetted. I am well aware of that and I am not denying it. But I really didn't kill Tiara."Downstairs. "He aided and abetted? That rat. He was the one who dragged her body to the car and suggested we dump her in the ocean!"Upstairs. "That whore. She said I suggested it? She hit Tiara over the head and make her pass out which I totally witnessed. Then we thought she had died. Thinking of it now, she had not even seemed any scared at all, she just said we should throw the b

  • Married my Ex-husband's Elder Brother!   What it's worth.

    A murmur ripples through the whole crowd.Time seems to stand still.The point exactly was that nobody was expecting that was what she had come to say. Nobody, not even Anita who plugs in the flash drive and the presentation begins.Almost soulless and robot-like, Ivy turns around to the projector behind her that has a picture of cars. Not very specific car but a lot of them.Then she begins her presentation, using the laser pointer to point at the things that matter. "We all know Tiara died and her body had been fished out of the sea. Well, she didn't drown, she was murdered so that means she had been carried or somehow transported to where her body had been dumped. There are things called dash cams..." She uses the laser to point just as the image changes into a car's close up view.There is a small device with a blinking red light and she points to it. "That's called a dash cam and not every car has it but every two of five does. Which is why, from the place she had been killed, I

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