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Brayden's POVI stood near the entrance, nursing a glass of champagne I didn’t particularly want, my eyes scanning the room. But my thoughts weren’t on the people mingling around or the cold champagne flute in my hand. They were on her.Larissa. And our kiss.Her lips had been soft, warm, and tentative at first. And for a brief moment, it felt… real.I took a sip of my champagne, my jaw tightening. Larissa was supposed to be just a piece of this carefully constructed plane to take down Benjamin. Our marriage was a necessary evil and Larissa herself was a crucial ally. Nothing more. But that kiss had awakened something I wasn’t ready to name, and it unsettled me.I glanced at the time on my watch. She’d been gone for a while. At first, I didn’t bother about it. She had said she wanted to fix her lipstick in the bathroom but knowing her, she was probably trying to wash out the taste of our kiss from her mouth. I gave her a few more minutes.But as the minutes ticked by, unease began to
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Larissa's POV I could feel the awkwardness when Brayden and I walked back into the dinner. It wrapped around me like a heavy, uncomfortable blanket. The hum of conversation and the glittering chandeliers felt suffocating now, and I struggled to keep my face neutral. My dress was suddenly too tight and the air was suddenly too hot. I wanted to bolt. And I would have, too, if not for Brayden’s steady grip at my side.Brayden’s hand rested lightly on the small of my back, a silent reassurance as he led me to our table. The long elegant table was already filled with various members of the Patterson family, their polished appearance and saccharine smiles a perfect match for the opulent setting.My eyes immediately landed on Londyn and Benjamin. They were seated together, bodies angled away from each other. Both of them scowled at Brayden and me as we walked in.“I’m sure you’ve all heard the news; I’m married.” Brayden announced. “This is my wife, Larissa.”His dad, Richard Patterson, rai
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Brayden's POVIt was a little past midnight when Larissa and I got back home. All throughout the drive home, Larissa was oddly quiet, alternating between staring out the window and tapping away on her phone. I didn’t press her for conversation. Tonight had been a lot and I understood her silence. Dinner hadn’t particularly been fun for her all because of Benjamin.Benjamin was dangerous.Not because he was drunk and reckless, but because he enjoyed pushing people’s limits. He had sat there, sipping his champagne, and watching Larissa like a predator waiting for any sign of weakness to strike. And I had no doubt that tonight was just the beginning.Neither of us spoke as we walked up the marble steps and through the massive front doors. Inside, the house was quiet, save for the faint ticking of a grandfather clock in the entryway. Larissa exhaled softly, slipping off her heels and setting them neatly by the door. Without a word, she walked into the living room and sank into the couch.
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Brayden's POVMy wife was a lightweight.I’d suspected it after she’d finished her second drink but by the time she was halfway through her third, it became painfully obvious. Larissa was drunk.Not tipsy. Not pleasantly buzzed. Drunk.The scene before me looked like a Renaissance painting come to life – soft, flushed, and utterly unconcerned with the world around her. She was sprawled on the couch, one leg tucked beneath her, her hair now free from all the pins that held it up. She held her glass loosely, swirling the whiskey in the crystal glass, oohing and aahing at how the light caught in the amber liquid.The most surprising aspect of all this, however, was the brothers who hadn’t left her side in the past hour. Pluto had his massive head resting on her lap, his tail thumping lazily against the carpet beneath him. Jupiter was content with just sitting beside her, letting her free hand stroke his fur. And Neptune, unwilling to let himself be left out of Larissa’s affection, was le
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Brayden's POV“Horrible.” I answered. “When his mum got married to my dad, I wanted to like Benjamin, I really did. But he was a spoiled brat. And Tiffany didn’t make matters any better. She was a great mum, don’t get me wrong. And I was lucky that my dad didn’t get married to someone who turned out to be cruel to me simply because I wasn’t her biological son. But Benjamin…“Most of my friends were my age, so we were all older than him and left to them, they would have left him out of our games and teased him mercilessly. But Tiffany made it very clear to me that Benjamin was my baby brother and that it was my duty to protect him. I didn’t have a problem with that at first. I did more than protect him. I loved him, I stood up for him, I took the fall for him, I cleaned up his messes. Many times; too many times.“Then Benjamin started to act out. It went from little things like him breaking the chinaware and asking me to take the fall for him to him setting the entire west wing of the
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Larissa’s POVI woke up feeling like absolute shit. My mouth was dry, my limbs were heavy, and my head throbbed continuously like I’d banged it against the wall a hundred times. At least the curtains were drawn so I didn’t have to deal with the blinding sunlight.I groaned, pressing the heels of my hands against my eyes before slowly sitting up. The room spun and it took everything for me not to lie back down on the bed.Flashes of last night flickered in my mind. I tried to piece everything together but it was like trying to grab smoke and mold it into something tangible and solid. All I had were disjointed fragments. Londyn demanded that Brayden and I kiss to prove our relationship. Benjamin confronts me on the way back from the bathroom. Brayden’s dogs trying to greet me when we got back home. And then… nothing.I did remember that I had planned to avoid drinking at the company’s quarterly dinner because I wanted to have my wits about me throughout the event and I remember sticking
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Larissa's POV I stood there, motionless, staring at the empty kitchen doorway Brayden had just walked through. The silence in the kitchen was deafening, the only sound was the faint hum of the refrigerator and the ticking of the clock on the wall. The smell of burnt eggs and Brayden’s cologne hung heavy in the air.This wasn’t how I expected this confrontation to go. I should have felt justified. I should have felt right. Instead, all I felt was… unsettled.I don’t know how long I stood there, staring at nothing. Then a surge of anger shot through me. I shouldn’t be the one standing here feeling bad. Brayden had been the one who had done something to me, why did he get to walk out as if he was the victim here?I needed to do something. I needed to leave, not just the kitchen but the estate. I didn’t care what our agreement was. There was no way I was staying here after what had happened.I made my way out of the kitchen, up the stairs, and through the corridor. My hand was on the doo
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Larissa's POV The car pulled up to the estate and passed through the golden gates.The first few times I had been here, I had felt dread at the sheer uncertainty of where my life was headed. Over time, the dread had faded away to an acceptance of my situation. Now that dread was back but for a different reason.I had spent the morning convinced Brayden had done something unforgivable. But the only unforgivable thing had been my accusation. He had done nothing. And now, I had to face him knowing that.The driver killed the engine and turned to me. “We’ve arrived, ma’am.”“Thank you.” I said my voice barely above a whisper. I slid out of the car, the slight sway of my feet reminding me that I was still very hungover. I made my way into the house feeling every bit like a prisoner on death row.The air inside felt colder than when I had left. The living room was empty. The kitchen was empty. Even the dogs, who were usually in a corner trying futilely to get me to pet them, were nowhere
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Larissa's POVThe ride back to the house was mostly silent. Not because there wasn’t anything to say. It was quite the opposite. There was just too much to say and neither of us knew where to begin.Benjamin had had a child with Lara. One that was more than a year old. And I had been dating him but knew absolutely nothing about his other life. Considering that I had been the one to source whatever gift Benjamin wanted to buy for people, there was a possibility that I had aided in buying a gift for the child without ever even meeting her.No one ever mentioned a sister or a child at trial. From what Margaret said, Stephanie might be the one currently caring for Claire. But if she hadn’t been seen in a while, that meant either she was in hiding or something had happened to her too.My mind raced as we sped through the street. Where were they now? Margaret had mentioned that she thought Lara had an apartment somewhere else. Which was given, seeing as the one we had just visited looked ba
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Brayden's POVLarissa recovered first. “Lara had a daughter?”Nobody mentioned a child. Not in the trial. Not in the reports. Not in the police statement.The media had painted Lara as a young, professional woman who had been cut down in her prime. There had never been any talk of a child. It was like someone had gone to great lengths to make sure that no one knew about Lara’s kid. The question was why, and who?Margaret didn’t seem to notice the shock and confusion on our faces. She nodded as she stirred her tea, the soft clinking of the spoon against porcelain filling the silence. “Oh, yes. She had a little girl named Claire. She was the most adorable kid you’d ever meet, and so polite too.“Like her mum, she wasn’t around much in that house so I suspect that Lara had another apartment somewhere else. They used to take walks in the evenings whenever the weather was nice. There’s a lovely park they were quite fond of in the neighborhood.”“Do you have any idea where Claire is now?” I
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Brayden's POVLara’s house was more like a showroom. It looked too pristine, too doll-like, too well put together to be the place that she came back to after a day of hard work. Something definitely wasn’t adding up.Larissa and I spent the next half hour searching, opening drawers, checking behind bookshelves, and feeling along the edges of furniture for any hidden compartments. Anything that could give us more information about Lara and the circumstances of her death. We found nothing.“We should go.” I said finally after Larissa searched the same drawer for the third time.“Yeah.” She said, finally closing the drawer shut and stepping away.I made my way to the front door, opened it and let Larissa step through first back outside into the warm morning air. I inhaled deeply, trying to shake off the cold, sterile feeling of Lara’s house as I locked the door and put the spare key back in its compartment.“That was weird.” I said, straightening.“Tell me about it.” Larissa mumbled. The
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Larissa's POV The cardboard box in my lap felt heavier than it should have. I ran my fingers along the edges of the box, tracing the old tape sealing it shut. It had been sitting in Patterson Financial’s storage room for over a month. A collection of everything I had left behind. Office supplies. Old notes. Photos. Little trinkets.Brayden drove in silence, his eyes fixed on the road ahead of him, the smooth drawl of the song on the radio filling the space between us.“I can’t believe you threatened to take the matter to her supervisor.” I said, remembering how the receptionist’s face had frozen in a mixture of disbelief and fear. Instantly, all traces of hesitation had been wiped from her continence, and she had gone to get the box of my things.“I don’t make threats, Larissa. I make promises.”I scoffed. “Schematics. Either way, that was a very Karen thing to do.”“What?”“You know Karen? A typical middle-aged white woman who usually asks to see the manager or reports employees to
Revenge Wears A Ring Chapter 31
Larissa's POV It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to realize where we were going. Hint: It wasn’t Lara’s house.A familiar, towering skyscraper, all reflective glass and steel, stood imposing in the distance. It was one of the most prestigious firms in the city. Employees, executives, and clients streamed in and out of the building dressed in sharp suits and crisp dresses. Some clutched coffee cups or briefcases. Others walked briskly as they chatted amongst themselves or into the phones pressed against their ears. The Patterson Financial Group tower.I wasn’t just where I had worked. It was where Lara had died. And where I had confessed to her murder.I looked at Brayden but he paid me no mind. He pulled into the underground parking garage the light dimming slightly as he maneuvered into his reserved spot. The second the engine shut off, the “What are we doing here?” I asked, my voice barely above a whisper. “I thought we were going to Lara’s place.”“We are. We are he
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Larissa's POV The next time I saw Brayden, he was back in formal wear. It was the next morning when I trudged into the kitchen looking for something to eat.A crisp white dress shirt, polished shoes, tailored navy slacks with the matching suit jacket hanging off one of the chairs in the kitchen – the picture of effortless sophistication.And he wasn’t alone.Gwen stood in front of him, her hands expertly working on the fabric of the tie, looping it into an intricate knot. She looked like she had stepped straight out of the 70s dressed in a sunflower print pinafore mini dress and white gogo boots. Gwen was chattering animatedly as she worked on his tie. Brayden responded with quiet grunts and hums and he stared down at her.I stopped short in the doorway not sure if I should step in or just head back upstairs. There was something about this scene that made me feel like I didn’t belong here. There was a sort of easy camaraderie between the two of them.Brayden was the first to notice m
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Larissa's POV I woke up to sunlight streaming in through the windows, cutting through the heavy curtains I had pulled back while I had sat by the window watching and waiting for Brayden to get back home. I didn’t even remember falling asleep.I turned over, squinting at the clock on the nightstand.2:27 PM. I had slept through the entire morning.Thanks to the painkillers I had taken earlier, I no longer had a headache. But the guilt was understandably still there. I shut my eyes. I had wanted to fix things. I had wanted to try. But he had been so distant with me. He wanted nothing to do with me and I couldn’t blame him.I wanted to check my phone to see if I had gotten any texts from him – though I doubted it – but I stopped at the last moment. Turning on my phone’s screen meant having to come face-to-face with Brayden’s image as my new wallpaper. I couldn’t bring myself to look at it, and I couldn’t bring myself to change it either because that would mean having to look at it, even
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Larissa's POV The car pulled up to the estate and passed through the golden gates.The first few times I had been here, I had felt dread at the sheer uncertainty of where my life was headed. Over time, the dread had faded away to an acceptance of my situation. Now that dread was back but for a different reason.I had spent the morning convinced Brayden had done something unforgivable. But the only unforgivable thing had been my accusation. He had done nothing. And now, I had to face him knowing that.The driver killed the engine and turned to me. “We’ve arrived, ma’am.”“Thank you.” I said my voice barely above a whisper. I slid out of the car, the slight sway of my feet reminding me that I was still very hungover. I made my way into the house feeling every bit like a prisoner on death row.The air inside felt colder than when I had left. The living room was empty. The kitchen was empty. Even the dogs, who were usually in a corner trying futilely to get me to pet them, were nowhere
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Larissa's POV I stood there, motionless, staring at the empty kitchen doorway Brayden had just walked through. The silence in the kitchen was deafening, the only sound was the faint hum of the refrigerator and the ticking of the clock on the wall. The smell of burnt eggs and Brayden’s cologne hung heavy in the air.This wasn’t how I expected this confrontation to go. I should have felt justified. I should have felt right. Instead, all I felt was… unsettled.I don’t know how long I stood there, staring at nothing. Then a surge of anger shot through me. I shouldn’t be the one standing here feeling bad. Brayden had been the one who had done something to me, why did he get to walk out as if he was the victim here?I needed to do something. I needed to leave, not just the kitchen but the estate. I didn’t care what our agreement was. There was no way I was staying here after what had happened.I made my way out of the kitchen, up the stairs, and through the corridor. My hand was on the doo
