He Was Her Ex-Brother-In-Law Chapter 09

He Was Her Ex-Brother-In-Law Chapter 09

I stared at the dead bird. My hands were 

shaking so badly I couldn’t hold my phone. 

Asher grabbed it from me. His face went hard 

as stone. 

“Call the police.” 

They came. They pulled the security footage. 

The delivery person wore a mask and a hat. 

Nothing identifiable. 

After the police left, Asher cranked the 

estate’s security to maximum. 

I watched him moving through the house, 

checking every lock, every camera. I was warm 

and terrified at the same time. 

think she’ll actually try something?” 

“No.” 

“Asher. Do you 

He cut me off and cupped my head. 

“I won’t let her touch a single hair on your 

head.” 

That night, I couldn’t sleep. 

head. 

Asher held me, his chin resting on top of my 

“Don’t be scared. I’m here.” 

I shut my eyes and forced myself under. 

In the middle of the night, glass shattered. 

I jerked awake. A hole in the window. A 

syringe lodged in the curtain. 

Asher lunged to the window and looked 

down. Nothing. 

He picked up the syringe. Liquid residue still 

inside. 

The next morning, the lab results came back. 

Cyanide. 

One drop would’ve killed me. 

The police opened a case. But Celeste had prepared. Every scrap of evidence pointed to a transient who’d already fled the country. 

Asher went nuclear. He launched a hostile 

takeover of the Sterling Group. 

Celeste’s father called, begging. She wasn’t 

thinking clearly. A moment of madness. 

Asher’s voice was ice. 

“A moment of 

madness? She tried to murder my fiancée.” 

Her father had nothing to say. 

The Sterling Group’s stock collapsed. And 

Celeste? She lost whatever was left of her mind. 

She sent me a message. 

[Sienna. If you 

won’t back down, then we’ll die together.] 

I didn’t reply. 

Three days later, Asher went to the office. I 

was home alone, asleep. 

A sharp, chemical stench ripped me awake. 

Gasoline. 

I bolted out of bed. The stairwell was already 

burning. 

Celeste stood inside the flames, grinning like 

a skull. 

“Sienna Sinclair. I told you. If I can’t 

have him, neither can you.“