The next four months were, by comparison, boring.<\/p>\n
Adam discovered he loved boring.<\/p>\n
There were no hidden cameras.<\/p>\n
No emergency board meetings.<\/p>\n
No midnight investigators.<\/p>\n
No encrypted messages from compromised family advisers.<\/p>\n
He complained about grocery prices.<\/p>\n
Luna complained that he bought the wrong coffee.<\/p>\n
They fought over whether the thermostat needed to be set at seventy-two.<\/p>\n
Adam argued for seventy.<\/p>\n
Luna called seventy \u201can act of hostility.\u201d<\/p>\n
These were good problems.<\/p>\n
He learned the sound Luna made when she tried not to laugh in serious situations.<\/p>\n
She learned he became silent, not loud, when something truly bothered him.<\/p>\n
He still worked in the creative department.<\/p>\n
That decision surprised nearly everyone.<\/p>\n
Especially HR.<\/p>\n
Adam refused a promotion Luna\u2019s executive team proposed after the crisis because he did not want anyone wondering whether he had earned it.<\/p>\n
Luna was furious.<\/p>\n
Not because he declined.<\/p>\n
Because he had declined without discussing it with her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re my wife, not my career committee.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou rejected a legitimate opportunity because you were afraid people would talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey already talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why are you allowing idiots to manage your choices?\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds familiar.\u201d<\/p>\n
She stopped.<\/p>\n
He smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just gave me the speech I gave you about Sterling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna looked offended.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat does not make you correct.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes us annoying.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eventually Adam agreed to interview for the role through an independent process.<\/p>\n
He did not get it.<\/p>\n
The successful candidate had eight more years of experience.<\/p>\n
Adam came home almost cheerful.<\/p>\n
Luna stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re happy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI lost honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is a strange sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n
She understood.<\/p>\n
The next promotion he earned would belong to him.<\/p>\n
Not to the marriage.<\/p>\n
Not to gratitude.<\/p>\n
Not to suspicion.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Luna began changing Sterling.<\/p>\n
The governance process moved slowly.<\/p>\n
She hated that.<\/p>\n
Margaret seemed to enjoy her impatience.<\/p>\n
A draft structure was created in which family voting power would be limited after the trust vested.<\/p>\n
Two independent directors would be added.<\/p>\n
Employees would elect one non-executive representative.<\/p>\n
Major acquisitions would require supermajority approval.<\/p>\n
No family member could negotiate a sale without board authorization.<\/p>\n
Adam called that one the Derek Clause.<\/p>\n
Luna did not laugh.<\/p>\n
The first time.<\/p>\n
By the third time, she did.<\/p>\n
Eleanor returned to the penthouse every few weeks.<\/p>\n
Sometimes with photographs.<\/p>\n
Sometimes food.<\/p>\n
Once with Henry\u2019s sheet music.<\/p>\n
Luna started practicing.<\/p>\n
Badly.<\/p>\n
Adam sometimes sat at the piano with her.<\/p>\n
Also badly.<\/p>\n
Between them, Henry\u2019s six songs became progressively worse.<\/p>\n
Luna claimed this honored tradition.<\/p>\n
Adam agreed.<\/p>\n
Derek remained absent.<\/p>\n
The investigations continued.<\/p>\n
His lawyers negotiated.<\/p>\n
Nolan formally cooperated.<\/p>\n
Redmont complied with supervised data deletion and paid a confidential settlement related to costs caused by the breach.<\/p>\n
Derek faced potential charges connected to unlawful surveillance, unauthorized system access, contract tampering, and related conduct.<\/p>\n
Some matters remained unresolved.<\/p>\n
Adam avoided following every update.<\/p>\n
Luna could not.<\/p>\n
She read everything.<\/p>\n
One night, three months after the board confession, Adam found her sitting in bed with a legal memorandum open.<\/p>\n
He took the tablet.<\/p>\n
She frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was reading that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were rereading it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt changed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou highlighted the same sentence yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n
She stared.<\/p>\n
He put the tablet on the nightstand.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you want him punished?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you want him destroyed?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Adam waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen stop trying to decide whether the legal system will produce exactly the emotion you want.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna looked away.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounded annoyingly wise.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been practicing.\u201d<\/p>\n
She leaned against him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still haven\u2019t spoken to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMother has.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe asks about me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam looked down.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe tells me accidentally.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEleanor does nothing accidentally.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna smiled faintly.<\/p>\n
Probably true.<\/p>\n
The final trust deadline approached in early winter.<\/p>\n
Twelve consecutive months from the legal marriage date.<\/p>\n
The trustees sent formal notice.<\/p>\n
If Adam and Luna remained married through midnight on December seventeenth, the marital continuity requirement would be satisfied in full.<\/p>\n
The next day, provisional voting control would become eligible for confirmation.<\/p>\n
Adam printed the notice and put it on the refrigerator.<\/p>\n
Luna removed it.<\/p>\n
He printed another.<\/p>\n
She removed that too.<\/p>\n
The third appeared framed on the kitchen counter.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdam.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s historically significant.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe frame cost twelve dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat explains why.\u201d<\/p>\n
He pointed.<\/p>\n
\u201cClassism.\u201d<\/p>\n
She kissed him before leaving for work.<\/p>\n
He considered that victory.<\/p>\n
One week before the deadline, Eleanor called.<\/p>\n
Derek wanted to see Luna.<\/p>\n
Luna said no.<\/p>\n
Then spent the next two days thinking about it.<\/p>\n
Adam did not push.<\/p>\n
On the third evening, she asked, \u201cDo you think I should?\u201d<\/p>\n
He was washing dishes.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you want to?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s different.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWanting to see him and thinking you should forgive him are different.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t say forgive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re thinking it loudly.\u201d<\/p>\n
She leaned against the counter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not ready.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if I never am?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen that\u2019s the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna watched him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re very relaxed about family estrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m relaxed about you not turning forgiveness into another performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
That landed.<\/p>\n
She nodded.<\/p>\n
Two days later, Derek came to them instead.<\/p>\n
Adam opened the penthouse door at seven thirty and found him standing in the hallway carrying a cardboard box.<\/p>\n
For half a second, Adam considered closing the door.<\/p>\n
Derek saw it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI deserve that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam said nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not staying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo give Luna something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam looked at the box.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother letter?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSecret trust?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSurveillance device?\u201d<\/p>\n
Derek flinched.<\/p>\n
\u201cFair.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna appeared behind Adam.<\/p>\n
Her entire body went still.<\/p>\n
\u201cDerek.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked toward her.<\/p>\n
\u201cHi.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nothing about the word belonged to the man Adam had first met at the gala.<\/p>\n
He looked thinner.<\/p>\n
No tailored armor.<\/p>\n
No expensive tie.<\/p>\n
Dark sweater.<\/p>\n
Tired eyes.<\/p>\n
Luna stepped closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did you get past security?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked Mom to put my name back on the visitor list.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her face hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe shouldn\u2019t have.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said you could throw me out yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam nearly smiled.<\/p>\n
That sounded like Eleanor.<\/p>\n
Derek lifted the box.<\/p>\n
\u201cI brought your things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy things?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom Dad\u2019s old storage room.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought everything was inventoried.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo did I.\u201d<\/p>\n
He placed the box on the floor.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found it while moving my stuff out of the estate office.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna did not invite him in.<\/p>\n
Derek seemed to understand.<\/p>\n
He opened the box where it sat.<\/p>\n
Inside were notebooks.<\/p>\n
Childhood drawings.<\/p>\n
A broken riding ribbon.<\/p>\n
School photographs.<\/p>\n
Then a small wooden horse.<\/p>\n
Luna stopped breathing.<\/p>\n
Adam looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
She crouched.<\/p>\n
Picked it up.<\/p>\n
The paint was chipped.<\/p>\n
One leg repaired with old glue.<\/p>\n
\u201cDerek made this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam looked toward him.<\/p>\n
Derek nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cShop class.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was nine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wanted a horse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a horse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wanted another horse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna laughed softly despite herself.<\/p>\n
Derek looked relieved and ashamed at the same time.<\/p>\n
She turned the wooden figure in her hands.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought Mom threw this away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe tried.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna looked up.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou kept it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Derek shrugged.<\/p>\n
\u201cI liked making one thing you didn\u2019t criticize.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou painted it purple.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou requested purple.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was nine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were impossible at nine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were fourteen and dramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam watched the argument happen almost automatically.<\/p>\n
Old rhythm.<\/p>\n
Not healed.<\/p>\n
Not erased.<\/p>\n
Still there.<\/p>\n
Derek smiled faintly.<\/p>\n
Then the smile disappeared.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also came to tell you something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy lawyers reached an agreement with prosecutors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her expression changed.<\/p>\n
Adam stepped closer.<\/p>\n
Derek continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll plead to several charges. No trial.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna looked toward Adam, then back.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat sentence?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot finalized.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPrison?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly some.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her face tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy attorney thinks less than two years if the judge accepts the agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Adam had imagined hearing this.<\/p>\n
He expected satisfaction.<\/p>\n
Instead he felt heavy.<\/p>\n
Derek continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will also be restitution and restrictions involving corporate governance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna\u2019s voice became quiet.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re pleading guilty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnlawful surveillance. Unauthorized access. Fraud related to the contract alteration.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at Adam.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hardship-fund conduct becomes part of restitution and civil settlement rather than a separate criminal count.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam nodded once.<\/p>\n
No gratitude.<\/p>\n
No comfort.<\/p>\n
Derek deserved neither from him.<\/p>\n
Still, Derek said, \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam looked directly at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor which part?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s too easy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Derek flinched.<\/p>\n
Adam continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t get to turn twenty decisions into one apology.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam studied him.<\/p>\n
Maybe.<\/p>\n
Maybe not.<\/p>\n
He stepped back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is Luna\u2019s conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Derek turned toward his sister.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not asking you to forgive me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not asking you to visit.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI just didn\u2019t want you finding out through lawyers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna held the wooden horse.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n
Derek thought.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo stop making everything I do an attempt to get something.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked at him for a long time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
He nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m trying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat isn\u2019t the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another silence.<\/p>\n
Derek glanced toward the framed trust notice on the kitchen counter.<\/p>\n
Of course he noticed it.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna looked.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ll get control.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the trustees confirm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He smiled faintly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know Martin.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was almost a joke.<\/p>\n
Then Derek said, \u201cDad would be proud.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna\u2019s face hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want his approval used as a prize anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Derek absorbed that.<\/p>\n
Then nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re right.\u201d<\/p>\n
That surprised her.<\/p>\n
He looked around the penthouse.<\/p>\n
The hidden devices were gone.<\/p>\n
The piano remained.<\/p>\n
He walked toward it but stopped several feet away.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you still have it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPlay?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBadly.\u201d<\/p>\n
He smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna\u2019s eyes filled.<\/p>\n
Derek looked away.<\/p>\n
Then he picked up the empty box.<\/p>\n
\u201cI should go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna\u2019s fingers tightened around the wooden horse.<\/p>\n
\u201cDerek.\u201d<\/p>\n
He turned.<\/p>\n
She struggled with something.<\/p>\n
Adam could almost see the battle.<\/p>\n
Finally she said, \u201cI don\u2019t forgive you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Derek nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I don\u2019t want you to disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n
His face changed.<\/p>\n
Not dramatically.<\/p>\n
Just enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna took a breath.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what that means yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI may change my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou keep saying okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m learning.\u201d<\/p>\n
She almost smiled.<\/p>\n
Derek left.<\/p>\n
The door closed.<\/p>\n
Luna stood holding the horse.<\/p>\n
Adam waited.<\/p>\n
Finally she said, \u201cThat was awful.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She laughed through tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy do you keep agreeing when I say things are awful?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSupport.\u201d<\/p>\n
She leaned into him.<\/p>\n
He held her.<\/p>\n
One week later, December seventeenth arrived.<\/p>\n
Adam expected something dramatic.<\/p>\n
Nothing happened.<\/p>\n
He went to work.<\/p>\n
Luna attended meetings.<\/p>\n
They ate dinner at home.<\/p>\n
At eleven fifty-eight, Adam opened champagne.<\/p>\n
Luna laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou survived a year married to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou survived a year married to your boss.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFormer contractual boss-wife.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStop making phrases.\u201d<\/p>\n
At eleven fifty-nine, they stood beside the windows.<\/p>\n
No trustees.<\/p>\n
No board.<\/p>\n
No family.<\/p>\n
Just them.<\/p>\n
Adam looked at the clock.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny regrets?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSeveral.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout me?\u201d<\/p>\n
She considered.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour grocery habits.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCruel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour thermostat preferences.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHostile.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour inability to fold towels.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPersonal attack.\u201d<\/p>\n
She smiled.<\/p>\n
Then became serious.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam\u2019s throat tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe neither.\u201d<\/p>\n
Midnight arrived.<\/p>\n
Nothing flashed.<\/p>\n
No music played.<\/p>\n
No trust administrator appeared from the ceiling.<\/p>\n
Adam checked his phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna kissed him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHappy anniversary.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich one?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
The legal marriage had now lasted one full year.<\/p>\n
The contract had not.<\/p>\n
The lie had not.<\/p>\n
The choice had.<\/p>\n
At 12:07 a.m., Luna\u2019s phone buzzed.<\/p>\n
Martin.<\/p>\n
Adam sighed.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n
She opened the message.<\/p>\n
Then stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
She handed him the screen.<\/p>\n
The trustees had scheduled final confirmation for nine the next morning.<\/p>\n
One line followed.<\/p>\n
ALL CONDITIONS SATISFIED.<\/p>\n
Adam looked at Luna.<\/p>\n
Her eyes filled.<\/p>\n
For a year, everyone had asked whether their marriage was real enough to survive the trust.<\/p>\n
Now the trust had finally become irrelevant to the marriage.<\/p>\n
And tomorrow, Luna would discover whether everything Henry built would end in inheritance\u2014<\/p>\n
or in the choice she had already made to change what inheritance meant.<\/p>\n
The next four months were, by comparison, boring. Adam discovered he loved boring. There were no hidden cameras. No emergency board meetings. No midnight investigators. No encrypted messages from compromised … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chapter-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6206,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions\/6206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}