Chapter: Chapter 35 [The Confession]Emily's POV The air in the hallway was freezing, but I didn't even feel it. Arthur was there, in front of me, his black jacket unbuttoned, his white shirt open at the neck, his beard unshaven. His dark eyes slowly traced my body – the thin camisole, the short shorts, my bare feet. His chest rose and fell as if he had run a marathon. "Arthur," I said, my voice coming out lower than I wanted. "What are you doing here?" He didn't answer. He just walked in. The door closed behind him with a soft click. His smell invaded my senses — whiskey, leather, musk. The same smell from the night of the storm. The same smell that drove me crazy. "I need to tell you something," he said, his voice hoarse. "I received a threat today." I felt my heart race. My hands began to tremble. "What?" "Someone wants thirty percent of my shares in the company," he said, his voice rough and slurred. "The same person has photos of us. From almost every place we met. If I don't give in, they'll expose our sec
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Chapter: Chapter 34 [Doubts]Arthur's POVThe silence in the office was so dense that I could hear my own heartbeat.Peterson stood there, leaning against the door, that easy smile on his tired face. The suitcase dropped on the floor. The wrinkled leather jacket."Friend," he repeated. "Why are you looking at me like that?"I swallowed the tequila that was still burning my throat. My fingers tightened around the glass."Nothing," I answered. My voice came out drier than I intended. "Head's full."Peterson raised an eyebrow. His eyes slowly scanned the office. The almost empty bottle. The fallen phone. The photos still scattered. "It looks like more than a full head.""I'm handling it." I stood up from the chair and pretended to organize the papers on the desk. My hands were trembling, but not as much as I feared. "I don't want to involve anyone in this. Especially you.""Why me?""Because you're my friend." I looked at him. His smile had disappeared. His face was serious. "And I don't want to lose anyone else."P
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Chapter: Chapter 33 [Who Could It Be?]Arthur's POV"What business is it of yours about my fiancée? About my life?"The question hung in the air. The silence between us was so dense you could hear the hum of the air conditioning.Marcus stared at me, his blue eyes glazed, his chest rising and falling as if he had just run a marathon.He waited for an answer. Any answer."What I think or not about your ex-girlfriend is my problem," I said. My voice came out low, controlled, but each word was a knife. "If you've forgotten where your place is, I don't want to be the one to remind you. Someone would have to be born to talk to me like that.""She was never my ex." Marcus stepped forward. His face was red, his eyes bloodshot. "She's tied to me until the end. She'll only untie herself from me when I want her to. Which means never.""Have you lost your mind?""Have I lost my mind?" He laughed, a bitter laugh, humorless. "You're in the United States without telling anyone. Hiding a mistress. Lying to my mother. And I'm the one who
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Chapter: Chapter 32 [What photos are these?]Arthur's POVI looked down.The photos were scattered across the mahogany desk, some flipped over, others piled on top of each other, all showing the same thing.Me and Emily. At the bar in Italy. In the airport parking lot. Inside the car. Every place. Every moment. But her face was blurred. A black smudge covered every trace, every expression, every detail that could give away who she was.You could only see the dark hair. The thin body I knew all too well. In the bottom corner of each image, a caption. The same phrase, repeated like a mantra:"Ask your father. You'll be surprised by the answer."I looked up. My son was staring at me, his blue eyes glazed, his jaw locked, his hands clenched into fists at his sides."What photos are these?" I asked. My voice came out lower than I wanted. Weaker."You tell me." He tilted his head, his lips curving into a smile that wasn't a smile. "What photos are these?""Son—""Who is this woman?" He pointed at the desk. His finger was trembling. "W
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Chapter: Chapter 31 [The Price of the Lie]Arthur's POVThe phone vibrated on the mahogany desk. Vivienne's name glowed on the screen. I answered without hurry, leaning back in the chair."My love," she began, her voice sweet as honey, the mask perfectly in place. "I imagined you would call me. After traveling to the United States without a word. Without telling your wife.""Since when do I need to tell you?""Since my last name is still the same as yours, Arthur." The sweetness didn't disappear, but something sharper appeared beneath it. "Since your image is still tied to mine. Since what you do affects the family."The sound of a lighter. She lit a cigarette."You're going to cancel Nathalie Foster's termination. Immediately."The silence that followed was long. The smoke hissed."Nathalie who?" she asked, her voice full of contempt. "Arthur, do you have any idea how many models work for Sterling? Dozens. Hundreds. I'm not obligated to memorize the name of every single one.""Nathalie Foster. The model you fired yesterday."
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Chapter: Chapter 30 [The Escape]Emily's POVThe air in the apartment became heavy, dense, as if someone had sucked all the oxygen out at once.Marcus stood there in front of me, his blue eyes glazed, that crooked smile at the corner of his mouth. He seemed bigger than I remembered. More threatening."How did you get in?" I managed to ask, my voice coming out lower than I wanted."Your friend let me in." He shrugged, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. "Nathalie. She was leaving when I arrived. She was friendly, by the way. You're in need of more friendliness, Emily."My blood ran cold. Naty wouldn't do that. She wouldn't let him in. She knew what he had done. She knew everything."You're lying.""Am I?" Marcus laughed, a low, humorless laugh. "Ask her when she comes back. If she comes back.""Naty wouldn't do that to me.""She didn't know it was me, Emily." He took a step forward. I stepped back. My back was already against the door. I couldn't go back any further. "Actually, for someone who couldn't
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The Billionaire Replaced Me With My Assistant
"You really thought I would marry someone like you?" His voice was as cold as ice while his blue eyes pierced through me without mercy. "You were just a convenient distraction.Victoria was always the woman I truly wanted by my side."
In that moment, I felt my heart shatter into a thousand pieces, but I swore to myself that those would be the last tears I would ever shed for Alexander Reed.
Sophia Morgan had always been a dedicated woman who built her career from the ground up. An orphan with no family support, she worked tirelessly until she became the Marketing Director of the Reed Group. When the powerful and arrogant CEO Alexander Reed noticed her, she believed she had found not only love but also a place to belong.
After three years as his secret lover, Sophia discovers in the worst way possible that she was merely a pastime for Alexander. During a corporate event, he publicly humiliates her by announcing his engagement to Victoria, Sophia's personal assistant, who had secretly conspired to take her place.
Devastated and with nowhere to go, Sophia tries to piece her life back together. But fate has other plans when she is forced to continue working at the same company, facing daily the man who destroyed her heart and the woman who stole her dreams.
In a world where power and money make the rules, Sophia will need to find the strength to survive alongside the man who betrayed her, while battling the feelings that still persist in her wounded heart.
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Chapter: Chapter 232Sophia's POVThe dream always started the same way.Richard was in the garden of Eleanor's mansion, fallen after the drop. His body didn't move, but his eyes were open. Fixed on me. I approached, the cold stone floor beneath my bare feet, and he didn't speak. Didn't ask for help. Didn't scream in pain. Just looked."Why did you never tell me I was your daughter?" My voice echoed in the dream, strange, distorted. "Why did you treat me so badly? Why did you want to destroy everything?"Silence.He opened his mouth, but no sound came out. Blood trickled from the corner of his lips, and his eyes remained there, glassy, watching me as if I were a ghost."Answer me, dammit! Why didn't you kill me when you could? Why did you wait?"Nothing.Just the wind in the trees of the mansion. Just his eyes. Just the silence growing between us until it became unbearable.And I woke up.My eyes opened to the bedroom ceiling. Cold sweat ran down my back. My heart was beating so fast I could feel it in my
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Chapter: Chapter 231Sophia's POVI looked at the ceiling, then at him."I forgave her," I said finally. "Simply forgave her."Michael didn't respond. He just waited."She's a woman that life broke. She made mistakes. Manipulated. Did horrible things. But deep down… she just wanted to protect her daughter. And she failed. She lived with that guilt for years. I don't want to carry that weight. Especially because I don't think it's up to me to judge her."He touched my face, his thumb gently brushing my cheek."And can you do it? Live with this?""I can. Because I have you. Because I have Emma and her family. Because I have people I chose by my side." I looked down at my belly. "Because I have a new life to take care of."His hand slid to my belly. His warm palm against the thin fabric of my shirt."I'm going to be a father," he whispered, as if trying the word for the first time."You are.""And you're going to be a mother.""I am."He kissed me. It wasn't a kiss of desire. It was a kiss of promise."I jus
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Chapter: Chapter 230Sophia's POV The car's ceiling, the leather seats, the dark glass… everything spun. I clutched the dossier against my chest so tightly my fingers hurt.The air ran out. The ground disappeared. And I stood there, paralyzed, while the world crumbled around me."Sophia," Eleanor called, her voice broken. "Please, say something."What could I say? That I was fine? I wasn't. That I forgave her? I didn't know. That I hated her? I didn't know that either."I spent years hating Richard for killing my daughter," Eleanor continued, tears streaming endlessly. "And now I find out he also raped her. That his blood runs in your veins. That my granddaughter is the daughter of my worst enemy."She rested her forehead against the front seat, her shoulders shaking."I feel like trash, Sophia. Trash. For not protecting Ingrid. For not looking for you. For letting hatred blind me for so long.""He knew," I whispered, my voice strange. "Richard knew who I was. That's why he pursued me. That's why he neve
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Chapter: Chapter 229Sophia's POVEleanor's car was parked on a side street, away from curious eyes. The windows were dark, impenetrable. Outside, Eleanor's assistant stood next to the driver, her back to us, like a sentinel.I was sitting in the back seat, as far away from my grandmother as possible. Alexander's dossier still pressed against my chest. Michael stayed in our car, two blocks away, waiting. I said it would be five minutes. Ten had already passed."Sophia," Eleanor began, her voice trembling. "My daughter…"She reached out her hand to touch my face.I turned my head away."How did you have the courage?" My voice came out cold, cutting. "To come near me? To pretend you cared?"Eleanor withdrew her hand. Tears were already shining in her eyes."I can tell you everything," she said, hurried, desperate. "Richard… he lied. About your mother, about the car, about everything. I would never have ordered your mother's death. She was my daughter. My only daughter."I looked at the car's ceiling. Swallo
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Chapter: Chapter 228Sophia's POVMy body reacted before my mind. I retreated slightly in the chair, as if the folder might burn me."No."The word came out before I could think. Dry. Direct.Alexander raised an eyebrow, but didn't seem surprised. "You don't want to analyze it calmly?""I don't need to." I lifted my eyes to him, and felt the old pain rise from my chest to my throat. "I know what it is. It's the place where I was humiliated. Where they demoted me. Where I worked for the woman who destroyed my life. Where you…" My voice faltered, but I forced it to continue. "Where you looked me in the eye and announced your engagement to her, knowing what I felt for you."My hands were trembling. I pressed them over my bag to hide them."And you want me to buy shares?"Alexander didn't answer right away. He let my words hang in the air, heavy, necessary. When he spoke, his voice was lower."Yes. It's exactly that place. And that's why I need you here."I frowned, confused."You know this company better tha
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Chapter: Chapter 227Sophia's POVThe man I had loved almost to death was on the other side of the desk, leaning on a cane, and the autumn in New York seemed colder simply because I was there.Seven months. Seven months since I saw his blood seep between my fingers. Seven months since I climbed into an ambulance not knowing if he would make it to the hospital alive. Now Alexander Reed was there, alive, and I was back at the Reed Group by my own choice.The revolving doors of the glass and steel skyscraper reminded me of the day I last left here as an employee. The day he announced his engagement to Victoria and I crossed this same lobby with my head held high, even with my heart in pieces. Today I was returning for a business meeting.The security guard in the lobby recognized me. Nodded with a discreet smile. I nodded back, my heels echoing on the polished marble as I crossed the hall.Everything seemed the same, yet different. People walked faster, their eyes more alert. Richard Pierce's shadow still hu
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