The CEO'S secretary
Elias Rourke was more than a billionaire he was a tempest in a custom-fitted suit. As the CEO of Rourke Enterprises a bachelor, he was known for his icy effectiveness, merciless transactions, and total absence of emotion. Everyone referred to him as “Ice King” when he wasn't around.
Up until her.
Chloe Hart had worked as his secretary for slightly more than two weeks. Timid, kind-hearted, and excessively courteous, she was the type of woman who kept track of birthdays, tended to plants, and uttered "please" to the coffee maker. Elias hardly paid attention to her,until the morning she entered his office unannounced.
“I apologize for the interruption,” she said, her voice shaking, “but you haven’t had anything to eat today.” "It's nearly four."
He looked at her, irritated. “That’s none of your business.”
“I prepared a sandwich for you.”
She places it on his desk and walks away before he has a chance to reply to her.
Even with how rude he is to her, she brings him homemade meals everyday and lavender tea after tough meetings.
He started to notice little details about her, the way she played with her necklace when anxious, she shows no emotions even when he yells at her. One day, he sees himself approaching her desk not to order her around, but to ask her about her well being.
When a scandal almost destroys Elias’s empire. She stays by his side, not out of obligation, but because she trusted him.
He looked at her and whispered, “You are the gentleness in my whole existence." "I don't know how to show emotions, but I will learn just for you."
Chloe smiled, looking at him and said "Steel is capable of melting, Elias." "Even kings can experience love."
Basahin
Chapter: Chapter 40ELIAS' POV The light cut a sharp-thin line across the floor, hope spilling from the office door. But before Chloe could reach it, her double was on her.The impact made her cry out, the shadow of her body pinning Chloe against the wall. Same face. Same hair. The same trembling mouth twisted into something cruel.The moment her body launched from the dark, instinct pulled me forward faster than thought. My grip on Chloe tore free as I twisted, slamming into the shadow wearing her face.The impact rattled through bone, wood cracking beneath us as I drove her back. But she was stronger than she should’ve been…far stronger. Her arms lashed out, her nails catching my shoulder, dragging heat and pain down my skin.Behind me, Chloe screamed my name. It ripped through me sharper than claws ever could.“Run!” I barked, shoving at the double’s weight.But Chloe didn’t move. I heard the frantic scrape of her hands against the wall, refusing to leave.Her voice cut like glass. “I won’t leave you
Huling Na-update: 2025-09-03
Chapter: Chapter 39ELIAS’S POV The silence was too loud.Every creak, every whisper of breath carried weight. I kept my body angled in front of Chloe’s, one arm locked around her hand, the other flexing, ready to strike at nothing but dark.“Stay low,” I told her, forcing calm into my voice. She needed steady, not the storm inside me.Her nod brushed against my shoulder. She didn’t let go. She never let go.Gavin shifted against the wall, coughing hard, the sound thick. He’d lost too much blood. The weak light from his phone guttered, shadows gnawing the edges until it sputtered out again.“She hates the light,” he rasped, dragging air into his lungs. “It burns her. That’s why… why did she killed the power.”It clicked. The replication, the shadows, the way she thrived in the black. Isabelle had bred this thing out of Chloe’s image but built it out of hunger. Of absence.Light could starve her.But Chloe’s double wasn’t gone. She was listening.She laughed out loud from the ceiling beams. “Light won’t
Huling Na-update: 2025-08-31
Chapter: Chapter 38ELIAS’S POVHer laugh came again, low and splintering, circling the dark shed.Chloe’s fingers dug into me, her body trembling against my back. Every quiver of her frame drove my fury deeper into bone. I’d kill this thing, whatever it was, even if I had to tear my own hands apart to do it.“Elias…” she whispered, small, breaking.I covered her hands with mine, steady, and strong. “I’m not letting her near you.”A hiss curled from the dark. “You can’t protect her forever. Not from you.”My jaw snapped tight. The truth in her voice wasn’t hers…it was mine. Every regret, every silence, thrown back at me like a knife. And still I couldn’t let it cut.Then Gavin’s voice cut sharp, raw, from the shadows. “She’s feeding on the cracks. That’s how Isabelle built her…off memory, weakness, want. Don’t give her more to use.”Blood slicked his words; he was barely upright, but still fighting.“She’s not real,” I growled back at the dark, more for Chloe than myself. “She’s a parasite. And I’ll end
Huling Na-update: 2025-08-30
Chapter: Chapter 37ELIAS’S POVHer whisper cut through me.Behind Chloe.“Wrong choice.”I didn’t think. I lunged.The shed was absolutely dark, but I didn’t need light to know where she was..I heard Chloe Inhale sharply, the trembling sound in her throat, felt the way her body went stiff against the wall.“Get away from her!” My fist swung, catching air, then flesh. The force jarred up my arm, her body jerking back, her hiss cutting the silence like a blade.“Elias!” Chloe’s cry broke, half in relief, half in fear.I shoved forward, bracing my body against hers, shielding her with everything I had. My hand found her face, hot with tears, she was trembling under my palm. She clung to me like I was the only solid thing left, and God help me, I clung back.“She’s not touching you. Not while I breathe.”But the dark laughed again, the sound moving….circling. Always circling.“You can’t protect her,” the double purred. “You never could. You only kept her waiting, starving her, feeding me instead.”The word
Huling Na-update: 2025-08-28
Chapter: Chapter 36CHLOE'S POV The flashlight sputtered once,twice….And went out.It was dark again.Her laugh filled the silence, closer than breath.The dark swallowed everything.The sputtering beam from Gavin’s phone died, and the black slammed back into place, thick and suffocating.“Elias…” My voice cracked, swallowed by the walls.“I’ve got you,” he wrapped his hand around mine. The raw anger in his tone should have steadied me. Instead, it made my chest tighten. Because beneath the rage, I heard something else. Fear.A sound shifted in the dark. Not Gavin. Not Elias. Her.“Don’t worry,” she cooed, her voice curling around us, the mirror of mine. “I don’t need the light to find you. I am you.”Something brushed my arm. Too soft. Too real.I flinched back, colliding with Elias’s chest. His arm clamped around me instantly, pulling me flush against him. “Stay still.” His whisper burned hot against my ear.“But Gavin….”“I’ll protect him. But you first.”My breath shuddered. His grip, his heat, his
Huling Na-update: 2025-08-28
Chapter: Chapter 35CHLOE'S POV it was Blood.I yanked my hand back with a strange sound, stumbling against Elias’s chest. His arms locked tighter, as if my panic threatened to dissolve me into the dark.“Talk to me,” he ordered, rough, desperate. “What happened?”“There’s…” My throat refused the word. “Blood. I touched…”“Gavin?” His voice broke on the name.A groan answered from the floor. Not hers. Not a laugh. A human sound….low, pained, Gavin’s.Relief rushed with fear. “He’s alive,” I gasped, my knees threatening to give way.The laugh came again, curling around the edges of the dark. “Alive… for now.”Elias’s body shifted, trying to move us toward Gavin, but the boards creaked beneath us like they wanted to give away. He cursed under his breath, his forehead pressing to mine for half a second. “Stay with me. No matter what you hear, no matter what she says, stay with me.”His closeness was unbearable…his breath, the heat from his body, the pounding of his heart. It was the only thing that felt r
Huling Na-update: 2025-08-27
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