Chapter: Chapter 270Why didn’t i see something like this happening?”Watch your step.”Malachi’s voice pulls me out of my thoughts again and i feel a shudder course through my spine. This fashion show - the runway - everything is being broadcasted which means if Grandfather was paying any attention, he must have seen w
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Chapter: Chapter 269I almost run as i make my way towards the general hall. Tieran is fast on my heels and i can see the slight confusion in his eyes - i can see the immediate recognition at the sight of that baby.What in hell’s name are they even doing here?I get down and my heart drops into my stomach. She’s making
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Chapter: Chapter 268A question slips out of my lips before i can stop myself, “Are you sure you want to leave with me after this?”Ever since he suggested it, the questions have been brewing at the back of my mind.Disappearing after my fashion show is one thing. I might be the talk of many shows right now, but i’m sti
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Chapter: Chapter 267I walk down the hallway and try to shake off the icky feeling that clings to my skin from meeting Skye.I can’t believe i ever thought the reason Malachi wanted her was because maybe despite all odds, she was just genuinely a good person. Someone better than i am.Skye is nothing but a snake and a b
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Chapter: Chapter 266The floor shifts and rolls. The very image of fluffy clouds and radiant light.I can see people discussing, talking. Armed with cameras, all of them.Tonigt is going to be a defining night.”Well if it isn’t the talk of the town.”I turn immediately to see a female walking towards me.It’s been a lo
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Chapter: Chapter 265Bridget jacks me away the moment she catches the sight of me. She downright ignores Malachi and glares at him when he tries to follow us. He glares right back but relents and walks off, but not before he directs a look my way.Not before he stares at me long and hard and so well i know he’s doing it
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One Night's Mistake: Claimed by my Boyfriend's Brother.
Lyra Bennet made a mistake…
After years of a committed relationship to her boyfriend Levi, Lyra plans to give him the only thing she has always held from him: Her Innocence. Yet the night doesn’t go exactly as planned, and she ends up sleeping with someone else instead, Her boyfriend’s brother.
Lyra has betrayed Levi in the worst way possible.
She loves him, she really does. But even love isn’t enough to prepare her for what comes next.
Lyra finds out she’s not the one who’s cheated on their relationship. Levi has also been busy, but while she felt guilt for betraying him, Levi has been lying right to her face - the same way he’s been doing for months now while he betrayed all that was ever between them.
With the pain and hurt running through her, Lyra decides she won’t be the fool he cheats on and calls “babe” right after he’s fucked her bestfriend.
No.
To get back at her boyfriend, Lyra becomes determined to chase his brother Christian Storm and become his sister-in-law. But Christian Storm is much more than just a man…. He’s a force to be reckoned with.
While Lyra plans to simply use Christian for revenge, she realizes something as she tries to use him. Lyra realises there can be no other man for her except him. Her heart has been captured, by a man she might never be able to have…. Because not only is he miles out of her league… Christian also has a fiancée.
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Chapter: Chapter 105: Masquerading II.My mind pauses on the possibility of it, but there's no way Christian would know and not do anything about it. He may have never even seen this email, because it's been so long since he's had a secretary, and since no one has been here to monitor things like this, Levi can exploit it.A phone rings and I jump immediately, thinking it's the company line, but it's not. It's mine, and the caller is Christian.I pick up, ready to spill out every bit of my discovery to him, but his voice beats me to it, "The report from the finance department should have been on my desk by now, Miss Bennett."The call cuts immediately after that, and for a while I'm left gaping at my phone, mouth hanging open and a large question mark in the wrinkles on my forehead.Still, my hand is reaching for the report that just came out of the printer a minute ago. I'm shocked, not incompetent.I march my way to the elevator, ignoring the eyes of coworkers as they stare at me. They're probably wondering what has push
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Chapter: Chapter 104: Masquerading.The relief that floods me is embarrassing. Like a drowning person spotting land.She works here, that’s a… coincidence but it makes sense. Something about her feels so familiar I speak before I can stop myself.“I think I’m my mind.”She smiles as she steps closer. “Not yet, though this place has a way of chewing people up if they’re not careful.”I watch as she crouches slightly, slender fingers prying at the copier with practiced ease. In a few smooth motions, she fixes the jam that had me ready to cry. She pulls out the stack of crumpled paper and hands it to me with a small grin. “There. No more machine mutiny.”I take the papers, my cheeks hot with embarrassment at how easy she made that seem while I almost broke down from it. “Thank you, sincerely. You seriously just saved my life.”Her eyes glimmer at that. “I’m glad I could help. I know how brutal first days here can be.”I hit reprint on the files that got the copier jammed a while ago as I respond, “Brutal is one word for it
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Chapter: Chapter 103: Green.The silence in the room doesn’t lessen even as more people come in. It’s a living thing and it’s slightly suffocating.Christian’s employees all look star struck at the sight of him, but when they turn their eyes to me there’s a look of suspicion and a stark question in them even though no one says anything.Those stares all say one thing, “Who the hell are you?”Christian’s presence is an imposing boulder at my side and those of his employees are an intimidating hard place, so I’m kind of stuck now. Still, my legs take me forward of their own will till I’m climbing the steps to the podium Christian mentioned a minute ago.The moment I get to the top, something like an electric charge shoots through me, and suddenly my face is on a large screen I didn’t even know was there. I clear my throat and I hear the sound echo like I’m speaking into a microphone so the pit in my stomach grows deeper, but I force the words out of my throat, putting as much confidence in my voice that I hope it d
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Chapter: Chapter 102: First day."What did she say her name was?"For the first time in a month I comfortably woke up and ran a hot bath for myself. The action is doing something to my brain that I can't understand, so when Estel asks this question, all I can do is stare at her as the hot water in the fragrant-smelling bath soaks into my skin.It's 6 a.m. and we're both in the bathroom, she on one side of the sink and me on the other, each trying to get ready for the day. And why did I tell her about the girl who helped me shop again?"Lyra, I asked what the girl's name was. Did she not drop a name?"This time the confusion rolling around in my mind makes me respond, "She didn't give me her name, but she gave me a card. She's really good at what she does because her clothes were really nice. Her hair was elegantly laid down too, like she had just gotten it done. We met trying to get the same blouse...""And she helped you shop for outfits, just like that?"There's a wariness in Estel's tone that makes me wonder. I tr
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Chapter: Chapter 101: Over or under ten thousand dollars?“Where are you right now, Estel?”Estel yawns and I hear it in full force on the other side of the line. It’s 9pm in the city and I’m out, in a mall, in a shopping outlet, trying to shop for clothes while trying not to feel like I don’t belong here.I can already see some of the shopping attendants chattering at one corner of the store. The question is if they’re talking about me or not? Plus, isn’t clothing outlet snobbery only supposed to exist during the daytime? Isn’t snobbery meant to have run out by this time?Estel’s voice on the other end of the line reminds me that I’m actually on a call as she responds, “I can’t disclose where I am right now. What’s up though?”I speak under my breath as I respond, “I’m at a clothing store, trying to spend some of my wardrobe allowance, and failing miserably because my best friend isn’t here. You also missed the dinner.”Estel chuckles, “Girl, you know you’re lying. You didn’t want me three feet near that dinner.”I gasp, and in an attempt
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Chapter: Chapter 100: New.”Are you worried about being my secretary?”I can’t lie that I’m not, because I think he would know, but admitting to my fear also leaves me with a feeling in the pit of my stomach that feels unbecoming, so I admit, but to the fear, “I’m worried about being adequate as your secretary, yes. It sounds like important work, and I wouldn’t want to make things harder for you by being in that position.”Christian reaches across the couch and gathers me into his arms as he asks, “Do you want to know why I chose to send you the employment offer after not sending out any of that nature for almost half a year now?”Christian’s words are warm, and it sounds like he’s about to reassure me right now. A part of me craves that reassurance like a thirsty deer craves a babbling brook.I want him to tell me it’ll be okay and that I’ll be great at my first day of work, but Christian’s words are different from what I expect when he speaks, “I chose you as my secretary because I trust my judgment.It’s nev
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