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Chapter 29

Author: Chioma Ezeh
last update publish date: 2026-05-09 23:37:06

Gwen's pov

Josie had gone down easily tonight, which meant she was genuinely tired and not performing sleep the way she sometimes did when she wanted company.

I had sat with her until her breathing deepened and her grip on my hand loosened, and then I had kissed her forehead, slipped out, and pulled the door behind me with the care of someone who had learned exactly how much pressure the handle needed to make no sound at all.

I freshened up, and then I sat with my laptop and my event notes sp
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    Gwen's pov Josie had gone down easily tonight, which meant she was genuinely tired and not performing sleep the way she sometimes did when she wanted company. I had sat with her until her breathing deepened and her grip on my hand loosened, and then I had kissed her forehead, slipped out, and pulled the door behind me with the care of someone who had learned exactly how much pressure the handle needed to make no sound at all.I freshened up, and then I sat with my laptop and my event notes spread across the coffee table, and I told myself I was working, which was true and also not the whole truth because part of me was listening for the front door, and I had stopped pretending otherwise somewhere around midnight.I wanted to talk to him; that was all I had in my mind.The video, the press conference, and his name trending for the second time because of something connected to me. I wanted to sit across from him and understand what had happened and whether he was alright and why he h

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    Xavier's pov Punching him had not been enough.That was the truth of it, and it sat in me on the drive back from the press room with my knuckles still aching and the noise of the room still somewhere in my ears. The reporter was going to have a story now that was considerably more interesting than anything he had walked into that building to write, and I knew that and had done it anyway and would do it again, and none of that changed the fact that it had not been enough because the word was already out there.It was spoken into cameras and recorders, and the permanence of things that had been said in public and a punch couldn't reach any of that.I went back to meetings and then my office like nothing happened. That was what you did when you were the alpha of a pack, the head of a company, and the man that a room full of people needed to believe was in control of everything.The board had questions about the press conference, but these questions were not for the merger, as they wer

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    Gwen’s povI had said it because it was true and I would say it again if I had to because I knew all of that was true and some way those words had found a way to sit in my chest overnight like something that was utterly important to me.When I said it was just an arrangement and a contract, those were words I had chosen deliberately. I had meant every syllable and I did not regret saying it and I had also lain awake longer than I wanted to admit staring at a ceiling that had nothing useful to offer me.Xavier had been cold this morning but he was not cruel, he was never cruel the way Cole had been cruel but he was distant in a way that implied he had been hurt and was still processing what to do.He had left before breakfast was properly on the table and the space he left behind him had this quality to it that I felt more than I wanted to.Even though I felt his coldness I had other things to do and I would not dwell on it and that was what I told myself and which was mostly true.I

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    Xavier’s povThe press room was exactly the kind of environment I had learned to move through without effort even with the lights and cameras and the stillness of a room full of people waiting to write something down. I had done enough of these to know how they moved, where the difficult questions lived and how to answer them in ways that gave journalists enough to fill their columns without giving them anything that actually mattered.Jessica Sterling stood beside me at the podium and she was good at this, genuinely good because it didn’t look like she was performing, she possessed an elite level of competence.When the conference started it was magnificent and it held the efficiency of two prepared people who had done their homework and respected each other's time.We covered the expansion first then I spoke about Holt Holdings' trajectory in real estate and the natural progression toward integrated travel services.I spoke about offering clients not just the properties but the eas

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    Gwen:They had been at it since late afternoon and the sunroom had transformed over the hours into something that looked like a war room. There were laptops open and mood boards spread across the table with empty cups pushed to the edges to make space for whatever needed space next. My team worked the way they always had which was with a focused and slightly chaotic energy that looked disorganized from the outside and produced exceptional results anyway. Dare had the vendor list color coded and was calling in favors from people she had been saving for exactly this kind of emergency. Micah had pulled three different lighting concepts and was arguing quietly but passionately for the second one. Lena and Pru had divided the catering logistics between them without being asked and were moving through it with the efficiency of people who genuinely enjoyed this kind of pressure.I had forgotten how much I loved this. The building of something from scattered pieces, the satisfaction of wa

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    Gwen’s POV They had been at it since late afternoon and the sunroom had transformed over the hours into something that looked like a war room. There were laptops open and mood boards spread across the table with empty cups pushed to the edges to make space for whatever needed space next. My team worked the way they always had which was with a focused and slightly chaotic energy that looked disorganized from the outside and produced exceptional results anyway. Dare had the vendor list color coded and was calling in favors from people she had been saving for exactly this kind of emergency. Micah had pulled three different lighting concepts and was arguing quietly but passionately for the second one. Lena and Pru had divided the catering logistics between them without being asked and were moving through it with the efficiency of people who genuinely enjoyed this kind of pressure.I had forgotten how much I loved this. The building of something from scattered pieces, the satisfaction

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