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Chapter Forty Three
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Bound By The CEO's Contract CHAPTER FORTY FIVE
POV: NatalieIt would never be easy living with Alexander, I had told myself that long before we moved into the mansion. Two obstinate people in the same house was already a challenge, but with the rules and the distance between us, that was another thing entirely. I thought I was ready for the silence, for the coldness, for the walls he built so effortlessly. But nothing could have prepared me for the night.The mansion at night was mostly quiet, the kind of silence that made the tick-tock of the clock in the hallway so loud like it was a drum. I was lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, trying to sleep. That's when I heard it.“Eleanor!”When I heard it, I froze in my bed. My heart pounded because it reminded me of the night I had discovered him drunk and broken. Back then, I had assumed that it had been an instance of weakness, a rare slip for a man who lived in control. But now, hearing him cry out in his sleep again, it was obvious that whatever had haunted him had roots far deep
Bound By The CEO's Contract Chapter Forty Four
The rain started immediately after midnight.It didn't descend gently. It came in tiny bursts of fury, slamming against the balcony doors like angry fists.I fidgeted uncomfortably in bed and I was agitated. Sleep hadn’t come easily since I arrived at the estate, and tonight was worse. The storm made the shadows on the walls shift and stir. Every creak in the floorboards sounded like a footstep.I continued telling myself that I was imagining things.Until I heard it again.A creaking in the distance right outside my door. A soft, deliberate click, the sound of a lock turning.I swung my legs over the bed and reached for the nearest object, there was a little lamp on the nightstand. My heart was beating like crazy in my head.The handle shifted.I froze.Then…..nothing.The disturbance stopped, and whoever had caused it walked away quickly. I remained there for quite some time, holding onto the lamp, before I was finally brave enough to move. I walked across the room, closed the balco
Bound By The CEO's Contract Chapter Forty Three
(NATALIE’S POV)The front doors opened with a slow-paced, ponderous swing, revealing a hallway so wide that could fit three automobiles parked side by side. Marble floors stretched ahead of them like an endless sea, and light from an ornate chandelier poured down in golden streams.It ought to have felt beautiful.It didn't Two staff members stood on both sides of the doorway, dressed in crisp black uniforms. Their eyes flickered to me for a second before lowering again. There were no casual greetings and no hello. Just the silent acknowledgment that I had crossed into their space and Alexander's space. "Your things will be brought up," Alexander said casually, like I had already agreed to move in.I didn't answer. My eyes were too occupied checking around the room: the paintings on the walls, the heavy drapes, the smell of polished wood and something faintly floral. It was too perfect, like a show room. Nothing is disorganized."Come," he said, going on ahead without waiting to see
Bound By The CEO's Contract CHAPTER FORTY ONE
(NATALIE POV)Evening settled few hours later.The sky was a fading lilac.Alexander’s car cruised past the security barricade while I sat beside him in silence, my palms resting stiffly on my lap.I didn’t look at him. I hadn’t really looked at him since he picked me up actually.And it actually wasn't because I was angry….no, it had gone past that. It was something heavier now. Something colder.I had spent the last few hours back at my house, lying in bed, rolling from side to side, the bedsheet squeezed up around my limbs, because I couldn’t think straight. Every time I closed my eyes, I kept hearing Damien’s voice again and again.Flashes of the scene back at the restaurant kept slapping my face….the unexpected whisper from Damien back there:“Baby... I’m sorry.”And moments after this, it had all ended up being an act.That moment was all still replaying in a loop, folding over itself like a cruel joke.I had gone to that restaurant intending to break the contract. I was su
Bound By The CEO's Contract CHAPTER FORTY ONE
(NATALIE'S POV)My mind went blank for a second or maybe more, I couldn’t feel anything. Not even the sharp, sterile chill of the air conditioning that had been bothering me since I entered.Everything froze.Just moments ago, Alexander had blurted those words, “You’ll be moving in with me.”They bounced around in my skull like broken glass, slicing into everything I thought I had resolved back home barely an hour ago.I had made up my mind.I was going to end this contract.End it tonight.Now here was I sitting, blinking at him, as he just… casually flipped the script on me like none of it mattered. Like my feelings were nothing but some irrelevant footnote in his bigger picture.“Live with him?”I swallowed hard.Like he and I under the same roof? Waking up to his face every morning?Having to deal with the sharp glances of his sister who clearly wanted me out the second I walked in?Having to smile and pretend to his parents whom I was sure must have seen the news already and
Bound By The CEO's Contract CHAPTER FORTY
I looked up slowly.My eyes meeting my mother's own squarely and for a moment, everything else, including from my now fallen phone faded into the background.Mom was still standing just a few feet away, arms folded tight,Her brows were furrowed, not in anger, but in that subtle way that mothers do when they’re trying to read your soul. She was trying to reach the part of me I wasn’t saying out loud, She was searching for something in my expression.And I knew exactly what she thought she was seeing.Something around the threshold of guilt.And from her side of the picture, it probably made sense. I was looking like a mess, and to her, that was probably enough clue to fix her puzzle.I felt my chest tighten, as a new wave of frustration found its way to my throat.“No,” I said quickly, shaking my head like I could toss the very thought out of the room “It’s not” I repeated..I saw her lean forward slightly, instinctively, like she didn’t want to miss a word.And that almost made
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