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He's Getting Under My Skin
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Bound by Contract, Owned by Hate Marcus Hale
Chapter 16 (Xander's POV) The Elysium Tower joint statement took forty minutes to draft and approximately four seconds to be overshadowed by something considerably more irritating. His name was Marcus Hale. A Tech company heir. Thirty and had the kind of effortless charm that came from never having had to work particularly hard for anything. He arrived at Laurent Luxe's quarterly stakeholder reception that evening with an invitation I hadn't approved and a familiarity with Sophia that told me this wasn't their first encounter. I noticed immediately. I said nothing. The reception was Sophia's event, her guest list, her territory. I was present as her husband and as a Voss Group representative for the merger optics. My role tonight was visible support, not interference. I understood that perfectly. But it didn't make watching Marcus Hale lean against the bar beside Sophia and make her laugh any easier to process. She was in emerald green tonight. Of course she was
Bound by Contract, Owned by Hate He's Getting Under My Skin
Chapter 15 (Sophia's POV) Common enemy. I'd said it plainly in the back of Dax's car and Xander had confirmed it without hesitation. Those two words had quietly dismantled something I'd been holding onto for fifteen years. The clean simplicity of my hatred. It was considerably harder to hate a man who was handing you evidence against the person who'd actually destroyed your family. I was finding that out the inconvenient way. Izzy was waiting in my office at eight-fifteen with coffee, croissants and the expression of someone who had opinions she'd been saving up overnight. "The Beaumont dinner photographs are already circulating," she said, sliding her tablet across the desk. "Someone in the building had a camera. You look..." she paused, selecting her word carefully, "...natural together." I looked at the photograph. Xander and I leaving the building side by side, his hand at my lower back, my face turned slightly toward him mid-conversation. We looked like people
Bound by Contract, Owned by Hate My Wife Is Addictive
Chapter 14 (Xander's POV) The boardroom cleared at five. I stayed behind. Stood at the window with my hands in my pockets, watching the city shift from afternoon grey into the first amber streaks of evening, running through everything the last fourteen hours had delivered. Rachel Voss. Theo Grant. Victor's silence since my declined voicemail. Silence from Victor was never absence. It was preparation. Richard appeared in the doorway. "Nadia pushed tomorrow's calls to the afternoon as requested. And Dax confirmed the car for seven. The Beaumont dinner is still on." "Tell Dax eight," I said. "And send Sophia the updated time." A pause. "Should I contact her assistant or..." "Her directly." Richard absorbed that without comment and disappeared. I turned back to the window. The problem with Sophia Laurent was that she was becoming a variable I couldn't calculate cleanly anymore. That had never happened to me before. I ran every situation through the same fra
Bound by Contract, Owned by Hate Media Circus and Private War
Chapter 13 (Sophia's POV) The documents were still in my head the next morning. Elena's signature. Clean and unmistakable on a page that had no business existing. My mother's handwriting on evidence of a betrayal that had quietly hollowed out everything I thought I knew about our family's collapse. I'd held myself together in Xander's study. Barely. I held myself together all the way to Laurent Luxe. Then walked straight past Lila, closed my office door, and stood at the window for four full minutes before I trusted myself to sit down. My mother hadn't just been a victim of the Voss family's manipulation. She'd been inside it. I locked that thought in a box, put the box somewhere I wouldn't look at it until I had more information and opened my laptop. Work, Structure and Forward motion. The only three things that had never failed me. Lila knocked at eight-fifteen. "The morning coverage is significant," she said carefully, setting her tablet on my desk. "I
Bound by Contract, Owned by Hate I Showed Her the Truth… Partially
Chapter 12 (Xander's POV) Monday's meeting with Victor couldn't wait until Monday. He called at noon, which meant he already knew about Theo's review request. Which meant Theo had reported back faster than I'd anticipated. I let it go to voicemail. Then called Richard. "Pull everything Theo Grant has accessed on the Voss Group internal servers in the last thirty days," I said. "Cross-reference it with the Laurent Luxe quarterly data he requested yesterday. I want it on my desk before three." "Understood," Richard said. "Also, Nadia flagged a delivery. A sealed file. Came through the building's private courier service this morning. No return address." "Bring it up." The file arrived within minutes. No letterhead. No signature. Inside were three documents I recognized immediately copies of internal Voss Group correspondence from fifteen years ago. The same correspondence I'd found buried in the Laurent merger files last week. But these copies had annotations. H
Bound by Contract, Owned by Hate The First Crack in Her Armor
Chapter 11 (Sophia's POV) The morning after the Hargrove gala, I woke up before Xander. That was becoming a pattern. Him sleeping like a man with a clean conscience. Me lying in the dark cataloguing everything I'd noticed, everything I'd filed away, everything that didn't yet add up. I slipped out of bed quietly and took my coffee to the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Fifth Avenue. The city was still grey and unhurried below, the kind of early morning that belonged only to people who couldn't sleep and taxi drivers. I wrapped both hands around the mug and thought about Victor Voss. Last night had confirmed what Claire's pattern analysis had already suggested. Victor wasn't reacting to this marriage. He'd been positioning long before Xander and I signed anything. The Phoenix Holdings threat, the contract, the forced proximity, none of it had caught Victor off guard. Which meant one of two things. Either he'd anticipated it. Or he'd engineered it. I filed tha
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