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Bound by Obsession The Journal
I opened to the beginning. The first entry was dated three years ago, right when the business started failing.The investors are pulling out. One by one, they're losing faith. I can't blame them—the numbers don't lie. We're hemorrhaging money.But I can't give up. This company is my legacy. My father built it. I grew it. I can't let it die on my watch.Isla doesn't know how bad it is. I've shielded her from the worst. She's engaged to Marcus, planning her wedding, building her life. I won't burden her with my failures.I read entry after entry. Watched my father's slow descent into financial panic. His attempts to hide it from me. His guilt about the burden.Then, an entry from six months ago:Richard Cross approached me today. Said he could make my problems disappear. Said his son needed a wife for an inheritance, and I had a daughter who needed money.He offered me a deal: convince Isla to meet Damien. Orchestrate a situation where they'd see the mutual benefit.I told him to go to
Bound by Obsession Escape
TWO DAYS LATERI woke up screaming.The nightmare was vivid—my father's funeral, but this time the coffin was empty. I was searching everywhere, panicking, unable to find him. And everyone kept asking where he was, why I'd lost him, why I couldn't keep him safe."Isla. Isla, wake up. You're dreaming." Damien's voice cut through the panic. "Come back to me."I jolted awake, gasping, my face wet with tears. "I lost him. In the dream, I lost him and I couldn't—""Shh. It was just a dream. Just a nightmare." He pulled me against his chest, his heart beating steady under my ear. "You didn't lose him. He's—""Dead. He's dead and I can't get him back and—" The sobs came hard and fast, my whole body shaking.Damien held me through it, rocking slightly, murmuring reassurances that felt hollow but necessary.This was the third nightmare in two nights. Third time I'd woken up screaming, crying, unable to breathe."That's it," Damien said when I finally calmed down. "We're leaving.""What?""Toda
Bound by Obsession My Father Knew
MY FATHER'S STUDYI'd been avoiding this room. His sanctuary. The place he'd spent hours working on business, reading, thinking.The place where he'd had the heart attack that started everything."I can do this room," Lucas offered. "You don't have to...""No. I need to." I pushed the door open.It looked exactly like he'd left it. Papers on the desk. Reading glasses next to his computer. A half-finished cup of coffee, now moldy.I picked up the coffee cup while shaking hands."He made this the morning of my engagement party," I said. "The day everything fell apart. He was sitting right here when I called to tell him about Marcus. He said—" My voice broke. "He said, 'Come home, sweetheart. We'll figure this out together.'"Damien took the cup from me gently. "We don't have to do this room today.""Yes, we do. I can't keep avoiding it." I sat in my father's chair, and it still smelled like him. "He spent so much time in here. Fighting to save the business. Trying to protect me from how
Bound by Obsession Ghosts And Memories
I stood outside my childhood home in Brooklyn, unable to make myself go inside.The small two-story house looked exactly the same—peeling blue paint, the crooked mailbox my dad had always meant to fix, the rose bushes my mother had planted twenty years ago. But everything was different because he wasn't inside.He'd never be inside again."We don't have to do this today," Damien said softly beside me. "We can come back when you're ready.""I'll never be ready." I forced my feet to move toward the door. "But my mother wants the house cleared and sold. Says she can't bear to live here with the memories.""Where's she staying?""With my aunt in Connecticut. She left three days ago. Couldn't even wait until—" My voice cracked. "She left me a list of what she wants. Everything else is mine to deal with."Damien's jaw tightened. "She should be here helping you.""She's grieving in her own way." The excuse sounded hollow even to me. "Let's just get this over with."I unlocked the door, and t
Bound by Obsession Together Through It
Damien made up an excuse about me not feeling well, which wasn't even a lie. Within twenty minutes, the penthouse was cleared, even Lucas and Sophie leaving with promises to check in tomorrow.The silence after everyone left was deafening."What do you need?" Damien asked."I don't know." I looked around at the half-drunk champagne glasses, the congratulations banners, the celebration of a victory that felt pyrrhic. "This all feels wrong. Like we're celebrating while my dad's grave is still fresh.""We don't have to celebrate." He started gathering glasses, cleaning up. "We can just... exist. That's enough."I watched him clean, this billionaire CEO picking up champagne flutes and wadded napkins, and something in my chest cracked open."Stop," I said.He looked up. "What?""Stop cleaning. Come here."He set down the glasses and crossed with me. I pulled him down onto the couch, into my arms, and just held him."Thank you," I whispered."For what?""For kicking everyone out. For not ma
Bound by Obsession The Weight of Victory
THE CEMETERY - LATE AFTERNOONWe stood at my father's grave, the fresh earth still settling, the temporary marker stark against the green grass."We won, Dad," I said softly, my hand in Damien's. "The court ruled in our favor. You were right—our love is real. Everyone can see it now."Damien squeezed my hand. "Thank you, James. For trusting me with your daughter. For seeing what we had before we did. For giving us your blessing." His voice cracked. "I promise I'll take care of her. Every day. For the rest of my life."I leaned against him, both of us crying silently."He would've loved today," I whispered. "Would've wanted to celebrate.""Then we'll celebrate for him. The way he would've wanted." Damien kissed my temple.***THE NEXT DAYI woke up feeling hollow.We'd won. The court ruled in our favor. We had our six months to prove our love was real, and then the inheritance would be ours permanently.We should have been celebrating.Instead, I felt like I was drowning.Damien was al
Bound by Obsession The Morning After
I awoke in regret with some fancy sheets.For one glorious moment, I didn’t think about it. And then it all came back, Marcus, my father, the bar, the plane, the chapel with its Elvis kitschy and the judge who had stared at us like we were idiots.My marriage certificate on the bedside with my new
Bound by Obsession Welcome To Hell
He pressed in closer and I smelled him, cedar wood and something deeper, a fragrance that was more expensive. "I need a wife. You need money. We can help each other."I laughed. Actually laughed. "That's your line? That's what you're going with?""It's not a line. It's a business proposition." He r
Bound by Obsession The Night Everything Burned
The champagne flute smashed against the marble floor, crystal shattering just like my perfectly groomed existence."Isla, baby, just listen...""Don't." My voice was strangled, barely human. “You will not.”Marcus was in the vestibule in the coatroom, staring at me, his bow tie undone, lipstick on
Bound by Obsession Things Of My Own
My father stared at me for a long time, then he nodded. "He seems like a good man. Cold, but good. And the way he gazed at you when you weren’t watching...""How did he look at me?"“Like you were something he hadn’t solved yet.” My father smiled slightly. “And as if he wanted to discover it as muc
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