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Chapter 102: Something's Not Right
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Bound by a Billion Dollar Marriage Chapter 102: Something's Not Right
Isla tried steering the wheelchair after them, but the grass swallowed the wheels completely useless.She abandoned it and pushed herself up, limping forward instead.Behind her, the whole inpatient wing churned with smoke and chaos.Not far off, Bianca and Richard watched Isla's uneven, hobbling retreat with quiet satisfaction.Everything's going exactly as planned.Bianca had smeared soot across her own face for effect, standing safely on the lawn while every eye stayed fixed on the fire. Watching Isla's back disappear, she narrowed her eyes. "Dad, you're sure Marcus is still here? He hasn't left yet?""Right he's tied up doing something in his mother's office," Richard confirmed, relaying whatever intel he'd gathered."Let's go find him." Bianca turned, scanning the chaotic crowd behind her.Then her eyes locked on someone striking in the swarm of evacuees. She brightened instantly, urging Richard to push her forward."Isla! ISLA, where ARE you?!" Bianca called out, weaving toward
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She lifted her sleep mask and squinted at the AC panel and her eye twitched.Eighty-six degrees. That's not a room temperature, that's a threat.She glanced sideways at the man beside her."COUGH cough cough COUGH!" Isla's irritation snapped instantly into pure panic when she caught sight of a very toned, very bare chest.He TOOK HIS SHIRT OFF."Are you INSANE?!" Isla nearly vaulted off the mattress, every hair on her body standing straight up.She spun away, curling into a tight ball, eyes screwed shut, trying to erase the image.Not that it worked. All she could think about was that lean, cut, distractingly toned frame."How do you just casually decide to sleep SHIRTLESS?!" Isla managed, once her heart rate came down enough to actually complain.She stayed curled up, face flaming red, lashes fluttering rapid-fire from sheer nerves.Beside her, Grayson shifted slightly, voice coming from behind, low and unbothered. "Men don't usually sleep fully dressed. Did you not know that?"Isla
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Isla glanced at his tall, unfairly long frame, then at the couch, and quickly calculated that there was no world where a man his size fit comfortably on that piece of furniture.Grayson stood silently watching, and clearly read exactly what was going through her head.Isla thought it over carefully, then ventured, "Mr. Vale, how about you take the bed, and I take the couch?"The second she said it, unease crept in.Her bright eyes fixed on his tall frame beside the bed, and the longer he stayed silent, brow furrowed, the more flustered she became.Grayson's gaze sharpened as he studied her.Isla's heart started hammering. That increasingly cold, intense stare felt like it might actually devour her whole.She stayed put, obedient, unmoving.Grayson stood there, elegant and imposing, the overhead light only sharpening the effect.Something about the sheer weight of his composure made breathing difficult. Isla swallowed hard.Under that stare, she felt her eyes darting nervously right as
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Isla stayed hospitalized, and the butler stopped by that evening to check in.She'd been quietly anxious all day, but once he assured her that Grayson was fully aware of the situation and had already promised to look into everything no consequences, just rest and recovery the knot in her chest finally loosened.Thank god. He believed the real story.The maid set a change of clothes at the foot of Isla's bed, bowed, and stepped out.On her way out, Isla caught her murmuring something to Grayson about taking good care of himself."Phew... thank god the real Grayson doesn't have a problem with any of this." Isla had genuinely feared getting blamed if word had gotten out about the whole hotel-waitress job she'd kept hidden, that would've been a whole separate disaster."Mr. Vale, aren't you heading home?"Where else would he go?"I'm staying," Grayson said, watching her from the doorway, his dark suit striking against the sterile white room.Isla stared, blank, clearly not expecting that
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Isla lay rigid on the bed, his hand still resting at her waist, her whole body caught in some invisible spell.A face this stunning, this close. Even swallowing feels indecent right now.She still swallowed anyway.Even keeping it quiet, Grayson caught it, close as they were.He let out a low chuckle, and a shiver ran straight through her. Her eyes felt trapped open, she had nowhere safe to look; closed, it felt like admitting something she wasn't ready to.Why is he laughing? Did he actually hear that? That's mortifying.Isla started fidgeting her uninjured toes a nervous habit she couldn't help.Grayson's dark eyes stayed fixed on her, a smirk tugging at his mouth, voice low and warm. "Drooling over me?""NO!" Isla stayed frozen in place, face flooding red.If he actually thinks I was absolutely not. Not confirming that."Tsk." He caught her chin and turned her face fully toward him."Ow that hurts." An old bruise, half-hidden by her hair, flared under his touch.She'd been hit twic
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Isla put on her most sincere expression. Beyond the leftover redness from crying, her eyes read as pure, wide-eyed confusion. Say what now? I have no idea what you mean.She held his stare, unblinking. "He was just concerned about my injuries, told me to take care of myself. That's it."Grayson lowered himself into the chair beside the bed, studying her with that unnervingly composed, unreadable face.He tilted his head slightly, mouth curving with faint skepticism. "Is that so."The drawn-out, slow delivery made Isla's heart lurch again.He clearly doesn't believe me.Even if he had every right not to, there was no way she was admitting she'd actually asked Marcus to help track down her grandmother's location."Mm-hm." Isla nodded with a smile.Watching her play soft and harmless only irritated Grayson further."You two were leaning in pretty close. Looked like you were whispering something."Whispering? He literally walked in before we could exchange more than a sentence. What "whis
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