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CHAPTER 46: PAST

last update publish date: 2026-03-19 06:21:35

Natasha stood at the bottom of the stairs and looked at Xavier and Xavier looked back at her and for a second neither of them moved.

Then he smiled. Easy and natural like she had not just caught him whispering instructions into a phone at one in the morning in the dark.

"Oh, Natasha," he said. "What are you doing down here?"

She walked to the fridge and pulled out a bottle of water. "Couldn't sleep," she said simply. She cracked the bottle open and drank. "What are you doing down here?"

"Busine
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  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 48: BLOCKED

    Two hours.Three hours.Five hours.Natasha lay on her back staring at the ceiling with her phone resting on her chest and she told herself every thirty minutes that she was going to stop checking it. Then she checked it. The last message in the chat was still hers, sitting there unread, the double tick that had not turned and was not going to turn because he had not looked at it and was probably not going to look at it tonight.She ran her fingers through her hair and pressed the back of her hand against her forehead.This was the worst feeling. Not the anger, not even the tears that had already dried on her face. This. The part after all of that where her brain had quieted down and her stupid heart was still sitting there like an idiot waiting. Still hoping. After everything he had said. After the way he had looked at her. After she had watched his face show absolutely no regret for a single word that came out of his mouth.Her heart was still waiting for his name to appear on her s

  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 47: PATHETIC

    Natasha turned in her seat and looked at Dimitri standing at the bottom of the stairs and her first thought was how long has he been there.Her second thought was that his face was something she had not seen before. Not the cold control. Not the quiet intensity. Something underneath all of that. Something raw and ugly and tangled that was trying to come out as anger because anger was the only language he trusted."Are you trying to get people to buy your fake emotions?" he said. His voice was cold and angry and something else underneath both of those things. Something she could not name yet.Xavier stood up from his chair. He did not raise his voice. He did not match the energy. He just stood and looked at his brother and said, "Will you calm down? I am not selling anything. I am not manipulating anyone. I said I regret what I did. That is the truth.""So what?" Dimitri took one step down. His eyes were fixed on Xavier and only Xavier. Like Natasha had ceased to exist in the room enti

  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 46: PAST

    Natasha stood at the bottom of the stairs and looked at Xavier and Xavier looked back at her and for a second neither of them moved.Then he smiled. Easy and natural like she had not just caught him whispering instructions into a phone at one in the morning in the dark."Oh, Natasha," he said. "What are you doing down here?"She walked to the fridge and pulled out a bottle of water. "Couldn't sleep," she said simply. She cracked the bottle open and drank. "What are you doing down here?""Business associate," he said. "Called at a bad time."She looked at him over the rim of the bottle.A business associate. In the middle of the night. She turned the explanation over once in her mind and then set it aside. People called at all hours. It happened. She was not going to stand here and make something out of nothing when her head was already full of things she could not sort through.She set the bottle on the dining table and pulled out a chair. Xavier came and sat across from her, settling

  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 46: PAST

    Natasha stood at the bottom of the stairs and looked at Xavier and Xavier looked back at her and for a second neither of them moved.Then he smiled. Easy and natural like she had not just caught him whispering instructions into a phone at one in the morning in the dark."Oh, Natasha," he said. "What are you doing down here?"She walked to the fridge and pulled out a bottle of water. "Couldn't sleep," she said simply. She cracked the bottle open and drank. "What are you doing down here?""Business associate," he said. "Called at a bad time."She looked at him over the rim of the bottle.A business associate. In the middle of the night. She turned the explanation over once in her mind and then set it aside. People called at all hours. It happened. She was not going to stand here and make something out of nothing when her head was already full of things she could not sort through.She set the bottle on the dining table and pulled out a chair. Xavier came and sat across from her, settling

  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 45: HARMLESS

    The car pulled into the curb and Dimitri stepped out without a word. He handed nothing to anyone, said nothing to anyone. He just walked straight through the entrance, his black coat lifted from his shoulders by one of the maids the moment he crossed the threshold. He pressed the elevator button and the doors slid open.And she was standing right there.Something in his chest that had been wound tight since the port, since the president and his rings and his little stool and his certainty, since Gregory bleeding on the ground, since all of it, loosened. Just like that. Just from seeing her standing there in the open elevator doors looking at him with those pretty eyes."Oh hey," she said.He stepped forward and put his arms around her."Woah." Her voice was surprised but her hands came up immediately, patting his back gently. "What happened?"He didn't answer right away. He held her and pressed his face into her neck and just stayed there for a moment, breathing her in, letting the da

  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 44: TERMS

    Natasha pushed the phone away from her and then pulled it back.She stared at the email one more time.You met with Chloe, right?That was it. That was all it said. No name. No demand. No explanation. Just that one quiet sentence sitting there like it already knew the answer and was asking purely to let her know that it knew.She picked up her fork and set it down again.She was done eating. She had been done eating since the notification came in but she was still sitting here because getting up felt like admitting that this had properly rattled her and she was not ready to admit that yet.She opened the email and typed back.Who are you? Stop sending me cryptic messages and just tell me directly what you want from me. And how do you know I met with Chloe? Come out clearly or stop messaging me entirely.She sent it and put the phone face down on the table.Then she picked it up and looked at it again.Nothing. No reply. Of course no reply. Whoever this was only communicated on their o

  • CAPTIVE SINS   Chapter 15

    The next day, Natasha had the best sleep she'd had in days. Her leg was improving significantly. She could stand alone now, limping into the bathroom by herself. She did a proper bath, applied her body ointment, and was just finishing zipping up her top when her door suddenly opened.It was him."H

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  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 17: THE BREAKING POINT

    Dimitri got home late in the night looking completely stressed out. His mind was still in turmoil. The file. The impossible file. He wanted to believe it was fake. He wanted to believe there was no file anywhere. He'd destroyed it years ago. No one could use anything against him. Anyone who tried wo

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  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 19: THE CONFRONTATION

    They walked into one of the biggest malls in Lilliton, and Natasha felt like she was feeding her eyes on pure serenity for the first time in two months. She had not seen any other human beings except for him, the maids, and some of his men. The sheer number of people moving around, the colors, the

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  • CAPTIVE SINS   CHAPTER 18: THE SHOPPING TRIP

    She steadied herself against the doorframe, her heart hammering so violently against her ribs that she thought it might break through her chest. It was unexpected. It was quick. Her head was spinning in the most intoxicating way. The kiss she had wanted so badly was finally happening, and she close

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