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Chapter 58: The Shadow Before the Name
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Cinderella and Her Three Knights Chapter 61: The Architect of Shadows
Ella’s POVThe leather folder felt like a brand against my skin, tucked hidden and heavy beneath my blazer. I had spent the night staring at the Monroe Provision, the legal jargon blurring into a singular, terrifying truth: I was the anchor for the entire Blackwood empire. My mother hadn't just been a friend to the Chairman; she had been his silent partner, and I was the heir to the land they stood on.But I was the only one who knew.To the brothers, I was still just Ella. The intern. The girl who had somehow slipped under their skin.I arrived at the office early, my movements precise, my face a mask of professional distance. I needed to keep the brothers in their separate lanes. If they started talking to each other, the web I was weaving would snap.I sat at my desk and pulled out my phone. I needed to move the target off my back and onto someone else. I dialed Marcus Hale’s restaurant line."Heyy," the voice came through, rough and impatient."It’s Ella. Adrian’s fixers are going
Cinderella and Her Three Knights Chapter 60: Any Blackwood Brother I choose, gets the inheritance!
Ella’s POVThe city at 4:00 AM was a skeletal version of itself, stripped of its noise and reduced to the rhythmic blinking of traffic lights and the cold, unfeeling glow of LED signs. I moved like a thief in the penthouse, my heart a frantic bird against my ribs. Beside me, Lucian was a landscape of heavy shadows and deep, steady breathing. The man who had bared his soul to me—the man who had held me as if I were the only solid thing in a liquid world—was still lost in the sanctuary of sleep.I didn't wake him. I couldn't.If I woke him, the "we" would become real. And "we" was a target. If I stood by him, I was a liability he would burn the world to protect, and in that fire, Adrian would find every reason to strip him of his name. I looked at the burner phone on the nightstand one last time. Marcus’s message was still there, a digital ghost watching us.I saw you.I gathered my clothes from the floor, the silk of my dress feeling like lead. I didn't leave a note. Notes were evidenc
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Ella’s POVThe city sped by in a blur of distorted neon and trailing brake lights. Lucian didn’t take one of his Blackwood fleet; he drove himself in a matte-black beast of a car that growled with a low, predatory hum. Inside the cabin, the air was different—it tasted of expensive leather, cold rain, and the lingering electricity of the story he had just told me.By the time we pulled into the underground garage of a glass-and-steel monolith near the waterfront, the silence between us had reached a breaking point. It wasn't an awkward silence. It was a vacuum, waiting to be filled by the storm that had been brewing since he first looked at me across that crowded restaurant."What is this place," I whispered as the engine cut out, the sudden quiet ringing in my ears."Hideout number two," Lucian said, his hands still gripping the steering wheel. His knuckles were white. "The mansion is where I go to pretend I’m a Blackwood. This..." He turned to look at me, his eyes dark and fractured.
Cinderella and Her Three Knights Chapter 58: The Shadow Before the Name
Ella’s POVThe sun was a bruised orange, dipping behind the jagged skyline as I slipped out of the side service entrance. I felt like a ghost haunting my own life. At the office, I was "Ella the Intern," but here, in the deepening shadows of an alleyway three blocks from the Blackwood Group, I was someone’s secret.Lucian was waiting.He wasn't in the back of a town car. He was leaning against a weathered brick wall, his expensive coat unbuttoned, looking entirely too beautiful for such a gritty backdrop. When he saw me, the tension in his shoulders didn't just fade—it vanished."You’re late," he said, but his voice was like velvet."I had to make sure Nora didn't follow me. She’s... curious. About the lunch. About you."Lucian stepped toward me, his hand finding the small of my back and pulling me into the sheltered space between a dumpster and a freight elevator. "Let her wonder. Let them all wonder." He leaned down, his breath warm against my ear. "Forget the office. Forget the bro
Cinderella and Her Three Knights Chapter 57 : The Blackwood Game and Half-Blood Ties
Ella’s POV“You should be careful who you trust.”The voice dissolved into static.For a moment I stood in the corridor as though the walls themselves had spoken.Ten steps to Lucian’s door.Twelve to Julian’s.I could have knocked on either.Instead, I remained suspended between them, my pulse loud in my ears.If I chose a door, I would be choosing a side.And I was not ready to admit which one my heart had already chosen.I began to walk.Not toward either of them — just away. Away from the weight of the call, away from the sense that something unseen had shifted beneath my feet.“Miss Ella.”The voice did not startle me.It settled around me.I turned.Renee Collins stood near the long arched window at the end of the hall. She was always composed, always immaculate, like a portrait hung too long in a house that refuses to crumble. Her silver-streaked hair was gathered at the nape of her neck. Her hands were folded loosely.She looked as though she had been there long before I arriv
Cinderella and Her Three Knights Chapter 56: The Choice You Don’t Say Out Loud
Ella’s POVI didn’t go to the hotel.But I didn’t go to Lucian either.Instead, I locked my bedroom door and called the only person who knew me before all of this.Lila picked up on the second ring.“Okay,” she said immediately, “why does your breathing sound like you’re about to rob a bank?”“I’m not robbing a bank.”“Then you’re either crying or hiding something.”I sank onto my bed.“I’m hiding something.”There was a beat of silence.“Oh my God,” she whispered dramatically. “It’s a man.”“Lila.”“It’s a man.”I covered my eyes. “It’s not that simple.”“It is never simple with you. Start talking.”And I did.I told her about the field trip.The private lounge.The mansion.The morning after.The picture.The key card.Adrian.When I finished, there was a very long silence on the other end.Then—“So it’s Lucian.”I blinked. “What?”“Don’t play innocent with me. It’s Lucian.”“I didn’t say that.”“You didn’t need to.”I sighed heavily. “Lila…”“It’s Lucian,” she repeated. “You would
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