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Chapter 97: The New CEO
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2026-03-31 15:26:02
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Cinderella and Her Three Knights Chapter 97: The New CEO
Ella’s POVThe glass tower of Blackwood-Monroe Global didn't just reflect the New York skyline today; it seemed to pierce it with a newfound clarity. The morning smog had lifted, leaving the steel and glass gleaming under a relentless, uncompromising sun.At exactly 9:00 AM, a blacked-out SUV pulled up to the curb. Usually, the arrival of a Blackwood was a silent, somber affair—the car door opening to a flash of dark wool and a hurried retreat into the private elevator. But today, the world was watching.The door opened, and Lucian stepped out. He wasn't the "Shadow" who had haunted the old wing, nor was he the mourning brother who had disappeared seven months ago. He was dressed in a navy three-piece suit that fit his recovered frame with a lethal, tailored precision. He looked every bit the Alpha, but when he turned back to the car, his expression softened into something far more dangerous: devotion.He reached in, taking my hand.I stepped out onto the pavement, the hem of my cream
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Ella’s POVThe sunlight in the West Village was different from the light at the Blackwood Estate. At the estate, the sun always felt like a spotlight, harsh and demanding, illuminating every speck of dust on the mahogany and every crack in the family facade. But here, in the kitchen of the townhouse, the light was a soft, buttery yellow that pooled on the butcher-block island and turned the steam from the coffee into a shifting, golden mist.I woke up slow. For the first time in seven months, I didn't bolt upright with my heart in my throat, searching for a face that wasn't there. I woke up to the steady, rhythmic thrum of Lucian’s heart beneath my ear and the heavy, protective weight of his arm draped across my waist.He was already awake. I could tell by the way his chest moved, a deeper, more conscious breath than the shallow cadence of sleep."Morning, Director," he rasped, his voice a low, vibrating growl that sent a delicious shiver down my spine."Morning, Shadow," I murmured,
Cinderella and Her Three Knights Chapter 95: Romantic Sex with Lucian
Ella’s POVThe West Village townhouse felt like a bell jar, protecting us from the cacophony of the city outside. The scent of the old world—the heavy, metallic tang of the Blackwood Estate and the dusty, paper-thin loneliness of London—had been replaced by the scent of this house: clean linen, rain-damp brick, and the faint, sweet musk of Lucian’s skin.We stood in the center of the cream-colored room, the tiny leather boots sitting on the table like a silent benediction. For a month, we had been "Nurse" and "Patient," "Director" and "Bodyguard," "Victim" and "Avenger." But as the door clicked shut behind us, those titles dissolved into the shadows of the hallway.Lucian didn't move. He stood behind me, his chest a solid, thrumming wall against my back. I could feel the heat radiating from him, a physical force that seemed to pull the air from the room. His hands, once skeletal and trembling in the old wing, were now steady as they settled on my waist."Ella," he whispered, his breat
Cinderella and Her Three Knights Chapter 94: I Officially chose Lucian
Ella’s POVThe glass elevator descended from the 90th floor in a smooth, pressurized silence that felt like the world held its breath. For the first time in seven months, the air didn't taste like copper and adrenaline. It tasted like the expensive, filtered oxygen of a victory that hadn’t yet sunk in.Lucian stood beside me, his hand locked in mine. He wasn't the "Shadow" from the old wing anymore. He was the man who had just dismantled an empire with a single folder of evidence. But as the floor numbers blurred past, he didn't look at the digital display. He looked at me."You're shaking," he whispered, his thumb tracing the knuckles of my hand."It’s the silence," I admitted, leaning my head against his shoulder. "I forgot what it felt like to not be looking over my shoulder every ten seconds.""The silence is ours now, Ella. We earned it."The lobby of Blackwood Global was a chaotic sea of flashbulbs and shouting reporters. Adrian’s security had been replaced by the NYPD and feder
Cinderella and Her Three Knights Chapter 93: I Returned to Blackwood Global HQ
Ella’s POVThe double mahogany doors didn’t just open; they recoiled against the marble walls with a crack that sounded like the breaking of a spine. The air in the boardroom, thick with the scent of expensive cologne and stagnant ambition, suddenly turned ice-cold.Adrian stood at the head of the long obsidian table, his hand still hovering over the silver gavel. His face—usually a mask of curated, aristocratic boredom—shattered. His jaw didn't just drop; it slackened, his skin turning the color of wet parchment as he stared at the man he had spent seven months declaring dead to the world."Lucian?" Adrian’s voice was a thin, reedy ghost of its former arrogance. "What... what is this theater?"Lucian didn't answer with words. He walked into the room with the measured, lethal grace of a predator that had spent thirty days sharpening its claws in the dark. Every step was a statement. His shoulders were broad, his gaze a searing amber that skipped over the lesser directors and locked on
Cinderella and Her Three Knights Chapter 92: Recovering
Ella’s POVThe white orchid sat in a glass of water on the nightstand, a silent witness to a pact made in the shadows. Julian’s note was a reprieve, but in the Blackwood house, a reprieve was often just a longer fuse on a bomb."He won't talk," Lucian whispered that first morning, his voice still a jagged edge of its former self. "Julian... he doesn't want Adrian to have the crown. He’d rather see the house burn than let the 'Perfect Son' rule the ashes."I looked at Lucian. The moonlight had faded, replaced by the gray, uncertain light of a New York dawn. "We have a month, Lucian. Isadora says the Board is meeting in thirty days to vote on Adrian’s permanent Chairmanship. If you can’t stand by then... if you can’t walk into that boardroom and take what’s yours... we lose everything."Lucian’s hand tightened on mine. The tremor was still there, but the grip was different. It wasn't the grip of a drowning man anymore; it was the grip of a predator finding its footing."Thirty days," he
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