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Chapter 46
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2026-09-08 23:19:26
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Alicia’s POVThe phone buzzed against the nightstand like a loudly.Rhys grabbed it before the second vibration finished. I was still half-asleep, tangled in the sheets, his body warm against my back, the taste of him still ghosting on my tongue from hours earlier. One look at his face and every soft, sleepy feeling vanished.“Mirabel,” he said, voice already shifting into something careful. “She’s twenty minutes out. Maybe less, because the traffic’s light.”I sat up so fast the room tilted. The suite that had felt safe and hidden an hour ago suddenly looked like a crime scene. My dress was draped over a chair. My shoes were by the door. A half-drunk glass of wine still sat on the coffee table with the clear print of my lipstick on the rim. A paperback I’d been flipping through earlier—one of the romance novels I always carried—lay open on the couch. My hair tie was on the bathroom counter next to his cologne. A mug I’d used for tea sat in the sink.Every single thing screamed that
Claimed By My Best Friend’s Daddy Chapter 49
Rhys’s POV I sent the message without overthinking it. Me: Come over for dinner tonight if you’re free. Nothing fancy, just us. Her reply arrived a few minutes later. Alicia: I’d like that. Those three words settled something restless in my chest. I set the phone down on the kitchen counter and looked around the penthouse. The place was clean, quiet, and still too large for one person. I had lived in spaces like this for years, but tonight the emptiness felt different. I told the staff they could leave early, because I wanted the evening private. With no interruptions. Just the two of us moving through an ordinary night as if ordinary were something we were allowed to have. When the private elevator chimed and the doors opened, Alicia stepped out wearing a soft sweater and jeans, hair loosely pulled back, eyes a little tired from the day but warm the moment they found mine. She smiled the small, private smile she
Claimed By My Best Friend’s Daddy Chapter 48
Alicia’s POVI didn’t text first, because I knew he’d find another excuse about work or late meetings or whatever polished lie he had prepared this time. I just showed up.The private elevator opened onto the penthouse floor and I stepped out before I could talk myself out of it. My hands were shaking, not from fear exactly. From the kind of anger that sits quiet and heavy in the chest until it has nowhere left to go.Rhys was in the living room, still in his dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up, phone in hand. He looked up when he heard the elevator and something flickered across his face—surprise, then caution, then that careful distance he had been wearing for days.“Alicia.” He calledI didn’t sit, I stood in the middle of the room and looked at him until the silence stretched thin enough to break.“You’re pulling away,” I said. “And I need you to stop pretending you’re not.”He set the phone down carefully, like it might shatter if he moved too fast. “It’s been a long week. Wor
Claimed By My Best Friend’s Daddy Chapter 47
Rhys’s POVI shouldn’t have driven past the campus. The meeting ended early, and I had no real reason to take the long way. I told the driver to cut across the quad anyway, like some lovesick idiot who needed one more look at her just to breathe right.Then surprisingly I saw her.Alicia stood near the library steps with a group of students her age. She was laughing really hard. The kind that made her tip her head back and press a hand to her chest. One of the guys said something and she shoved his shoulder.. A girl linked arms with her like it was the most natural thing in the world.They looked right together.I sat in the back seat and felt every single one of my fifty-one years slam into me at once. The gray at my temples. Lines around my eyes that didn’t used to be there. A life already half-spent on boardrooms and grief and raising a daughter alone. She was twenty-five. Standing in the sun with people who still thought forever was something they had time to figure out.The th
Claimed By My Best Friend’s Daddy Chapter 46
Alicia’s POVThe penthouse was really quiet, it kind of looked like nobody was in there.Mirabel had gone out with Alex and a few friends for the evening, and Rhys had texted me a simple invitation to come over after my last class. And that was just my chance to sit somewhere that didn’t require constant performance after some weeks of not seeing Rhys. I had almost said no, part of me still felt like every hour spent with him was another risk I couldn’t afford. But the larger part of me, the part that had been carrying quiet weight for weeks, needed the stillness he offered.I sat on the wide couch with my legs curled beneath me, a mug of tea cooling between my hands. Rhys sat beside me, close enough that I could feel the warmth of his shoulder without our bodies fully touching. The city lights beyond the windows looked soft and distant. Neither of us had spoken for several minutes. It wasn’t an uncomfortable silence. It was the kind that let both of us stay in our own little worlds.
Claimed By My Best Friend’s Daddy Chapter 45
Rhys’s POVThe house was quiet when I finally walked through the front door.It was past ten already, the house was so quiet and that only felt heavier. I set my keys on the entry table, loosened my tie, and stood for a moment in the dim foyer, listening to the silence. No laughter, no footsteps on the stairs, no soft voice calling my name from the kitchen. Just the low hum of the air system and the distant ticking of the grandfather clock that had belonged to Elena’s father.I should have gone straight upstairs, instead I found myself walking toward the study.I didn’t turn on the main lights, the small desk lamp was enough. I sat in the leather chair I had occupied for more than twenty years and stared at the dark wood surface without really seeing it. My mind kept drifting back to the night before, with Alicia’s face when she told me she was scared of becoming someone’s secret forever. The way her voice had cracked on the word and the quiet honesty in her eyes.‘You’re my secret b
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