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Chapter 161
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CHAPTER 165 – LENAThe road out of the city looked different when Lena wasn't watching the time.Usually, she noticed traffic.Turnoffs.Fuel stops.How long it would take to reach the next appointment.This morning, she noticed the sky.It was clear beyond the windshield, the morning light spreading over the road as the city gradually disappeared behind them.She rested her elbow against the window and watched the buildings become fewer.Kai drove with one hand on the steering wheel.“No work,” Lena reminded him.“I know.”“No checking company messages.”“I know.”“No asking Marcus for updates.”Kai glanced at her.“You're enjoying this.”“Very much.”He smiled.His phone sat in the center console, turned off.Lena's was there too.Neither had touched it since they left.For once, the silence between them wasn't something that needed filling.They had spent so much time discussing what came next that simply going somewhere felt strangely unfamiliar.After nearly an hour, Kai asked, “
Claimed By The Alpha Billionaire Chapter 164
CHAPTER 164 – KAIKai woke before his alarm and reached for his phone out of habit.His hand stopped halfway.He left it on the nightstand.Friday was tomorrow.For once, there was nothing waiting for him that needed to be handled before breakfast.He got up and went downstairs.Lena was already there, sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea and an open notebook.Kai stopped.She looked up.“What?”“You said you weren't taking that.”She glanced at the notebook.“I know.”“You brought it out anyway.”“I haven't written anything.”“That isn't the same thing.”She closed it.“I was going to.”“About research?”“Maybe.”Kai pulled out the chair opposite her.“Then put it away.”She studied him for a moment.“You're surprisingly strict about this trip.”“I'm trying to protect your holiday from you.”That made her laugh.“Fine.”She slipped the notebook into her bag.Kai watched her do it.There was a time when he would have made the decision for her.Now he was simply asking her to
Claimed By The Alpha Billionaire Chapter 163
CHAPTER 163 – LENABy Wednesday morning, Lena had stopped trying to guess what the next interview would reveal.She had learned that prediction could become another form of bias if she wasn't careful.Instead, she arrived at the university with a short list of practical tasks and left the rest open.The new participant had confirmed the interview.Unlike the previous participants, this person had been referred through an organization Lena had never worked with.That mattered.It meant the study was beginning to move beyond the places she already understood.She met her mentor before her afternoon class.Her mentor looked over the recruitment update and nodded.“You've got a wider range now.”“I'm trying.”“Don't try to make the range look balanced just for the sake of balance.”Lena paused.“I wasn't.”“I know. I'm reminding you because researchers sometimes start arranging people into neat groups before they understand what the differences mean.”Lena wrote that down.Her mentor poin
Claimed By The Alpha Billionaire Chapter 162
CHAPTER 162 – KAIKai woke to the sound of Lena moving quietly through the kitchen.He stayed still for another minute, listening.A cupboard opened.A spoon touched the side of a mug.Then silence.He got up.Lena was standing at the counter with her hair pulled back, reading something on her tablet while waiting for the kettle.“You're studying before breakfast now?” he asked.She looked over her shoulder.“I'm not studying.”“What are you doing?”“Trying not to think about my meeting.”Kai poured himself coffee.“That sounds like thinking about your meeting.”She gave him a look.“Thank you. Very helpful.”He smiled.She returned to the tablet.Today was different from the days when she had prepared for interviews or seminars. There was no presentation to memorize and no list of questions she could rehearse until they sounded perfect.Her mentor wanted to discuss where the research could go.That meant Lena might have to make decisions without knowing exactly what those decisions w
Claimed By The Alpha Billionaire Chapter 161
CHAPTER 161 – LENALena stared at the spreadsheet on her laptop until the words began to blur.Not because she was tired.Because she had finally reached the part of the research where organizing information was no longer enough.Three interviews sat in front of her.Three people.Three decisions that looked similar from the outside and were nothing alike once she listened to the details.She moved the cursor to the notes column and added another heading.What changed the decision?Then she stopped.Her mentor had warned her about questions like this.A question could quietly become an assumption if she wasn't careful.Lena deleted the heading.She replaced it with:What was happening around the decision?That felt better.Less certain.More honest.She leaned back and looked at the screen again.The first participant had delayed acting because uncertainty accumulated before the application.The second had accepted an opportunity and later decided not to attend.The third had also bee
Claimed By The Alpha Billionaire Chapter 160
CHAPTER 160 – KAIKai found the invitation in his inbox just after breakfast.It wasn't from Reyes Security.It wasn't from the board.It wasn't related to any client.It was a request from a community organization that had worked with one of the company's employment programs.They wanted him to attend a small discussion about their next phase of community partnerships.His first instinct was to decline.Not because he didn't care.Because he was beginning to recognize the difference between being useful and being automatically involved.He opened the message again.The meeting would include the organization's staff, several program coordinators, and representatives from other partner groups.They wanted his perspective on long-term sustainability.Kai considered it.That was something he could contribute to without taking ownership of the work.He accepted.The meeting was held in a modest conference room later that morning.There were no presentations waiting for him.Instead, the p
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