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2026-06-24 00:31:00
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Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER 76
Sophia's POVRemy did, in fact, lose his mind.We told everyone at breakfast, and for a full thirty seconds nobody said anything, just looked at us, and then Remy stood up so fast his chair scraped loudly against the stone terrace."Two weeks," he said. "You're giving me two weeks.""We're not giving you anything," Damien said. "We're getting married. You're welcome to help if you want to.""If I want to," Remy said, already pulling out his phone. "Sophia, do you know how many flower varieties grow wild around here right now? Because I do. I looked it up yesterday for no reason at all, apparently my subconscious already knew."Lena laughed into her coffee."He's been planning a wedding nobody asked him to plan for a week," she said. "I thought he was just interested in botany.""I contain multitudes," Remy said, already typing something furiously.Elijah looked up from his own coffee with the expression of someone recalculating an entire mental spreadsheet."Legally there are things t
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER 75
Sophia's POVI sat on the terrace steps and watched them from a distance, close enough to hear, far enough to give them room.Richard leaned forward with his elbows on his knees, looking up at the darkening sky like the stars might arrive early if he asked nicely."There's one there," he said, pointing. "Not visible yet. It'll come up over that ridge in about twenty minutes. Your mother used to call it the lazy star because it was always the last one to show."Damien followed his finger, though there was nothing there yet."I don't remember her," he said quietly. "Diana, from before. I only remember you and the stars."Richard's hand dropped slowly."She was different then," he said. "Before everything. Before the money and the fear took over." He paused. "I think I loved her the way you love someone standing at the edge of a cliff. You keep waiting for them to fall.""Did she," Damien said."Eventually," Richard said. "We both did. In different directions."The sea moved somewhere be
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER 74
Sophia's POVDamien wasn't in bed when I woke up.I found his side cold, the sheets pushed back neatly instead of tangled the way they were most mornings, and for a second something in my chest tightened before I told myself to stop. Nothing was chasing us anymore. He was probably just downstairs with coffee.He wasn't downstairs.The terrace was empty except for Mei, who was reading something on her phone with her feet up on the opposite chair."He left an hour ago," she said, without looking up. "Took the car.""Where," I said."He didn't say," Mei said. "He looked like he needed to think."I stood there for a moment."Did something happen?" I said.Mei looked up then, and something in her face softened."Sit down," she said.I sat."Last night, after you fell asleep, he sat out here for a long time," she said. "I came out for water and found him just staring at the sea." She set her phone down. "I asked him what was wrong. He said he kept thinking about Richard and Dominic on the b
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER 73
Sophia's POVThe market smelled like fish and oranges.I walked between the stalls with Damien beside me, his hand loose around mine. A woman held up a string of dried peppers and said something in Portuguese I didn't understand. Damien answered her in slow careful words and she laughed and gave us two peppers anyway."You speak Portuguese," I said."I spent three days learning basic phrases before we came," he said."Three days," I said."I wanted to be able to order coffee properly," he said. He shrugged. "It felt important."I looked at him."What," he said."Nothing," I said. "I just like that about you."He took the peppers from the woman and put them in the small bag he was carrying and we kept walking.Remy caught up with us near a stall selling cheese, his arms already full of paper bags."Try this," he said, breaking off a piece and holding it out to me.I took it. It was sharp and salty and good."Good," I said."See," Remy said, turning to Elijah who had appeared behind him
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER 72
Sophia's POVWe woke up late.Not by choice exactly, just by the natural rhythm of a place that didn't have anywhere in particular to be. The light came in through thin curtains and landed soft and yellow across the bed, and Damien was still asleep beside me, one arm thrown over his eyes like the sun had personally offended him.I lay there and listened to the village waking up outside. A door somewhere. A bicycle bell. The distant, patient sound of the sea."You're awake," Damien said without opening his eyes."How do you know," I said."You breathe differently," he said. "Once you're actually awake instead of just lying there.""That's an unsettling amount of attention to pay to my breathing," I said."I pay attention," he said. Simply.I smiled and pressed my face against his shoulder.We didn't get up for another half hour, just existing in the warm quiet, his fingers tracing slow circles against my back, my leg tangled with his, neither of us in any hurry to become vertical."Bre
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER 71
Damien's POVPortugal arrived faster than six weeks felt like it should.Between the foundation, the aerospace consulting, Elijah's ongoing legal cleanup of the Vale estate assets, and the general business of running BCT, the weeks folded into each other quickly, and then suddenly it was a Tuesday morning and we were all standing in the entrance hall with luggage, waiting for cars, and Remy was arguing with Elijah about whether four bags counted as overpacking."It's a two week trip," Elijah said."I have contingencies," Remy said."For what," Elijah said. "A formal event in a fishing village.""You never know," Remy said, which settled nothing but ended the argument because Remy always won by simply refusing to continue it.Sophia came down the stairs with one bag and the ring catching the morning light and I thought, not for the first time, that she had always understood the art of taking only what mattered.Richard was already outside by the car, standing slightly apart the way he
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER NINE
Dominic's POVI had been awake since four in the morning.Not unusual for me. I functioned best in the hours before the city woke up, when everything was quiet and I could think without interruption. I had rebuilt the entire PR strategy by five, restructured the sister narrative by six, and had thr
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER FOUR
POV: DamienI tossed the quarterly reports onto the center of the table. The sharp smack made the head of acquisitions flinch in his expensive suit."This is garbage," I said, leaning back in my chair. "You actually call this a projection?"The guy stammered, frantically wiping sweat off his forehe
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER THREE
Sophia's POVHoly fuckity fuck. There was no way you could call the Black estate a house. It was a whole fortress made of glass and steel, the whole building reeled of intimidation.Dominic’s driver took my cracked suitcase like it was a lump of dirt and disappeared into the shadows of the foyer. D
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER ONE
Sophia's POV"Get out."Two words. That was all it took for my entire life to faceplant into the dirt.I stood there, staring at the man I’d called my husband for three years, and for a second, I actually thought I’d misheard him.Because I was the one who just walked in on him. I was the one stand
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