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Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER 69
Sophia's POVWe stayed at the coast for four days.Not planned. Just extended, morning by morning, because neither of us found a good enough reason to leave and the estate, for once, didn't need us urgently enough to call us back.Damien checked his phone twice a day instead of every twenty minutes. That alone felt like proof something had shifted.On the third morning we walked further than usual, past the town, along a stretch of coast where the houses thinned out and the path became rougher and the water louder. He held my hand the whole way and didn't let go even when the path narrowed enough that walking side by side became difficult.We found a bench overlooking the water and sat there for a long time saying very little."I keep thinking about the foundation," I said eventually."Tell me," he said."I want the first grant to go somewhere specific," I said. "Not a broad opening call. I want it to go to someone who needs exactly what I needed. Somewhere to land.""Do you have some
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER 68
Damien's POVI woke up before her, the way I usually did, but this time there was nowhere to be.No emails waiting. No board update. No unknown number with a warning attached to it. Just the sound of the water outside and Sophia asleep against my chest with her hair spread across the pillow in a way that made me want to stay exactly where I was for as long as possible.I stayed.She woke slowly, the way she did when nothing was demanding her attention, blinking at the light coming through the window before she registered where she was."We're still here," she said."We're still here," I said."No emergencies," she said."None," I said.She looked at me for a long moment, then smiled the real one, the one that started somewhere deeper than her face."I could get used to this," she said."I intend for you to," I said.We stayed in bed longer than either of us would have allowed ourselves a month ago. She traced the scar above my eyebrow with her finger and I told her the story again eve
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER 67
Sophia's POVThe hearing lasted less than an hour.Elijah placed the second marriage certificate on the screen. The false witness's story fell apart in the time it took the judge to read one sentence. By eleven o'clock it was over. My parents' marriage was confirmed. I was their daughter. Nothing about that had ever needed proving to me, but it was good to watch the world catch up.Outside the courthouse the sky was clear for the first time in weeks.Damien stood beside me on the steps. He didn't say anything about the case. He just looked at me the way he did when something in him had finally stopped holding its breath."It's over," he said."This part," I said.He looked at me for a long moment."Come with me," he said. "Not home. Somewhere else."I looked at him."Where," I said."You'll see," he said.He drove us out of the city, past the estate, further than either of us usually went without a reason. Forty minutes later he pulled into a small coastal town I had never been to, al
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER 66
Damien's POVI called Elijah before we came off the roof.He picked up on the first ring."I know," he said. "The detective called me thirty seconds ago.""What does it actually mean," I said. "Legally. The bigamy claim.""It means they've found something or fabricated something in the marriage records," he said. "Or they believe they have. The claim itself is not unusual as a delaying tactic. Challenge the heir's standing and you freeze the asset distribution while the court investigates the underlying claim.""How long does that take," I said."Months if they're lucky," he said. "Weeks if we move correctly." I heard him typing. "I need to see what they've actually submitted. The documentation behind the claim. Without that I can't assess how serious it is.""Get it," I said."Already requested," he said. "I'll have it by morning."I hung up and looked at Sophia.She was looking at the city with her hands in her pockets and her face doing the thing it did when something had landed an
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER 65
Sophia's POVMonday I told Lena.Not in a meeting or a formal conversation. Just the two of us in the kitchen at nine in the morning with coffee and the rain still coming down outside and the particular privacy of a house that was mostly quiet on Monday mornings when everyone had gone back to their various versions of work.I showed her Elijah's preliminary structure.She read it without speaking.Then she put the phone down and looked at her coffee."You didn't have to do this," she said."I know," I said."I didn't ask for anything," she said."I know that too," I said. "That's partly why."She looked at the phone."It's significant," she said."Yes," I said."Sophia—""Lena," I said. "Your mother stole from my parents. The money that funded Diana's search for you, the money that paid Carter, all of it traced back to something that belonged to my family." I paused. "This isn't charity. This is just the right direction for something to travel."She was quiet for a long moment."I don
Claimed by his obsession CHAPTER 64
Sophia's POVThe number was forty seven million dollars.I sat with that for a long time.Not because it didn't feel real. Because it felt too real in a way that required careful handling. Like something fragile that had been carried a long distance and had finally arrived and you didn't want to drop it at the last step.Forty seven million.Thirty years of unjust enrichment calculated and documented and submitted to a civil court.My parents had built a framework for cardiac mapping in a small flat in East London before I was born. They had registered a patent and believed in what they had made and then watched someone take it without asking and build a fortune on top of it.And now a number existed that said what that had been worth.Damien was very quiet beside me.The room was doing its Sunday thing around us. Remy with his bread. Richard at the far end. Lena in the chair. Dominic with his book. None of them knowing yet."Say something," Damien said quietly."I don't have the word
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
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 TWO
Sophia's POVThe rain wasn't stopping. If anything, it got louder, mocking me with every heavy drop that hit the plastic roof of the bus stop.I stared at my phone's screen blankly. As though staring at it continuously was going to make a single dollar pop up.How was I supposed to even get a bus?
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