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Desire and Jealousy

Author: Sheedah writes
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-05-19 10:30:35

I stood alone on the private beach as the sun began to set. The sky turned a deep orange and soft pink over the calm ocean. The waves rolled gently onto the sand, making soft sounds that should have felt peaceful. But my mind was anything but peaceful. I wrapped my arms around myself and let the warm breeze touch my skin. My thoughts kept returning to Marcus. The way he had held me in his studio. The way his eyes had looked at me when he confessed his love. It was

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  • Craving Their Touch    The Aftermath

    The week after my reinstatement was the quietest I had experienced since before the divorce.I woke each morning in the lake house with Marcus beside me and the sun glittering on the water. The ice had begun to thaw, small cracks spreading across the surface like veins. Spring was coming. I could feel it in the air, in the softening ground, in the first pale shoots pushing through the snow.The board had been restructured. Edmund Cross resigned as chairman. I replaced him with a woman named Helena Vance, a former federal judge with an impeccable reputation and no tolerance for corporate games. Victor Hale was under federal investigation, his assets frozen, his name already fading from the headlines. The forged documents had been discredited. The morality clause was dead. Sterling Global was mine again.Leo had vanished completely. Julian tracked his last known location to a private airstrip in

  • Craving Their Touch    The Board Reckoning

    The morning of the vote, I woke before dawn.Marcus was still asleep beside me, his arm draped across my waist. Outside, the snow had stopped falling. The sky was clear and cold, pale light just beginning to edge over the frozen lake. Somewhere downstairs, Sophia was preparing her testimony. Julian was reviewing the final documents.I dressed in the dark. The emerald blazer. The one I had worn when I bought Webb's law firm, when I confronted David in the restaurant, the night Arthur named me his heir. It felt like armor."The cars are here." Marcus appeared in the doorway, already dressed. "Victor Hale called the meeting for nine. He thinks he has the votes.""Does he?""Before the ledger was authenticated, yes. Before Sophia agreed to testify. Before we had proof Hale is connected to David. The board doesn't know yet. They will."

  • Craving Their Touch    The Safe House

    The lake house was invisible from the road.Marcus had designed it twelve years ago, back when he was still an architect and not the man standing between me and everyone who wanted me destroyed. It sat on a private inlet an hour north of the city, surrounded by dense forest and accessible only by a single gravel drive that wound through the trees like a secret. The structure itself was low and modern, all glass and steel and clean lines, but it was fortified in ways that were not visible to the naked eye. Reinforced windows. Redundant security systems. A generator that could power the entire property for weeks. Marcus had built it for a client who valued privacy above all else. That client had since died, and the property had sat empty for years.It was perfect.I made the decision three hours after we brought Sophia and Kate back from the motel. The media was circling. Victor Hale was consoli

  • Craving Their Touch    The Damage Report

    I did not sleep. By six in the morning, I was in Arthur's study at Sterling Estate, a cold cup of coffee at my elbow and three laptops open on the desk. Julian's face filled one screen. Harold was on another, coordinating with the security team. Marcus had taken the third laptop into the next room to trace Sophia's last known location."The ledger is being challenged," Julian said. He looked exhausted. Dark circles ringed his eyes, and his collar was unbuttoned. "David's lawyers filed a motion to suppress it as evidence. They are arguing Sophia was coerced. The judge has scheduled a hearing for next week.""That gives Victor Hale and Leo a full week to consolidate power. The board is already moving toward a permanent vote to remove me. If they succeed before the ledger is authenticated, I will never get my company back.""There is more bad news," Arthur said quietly. He was standing by the win

  • Craving Their Touch    The Video Call

    The hotel suite was on the forty-second floor, a penthouse overlooking the financial district with floor-to-ceiling windows and furniture that looked more like art than anything you could sit on. Sophia had chosen the location. She said it was neutral ground, somewhere private where we could finalize the ledger transfer without prying eyes. She had sounded calm on the phone. Steady. Ready to end this.Marcus parked the car in the underground garage. We rode the elevator in silence. His hand rested on my lower back, a steady pressure that grounded me. I clutched the envelope containing the payment documents, the final piece of the transaction. The ledger was already ours. Sophia had found it in the safety deposit box. We were just meeting to sign the legal transfer and discuss next steps."Something feels off," Marcus said quietly as the elevator climbed."Sophia would not set us up. She handed me the ledger herself. She read David's note and did not flinch.""I am not saying she would

  • Craving Their Touch    The Ledger

    Julian called at dawn. I was still tangled in the sheets with Marcus, his arm draped across my waist. The city outside was pale gold and frozen. For a few hours, I had forgotten about David and Leo and the forged documents. Then the phone shattered the silence. "Tell me you found something," I said. "I found something." Julian's voice was hoarse but electric. "I have been going through the supporting documentation David's team filed alongside the forgeries. The peripheral records were not as carefully scrubbed. There is a pattern. Small payments routed through shell companies linked to Leo. But there is something else. A name that keeps appearing. Sophia." I sat up straight. Marcus stirred beside me. "Sophia has been running Elena's House for months. She testified against David. She would never work with Leo." "The payments are not going to her. They are coming from accounts once linked to her name. Old accounts David opened when he was controlling her. He used her identity to c

  • Craving Their Touch    Silent Recordings

    I woke up the next morning feeling like my body weighed a thousand pounds. My eyes were swollen from all the crying the night before. The moment I sat up in bed, the memory hit me again like a heavy wave. David standing tall by the window. His voice soft and full of love as he spoke to another woman

  • Craving Their Touch    Kitchen Heat

    Chapter 10: Kitchen HeatI stood in the kitchen chopping vegetables for dinner. The house felt too quiet. My hands moved automatically, slicing carrots and potatoes while my mind wandered. The bank statements kept flashing in my head. S. Reed. All that money going out every month. David had been hid

  • Craving Their Touch    Forced Confessions

    Chapter 9: Forced ConfessionsJulian found me in the library the next day. I was standing between two tall shelves, staring at a book I was not really seeing. My mind kept returning to those bank statements and the name S. Reed. Who was she? How long had David been sending her money behind my back?

  • Craving Their Touch    Blood Money

    I stood quietly in the doorway of the therapy room, arms wrapped around my waist like I was trying to hold myself together. David was on the exercise machine, his face twisted with effort as the physical therapist moved his legs through another set of slow repetitions. His breathing was labored, ea

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