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First Steps

Author: Sheedah writes
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-05-24 22:08:02

I stared at the divorce papers on my laptop screen and felt something deep inside me finally crack open. Ten whole years. Ten years of my life reduced to cold legal paragraphs on a glowing screen. I read every single line slowly, my chest tight and my eyes burning. This was not just ending a marriage. This was ending the version of myself who had believed every single lie David ever told me. The version who gave up her dreams, her freedom, and her body to take care of a man who never needed car
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  • 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    The Anchor

    I did not cry when we left Sterling Estate. I did not cry in the car. I did not cry when Marcus guided me into the elevator or when the penthouse doors closed behind us or when I walked to the bedroom and stood staring at the wall with my coat still on and my hands still trembling.I did not cry because I was afraid that if I started, I would never stop.The letter was still in my pocket. I could feel it there, a weight against my hip, David's words burning through the fabric like a brand. You were collateral damage, Clara. You always were. Not a wife. Not a person. Just a weapon. Just a pawn in a war between two powerful men who could not stand to lose. My father destroyed his father. David destroyed me. And neither of them ever bothered to ask what I wanted."Clara." Marcus was standing in the bedroom doorway. His voice was quiet, careful. The voice of a man who knew I was balanced on the edge of something and was not sure if I wanted to fall."I am fine.""You are not fine. You hav

  • Craving Their Touch    The Sins of the Father

    I did not sleep that night.The letter sat on the nightstand, David's sharp handwriting visible even in the dark. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw his words. You were collateral damage, Clara. You always were. Not a wife. Not a person. A weapon aimed at my father's heart.By dawn, I was dressed and in the car. Marcus drove without asking questions. He knew where I was going. He always knew.Sterling Estate was quiet when we arrived. Harold met us at the door, and his expression shifted the moment he saw my face. "Miss Sterling, your father is in his study. Shall I tell him you are here?""No. I will find him myself."Arthur was sitting at his desk, a cup of cold coffee at his elbow, staring at nothing. He looked like he had not slept either. The letter was spread out on the desk in front of him. I had sent him a photograph of it the night before."You read it again," I said, closing the door behind me."I could not stop reading it. Every line is a knife." He looked up, and his eyes

  • Craving Their Touch    The Blood Feud

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  • Craving Their Touch    The Protective Alpha

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  • Craving Their Touch    Chapter 82

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  • Craving Their Touch    Chapter 81

    The morning it all fell apart, I was not thinking about David at all.I was thinking about spring. About the first pale shoots pushing through the frozen ground in the gardens of Sterling Estate. About the way Maria laughed now, freely and openly, no longer hiding behind a borrowed name.

  • Craving Their Touch    The Impossible Search

    I sat in the penthouse study with my laptop open and a cold cup of coffee at my elbow. It was three in the morning. I had not slept in two days. The screen glowed with the same financial records I had been staring at for hours, the same columns of numbers that refused to reveal their secrets.

  • Craving Their Touch    The peace is Shattered

    The media was already waiting when I arrived at Sterling Tower.I saw them from the car window, a swarm of vans and cameras and shouting reporters pressed against the security barriers like a tide threatening to break through. My phone had been buzzing since six in the morning, but I had

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