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Silent Recordings

Author: Sheedah writes
last update publish date: 2026-05-12 14:12:43
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. Laughing about me. Calling me pathetic. Planning to destroy me. I pressed my hands to my face and took several deep breaths, trying to steady myself.

I could not keep crying like this. I could not s
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  • Craving Their Touch    The Numbers

    Julian arrived at Sterling Estate before dawn, carrying a laptop and a grim expression that told me everything I needed to know before he said a single word.The library had become our war room. Maps and documents and legal filings covered every surface. Marcus was already there, nursing a cup of black coffee. Arthur sat by the window, staring out at the gray morning. Harold had posted additional security around the perimeter. The estate was locked down, sealed against a threat we could not see but could feel everywhere.Julian set his laptop on the desk and opened it. "I have spent the last seventy-two hours analyzing Alexander's holdings. The acquisition was not a sudden move. He has been buying Sterling Global stock for years. Decades, in some cases. Through proxies. Through shell companies. Through intermediaries who did not even know who they were working for.""How much does he actually own?" I asked.

  • Craving Their Touch    The Conference

    The broadcast began at noon.I was in my office at Sterling Tower, reviewing the latest security reports with Marcus, when Helena Vance burst through the door without knocking. Her face was pale, her tablet clutched against her chest like a shield. In the months since I had appointed her chairwoman, I had never seen her rattled. She was a former federal judge. She did not rattle."Turn on the television," she said. "Now."Marcus grabbed the remote. The screen flickered to life, and the noise of the newsroom filled the office. A press conference was already in progress. The podium was set up in a sleek, modern space I did not recognize. The logo on the backdrop was unfamiliar. A stylized letter A, sharp and angular, like a blade.And behind the podium, calm and polished in a dark suit, stood Alexander Vane."If you are just joining us," the anchor's voice cut in, "billionaire inve

  • Craving Their Touch    The Alliance Fractures

    I found Sophia in the cottage, standing over an open suitcase with shaking hands.The drawers were pulled out. Clothes were strewn across the bed. Kate's schoolbag sat by the door, already packed. The curtains were drawn, the lights off except for a single lamp in the corner. It cast long shadows across the walls, and in those shadows, Sophia looked like a ghost."Harold told me about Dominic," I said from the doorway. "I came as soon as I could."She did not look at me. She kept folding clothes, her movements mechanical and frantic. "He is Kate's father. Her real father. David lied about the paternity test. He lied about everything. Dominic has been searching for her for seventeen years.""I know. He came to the estate. He made his demands."That stopped her. She turned, a blouse clutched in her fingers. "He was here? Inside the estate?""Harold let him thro

  • Craving Their Touch    Kate's Father Arrives

    He arrived at the gates of Sterling Estate in a black sedan with diplomatic plates and no advance warning. Harold called me from the security booth, his voice tight with the controlled alarm he only displayed when something was genuinely wrong."There is a man at the gate, Miss Sterling. He says his name is Dominic Reyes. He insists on speaking with you immediately. He says it concerns Kate."I was in the library with Marcus, reviewing Julian's latest legal filings. The name hit me like a slap. Dominic Reyes. The man Alexander had mentioned at the dinner. The man who had been searching for his daughter for years. The man David had cuckolded and lied to, claiming paternity of a child that was never his."Let him in," I said. "But I want security in the room. Marcus, you stay with me."Dominic Reyes walked into the library like he owned it. He was tall, broad-shouldered, with dark hair graying at the t

  • Craving Their Touch    The Legal Fallout

    Julian arrived at Sterling Estate just after dawn, looking like he had not slept in days. His collar was unbuttoned, his eyes shadowed, and he carried a thick folder of documents that he dropped onto the library desk with a heavy thud."Tell me how bad it is," I said."It is bad. But it is not fatal. Not yet." He sat down heavily and opened the folder. "Sophia's testimony can now be challenged. The immunity deal she signed was contingent on full disclosure of her involvement with David's network. Irene Voss's documents prove Sophia did not fully disclose. Alexander's lawyers are already filing motions to reopen the board vote on the grounds that Sophia's testimony was tainted.""Can they succeed?""They can make enough noise to cause serious problems. The board is still fragile after the last coup. If enough members lose confidence, they could call for another vote. And this time, Alexander will not

  • Craving Their Touch    The Confrontation

    I went to the lake house alone.The morning was gray and cold, the frozen water stretching toward the treeline like a sheet of dirty glass. Spring was still weeks away. The ice had begun to crack along the edges, dark fissures spreading like veins beneath the surface. I parked the car and walked up the gravel path to the deck where Sophia sat wrapped in a wool blanket, her feet pulled up beneath her, staring at nothing.She did not turn when she heard my footsteps. She knew why I was there."Irene Voss," I said. "She worked with you and David in the early years. She has documents, Sophia. Emails. Financial records. A sworn statement claiming you helped him set up the offshore accounts willingly. Not as a hostage. As a partner.""I know." Her voice was barely a whisper, scraped raw by hours of crying. "I saw the headlines this morning.""You told me you were forced. You told me yo

  • Craving Their Touch    The Sterling Heiress

    I woke up to the sound of hangers sliding across a metal rack.For a moment I forgot where I was. The ceiling above me was not my ceiling. The sheets against my skin were not my sheets. These were silk. Pale ivory silk that whispered every time I m

  • Craving Their Touch    The return of the heiress

    The gates of Sterling Estate swallowed the entire horizon.I had seen wealth before. David's family had money, the kind that bought respectability and private clubs and vacation homes in places nobody pronounced correctly. But this was something else entirely. The iron gates

  • Craving Their Touch    The Letter

    The private investigator called on a Tuesday morning while I was still in my bathrobe, and the first words out of his mouth made me sit down so fast I nearly missed the chair entirely."Your father doesn't know you exist."I gripped the phone harder. My c

  • Craving Their Touch    Hidden Truths

    I stood in David's study with a cardboard box at my feet and my hands full of his old shirts. Throwing his things away felt better than I expected. Each item I dropped into the box was like removing another piece of the lie I had lived in for ten years. His watches, his cufflinks, his stupid expens

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