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Crossed Lines
Last Updated : 2025-12-18
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Elara Duval lives two lives. By day, she’s the invisible stepdaughter in a family that dismisses her. By night, she’s ShadowByte, the most elusive hacker in the digital underworld. Anonymous. Untouchable. Safe. Or so she thinks. Damon Cross rules his empire with an iron fist. The billionaire CEO of CrossTech is brilliant, arrogant, and mercilessly calculated. His empire thrives on power, but when a cyberattack threatens everything he’s built, he sets his sights on the one ghost who could save him: ShadowByte. When their paths collide, sparks turn to fire. Their battle of wills is as dangerous as it is magnetic. He sees her as a puzzle he must control. She sees him as the kind of man she swore to never bow to. But when a public scandal forces them into a contract marriage, the thin line between hate and desire begins to blur. What happens when the man who never loses falls for the woman who refuses to be owned? And when Elara’s secret identity risks exposure, will the truth destroy them, or set them free? Crossed Lines is a contemporary romance full of drama, badgirl energy, hidden identity tension, and hate-to-love chemistry, where girl power collides with the arrogance of a billionaire CEO, and the stakes are nothing less than love, loyalty, and freedom.
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Crossed Lines Chapter 95: The shape of stillness (The End)
POV: DamonThe city had gone soft outside, rain against the glass, the kind that whispered rather than fell.He’d opened the terrace doors just enough for the scent of it to drift in, cool and clean. The penthouse lights were dim, a single lamp spilling amber over the table where dinner waited, long forgotten between two people relearning how to breathe in the same space.Elara sat opposite him, knees drawn up in one of his oversized shirts — hers now, if he was honest. She’d raided his wardrobe the way someone might touch something precious, reverent without realizing it.He couldn’t stop watching her.“Are you ever going to eat?” she asked, voice quiet, teasing at the edges.“Are you?” he countered.She smiled — small, real, tired in the way honesty makes you tired. “I will if you stop staring at me like you’re cataloguing my existence.”“Maybe I am.”Her laugh was soft. “That’s unnerving.”He leaned back, studying her through the low light. “You disappeared for days. I’m allowed to
Last Updated : 2025-12-18Crossed Lines Chapter 94: Where the light waits
POV: ElaraThe road unfurled like a ribbon of silver beneath the morning sun.Elara drove with the window half-open, letting the cold wind tangle through her hair, the kind of chill that sharpened every breath. The world outside was a blur of pines, frost-dusted meadows, and long shadows that stretched across the highway.It was early — too early for traffic, too late for stillness. Just her, the hum of the engine, and the slow rhythm of her thoughts.She hadn’t told anyone she was coming back. Not Damon, not Hailey. Not even herself, not until she was already an hour down the road, with her suitcase in the backseat and her heart sitting somewhere between her ribs and the horizon.The mountains faded in her rearview mirror, replaced by the subtle rise of the city skyline, faint and far but growing. Each mile pulled her closer to everything she had run from; the noise, the headlines, the weight of being seen.But it didn’t feel like running anymore.It felt like choosing.She thought o
Last Updated : 2025-11-06Crossed Lines Chapter 93: The sound of letting go
POV: ElaraThe television light flickered softly against the cabin walls.Elara hadn’t meant to turn it on. She’d only wanted to check the weather, but the moment the CrossTech press conference flashed across the screen, her body had gone still.And there he was.Damon Cross.Poised behind a podium, immaculate as ever, except….Something in his expression was different.He didn’t look like the CEO the world worshiped.He looked like a man who’d stopped pretending to be invincible.Her hands tightened around the mug she’d been holding, pulse stuttering as his voice filled the small space.“Effective immediately, the Atlas Initiative will be rebuilt and led independently by its original architect, Elara Duval…”Her breath caught.He wasn’t saving her.He wasn’t controlling the narrative.He was releasing it.Releasing her.The cabin was quiet except for the steady rhythm of his words — words that didn’t sound like strategy or PR or spin. They sounded like truth stripped of armor. Like c
Last Updated : 2025-11-05Crossed Lines Chapter 92: Stillness between storms
POV: ElaraThe cabin was quiet except for the soft, uneven rhythm of the rain.It had started not long after sunset, a slow drizzle at first, then a steady pour that blurred the world beyond the windows into streaks of silver and shadow. Elara sat curled on the small couch, barefoot, knees drawn to her chest, a wool blanket draped loosely around her shoulders.Her laptop glowed faintly on the coffee table, untouched for nearly an hour. The lines of code she’d been writing swam on the screen, sharp and ordered, everything she’d once been proud to control. But tonight, it just looked like noise.She closed the lid gently, exhaling into the quiet.For the first time in what felt like years, there was no deadline chasing her, no boardroom waiting, no Clarisse lurking in the background of every thought. There was just the soft hum of the storm, the warmth of the blanket, and the sharp ache of missing someone she shouldn’t have let matter this much.Her eyes flicked toward the phone lying b
Last Updated : 2025-11-04Crossed Lines Chapter 87: Exposed
POV: Ava Ava Duval had always hated the feeling of walking into her mother’s world — all polished marble and poison smiles. But today, Clarisse’s approval was her only chance at staying afloat. The charity had dried up funding. She needed money. Influence. A lifeline. And Clarisse knew it. “You
Last Updated : 2026-04-03Crossed Lines Chapter 79: Ghost in the glass
POV: Damon The building was too quiet for victory. CrossTech’s numbers were rising again. The headlines had shifted in their favor. Clarisse had retreated into silence after Elara’s perfectly executed counterstrike. By all accounts, they’d won. So why did it feel like something inside him was s
Last Updated : 2026-04-01Crossed Lines Chapter 66: Silent interference
POV: DamonThe city sprawled beneath him, alive with lights, a grid of order masking chaos. Damon leaned against the glass of his office window, jacket draped over the back of his chair, shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow. Midnight, and CrossTech’s tower was still humming. He thrived in the hours ot
Last Updated : 2026-03-29Crossed Lines Chapter 60: Dinner with the devil
POV: Elara The first course arrived in silence, artfully plated and impossibly delicate. Elara barely looked at it, her attention fixed on the man across the table. Damon’s posture was relaxed, but nothing about him ever was. He didn’t bother with pleasantries. “Duval’s numbers will stabilize wi
Last Updated : 2026-03-28
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