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Chapter 413
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2026-11-01 00:59:32
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Cavern’s POVI didn’t press the button.I wanted to. God, I wanted to.When the curtain opened and the light hit her, the whole ballroom went quiet. Two hundred of the richest people in New York stopped talking at once. Forks stopped halfway to mouths. Glasses stopped halfway to lips. And I stood at the back wall with my hand wrapped around the little black remote in my pocket and forgot how to breathe.She was wearing the night sky.That was the only way to describe it. The Delacroix gown had been sitting in a glass case in our foundation office for three weeks. I had walked past it every day. It was beautiful on a mannequin. A piece of art.On Joella, it was something else.Every crystal caught the light when she moved. Her hair was swept up off her neck. Her skin glowed against the black. And right there at her throat, over that high dark neckline, sat my diamonds.She kept them on.Nadine would have tried to take them off. I knew Nadine. She would have said they weren’t part of th
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Joella’s POVI stood alone by the curtain at the edge of the stage. Through a little gap in the heavy velvet, I could see the ballroom. The tables. The chandeliers. The crowd. Everyone had sat down now, and there were little white paddles with black numbers on every table. A tall man with silver hair stood at a podium at the side of the stage, his voice booming through the speakers.“—sold, for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, to paddle number forty-two! Thank you, Mrs. Whitfield. The children of St. Anne’s thank you!”Applause.A hundred and twenty thousand dollars.For a painting.I looked down at my sparkling dress and swallowed.I watched the lots go by one by one. A weekend in a villa in Tuscany. A signed baseball jersey. A diamond bracelet. A private dinner cooked by a famous chef I had only ever seen on TV. The numbers kept climbing. Fifty thousand. Eighty thousand. Two hundred thousand.I tried to find Cavern in the crowd.It took me a minute. Then I saw him.He wasn’t
Forbidden: Claimed by My Ex's Father and Brother Chapter 425
Joella’s POV Backstage was chaos. The second the styling woman pushed open the door, the quiet glitter of the ballroom disappeared and I walked straight into a hurricane. Racks of clothes everywhere. Mirrors framed with bright little bulbs. Garment bags hanging from every hook. Three women ran past me holding shoes. A man in a headset was yelling about microphones. Someone was steaming a dress in the corner, and the whole room smelled like hairspray, hot fabric, and panic. “This way, this way,” the styling woman said, pulling me by the wrist. “I’m Nadine. We don’t have much time.” “Hi, Nadine. I’m Joella.” “I know. Theo told everyone. You’re the miracle.” She didn’t even look back at me. “Miracles have to move fast.” She dragged me past the racks to a private corner blocked off by a tall folding screen. Behind it, on a mannequin, under a little spotlight like it was a museum piece, stood the Delacroix gown. I stopped walking. Oh. Oh, wow. It was black. But not plain black. It
Forbidden: Claimed by My Ex's Father and Brother Chapter 424
Joella’s POVTheo let out a breath that was half laugh and half sob. He grabbed my free hand and shook it so hard my champagne sloshed.“Thank you. Thank you so much. You’re saving my life. You’re saving my career. Someone from the styling team will come get you in a few minutes. Don’t go anywhere.” He was already backing away, tapping furiously at his tablet. “Thank you, miss. Mr. Kingston.” And he hurried off into the crowd, talking fast into his earpiece. “Cancel the agencies. We have a model. Yes. Yes, I’m serious.”And then it was just the two of us again.I turned back to Cavern and smiled. A big, bright, wicked smile.“Well,” I said. “This is going to be fun.”He didn’t smile back.He just looked at me. Calm. Quiet. With an expression I couldn’t read. Like he knew something I didn’t.“Are you sure,” he said slowly, “you’re ready for what comes next?”I rolled my eyes. “It’s a runway, Cavern. You walk to the end, you turn around, you walk back. I’ve seen Brie do it a hundred tim
Forbidden: Claimed by My Ex's Father and Brother Chapter 423
Joella’s POVI couldn’t breathe for a second.His lips were still right there by my ear. His breath was still warm on my skin. The little dragon in my panties had finally gone quiet, but my whole body was still humming like a live wire, and my thighs were still pressed together so hard under the silk that my knees ached.Soon I’m going to come and collect every single one.Every single one.How many were there now? The bread. The honey. Squeezing him under the table at Eleni’s. Ignoring his texts. Bryan. Did she ditch you? I’ve never been one to follow rules. And now, I might consider it, I am single.Oh God. That was a lot.That was a lot of punishments.I was in so much trouble.And the worst part, the most humiliating part, was that a tiny, stupid, traitorous part of me was excited about it.No. Absolutely not. I was still salty. I was the Dead Sea. I was a bag of potato chips. I was not going to melt into a puddle in front of half of Manhattan just because he whispered in my ear.
Forbidden: Claimed by My Ex's Father and Brother Chapter 422
Joella’s POVI grabbed the window ledge behind me with my free hand. My champagne glass shook so hard the bubbles jumped. A tiny sound slipped out of my throat, a high little hum that I quickly turned into a cough.“Excuse me,” I wheezed. “Bubbles. Went down the wrong way.”Richard didn’t even notice. He was too busy smiling at me like he had just won the lottery.The buzzing didn’t stop.It just kept going. Strong and steady and relentless. I could feel myself getting wetter and wetter. The thin black lace was already soaked. I pressed my thighs together under the silk, which only pushed the little dragon harder against me, which made everything worse. My face was hot. My chest was hot. Every inch of my skin was hot. My nipples were so tight they ached against the silk of the dress, and I prayed to God and all the painted angels that nobody could tell.I was going to come.I was actually going to come. Standing by a window. In a ballroom. In front of Richard.Over my dead body.I bit
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Those blue eyes. God, those blue eyes.Up close, they were even more intense than I'd noticed from across the room. They were the kind of blue you saw in pictures of the Mediterranean—deep and clear and impossibly bright. They held a sharpness to them, an intelligence, like he was taking in everyth
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Lia’s POVThe words hit me like a physical blow. Like he'd reached across the space between us and punched me in the stomach.Better than I ever did.I thought about all the times I'd tried to please him. All the times I'd gotten on my knees for him, wanting to make him feel good, wanting him to wa
Forbidden: Claimed by My Ex's Father and Brother CHAPTER 3
Lia’s POVA real smile, not the annoyed half-smile he usually gave me. His eyes lit up as he looked at her, traveling down her body slowly, taking his time."I don't need anything for now," he said, and his voice was different. Warmer. Friendlier. Flirty, even."Okay, sir," she purred, holding his
Forbidden: Claimed by My Ex's Father and Brother CHAPTER 2
Lia’s POVHis words hit me hard. Like cold water thrown in my face. Like being slapped.I froze. My whole body went stiff. Those words kept repeating in my head. Like a little slut. Like a little slut. Like a little slut.The warm feelings I'd had—the wanting, the desire—all disappeared in a second
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