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Veronica's POV:

“That is enough,” my father thundered, his voice slicing through the café like a whip.

Every muscle in my body locked. No matter how old I became, his tone still reduced me to that frightened little girl who could never do anything right.

“I am tired of your drama, Veronica,” he spat with eyes cold as steel. “If you don’t behave now, I swear I’ll start taking serious action against you.”

My mouth opened, but nothing came out. My throat felt stitched shut.

And then Chase stepped i
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Veronica finally stands up to the two men who controlled her life the most. Seeing Theo step in with calm strength, while Chase unravels behind a fake smile, shifts the entire balance of power. The war between love, loyalty, and legacy has only just begun… and the next blow will hit even harder. What do you all think? Drop your comments and let me know.

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    Veronica's POV:Dr. Matthew was a man who had clearly prepared a face for this moment.It was a professional face, composed, mildly concerned.He had it arranged and ready by the time Max stepped fully into the office, and under different circumstances it might have been convincing.Max was not different circumstances."Theodore Ashford," Max said, without preamble. "He has been your patient. Where is he.""Mr. Ashford, I completely understand your concern," Dr. Matthew said, like he was reading from an internal script. "But I'm sure you're aware that patient confidentiality prevents me from...""I'm not asking for his file," Max said. "I'm asking if you have seen him today and whether you know where he is right now.""I haven't seen Theodore since our last scheduled session. Whatever he has communicated to you about his whereabouts, I genuinely have no information beyond...""He hasn't communicated anything," I said from the doorway. "That is the problem."Dr. Matthew looked at me br

  • Desired by the Billionaire Brothers   Making him go crazy

    Theo's POV:The hotel room was neutral in the way I had chosen it to be with no history, no associations, no maid who looked at me with worried eyes that I didn't have the energy to reassure.I sat on the edge of the bed and looked at the small white tablet in my palm.My therapist, Dr. Matthew, had prescribed it for anxiety. Just to take the edge off, he had said. Not a solution, just something to help you function while we do the real work.I swallowed it with water and set the glass down and waited.An hour later I felt worse.Not dramatically worse. Just a slow, gray settling, like the lights in the room had been dimmed by someone I couldn't locate to ask them to stop. I sat with it and told myself it was temporary, an adjustment period, the expected response of a body encountering something new."Just anxiety," I said aloud to the empty room. "It's just the medication adjusting."The empty room did not confirm or deny this.I thought about calling Max. Put the phone down before I

  • Desired by the Billionaire Brothers   Sensitive Soul

    Veronica's POV:The first day had been exactly as consuming as I had anticipated and then approximately forty percent more consuming than that on top of it, which meant I arrived home with the particular exhaustion of someone who has been performing competence at full volume for nine consecutive hours and is now allowed to stop.I dropped onto the couch and looked at the ceiling and thought about nothing deliberately for about ninety seconds, which was the most peace I had managed in recent memory.Then my phone buzzed and it was Max and I answered it before it had finished its first ring."How bad," he said immediately."Define bad.""Scale of one to Chase Pemberton."I laughed despite myself, which was something Max had a reliable talent for, locating the laugh in situations that had not previously appeared to contain one. "Maybe a four. The CFO tested me in the first meeting. The legal team sent seventeen documents that all needed same-day review. My assistant is lovely but she wa

  • Desired by the Billionaire Brothers   Under my noose

    Veronica’s POV:The office smelled like leather, and coffee.The chair of my cabin was exactly as I had imagined it.I had been imagining it for long enough that the reality of sitting in it should have felt anticlimactic... like the way things you work toward for years sometimes reveal themselves to be just furniture when you finally arrive at them.But it didn't feel anticlimactic. It felt like exactly what it was, which was the conclusion of a fight I had been having since I was old enough to understand that the company my father had built was something I wanted to be part of and winning my father's validation.I ran my hand along the edge of the desk.For a moment, I simply stood there looking at it all.The glass walls. The skyline beyond them.The polished desk at the center of the room with my name already engraved on the silver plate.Veronica Whitmore. CEO.A slow breath left me. I had fought for this position for years.Years of trying to prove I was capable enough. Smart en

  • Desired by the Billionaire Brothers   The Bait

    Theo's POV:The nine year old Max found me in the corridor outside the sitting room.I had left the chess table and was standing near the window at the end of the hall with my forehead almost touching the cold glass, watching the garden below without seeing it, running the same calculation I had been running for the past twenty minutes which was whether it was possible to become good enough at chess between now and tomorrow morning to satisfy my father who had already decided what he was looking at when he looked at me.The answer I kept arriving at was no.I heard Max's footsteps before I heard his voice, which was always how it was with Max even at nine... he moved through spaces with an impact."Theo."I didn't turn around."I have an idea," he said."I don't want your ideas.""You want to go to Disneyland."I turned around.He was standing in the corridor with his hands in his pockets. There was nothing condescending in his face.That was the thing about Max that my father never f

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  • Desired by the Billionaire Brothers   Emotional intimacy

    Max's POV:Yes, I was fully clothed in front of her. Still, I felt completely naked.More vulnerable than I'd ever been in my entire life.I'd had plenty of women see me without clothes... that was easy, physical, and uncomplicated.But this? Stripping away all of my carefully constructed masks... r

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  • Desired by the Billionaire Brothers   Anticipation

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