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Two Directions
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2025-12-07 23:37:23
Riley_SteveroseIn this chapter, Max’s mask finally cracks, revealing the scarred child beneath the reckless man. His pain is no longer hidden behind tattoos or arrogance — it’s raw, human, and heartbreakingly real. For Veronica, this moment changes everything; she’s no longer looking at the troublemaker… but at a wounded soul who’s been carrying his past alone.
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Veronica's POV:I was out of the car before Max had fully stopped it.My leg protested the impact of hitting the gravel, and I ignored it completely, moving toward the shape on the ground that was Theo with the single-minded focus of someone who has stopped processing anything except the most important thing.Max had gone completely still behind me. I heard him, or rather I heard the absence of him, the way his movement just stopped when he saw his brother on the ground, and I knew he was frozen in the same way as me.How can I help him with that when I myself was gone?I reached Theo first.He was on his hands and knees on the gravel, not unconscious, which was the first thing I checked, and his lips were moving with the continuous low murmur of someone having a conversation with a room only they could see."Father, please," he was saying. The words came out fragmented, overlapping themselves. "I panicked. I didn't mean to crash the car. I didn't mean to fail this driving license tes
Desired by the Billionaire Brothers The crash of Theo
(Trigger warning: This chapter contains descriptions of depression, childhood trauma, and hallucinations. Please read at your own risk.)Theo's POV:I hung up.I knew Max would call back immediately and he did, and I watched his name light up the screen twice and then set the phone face down on the passenger seat and pressed the accelerator down with the intention of someone making a choice.The road opened up ahead of me and I let it.The speed felt like the first honest thing in weeks, no performance in it, no calculation, just movement and the engine and the dark road going somewhere that wasn't here. My hands were firm on the wheel. Whatever the hallucinogens had done to me in that hotel bathroom, they had at least left me this, the ability to drive, to move, to go.I was going to the Vipassana centre outside the city. Brother Anand's retreat, the one I had visited twice in my early twenties when the noise of my life had become briefly unbearable and silence had been the only pr
Desired by the Billionaire Brothers Driving alone
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
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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
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Max's POV:I woke up to the noise of her sobbing.For a moment, I was disoriented... the unfamiliar cabin, the empty space beside me in bed...Where the hell was I?!Then reality crashed back, and I was on my feet immediately.I found her on the balcony, standing at the railing without even a jacke
Última actualización : 2026-04-01Desired by the Billionaire Brothers Spellbound
Veronica's POV:Was it even possible to feel both turned on and angry at the same time?! I had no idea before.He was playing psychological games, that much was clear... this was a 'push and pull' game... he was dangling his dominance to me only to be just out of reach to drag me into surrender.I
Última actualización : 2026-04-01Desired by the Billionaire Brothers Anticipation
Veronica's POV:"Yes," he said simply. "You can touch me."Then he reached down, grabbed the hem of his soaking tank top, and pulled it over his head in one smooth motion.I forgot how to breathe.It wasn't like I hadn't seen his bare torso before. I had. That day when I'd stumbled into his room, w
Última actualización : 2026-03-30Desired by the Billionaire Brothers Porcelain pieces
Veronica's POV:"Thank you so much," I said to the maid... with genuine gratitude, warming my voice as I gathered my dishes and brought them to the sink.She was already there, rinsing plates under the stream of water in a robotic way...Usually it was only her loading the dishes into the dishwashe
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