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Escaping The Billionaire's Embrace Chapter Forty Eight
The two grown men.. adults ...full grown adults, were tearing into each other, their grunts and curses drowning out everything else. I could barely process the speed and force of their movements, fists slamming into flesh, bodies crashing against the walls. But no matter how hard I tried to focus, I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the violence unfolding before me.Aiden’s face was a mask of fury, blood dripping from his split lip, but the fire in his eyes burned brighter than ever. Dylan, too, was relentless, his jaw clenched tight, his knuckles white from the force with which he struck. My heart was in my throat, my hands trembling, not knowing who to protect, not knowing how to stop this.But then, things went from bad to worse.Aiden broke free from Dylan’s grip and stormed toward the small dresser across the room. My breath caught as I saw him pull something out of the drawer. The metallic gleam of a gun.How did hell did a gun get into that fucking drawer?I froze, panic flood
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Time seemed to slow, each heartbeat stretching out painfully as I watched the gun's muzzle flash. I heard the deafening sound of the shot, a sharp crack that echoed through the room like a thunderclap.Oh God! Everything went still, except for the frantic thumping of my own pulse in my ears.Dylan pushed me down, shielding me with his body, and I could feel the heat of his skin pressed against mine. His arm was around me, protectively, but it was the desperation in his grip that scared me more than anything.The world tilted on its axis as I tried to comprehend what had just happened.Aiden stood there, the gun still in his hand, his chest rising and falling with heavy breaths. His eyes flickered between Dylan and me, calculating, assessing, waiting for some sort of reaction.Dylan’s breathing was erratic, his hand pressed to his side, where I could already see the red stain spreading across his shirt. The bullet had grazed him, but that didn’t matter right now. What mattered was
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My heart pounded so hard in my chest, I thought it might burst. The gun in Aiden's hand was still pointed at Dylan, and every second that passed felt like a thousand years of agony.I could hear my own voice in my head, begging for some kind of resolution, some way out of this nightmare. But everything seemed out of reach. My mind was spinning, trapped between the man I had once loved and the man who had risked everything to protect me.Aiden's eyes were locked on me, calculating, waiting, daring me to do something, anything, that would prove I was still his, that I still belonged to him.But I didn’t belong to him. I hadn’t belonged to him for a long time. And yet, here we were, teetering on the edge of something that could shatter all of us.The silence stretched, broken only by the rapid beat of my heart and Dylan’s labored breathing. I couldn’t keep looking at Aiden. I couldn’t.But I couldn’t look away either.“You think this is over, Caitlin?” Aiden's voice was quieter now, al
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The room was quiet after Aiden left, the silence oppressive, heavy like a blanket draped over me. My mind was a storm, still reeling from everything that had happened, the gun, the threats, the violence. Dylan’s arms around me felt like the only steady thing left in my world, but even that didn’t calm the chaos inside me.We stayed like that for what felt like an eternity, Dylan holding me, his hands gentle as if afraid I might break. I could feel his heartbeat against my cheek, steady and strong. But it only served as a reminder of how fragile everything had become.Finally, he pulled away slightly, enough to look down at me, his face set in that familiar expression of concern that made my heart twist. "Cait," he said softly, but there was a certain finality in his voice. "I think it's time for you to quit your job."I blinked up at him, stunned. "What?" I asked, my voice hoarse from the crying."
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My heart raced in my chest, but I refused to let it show. I had told myself I wouldn't be afraid of him anymore. That I was done hiding. But the reality of it was much more complicated.Aiden’s gaze sliced through the room, sharp and commanding. He had a way of looking at you that made it feel as though he could see straight through you. And right now, I could tell he wasn’t happy to see me. But that was fine. I wasn’t here to please him."You called for me," I said, my voice surprisingly steady for someone who had been running from him for years. The words felt like a challenge as they left my lips, and I didn’t even flinch. I could feel his eyes on me, studying me in a way that made me want to shrink, but I stood firm.Aiden’s lips curled into a tight smile, but there was nothing friendly about it. His eyes darkened with irritation. "Yes, I did," he replied, his voice low and smooth, but there was an edg
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The sun had barely crested the horizon when I awoke, the faint glow of early morning casting long shadows across the room. My head throbbed with the remnants of a restless night, and I felt the familiar ache of exhaustion in my bones. But the events from yesterday played over and over in my mind.Aiden’s betrayal, his anger, the helplessness I’d felt in his presence.I wasn’t sure how long I had been lying there, staring at the ceiling, trying to force myself to wake up from this nightmare. But as the minutes passed, I felt a new determination settle in my chest.Suddenly, the sound of the front doorbell echoed through the house, pulling me from my thoughts. My heart skipped a beat. Was it him? Was Aiden back? Coming to f**k me again?I froze for a moment, listening to the sound of muffled voices outside. But then, a familiar voice rang out, and I knew it wasn’t Aiden."Caitlin?"Dylan.I rushed to the door, my pulse quickening with both relief and anxiety. As I opened it, Dylan stoo
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The drive back to Dylan’s house felt surreal. The air seemed to shimmer with a sense of possibility, but there was still an undercurrent of caution running through me, as if I was unsure whether I could truly trust the peace I felt, or if it was just a fleeting illusion. My hands rested on my lap, and for the first time in ages, I didn’t feel the urge to clutch my body in a defensive posture. I didn’t feel the weight of Aiden’s presence looming behind me, controlling my every move. The physical relief was immense, but the emotional burden was still there, heavy and complex.Dylan glanced at me as we drove, his face drawn, like he was balancing a thousand thoughts, but he didn’t rush me. He didn’t push me for anything more than what I was willing to give. His silence was comforting, as if he was giving me space to breathe, space to think, while also showing that he was there, unwavering in his presence.The road seemed to stretch endlessly before us. The soft hum of the tires on asph
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The morning after, I woke up to an unsettling quiet. The kind of quiet that, for most people, would signify peace. But for me, it was like a raw wound still too tender to touch. My first peaceful night under Dylan's roof had been a relief, a balm to the wounds that Aiden’s presence had left on me. I had expected to wake up feeling safer, more at ease, but instead, the dread still clung to me like a shadow.Dylan had left early for work, but his absence felt comforting, as if he had given me the space I needed to begin reclaiming some semblance of normality. I sat in the living room, sipping my tea, trying to gather the strength to start my day. The phone buzzed on the coffee table, pulling me from my thoughts. It was a text from my work.“Emily, the company expects you to come in today. We’re a bit behind. Hope you’re feeling better. See you soon!”I stared at the message for a long moment, the weight of it sinking in. Going back to the office meant facing the reality of everythin
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Escaping The Billionaire's Embrace Chapter Sixty Five
The world outside felt the same. The streets, the cars, the people all moving like clockwork, none of them aware of the storm that was brewing just beneath the surface. I could feel it, like a pulse in my veins, every thrum a reminder that things had shifted. That I was no longer the woman I had been just days ago.I drove in silence, the city lights blurring past as I made my way home. I should’ve been nervous. I should’ve felt the weight of what I was about to do, but the closer I got to my house, the more everything felt like a distant memory. The walls, the rooms, the furniture, all of it had been built on lies. The house that Dylan and I had filled with hopes and quiet whispers didn’t matter anymore.I parked in the driveway and sat there for a moment. The drive had been longer than it should’ve been, and it had given me time to think. To plan. To go over every last detail of what was about to happen. There was no going back.I wasn’t afraid. I was past fear.I was past everyth
Escaping The Billionaire's Embrace Chapter Sixty Four
I didn’t sleep that night. Not really.I lay in the dark, wide awake, listening to the soft hum of the city outside, feeling the weight of what I had learned settling deeper into my bones. The truth wasn’t a relief. It wasn’t a final revelation that gave me peace. It was a wound that had been opened and left to bleed. It kept oozing, pulling at the fragile stitches I’d managed to tie around myself.I thought about Dylan.I thought about Aiden.But most of all, I thought about me. What was left of me.I could hear the faint sounds of Dylan moving around downstairs, the clink of dishes, the soft murmur of the television. I didn’t want to face him. I couldn’t. He had been a part of it. He had watched. Maybe he thought his guilt was a decent trade for pretending to be my savior. But it wasn’t. Not anymore.I wasn’t angry, though. Anger would have been easier. What I felt was worse. It was a strange kind of emptiness. Like I was floating in the dark, with nothing but a vague sense of be
Escaping The Billionaire's Embrace Chapter Sixty Three
The shower ran long enough that the steam fogged up the mirror, but I didn't care. The sound of water crashing against the tile was a dull, mind-numbing rush, almost like I could drown out everything if I stayed under it long enough.But I couldn’t hide.Not from myself. Not from what I’d learned. Not from what I was becoming.I turned the water off, but the silence that followed felt even worse. Cold air wrapped around my skin, my breath coming out in sharp gasps, as if I’d been holding it for years. I stared at the reflection in the mirror, a face that didn’t belong to me. A face I didn’t even know. Not fully. Not anymore.My hand trembled as I reached up, my fingers brushing the scar beneath my left eye. The one Dylan had created. The one that was supposed to be a mark of my new life. My evolution. A life engineered to fit someone else's design.I wasn’t Caitlin Roe anymore.I wasn’t Caitlin Gallagher either.I was a replacement. A project. An experiment.And I didn’t know who the
Escaping The Billionaire's Embrace Chapter Sixty Two
I didn’t cry.I thought I would.I thought I’d make it to the elevator and fall apart, slide down the wall and sob until my throat cracked. But I didn’t.I rode the elevator down like I was made of steel. Hands still clenched. Face still burning.The lobby lights buzzed overhead. The security guard gave me a stiff, polite nod, like nothing was wrong. Like I hadn’t just stood in the same room as the man who reprogrammed my body and tried to erase my soul.I nodded back.Because that’s the game, isn’t it?Pretend nothing’s bleeding.Pretend you’re not drowning.Pretend you didn’t just learn you were built.It was cold outside. Not winter-cold. But the kind that sneaks under your skin when you’re already brittle inside. My heels clicked across the pavement as I walked to my car, and every sound felt too loud. Like the world was trying to draw attention to me. Like it knew.I sat behind the wheel with the engine off for a long time.Not thinking. Not planning. Just existing.And even tha
Escaping The Billionaire's Embrace Chapter Sixty One
I left Dylan’s apartment without looking back.He didn’t try to stop me. Just stood there, silent, like a man watching a fire he didn’t bother putting out. And maybe that was the truth, maybe I was always meant to burn.I drove until I couldn’t feel my fingers on the wheel. Ended up in a parking garage, staring at nothing, chewing on the edge of a panic attack.Then I opened the flash drive again.Not on my laptop this time. On a secure system. A hacker friend from my undergrad days owed me favors, and I called one in. Said I needed everything decrypted. Hidden files. Metadata. Time stamps. Anything.They called me an hour later, voice low and clipped.“There’s a hidden folder. You didn’t see it.”I hadn’t.I went back, followed the breadcrumb they gave me.Inside were audio logs, notes, screenshots of messages, even therapy session transcriptions. And a folder marked...“HER”.My hands shook as I opened it.Dozens of photos.All of me.Years back, Surveillance stills, Social media scr
Escaping The Billionaire's Embrace Chapter Sixty
I didn't sleep there. How could I? I drove until the sky went pale, then parked in a grocery store lot and sat there, staring at my reflection in the rearview mirror. I didn’t recognize the woman looking back. Eyes ringed in black, lips chewed raw, heart ticking like a bomb.Emily knew me.Not “knew of me.” Not guessed or imagined.She said my name.I kept playing the message in my head, those last words, like she was whispering straight through time, through death, into my ear. “Don’t trust either of them.”How did she know?And why did it feel like I was already too late?By 8 a.m., I was parked outside a library. Not mine. Not local. A town over. Somewhere neutral. I signed onto a public computer with trembling fingers and searched for anything. Old records. Articles. Social media scraps. There was almost nothing about Emily after her death. Just sanitized obituaries and half-hearted blog posts about water safety.But I wasn’t looking for her anymore.I was looking for me.I dug
Escaping The Billionaire's Embrace Chapter Fifty Nine
I didn’t go home.Home felt like a place for people with answers. People who knew what side they were on. I didn’t know anything anymore.Who was I running from? And who was I even running to? So I found a diner. One of those nowhere-places with cracked vinyl booths and a jukebox that hadn’t worked since the 90s. I sat in the corner, hunched over my laptop, the flash drive clenched in my fist like a trigger.I hesitated before plugging it in.Part of me already knew this wouldn’t be something I could unsee.The drive had one folder./EMILY/Inside were three files.Audio_Log_06.m4aJuly_14_CamFootage.mp4Letter_To_Caitlin.docxThat last one hit me like a brick.Letter to Caitlin.I never met her. Not once. I only knew Emily from Dylan’s stories. From the quiet grief in his voice when he mentioned her. From the wedding photos still shoved in a box in our closet. She was a ghost in my life. Beautiful, Tragic and Untouchable.How the hell did she know my name?I opened the letter.> Ca
Escaping The Billionaire's Embrace Chapter Fifty Eight
I didn’t want to go.But the invite, or more accurately, the command, was sitting in my calendar like a trap with a blinking countdown. “Meeting with Mr. Gallagher. 12:05 PM.”Of course he’d make it five minutes after noon. A power play. Make me sweat.I stared at the screen a moment longer than I should’ve, then stood. My legs were shaky, even though I tried to play it cool. Everyone was still pretending not to watch, but I felt it. The tension when I passed someone’s desk. The fake typing that stopped just long enough to eavesdrop.I hated them. I hated how they looked at me now, like I was some broken puzzle they couldn’t wait to solve. Like a scandal in heels.When I reached Aiden’s office, I hesitated for half a second. Just long enough for my nerves to kick. Then I opened the door.He was already standing. Backlit by the floor-to-ceiling windows, crisp and composed in a suit too perfect for someone with a heart so rotted.He didn’t say a word as he stepped around the desk and c
Escaping The Billionaire's Embrace Chapter Fifty Seven
The morning air felt unusually thick as I returned the office building, the weight of the previous day still lingering in my chest. I had to quickly finished the tasks at hand before Aiden would ask for it.I pressed the button for the elevator, hearing the soft hum of whispers that echoed from the lobby. “… Did you hear? Mr. Gallagher spent hours in his office with Emily yesterday. Alone. I thought they just worked together on the big reports?”“Yeah, but did you hear what he called her?” A second voice whispered. “I swear, he called her Caitlin. I thought her name was Emily?”“Wait, what? Are you sure?”“I heard it too. Something’s up with those two, that’s for sure…”The elevator doors slid open, and I stepped inside, trying to ignore the rising tension in the air. It was hard not to notice the undercurrents of gossip, the shifting glances from people who weren’t even trying to hide their curiosity.As the doors closed, I sighed and leaned against the wall, willing myself to shak
