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Chapter 11: Ryan Makes His Move

Sire Bliss
last update Veröffentlichungsdatum: 28.03.2026 01:08:52

Sunday was supposed to be mine.

Coffee, a book I’d been trying to finish for three weeks, the particular quality of morning light that came through my kitchen window between nine and ten before the building opposite blocked it. No events. No visitor passes. No performing warmth for rooms full of people I’d never see again.

I had forty minutes of that before Ryan texted.

“Can we talk? Please.”

I looked at it. Put my phone face down. Picked it up again thirty seconds later because I was apparentl
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    ~ Adrian POV ~Priya cancelled the benefit dinner at four forty-seven.The host had a family emergency, the venue was closing, the event was being rescheduled to a date that hadn’t been confirmed yet. She forwarded the cancellation with her usual efficiency and added at the bottom: “Your evening is clear.” Three words that meant something different on a Thursday at four forty-seven than they would have meant three months ago.Three months ago a clear evening was a resource to be allocated. A board document to finish, a call to return, a contract to read all the way through without reading the same line three times.Tonight I put on my jacket and told Priya I was done for the day and got in my car.I didn’t tell the driver where to go.He looked in the rearview mirror. I said, “Brooklyn,” and looked out the window and didn’t examine the decision the way I’d stopped examining certain decisions in the ten days since the Saturday morning document.I hadn’t spoken to Vanessa since she’d co

  • Fake Dating My Ex’s CEO    Chapter 33: Ryan’s Ugly Turn

    ~ Ryan POV ~I told myself it wasn’t deliberate.That’s the first thing I want to be clear about, even if only to myself, sitting here on a Sunday night with the specific kind of quiet that follows a decision you can’t take back. I told myself it was just a conversation. That I was talking to Marcus from the PR team the way I talked to Marcus most Fridays, over drinks at the bar two blocks from the office, and that the things I said about Lena were just context. Background. The kind of thing you said about someone you knew when their name kept appearing in the press.I told myself it wasn’t deliberate.I’m not sure I believe that anymore.Marcus worked in PR. Not Cole Industries PR, the external firm the company used for overflow, which meant he had contacts in the press that sat outside Harold’s jurisdiction. He was discreet, mostly. The most was the part I hadn’t thought about carefully enough.I had two drinks. Maybe three. Ryan Blake after two drinks was approximately the same as

  • Fake Dating My Ex’s CEO    Chapter 32: What Adrian Thinks He’s Doing

    ~ Adrian POV ~I’ve always been good at knowing what I’m doing.Not in the arrogant sense, though I understand that distinction is not one everyone would grant me. In the practical sense. The sense of a man who has spent thirty-four years developing the habit of being clear with himself about his own motivations because clarity was more useful than comfort and he’d decided that early enough for it to become structural.I knew why I’d agreed to the arrangement. Family pressure, Vanessa’s timeline, the specific utility of a credible alternative presented to my father before he made a unilateral decision on my behalf. That was clear.I knew why I’d stayed in it past the point where the utility was straightforward. Victor’s three-month timeline had complicated the wind-down and extending the arrangement was the path of least resistance. That was clear too.What I was doing now required more precision to name.It was Saturday morning. Vanessa had been at the hotel for two nights. She’d tex

  • Fake Dating My Ex’s CEO    Chapter 31: Lena at the Limit

    ~ Lena POV ~It had been a hard week even before Thursday.The tabloid situation had flared again, a new piece, sharper than the previous ones, this time with photographs from the Morrison Group dinner that had clearly been taken from inside the room. Patricia had called me at eight in the morning to say the firm was receiving press enquiries and that she needed me to manage my visibility more aggressively. I’d said yes and managed it and handled it with the focused efficiency of someone who had been handling things for eleven weeks and was running low on the specific resource that made handling feel sustainable.Then Ryan had appeared at a work event I hadn’t known he’d be at, a cross-industry communications panel that Cole Industries had apparently sponsored, and I’d spent two hours managing the geometry of a room that contained my ex-boyfriend and three journalists who knew my name from the tabloids. I’d done it well. I’d gone home exhausted in a way that sat differently from tired

  • Fake Dating My Ex’s CEO    Chapter 30: Adrian and Vanessa Fight

    ~ Adrian POV ~I knew before I got home.Not from anything specific. Just the accumulated weight of a week that had been pressing on me from too many directions at once, the foundation event and Ethan in the corner with Lena before I arrived and the look on her face when I reached them, composed and steady and just fractionally too careful in a way that had been costing me sleep for two weeks.Vanessa was on the sofa when I came in. She had her laptop open and a glass of wine beside her and the particular stillness of someone who had been waiting long enough that the waiting had become its own activity.She looked up when I closed the door.“Late,” she said.“The event ran long.” I set my jacket over the chair. “How was the magazine sitting?”“Fine. The photographer was good.” She closed her laptop. “There are photographs from tonight already. Someone with a long lens near the entrance.”I looked at her.“You and Lena are arriving,” she said. Her voice was even. “Her hand on your arm

  • Fake Dating My Ex’s CEO    Chapter 29: Ethan Befriends Lena

    I arrived at the foundation cocktail event early.Not intentionally. The car had made better time than expected and the venue was already open and the staff were still arranging the last of the centrepieces, so I found a quiet corner near the window with a glass of water and watched the room prepare itself for people and thought about nothing in particular, which was what I did now when I had unscheduled minutes. I’d stopped filling them.Ethan Brooks arrived twelve minutes before Adrian.I’d met him at six events now. He was Adrian’s best friend and company vice president and the kind of person who was easy to underestimate because his warmth was so genuine that people sometimes missed the sharpness underneath it. I’d stopped underestimating him somewhere around the second event, when I’d watched him manage a difficult board member with the specific expertise of someone who’d been doing it long enough to make it look like conversation.He spotted me in my corner and crossed the room

  • Fake Dating My Ex’s CEO    Chapter 18: Ethan Sees It First

    ~ Adrian POV ~I knocked on Ethan’s door, which I never did.He looked up from his monitor and read it correctly, the way Ethan read most things, without making a production of it. I closed the door behind me and sat in the chair across from his desk and he set down his pen and waited, because Etha

  • Fake Dating My Ex’s CEO    Chapter 17: Lena The Day After

    ~ Lena POV ~The meeting was on the calendar for nine.Preparation review, Priya’s email said. Upcoming appearances, revised media strategy following the tabloid piece, alignment on messaging for the next six weeks. Forty-five minutes, Adrian’s office, coffee provided.I arrived at exactly nine. No

  • Fake Dating My Ex’s CEO    Chapter 16: The Secret Resumes

    ~ Adrian POV ~He heard the lift before she knocked.He’d been at his desk when the text came through at thirty thousand feet, her plane somewhere over the Atlantic, three words and no punctuation. Landing tonight. Miss you. He’d read it and put the phone face down and returned to the contract on h

  • Fake Dating My Ex’s CEO    Chapter 15: Vanessa Returns Early

    ~ Venessa POV ~The last shot of the day was a close-up.Just my face, the director had said, filling the frame, nothing else competing for attention. He wanted raw. He kept using that word, raw, like it was a direction rather than a quality, like you could arrive at something true by being told to

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