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GOLDEN CONTRACT OF DESIRE Chapter 124: Rush and Raw
Jeffery had barely reached the elevator entrance when his phone vibrated inside his pocket. He glanced at the screen and immediately saw Mei’s name staring back at him. His expression hardened slightly before he answered the call and placed the phone against his ear.“Such a cold gesture. Not even a hello.” Mei’s voice drifted through the line smoothly. “I was beginning to think we had become close after our last conversation. Turns out we have not. Anyway, I called because i noticed you just placed an order through one of my stores. Since the anniversary is coming in a few days, I thought I should personally deliver it and use the opportunity to check on my dear friend.”Jeffery stepped into the elevator slowly while listening to her. “Stop pretending, we both know you are not Clara’s friend.” His tone remained flat, but there was already irritation sitting beneath the words. A soft laugh escaped Mei. “I guess I should stop pretending then.” She paused briefly before continuing. “Th
GOLDEN CONTRACT OF DESIRE Chapter 123: Wrong Woman to Corner
Clara had said it clearly.The day you see staff come in with clothes and shopping bags, checked the flower vase.He reached the side table.He picked up the vase with both hands as if he was examining it.Then he bent it slowly. His fingers found the bottom.Something was there.His heart was beating considerably faster than his face suggested.Whatever Clara had left him, he was now holding it.Theodore set the vase back down carefully and closed his hand around what he had found, keeping his expression completely neutral and his body language completely unremarkable.He looked at the trolleys one more time.Then he turned and walked back toward the corridor, returned to his original purpose of finding something to eat.His appetite had improved considerably.___Clara had been at the bottom of the pool long enough that the staff in the sitting room had stopped making eye contact with each other.Jeffery's patience had reached a place it had not been in some time. He looked down at
GOLDEN CONTRACT OF DESIRE Chapter 122: The Signal He Was Waiting For
Jeffery checked three rooms before he accepted that Clara was not going to be found by checking rooms.The sitting room. The east corridor. The kitchen. The mansion felt occupied the way it always did even when it was quiet, and Clara had a way of leaving small evidence of herself in spaces she had recently passed through. A displaced cushion. A glass moved two inches from where it had been. He found the traces. He did not find her.He pulled out his phone and opened the CCTV panel.Fifteen seconds later he found her in the swimming pool, moving through the water with the unhurried ease of someone who had nowhere else to be and no strong feelings about that.He stared at the screen for a moment."Of course you went swimming," he said quietly. "After the stunt you just pulled."He put his phone away and walked toward the pool.Clara heard the shift in the air before she saw him and finished her stroke anyway, touched the wall, turned, and looked up.Jeffery stood at the pool edge in
GOLDEN CONTRACT OF DESIRE Chapter 121: The Birthmark: Wrong man, Wrong Mission
Jeffery read it once. Then again. Not because he had not understood it the first time but because his mind was doing the work of tracing it backward from the headline to the source, following the thread from where it had landed to where it must have started, and every direction that thread pointed in led to the same place.The mansion.This is Clara's doings.A phone he still could not find on any camera footage.The silence in the corridor lasted several seconds.When Jeffery finally spoke his voice was completely level in the way that things were level when everything underneath them was moving in the opposite direction."When did this go out," he said."Approximately three hours ago," Logan replied. "It's too far out now to pull back quietly. Any cancellation at this point raises more questions than the appearance itself."Jeffery looked at the phone screen one more time.An amusement park. Public entry. Children and ordinary people and open space that no security arrangement could
GOLDEN CONTRACT OF DESIRE Chapter 120: The Last Ticket Out
He picked up the empty bowl and walked out.Theodore waited barely two seconds before rushing out of the room almost frantically, moving through the hallway with the terrified speed of somebody escaping a predator that might return at any moment. He did not stop until he reached his assigned room and locked himself inside.For the next two days Theodore avoided Clara completely.Every hallway became dangerous the moment he imagined seeing her at the other end of it. Every quiet sound inside the mansion made him think about cameras watching from hidden corners or Logan appearing silently behind him. Even while eating he felt observed, trapped inside a place where every movement already belonged to somebody else before he made it.Clara noticed his avoidance immediately. That amused her more.She let him run for two days.On the third afternoon she found him in a corner of the east hallway near the storage rooms, a section of the building that the cameras covered less thoroughly than
GOLDEN CONTRACT OF DESIRE Chapter 119: Dog Couple: We Do Not Let Go
Theodore stared at her for a long moment. Then something unexpected happened. He laughed. Not a polite laugh but a nervous one. Clara laughed too, which surprised Theodore. Anyone walking into the room at that moment would have assumed they were old friends sharing a joke over afternoon drinks rather than two captives sizing each other up inside a billionaire's sitting room. Theodore shook his head slowly as the laughter settled. "Your level of craziness is beyond anything I prepared myself for. You never stop surprising me." He shifted forward in the chair like someone preparing to stand. "But if you think I am the same Theodore from the past, you are wasting whatever little energy you have left." "I would sit back down if I were you." Clara's voice had not raised even slightly. But something in the texture of it changed, the warmth draining out completely and leaving something underneath that was flat and still.Theodore froze halfway out of the chair. He looked at her face. The
GOLDEN CONTRACT OF DESIRE Chapter 13: Lines Between Us
Clara pressed the button for her floor and waited as the elevator descended. The ride was quiet, giving her a moment to collect her thoughts. She was here for a mission, she reminded herself, and she had to keep her mind clear. Every instruction, every piece of research she had done, insisted that
GOLDEN CONTRACT OF DESIRE Chapter 43: Soft Denial
Jeffery slowly released her, his hands slipping away from her as the quiet between them settled again. He looked at her for a brief moment before telling her to go take her bath. Clara blinked, slightly surprised, but she didn’t question him and simply nodded before heading toward the bathroom.The
GOLDEN CONTRACT OF DESIRE Chapter 31: As It Should Be
H1 entered Clara’s room with its usual soft hum. She was struggling to stand when it appeared in the doorway. Every step hurt, and even gripping the edge of the bed for support required effort. “Good morning,” H1 said gently. “Mr. Rothwell requested I check if you need anything.”Clara shook her h
GOLDEN CONTRACT OF DESIRE Chapter 30: More Than What He Saw
Later that night, Jeffery stood alone in his study. The screen in front of him replayed the same footage again. A small phone hidden beneath her hair. His eyes stayed on it, his thoughts going beyond what the screen actually showed.He replayed it once more. Clara wasn't aware he knew, or at least
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