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Chapter 12: What We Saw
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2026-04-08 20:04:56
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HIS TO LOSE Chapter 12: What We Saw
Arielle's POV It’s Friday morning and I woke up at exactly 6:55 amI already knew it would be a grocery shopping day and meal prep day, but what I didn’t know was Ashley’s planned persuasion later in the day after she timed me and met up with me at the grocery store.The grocery store on a Friday morning was its own kind of chaos.Carts cutting each other off in the cereal aisle, children demanding things from parents who had long stopped listening, a woman on her phone blocking the entire dairy section like she was the only person alive. I navigated it with my list open on my phone and the quiet focus of someone who had a plan and intended to stick to it.Ashley had other plans.“You’re getting kale,” she said flatly, looking into my cart.“I like kale.”“Nobody likes kale Arielle. People tolerate kale.” She picked up the bag and put it back on the shelf. “You’re coming out tonight.”“I’m meal prepping tonight.”“You meal prepped last Saturday.”“And I’ll meal prep this Saturday too
HIS TO LOSE Chapter 11:Faultlines
Dominic's POV The morning started with a lie I told myself.I’m fine.I repeated it in the mirror while knotting my tie. Repeated it in the elevator on the way up to the executive floor. Repeated it when Monica handed me my coffee and gave me that look she gives when she knows something is wrong but is too professional to say so.I’m fine.Arielle Moore was coming in today for a site check. That was all it was. A professional visit from the interior designer assigned to the HaleAI renovation project. I had dealt with contractors, consultants, architects — people who walked through my office and measured things and left. This was no different.I was fine.My phone screen lit up on my desk. Her name wasn’t on it. It was my 9 AM meeting with the product team. I silenced it and pulled up the renovation schedule instead.Arielle: Site check, executive floor. 10:00 AM.I closed the tab.Fine.She arrived at 10:03.I knew it because I wasn't keeping an eye on the door. I was going through Q
HIS TO LOSE Chapter 10: Red Dress, Red Flags
Arielle's POVI barely got three steps out of Dominic’s office before I heard the elevator ding. The sound really should not have triggered me to look up. I should have kept on walking, kept my head down, and maintained the professional mask I had worn all the time of that dreadful meeting. However, something made me look towards the lobby. And that was the moment I saw her. She walked out of the elevator with the air of someone who was not simply the owner of the place, but she had been the owner way before I even entered those doors. Tall, elegant, and radiating the kind of self-assurance that comes from absolute knowledge of one’s position in someone’s life. Her stiletto heels made a sharp click against the marble floor ticking out a sound that was pure luxury. She was in a form-fitting red dress that revealed all of her body, a designer bag hanging on the crook of her arm, hair in perfect waves that surely cost more than my monthly rent. Gorgeous in that clear, overly-made-up way t
HIS TO LOSE Chapter 9: Equal Grounds
Dominic’s povI leaned back in my chair, the leather creaking softly as I looked outside. The Hudson River gleamed like a line of diamonds, and the New Jersey skyline shone like a hope for more. The city was my territory, a chess game I played with accuracy and cruelty. And this penthouse, this study, was my headquarters.The whiskey decanter was still full, a luxury I didn't indulge in. My head was clear, energized by the figures moving on my screens. The market was a wild animal that I had domesticated, a melody of zeros and ones that I could change with just a wave of my hand.I leaned forward, an intense look in my eyes focused on the screens. There was a deal in the making, a hostile takeover that would make my position at the top unchallengeable. The excitement of the chase ran through me, the feeling of power and dominance. This is what kept me going: the game, the victory, the solitude.None of it held my attention.Because all I could think about was her.This wasn’t supposed
HIS TO LOSE Chapter 8: Saturday Confessions
Arielle's POV I stared at his text for twenty minutes before I finally put my phone down.I minimized the messages and switched to Instagram, but I couldn’t focus. I paced around my room, Dominic’s text disrupting every thought.“Stop being so understanding.”Why did I even say that? Jeez.I was drowning in shame like a twelve-year-old girl who’d just blurted out the lamest thing to her eighth-grade crush.“Good.”What did that even mean?I was officially intrigued and sleep-deprived—exactly how he’d wanted his text to make me feel. I tried to respond, but what do you even say to “Good”?Maybe I should just play it cool.But that kiss wouldn’t leave my head.I dropped my phone and lay in bed, replaying the moment over and over. The way his lips felt on mine. How his hands gripped my waist. Heat rose through me as memories flooded back—how he used to touch me, how he made me feel things no one else had since.God, I craved it.Was it just proximity? Seeing him every day now? Or was I
HIS TO LOSE Chapter 7: Mr Sherlock
Dominic’s PovI pulled into the driveway, still tasting her on my lips. My hands are gripping the steering wheel. That kiss—fuck, that kiss. Then she pulled away. Ran inside like I’d burned her.Maybe I had.I walked into my house—all polished marble and towering ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows framing the glittering Manhattan skyline like a painting. Plush leather furniture, minimalist art on white walls, everything perfectly placed by designers who’d never lived here. Sleek. Modern. Expensive.My mom was talking on the phone while Jared sat on her lap watching cartoons on his iPad even though the TV was turned on and showing the same show. Jared ran towards me the moment he noticed my presence and started yapping before I could let out a sigh “Daddy! You’re late! You said you’d be home for dinner!” So much stamina from someone that hasn’t had dinner. I’m so sorry kiddo something came up, I said while I pulled him into a quick hug ruffling his hair as he let out a cheesy giggle
HIS TO LOSE Chapter 6: When She Needed me
Dominic’s POV“My brother just overdosed. I’m at the hospital. I can’t think about this right now.”I stared at the text.Read it three times.My thumb was already pulling up her contact before my brain caught up.Which hospital?She didn’t answer.Fuck.I stood from my desk, grabbing my keys. My ja
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