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Chapter 9—Strategic Union
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HIS SECRET DESIRE (MxM) Chapter 79—Going Through the Motions
Christopher's POVWeeks passed.I knew they were passing because the calendar told me so, because the projects at Golden Anchor moved forward and the board meetings came and went and the quarterly reports landed on my desk with new numbers on them. Not because anything felt different from one day to the next. Everything felt the same. The same flat grey sameness that had been sitting over everything since the night I drove home from the restaurant and went to bed in the guest room and woke up and went to work and did it all again.Work was the only place that made sense anymore.I arrived earlier than anyone else. I stayed later. I filled every hour between with meetings and calls and decisions that needed making, and when those ran out I found more, read reports I could have delegated, sat through briefings I'd once have sent someone else to. My assistant had stopped asking if I needed anything by the second week because the answer was always the same and I always said it the same wa
HIS SECRET DESIRE (MxM) Chapter 78—The Elevator
Sophie's POVHe called two days later. Not too soon to look desperate, not too late to seem like he didn’t give a damn. Perfect timing.He suggested coffee. I told him I’d rather do dinner, that I didn’t trust conversations designed to wrap up after one drink. There was a short pause on his end, then he laughed low and said, “Fair enough,” before naming a restaurant I’d heard people talk about but never tried myself. Quiet, expensive, the kind of place where the lighting was dim enough to feel private and the noise level let you actually hear each other.I said yes.The restaurant sat on the fourteenth floor, all soft amber lights, floor-to-ceiling windows, and a view that turned the city into something almost unreal. Tio was already there when the host led me over. He stood up as I approached. Old-school, but it didn’t feel performative. Just him.“You look good,” he said. Simple. No bullshit.“Thank you,” I answered, and sat.Dinner was easy. Easier than I thought it could be. He ta
HIS SECRET DESIRE (MxM) Chapter 77—An Unexpected Conversation
Sophie's POVI almost didn't go.I'd been invited to the Morrison Foundation gala weeks before any of this happened, back when my life had still looked like something I understood, and RSVP'd without thinking twice because attending events like this was simply part of what I did. But standing in front of my mirror that evening with the apartment quiet and Christopher somewhere on the other side of the city attending a work dinner he hadn't invited me to and hadn't needed to, I'd held my earrings in one hand and thought seriously about texting my apologies and spending the evening in my dressing gown instead.Katherine had called while I was deciding and told me I needed to get out of that apartment, that sitting alone in a space full of silence and unresolved things was not going to help anything, and that I had a new dress and good jewellery and a reason to use both.So I went.The venue was exactly what these evenings always were, beautiful and busy and a little relentless, the kind
HIS SECRET DESIRE (MxM) Chapter 76—The Question She Can't Answer
Sophie POVThe apartment was quiet when I woke up that morning, the particular quiet of a space where two people were living separate lives under the same roof and both of them knew it.Christopher had come home late the night before. I'd heard the front door, heard him move through the apartment, heard him settle in the guest room he'd been using since our conversation, and I'd lain in my bed with my eyes open and said nothing. We hadn't spoken in two days. Not since he'd walked out of the living room and I'd gone to my room and made the decision that changed everything.I made coffee and stood at the kitchen window and watched the city wake up below, and I thought about Richard Hall's voice on the phone. That cold controlled tone when I'd finished telling him, the way he'd said good and moved on, the brisk efficiency of a man snapping a problem back into place.You were right to call me.I'd believed that when he said it. I'd told myself all the way through that decision that I'd be
HIS SECRET DESIRE (MxM) Chapter 75—Surrender
Christopher's POVI sat at that table for a long time after he left.The restaurant carried on around me. Someone laughed at the table by the window. A waiter refilled a glass. The quiet ordinary music of an evening that had no idea what had just happened at my small corner table, and I sat in the middle of all of it with my hands flat on the surface and Robin's empty chair across from me and tried to remember how to breathe normally.He'd walked out and I hadn't stopped him.I'd almost followed him. I'd gotten halfway to standing, my hand already reaching for my jacket, and then something had stopped me, some small terrible voice that said he'd made his choice and following him out into the street and arguing with him on the pavement wouldn't change it, would only make both of us hurt for longer. Robin knew what he was doing. He always knew what he was doing.I sat back down and stayed there until the waiter came and asked gently if I needed anything else, and I said no thank you and
HIS SECRET DESIRE (MxM) Chapter 74—The Kindest Thing
Robin's POVHe knew.I could see it in his face the moment I said those words, the quiet dread settling in behind his eyes, the way his jaw tightened slightly before he could stop it. He knew before I said another word and I watched him decide to fight it anyway.Don't, he said.I haven't said anything yet, I said quietly.You don't have to. I know where this is going Robin and I need you to not go there.I looked at him across the small table, the low restaurant noise around us, the ordinary evening carrying on at every other table while ours felt like the edge of something.Let me say it, I said. Please just let me say it.He looked at me and his expression was something I hadn't seen from him before, raw in a way Christopher Hall almost never let himself be in front of anyone, and I had to hold myself very still to keep going.I've been lied to, I said. Before you, before any of this, I was with someone who looked me in the eye every single day and lied. Who made me feel chosen and
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