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Chapter 16:Under Supervision Marriage
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The meeting ended as coldly as it had begun. "It proceeds," Alistair said, his voice final. "The meeting is done."As the room cleared, Darius reached for Thalia’s arm to escort her out, but she wrenched away. She didn't head for the exit; she followed Nikolai down the long, shadowed hallway of Ravenhart Manor.Nikolai slammed the door to his room. The heavy wood groaned against the frame, the noise echoing through the marble corridor. He didn’t offer her a seat or a kind word. He walked straight to his desk, grabbing a glass of water he didn’t even drink.Thalia stood in the middle of the room, her chest heaving. “Why did you do that?” she demanded.Nikolai turned around, his patience gone. “Do what? Buy us time? You’re welcome.”“I didn’t ask for time,” Thalia snapped. “Two weeks was fine. Two weeks was perfect. Why did you have to push for three?”Nikolai looked at her like she was speaking a different language. “Because I’m trying to find a way out, Thalia. Three weeks gives me a
Inevitable Temptation: Bound to the Ravenhart Heir Chapter 16:Under Supervision Marriage
By afternoon, they were finally in the same room again.It was a rehearsal meeting in name only. In reality, it was a tactical briefing. They sat at a long mahogany table, the bottled water untouched, while a large screen displayed seating charts and timelines like a battle plan. Thalia sat at one end; Nikolai sat at the other. They didn’t look at each other.“The ceremony will be private,” the planner said, her voice clinical. “Very exclusive. No surprises.”Nikolai glanced up. “Good.”Thalia said nothing.“The vows will be traditional,” the planner continued. “We’ll provide approved versions for both of you.”Approved.Thalia lifted her head. “I want to write my own. I don’t want to read something I didn’t agree to.”Every eye turned to her. The silence in the hall was sharp.Sebastian Ravenhart, seated near the head of the table, folded his hands. “That won’t be necessary. No one’s tuning in for vows,” he said calmly. “They’ll remember the photos. The optics. Not thirty seconds of
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The wedding preparations began the next morning.The morning light poured through the grand windows of the Ashbourne Estate, but it didn't feel warm. The main floor, usually a place of quiet family history, had been colonized by the wedding machine. Long mahogany tables were buried under spreadsheets and jewelry vaults, and rolling racks of white fabric stood like a small army in the center of the Great Hall.Thalia stood on a raised circular dais. A stylist was trying to drape a heavy, lace-heavy gown over her, talking about "The Ravenhart Image.""This is the one," the stylist insisted. "It’s traditional. It signals a merger of old-world values."Thalia looked at the dress. It was beautiful, but it felt like a shroud. She looked around the home she was supposed to inherit and realized she felt like a guest in her own life."No," Thalia said. Her voice was small but firm.The consultants froze. Across the room, her father, Victor Ashbourne, was pacing near the fireplace, his phone pr
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By noon, Thalia’s face was everywhere.Paused on screens in trading floors. Smiling from society pages. Analyzed by body-language experts who debated the angle of her chin, the stiffness of her shoulders, the way her hand hovered just a breath away from Nikolai’s—close enough to sell unity, distant enough to invite speculation.No one mentioned the bruise.No one mentioned the silence between them once the cameras shut off.The Ravenhart communications team worked fast. Too fast. Articles were seeded across international outlets within hours—clean narratives, identical phrasing, quotes attributed to “sources close to the family.” The story was simple and airtight:A strategic engagement. A shared future. A return to stability.By evening, the Ashbourne stock rebounded.By midnight, Thalia’s name was trending in six countries.She watched it all from the back seat of a black Ravenhart’s BMW XM, city lights streaking past the tinted windows. Her phone buzzed endlessly—unknown numbers,
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“I am securing my future!” Thalia shouted, her voice cracking just enough to betray the fear beneath it. “I don’t want this marriage any more than you do. But if I’m being forced into it, I will not be the pathetic wife waiting in the corner while you play house with your girlfriend.”Nikolai laughed once. Short. Disbelieving. “You call this survival?”“You will be mine alone,” she continued, stepping closer. “Call me crazy. Call me a monster. But don’t pretend you didn’t build this cage around me first.”“You’re delusional,” he said quietly. “You think you’re a victim here?”“I am fighting for myself!” Thalia snapped. “I’m done being nice. I’m done smiling while I get scraps and leftovers.”Something in Nikolai’s expression broke.He reached for her wrist.“Don’t—” she started.Too late.His grip closed, hard enough to make her gasp as he yanked her forward. Their faces were inches apart, breath colliding, fury vibrating between them.“You think this makes you strong?” he snarled. “
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Thalia didn’t smile. She just booked the venue.She chose a private VIP lounge in a high-rise hotel—a sterile, beautiful box of glass and steel suspended above the city. The lighting was neutral, clinical. A place where flaws couldn’t hide. Where secrets looked like stains.Thalia arrived twenty minutes early. She needed to own the space. She needed to become part of the furniture—immovable and inevitable.Yumi arrived exactly on time.She looked like a breath of fresh air in a suffocating room. Cream slacks. A pale blue blouse. Her hair tied back with a silk ribbon. Effortless. Like someone who was loved. Like someone who slept soundly at night.Thalia hated her instantly.When Thalia stood, the air in the room seemed to drop ten degrees.“Why am I here?” Yumi asked. Her voice was steady, but her fingers were white-knuckled around the strap of her bag. “What kind of game is this?”Thalia gestured to the seat opposite her. “Sit. Please.”Yumi didn’t move. “I’m not sitting until you te
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