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Just Before My Wedding: Trapped By My Ruthless Boss Chapter 27
KISAREL.I stirred in my sleep, feeling so exhausted, like my body had been wrung out and put back wrong.I peeled my eyes open and winced. The sharp light coming through the curtains hit me. I lay there for a second just blinking against it, waiting for my brain to catch up with the rest of me.It caught up and did its thing..."Our flight is for 4AM...""Be home at ten..."Mr. Stark's words came replaying in my head all at once, and I jerked upright so fast the headache cracked across the side of my skull like something splitting open. I ignored it completely and grabbed for my phone on the bedside table.It wasn't there.Oh, God.The light reaching me through the curtains told me all I needed to know.It was morning."No. No. No. No.""Looking for this?"Jace's voice came from across the room. I turned, and he was leaning against the vanity with his legs crossed and my phone held loosely in one hand, and he was smiling, obviously finding the situation considerably more amusing than
Just Before My Wedding: Trapped By My Ruthless Boss Chapter 26
OCEANS.I kept replaying the meeting with Gerald in my head on the drive back, turning it over, looking for any loose threads I might have missed or inconsistencies in some of his hesitations that I initially didn't add up.There was none.The man was telling his truth. Every word of it. Which meant the most promising lead we had managed to surface in six years had delivered exactly one useful thing — the confirmation that she had survived, walked away on her own two feet, and disappeared so completely that even the man who had held her while she bled didn't know her name.I poured two fingers of scotch when I got back and sat with it without drinking it for a while.My phone was on the desk in front of me.11:16 PM.I picked up the glass and drank.She was already past the ten o'clock mark, which I was aware of and had been aware of since 10:03, when I had looked at the time and made the conscious decision not to call her. I wanted to see how far she'd take her disobedience. Whether
Just Before My Wedding: Trapped By My Ruthless Boss Chapter 25
KISAREL."I can do this. I can beat the time."I was still chanting it under my breath when I slammed the taxi door and hurried toward Jace's entrance, which was optimistic considering it was already 9:38 and optimism was about all I had left at this point.I had made peace with missing the ten o'clock mark somewhere between the jazz bar and the cab ride over. Eleven was still a reasonable hour. Besides, that was the original time I had asked for, which he vehemently refused to grant me.Besides, the most important thing was to be at his place for the 4am trip. It shouldn't matter when I got there."This is no longer funny, babe," Jace murmured, moving toward the small bar in the corner of the sitting room. He spoke quietly, without heat. "I didn't see any of this coming when you got this promotion.""I'm sorry, Jace. But these things happen." I settled onto the barstool and watched him pour. "You have a PA yourself. You can relate.""I don't overwork her like this." He slid the glass
Just Before My Wedding: Trapped By My Ruthless Boss Chapter 24
KISAREL."Girl, you've been checking the time non-stop since we got here," Elgin said, setting his glass down. "You promised me the whole evening. The whole evening, Arel. Those were your exact words. I have witnesses.""You have no witnesses.""Grand-père heard you say it over the phone."I smiled, putting my phone face down on the table. "I'm sorry. I'm here.""You have somewhere to be," he stated.We were tucked into a corner booth at a small jazz bar three blocks from Gerald's house — Elgin's choice, because he had strong opinions about ambiance and had dismissed my suggestion of the eatery down the road with a single expression."I have a trip at four AM," I said. "Sydney. I need to pack a few things and see Jace before—" I stopped."Before?" he prompted."Before I have to be at my boss's place by ten tonight.The silence that followed was Elgin at his most dangerous — completely still, processing me, his eyes doing that thing where they moved over your face like they were readin
Just Before My Wedding: Trapped By My Ruthless Boss Chapter 23
OCEANS.We waited for the door to be answered. It took a while, almost like Mr. Gerald was taking his time to decide whether to answer the door or not.The door pulled open a second before I lost my patience, and the man I'd see in the footage showed up looking a bit older. But he was dressed smartly. Just like in the footage. Button-down shirt. Pressed trousers. Good shoes. He was a man who had a knack for looking good when he was younger, I could tell.I had taken Reeves' advice about the clothes. No suit. Dark fitted trousers, a simple black shirt, nothing that announced anything or gave up my real identity. Not because I was ashamed of who I was looking for or why, but because the fewer people who could connect Ocean Stark to a six-year-old shooting investigation, the cleaner everything stayed. My name attached to this search tended to produce more noise than information, and noise was the last thing I needed right now.Plus, Oceans Stark, CEO of Stark Soverign Capital, couldn't b
Just Before My Wedding: Trapped By My Ruthless Boss Chapter 22
OCEANS.She rounded the table slowly, and I caught her wrist when she reached me.I pushed my chair back from the desk, creating a narrow corridor of space between myself and the mahogany, and looked up at her."Sit."Her eyes dropped to my thigh and then came back up to my face with an expression that walked a very careful line between alarm and something she was working hard to keep off her face entirely."We're in the office," she said, her voice dropping, clearly trying to be reasonable about something unreasonable. "Anyone could walk in.""Unless they have a death wish," I said, "no one walks into my office without my permission. Except Logan, and Logan and I have already had our interaction for the day." I held her gaze. "Sit down, Kiss."She sat. 'Perched' was the more accurate word — one-sided on my thigh, her back straight, her hands folded in her lap, holding herself with rigidity.I reached up and took her chin, tilting her head until she had no reasonable option but to loo
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