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Chapter 29
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2026-03-30 19:12:59
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Just Before My Wedding: Trapped By My Ruthless Boss Chapter 29
KISAREL."Well, well, well..." She stepped in slowly and easily, her eyes pinned to the box on the floor. "What do we have here?"I clutched the photograph tighter, knowing that one wrong move and everything I'd been protecting for years would be gone in a few seconds.Her interest seemed pinned to the contents of the box without her even looking my way.She crouched in front of me, and the first thing she picked up was the knitted socks.She held them up, turning them over in her fingers with the expression of someone handling something they found vaguely offensive. "What on earth—" She laughed. "Your parents died, and this is all you get from them. A pair of cheap, misshapen socks? That’s almost impressive."She dangled them from two fingers like they were something she'd found on the street. "No wonder you turned out like this. They didn’t even think you were worth leaving something real behind."She flung them sideways."Stop it!" I scrambled after them, snatching them off the flo
Just Before My Wedding: Trapped By My Ruthless Boss Chapter 28
KISAREL.The plan was to get home, dump these bags in my room, and hurry over to Elgin's immediately. But nothing prepared me for what I walked into the moment I alighted from the taxi.There were men everywhere.Four, five, six of them moving in and out of the front door, carrying things. Large things. The kind of things that don't move unless someone decides they are going to move.I stood at the gate and watched a man I didn't recognize carry my father's armchair through the front door, and I felt something happen in my chest that wasn't healthy.My father's armchair.The wide, dark brown one that had sat in the corner of the living room for as long as I could remember. It had a worn patch on the right armrest where he used to rest his hand when he was reading. I could still remember the small gouge in the wood on the left leg, which came from the time I had dragged it across the floor at age seven because I wanted to sit closer to the television, and my mother had scolded me for i
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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
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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
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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
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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
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