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Chapter 42
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For a long, suspended beat, the ballroom did not breathe.Then the applause came, soft at first, scattered, hesitant. But it built quickly, rolling like thunder through the golden hall until the walls themselves seemed to hum with it. Champagne flutes chimed against each other as hands clapped harder, louder. A few voices even broke into cheers.“Lucy! Lucy DiMarco!” someone called from the back, sparking a ripple of laughter and raised glasses.Lucy froze for half a heartbeat under the storm of attention, the crimson silk of her gown catching the chandeliers like fire. Her eyes flicked toward Austin, searching, questioning, but he only watched her with that steady, unshakable gaze that pinned her in place.And suddenly, she understood.This wasn’t just about her. It was about both of them. About the empire standing behind their names, and the unity no enemy could fracture.With a soft breath, Lucy let her lips curve into a smile. Not the polite one she had practiced for countless boa
Married by Mistake, Loved by Fate Chapter 42
“You saved me tonight, Lucy,” Austin murmured, his voice low, intimate, heavy enough to crush the air between them. His hand tightened over hers, thumb brushing slow, deliberate strokes across her knuckles, as if grounding himself in her touch. “Do you have any idea how rare that is? For me to admit I couldn’t have done it alone?”Her lips curved faintly, though her eyes shimmered with something sharper, more dangerous. “Then admit it,” she whispered, her voice carrying a quiet challenge. “Say you would’ve failed without me.”Austin’s jaw flexed, his chest rising sharply. The words caught in his throat, fighting with the iron pride that had built his empire. His gaze locked on hers, dark, unflinching, and for a moment it looked like he might actually say it.But instead, his voice dropped, rough, unfinished. “You have no idea what you just did to me.” His fingers tightened, his tone burning with frustration and desire, as if the confession he *wouldn’t* make was tearing him apart insi
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The boardroom sat in stunned silence. Then Ella’s laugh broke it, soft, sharp, laced with mockery.And Lucy? She didn’t blink. Her lips curved faintly, dangerous and knowing.“Seventy-two hours,” she whispered, her eyes locked on Austin’s. “Then let’s see who survives.”Before anyone could process her words, Lucy straightened, her heels clicking sharply against the polished floor as she stepped toward the head of the table. The silence that followed was no accident, it was commanded.“Listen to me,” she said, her tone slicing through the tension like a blade. “We don’t have the luxury of panic. Every second we waste here, they’re stripping us bare.”Executives shifted uneasily, their murmurs stilled by the sharp authority threading her words.“Security,” Lucy snapped, eyes flashing to the guards near the door. “Seal this floor. Nobody leaves, nobody enters without clearance.”The guards moved instantly, locking down the exits.“IT team,” she continued, voice firm, relentless, “you’re
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“Repeat that,” Austin’s voice cracked like a whip, lethal calm masking the storm in his eyes. He didn’t rise from his chair, didn’t even blink, but the air in the boardroom turned suffocating.The young man in the black suit swallowed hard. “Sir… our private servers have been compromised. Sensitive data is being pulled as we speak.”The room erupted, to executives cursing, chairs scraping, voices clashing in chaos. But Austin’s gaze never left the messenger, sharp enough to slice flesh. “Which sector?”The man hesitated, eyes darting. “All of it. Financials. Partnerships. The Amara deal. Even… personal files.”That last phrase hit like a gunshot. Austin’s chest tightened. Personal files meant his life outside the company, things no one had the right to see. And worse, Lucy’s name could be tied in. His wife. His shield. His weakness.Ella’s smirk slithered back like a serpent uncoiling. “Oh my,” she murmured sweetly, her voice cutting through the panic like poison through silk. “What a
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Austin’s voice cut through the stunned silence, low and edged with steel. “Ella. What detail exactly did I forget to mention?”She smiled like a cat that had cornered its prey. Slowly, deliberately, she lifted the folder in her hand and let it snap open.“The Valtoro contract,” she purred. “It expires next week. And unless DiMarco Enterprises produces the renewal sum, five hundred million dollars, your shiny new merger collapses before it even begins.”Gasps ricocheted across the room. Executives whispered furiously, faces paling. Five hundred million wasn’t a number you shrugged off. It was an axe swinging above their empire.Austin’s jaw flexed, a muscle ticking like the crack of a gun. His grip on the table’s edge tightened until his knuckles blanched bone-white against the polished wood. The air around him shifted, heavy, charged, making even the most seasoned men in the room straighten in their seats and avert their eyes. His voice, when it came, was low,measured, but every sylla
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“Ignore her?” Lucy’s voice sliced through the silence, soft but burning. “That’s easy for you to say when she’s not looking at you like you already belong to her.”Austin’s head turned, slow, deliberate, his dark gaze locking on hers. “You think I belong to her?” His tone was low, almost dangerous.Lucy’s chin lifted, a flash of defiance sparking in her eyes. “No. But she does. And that’s the problem.”For a long beat, they just stared at each other. The room was thick with words unsaid, charged with an energy that neither perfume nor sarcasm could erase. Austin took a step closer, the heat of him pressing into the small space between them, his voice dropping. “She could strip naked in this room and it wouldn’t matter. Do you understand me?”Lucy swallowed, her pulse racing. “Then why did it feel like I wasn’t even here?”The question hung in the air like a blade, and for the first time, Austin didn’t have an immediate answer. Instead, his jaw tightened, his silence louder than anythi
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