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Chapter Thirty Nine
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Mister Dream Man Chapter Forty
* Lawrence *The moment Dianne slid into the alcove, her hand curling around my arm like a shackle, I felt the ground shift. Jana's eyes sparked with triumph, taunting, tempting, daring me, while Dianne's smile cut the air like a blade dipped in honey. I should have pulled away. I didn't. Restraint was my weapon, and restraint was all I had left."Enough," I said, but the word was low, dangerous, meant for both of them.Dianne leaned in, her perfume sharp, too sweet. "She looks familiar," she murmured, her voice low enough to pass as curiosity but edged with venom. Her eyes lingered on Jana like she was a memory clawing its way out of the past.Jana tilted her head, unbothered, sipping her own silence like fine champagne."Does she now?" I asked, my voice flat.Dianne's gaze flicked to me, lingering, her grip tightening. "Yes. I've seen that face before. Years ago... Magnolia Resort."The name landed between us like a stone dropped into still water. Magnolia. My family's crown jewel,
Mister Dream Man Chapter Thirty Nine
* Jana *The gala was a symphony of distraction, laughter, deals whispered into crystal rims, the low thrum of a jazz band, but all of it blurred once Lawrence angled his body toward me. His presence was like a gravity, everything else in the room tilted, unimportant."Walk with me," he said, not a request, I a very commanding manly tone. His voice that slid under my skin, the same way it always had, a command disguised as civility.I arched a brow, feigning ease. "And here I thought you didn't mix business with pleasure."His lips curved, the faintest shadow of a smile, but his eyes... There is no smile there. Just fire banked under control. Looking deep into my own."Who said this was pleasure?"The words were a strike meant to wound, and maybe once upon a time they would have. But tonight? Tonight I'd armed myself for this exact war."Careful, Lawrence," I murmured as I let him guide me toward a quieter alcove draped in velvet curtains. "If you keep saying things like that, people
Mister Dream Man Chapter Thirty Eight
* Jana *Saturday. My first real day off in weeks. No boardrooms. No power plays. No Lawrence Dankworth threading his voice into my bloodstream like poison and honey. Just me, my couch, and the sound of some overacted drama humming from the TV.I tucked my legs beneath me, clutching a throw pillow like it could anchor me. Chips, remote, silence. For once, I let the world shrink small enough to fit inside four walls.Then his face appeared. Not in memory, not in the cruel tilt of my imagination. On the damn television. Lawrence Dankworth, immaculate as ever, sitting across from a well-poised anchor on a live business segment.Of course. The island revolved around his name, around the power of his company. I should've muted it. Should've changed the channel. But I didn't. Instead, I leaned forward, chips forgotten, watching the way he carried himself, that effortless command. Calm. Sharp. Dangerous.They were talking about the Dankworth influence on the island, how the company wasn't ju
Mister Dream Man Chapter Thirty seven
* Jana *The echo of his word followed me out of that boardroom like the toll of a bell. Liar. It shouldn't have mattered. God knows I've been called worse, by men who mattered less. But from Lawrence... it was different. He said it like a verdict, like he'd stripped me clean and found the truth beneath all the polish, and damn him, he wasn't wrong.Because I was lying. Not about the deal, I meant every word I'd thrown at Nano Tech. That was a strategy. That was survival. But about him? About the way his gaze unraveled me, the way I could feel the imprint of his voice in my ribs long after he stopped speaking? That was the lie.I leaned back in my chair, staring at the empty stretch of table as if it could hold me steady. The truth pulsed under my skin, dangerous and raw, I had never stopped being his admirer. Not really. Not in the ways that mattered.And maybe he knew it; he just didn't remember me. That was the worst part. Lawrence Dankworth had always known me. He knew the tilt of
Mister Dream Man Chapter Thirty six
* Jana *The car hummed softly beneath us, glass and steel cutting the city into fragments outside. I didn't look at him, not directly. If I did, the façade I'd built would fracture, and Lawrence Dankworth was the one man who could see straight through the cracks.I'd walked into that brunch knowing exactly what I was doing. I'd dressed for war, rehearsed the cadence of my voice, chosen my words like daggers. Every move had been deliberate, every glance calculated. And it worked. I'd rattled Nano Tech. I'd forced their eyes to split between him and me. I'd reminded the great Lawrence Dankworth that he wasn't the only one who knew how to set a room on fire.But the truth?The truth was sitting right beside me, drinking his silence like it was another weapon in his arsenal.I had never outgrown him.No matter how sharp I made my edges, how carefully I masked my expression, every time I felt his gaze on me—even when he wasn't looking—I was twenty again, breathless from one kiss, from one
Mister Dream Man Chapter Thirty five
* Lawrence *The door clicked shut behind her, and the silence that followed was nothing like the kind I wielded in boardrooms. This one pressed too close, filled with her perfume, with the echo of her words.I should have gone straight to the next file waiting on my desk, the projections, the contracts, the outlines of the deal I'd been grinding toward for weeks. That's what I did after every negotiation, clean lines, clear margins, no distractions. But tonight, the numbers blurred.Her voice lingered. You fight best when you're provoked.Damn her. She was right. Argent hadn't stood a chance the moment she walked in and bent the narrative without touching the numbers. And now... my next deal loomed closer, bigger, heavier. A merger with Nano Tech, a corporation as ruthless as I am. There would be no room for hesitation.I leaned back in my chair, steepling my hands, forcing my mind back into order. Discipline. Control. Two words I had lived my entire career by. Yet, tonight, I couldn
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