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My Ex-CEO Chapter 51
My blood ran cold.What is she talking about?Nora’s smirk deepened as she lowered the phone slowly, like she couldn’t wait to drop her next line.“Oh, Carmen,” she sighed, as if she pitied me. “Still clinging to half-truths, huh?”I narrowed my eyes, trying to steady my breath. “What the hell are you talking about, Nora?”She leaned against the pipe across from me, casually crossing her arms like we were in a classroom, not a concrete prison. “You keep thinking I ruined you and Blake. That I was the big bad wolf in your fairytale.” Her lips curled.“Hate to break it to you, but this little nightmare? I didn’t come up with it.”I stared at her.Her words hung in the air like poison.“What?”Her eyes sparkled mean, delighted. “Your precious twin brother. Caleb. It was his plan. All of it. The party. The setup. The way Blake found you with Hunter. That was Caleb’s design, not mine.”My breath whooshed out of me like I’d been punched.“No,” I whispered. “That’s not true. Caleb warned me
My Ex-CEO Chapter 50
Carmen’s POVDarkness.Thick. Suffocating. Endless.I didn’t know how long I’d been out minutes? Hours? My head throbbed with every heartbeat, a deep, echoing pain behind my eyes. The air smelled like gasoline and damp concrete. Cold. Foreign. Hostile. I tried to move. My wrists burned. Tied. Ankles, too. My back was pressed against something hard metal. A pipe, maybe. My arms tingled from lack of blood flow. Panic surged in my chest like wildfire, but I forced it down.No screaming. No freaking out. Not yet.Breathe, Carmen. Think.The boutique. I was browsing journals. Then......That flicker in the mirror.The hand.The cloth.Chloroform.It hadn’t been a dream. It was real.A drip echoed somewhere nearby. Then footsteps slow, deliberate. Like someone wanted me to know they were coming. I stopped breathing.A door creaked open, casting a stripe of dim light across the floor. A figure stood in the doorway tall, broad, face masked in black. I couldn’t see his eyes, but I felt them.He
My Ex-CEO Chapter 49
Jacques’ POV Something felt off. It wasn’t the café, or the breeze, or even Fab going on about that trash reality show she loved to hate. It was the quiet. Carmen quiet. Not just not talking quiet. Not in the area quiet. She’d said she’d be right back just popping into the boutique. That was… what, five minutes ago? Maybe seven. But now, the shop next door looked still. Too still. I glanced at the door. No movement. Just that soft, golden light glowing from inside. “I’ll check on her,” I said, already standing. Fab barely looked up from her phone. “Tell her to hurry. I have dinner plans with my third favorite cousin.” The bell over the boutique door jingled softly as I stepped in. Instantly lavender. Wood. Paper. But no Carmen. I scanned the room, expecting her near the shelves, maybe flipping through one of those overpriced notebooks she always swore she'd actually use this time. Nothing. My brows knit together. There was a girl behind the counter, earbud
My Ex-CEO Chapter 48
Carmen’s POVThe morning air felt… off. Not cold. Not warm. Just heavy like something was pressing down on my chest, refusing to let me breathe right. It wasn’t the weather.It was me.Every step I took felt like dragging weight through water. I told Blake I was heading to Fab’s, but that was a lie. I couldn’t sit across from anyone right now. Not until I’d patched myself up enough to fake being okay.I just needed space. A breath. A damn second. But apparently, the universe didn’t get the memo. Because as I rounded the corner to my street, distracted and numb, I almost walked right into someone.I jerked back.He froze.Jacques.Of course it was Jacques.My heart stuttered. Everything in me paused, suspended in the silence that suddenly stretched between us.He looked just as stunned as I felt maybe more. For days, he’d been distant. Ice-cold. Like I didn’t exist. And I’d stopped waiting for that to change.But here he was. Staring right at me.And worse… seeing me.The tiredness beh
My Ex-CEO Chapter 47
Blake’s POVShe smiled.Not the real kind, not the one that reached her eyes and made the whole damn room tilt. This one was practiced. Polite. Like she was trying not to break something fragile between us.And maybe she was. I handed her the coffee, brushing her fingers with mine.“Come eat,” I said, pretending not to notice the tightness in her voice. “Waffles are getting cold.”She followed me back to the kitchen, silent except for the sound of her sipping coffee. I loaded her plate, added extra strawberries the way she liked, and waited for her to meet my eyes.She didn’t.“You sure everything’s okay?” I asked.She nodded. “Yeah. Just didn’t sleep great.”Lie.I knew her too well for that. The way her jaw tensed when she was overthinking. Something was wrong. Or someone.But I didn’t push. Not yet.Instead, I leaned back in my chair and watched her pick at her waffles.Carmen never picks at food.“I was thinking we could drive out to the cliffs later,” I offered. “Catch the sunset
My Ex-CEO Chapter 46
Carmen’s POVWarmth.That was the first thing I felt before I even opened my eyes. A kind of stillness, wrapped in tangled sheets and sunlight sneaking through linen curtains.Then I felt him.Blake’s arm, heavy around my waist. His chest rising slowly against my back. His face tucked into the curve of my neck like he never wanted to let go.My heart fluttered, then stumbled.“Are you awake?” he murmured against my skin.Damn it. He always knew.“Unfortunately,” I whispered, my voice still thick with sleep.He shifted, his lips brushing my shoulder. “You good?”I finally turned to face him. His hair was messy, his eyes soft and too open. Vulnerable. Not Blake Lockwood the CEO. Just Blake. Mine.He kissed me slow and soft. None of last night’s fire. Just something real.Then I sat up, wrapping the sheet around me. “I need coffee.”He chuckled. “We’ve got espresso pods. And I’m told I make excellent waffles.”“Waffles might be a start,” I mumbled as I padded toward the kitchen.But the
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