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Chapter 54: Almost
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2026-08-13 15:20:26"I want to call you my sister!"
The words hit Sloane like cold water.
"I'm not your sister." She kept her voice gentle. Steady. Poured every ounce of control she owned into those five words.
Jamie's face collapsed.
His bottom lip trembled. His eyes flooded. He stood there in the forty-second floor hallway of PIERCE Tower — this small, innocent, catastrophically well-meaning child — and let out a sob that echoed off every wall.
"Nobody wants me."
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My New Boss Is the Man I Had a One-Night Stand With Chapter 54: Almost
"I want to call you my sister!"The words hit Sloane like cold water."I'm not your sister." She kept her voice gentle. Steady. Poured every ounce of control she owned into those five words.Jamie's face collapsed.His bottom lip trembled. His eyes flooded. He stood there in the forty-second floor hallway of PIERCE Tower — this small, innocent, catastrophically well-meaning child — and let out a sob that echoed off every wall."Nobody wants me." His voice cracked. "Not my brother. Not my sister. Nobody."He turned and ran.Three steps in, he caught his foot on absolutely nothing and went down hard — sat on the floor, looked at his own palms, and howled.His driver materialized from nowhere, scooped him up like a football, and disappeared into the elevator before the echoes faded.The hallway went very quiet.Sloane turned around.Declan stood in the office doorway.
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The tray hit the floor.The crash split the silence of the office wide open — ceramic pieces skidding across dark hardwood, coffee spreading in a dark bloom — and Sloane barely registered any of it because Declan Pierce had just pulled her off her feet.One arm. One motion. Effortless.She landed on his lap — half-upright, half-sprawled against his chest, completely off-balance — and her brain went completely, catastrophically blank."Let go—" She pushed against him. Both hands on his chest, fingers gripping expensive fabric, pushing with everything she had.He didn't move.Not an inch. Not a fraction. He held her like gravity held the earth — absolute, inevitable, not even trying."Where," Declan said, his voice dropping to something dangerously quiet, "did you think you were going?"She looked up at him.Bad idea.Those black eyes were right there — clo
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"You don't want to know," Tyler said."Stop trying to scare me.""I'm not trying to scare you. I'm telling you — leave PIERCE Group before he finds out. Before all of it comes apart."Sloane gripped the phone so hard her knuckles ached. "Why do you even care? You walked away from me four years ago without a backward glance. You don't get to show up now and start issuing warnings like you have a stake in this.""I have more of a stake than you think." His voice dropped. "Just leave, Sloane.""It's none of your business." She hung up.The cab hummed through Chicago traffic. She stared out the window at the amber glow of streetlights and told herself Tyler was exaggerating. Told herself she had things under control.She didn't believe a word of it.What did Claire do? The question turned over and over. What happened between the Pierce family and my mother that made Declan cut everyone off so co
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That hand.Sloane stared at Declan's fingers locked around her wrist and couldn't stop thinking about it — the same hand that had snapped a grown man's wrist like a dry twig thirty seconds ago. Cool skin. Ironclad grip. Not a tremor of hesitation.This man is dangerous."Hello again, Miss Carter."
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