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Chapter 56: Dark Suit At The Bar

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"People who don't know the truth always talk the loudest," Claire said.

She was turning a champagne flute in her hands, staring at the boutique window with the look of a woman who had made peace with something ugly a long time ago. "Richard's first wife — she struggled with depression long before I came along. I met him after she was already gone. But grief needs a villain, and I was the easiest target."

Sloane said nothing. Let the silence hold.

"Even without me, t

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  • My New Boss Is the Man I Had a One-Night Stand With   Chapter 56: Dark Suit At The Bar

    "People who don't know the truth always talk the loudest," Claire said.She was turning a champagne flute in her hands, staring at the boutique window with the look of a woman who had made peace with something ugly a long time ago. "Richard's first wife — she struggled with depression long before I came along. I met him after she was already gone. But grief needs a villain, and I was the easiest target."Sloane said nothing. Let the silence hold."Even without me, there would have been someone else. He was alone. He was—" Claire stopped. Exhaled. "I was just the one who was there." She looked at Sloane. "I'm not asking you to approve of my choices. I just need you to know the truth."The truth. Sloane turned the word over in her mouth like a stone.She'd built her whole life around protecting one. She wasn't sure she had the right to judge anyone else for the ones they'd buried."Try the dress," was all she said.

  • My New Boss Is the Man I Had a One-Night Stand With   Chapter 55: Evidence

    Boka was exactly the kind of restaurant that made Sloane feel the gap between her life and Claire Bowen's like a physical distance — the white tablecloths, the lighting calibrated for beauty, the sommelier who materialized at the table like a ghost.She sat across from her mother and felt the familiar cocktail of old grief and new anger and something underneath both of them that she refused to examine too closely.Claire set a card on the table before the first course arrived.Sloane looked at it. Looked at her."It won't make up for anything," Claire said. Her voice was careful. Measured. The voice of a woman who had rehearsed this moment. "I know that. Years of — I know it can't be bought back." She pushed the card closer. "But I want you to have it. I want things to be easier for you."Sloane looked at the card.There's money in there, the practical part of her brain said immediately. Real money. For formula and s

  • 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.

  • My New Boss Is the Man I Had a One-Night Stand With   Chapter 53: I Didn't Mean It

    His face was inches from hers.And Sloane's hands were still pressed flat against his chest from the push she hadn't meant to throw.Why did I do that? The thought ricocheted through her skull like a pinball. Why did I push him? He's going to—Declan had stepped back. One step. Jaw tight. Eyes burning with something that was darker and more dangerous than anger — because anger she could navigate. This was something else. Something patient and controlled and coiled like a spring at maximum tension."I didn't mean to." The words came out in a rush. Panicked and small. "It was an accident, I swear, my hands just—""You think you can run from me." He wasn't asking. He moved forward, one step, reclaiming the space she'd created, and Sloane's back hit the wall behind her before she realized she'd been retreating."I'm not running." Her voice cracked on the second word. "I would never — I'm not &md

  • My New Boss Is the Man I Had a One-Night Stand With   Chapter 52: Stand There And Don't Move

    The memory hit her like a wave she couldn't outrun.Three years ago. That hotel room. That night. The specific, devastating reality of Declan Pierce — and she hadn't been prepared, she'd been twenty-two and heartbroken and running on whiskey and bad decisions, and God, she still wasn't prepared—"Let me think about it," Sloane said.The words came out steadier than she had any right to. She pulled herself upright on the sofa cushions, smoothed her blazer, and looked at him with the composed expression of a woman who was absolutely not reliving the most consequential night of her life while trapped under his gaze."This is a significant decision." She held his eyes. "I'd like time to consider."Declan stared at her.Those black eyes — unreadable as always, patient as always — moved across her face like he was running a calculation that had too many variables.Then he reached into his jacket pocket. Pull

  • My New Boss Is the Man I Had a One-Night Stand With   Chapter 51: I Don't Want Your Money

    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

  • My New Boss Is the Man I Had a One-Night Stand With   Chapter 2: Six Reasons to Panic

    Three years later."Breakfast! Now or never!"Sloane set the last of the six bottles on the kitchen table, stepped back, and braced herself.The bedroom door exploded open.Six children hit the hallway at full sprint, a stampede of tiny feet and shrieking voices, and Sloane had approximately two se

  • My New Boss Is the Man I Had a One-Night Stand With   Chapter 1: Drink Until It Burns

    The city never slept. Neither did its pain.Chicago's skyline bled neon through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Ember Lounge, but Sloane Carter wasn't looking at any of it. She was staring at the ring of condensation her glass left on the bar, counting drinks the way other women counted regrets.Se

  • My New Boss Is the Man I Had a One-Night Stand With   Chapter 5: Run, Don't Look Back

    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."

  • My New Boss Is the Man I Had a One-Night Stand With   Chapter 4: Caught

    The second the revolving doors of PIERCE Tower spat her back onto the sidewalk, Sloane tipped her head toward the gray Chicago sky and let out a breath that was one syllable away from a scream.What have I done?She'd just accepted a job — been hand-picked — by the man whose DNA her six children we

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