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Chapter 60

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A THREAT WRAPPED IN SILK

Lyla stood frozen for several seconds, the words still hanging in the air between them.

She had expected anger. Had walked into this penthouse fully prepared for shouting, for accusations, for the kind of raw confrontation that would at least mean he still felt something sharp enough to fight about.

She had even expected him to simply throw her out, cold and final, the way he'd thrown out so many board mem

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  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 83

    ROAD TO HERCole left the building less than ten minutes after Linda handed him the address.The convoy was already assembled in the underground garage by the time he reached it — two black SUVs, engine running, security detail in position. Standard protocol since everything with Lyla. He got into the back of the lead vehicle.They moved.And for the first twenty minutes, he sat with the folded paper in his hand and watched the city give way to itself — the density of the centre thinning into neighbourhoods, into roads that moved at a different pace, into the kind of streets that didn't register as urgent.He became aware of the convoy around him at some point past the first half hour.Looked out at the second SUV tracking them in the side mirror.Thought about what they would look like, arriving at a modest house with an apple tree and a yellow security light.His jaw tightened.He considered sending them back. Because the convoy felt like everything she'd run from. The scale of hi

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 82

    THE TRUTH LINDA DIDN'T MEAN TO TELLCole was waiting outside Linda's office when she stepped off the elevator the next morning.Linda saw him the moment the elevator opened.Stopped.They looked at each other across the length of the corridor.She closed her eyes briefly. Opened them. Walked toward him, coffee in hand, with the slow, deliberate pace of someone buying themselves a few extra seconds."Good morning," she said."It isn't."She almost smiled. Didn't. "Cole—""I just need to know she's okay."She looked at him properly — not the quick, functional assessment, but actually looking.He looked terrible.The suit was perfectly pressed, the tie correct, the professional surface maintained with the same seamless composure he'

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 81

    THE DISTANCE IS AFFECTING THEMFourteen days after Cole had walked into the office and found an empty desk, a disconnected number, and a resignation email that had arrived in his inbox like a door being closed from the other side.Fourteen days that had somehow managed to feel longer than the entire three weeks that had come before them.Everything with Lyla was finished.Done, completely and permanently, he'd spent months building toward — the embezzlement documented, the conspiracy evidenced, the recordings catalogued, the missing divorce papers traced to their deliberate destruction, and the destruction traced to her.All of it assembled. All of it is unchallengeable.The marriage had collapsed under the weight of what it had actually been, and Lyla's lawyer — the one who had stepped out of the car that afternoon with the particular confidence of someone a

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 80

    THE FINAL BETRAYALSDaniel arrived less than forty minutes after the call.Cole was still standing in Helen's office when he heard the elevator.Daniel appeared in the doorway.He looked at Cole. Looked at the empty office. Said nothing, because there was nothing useful to say about an empty office.He held out a file."The last seventy-two hours. We finished cross-checking everything."Cole took it. Opened it.The first page contained timestamps. Locations. Names. Organized with the particular precision of someone who understood that the difference between useful information and unusable information was the quality of its assembly.*Sunday, 1:12 PM — Lyla Lucas, departing primary residence.**1:34 PM — Vehicle collected Vivian Lucas.*

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 79

    SHE'S GONECole arrived at the office before eight.The executive floor was quiet in the way it was always quiet at this hour — that particular pre-day stillness of a space not yet occupied, monitors dark, the ambient hum of the building doing its work without anyone there to notice it.He noticed the difference before he'd fully registered what he was noticing.Something absent.He walked toward his office.Slowed.Stopped.Helen's office was dark.She didn't always arrive before him, though she usually did, and he'd learned over two years to calibrate the morning partly by whether her light was on when he stepped off the elevator.But it wasn't just the darkness.He looked through the glass wall.And understood immediately.&n

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 78

    LEAVING BEFORE DAWNBy Monday morning, Helen James had made her decision.She had woken before dawn with her hand resting over her stomach and the quiet, unshakeable understanding that she was no longer making decisions for only herself.That had clarified everything.She was leaving.She called in at seven-fifteen.Not Cole's office. The general HR line, which was answered by a junior coordinator who had no reason to question anything.Her voice was steady. Apologetic. Entirely convincing.Linda had been taken to the hospital overnight — nothing critical, they were saying, but she needed someone with her. Helen wouldn't be in today. She was sorry for the short notice.The coordinator said, of course, that they hoped Linda would recover quickly and that they'd let the relevant

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 5

    Crossing the LineThe office remained silent long after the phone call ended.Cole stood motionless beside the glass window, his phone clenched tightly in his hand while the city lights stretched endlessly beneath him. Vivian’s words still echoed inside his head, sharp and exhausting.You need to f

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 4

    A PHONE CALLThey arrived almost at the same time — though their mornings had clearly begun differently.Helen stepped out of the taxi, checking the time on her wristwatch. She tucked a loose strand of hair neatly behind her ear and hurried toward the glass entrance of Cole Designs, her heels clic

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 3

    PROVING HERSELFHelen arrived before the sun had fully risen. The streets were still half-asleep, shutters drawn, and the faint smell of baking bread drifted through narrow alleys. She moved with purpose, her footsteps quiet but precise, the soft click of her heels muted against the cobblestones.B

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 2

    THE CHALLENGEAt eight o'clock sharp, the elevator chimed.He stepped out in a crisp white suit, a navy tie catching the first stretch of morning light. His expression, as always, gave nothing away.Helen straightened immediately.“Good morning, sir.”A brief nod. Nothing more.He walked past her i

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