登入分享
Chapter 68
publish date:
2026-07-15 02:40:00NO MORE MYSTERY
The room around Lyla went silent.
The television was still on, Cole's face filling the screen, the press pack visible behind him in their restless, forward-leaning mass. The shards of the wine glass were still scattered across the marble floor in a spreading red stain that nobody had moved to clean.
But for Lyla, in any way that mattered, everything had stopped.
Because Cole had smiled.
最新章節
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 77
DECISION TO LIVEAfter Vivian and Lyla left, silence settled over the apartment.Helen sat beneath her blanket on the sofa with the ginger tea still untouched beside her and her hand resting over her stomach in the way it kept doing without her permission.She wasn't thinking about Cole.She was thinking about the life growing inside her.About what safety looked like.About what protection meant.About what she was willing to go through, and for how long, and whether going through it here — in this city, in that building, ten feet from that man — was actually the choice it felt like, or whether it was something else dressed up as staying.She was still sitting there when she heard Linda's key in the lock.Linda came through the door carrying shopping bags and a coffee she'd picked up for he
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 1
THE NEW JOBHelen James pulled her blazer tighter around her and took a deep breath as the taxi slowed to a stop.“Madam, we’re here,” the driver said.She looked up—and her breath caught.Cole Designs.The building stood tall and imposing, a striking piece of modern architecture. Its glass façade
你可能也喜歡
Married a Secret Billionaire
Breaking Wave1.2M 閱讀量The Three Little Guardian Angels
Ginger Bud3.3M 閱讀量Pregnant and Favored: See You in the Morning, Young Master
Miss Yu922.8K 閱讀量Warning: My Mommy is A Savage!
Seeking A Peaceful Life2.1M 閱讀量FOREVER CELESTE: From wife to aunt.
Aurora DA 71 閱讀量My Brother's Best Friend's Secret Baby
Chloe Laurent116 閱讀量The PUMPKIN LETTER
けもこ38 閱讀量Reborn: Married to Your Greatest Enemy
JULIET41 閱讀量
