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BACKED AGAINST THE WALL

作者: Orah Ataboh
last update 公開日: 2026-06-14 22:01:31

The high-pitched wail of the security alarm suddenly died.

It wasn't because the threat had been neutralized or because the phantom intruders outside had retreated back into the neon-lit maze of the city. It died because Kaelen had physically moved through the heavy shadows of the penthouse, his long fingers slicing through the darkness with the absolute, practiced certainty of a man who had memorized every single wire, switch, and circuit breaker in the building’s skeletal infrastructure. He
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  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   The Source

    The Summit venue's security office hummed with the low, urgent energy of a countdown nobody was saying out loud. Kaelen stood over Merlin's shoulder, watching a wall of camera feeds cycle through corridors, ballrooms, credential checkpoints, every frame a possible answer they didn't have time to properly search for."How many staff on tonight's credential list," Kaelen asked."Four hundred and twelve, across catering, press support, technical, security." Merlin didn't look up from the screen. "We don't have time to check all of them individually. We need a name, or a face, something to search against instead of scrolling blind.""Julian's on his way. He'll confirm the face the moment he sees it.""Then we wait exactly as long as it takes him to walk through that door, and not a second longer."Kaelen paced the small room, checking his watch every few seconds despite knowing it wouldn't make the numbers move any faster. "How long until the

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   Elodia's Price

    Elodia had chosen a corner of Sterling Tower's private lounge specifically because it offered no sightlines worth watching, no windows, no reflections, nothing for anyone to catch her in except plain, unguarded conversation. She'd spent a lifetime performing composure in rooms exactly like this one. Tonight, for the first time she could remember, she found she didn't want to.Zariel arrived precisely on time, dressed already for the Summit, tension visible beneath the practiced calm she wore like armor."You said you had something before we left," Zariel said. "Something urgent enough not to wait until after tonight.""I do." Elodia folded her hands in her lap, steadying herself. "But first, I need to ask you for something. I find I've been putting it off for weeks, and I no longer have the luxury of time to keep doing that.""Ask.""You look like you're bracing for a negotiation," Elodia said, something almost wry in her voice despite th

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   The Torn Photograph

    Zariel stood in the middle of the penthouse's controlled chaos, garment bags and security briefings swirling around her, and let herself feel it for exactly one minute. Just one. She'd learned, across everything this family had survived, that fear ignored too long eventually found a worse way to surface.Someone had stood close enough to photograph her, unnoticed, inside a building she'd trusted to keep her safe. Someone had written a single word on the back of it, patient and certain, like a man checking off the final item on a very long list.*Ready.*She let her hands shake for sixty seconds, standing alone in the study doorway, and then she made them stop.She thought about every version of strength she'd performed over the past year, the composed wife, the unflappable strategist, the woman who never let a boardroom see her flinch. None of those performances had prepared her for this particular kind of fear, the fear of being specifically, per

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract    The Dead Drop

    Merlin cleared the service door three seconds behind the figure, boots skidding against wet pavement, and caught sight of a dark coat disappearing around a dumpster at the alley's far end."He's headed for the platform stairs," he said into his radio, already moving. "Cole, cut him off from the east side. Reyes, cover the street exit. Nobody lets him reach a crowd.""Copy," Reyes's voice crackled back, already breathless.Merlin had chased faster men through worse terrain, but this one knew the station's dead ends better than anyone unfamiliar with the building had any right to, cutting through a gap in a fence Merlin would have sworn was sealed, vaulting a low wall without breaking stride."He's not panicking," Merlin muttered to himself. "He's routing."That detail bothered him more than the speed did. Panic was sloppy, predictable, easy to corner. This was something closer to muscle memory, a man moving through familiar terrain with th

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   The Piece Harrison Gives Up

    The legal office Silas had arranged felt sterile in exactly the way Zariel needed it to feel, neutral walls, a single table, a recording setup positioned carefully so Harrison wouldn't have to look directly into a lens while he spoke. Small mercies mattered today. He'd earned at least that much consideration, however complicated her feelings about him still were."Whenever you're ready," Silas said, adjusting the microphone one final time. "Take whatever pace you need. We are not rushing this.""I appreciate that," Harrison said, his voice steadier than it had been in the hospital, though still carrying the particular thinness of a man recovering from something that had nearly killed him. "I would like to begin, if it's all the same to everyone. I've spent twenty-five years building toward not saying any of this. I find I no longer have the patience to delay it further."Zariel sat across from him, close enough to be present, far enough to give him room. "

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   Harrison's Last Stand

    Harrison looked smaller in the hospital bed than Kaelen remembered him ever looking anywhere, the machines around him humming their steady, indifferent rhythm, his skin gone the particular gray of a man who'd spent a week closer to the other side than anyone had told Kaelen plainly."You're awake," Kaelen said, pulling a chair close to the bed. "They said you might not be, for another day at least.""I have never been especially obedient about timelines," Harrison said, his voice thin but steady, some faint ghost of his old dryness still intact. "Sit. I don't have the strength to talk to someone standing over me like a disapproving nurse."Kaelen sat."How are you, actually," Kaelen asked. "Not the version you'd give a board.""Tired in a way I don't think sleep fixes anymore." Harrison's eyes moved slowly around the room, cataloguing it the way he'd once catalogued a boardroom, though the effort clearly cost him considerably more now. "F

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract    The Inbox of Doom

    "I am a literal ghost," Maya whispered, leaning so far over Zariel’s desk her claw-clip scraped the frosted glass partition. "No, scratch that. You’re the ghost. I'm just the person who's going to inherit your favorite ergonomic chair when HR deactivates your security badge."Zariel Thorne didn't l

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   The Boardroom Inspection

    The private executive dining room on the top floor of the Sterling Global Tech headquarters was an exercise in high-stakes psychological warfare. The long, polished mahogany table was surrounded by the city’s most conservative, traditional old-money investors, their faces masks of unyielding judgm

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   Daylight Assistant, Nighttime Bride

    "You look like you got run over by a fleet of corporate shuttles," Maya whispered the next morning, sliding a tall, insulated cup of double-shot espresso onto Zariel’s desk. She kept her eyes fixed on the elevator banks, her fingers nervously adjusting her trendy claw-clip.Zariel didn't answer imm

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   The Penthouse Rules

    The private elevator opened directly into the main living room of Kaelen Sterling’s ultra-luxurious penthouse, and Zariel’s first instinct was to look for a thermostat. The space was immense, an architectural marvel of polished concrete, floor-to-ceiling tinted glass, and minimalist steel, but it c

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