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The Hidden File

作者: Orah Ataboh
last update 公開日: 2026-06-21 06:31:06

Zariel held herself together all the way back to the tower.

On the outside, she looked perfectly calm. She was the picture of corporate poise, the elite executive assistant who could coordinate billion-dollar international schedules and handle high-stakes crises without a single flicker of hesitation. She was the same woman who had just stared down the predatory gaze of Silas Cross. She was the same woman who had ruthlessly dismantled a prominent socialite in a private viewing suite.

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  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   The Midnight Counter-Strike

    The room felt smaller than it had a minute ago. Zariel stood frozen in the middle of the cabin floor, her bare feet rooted to the cold hardwood, her mind looping the same six words over and over. The exact same time. Down to the minute. It wasn't a coincidence. Coincidences didn't happen to people like Julian Sterling. He had picked noon on purpose, the same hour the board scheduled the synchronization test, the same hour she and Kaelen were supposed to be standing in front of Silas Cross proving their marriage was real. He had built a trap with two jaws, and both of them were closing at once. Kaelen took the phone back from her hand and started typing before she even sat down. "What are you doing?" Zariel asked, watching his thumbs move across the screen with brutal, mechanical speed. "Calling merlin." "Why is merlin?" "Head of my security division." He pressed the phone to his ear without looking up. "He handles problems that cannot wait for daylight." "Does he know it's

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   The Morning After

    Sleep finally found Zariel sometime after three in the morning. She had spent far too long staring blindly at the dark timber beams of the ceiling, her mind spinning in exhausting, endless circles. She thought about Marcus, about the stolen contract, the agency’s future, about Kaelen. She thought about the raw, unfiltered way he had looked at her right before that devastating message arrived on his phone. Eventually, sheer physical exhaustion won the battle against her racing mind. She dropped into a heavy, dreamless sleep. When she opened her eyes again, the world outside the massive glass walls was a cold, muted gray. The sharp, bright colors of the previous evening had vanished. Morning light stretched across the interior of the cabin in soft, pale bands. The room was warm. It was perfectly quiet. For several long seconds, Zariel simply lay there, letting her mind slowly clear the fog of sleep.

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   The Boundary

    “I will share the bed,” Zariel said, her voice cutting through the heavy silence of the cabin. “But on my terms. Only on my terms.” She didn’t wait for his reply. She walked directly to the center of the massive, king-sized bed. One by one, she grabbed the plush pillows. She placed them down in a precise, straight line right down the middle of the mattress. She adjusted the first one. Then the second. She squared the edges of the third. She lined up the fourth, fifth, and sixth until they stood perfectly erect between the left and right sides of the bed. A completely useless wall. She folded her arms tightly across her chest, stepped back, and looked directly at Kaelen. “That’s the boundary.” Kaelen stood unmoving at the foot of the bed. His dark eyes tracked the line of pillows, then slowly lifted to meet her gaze. “I see that.” “My side. Your side,” Zariel said, pointing a finger to emphasize each space. “The pillows stay exactly where they are. No exceptions.” “Understood.

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   The Lakeside Cabin

    The overhead lights flashed back to life with a sharp, blinding snap and Zariel froze. She wasn't just close to him. She was sitting directly on Kaelen Sterling’s lap. Outside, the storm still raged, slamming rain against the thick windows of the private jet. But inside the cabin, everything had become crystallized, sharp, and terrifyingly clear. Zariel twisted her head around, her eyes wide as she stared at him. Kaelen stared right back. His dark eyes were completely unreadable, his expression a mask of cool, unbothered control, though his grip didn't loosen by a single millimeter. Then, the soft rustle of a curtain broke the silence. The flight attendant appeared from the front galley, holding a fresh bottle of water. "Mr. Sterling, are you both—" The woman stopped dead in her tracks. Her eyes widened, sweeping down to take in the sight of Zariel practically draped over her billionaire boss. Zariel felt a violent wave of heat rush from her throat right up to her hairline.

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   Gravity and Touch

    The cockpit door burst open with a resounding crash, the violent motion throwing a figure hard against the metal frame. The impact was severe enough to vibrate through the entire forward galley. For one terrifying, breathless second, Zariel’s heart leapt into her throat; she thought one of the pilots had been violently ejected from the flight deck. Then, the emergency lights flickered weakly to life, casting a grim, blood-red glow across the cabin and painting the interior in fractured shadows. It was the flight attendant. Her face was entirely drained of color, her eyes wide and glassy with sheer terror. "Stay seated!" she shouted, her voice straining over the roar of the engines. Before the command could fully register, the aircraft dropped out from under them again. She lunged forward, grabbing the doorframe with both hands as the jet lurched sideways into a violent roll. Somewhere behind her, through the open threshold of the co

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   RESENTMENT IN THE AIR

    The private jet lifted off at eleven-forty at night into a sky that looked actively offended by their existence. Rain hammered the fuselage in relentless, metallic sheets, sounding like a burst of automatic gunfire against the outer shell of the aircraft. Thick, black storm clouds swallowed the midtown skyline within minutes of clearing the runway. The millions of glittering lights of New York City disappeared entirely beneath dense layers of dark gray vapor, cutting them off completely from the world below. Inside the cabin, the atmosphere wasn't much better. Zariel Thorne sat midway down the aircraft, her arms folded tightly across her chest, her posture rigid. Her gaze remained fixed on the small oval window beside her leather seat, staring out into the void. There was nothing to see outside. There was only pitch-black darkness and the occasional streak of water racing horizontally across the glass. But staring into the empty night was infinitely easier than looking across

  • No Escape from the Billionaire’s Contract   Signed, Sealed, and Terrified

    The transition from executive assistant to billionaire bride didn't happen with a lavish celebration or a romantic gesture; it happened with the cold, militaristic efficiency of a corporate asset liquidation.By nine o'clock that evening, Zariel found herself standing in the bedroom of her cramped,

  • 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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