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Chapter 43: Unwanted Visitors
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One Night With the Arrogant Billionaire Chapter 43: Unwanted Visitors
Aria’s P.O.VHope is a dangerous thing. I realized that the moment I stepped onto the office floor the next morning.Because despite everything that had happened over the past two days, despite the silence, despite the coldness of that message, despite the sick dread that had rooted itself somewhere deep in my chest, a small pathetic part of me still believed today would be different.He would be here…he had to be.Maybe whatever emergency had consumed him was over. Maybe he had finally gotten some sleep. Maybe he would be standing in his office, tie loosened, looking exhausted but still undeniably him, and the second our eyes met, all of this unbearable tension would break.He would explain. He would tell me I had nothing to fear. He would tell me the silence meant nothing and that I meant everything.I rounded the corner toward his office…and stopped.His door remained closed. The space outside it remained empty. Clyde sat at his desk again, looking apologetic as he frantically answ
One Night With the Arrogant Billionaire Chapter 42: The Weight of Silence
Aria’s P.O.VI barely slept.The shallow fragments of sleep I managed to steal felt less like rest and more like brief blackouts between waves of anxiety. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw the same images replaying with cruel precision.Amara’s smile. The predatory gleam in her eyes.The woman in the golden dress throwing herself into Damien’s arms. His hand wiping away her tears with a tenderness that had shattered something inside me.By the time morning came, my body felt heavy and hollow, like someone had scooped out everything inside me and left only exhaustion behind.Still, routine won. Routine always won.Because when life became unbearable, I clung to structure like a drowning person clung to driftwood.So I got dressed. Did my makeup, tied my hair back and put on the version of myself that looked functional.Capable…normal.
One Night With the Arrogant Billionaire Chapter 41: The Silence of the Void
Aria’s P.O.VThe click of the lock behind me sounded like a gavel bringing a trial to a close. I stepped into my studio apartment, the space that usually felt like my sanctuary, but tonight, it felt like a cage.The air was stagnant, smelling faintly of the vanilla candles I’d lit the previous evening, a scent that now felt cloying and suffocating.I didn't turn on the main lights. I couldn't bear the harsh glare of the overheads; I preferred the dim, amber glow of the floor lamp in the corner, which cast long, distorted shadows across the hardwood floor.I stood there in the center of the room, my coat still on, my body shivering despite the indoor heating. The cold from the hospital parking lot had seeped into my marrow, a chill that no amount of wool or silk could erase.My mind was a chaotic storm of images. The golden dress. The way she had throw
One Night With the Arrogant Billionaire Chapter 40: The Weight of the Crown
Damien’s P.O.VThe sterile scent of the hospital—bleach, rubbing alcohol, and old fear—hit me the moment I stepped through the sliding doors.Beside me, Alexandra was a whirlwind of hysteria, her voice cracking as she sobbed, her hand gripping my arm so tightly her nails dug into my suit jacket. I didn't pull away. In this moment, she wasn't the poised, formidable older sister who usually commanded every room she entered; she was just a terrified girl facing the possibility of a world without the woman who had built the very foundation of our family.&n
One Night With the Arrogant Billionaire Chapter 39: The Golden Shadow
Aria’s P.O.VThe taillights of Damien’s car were two bleeding red eyes in the distance, receding rapidly into the city traffic.I stood on the curb, the cold night air biting at my skin, feeling the sudden, violent vacuum where his presence had been. He had left me with a curt command and a vague promise of seeing me tonight, but the look on his face—that shuttered, distant expression—had left a poisonous seed of doubt blooming in my chest.For weeks, I had played the part of the trusting partner. I had convinced myself that the mysterious phone calls, the sudden disappearances, and the guardedness were merely the stresses of a high-powered career and the logistical nightmare of the penthouse renovations.He had taken me to that penthouse; I had seen the dust sheets and the workers. But the math didn't add up. The urgency in his voice tonight wasn't the tone of a man dealing with a delayed shipment of Italian marble. It was the tone of a man responding to a crisis of the heart.A yell
One Night With the Arrogant Billionaire Chapter 38: The Sudden Shift
Aria’s P.O.VThe heavy door of the chauffeured sedan clicked shut, sealing us away from the opulent chaos of the opera house. The silence that followed was immediate and thick, broken only by the muted hum of the engine and the soft rhythmic clicking of the turn signal.We sat in the plush leather back seat, the city lights of the evening beginning to blur into streaks of gold and white against the tinted windows.Usually, this was my favorite part of the night—the transition. The moment where the masks of "Boss" and "Employee" could finally slip, allowing us to exist simply as two people who belonged to each other. But as I leaned back against the seat, I felt as though I were still standing in that foyer, hearing Amara’s voice hiss in my ear.Nothing in this world is final…I stared out the window, my reflection ghost-like against the glass. I could feel Damien watching me. He didn't say anything at first, but his presence was a physical weight beside me, attentive and perceptive. H
One Night With the Arrogant Billionaire Chapter 27: The Truth Behind the Apartment
Aria's P.O.VBy the time the last box made it into my new apartment, I was exhausted.My entire body ached from carrying things up and down stairs all morning, but despite the soreness, I couldn't stop smiling whenever I looked around the studio.The apartment was beautiful.Sunlight streamed throu
One Night With the Arrogant Billionaire Chapter 23: A Line in the Sand
Damien's P.O.VI was in a remarkably bad mood.Unfortunately for everyone around me, I was also aware of it. That usually made things worse.My assistant had already rescheduled two meetings because apparently my face looked "particularly mur
One Night With the Arrogant Billionaire Chapter 22: You're Not Supposed to Move On
Aria's P.O.VFor a second after being slammed into the wall, all I could do was stand there and blink.The impact had knocked the breath straight out of my lungs, leaving a dull ache spreading across my shoulder blade as I stared at the man standing in front of me.Landon.Of course it was Landon.
One Night With the Arrogant Billionaire Chapter 21: Cornered Again
Aria’s P.O.VI almost launched my phone straight across the office.One second I was standing there thinking about freedom and tiny apartments and finally escaping my parents’ suffocating hou
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