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Chapter 100 – The Ties That Bind Us
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Owned by Billionaire Chapter 104 – After the Fire
The air inside Graves Manor was heavy with smoke and antiseptic incense burning. The assault had made its impressions on every quadrant of the estate—shattered windows, charred hallways, and blood that no soaking could ever completely erase. It was, however, quiet. Quiet in the way of after the storm has passed and before the next one begins to form on the horizon.Elena stood at the west wing balcony, wrapped in a black robe, with arms folded over her chest, her brow furrowed against the night wind that kissed her skin. Her eyes stared out at the twinkling lights careening across the city skyline—home, prison, war terrain.She hadn't slept.Not since Sophia died. Not since Dante departed with words slicing deeper than any wounds she'd taken on the battlefield.You chose him. Do not regret it when the time comes.The choice had been a scream inside of her. Shattering pieces of her soul. But uncertainties now had no room. Not when everything alrea
Owned by Billionaire Chapter 103 – A House Built on Ashes
Silence in Graves Enterprises was choking. Elena was by Killian's side in the boardroom, the same room where for years intrigue, stabbing in the back, and secrets had been revealed. But now the tension wasn't about money or spots on the board. Today it was a matter of survival. The war had been waged, and the foe was out of hiding. It had a name—Victor. And a face she could never erase. "Are you sure?" she whispered softly, her own voice worn from a night of behind-closed-doors politics and emotional mines. The pain of Killian's almost-broken still throbbed in her chest, making her wince every time she glared at him. Killian refused to look at her. His jaw was clenched, his eyes fixed intently on the screen in front of him as Marcus briefed the team on penetrations of the perimeter. "We have no other option," Killian spat. "He's already within our walls. We burn him out, or we get burned with him." Marcus hacked. "The breach of security last night—
Owned by Billionaire Chapter 102 – Lines in the Sand
The storm came at midnight.It was not a storm that raged down avenues and flooded the city in water. No, not this storm. This storm was cyber. Strategic. Deadly silent.Killian's security monitors flashed to red, alarm after alarm blaring one after another like a string of warning bells. The Graves mainframe—supposedly the most secure place in the world—was bleeding information.Killian stood in the control center, jaw clenched, suit jacket tossed on the floor. "They are tapping data out of the internal safe.""They breached two firewalls within ten minutes," Samir, his best cyber security expert, told him. "We think the point of entry is one of our deep repositories—the ones only you and Sophia had access to."Killian gazed over at Elena. She didn't even blink."Elena swore she twirled those keys around. Sophia turned them over. She's still down in the holding area. I'll go talk to her again."Killian caught her wrist before she could leave. His hand was hot, unyielding."She won't
Owned by Billionaire Chapter 101 – Love, Power, and the Ultimate Choice
The smell of blood and fire still clung to Killian's jacket as he sat in the shadows, his back to the window that looked out over the city he had once controlled with such ease. But tonight was not like victory. Victor was still out there. Sophia was a specter with a knife pressed against the very backbone of Graves Enterprises. And Dante—the wild card none of them could manage—had vanished with a vow and a glare that lingered in Elena's heart.Elena stood on the other side of the room, arms crossed, regarding Killian with equal measures of worry and hard-protectiveness. The quiet between them was no longer the kind that indicated distance—it was the kind that resonated with all the unspoken words because there was too much to risk saying it wrong."He's not returning tonight," she finally spoke. "Dante's a phantom when he wants to be."Killian raised his head slowly, eyes circled with fatigue but still impossibly keen. "He doesn't need to return. He's already caused the harm.""You d
Owned by Billionaire Chapter 100 – The Ties That Bind Us
Glass shattered inside the penthouse, its fragments scattered all over like shreds of her broken will. Elena did not flinch. She could not. Killian stood before her, his eyes seething with fury—but beneath that, agony fluttered like a wounded animal."You knew about Sophia," he growled, his tone low and dangerous. "You knew she had betrayed me."I knew it," Elena explained, attempting to maintain a steady tone when her heart was pounding. "But I didn't have proof. And I wasn't going to accuse your best friend without it."Killian paced, his hand tangled in his hair. "She was my family. The one person I trusted when I couldn't trust myself. And she was playing Victor the whole time.".Elena stepped nearer. "She didn't just betray you, Killian. She betrayed us."His eyes met hers, and something in him gave way. The barricade between them splintered—not quite enough to fall, but enough to sense the heat of what lay behind it."She sold us out," Killian breathed. "She gave Graves' secrets
Owned by Billionaire Chapter 99 – Lines in the Sand
The gust of wind whipped through the vacant trees that lined the park bench Elena sat on, still staring at her phone as though Sophia's words had burned a hole through the screen."You can't trust him. He's like the others."She reread it, praying against hope that the letters rearranged into a lie. But they did not. They just glared at her, confirming what part of her already suspected.Her fingers hovered over the screen. A response teetered on her lips—anger, defiance, even curiosity—but she typed them out, then erased them, before they had a chance to be complete. Whatever she wrote to Sophia, Sophia would spin around. That woman lived on power, on rendering others impotent. Elena would not let her have it.She clipped the phone shut and shoved it into her coat pocket, gasping through the pain in her chest. The weight of it all—the betrayals, the secrets, the half-lies—was on her ribs like a clenched fist.Her father used to work for Sophia. Killian had known her identity even bef
Owned by Billionaire Chapter 98 – Beneath the Surface
Elena's breath hiccuped as she looked at Killian, her own heart racing beneath her skin. The air in the room was charged with a foreboding silence, its weight piling up second by second. Those words spouted just seconds earlier were still ringing in her mind — a promise, not just of emotion, but of something deeper… something raw and unadulterated.She hadn't expected him to be so agitated. Killian Blackstone was not a fragile man, but there he was — shoulders set, eyes burning with doubt, fists clenched at his sides as if he was holding himself together with string."I didn't want you to see me like this," he finally whispered roughly. "But I couldn't keep it up anymore. Not after today."She walked towards him hesitantly, trying to fit it together in the war waging in her chest. She'd experienced flashes of reality, but now it was coming down in one massive lump. "The things with Sophia? The threats, the fact that she knew all about me?"Killian's gaze turned icy. "Sophia's always b
Owned by Billionaire Chapter 97 – The Edge of Everything
The sound of Elena's heel click sounded down the icy marble corridors of the Kingsley manor, each step a bitter jolt to the storm in her breast. Her shoulders were squared, but her eyes were empty. She had come out of the fight with Sophia a burning acuity of intent, but the hurt was not gone. If anything, it had penetrated deep into the bone.She found Killian in his study, leaning back in the desk chair, his gaze being on the fireplace although the fire was extinguished hours earlier. The faint light of the chandelier created shadows on his face so that he looked like a man who carried centuries of sin.He did not speak when he lifted his eyes to look at her. He did not move. He simply glared."I talked to Sophia," Elena said definitively.His jaw tightened. "I know.""I know about the accident. The fire. You and Sophia being—" Her voice caught, not from jealousy, but from the extent of everything coming apart at once. "And I know about the cover-up."Killian nodded once more. No ap
Owned by Billionaire Chapter 96 – The Weight of New Beginnings
The sunlight poured through the penthouse in the morning like a blessing, warming up chilly marble floors and softly golden playing on Elena's face where she sat bundled up in the corner of the couch. The small leather book lay open on her knees, white fingers tracing along the page as if she was afraid to lean on it too hard lest the words vanish.Killian's words—so real, so agonizingly unforeseen—had jolted something inside her. Not much. But in a way that caused her throat to constrict with a hope she was still not ready to willingly accept.He'd never talked to her like this before.No gestures. No sweeping pronouncements or silks-shorn falsehoods. But only gossamer confessions etched on pages for no one's eyes but his. And that made them true. And more powerful than anything he'd ever spoken aloud.She closed the diary, clutched it in a hard-held moment before she rose and went quietly toward the kitchen where the smell of strong coffee hung in the air.Killian braced himself on t
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