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Chapter 14 - Shadows between us
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Owned by the man I hated Chapter 17 - Behind his eyes
The kiss haunted him.Even now, hours later, Alejandro de la Vega sat in his study, untouched glass of whiskey on the table before him, staring into the shadows as though they held answers he couldn’t reach. But all he saw was her. The way her lips had trembled against his. The way she had leaned into him, just a fraction, like instinct had betrayed the walls she kept up.Mariana Cariño.Even her name was a curse on his tongue. Sweet, sharp, dangerous. It had rolled from his lips that night like it belonged to him, and he hated himself for wanting to keep it that way.He rubbed his temple with one hand, the other clenched tightly around the armrest. He was supposed to be stronger than this. His father had trained him for it..... trained him to control his emotions, to bury his softness under steel. And he had done it well. Until now.Her kiss had undone him.He remembered the boy he had once been.Seventeen, foolish, still writing songs late at night with a cheap guitar propped agains
Owned by the man I hated Chapter 16 - The weight of yesterday
Mariana hadn’t realized she was holding her breath until the silence pressed so heavily against her chest that it hurt. Alejandro’s confession still lingered in the air, raw and unpolished, like a wound torn open for the first time.“I never wanted her,” he said, his voice low, threaded with a pain that made her heart tremble. “Luciana was not a choice. She was… a chain.”Mariana’s fingers curled against the armrest of the chair, knuckles pale. Every instinct screamed at her to push him further, to demand every hidden truth at once. And yet, another part of her.... smaller, weaker, but frighteningly alive still feared what she might uncover if she pressed too hard.Alejandro moved to the window, shadows wrapping around his tall frame as though they knew the darkness he carried. He didn’t look at her when he spoke again.“I was young, reckless. I thought I could build something of my own. But power… power is never given freely. It always demands blood or sacrifice.”Mariana’s chest tig
Owned by the man I hated Chapter 15 - The ghost between us
The silence after Luciana’s words was deafening.Mariana swore she could hear her own heartbeat drumming in her ears, wild and uneven, as if her chest had become too small to contain it. Her name..... "Mariana Cariño" still lingered in the air, bitter and sweet all at once, because Luciana had thrown it like a knife.Darling. That was what Luciana had called him. Not Alejandro, not de la Vega, not Señor anything. Just… darling.And the way she had said it, familiar and smooth, like it had belonged to her once and maybe still did, made Mariana’s stomach twist in knots.Alejandro hadn’t answered immediately. His jaw had tensed, his fists had curled, but his eyes… his eyes had betrayed something soft. Something dangerous. Something Mariana couldn’t unsee.Luciana’s perfume still lingered in the air, wrapping itself around every breath, thick and suffocating. It wasn’t just perfume. It was a statement. A reminder. A warning.Mariana wanted to scream, to demand answers, to rip away every v
Owned by the man I hated Chapter 14 - Shadows between us
The echo of his lips still burned on hers.Mariana lay in her bed that night, staring at the ceiling as though it could give her answers. The sheets were tangled around her legs, her heart refusing to calm. She pressed her fingers to her mouth, remembering how Alejandro had kissed her. Hesitant at first, then demanding, like a man fighting his own restraint.It was everything she had sworn not to want. Yet her body betrayed her, still trembling at the memory.Fool, she scolded herself, her throat tight. You didn’t come here for this. You came here to end him.But every time she repeated that truth, another surfaced. The warmth in his eyes when he whispered her name. The way he had held her as though he feared letting go. The vulnerability in him that no one else had ever seen.It was maddening, because beneath all of that tenderness was something else. Something dark. Something tied to the deal he refused to explain.Her fists curled into the sheets. “I can’t let him break me,” she wh
Owned by the man I hated Chapter 13 - Dangerous confessions
The silence that followed Alejandro’s vow clung to the room like smoke, heavy and suffocating. Mariana felt it in her lungs, in her bones, pressing against her chest until it hurt. He had a way of making every word sound final, like a verdict.But for once, she didn’t know if the verdict terrified her, or thrilled her.Her heart hadn’t slowed since the moment his eyes locked with hers. Dark, unrelenting, burning with truths he wasn’t ready to say out loud. And God help her, a part of her wasn’t sure she wanted to hear them, because hearing them would mean admitting how deep she already was.This wasn’t supposed to happen.Not here. Not with him. Not with the man she had sworn, sworn to take down.“Alejandro…” His name left her lips shakily, almost like a prayer.He tilted his head, the faintest smirk tugging at his mouth, but his gaze softened. “Say it again,” he murmured, voice low, hypnotic.Her brows pulled together. “What?”“My name.” His tone carried a hunger that unsettled her.
Owned by the man I hated Chapter 12- Between shadows and truths
She waited for him to return but there was no sign he was going to....The night felt heavy, pressing down on Mariana as though the very air around Alejandro’s mansion was complicit in his secrets. Her heartbeat had not yet steadied since the moment she caught him murmuring into the phone, words she wasn’t supposed to hear, words about plans, deals, and Luciana’s unwanted interference.And then there was his warning: “Truths that will destroy everything you think you know about me.”How was she supposed to sleep after that?She didn’t. She stayed awake, curled against the far edge of the guest bed, staring into the darkness as her mind churned. A part of her was furious; furious at him, furious at herself for letting him so quickly wedge himself into her heart. But another part… that foolish, vulnerable part… only replayed the way his voice had softened when he said cariño, how even his threat sounded like a plea to hold on.By the time the first pale glow of morning filtered through
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