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Chapter 298: Something strange with the Solare silks
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2026-10-14 18:48:59
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Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 316: Is There Something You Aren't Telling me
Isabella had been standing at the drawing room window for twenty minutes when the car came up the drive.She knew it was twenty because the clock on the mantel struck the half hour as she took her place and the three-quarters as Marcus turned between the maples. She had told herself she was checking the roses. They had been cut back weeks ago.The car stopped. Marcus came around and opened the door, and Lyra got out.She stood on the gravel for a moment with her bag on her shoulder. She didn't look up at the house. She looked at nothing, with her chin a little high and her mouth set in a line Isabella knew very well. She had seen it on Lyra at nine, when a teacher accused her of copying a drawing. She had seen it at fifteen, the night Victor shouted about her grades. It was the face Lyra wore when she was worried about something.Something has happened, Isabella thought.Her hand went to the curtain. She almost opened the window and called down. She almost went to the door.She did ne
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 315: Something's wrong at my studio
Lyra worked through lunch.By two o'clock she had a full page of notes and three screenshots. The books were wrong in four places. The Hartwell payments were unrecorded. The Lombardy wool was missing. A supplier invoice for twelve thousand had been marked paid twice, in two different months, from the same account. It could all be explained, one at a time, as a clerical mistake by someone who wasn't an accountant.Together, it didn't look like a mistake. It looked like a slow leak.She turned the notes over and thought about what to do.She could call Damien. He would be there in twenty minutes, and he would walk into the studio and take it apart. Karla would cry. Her mother would hear about it, and their father would hear about it, and the family would split in two again at the very moment it had finally started to mend.Or she could confront Karla herself, and hear a soft, wounded apology, and a hundred reasonable explanations. And then Karla would know she had found the pattern, and
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 314: Account Issues
Nobody had marked it paid.She sat back. She looked at the second invoice. The same thing. A payment, cleared, never recorded. Then the third. In total, a hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars sat in the studio's bank account that the books claimed had never arrived.The books said the studio was short on cash.The bank said it wasn't.It could be a mistake, she told herself. Karla hates spreadsheets. She said so. It was entirely possible that a person new to accounting would leave three payments unmarked.But three? With the same note? And a client who had paid in full, and then been made to feel that no one knew who was in charge?She opened Hartwell's email thread.It was in the shared inbox, a long chain, mostly routine. She scrolled to the most recent messages, and read them slowly.From: Hartwell & Co. Purchasing Sept 28 We have not received confirmation that our payments were received. Can you advise?From: Nightbane Atelier (K. Nightbane) Sept 29 Thank you for your patience.
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 313: She Went Back To The Studio
"And if something is wrong?""Then I'll call you.""You'll call me?""I'll call you before I do anything stupid," she said. "I promise."He studied her for a long moment. Then he took out his phone and held it up. "Marcus drives you. You carry this one." He pressed a small silver device into her palm. It was an emergency button, no bigger than a coin. "If anything feels wrong, you press it. He'll be there in four minutes.""That's a lot.""It's the minimum." He closed her fingers over it. "Go. Make them sit up straight."She almost laughed. She put the button in her pocket, and then, because the hall was empty, she went up on her toes and kissed his cheek."Thank you for letting me," she said."I didn't let you," he said. "You didn't ask."***The studio was on the second floor of a converted brick building in the garment district, above a fabric wholesaler and a place that sold buttons by the pound. She had worked here for years before Rome, she had come back to it and then gone back
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 312: Someone was here
The corridor was empty.Moonlight lay in a long, pale stripe down the runner. The doors along the hall were closed. At the far end, the east staircase curved down into darkness. He stood very still, and listened, and she saw the muscle tighten in his jaw.Nothing. Not even a footstep."Damien?" she whispered."No one." He stepped back, but he did not shut the door. He looked down the length of the empty hall, and his eyes narrowed. "Someone was here.""Maybe the house?""The house doesn't stand still."She came to his shoulder and looked out. The corridor lay quiet and perfect, and she told herself that old houses made noises, that her own nerves were stretched thin, that it was nothing. But the hair on her arms had lifted. And there, on the runner, just outside her door, she saw it.A faint, pale scent hung in the air. White tea, and something sweet.She knew it. She'd smelled it twelve hours ago, across a candlelit table, in the soft hush of a long, silk-lined hug.She didn't say it
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 311: You look at me like I might disappear
"I can." He turned toward her fully, and the lamplight caught the dark, serious line of his eyes. "Because I watched her. I was there almost every day. She wasn't lonely because she was in the wrong house, Lyra. She was lonely because she was surrounded by people who loved her and did not know how to say it. I was one of them."Her eyes stung."You said it in your own way.""I said it badly. For months." His thumb moved across her knuckles. "I gave you instructions. I decided what you could handle. I watched you and told myself that was protection.""Damien.""Let me finish." His voice was low and rough. "I'm not telling you this so you'll forgive me. You already did. I'm telling you so you'll know that the girl in this room was never alone.She looked at him for a long moment.Then she put the cardigan down on the quilt, and said, very softly:"Come here."She didn't wait for him to move. She slid across the quilt and put her hands on his shoulders, and he looked at her with a warine
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 6: Oh God Damien!
Lyra set her phone down with shaking hands and stood up.Her legs felt weak, her body hypersensitive. Every movement of fabric against her skin made her gasp.She walked to the full-length mirror in her room and looked at herself.Her hair was disheveled from the flight and the stress. Her face was
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 5: What If He Doesn't Want Me?
Lyra stared at her phone screen, her heart still racing from the encounter in the hallway.DarkVeil: Welcome home, little one. Did you miss me?Her fingers trembled as she typed back.LyraNight: How did you know I got to New York? I didn't tell you I was flying home.The three dots appeared immedia
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 2: He's my BROTHER
Her phone screen glowed accusingly in the darkness, her shameful confession staring back at her. With shaking hands, she minimized the app and clutched the phone to her chest, heart hammering so hard she thought it might break through her ribs.Footsteps on the stairs.Light, measured and feminine.
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 1: The Anonymous Friend
Lyra's fingers trembled as she typed, the blue glow of her phone the only light in her darkened bedroom.LyraNight: I thought about him again today. God, I'm so fucked up.She held her breath, waiting. The three dots appeared almost immediately....her anonymous stranger always responded, no matter
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