ANMELDENShe slept with a stranger to forget her cheating husband. She never expected to see him again. She definitely never expected him to be her boss. One reckless night. One ruthless billionaire. One mistake she can’t take back. Anastasia thought she had buried that night — the stranger, the heat, the shame of waking up alone with cash on the pillow. But Caspian Strauss never forgot her. Not for a single day. And when she walked into his conference room, he made sure she would never walk away again. He got her the job. He designed her entire world. And she never even knew. But the truth she is hiding will change everything. Because the man obsessing over her is the step-brother of the man who broke her. And the baby growing inside her? It belongs to the wrong brother.
Mehr anzeigenSebastian's POV I had listened to that phone call a hundred times in my head, and it got worse every time.“He believes every word. He has no idea. Why would he? He thinks the world turns for him.”I sat alone in my study with the door shut and the house dark around me, and I turned it over and over, looking for the innocent version, the reading where it meant nothing.But there wasn't one. I had built my whole career on knowing when someone was lying. I just hadn't wanted to point that gift at the woman I had burned my marriage down for.I got out the calendar and did the thing I had been avoiding for weeks.I counted.The night Nicole first told me she was pregnant. The night she first pressed my hand to her stomach and smiled. I lined it up against the due date, the real one, the one before it started moving, and I counted backward the way any man can count, and the number didn't work.It didn't work at all.Sitting there in the dark with the pen in my hand, I felt something col
Ana's POV "Evelyn," Caspian said. "I hope you're not boring her.""Never." Evelyn's smile didn't move, but something behind it went still. "We were just getting acquainted. She's charming, Caspian. You could stand to introduce her around more.""I'll keep that in mind." He turned to me. "There's someone who wants to meet you, but give me a moment with Evelyn first."It wasn't a request. I had learned to hear the difference."Of course," I nodded.He guided Evelyn a few steps away, towards the edge of the room, his hand light on her elbow, and I stared at them go, and I saw the thing that happened when they thought no one was looking.The pleasant faces dropped.I couldn't hear the words. The room was too loud, the music, the hundred careful conversations. But I didn't need the words.I saw the way Caspian's jaw set. I saw Evelyn lift her chin and say something short and sharp back at him, unafraid, one of the only people in that entire gold room who would meet his eyes and not flinch
Ana's POV Three days later, I was standing in the middle of Caspian's bedroom, staring at the dress someone had delivered that morning, wondering when exactly my life had stopped feeling like my own.It was midnight blue, and it cost more than I used to make in a month, and it fit like it had been sewn on me, because of course it had, because a man who taped torn money back together doesn't guess at a size. I put it on. I looked at the stranger in the mirror. And I let him take me to the gala, because I had said yes in the lamplight at three in the morning, and because some tired part of me wanted, just once, to stop hiding.°°°°°°°°°°The room was gold and big and full of the most powerful people I had ever been near.I felt it the moment we walked in. Not the wealth, though the wealth was everywhere, dripping off wrists and hanging from ears. Something else. The way the whole room turned, like flowers to a light, the second Caspian stepped through the door with his hand at the s
Caspian's POV I heard her bare feet in the hallway before I saw her.I didn't turn around. I sat at the desk in my home office with one lamp on, and I waited, because there was nowhere for either of us to go at three in the morning except towards the thing we had been avoiding all night."You weren't in bed," she said from the doorway."No.""It's three in the morning, Caspian.""I'm aware of the time." I set my pen down. "I usually am."She stepped into the room. "What do you mean, you usually are?""I mean I don't sleep much." I leaned back. "Three, maybe four hours. On a good night. There aren't many good nights."She came closer. "Since when?""Since I was a boy." I heard the words leave me and couldn't quite believe I was saying them out loud. "You learn to work while the rest of the world sleeps. It's quiet. No one wants anything from you. It's the only time the noise stops.""That's not normal," she said softly. "Four hours. For years.""Normal was never on the table for me, A
Ana's POV I had been at my desk twenty minutes when HR walked in and shut the door behind her."Settling in?" she asked, but her eyes were doing something her smile wasn't."It's going as planned." I kept my voice light. "The launch timeline holds. I'll have the full rollout deck ready by Friday."
Caspian’s POV I knew her the second I walked through that door.I had told myself I wouldn't. I had told myself a man doesn't remember one face out of a crowded club, one night out of a hundred forgettable nights, one woman he left before the sun came up. I had told myself a lot of things on the f
Ana's POV I looked at the floor he wanted me to kneel on.Then I looked at my husband, sitting there so sure of himself, and I almost laughed."No," I said.His smile slipped. "Ana.""I will never kneel to her." My voice was steady now. The shaking was gone, burned clean out of me. "Keep your sign
Ana's POV I didn't leave the bedroom for three days.The curtains stayed closed. The phone stayed face down. I laid on top of the covers in the same robe and stared at the light on the ceiling, morning into evening into morning again.Sebastian didn't come home.Why would he? He had somewhere bett


















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