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Protecting The Heiress Chapter 74
NIKOLAI POV“Noted boss.” His chuckles drifts through the phone. I can already hear the relief in your voice. “Let me hang up now. You seem to want to kill someone else at the end of the line.”I drop my hand down, shoving my phone back into my pocket. My eyes find Lia again because I can’t help myself. Thankfully, she’s alone now and is walking toward me.She settles on the seat opposite me, and another strode of silence settles between us like a heavy weight. Still not talking to me. still paying me no attention. In a normal job, this would have been professionally and I would have been thankful that my client isn’t trying to form any familiarity with him and is keeping in line. But this is Lia. I don’t want this from Lia. I don’t care about the line, or my boundaries, my sanity, or professionalism. I want her to disrupt every single one of them rightfully so.She pulls up her tab and starts strolling through it, going through work certainly. Before I can say word, Rick appears out
Protecting The Heiress Chapter 73
NIKOLAI POVI’m not much of a talker, so I like silence. I like the absence of conversation, the ease of being alone with my own thoughts. I like when people don’t interact with me, when I’m not involved in meaningless chatter. Silence is a relief. Always has been.But this silence, the one filling the space between Lia and me inside this boat, is anything but a relief.It’s suffocating.Lia and I haven’t exchanged more than a cold, obligatory “good morning.” No accidental brushes of conversation, no fleeting meaningless chatter that I despise so much. Just stiff acknowledgment and then nothing. And it’s driving me insane.I should prefer this. I should welcome the distance, but apparently, when it comes to Lia, silence isn’t something I can stomach. It’s not peaceful. It’s not easy. It’s a fucking wall that she’s built higher and thicker with every passing day.It’s been like for a week.A week of Lia ignoring me, acting like I don’t exist. She doesn’t talk to me anymore. She doesn’t
Protecting The Heiress Chapter 72
LIA POV“It’ll get us there quicker.” A hand goes around my waist while the other beneath my thighs before he scoops me off the ground. He does it so effortlessly like I don’t weigh a ton, no grunts, no mumbles under the breath, no sweat.I cross my arms around his neck and stay perched on his arms. His earthy, minty scent with a hint of morning dew wraps around me, so I have to fight not only the urge to bury my head in his chest, but also to not get lost in his eyes that the newly revealed moon is scattering into many colorful asteroids.We walk in silence, the night calm and still. A cool breeze drifts through the trees, carrying the faint chirping of birds in the distance. The moon shines above, soft and gentle, lighting the path ahead.I catch my breath every time his hand moves, no matter how slight. The faintest brush of his skin against mine sends shivers racing down my spine. And whenever his gaze drops to meet mine, I have to quickly look away, pretending I wasn’t just caugh
Protecting The Heiress Chapter 71
LIA POVI watch the world pass by in a blur as Nikolai drives down the road. The wind stings my cheeks, my lips are sore from biting them too hard to stop my tears, my eyes feel heavy, weighed down by bottled-up emotions I can’t seem to release. I feel… numb.It’s like I finally gave peace to the inner girl inside of me, the one bruised and battered by past years of torment from people I once called my friends.But standing up for myself doesn’t bring me at peace as I thought it would. If feels underwhelming, hollow, like a cold relief. I expected it to feel like freedom, like closure. Instead, it makes me question why it took me so long. Why did I let Sally stomp all over me for many years? Why did I endure those years of mistreatment, and took it with a smile even?I’d like to say I didn’t know any better, that I was oblivious to her passive-aggressive digs in high school. But that isn’t true.I knew, I just didn’t care.Sixteen-year-old me was overjoyed that a girl as beautiful as
Protecting The Heiress Chapter 70
NIKOLAI POV“Please, don’t act so moral and righteous. Didn’t you make the video in the first place?” He says, almost agitated. “And I destroyed when I realized how bad it was. But you somehow got a copy and kept it for how many years, eight years?”“Fine, make me the villain. As if we weren’t in on this in high school.”“That was then,” the male says. “Besides, it was harmless pranks then.”I slow my pace as Sally’s voice trickles through the wall of the room. “Constantly harassing her was just a prank. Spreading a nasty rumor about her because she wouldn’t send you nudes was a prank. Telling everyone you asked her out as a joke when I told you she planned on rejecting you was all a prank—”I barge into the room, fury boiling inside of me. their voices tune down as my eyes land on the culprit in question. I match across the room and crouch to pick Lia’s heels before making way to the culprit.He shifts back in his seat. I’m sure if there is an open space in the couch, he’ll crawl i
Protecting The Heiress Chapter 69
NIKOLAI POVThe moment I walk into the room, I sense something wrong. The air feels heavy, tense and suffocating. My eyes find Lia immediately. She’s seated, stiff as a statue, and her hands are gripping the armrests of her chair. Her face is pale, and her eyes are wide and fixed on something that fills them with horror.I follow her gaze to the TV screen, and it takes me a second to register what I’m seeing. It’s like humiliating parts of Lia’s life are cut together to play like a highlight reel. Currently, it’s on a moment where Lia is covered in muddy water.Sally’s laughter buzzes faintly in the background, but all I hear is the roaring in my ears. She glances at me with a sly smirk. “Oh, Nikolai is finally here to join the fun.”I don’t respond to her. My hands are already curling into fists by my sides and my jaw is tightening so hard it hurts. The humiliation on Lia’s face is etched so deeply it feels like a slap to my own.Before I can react by tearing the TV down, Lia jolts t
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