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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Penelope's Board
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Puck with the devil CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Penelope's Board
The air inside the grand boardroom on the eightieth floor was thick with ambition, sweat, and cheap corporate bravado.Penelope Vance stood at the head of the massive, eighty-foot polished obsidian table. Her sharp, grey eyes swept over the nervous faces of the board members sitting in ergonomic leather chairs. She wore an impeccably tailored navy suit, her silver hair pinned back into a sleek, unforgiving chignon, a pair of teardrop diamond earrings glinting under the recessed halogen lights."We are witnessing the unraveling of a legacy," Penelope declared, her voice projecting through the acoustic-paneled room with practiced, aristocratic poise. "Lucian Dimitri has treated this conglomerate as his personal playground for far too long. But last night... last night crossed the threshold from arrogance into unmitigated corporate risk."She tapped a sleek remote, causing the massive high-definition screens along the front wall to illuminate in unison.There, enlarged to five times life
Puck with the devil CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: The Meeting Has Started
Lucian Pov The quiet, domestic warmth that had filled the sunlit kitchen just moments ago vanished as if it had never existed.I lowered the encrypted satellite phone from my ear, my fingers tightening around the glass casing until the knuckles turned white. The smooth, chocolatey taste of coffee on my tongue turned to ashes.Penelope Vance had moved. Faster and more recklessly than my intelligence team had calculated.Across the black marble island, Irene sat frozen, her silver fork hovering inches above her plate. Her golden-brown eyes, which had been bright with rare, unshielded laughter only seconds earlier, were now wide with sudden apprehension. She watched me, reading the subtle, lethal shift in my posture with the sharp instinct of someone who knew what it was like to watch the floor give way beneath her feet."Lucian?" her voice was barely above a whisper, hesitant and fragile. "What happened?"For a fraction of a second, an unfamiliar impulse flared deep in my chest—a dark,
Puck with the devil CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Breakfast With the Devil
Irene Pov I sat down slowly on one of the high-backed leather stools surrounding the black marble island.The dark silk of my crumpled evening dress rustled softly against the polished leather, feeling entirely out of place in the bright, golden morning light flooding the kitchen. Across the counter, Lucian slid a white porcelain plate toward me, followed by the steaming ceramic mug of black coffee.On the plate sat two golden-brown slices of thick French toast, dusted with a light veil of powdered sugar and topped with fresh raspberries. The edges were perfectly caramelized, glistening with melted butter.I stared down at the plate, then looked up at Lucian, genuine disbelief written across my face."You... actually made this?" I asked, picking up a silver fork. "From scratch?"Lucian leaned his hip against the counter, crossing his arms over his broad chest. The crisp white fabric of his unbuttoned shirt stretched taut over his shoulders, his rolled-up sleeves exposing the corded m
Puck with the devil CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX — Where Am I?
Irene Pov The first thing that returned to me was the scent.It wasn't the sharp, clinical sting of hospital floor wax, nor was it the stale, dusty air of my cramped third-floor apartment. It was the rich, intoxicating aroma of dark cedarwood, clean rain, and expensive linen—a scent that had become terrifyingly familiar over the last seventy-two hours.I opened my eyes, blinking against a blinding shaft of morning sunlight streaming through towering floor-to-ceiling glass walls.I froze.I was lying in the middle of an enormous, low-profile king bed dressed in charcoal silk sheets. Above me, soaring timber beams angled into a vaulted ceiling of exposed stone and dark steel. Outside the glass, an endless, misty expanse of private pine forest stretched as far as the eye could see, the morning sun painting the treetops in brilliant shades of amber and gold.My head throbbed with a dull, rhythmic ache behind my temples—a bitter reminder of the dark French Bordeaux I had swallowed in the
Puck with the devil CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE — The Devil Is Falling
Lucian Pov The question lingered in the quiet room, delicate and volatile as spun glass.Lucian froze. The air inside the moonlit master bedroom seemed to instantly solidify, growing heavy and thick enough to choke on. His broad hands, still resting on the dark mattress on either side of her shoulders, locked completely rigid. For a man who had built an empire on predicting every move, anticipating every threat, and holding absolute control over every human interaction in his sphere, her quiet, slurred words struck him like a physical blow.He stared down into her eyes. Golden-brown, heavy-lidded with exhaustion, and warm with the lingering fog of dark French wine, Irene looked up at him with an absolute, terrifying vulnerability. There was no defiance left in her posture, no artificial high-society armor, no panicked defense mechanisms. Just a twenty-year-old girl stripped of all her shields, asking the one question that threatened to dismantle everything he had carefully constructe
Puck with the devil CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR — His Woman
Irene Pov "Thank you."Two simple words. They dropped into the crowded restaurant like heavy iron weights, echoing off the marble pillars and freezing the breath in every throat in the room.The photographer had barely finished shouting his wildly intrusive question when Lucian turned. He didn't hesitate, nor did he offer a cold, corporate non-answer. Instead, he slid his broad arm around my waist with a firm, possessive weight, drawing my body flush against his side before delivering his low, calm confirmation to the press.Then the mirrored doors glided shut, slicing through the wild storm of camera flashes and sealing us into the sudden, deafening silence of the private lift.I stood paralyzed beside him as the elevator descended smoothly toward the underground parking garage. My brain felt completely scrambled, my chest heaving against the tight boning of my dark silk dress."Why... why did you say that?" I choked out, my voice sounding thin and terrified in the small, reflective
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