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RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 254
POV: Hazel"Disappear completely." I repeated Penelope's words slowly, watching her hands shake around a cup of coffee she still had not touched, and felt the last of my anger toward her twist suddenly into something closer to unease."She said it just like that," Penelope continued, her voice low enough that I had to lean forward to catch every word over the quiet clatter of the cafe around us. "Calm. Almost gentle. As if she was doing me a favor by warning me at all.""Why would she warn you," I asked. "You have never been loyal to anyone but yourself, Penelope. Least of all to Grace."Something flickered across her face, hurt or shame, I could not entirely tell which. "Because I have known things for years that I never told anyone," she said quietly. "Diane made sure I understood exactly what happens to people who know things and decide to talk."My pulse climbed steadily as I studied her, searching for the manipulation I fully expected to find and finding instead something that lo
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 253
POV: Hazel"She made bail this morning." Reyes said it flatly, like a weather report, and still the words landed hard enough to steal the breath straight out of my chest.We had barely slept, barely eaten, barely allowed ourselves a single hour to process Grace's arrest before the next crisis found us waiting in the kitchen of Julian's penthouse, sunlight cutting harsh and unwelcome through the windows. Ivy stood near the counter with her arms crossed, her expression carefully neutral in the way I had learned meant she was furious underneath. I pressed my palms flat against the cool marble countertop, grounding myself the way I used to before stepping into the wings of a stage, back when my body still knew exactly what it was capable of."Penelope," I said quietly, already knowing the answer before Reyes confirmed it with a small nod."Her lawyer argued the leaked medical records case was unrelated to any active criminal matter," Reyes said. "Technically, he was not wrong. The judge r
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 252
POV: Hazel"Who benefits if I disappear." I said the words out loud before I even meant to, and watched Julian's face go the kind of pale that no amount of hospital lighting could soften.He read the message twice, then set my phone down on the small table between us as though it had suddenly grown too heavy to hold. "No one," he said, but the certainty in his voice arrived half a second too late to be convincing. "No one benefits from that. Not in this family, not in my company.""Someone believes otherwise," I said quietly. "Enough to threaten it in writing."Marcus shifted uncomfortably in his chair, his earlier confession about Diane Voss still hanging unspoken between us until I finally repeated it for Julian, watching the color drain further from his face with every sentence. A dot V, meeting privately with the woman who had structured my accident. Someone inside his own walls, someone who likely knew the security codes to his office, the schedule of his mornings, the particular
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 251
POV: Hazel"Someone watched us walk into that building, and I never once looked over my shoulder." The words sat cold in my throat long after I said them out loud to Julian, because for the first time since Grace's arrest, I understood that the danger had never belonged to just one woman.Julian read the message a third time, his thumb hovering over the screen as though touching it again might make the words disappear. Four lines, nothing more. You think this ends with Grace. It does not. Ask Marcus what he never told you. The clock is already running."He would not lie to us now," I said, though even as I spoke I heard the small crack of doubt inside my own voice. "Not after everything he already gave up to help us.""People lie for a hundred reasons," Julian said quietly, slipping the phone into his jacket pocket like it might burn a hole through the fabric if he held it any longer. "Fear is usually the loudest one."I wrapped my arms around myself, suddenly aware of how cold the ho
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 250
POV: Hazel"She knows we are coming," Reyes said quietly through the earpiece, and something in his voice made my hands tighten around the folder in my lap, because a woman who had spent thirty years hiding in plain sight would not simply wait quietly for the truth to catch her.Grace Chambers's downtown office occupied the top floor of a glass tower that gleamed cold and impersonal against the midnight skyline, its lobby unusually quiet for the hour, security guards replaced tonight by unfamiliar faces who watched our small group with careful, deliberate attention. Julian walked beside me despite the doctor's strict warnings, his jaw set with the same fierce determination that had carried him through every impossible moment since the truss had fallen weeks ago. Marcus followed a few steps behind, pale but resolute, the small recorder still tucked carefully inside his jacket pocket like a talisman he refused to set down."You do not have to do this tonight," Julian said quietly as the
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 249
POV: Hazel"Say that again," I whispered, my hands still trembling from the chaos at the clinic, because surely I had misheard him over the fading wail of distant sirens and my own pounding heartbeat.We sat together in the hospital waiting room once more, an uncomfortable echo of the night the truss had fallen, except this time Marcus sat beside me instead of Foster, his hands wrapped tightly around a paper cup of untouched coffee while Julian underwent emergency treatment for his torn stitches down the hall. The same vending machine hummed in the corner, the same worn magazines sat fanned across the side table, and I found the familiarity of it almost unbearable, as though the building itself refused to let me forget how many times fear had already brought me back to this exact chair."The driver five years ago," Marcus said quietly, his voice steadier now than it had been at the clinic, though guilt still shadowed every word. "He was not simply hired to scare Julian into staying in
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