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chapter 5
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2026-06-28 19:37:27
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(Hazel's POV)"You have your mother's eyes, Hazel, and your father's stubborn refusal to look away from things that frighten you." Vincent's voice was calm, almost gentle, nothing like the cold calculation I had braced myself to face when I finally stepped into the quiet hotel suite Diane had insisted on securing for this meeting.He was older than I expected, silver haired and thin, seated by the window with the careful stillness of a man who had spent thirty years perfecting patience, the late afternoon light catching the sharp angles of his face in a way that made him look almost harmless. Julian waited just outside the door, close enough to reach me instantly, far enough to let me face this final name entirely on my own terms, exactly the way I had asked him to."You funded Marcus," I said, refusing to let his gentle tone soften the accusation, my voice steadier than I expected it to be after everything that had happened over the past few days. "You funded the sabotage at the gala
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 149
(Hazel's POV)"Say the name again, Nathaniel, slowly, because I want to be absolutely certain I heard you correctly." Diane's voice, replayed through the recording on her phone the next morning, carried a tension I had rarely heard from her in all our years of friendship.Julian and I sat together at the kitchen table, his arm still bandaged, both of us leaning close to hear the crackling audio clearly over the quiet morning sounds of the children playing in the next room, their laughter drifting in through the doorway like it belonged to some entirely separate, untouched world."Eleanor's brother," Nathaniel's recorded voice answered, weary and resigned. "Vincent. He never forgave Julian's father for cutting him out of the company decades ago. He has been funding Marcus quietly from overseas for years, waiting for the right opportunity to finally bring the whole family down."I sat back slowly, my mind reeling, the coffee in front of me growing cold and forgotten. "Eleanor never once
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 148
(Hazel's POV)"The man in the video is not Marcus, and he is not a stranger either, Hazel. You already know his face." Diane's words hit me the moment I stepped out of Julian's hospital room, exhausted and hollow after hours of waiting through stitches and scans and careful reassurances that he would fully recover."What do you mean I already know him," I asked, my mind racing through every face from the gala, every possible enemy still left standing after everything we had already survived together, my body too tired to properly brace itself for whatever answer was coming.Diane turned her tablet toward me, pausing the security footage on a clear, unmistakable frame. My breath caught painfully in my throat, the hospital hallway suddenly narrowing around me until it felt like the only thing left in the world."That is Nathaniel," I whispered, staring at the face of the man Eleanor had once let take the fall for smaller crimes, the same man Desmond had mentioned only weeks earlier duri
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 147
(Hazel's POV)"Get down, Hazel, now," Julian's voice cracked through the sudden darkness like a whip, his arm slamming across my chest and pulling me hard against him a half second before the first crash of shattering glass echoed through the ballroom.The lights had failed completely, plunging six hundred guests into screaming, stumbling chaos, the emergency exit signs casting the only dim red glow across the panicked crowd. I clung to Julian's jacket, my heart hammering so violently I could barely hear my own thoughts, the smell of dust and burnt wiring suddenly thick in the air around us."The rigging above the stage," someone shouted from somewhere near the wings. "It is coming loose."Julian pulled me backward just as a section of decorative scaffolding tore free from the ceiling directly above where I had been standing only seconds earlier, crashing down in a shower of splintered wood and twisted metal exactly where my podium had stood only moments before, close enough that I fe
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(Hazel's POV)"They are already seated, Mrs. Daniel, all six hundred of them, and Marcus Chambers just walked in through the east entrance." The event coordinator's whisper carried more warning than she probably intended, and my stomach dropped straight to the floor of the small dressing room.I studied my reflection in the mirror one final time, the deep blue gown Julian had chosen catching the light exactly the way he promised it would, my hair swept back in a style that no longer tried to hide anything at all, no scarves, no careful angles, nothing between me and the room I was about to walk into. Behind me, Julian adjusted his cufflinks with steady, practiced hands, though I noticed the faint tremor betraying the calm he worked so hard to project."You do not have to do this alone," he reminded me quietly, meeting my eyes in the mirror."I know," I said. "But I want to walk out there on my own first. You can join me once I have said what I need to say."Julian studied me for a lon
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(Hazel's POV)"You want me to do what, exactly," I asked, certain I had misheard Julian across the quiet of his study, the folder Corinne had given us still spread open between us on the desk, the lamp light catching the edges of the pages like a warning."I want you to speak first at the gala," Julian repeated, his voice steady despite the enormity of what he was proposing. "Before Marcus can release anything. I want you to tell the truth about the accident yourself, in your own words, before he ever gets the chance to twist it into a weapon.""That is not protecting me, Julian, that is handing me directly to him," I said, my pulse climbing at the thought of standing in front of hundreds of people and revealing the worst night of my life on my own terms, in real time, with no way to take it back once the words left my mouth."It is the opposite of handing you to him," Julian said, coming around the desk to kneel in front of where I sat, taking both my hands firmly in his, his eyes lo
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