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Chapter 100: Chosen, Not Missed
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Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 100: Chosen, Not Missed
Isabella's POV We didn't mark the moment with anything dramatic. There was no proposal staged in front of cameras, no bouquet delivered to my office with a card that tried too hard. It simply arrived, quietly, the way most things worth keeping eventually do. We'd fallen into a rhythm those past several months, Sunday dinners occasionally including him now, quiet weeknight calls that had nothing to do with business, the London airport conversation settling into something neither of us rushed to define. He kept showing up. That was all. Not louder, not more insistent, just steady, exactly the way he'd been showing up since long before either of us admitted what it might eventually become. "I have something I want to ask you," Julien said, one evening at my apartment, the two of us finishing dinner he'd cooked himself, something simple and unremarkable, no elaborate performance behind it. "Go ahead," I said. "I'm not asking you to marry me," he said, and something in the plainn
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 99: The storm
Isabella's POV The trip to London had been coincidental, both of us attending the same industry conference for entirely separate reasons, Julien presenting a small panel on ethical logistics practices, myself delivering a keynote about resilient leadership through crisis. We'd shared a brief dinner during the conference, comfortable in the way our conversations had become these past several months, but I hadn't expected to spend an entire evening trapped with him at Heathrow when a severe storm grounded every flight departing that night. "They're saying at least six hours," Julien said, returning from the airline counter with two coffees, settling into the seat beside me in the crowded lounge. "Possibly longer, depending on how the weather clears." "Six hours," I repeated, glancing around at the increasingly frustrated crowd filling every available seat. "I suppose we're stranded together, then." "It appears that way," he said, offering me one of the coffees. We settled into
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 98: Actions, Not Words
Julien's POV I heard about the sabotage attempt through Priya, who'd maintained loose contact with several logistics contacts across the industry, the kind of professional network that occasionally surfaced information worth knowing. "A rival firm's been quietly approaching some of Hartford-Blackwood's smaller shipping partners," she said, mentioning it almost in passing during our morning review. "Nothing formal yet, but they're offering considerably better rates, timed suspiciously close to a major contract renewal Hartford's currently negotiating." I sat with that information for a moment, understanding the particular vulnerability it represented, the kind of quiet, incremental sabotage that could genuinely destabilize a supply chain if it went unnoticed long enough. "Do we have any actual relationship with those partners?" I asked. "A few," Priya said. "From when you were still working directly in logistics there." I spent the next several days quietly reaching out to those
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 97: Starting Small
Isabella's POVJulien called ahead this time, no unexpected appearance, simply a straightforward request for thirty minutes of my time if I happened to be available that week. I told Naomi to schedule him for Thursday afternoon, curious, still, about whatever remained of our unfinished conversation from the gala.He arrived precisely on time, dressed simply, none of the tailored precision he used to favor when he still carried the Hamilton name like armor."Thank you for making time," he said, settling into the chair across from my desk."Of course," I said. "How's the consultancy?"He spent the next twenty minutes describing it honestly, without embellishment, without the careful performance he might once have offered to make even modest success sound considerably more impressive than it actually was."We've grown slowly," he said. "Six employees now, mostly working with mid-sized regional companies who can't afford the larger consulting firms. It's not glamorous work. Supply chain a
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 96: I'm Sorry
Julien's POVI'd nearly reached the exit when I glanced back one final time, unable to help myself, and found Isabella still standing where I'd left her, watching me instead of returning to the crowd of donors and old associates waiting for her attention.She didn't look away when our eyes met again. She simply held my gaze, something deliberate in the stillness of it, and I understood, standing there near the door, that she was leaving the choice entirely to me. Not inviting me back. Not dismissing me either. Just offering the space for whatever came next to exist, if I wanted it to.I turned and walked back across the room."I thought you'd left," she said, once I reached her again."I almost did," I said. "There's something I should have said earlier, and I didn't want to leave without saying it properly.""Alright," she said, studying me carefully.I felt the familiar instinct rise, the old habit of preparing something polished, something carefully constructed to land exactly the
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 95: An Unplanned Meeting
Isabella's POVDavid's foundation hosted the gala at a downtown venue draped in soft lighting, the evening dedicated entirely to raising funds for children aging out of foster care without family support, a cause I'd become personally invested in over these past several months, understanding intimately what it meant to grow up believing no one would ever claim you as their own.I moved through the crowd exchanging pleasantries, thanking donors, admiring the silent auction items Adrian's team had carefully curated. Ethan had joined briefly earlier in the evening, though he'd left before the main program began, a scheduling conflict pulling him toward an overseas call he couldn't reschedule.I was alone, comfortably so, when I noticed a familiar figure near the edge of the room, standing quietly beside the donation table, away from the cameras David's team had positioned to capture the evening's highlights for press coverage.Julien.He hadn't seen me yet, his attention focused entirely
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 10: The Reckoning
Isabella's POV The Rolls hadn’t even come to a full stop before Genny was out of the car, heels clicking like gunfire on the gravel. I followed, legs numb, heart hammering so hard I could taste it. She didn’t head for the drawing room. She marched straight to the library, flung the double door
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 9: The Day Out
Isabella's POV Aunt Genevieve arrived like a hurricane in haute couture. The dove-gray Rolls purred up the drive at exactly ten. She stepped out in sunglasses big enough to have their own postcode, a cream silk jumpsuit, and heels that could double as weapons. One look at my borrowed hoodie and
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 7: Home at Last
Isabella's POV The car turned off the main road and the gates appeared, tall, black iron, the Hartford crest still gleaming in the dusk. I forgot how to breathe. Jayden slowed the Bentley, rolled the window down, and the scent hit me first: lilacs. Hundreds of them, thousands, spilling over the
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 6: A trip down Memory lane
For some moments the room felt still. Isabella’s words hung in the air, trembling between disbelief and revelation. “I—I remember.” Jayden didn’t speak right away. He just watched her, watched the way her shoulders shook, the way her fingers pressed into the couch as though she needed something s
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