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Chapter 42: Julien's Warning
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2026-07-28 04:04:21
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Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 57: The Other Empire
Julien's POVI found out almost by accident, the way most important things seemed to reach me these days.I still held a minority stake in what remained of Hamilton Group, a legacy position from before the shares transferred to Isabella, small enough now that I rarely bothered checking the quarterly filings closely. But something prompted me to look that particular evening, some restless instinct I couldn't fully name, and when I opened the shareholder registry, a name I recognized immediately stopped me cold.Voss Industries. Eighteen percent.I sat back in my chair, staring at the number, my mind working quickly through the implications. Damien Voss hadn't just been quietly building a partnership with Hartford Enterprises. He'd also been acquiring positions in the wreckage of Hamilton Group, the company my mother's scandal had gutted nearly to nothing over the past year.At first, I told myself it was simply opportunistic scavenging. Hamilton Group's remaining assets sold cheap now,
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 56: Generous Offers
Isabella's POVDamien called me himself before finalizing anything, the way he'd done every time since our first conversation at the gala."I wanted you to know before it becomes public record," he said. "I've increased my position in your western logistics subsidiary. Nothing dramatic, just enough to formalize the partnership properly, given how well the initial phase has gone.""How much?" I asked."Twelve percent," he said. "Combined with the previous eight, that brings my total position to twenty. Still well below anything that would trigger concern, but enough to demonstrate genuine commitment to the partnership, rather than just testing the waters."I sat with the number for a moment, running through the math automatically, the same instinct that had kept me vigilant through Margaret's schemes and Sterling's patient acquisition still active somewhere beneath my professional composure."That's a significant increase," I said. "In a relatively short window.""I understand the caut
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 55: The Voss Corporation
Julien's POVThe name sat with me for two days before I finally placed it, and when I did, I felt something cold settle low in my stomach.I'd been going through old Hamilton Group archives, the ones I'd kept access to even after the shares transferred, mostly out of habit rather than any specific purpose. I was searching for something unrelated, an old vendor contract Isabella needed for a due diligence request, when I found it buried in a folder of correspondence from nearly a decade ago.*Voss Industries. Termination of Partnership Agreement. Confidential.*I opened it slowly, memory sharpening the further I read.Damien Voss. My mother had crushed him nearly ten years ago, in a deal that still, apparently, sat coiled somewhere in the back of my memory without me fully recognizing its significance until this exact moment.I remembered it more clearly the longer I sat with the file. Voss had approached Hamilton Group with a genuine partnership proposal, an early-stage logistics vent
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 54: A New Player
Isabella's POVThe investor gala filled Hartford Tower's top floor with the usual mix of familiar faces and new ones circling the edges, everyone hoping for a moment of my attention now that the company's stability had finally become newsworthy for reasons that had nothing to do with scandal.I was midway through a conversation with two board members when a man I didn't recognize approached, waiting patiently at the edge of our circle until the conversation reached a natural pause."Mrs. Hartford," he said, extending a hand once I turned toward him. "Damien Voss. I've been hoping to meet you properly for some time now.""Mr. Voss." I shook his hand, studying him briefly. Well-dressed, confident without being aggressive about it, the kind of polish that suggested old habits of moving comfortably through rooms exactly like this one. "I don't believe we've met before.""We haven't," he said. "Though I've followed your work closely this past year. What you've accomplished, rebuilding Hart
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 53: What She Allows Herself to Want
Isabella's POVWe'd been working late for nearly two hours, reviewing the final logistics contracts before the board meeting the next morning, the building quiet around us the way it usually was once everyone else had gone home."This clause," Julien said, pointing to a section in the shipping agreement, "is worded almost identically to something my mother's team used to bury in Hamilton contracts. I used to think it was just standard legal language. It took me embarrassingly long to realize it was actually designed to make certain penalties nearly impossible to enforce.""How embarrassingly long?" I asked."Four years," he admitted. "I signed off on contracts with that exact clause for four years before someone finally pointed it out to me, and even then I only half believed them until I read it myself three more times.""That's not embarrassing," I said. "That's willful blindness.""That's fair," he said, something rueful in his expression. "In my defense, I was very good at willful
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 52: The Question He Doesn't Ask
Julien's POVMarcus Whitmore found me at a quiet restaurant downtown, the kind of place he used to frequent when he still worked closely with my father, back before either of us understood how thoroughly that world would eventually collapse."Julien," he said, settling into the seat across from me. "Thank you for meeting.""Of course," I said. "It's been a while.""It has." He studied me for a moment, something careful in his expression. "I heard you're still working under Isabella Hartford. Logistics, I understand.""That's right.""I have to admit," he said, "when I first heard, I assumed it was temporary. A necessary humbling, maybe, before you found your footing again somewhere more suited to your actual capabilities.""It's not temporary," I said. "It's where I intend to stay."He nodded slowly, though something in his expression suggested he hadn't fully accepted that answer yet. "I wanted to talk to you about an opportunity," he said. "I've been quietly building something new.
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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
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 3: How did you get this?
Isabella sat in the backseat, her luggage beside her, staring at her reflection on the glass as the city outside blurred past the tinted windows. The driver barely spoke, only glanced at her through the rearview mirror when he stopped in front of the hotel entrance — a towering structure of glas
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