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Chapter 273. Drop the act.
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2026-04-09 21:44:38
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Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 279. I don't care.
**Cole's POV**(Meanwhile in Black River Pack...)My TV remote is still in my hand while Victor Ace's press conference plays for the hundredth time after rewinding the recorded clip after he said Stella's name and the cameras found her face and something inside my chest cracked clean down the middle like wood that has been holding weight for too long.Stella is Victor Ace's daughter!My thumb finds the volume button without meaning to.Victor's voice fills the room."Effective immediately, Stella will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer of Ace Industries."I can't believe Stella is the boss of the same partnership I have been chasing through three layers of lawyers and two failed negotiations because that contract alone would change the financial landscape of Black River for a generation.And Cooper's face comes before I can stop it. He told me Stella's real identity but I laughed at him and dismissed him for not doing his job.Goddess, What have I done? My mind reels to how ba
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**Stella's POV** (Meanwhile in Stella's office...) As soon as the door closes behind my father and Shawn, I count to three with my eyes closed and then open them to glare at Ezekiel. He is now standing near the window, one hand in his pocket, wearing the expression of a man who has just rolled dice and is waiting to see where they land. The morning light catches the clean line of his jaw and he looks — infuriatingly — like he has just done something reasonable. How dare he ask me out again in front of my Dad?! Every single thing I have been holding together since this morning shifts dangerously close to the surface.... He can't help me find my daughter but wants me to date him!? I scoff inwardly, "That was a strategy, wasn't it?" His brows lift slightly. "Excuse me?" "Asking me out." I keep my voice even, each word placed with the care of someone who knows exactly how much force they are carrying. "In front of my father." I tilt my head, just slightly. "You weren't be
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**Shawn’s POV** "Then let's go." Victor doesn't waste a second before striding out of Stella's office. I fall in step behind him, noting how the corridor outside is deserted — eerily so. Fuck, what do I tell him? I think, as he heads toward the smaller meeting room at the end of the hall. I have ten seconds to choose the truth or something that sounds like it. 'Well, if you're asking me, tell him about the shipments you've been stealing and diverting to Hank and Dmitri,' my wolf mutters as Victor holds the door open. 'There is no better time than now.' 'Yeah, right. Easy for you to say.' I sigh heavily and step inside. The door shuts with a click that echoes louder than it should — the sound of a lock sealing me in. Victor doesn't sit. He moves to the window — smaller than Stella's, overlooking the side of the building instead of the city — and stands with his back to me, hands clasped behind him. It's the posture of a man buying himself a few seconds before turning aroun
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 276. Your blessings.
**Shawn's POV** Abigail is still talking. I register the words — something about her father and victor finally getting what they wanted, something light and self-aware that makes Victor's eyes crinkle at the corners — but the words are arriving from a slight distance because the hand on my forearm has rearranged my attention completely. It is a nothing touch. I know it is a nothing touch. Abigail doesn't even glance at it — her eyes are on her uncle, her expression still carrying the tail end of laughter, entirely unbothered by the fact that her hand is sitting on my arm with the casual ease of someone who has already decided we are comfortable with each other. We have agreed to one dinner so why the act? I take a quiet breath through my nose and keep my face where it is. The problem is not Abigail. Abigail is warm and direct and entirely without malice. The problem is that I am standing in this office with the specific, indelible memory of Stella's hands in my jacket lapels and
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 275. Jealous.
**Stella's POV** I don't move. Every reasonable part of me is filing the same urgent recommendation and I am standing here ignoring all of it. His hand comes up slowly — unhurried, giving me the full length of the gesture to change my mind — and his fingers find my jaw. The pad of his thumb rests against my cheekbone and the touch is so careful that my eyes close against my will. I allow myself one second. 'Goddess, I can never get enough of his touch,' Piper chimes merrily in my head. When I open them he is closer. Close enough that I can see the faint line at the corner of his eye, the particular stillness of his expression, the way he is looking at me like something he has been carefully not looking at directly for a very long time. My hands — clasped tight and bloodless this entire conversation — release. And I reach for the lapel of his jacket. His forehead comes down to mine and we stay there for one suspended moment — breathing the same air, his thumb moving al
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 274. I notice you.
**Stella's POV** I should say something but the silence has stretched long enough that staying in it has become its own kind of answer, and I know it, and Shawn knows it, and the knowing sits between us in this small room like a third presence neither of us has acknowledged. My hands are clasped in front of me. I pressed them together somewhere in the last thirty seconds without noticing — knuckles pale, grip tighter than it needs to be. "It's complicated," I say. The two most cowardly words in the English language and I have just handed them to him like they constitute a response. Shawn doesn't blink or offer me any of the small social mercies that would let me pretend I've said something sufficient. He just looks at me with those steady, unhurried eyes and waits — the way he always waits — like time is something he has in abundance and is perfectly content to spend right here. "You work for my father." My voice has dropped without permission. I hear it happen and can't stop it
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**Ezekiel's POV** Where is this little brat being hidden?! I clench my jaws in frustration because my monitors have been running all night with nothing to show especially now that Stella is on her way here.... What am I going to tell her when she gets here??? I sit in the blue light of the
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**Shawn's POV** I'm in the car before I've fully decided where to start looking for Stella. The engine is running. My hands are on the wheel. I'm staring at the road without seeing it because every functioning part of my brain is occupied with a single image on repeat — Stella's taken by Dmitri
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