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Chapter 11
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2026-05-31 20:33:32
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Ruined By Mr. Cross Chapter 148
Selene’s PovMarking a full year since the wedding redo, and Naomi suggested, with the particular insistence she reserved for occasions she considered non-negotiable, that we mark the anniversary properly instead of letting it slip past unnoticed in the chaos of two young children.“Nothing elaborate,” she said, already elbow-deep in menu planning despite my protests. “Just family. The people who actually matter.”Damien found me in the kitchen, reviewing the guest list Naomi had left behind, and peered over my shoulder with obvious amusement. “She’s invited Marcus’s entire security team. All of them.”“She considers them family at this point,” I said. “Frankly, so do I.”We settled on a simple gathering in the same field where we’d exchanged vows, string lights rehung between the same trees, though this time the wildflowers had gone to seed, replaced by the deeper golds and rusts of the season. Cassandra arrived early to help set up, moving through the preparations with an ease that
Ruined By Mr. Cross Chapter 147
Damien’s PovWe drove home from the lake with sand still tucked into every crevice of the car, Lucy narrating the entire journey with an enthusiasm that hadn’t dimmed despite an hour of steady sleep deprivation, and Hope blissfully unaware of the chaos, dozing against her car seat straps.“I already miss the dock,” Lucy announced, somewhere past the halfway mark. “Can we go back next month?”“We’ll see,” Selene said, which both of us knew meant probably, given how thoroughly the week had settled something in all of us.The house welcomed us back with its usual quiet, Naomi having kept everything tidy in our absence, and by evening we’d fallen back into the familiar rhythm of ordinary life—unpacking, laundry, Lucy recounting her lake adventures to anyone who’d listen, including, at one point, the mail carrier.It was two days later, sorting through the accumulated mail on the kitchen counter, that Selene went suddenly still, an envelope in her hand.“What is it,” I asked, setting down
Ruined By Mr. Cross Chapter 146
Selene’s PovThe lake house Damien rented sat at the edge of a quiet cove, far enough from the road that the only sounds came from water lapping against the dock and the occasional distant call of a loon. Lucy claimed the front porch the moment we arrived, declaring it her personal command center for teaching Hope everything she needed to know about summer.“She can’t even sit up yet,” I pointed out, watching Lucy arrange a row of smooth pebbles for a demonstration Hope was in no position to appreciate.“Preparation,” Lucy said solemnly. “By the time she can walk, she’ll already understand the fundamentals.”Damien came up behind me carrying the last of the bags, setting them down on the porch with a satisfied exhale. “This was exactly the right call,” he said, surveying the cove, the pine trees crowding close to the water’s edge. “I haven’t felt this unhurried in longer than I can remember.”“Even with the board breathing down your neck about quarterly numbers?”“Especially with that
Ruined By Mr. Cross Chapter 145
Damien’s PovThe board meeting ran longer than expected, dragging into early evening with the particular tedium of quarterly projections and shareholder concerns, and by the time I finally pulled into the driveway, the porch light was already glowing warm against the deepening dusk.Selene met me at the door, Hope balanced on her hip, and something in her expression told me the day had held its own small chaos.“Rough one?” I asked, shrugging off my coat.“Lucy decided sunflowers weren’t growing fast enough and attempted to accelerate the process with a heat lamp meant for reptiles,” she said. “We had a small electrical situation. Nothing catastrophic, but I did have to explain to a nine-year-old why botany and electronics don’t casually mix.”I laughed, the sound coming easier now than it ever had, and pulled her close, careful of Hope between us. “I missed an eventful afternoon, apparently.”“You missed the fire department politely declining to be alarmed,” she said dryly. “Small si
Ruined By Mr. Cross Chapter 144
Selene’s PovSpring arrived early that year, coaxing the first green shoots up through soil that had spent months buried under snow, and I found myself standing in the garden one morning with Hope strapped to my chest, watching Lucy dig with more enthusiasm than technique, dirt already smeared across her cheek.“We’re planting sunflowers,” she announced, as though this were obvious. “Because they’re tall and yellow and nothing bad ever happens near sunflowers.”“Is that a scientific fact,” I asked, amused.“It’s a Lucy fact,” she said, with the particular confidence of a nine-year-old who’d recently decided her own opinions carried the weight of established law.Damien joined us a while later, still in his work clothes, tie loosened, having apparently abandoned his afternoon early for no better reason than wanting to be outside with us. He crouched beside Lucy, inspecting her progress with mock seriousness.“These need to go deeper,” he said. “Otherwise the wind knocks them over befor
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Damien’s PovHope’s first real smile came on a gray afternoon in her fourth week, unexpected and entirely genuine, and I nearly dropped the bottle I’d been holding in my rush to call for Selene.“You missed it,” I said, when she appeared in the doorway, breathless from wherever she’d been in the house. “She smiled. A real one, not the gas kind.”“Do it again,” Selene demanded of our infant daughter, crouching beside the bassinet with the particular fierce hope of a mother determined to witness every milestone.Hope, unmoved by the pressure, simply blinked up at us both and yawned.“Typical,” Selene said, laughing. “Camera shy already.”Lucy wandered in from school pickup a few minutes later, dropping her backpack with the careless confidence of someone who lived in a house where nothing terrible happened anymore, and immediately demanded a full report on anything she’d missed during her six hours of captivity, as she called it.“She smiled,” Damien told her. “You just missed it by ten
Ruined By Mr. Cross Chapter 3
Selene’s PovI barely slept.Damien’s proposal played on repeat in my head while I paced my tiny apartment. Fake marriage. The perfect weapon. I could live in his world, learn every weakness, and destroy him slowly. Make him feel the same helplessness my father felt before he died.But those eyes…
Ruined By Mr. Cross Chapter 2
Damien’s PovShe was lying.I knew it the moment Elena Hale opened her mouth. The way she held herself, the precise way she answered every question, it was too perfect. And those eyes. Dark, fierce, familiar in a way that clawed at memories I’d buried three years ago.I stood at the floor-to-ceilin
Ruined By Mr. Cross Chapter 1
Selene/ Elena's Pov “You really think you can walk into Cross Technologies and not get eaten alive, Miss Hale?”I looked straight at the HR woman across the desk, my pulse hammering but my smile steady. “I don’t just think it. I know it. Your luxury division needs someone who understands old money
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Damien’s PovThe lawyer read the will conditions again like I hadn’t heard them a hundred times. Elena sat beside me in the sleek conference room, legs crossed, looking every bit the poised future wife. She played the part well. Too well.“Thirty days from the reading,” the lawyer said. “Legal marr
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