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Chapter 265: The devil's handshake

作者: Ejiofor_Dorcas
last update 公開日: 2026-07-22 22:47:32

Third-Person POV

Isabella Clarke had been sitting in her car for forty minutes.

The engine was off. The windows were up. Outside, the city moved in its ordinary rhythms, people walking dogs, taxis pulling over, a woman laughing into her phone on the corner of Ashland and Fifth. None of them looked at the silver Audi parked by the kerb. None of them noticed the woman inside it, sitting perfectly still with her hands on the steering wheel and her world in ruins.

She had left Adrian's office two h
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    Third Person POVHe crossed the distance between them in two steps and kissed her again, harder this time, his hands moving over her body with a roughness that bordered on carelessness. He wasn't cruel, exactly, but he wasn't careful either. His fingers gripped where they should have glided. His teeth caught her lower lip hard enough that she tasted copper.Isabella didn't pull away. She filed it. Every detail. Every tell. The way Damien touched a woman told her everything she needed to know about how to keep him.She reached for his shirt and pulled it over his head. His body was softer than Adrian's, less disciplined, the body of a man who had stopped caring about himself months ago. She ran her hands over his chest and watched him shiver, watched the hunger on his face sharpen into something almost painful."Sit down," she murmured, pressing him backwards until the backs of his knees hit the mattress and he sat.She knelt between his legs. Slowly and deliberately. She looked up at

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    Third Person POV"Hart can get anything that lives on Bennett Holdings' servers. He's been cooperating, which means he still has access. The police haven't restricted his credentials because they want him to keep pulling files for their investigation. He won't know the files are being used for anything other than legal compliance.""He will know," Margaret corrected gently. "But he won't care, because you're going to give him a reason not to. Hart has a family. A pension. A life he's watching collapse in real time as the investigation grinds forward. You're going to offer him an alternative. Financial protection. Legal counsel. A soft landing on the other side of this. He won't ask where it comes from, because frightened men don't ask questions when someone hands them a lifeline."Isabella nodded slowly. "And the timing?""The launch date was pushed this morning. It will happen next week, so how about three days before the launch? It is close enough that the story dominates the news c

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    Third-Person POV"I came because I'm curious, not because I care. If you've called me here to cry about my son, you can save your tears. Adrian has made his choices, and I've made mine, and neither of those things involves you."So Adrian had told his mother about their estranged relationship then? Regardless, she drew in a deep breath and turned to Margaret.Isabella met her gaze without flinching. Whatever performance she had been preparing on the drive over, whatever careful preamble she had designed, she abandoned it now. Margaret Whitmore did not respond to theatrics; she only cared about leverage."Adrian gathered evidence that I was involved in Evelyn Bennett's kidnapping," Isabella said. "He gave that evidence to Evelyn. I expect she'll turn it over to the police in the near future, and when she does, I'm finished. I have no resources, no allies, and no legal strategy that would survive the first hearing. I came to you because you're the only person in this city who has a reas

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