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TEMPTING THE TYCOON Chapter 36
The room was silent except for the occasional rustling of leaves outside the small cabin’s windows. I stood still, my breath steady, trying to keep my emotions in check.Clara was sitting across from me, her cold eyes fixed on me like a predator watching its prey. The knife she had been wielding earlier was nowhere to be seen, but I knew better than to assume she was disarmed. She could snap at any moment.“You look so... calm,” Clara finally spoke, her voice filled with that same eerie sweetness she always used. It was like she was pretending to be something she wasn’t. “I thought you’d be more afraid.”“I’m not afraid of you,” I said, my voice steady despite the rush of adrenaline in my veins. I wasn’t sure if I was lying to her or to myself. “I’m just waiting for Julian to get here.”Her lips twisted into a smile. “Oh, he’s coming. He’s always coming. But you don’t understand, do you? He’s mine. He always was.”I didn’t respond. There was nothing I could say to that. Julian had bee
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Finally after what seemed like eternity, Clara walked through the café’s entrance like she belonged there.Hair dyed black. Eyes covered in dark sunglasses. But I knew it was her.She didn’t even try to disguise the way she moved—sharp, quick, always scanning.She sat across from me without a word.I didn’t speak either.For a moment, it was just the sound of clinking cups and faint music from the radio.Then she removed her sunglasses.Her eyes were hollow. But alive.“I was wondering when you’d finally give up,” she said.“I didn’t.”“You left him.”“I didn’t say that either.”She tilted her head, amused. “You always were good at pretending.”I said nothing.Clara leaned forward.“I’m not here to make a scene,” she said softly. “I’m just here to tell you something.”I kept my tone even. “I’m listening.”She glanced around. “Not here.”“I’m not going anywhere with you.”“Suit yourself.”She stood.Then she slipped a note onto the table.The Warehouse before Julian’s Estate. Sunset. C
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The guesthouse was musty. Empty. But not untouched.In the small bathroom, we found hair dye, scissors, colored contacts.She was changing her appearance.Preparing for something.The walls were covered with post-it notes.One said:I know where she keeps the pills.Another:Gabriella doesn’t need a liar. She needs me.A third:Kill the snake. Save the garden.Julian took a photo of each one. I found a burned matchbook from the same hotel Vanessa mentioned weeks ago.“She met Ethan here,” I whispered.Julian nodded. “And he gave her orders.”***Back at the main house, we walked in to find Gabriella crying.She’d had a nightmare. My mom was holding her, but she reached for me the second I stepped through the door.“She said she was here,” Gabriella sobbed.“Who, sweetheart?”“Clara. She said she was going to take me away.”My heart dropped.Julian turned to his security . “Lock it down. No one leaves. No one enters without clearance.”The house went into full lockdown within minute
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We waited until the house was asleep.The guards rotated shifts. The cameras were checked. Gabriella had been tucked in and kissed goodnight. Julian lingered by her door a little too long.I didn’t say anything.We both knew what we were about to do couldn’t wait.Clara’s room had been locked since the day she vanished. No one dared enter. Not even the maids.But that night, Julian took the keys from the drawer in his office and walked ahead of me in silence.I followed him down the east wing. The air felt colder there, like the walls remembered her.He unlocked the door. We stepped inside.The room smelled faintly of lavender. Her sheets were neatly made. The curtains drawn. It looked untouched.Too untouched.Julian didn’t speak. He moved with purpose, checking the closet first.I opened the drawers. Inside were perfectly folded clothes. Underwear, white cotton bras. No dust. No sign of haste.But it was the mirror that stopped me.A heart drawn in red lipstick. Inside it, Julian’s
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After the explosion, I couldn’t find Julian by dawn.“Have you see my husband?” I asked the housekeeper.“No ma’am. But breakfast is set, though,” she answered I found his breakfast untouched but my mom and Gabriella had had theirs already.I sat to eat but I was worried about Julian.He left no note, no goodbye. Just a locked drawer, and a tense silence that filled the entire estate.By the way his clothes were thrown across the couch it looked like he changed in a rush.Clara had vanished again. No sightings. No trace. Just whispers that she was still out there. It was obvious at this point that she had help..Julian didn’t tell me where he was going.But I knew.He was hunting Vanessa. She had to be the one helping Clara.Julian’s POV Anger and rage boiled in me.Vanessa wasn’t easy to intimidate. That much I knew but I had to speak to her, she had to stop aiding Clara’s madness.She liked power plays.She liked secrets more.I had sent her a message earlier so we met at a restau
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Insomnia hugged me, my thoughts all on how Clara had made her way in here.She hadn’t hurt me. Hilisn and the guards got to her before she could do anything. But I couldn’t wave away the look I saw in her eyes. Not rage. It was obsession. Utmost devotion to Julian.She believed he belonged to her.And part of me wondered if she was right. Because I had seen them interact. I had seen Julian stand up for her to me.I sat on the edge of his bed watching him sleep.He opened his eye a little, “I asked you to sleep here with me today, Aria. Why do you act like it’s an unpleasant thing? You should be happy and comfortable in your husband’s arm”I wasn’t.I hadn’t been in his arm for a while. So why now? This was one of his security and control measures. Gabriella was made to sleep with my mom, with security heavily manning the door. While I was forced to sleep here.I didn’t sleep a wink.By morning, the security team had locked Clara away “Where was she locked?” I asked the chief of sec
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