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Chapter 99

Author: Dennis
last update Last Updated: 2026-01-06 20:03:10

She had finally left home at seventeen and moved to California. Ten years later she had her own business, a beautiful apartment, complete control over her own life, and still no man. She had never regretted it. Some of her friends thought she was crazy, and insisted she was missing out on one of life’s fundamental experiences. But every time she agreed to go on a date with some guy her friends promised would be perfect for her, she found herself dissecting his behavior, imagined how the possessive hand on the

curve of her back would change to a fist intent on controlling her once the newness of the relationship wore off. She didn’t have second dates.

It was fine for her friends. Fine for other women who hadn’t seen the steady digression of a relationship over and over again.

But Gage’s touch didn’t make her think of being controlled. She couldn’t think of anything. All she could feel was the gentle sweep of his fingers over the curve of her hip.

“Care to dance?” he asked, his lips clo
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  • THE CEO'S VENGEFUL BRIDE    Chapter 105

    Let me handle the rest.”He snapped the phone shut. Lily was looking away again, her focus very firmly on the scenery out the window.He wanted to touch her. To see if he could make her melt. To see what it would take to get her to loosen her hair, to get her to unbutton a little bit. Or all the way. It was easy for him to picture her naked, her perfect, petite bodyon display for him. She was so pale the thought of all that milky white skin contrasting against his black sheets was the most erotic fantasy his subconscious had ever created for him.Two things kept him from exploring the fantasy. First, she was an employee, and that was a no-go as far as he was concerned. Second, she had serious written all over her. He didn’t do serious. Not in his sexual relationships. He’d done serious. Not in romantic relationships, but his entire childhood and young adult years had been nothing but responsibility.His mother had done okay raising him to a point, but Maddy had been a late in life s

  • THE CEO'S VENGEFUL BRIDE    Chapter 104

    Everything in her was concentrating on ignoring the place where Gage was touching her, on where he was moving his thumb over the sensitive skin on her hand. On the heat that coursed through her from such a simple, nonsexual touch.“Thank you, we won’t be taking any more questions. We both have some work to get back to, and I’d hate to have to fire my fiancée.” The crowd laughed softly at his joke. Lily tightened her lips to try and avoid grimacing.He led her off of the stage and the minute they were safely ensconced in his limousine she jerked her hand away from him, rubbing at the spot he’d been brushing with his thumb.“Try not to act like my touch offends you next time,” he said.She tilted her head up to face him and immediately wished she hadn’t.The impact of him, his blue eyes narrowed, his expression hard, was morethan she’d anticipated. After working with Gage for four months she should be used to him by now, but, while he was always in charge, no doubt about it, he didn’t

  • THE CEO'S VENGEFUL BRIDE    Chapter 103

    Everything about marriage and relationships severely unnerved her, and itwas hard to shake the anxiety that was coursing through her.“I was just incredulous,” she snapped.“So, what’s the story?”Right. Work. This she could do. Create a press release, get the right spin.She was good at this. She grabbed her notebook of the desk. “We’ve been working together for a while. We’ve grown closer, friendship, then, well more. And then you proposed last night after the gala, which is why I didn’to have a ring yet. Because that detail would have been noticed.”“Good. Take care of it. The ring will be in your office in less than an hour then you can make the announcement.”She could tell by the way he was sitting, looking at her, that she was dismissed. “As proposals go,” she said, unable to resist, “that one ranks right up there with a ring in the food.”“I thought women liked that,” he said, his slightly amused.“No. It gets the ring messy and if you don’t find it you might break a tooth.”

  • THE CEO'S VENGEFUL BRIDE    Chapter 102

    He raised his eyebrows. “Really? What else do you consider within normal employer employee boundaries? Gotten engaged to any of your other bosses?”“I haven’t even agreed to get engaged to this one,” she said through clenched teeth.On a personal level, she was horrified by the idea. She didn’t want to spend more time with Gage. She didn’t want to pretend to be his adoring fiancée. But if she pushed that aside and looked at it objectively, she knew that this was the best way to throw the spotlight off of Madeline without completely compromising Gage’s public image.“You’re right,” she said finally. “I hate it when you’re right.”“This will be simple for you, Lily. You’re the consummate professional.”“If you think I’m going to fall for that, you’re sadly delusional.”“What is that?” he asked, leaning back in his chair, hands behind his head, showing off his wonderful arm muscles. He knew.“You’re turning on the Forrester charm. It doesn’t work on me,” she said, even as her stomach tig

  • THE CEO'S VENGEFUL BRIDE    Chapter 101

    “THIS is garbage.” Gage threw the printed papers back down on his desk, his muscles tense, his entire body wound up and ready to attack at any moment.Hearing Maddy’s voice, thick with tears on the other end of the phone a few moments before, had made him feel capable of very serious violence against the person responsible for spreading such venomous rumors.It made him feel physically ill, seeing the article written with such foul accusations. Accusations directed at Madeline. She was doing well now, had graduated from college, was finally coming out of her shell and putting their neglectful childhood being her. She’d been such a quiet little girl, as ifshe was afraid to step out of line. Afraid he might abandon her, too. But she’d grown so much in the past few years, and now this threatened to destroy everything Maddy had battled so hard for.“I agree,” Lily said. “It’s not news, and it’s a shame we live in a culture that thinks it is. But the simple fact is that we do, and this st

  • THE CEO'S VENGEFUL BRIDE    Chapter 100

    It wasn’t the right time, it was easy for him to leave his date standing on the doorstep and go home without taking her to bed.There had been a lot of times in his life when pleasure had had to be deferred due to responsibility,. either because of his family or because of business. He was an expert at deferring pleasure if necessary.But this feeling, this hot surge of lust coursing through him, didn’t feel like something that could be deferred or denied.Her head jerked up, her dark eyes wide, her breath coming in short bursts. “That’s definitely not appropriate,” she whispered.“Maybe not, but I’m enjoying it.”She licked her lips, the slow, sensual movement hitting him like a punch to the gut. She looked down again, not saying anything, but leaning in a little bit closer, her breasts brushing his chest.Her eyes fluttered closed, her lips parted slightly and she swayed a bit in his arms. Then she went stiff, pulled back quickly, her brown eyes huge with shock.“Did you make all th

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