ログイン共有
Chapter 20: Daddy!
公開日:
2026-05-19 20:53:31
最新チャプター
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 83: Something real
OLIVIA’S POVHe was in the study.Of course he was. It was a Thursday afternoon and there was a regulatory filing and a deal in motion and eleven years of momentum building toward a conclusion. Jaden Parker did not take Thursday afternoons off.I knocked.“Come in.”He was at the desk. Screens open. The focused version of him that existed when the work had its teeth in properly. He looked up when I came in and read my face the way he always did.Something shifted in his expression.He set his phone down.I sat in the chair across from him without being asked.“Adrian called,” I said.Jaden was still.Not the professional stillness. The other kind. The complete attention of a man receiving information he was going to hold carefully.“Today?” he said.“An hour ago.”He looked at me.“Tell me,” he said.So I did.All of it. The almost not answering. The different quality of his voice. The I made a mistake and the worst decision I ever made and the way the genuine emotion and the strateg
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 82: Cornered
OLIVIA’S POVThe silence after my question was longer than any of the others.I sat with it without filling it. That was the thing about having loved someone for six years. You learned their silences. The way each kind sounded different. The silence of someone thinking. The silence of someone deciding. The silence of someone caught between what they had planned to say and what they were actually going to say.This was the third kind.“I need to know what Jaden is planning,” Adrian said finally.There it was.I looked at the library shelves in front of me. At the rows of books arranged with Jaden’s particular precision. At the room I had made my own over fourteen months without meaning to.“Specifically,” Adrian continued, his voice shifting slightly into something more practiced now that the pretense had dropped, “the regulatory response. He filed something counter to our complaint and I need to understand the scope of it. You have access to things I do not. Things you would know from
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 81: I miss you
OLIVIA’S POVThree days after the rooftop.That was how I had started measuring time lately. Not in contract days the way I used to. In the distance between moments that mattered.Three days since the phone in his pocket and the laugh I had stored privately and the corridor and the words that had been replaced before they could become words.Three days of carrying what I had admitted to myself in the dark and not knowing what to do with it in the daylight.The mornings had been different since then.Not dramatically. Nothing between Jaden and I was ever dramatic. But there was a quality to the breakfasts now that had not been there before the rooftop. A slightly longer eye contact. A conversation that did not rush toward its conclusion. The particular ease of two people who had spent an evening somewhere without performance and could not fully unknow that.I was in the library on Thursday morning when my phone rang.I looked at it without picking it up immediately.The number was save
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 80: Reminiscing
OLIVIA’S POVI did not sleep for a long time.I lay on my back in the dark with the ceiling above me and the house quiet around me and my mind doing the thing it had been doing for weeks. The thing I had been managing carefully and measuring precisely and trying to keep inside appropriate boundaries.It was not staying inside appropriate boundaries anymore.I had known that for a while.I had been knowing it for weeks the way you knew things you were not ready to say out loud. Carrying the knowledge carefully. Setting it down in one place and picking it up and moving it somewhere more manageable and finding it had moved back on its own while you were not looking.I was falling in love with Jaden Parker.I lay in the dark and said it clearly inside my own head for the first time without immediately following it with a qualification or a redirect or a reminder about clause one.I was falling in love with Jaden Parker.There it was.Sitting in the middle of my consciousness like somethin
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 79: The loop
OLIVIA’S POVThe house was quiet when we got back.Staff had been reduced to the night team. The entrance hall was softly lit the way it always was at this hour. The particular settled quality of a house that had been waiting for its people to come home and was now exhaling.We came in.Set things down.The evening had a different quality inside the house from the rooftop. Something slightly more aware of itself. Like the space between us had noticed where we were and what it meant that we were walking toward our separate floors.I turned toward the staircase.Jaden was beside me.We walked up together the way we sometimes did at the end of evenings. Not out of deliberateness. Just the natural movement of two people going in the same direction until they weren’t.At the top of the stairs the corridor split.My floor to the left.His to the right.We stopped.“Goodnight,” I said.“Goodnight,” he said.I turned left.I took one step.Two.Three.“Olivia.”His voice.Low and quiet and ca
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 78: The Dinner
OLIVIA’S POVThe restaurant was nothing like anything he had taken me to before.No doorman. No photographer positioned at a discreet distance. No table of industry names arranged across the room like a strategic map of who mattered to whom this season.Just a rooftop.Small and warm and lit with the particular quality of places that understood atmosphere without overexplaining it. Eight tables. Maybe ten. Each one with enough space between it and the next to feel private without being isolated. The city spread out below and around us in every direction. All of it visible. All of it at the exact right distance.The kind of place that did not appear in any publication because it did not need to.I stood at the entrance for a moment and looked at it.Jaden was already speaking to someone near the host stand. A brief exchange. Familiar but not formal. The ease of a person who had been here before and been known here before.He came back and led me to a table near the far edge.The view f
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 72: Leaving the hospital
OLIVIA’S POV The house Jaden had arranged for my father was nothing like our old apartment.I had expected something comfortable. Something functional. A decent space with enough room for a man recovering from surgery to move around without difficulty.I had not expected this.Three bedrooms. A pr
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 71: Enough to start with
OLIVIA’S POV It’s one year already, I stood at the window and let that sit for a moment.Three hundred and sixty five days inside a contract I had signed in Jaden’s waiting room at the office. While my father’s monitor beeped in the hospital and my hands shook and a man I did not know placed a p
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 70: What I said
JADEN’S POV She sat across from me and I watched her face as she spoke.She had been carrying this for days and I had not known. I had seen something was wrong. I had noticed the managed mornings and the careful distance and the phone face down on the couch. I had asked if something happened and
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 69: Clarity
OLIVIA’S POV The thought was there before I was fully awake.That was the thing about the kind of thinking that did not want to stop. It did not wait for you to be ready. It was simply present the moment consciousness arrived. Like it had been sitting in the dark beside your bed all night waiting f
あなたも気に入るかもしれません
Black Card
R.C.BRIE15515.4K ビューHer Graceful War Song
Summer's Blaze940.7K ビューA Dangerous Atrophy
Qi River's Old Stream782.7K ビューThe CEO's Ex-Wife Is A Famous Doctor
LiLhyz4.1M ビューWatch Me Destroy You, My Ex-husband.
Bloodygoddess172 ビューThe Architect Of My Ruin
Deecraftwords88 ビューPregnant for the cruel Billionaire
Sarah165 ビューReturn Of The Ex Wife
Queen of ink 32 ビュー
