로그인공유
Chapter 96: what Elena knows
게시일:
2026-06-28 23:03:51
최신 챕터
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 96: what Elena knows
OLIVIA’S POVEthan found me in the library.I heard him on the stairs before he appeared in the doorway. The particular quality of his footsteps when he was moving with purpose rather than moving between things. I had learned the difference over the months he had been coming to this house.I looked up from my book.He was in the doorway with his tablet under his arm and an expression I could not immediately read.“Jaden would like you to come to the study,” he said.I set the book down.“Now?”“When you are ready.”That was Ethan’s way of saying now but wanting me to feel I had a choice about it. I appreciated that about him. The specific consideration of a man who understood that the way an invitation was extended affected how it was received.I stood up.“Is everything alright?” I said.He looked at me for a moment.“Elena Cross emailed,” he said carefully. “She says she is ready.”I went still.The documents.The things Elena had told me about at the café. The records in her father
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 95: E. C
JADEN’S POVThe notification came on a Tuesday at eleven fourteen.I was in the middle of a call when Ethan appeared in the study doorway with an expression that I had learned over six years of working together meant something significant had happened and he was waiting for me to finish what I was doing so he could tell me properly.I ended the call.Looked at him.He came in and placed his tablet on the desk and turned it toward me.The regulatory board’s decision.I read it.Then I sat back in my chair and looked at the ceiling for a moment.Then I read it again.HAVING REVIEWED THE COMPLAINT FILED BY CROSS HOLDINGS AGAINST PARKER HOLDINGS AND THE RESPONSIVE SUBMISSION PROVIDED BY PARKER HOLDINGS ALONG WITH THE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION APPENDED THERETO, THE BOARD FINDS THE ALLEGATIONS TO BE UNSUPPORTED BY THE AVAILABLE EVIDENCE. THE COMPLAINT IS HEREBY DISMISSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. NO FURTHER ACTION WILL BE TAKEN.Dismissed in its entirety.Every claim. Every carefully constructed alle
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 94: Birthday post
ADRIAN’S POVI found it by accident.That was the thing I kept coming back to later. I had not been looking for it. I had not been searching her name or his name or anything connected to either of them. I had been sitting at my desk on a Sunday morning with my coffee going cold beside me scrolling through the financial news the way I did every Sunday because the markets did not observe weekends and neither did I.And then it was just there.Shared by someone in my industry network. A photograph. Tagged with a location and a date and the kind of caption that people used when they were sharing something that felt warm rather than something that felt significant.Love this for her.That was all the caption said.I clicked on the photograph.It took a moment to load on my screen and in that moment I was still the version of myself that had been reading financial news and thinking about the week ahead and occupying the Sunday morning the way I usually occupied it. Present. Directed. Moving
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 93: Wildflower
OLIVIA’S POVThe afternoon moved through itself warmly.Shay stayed for hours. That was Shay’s way of celebrating anything. Full presence. Full volume. Full commitment to making a day feel like something worth having.She and Clara developed an alliance over the course of the afternoon that I suspected was going to outlast my time in this house. They had the particular chemistry of two women who both believed food was the primary language of care and were extremely competent in it.My father called at two.I sat in the sitting room with the phone pressed to my ear and listened to him sing happy birthday in the slightly off key way he had been singing it since I was small enough to think he was the best singer in the world. He laughed at himself halfway through and kept going and I laughed with him and it was the best two minutes of the day.He asked about the flowers.I told him they were perfect.He said wildflowers were always perfect because they did not pretend to be anything othe
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 92: Birthday
OLIVIA’S POVI had not told anyone.Not Shay. Not Clara. Not my father when I visited on Wednesday and he had been in a particularly good mood and we had sat in his new sitting room and talked for two hours about everything and nothing.I had not mentioned it.My birthday had arrived the way birthdays did when you were an adult who had stopped making a production of them. Quietly. Just another morning with the difference that the date in the corner of my phone had a different number on it.Twenty nine.I lay in bed for a few minutes thinking about that. About the specific quality of a year that had contained more than most years contained. The registry hall and the hospital and the contract and fourteen months inside a life I had not planned that had become the most honest version of a life I had ever lived.Twenty nine felt like more than a number this morning.It felt like evidence.Of survival. Of something beyond survival. Of a woman who had walked into the worst version of her ci
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 91: Calculating
JADEN’S POVThe terrace had been quiet when I came inside.Olivia had said goodnight at the door with the particular quality she had when something was sitting close to the surface that she had decided not to release yet. I had watched her go upstairs and stood in the entrance hall for a moment after her footsteps faded and then gone to the study.That had been forty minutes ago.I was still sitting here.Nothing open on the desk.No screens. No files. No call waiting or document requiring review or strategy requiring refinement. Just the desk and the lamp and the city outside the window doing its late night version of itself and me sitting in the chair that I had occupied through eleven years of building something and apparently losing track of when the building had started to include things I had not planned to build.Ethan called at ten forty seven.I looked at the phone.Let it ring.Four rings and then voicemail and then silence.He would call back if it was urgent. He knew my si
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 75: The filling
JADEN’S POVThe filing arrived on a Wednesday.Ethan brought it to me in the late morning with the expression he wore when he was delivering something he had already assessed and did not like the assessment of. He set it on my desk without preamble and stepped back.I picked it up.Read the cover p
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 74: The lunch
OLIVIA’S POVThe visit had gone better than I expected.Better than I had quietly been dreading on the drive over that morning. I had sat in the passenger seat watching the city move past the window and running through versions of how it might go. My father asking Jaden direct questions that requir
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 73: Peaceful day
OLIVIA’S POVI got home later than I intended.The afternoon had stretched itself. My father had wanted to walk through every room of the new house slowly. Had asked the maids questions with the thoroughness of a man conducting an inspection. Had rearranged two things in the kitchen and declared th
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
다른 추천
Begin Again
Val Sims1.0M 조회수Pop My Cherry Daddy!
Xee write664.3K 조회수The Day I Kissed An Older Man
Cher the Cherished1.0M 조회수Mommy, Where Is Daddy? The Forsaken Daughter's Return
LiLhyz3.4M 조회수My Billionaire DOM Wants Me Back
unusualdee59 조회수baby
zhaomy158 조회수The CEO's Revenge Bride
Jemyadam80 조회수One Year of Sin: A Forbidden Desire
Sommy Writes234 조회수
