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Chapter 20: The Investor’s Test
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Tangled in His Web Chapter 108 — Where Control Begins to Slip
The night deepened after Katherine left, not darker but heavier, as if the air itself had learned something it could no longer forget. Lily remained where she was, near the door, her fingers still curled loosely at her side, her pulse steady despite the warning that had just been delivered so cleanly it felt surgical. Alex watched her from across the room, saying nothing, his silence no longer protective but evaluative—like a man recalibrating the shape of a threat he could no longer contain with force alone.“You’re thinking again,” Lily said quietly, not turning.Alex exhaled, slow and deliberate. “I’m adjusting.”She faced him then. “To me?”“Yes,” he said without hesitation.The admission landed with more weight than any declaration could have. Alex didn’t offer vulnerability easily—when he did, it came stripped of ornament, bare and dangerous in its honesty. He moved closer, stopping just out of reach, as if testing whether proximity itself was still allowed.“Elara won’t strike
Tangled in His Web Chapter 107 — The Cost of Standing Close
Night returned with intention.It didn’t fall gently this time—it claimed the city in layers, wrapping buildings in shadow and softening edges that should have remained sharp. Lily felt it as she stood by the kitchen counter, watching Alex move through the apartment with quiet purpose. He hadn’t told her he was staying. He didn’t have to. His presence settled in like a decision already made.The air between them was different now.Not calmer—deeper.Alex poured himself a glass of water he didn’t drink, his focus fractured between the task and the woman standing only a few feet away from him. Lily could sense it, the way his attention kept circling back to her, as if part of him needed constant confirmation that she was still there. Still untouched. Still his to protect—though he was learning, slowly and painfully, that protection didn’t mean possession.“You’re thinking too loudly,” Lily said softly.He looked up. “That obvious?”“To me,” she replied.Alex set the glass down with cont
Tangled in His Web Chapter 106 — What He Cannot Say
The apartment stayed quiet long after the door closed.Not peaceful—never that—but weighted, as if the walls themselves had absorbed the confrontation and were now holding it hostage. Lily stood near the window, arms folded loosely, watching the city resume its indifferent rhythm. Cars moved. People laughed somewhere below. Life continued with infuriating normalcy.Behind her, Alex hadn’t moved.He stood exactly where he had turned away, hands braced on the counter, head bowed slightly—not in defeat, but in restraint so tight it bordered on violence. Lily could feel it without looking. The way his silence pressed against her back. The way his presence filled the room even when he wasn’t touching her.“You shouldn’t have done that,” he said at last.Not angry.Controlled to the point of fracture.Lily turned slowly. “Stepping forward?”“Exposing yourself,” he corrected. “To Elara. To Sebastian. To people who don’t hesitate.”She studied him, the sharp lines of his posture, the way his
Tangled in His Web Chapter 105 — Fault Lines
The room did not return to normal after Elara’s arrival.Nothing ever did once she entered a space.She didn’t raise her voice. She didn’t need to. Elara had mastered the art of disruption through stillness—through smiles that arrived a fraction too late and eyes that measured weakness the way others measured worth. She stood near the doorway now, perfectly composed, as if she hadn’t just stepped into the emotional epicenter of a war she had helped design.Lily felt Alex’s hand at her back, steady and unyielding. It wasn’t romantic in the soft sense. It was protective in a way that suggested intent rather than impulse. He wasn’t shielding her from view—he was anchoring himself to her, as if letting go might cost him something irretrievable.Katherine noticed.She always did.Her gaze moved between Lily and Alex with quiet precision, cataloguing details Elara dismissed as irrelevant. The closeness. The tension. The way Alex angled his body instinctively toward Lily, not as a threat dis
Tangled in His Web Chapter 104 — The Weight of Wanting
Morning arrived without ceremony, pale and hesitant, as if even the sun was unsure whether it was welcome after the night that had passed. The city outside Lily’s window looked unchanged—cars moving, people living, the ordinary illusion of continuity intact—but inside her apartment, something had fractured and rearranged itself in ways that refused to settle. Lily sat on the edge of her bed long after dawn, her feet cold against the floor, her phone lying face-down beside her like a secret she could no longer outrun. The message from the unknown number still echoed in her mind, not because it was threatening, but because it was precise. Some truths choose timing. It felt less like a warning and more like a promise—one she hadn’t agreed to but somehow already carried. She was still there when the knock came. Not loud. Not hesitant. Controlled. Her chest tightened before she even stood. Alex didn’t knock like anyone else. He never had. There was something about it—measured, restra
Tangled in His Web Chapter 103 — What the Night Keeps
Night had a way of stripping people down.Not dramatically. Not cruelly.Just enough to reveal what daylight let them hide.Katherine stood at the window of the apartment Elara no longer visited.The city below shimmered—indifferent, luminous, careless. She rested her forehead briefly against the glass, eyes unfocused, and for a moment she let herself remember what it felt like to be younger. Softer. Stupid enough to believe that love could exist without purpose.That version of her felt like a stranger now.Behind her, a chair scraped lightly.“You shouldn’t stand like that,” Elara said. “It makes you sentimental.”Katherine didn’t turn. “You taught me sentimentality is weakness.”“I taught you restraint.”“No,” Katherine replied quietly. “You taught me patience.”Elara paused.That wasn’t a correction she appreciated.“You saw Lily,” Elara said instead.“Yes.”“And?”Katherine’s reflection stared back at her—sharp cheekbones, controlled expression, eyes that had learned how not to
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