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Chapter 8
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Teach me to desire Chapter 93
Igor Steps ForwardI had taken three deliberate steps away from the stage, walking directly through the open circle of space the terrified elite crowd had created around me. My father’s words—the public disownment—had stripped me bare, and I felt exposed, yet strangely weightless. I was nothing now, and in that nothingness, I was everything I had ever wanted to be.My gaze was locked on the distant archway where Igor had been waiting. I saw the dark shape of his figure, perfectly still, absorbing the collective trauma of the room. He was my compass, the only fixed point in the dizzying chaos.Just as I started walking faster, pushing past the periphery of the nearest tables, Igor finally moved.It wasn't a sudden dash or a panicked flight. It was a slow, measured, absolutely determined stride. He stepped away from the relative shelter of the wall and began walking directly into the center of the disaster, straight toward me.The crowd noticed immediately. Their focus, which had been s
Teach me to desire Chapter 92
Killian’s IsolationI stood frozen on the first step of the stage, my father’s final, savage words echoing not in the room, but in the suddenly hollow space of my own chest. “You are disowned. You will receive nothing.”He had just marched away, his security detail shielding his shame from the remaining onlookers, leaving me utterly alone under the full, cold glare of the ballroom’s remaining lights. The two massive presentation screens behind me still screamed the evidence of my betrayal—Igor and me, standing close, our faces too soft, too real.The noise of the crowd had momentarily died down after my father’s decree, replaced by a dense, suffocating silence. It was a vacuum created by the sheer magnitude of the social explosion. I was the core of that vacuum, the exposed wire in the wreckage.I slowly lifted my eyes and surveyed the room. The elite audience was no longer scrambling for escape or arguing over the merger. They were fixed on me.They were everywhere: the corporate riv
Teach me to desire Chapter 91
Eleanor LeavesThe Grand Ballroom was no longer an elegant venue; it was a pressurized, echoing cage. The sounds of breaking glass and security whistles mixed with the collective, furious clamor of hundreds of voices shouting the news into cell phones. The sheer volume of the chaos made the air feel thin and sharp.Eleanor stood motionless near the gilded exit doors, a figure of calm geometry amidst the swirling panic. Her dark gown, chosen deliberately to blend into the shadows of the velvet drapery, made her virtually invisible to the frantic crowd and the swiveling cameras. She had watched every agonizing second of the disaster, from the moment Serena took the microphone to the final, chilling declaration of disownment by Mr. Hayes.She took a slow, measured breath, savoring the acrid scent of ruin that now permeated the air—a mix of expensive champagne and crushed ambition. The massive screens still glowed with the undeniable photo evidence, bathing the central area of the room in
Teach me to desire Chapter 90
The DisownmentI had only just taken the first step toward leaving the stage, my whole body oriented toward the chaos and toward Igor, when the sound of my father's rage finally broke free of its focus on the public humiliation and centered entirely on me.His security team, two massive men in dark suits, had a shaky grip on his arms, trying to steer him away from the precipice of the stage, but he fought them off like a wild, trapped animal. He spun around, his attention snapping away from the furious, pointing finger of the crowd and landing with lethal force on my figure. His face was a mask of pure, absolute murder—the mask I had dreaded seeing for thirty years.He didn’t scream. The volume had peaked when he addressed Igor. Now, he lowered his voice, forcing the words out with a terrible, slow, and measured control that was far more chilling than any shout. The silence in the immediate vicinity of the stage, where the most important guests were seated, allowed his every syllable
Teach me to desire Chapter 89
The ConfrontationThe microphone Serena had thrown still lay on the podium, silenced. The sudden absence of her voice only amplified the hurricane of noise that had erupted in the Grand Ballroom. The hundreds of guests—rivals, associates, and vultures alike—were surging toward the aisles, shouting questions at the security staff, pointing frantically at the massive screens.The image on those screens remained static, brutally clear: Igor and me, close, unguarded, lit up like a billboard for my father's deepest failure.My father was a mere foot away, but he was no longer looking at me. His entire massive frame was vibrating with an emotion so intense it felt murderous. He wasn't tracking Serena, who had just executed the perfect tactical retreat. He was focused on the source of his ultimate, personal humiliation.All eyes in the room, and especially my father's, were locked onto Igor, standing quietly by the back wall.In that split second, the corporate scandal vanished, replaced by
Teach me to desire Chapter 88
The PhotosThe very air in the ballroom seemed to crackle and pop after Serena uttered Igor's name. Hundreds of eyes were fixed on the back of the room, on the single, impeccably dressed man who stood utterly calm under the sudden, furious spotlight. My father was a statue of pure, throttled rage beside me, his entire body shaking. He couldn't speak, only make a strangled, high-pitched noise that was instantly swallowed by the crowd’s rising panic.“Killian! You miserable—” my father managed, his face blotchy and crimson, but his voice broke entirely on the last word. He was beyond the point of coherent command.Serena watched his distress with a detached, clinical satisfaction. She knew his rage was the ultimate validation of her revenge. She didn’t wait for him to recover. She had delivered the accusation; now she needed to provide the incontrovertible proof.She lowered her hand from the dramatic point she had aimed at Igor and looked coolly at the event’s technical booth. She spok
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