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Chapter 153
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The Auctioned Bride Chapter 153
Althea’s POVHe nodded, almost boyish. “Just one ride. If you don’t like it, we’ll leave. I promise.” He squinted his eyes.I studied his face for a second longer than necessary, weighing him the way I weighed everything now. Then I smiled. Small. Careful. “Okay. One ride.”He looked joyousWe walked past the gates, the noise swelling around us…music, laughter, the metallic clack of machines in motion. Damien stayed close, too close, his hand hovering at my lower back without quite touching. He paid for the tickets before I could reach for my bag.“Damien…”“Please,” he said softly. “Let me.”I let him.He guided me toward the Ferris wheel, tall and slow, Intimate.“Good choice,” I murmured.He swallowed. “I thought… you might not want something fast.”“You thought right.”We climbed into the small cabin together. The attendant pulled the bar down, the click loud in the small space. As the wheel began to move, the ground slipped away beneath us, inch by inch.Silence settled between u
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Althea’s povThe drive was quiet at first. Not awkward…careful.He kept glancing at me, hands tight on the steering wheel, like he didn’t trust himself not to reach for me. When we finally stopped, I understood why.A park.Wide. Open. Green. Families scattered around. Children running. Couples walking dogs. Safe.Public.Smart choice, Damien.“You didn’t want somewhere crowded,” he said, reading my silence. “I figured… you might want air. Space.”“I do,” I said. “This is nice.”We walked slowly along the path. He kept just close enough that our arms brushed occasionally. Every time it happened, his fingers twitched, like he was asking permission without words.“Do you remember,” he said quietly, “how we used to come here? Before everything went wrong?”“I remember,” I said. And I did.But memory didn’t mean mercy.“I think about you every day,” he confessed. “About what I should’ve done differently. About how badly I failed you.”I stopped walking.He stopped too, instantly turning t
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Althea’s povA date.It was far from what I had expected. I never imagined I’d find myself preparing to go on a date with Damien again…especially not like this, not under these circumstances. But expectations had long stopped mattering. Survival did. Control did. And right now, I needed to stay three steps ahead of everyone hunting me, loving me, lying to me.Yes, I knew they were still looking for me.The people from before. The shadows that never truly left.It still surprised me that they hadn’t found me yet. Either I was luckier than I deserved… or someone was buying me time. Either way, I couldn’t waste it. If I stayed hidden forever, I’d rot. If I moved carefully, I could rebuild.And if that meant risking a little exposure…then so be it.“Althea.”Damien’s voice pulled me out of my thoughts.I looked up and smiled at him, soft, practiced, harmless. “Yes, Damien?”“I got you this.”Only then did I notice the box in his hands. Medium-sized. Wrapped neatly. His fingers hovered ove
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Althea’s pov When I walked downstairs, he had set the table…plates, glasses, even a flower in a cup like he was trying too hard.“Sit,” he said quickly, pulling the chair for me.He was trying to be a gentleman now?Adorable..He went over the pot to remove the last batch of food. but every few minutes he returned to me… a hand on the small of my back, fingers brushing my arm; a soft touch to my cheek as he checked if I was “too warm.”The old Althea might have melted.But I watched him with clinical precision.Observing his patterns.His weaknesses.His desires.He served breakfast… toast, eggs, tomatoes cooked unevenly and sat beside me instead of across the table. Our knees brushed. He didn’t move away.I sat, and he placed the food gently in front of me, like I was fragile porcelain.“You didn’t have to do all this,” I said sweetly.“I wanted to,” he said, taking the seat closest to mine instead of across the table. Our knees brushed…accidentally on purpose.I ate slowly. He watc
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Althea’s povIt was slow when consciousness finally seeped back in.My head throbbed, the kind of dull, heavy ache that comes from crying until the body gives up and forces sleep. My eyes felt swollen, my breaths uneven. For a moment, I didn’t know where I was.Then I felt the warmth beside me.Damien.He was asleep on the other end of the bed, lying slightly turned toward me, one arm resting loosely over his stomach. His hair was messy, his jaw shadowed, his chest rising and falling with the softest rhythm. And then I noticed it.He was smiling.Not wide. Not obvious. Just… a faint, peaceful curve at the corner of his lips.In all the time we were together, in every night he once held me, I had never seen him look this calm. This content. Even when he pretended to “move on,” even when he married her… I knew he never slept like this.Last night must have been the best night of his life.We kissed, and it was everything he’d ever wanted from me. Everything he thought he lost forever.
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Damien’s povI heard her scream before I was even fully awake.A sound like someone ripping their soul out through their throat.“Althea?”I was already running.I pushed her door open so hard it slammed against the wall. She was thrashing, drenched in sweat, tears cutting lines down her cheeks, her breath shuddering like she was drowning in air.Her eyes snapped open…wild, terrified, unfocused.“Althea.. Althea hey….hey, I’m right here,” I said, grabbing her shoulders gently.She looked at me as if she didn’t see me at all.“They came… they came for me,” she stuttered, voice breaking apart piece by piece. “They took me….there was blood….Valerio”Valerio.Even hearing the name made my jaw lock, but this wasn’t about me. Not now.I pulled her against me. She was shaking so hard her teeth chattered.“It’s okay,” I murmured, running a hand down her back, trying to steady the tremors. “You’re safe here. No one’s getting to you. Not in my house. Not while I’m here.”She clung to my shirt l
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