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The Coffee Excuse
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2026-08-06 19:03:39
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The Billionaire Alpha's Obsession Isabelle and Trent
Chapter 22POV: SeraphinaI stayed frozen against the wall long after Isabelle's laughter faded and the phone call ended, my heart pounding hard enough that I was certain she would hear it through the door. Her words kept circling in my head, sharp and mocking. She will not be a problem much longer. I am handling it. By the time I am finished, my father will not even remember her name.I did not know exactly what handling it meant, but after the freezing balcony and the false slap accusation, I doubted it involved anything gentle.I slipped away from the sitting room before she could catch me eavesdropping, my mind still tangled around the casual, chilling confidence in her voice when she spoke about Trent's contract, like Damian's power was simply an extension of her own whims. I thought of Theo again, of the notebook hidden beneath his mattress, of exactly how long Isabelle must have practiced wielding her father's blindness as a weapon before she ever turned it on me.I needed air.
The Billionaire Alpha's Obsession A Careful Lie
Chapter 21POV: SeraphinaHis silver eyes did not waver, waiting, patient in the particular way children could be patient when they had decided something mattered enough to sit still for it."I am not here to marry your father," I said finally, choosing my words with the same careful precision I used when explaining tricky maths problems, technically true, deliberately incomplete. "I am here because I owe him a debt. That is all this is."It was not a lie exactly. Not the kind that would break his rule outright. I was not, in fact, here for marriage. But the answer skated so close to dishonest that guilt still curled hot and uncomfortable in my chest, because Theo had not asked whether I wanted to marry Damian. He had asked whether I was here to marry him, and the truth, tangled and messy as it was, sat somewhere between revenge and an attraction I did not fully understand yet, neither of which I had any intention of explaining to a nine-year-old boy.Theo studied me for a long moment
The Billionaire Alpha's Obsession Theo's Rules
Chapter 20POV: SeraphinaI did not sleep well after Damian threw me out of his study, his sharp order still echoing in my head long after I climbed into bed. I lay awake turning the whole strange encounter over and over, the way his eyes had darkened right before he pulled away from me, the rough edge in his voice that had nothing to do with anger and everything to do with something he clearly did not want to feel.I told myself it did not matter why he pulled away, only that I had gotten close enough for his wolf to react at all. That was progress, whatever it cost my pride.By the time I made it down to the study room the next afternoon, exhaustion sat heavy behind my eyes, and I nearly missed the way Theo was watching me the moment I walked in, his silver gaze far too sharp for a boy his age, tracking me across the room with unusual focus."You look tired," he said, not unkindly, closing the workbook in front of him before I had even sat down."Rough night," I admitted, sliding in
The Billionaire Alpha's Obsession The Scent He Can't Place
Chapter 19POV: DamianHer pulse jumped hard under my thumb, quick and unmistakable, and for one brief, satisfying moment I let myself believe I finally had an honest answer close at hand."I told you," she said, though her voice had lost some of its earlier steadiness. "I made too much coffee.""That is not what I asked."I did not let go of her wrist. I told myself it was simple diligence, the same instinct that made me distrust every unverified claim that crossed my desk, but the truth sat closer to the surface than I wanted to admit. I wanted an excuse to keep touching her.Then it hit me.Her scent, always faint beneath the borrowed shirt and the coffee she carried, rose sharper now that I stood this close, warmed by her skin, and my wolf reacted before my mind could catch up, a low, visceral pull deep in my chest that had nothing to do with simple attraction. It was recognition. Something ancient and instinctive in me sat up and took notice, the way a wolf notices its own pack e
The Billionaire Alpha's Obsession The Coffee Excuse
Chapter 18POV: SeraphinaI had almost forgotten why I came to this house in the first place.Between Theo's careful progress and Isabelle's quiet, simmering threats, entire days had passed where revenge sat further and further from my mind, pushed aside by algebra worksheets and half-shifted panic attacks and stolen moments of something that almost resembled peace. But lying awake that night, staring at the unfamiliar ceiling of my new bedroom, I forced myself to remember Trent's cruel laughter echoing across that ballroom, Isabelle's diamonds catching the light as she dared me to humiliate myself for the cameras.If I wanted to finish what I started, I needed Damian to actually want me. Not just the reckless heat of a stranger's kiss under flashing lights, but something closer, something that would make him willing to use his power on my behalf.I remembered the way his eyes had lingered on me in the hallway that night on the balcony, the careful, deliberate way he had wrapped a bla
The Billionaire Alpha's Obsession Damian's Ledger
Chapter 17 POV: DamianMy study was quiet at this hour, the way I preferred it, nothing but the low hum of the desk lamp and the distant tick of the grandfather clock down the hall. I had a folder open in front of me, the kind of folder I had built and rebuilt more times than I cared to admit over the last several months, thick with the exit reports of every tutor Theo had driven out of this house.Twenty of them. Twenty resignation letters, twenty incident reports from my head of security, twenty variations of the same defeated language. Uncontrollable. Dangerous. Beyond help. I had read them so many times the words had lost most of their sting, dulled into something closer to routine disappointment.I pulled Seraphina's weekly progress notes from beneath the stack and set them side by side with the others, and something in my chest tightened at the comparison.Her handwriting was neat, controlled, entirely unlike the panicked scrawl of the tutors who came before her. Theo completed
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