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Chapter 15_The Eclipse between us
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2026-09-22 15:50:36
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The Billionaire Sinful Pact (The Club Seduction) Chapter 16_The wedding that wasn't
Two months folded into each other like the pages of a book I didn't want to finish.The argument with Julien had lasted four days. Four days of silence in the kitchen, of him working the far side of the line, of Luis glancing between us with his gold-toothed smirk and Maria cornering me in the walk-in with questions I didn't have answers to.On the fifth day, he found me after close."Walk with me," he said.We took the long way through the hotel's service corridors, past the dish pit and the dry storage, until we reached the loading dock. The city hummed beyond the railing. He leaned against it, arms crossed, and looked at me with those dark, precise eyes."I've been thinking," he said."Dangerous."He almost smiled. "I meant what I said that night. I don't want to be your safe harbor.""You're not.""Let me finish." He exhaled. "I love you, Mira. That's not a question. But I won't be the man you settle for because the one you actually want is unavailable."The words landed, clean an
The Billionaire Sinful Pact (The Club Seduction) Chapter 15_The Eclipse between us
The estate's driveway blurred past the passenger window. Gravel crunched beneath the tires. Julien's hands were steady on the wheel, but his jaw was tight—the same tightness I'd seen in the kitchen when a sauce broke or a ticket got buried.He'd been silent since we left.The iron gates receded in the side mirror. I pressed my forehead against the cool glass and watched the trees thin into suburbs, then strip malls, then the familiar grime of the city's edge."Mira."I didn't answer."Mira, talk to me.""About what?" My voice came out flat. Hollow. "About the fact that your brother is engaged to a woman who looks like she stepped out of a magazine? Or about the fact that you brought me here without telling me he'd be there?""I didn't know.""You didn't know." I turned to face him. His profile was sharp in the passing streetlights, cheekbones catching shadows. "He's your brother, Julien. You didn't think to check if he was coming?""He hasn't been to a family dinner in six months." Hi
The Billionaire Sinful Pact (The Club Seduction) Chapter 14_A game of lies
The question hung in the air like smoke.I didn't answer. Couldn't. Mira's dark eyes held mine across the table, sharp and waiting, and every word I'd rehearsed for months evaporated.Instead, I turned to my mother."Camille and I met at a business party," I said, my voice too steady. "She was representing her brand. Turns out, she runs that jewelry line you're always ordering from."Isabelle's eyebrows rose. "The one with the gold cuffs?""The very same." Camille's hand found mine on the tablecloth. Her fingers were cool, manicured, precise. "I had no idea I was meeting Elias's mother when I handed him my card.""Well, I've spent a fortune at your store." Isabelle laughed, delighted. "Henri, she's the one who makes those earrings you bought me for our anniversary."Henri grunted something approximating approval.I kept my eyes on the wine in my glass. Red. Deep. The color of a bruise.Beside me, Camille glowed. She knew her role—gracious, beautiful, the perfect accessory for a man wh
The Billionaire Sinful Pact (The Club Seduction) The Guest at the table
Mira povFive months and three weeks.The number had lodged itself in my chest like a splinter I couldn't dig out. One thousand, seven hundred and eleven days. Or something close. I'd stopped counting after the first month, when the ache of his absence had dulled into something manageable—a scar instead of an open wound.The hospital bills had stopped arriving.I'd noticed it first in the mail—the sudden silence where the collection notices used to be. When I called the billing department, they told me the outstanding balance had been paid in full by an anonymous donor. No name. No explanation. Just a receipt with a zero at the bottom.I knew who it was.I didn't call him. Didn't thank him. Because thanking him would mean reopening the door, and I'd spent too long learning how to keep it shut.So I'd taken the gift—the freedom from that crushing weight—and I'd buried it alongside everything else I couldn't afford to feel.And I'd moved on.Julien was patient. Julien was kind. Julien l
The Billionaire Sinful Pact (The Club Seduction) Chapter 12_The Hallow Release
Elias pov The street lamps blurred past as I drove, each one a smear of orange light against the dark. My hands were locked on the wheel, knuckles white, the engine growling as I pushed the car faster.Julien's apartment replayed in my head. Her dress bunched. His hand on her waist. The way she'd looked at me when the door opened—guilty, caught, but not sorry.Not sorry.I'd never felt anything like this. Not with the models, the socialites, the women who passed through my bed like seasons. I'd never cared. But Mira had crawled under my skin in a single night, and now she was tangled with my brother, and I couldn't breathe.I pulled over. The car shuddered to a stop. I sat there, engine idling, my forehead against the steering wheel, and tried to remember how to exist.My phone buzzed. I ignored it.Another buzz. Still ignored.Then a third, and I grabbed it, ready to smash it against the dashboard.Unknown number. You have 24 hours remaining.The blackmailer. I'd forgotten. In the c
The Billionaire Sinful Pact (The Club Seduction) Chapter 11_The door that closed
Mira pov The knife was a cold anchor in my grip. Onions. Dice. Repeat. The rhythm should have steadied me, the way it always did—but my hands were trembling, and every slice felt jagged, wrong. Elias is here. Elias is his brother. Elias saw me. The kitchen hummed around me. Steam rose from the flattop. Luis called something to Maria, and she laughed, the sound tinny and distant. I kept my eyes on the cutting board, on the half-moons of white piling beneath my blade. "Your wrist is stiff again." Julien's voice came from behind me, low and close. I hadn't heard him approach. His hand brushed my elbow, guiding my arm into a looser angle. "Relax," he said. "You're fighting the knife. Let it do the work." I exhaled. Forced my shoulders down. The blade moved smoother, cleaner. "Better." He didn't step away. His presence was a warm pressure at my back. "He's gone, by the way. Left through the service entrance." The onion blurred. I blinked hard, refusing to let the sting wi
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