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The Billionaire's Bargain 117.
PENELOPEI heard him come in late last night, just as I was finishing some work at the dining table.“Hey, still up?,” he’d said, pausing just long enough to look at me.“Yeah, I just got off a call. How was work?” I asked softly.He adjusted his tie, looking exhausted. “The prep went fine. Get some rest.”And that was that.Now it was morning, and I was staring at the same dining table again—this time with a proper breakfast in front of me, the smell of eggs, oats, strawberries, and pancakes filling the air, and Maria already bustling around with her blender and that awful green concoction she called juice.I lifted my coffee mug to my lips just as she set a tall glass of the green stuff in front of Christian with a hopeful little smile.“Drink,” she said brightly. “You’ll thank me later.”Christian didn’t even glance at it at first, just kept cutting into his pancakes and scrambled eggs like nothing. But when Maria nudged the glass closer, his hand froze.Uh-ohThen he looked up at
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CHRISTIANThe day moved like clockwork. It had to.I was sitting at my desk, when Liam recited her routine to me again—not because I needed reminding, but because this kind of thing was about precision, not memory. “By eight in the morning, she’s at the gym,” he said evenly. “By noon she’s at the spa. At two, she visits her mother’s care home. Back home by six, steps out by seven to pick up dinner, home again by eight. Then nothing, same routine, every day.”I nodded, “And we go in at ten?”“That’s the cleanest window,” Liam confirmed.I didn’t respond immediately. My thoughts drifted—not to her, but to Penelope. To the threats that had her shaken. I hadn’t involved the police yet, I didn’t need to. I already had a good idea who was behind it. And tonight, one way or another, I’d find out.I leaned back and closed my eyes for a moment before opening them again and rising to my feet.“Ten. No later.” I confirmed it again.“You’re sure you don’t want to wait longer?” he asked mildly.“
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PENELOPEI woke up to the constant vibrating of my phone on the nightstand. I groaned, rolling over and pulling the blanket tighter around me. But the buzzing didn’t stop, and when I finally reached for it, still half-asleep, I saw it wasn’t a call.It was Instagram.And my bakery’s page — Sweet Delights — was blowing up.I sat up instantly, my heart hammering as I scrolled through the notifications. Thousands of new followers. Hundreds of comments flooding in under the last post I made two weeks ago about Sweet Delights being on a break.And everywhere I looked, it was the video— Samantha tampering with the flour bags in the bakery’s kitchen. Then the fire she started, just like Maya had confessed… although the video didn’t show Maya at all. If she claimed she did it, she should have been there—unless whoever released the footage cropped her out on purpose, because she wasn’t their target. It was all over the internet now. And right alongside it… the other video of me.Dragging her
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CHRISTIANThe phone rang three times before it went to voicemail.I stared at the screen like it had personally offended me, then dropped it on the desk with a sharp clatter and leaned back in my chair, glaring at nothing.She wasn’t picking up.I’d already tried twice before this, and each time it was the same—her voice on the recording, and nothing else. A little part of me hoped she would at least text me back, even if it was just to tell me to go to hell. But no. Nothing.Why did I even care? I was mad at her. She hadn’t told me she was being threatened, but I was genuinely worried. It must’ve taken its toll on her. I just hoped she was okay. I’d have to call Alfred later.I dragged a hand over my face and let out a bitter laugh. She had avoided Alex all through dinner last night too, which I didn’t miss, no matter how hard she tried to play it off.And the worst part? I wasn’t even sure which of them I was angrier at — Alex, for being the one to tell me what she was going through
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PENELOPEWhen I pushed the door open, the house was quiet.The lights in the foyer were on, casting a warm glow over the entrance, but the warmth didn’t reach the people standing there waiting for me.Christian was sitting at the base of the stairs, his elbows were resting on his knees, head bowed slightly. His jacket was off, the sleeves of his shirt was rolled up, there was nothing loose about the tension in his frame.This was here he rushed too from dinner, I almost thought he went back to work, even Liam hadn’t known where he was going to. And I avoided Alex throughout, everytime I look at him, I remember Christian’s threatening words to me.Maria stood at one side of the hall, it was the one time since she started living here that I don’t see a juice in her hands. Alfred was near the kitchen archway, he had a worried expression. And Jess… Jess stood near the banister, she looked worried.It felt like they’d all been… waiting for me.I stopped just inside the door, clutching my
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CHRISTIANI hadn’t heard from her.Not a word, a call, or even a text. Not since she showed up at the penthouse after her fight with Jess just so I could fuck the sadness out of her. And I hadn’t bothered reaching out either.She needed space, fine. But she’d been sitting in her car that morning outside my building long after she should’ve driven off, and the image hadn’t left my head since.This morning, I called Alfred to check how she was doing. “She doesn’t look well,” he had said.I pinched the bridge of my nose. “Just make her something she likes. Chicken, shrimp, whatever she’s been pretending not to crave lately. She’ll feel better after she eats.”“Yes, sir.”I hung up and went back to work, trying to push her out of my mind.Liam walked into my office hours later, two coffees in hand. He dropped one in front of me and sat down like he owned the place.“You’ve got that face again,” he said.“What face?” I muttered, flipping through pages of a report.“The one where you prete
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