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Chapter 216~Kesley~I woke up on Taraji’s couch with the sun stinging my eyes. My head felt heavy, like it was filled with cotton. For a moment, I forgot everything that had happened at the Specter mansion. Then, it all came rushing back. I had to meet Dan today. I had texted Dan, and I wasn't going to back out. I needed to close one door so I could figure out how to lock the other. I met him at the Cabin Restaurant. It was a quiet, secluded place with wooden booths that hid you from the world. Dan was already there, looking exactly like the boy I used to follow around like a puppy. He smiled when he saw me, a smile of his I am used to."Kesley," he said, reaching across the table to touch my hand. "It’s been too long."I pulled my hand back gently to reach for the menu. "Hi, Dan."For the first twenty minutes, he did all the talking. He acted like no time had passed at all. He talked about our years growing up together, how we were best friends, and how he remembered every little
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Chapter 215~Niklaus~I hadn't slept at all. I hadn't eaten. My phone sat on the desk in front of me. I had called Kesley so many times that I lost count. Every time the call went to voicemail, it felt like a tiny piece of my heart was being ripped away.At this point, I didn't care about the company. I didn't care about the billions of dollars or the Specter name. It all felt like junk compared to her."Fred!" I shouted. I didn't even look up when the door opened."I’m right here, Niklaus," Fred said. His voice was calm, but I could tell he was tired too. He had been running around all night trying to help me."Did you confirm where she is?” I said, finally looking at him. My eyes felt heavy and dry. "Is she fine?”I did not want to guess if she was at Taraji. I had someone check her house too but he reported back to me that she was not there.Fred walked over and stood by the window. "She is at Taraji’s place. I haven't seen her with my own eyes, she’s making sure I don't see her, b
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Chapter 214~Kesley~For now, I am crashing at Taraji’s place. It’s beside Fred's apartment, but right now, it feels safer than any mansion. I’ve been trying my best to stay out of the way, especially when Fred is around. I like Fred, but I know how the world works. He’s Niklaus’s right-hand man. I am sure he knows I am here, and it’s only a matter of time before he tells Niklaus everything.I do hope he doesn't come.My phone has been buzzing constantly. Niklaus has been calling and texting, but I can’t bring myself to pick up. Every time I see his name on the screen, my heart painfully aches. I’m not ready. I don't have the words to say anything or make a decision. So, I just let it ring.Today, though, I had to put my feelings aside. Today was for Kim. I stopped at a small shop near the hospital to buy flowers. I chose a bright bouquet because Kim deserves all the color in the world after being stuck in a hospital bed for so long. When I walked into her room, I saw her standing
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Chapter 213~Kesley~Taraji was beyond angry. She was vibrating with a kind of silent, white-hot rage that I hadn’t seen since the day we met. Usually, she was the one talking me off a ledge, but right now, she wouldn't even look at me.“Taraji, please, just listen to me for one second,” I said, reaching for her arm as she grabbed her keys.She didn't listen. She didn't even pause. She just marched toward the door, her heels clicking against the floor so harshly. The way she threw herself into the driver’s seat of her car told me everything I needed to know. She was going to her parents’ house, and she was going to burn it all down.“Taraji!” I scrambled into the passenger seat just as she slammed the car into reverse. “You’re upset. Let’s just breathe.”She didn’t breathe. She drove like a madwoman, driving through traffic with a reckless speed that had me gripping the door handle until my knuckles turned white. Her jaw was set so tight I thought her teeth might crack.We pulled up
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Chapter 212~Niklaus~I had left the mansion before I said something I could not take back.That was the only reason I had walked out when I did. Not because I was done fighting. Not because I had accepted anything that happened in that room. But because I had looked at my grandfather's face and felt something rise in my chest that I did not trust to come out in words, and I had made the decision to leave before it did.Now I was in my apartment.Not the house. The apartment I had kept before everything with Kesley started. The glass in my hand was my third. Or fourth. I had stopped counting after the second. I was sitting on the floor with my back against the sofa because I had started there and not moved.My father had called four times.I had not picked up once.Grandfather had not called.I could not decide which of those two facts bothered me more.My phone lit up on the floor beside me. Father again. I looked at it until the screen went dark. Then I picked up the glass."Sir."
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Chapter 211~Taraji~I had just dropped my bag on the sofa when my phone buzzed.Kesley.Are you home?I kicked off my shoes and typed back immediately. Yess. What's up?No response.Did she want me to do something for her? I mean she was in Bali.I waited. I kept checking the screen. Nothing. I put the phone down and went to change out of my work clothes, and by the time I came back out and looked at the screen again there was still nothing from her.Then my doorbell rang.I opened it and Kesley was standing there in the hallway with her handbag on her shoulder and her eyes red and her face looked as if she had been holding herself together but now she couldn't anymore. She broke down. I was surprised. How come she was here?She opened her mouth and nothing came out."Come in, come in.” I said, stepping back.She came in and sat on the sofa and I sat beside her and I did not ask anything. I just waited. I had known Kesley long enough to know that she would get there in her own time
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Chapter 60 ~ Kesley ~The elevator climbed toward the 7th floor, and I stood there clutching the bag of burgers, my heart pounding so hard I could hear it in my ears.I was panting. Actually panting like I'd just run a marathon instead of speed-walking twenty feet to an elevator.My reflection sta
Última actualización : 2026-03-27The Billionaire's Binding Proposal ~ 45
Chapter 45 ~ Kesley ~The moment I ended the call with Niklaus, my entire body started shaking.I'd done it. I'd actually done it.Called him. Agreed to meet. Started the process of selling six months of my life for fifty million dollars."Oh my God," I whispered, staring at my phone like it was a
Última actualización : 2026-03-24The Billionaire's Binding Proposal ~ 43
Chapter 43 ~ Kesley ~I stared at Taraji like she'd lost her mind."How?" I said, my voice rising. "How the hell am I supposed to pull that off, Taraji? I'm not Aria. I'm Kesley Bellamy. His employee. The junior data analyst he personally hired less than a week ago. The one whose work he complimen
Última actualización : 2026-03-24The Billionaire's Binding Proposal ~ 36
Chapter 36 ~ Kesley ~"I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY!"Whitney Houston blasted through my apartment speakers as I sang along at the top of my lungs, wielding my mop like a microphone.This was exactly what I needed. A perfect Saturday morning. No work. No stress. No billionaire CEOs ambushing me at
Última actualización : 2026-03-22
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