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Chapter 149: Never Your Problem
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The Billionaire’s Blood Debt: Ruined by My Enemy Chapter 152: The Unlocked Door
Elowen's POVThe slush along Eleventh Avenue had turned the color of lead by the time I finally left the diner.The freezing November rain came down in uneven sheets, blowing off the Hudson to sting against my cheeks. I didn't hail a cab right away. I pulled my coat collar up around my throat and walked three blocks east through the gray drizzle, letting the wet cold numb the prickle of heat under my skin.Leo's words kept cadence with my boots against the wet pavement.You stayed because you made yourself my shield.Every horn that cut through the mist, every set of red brake lights reflecting off the asphalt, felt like an echo of the question I had spent nearly a year avoiding: if there was no brother in a coma, no medical bills piling up on a desk, and no five-to-fifteen-year sentence hanging over someone I loved, what was I doing in that tower?The private elevator at the lobby of Eighty-Eight didn't offer an answer. It rose with that familiar, sickening smooth ascent, the digital
The Billionaire’s Blood Debt: Ruined by My Enemy Chapter 151: The Departure Gate
Elowen's POVThe diner on Eleventh Avenue smelled of burnt grease, dish soap, and wet cardboard.Through the smudged front window, late-afternoon traffic crawled toward the Lincoln Tunnel under a sky that had turned the flat, bruised gray of dirty ice. A green canvas duffel bag sat on the scuffed linoleum between Leo’s worn work boots, zipped tight, its nylon strap frayed white at the buckle.He had a thick ceramic mug of black coffee in front of him, cooling untouched next to a greasy paper napkin. His face still had that pale, hollowed-out look from forty-eight hours in an intake cell downtown, but his eyes were sharp again—sharp with a restless, erratic energy that wouldn't let his boots sit still against the floor."Lisbon," I said, looking at the bent boarding pass sticking out of his canvas jacket pocket. "You don't know anyone in Portugal, Leo.""I know one guy," he said, turning the mug in a slow, scraping circle over the Formica. "An old logistics broker Dad used before the c
The Billionaire’s Blood Debt: Ruined by My Enemy Chapter 150: Never Said a Word
Elowen's POVThe air inside the detention center smelled like damp concrete and burnt coffee, the same heavy weight settling into my chest the second the guard buzzed me through the gate.Leo was brought into the consultation room five minutes later. He looked hollowed out, dark circles under his eyes, his knuckles red and raw from the cheap soap they used in there. He dropped into the metal chair across from me, forearms resting on the cold table."You look like hell, El," he said, trying for a smirk that never quite made it to his mouth."I spoke to Killian," I said, skipping past anything softer.The smirk disappeared. His jaw went tight, shoulders hunching like he was bracing for a hit. "I told you not to go to him.""He knows, Leo."He blinked, going completely still. "Knows what?""Everything," I said, keeping my voice low enough that it wouldn't carry through the glass. "About you and Kateryna. That she told you she was leaving him. That the two of you moved money together so y
The Billionaire’s Blood Debt: Ruined by My Enemy Chapter 149: Never Your Problem
Elowen's POVFour days slid by in a blur of cold rain and suffocating quiet.At the office, we moved around each other like two ships steering clear of the same patch of fog. No arguments, no cutting remarks over shipping schedules. Killian treated me with the same polite, careful distance he gave outside auditors, and each passing day pushed Leo one step closer to the end of his one week of borrowed time.By Saturday morning, the silence had finally run out of road.The penthouse sat under the flat, gray light of an overcast weekend. Killian was at the kitchen island in a dark sweater, sleeves pushed up, a cup of coffee going cold beside his tablet. The apartment smelled faintly of rain and lemon polish, the quiet between us so heavy it felt like something with actual weight, pressing down on both of us at once.I filled a glass of water at the sink, my fingers tightening around it until my knuckles went pale."Wind died down over the harbor," he said after a while, glancing toward t
The Billionaire’s Blood Debt: Ruined by My Enemy Chapter 148: Beyond Repair
Elowen's POVI stayed behind my desk until twenty past five, clearing out transit files to keep my hands busy while my mind ran in circles.My phone buzzed against the blotter.I picked it up on the first ring. "Temitope.""Mrs. Blackwood," Temitope Benson’s voice came through, crisp and steady. "Good news on Leonard's schedule. The district attorney's office agreed to push his formal court date back by one full week. The docket was congested, and there was a minor clerical delay on their evidentiary filings. He won't be moved upstate right now."A breath rushed out of me, untying a knot in my chest. "A week. That buys us time.""It buys us seven days," Temitope said. "The charges are still grand larceny and conspiracy, but it gives us room to maneuver. I also managed to arrange another legal consultation pass for you. Intake room three downtown. You can go tomorrow morning, or you can go down tonight before eight.""Tonight," I said without pausing. "I'm heading out right now.""Keep
The Billionaire’s Blood Debt: Ruined by My Enemy Chapter 147: Beat the Allegations
Elowen's POVThe penthouse was dark when I finally let myself in.Past the foyer, eighty floors of night pressed against the floor-to-ceiling glass, the city below reduced to cold pins of light through the haze.Killian was already asleep, turned toward the terrace glass, his breathing slow and even. I didn't turn on a single lamp. I washed my face in the dark, feeling my way along the marble counter by memory, the cold water doing nothing to cool the heat under my skin. I slid under the duvet on my side of the bed, keeping inches of empty space between us like a physical barricade. I lay there a long time, staring at the ceiling until my eyes burned, replaying the exact second his face had changed in that customs hall—the brief, unguarded shock, the quiet flick of two fingers to cut off the bidding, then nothing at all.A hundred thousand dollars just to buy the silence in the room and walk away.When the alarm went off at six, the space beside me was already cold. The shower was dry
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