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Chapter 156: In Plain Sight
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2026-09-29 15:31:08
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The Billionaire’s Blood Debt: Ruined by My Enemy Chapter 156: In Plain Sight
Elowen's POVThe cold air on Franklin Street felt different after signing that check.It bit clean through the haze in my head, sharp and grounding. For months, every step I had taken across this city had been on borrowed ground—dictated by debts, hospital monitors, and the silent expectations of men who assumed they owned the air I breathed.Now, fifty thousand dollars lighter, the leash was still around my throat, but I had finally hired someone to sharpen the blade.I didn't take a cab uptown. The thought of walking into that glass museum on Eighty-Eight at four in the afternoon made my stomach turn. I couldn't sit across from Killian’s polite, measuring stare, listening to the hum of the climate control while pretending my ribs weren't bruised from holding my breath.Instead, I pulled up Diego’s text from the night before, still glowing unanswered on my screen: There’s an Italian place four blocks over. Have dinner with me tonight, Elowen.I typed six words before I could talk mys
The Billionaire’s Blood Debt: Ruined by My Enemy Chapter 155: The Cost of Walking Away
Elowen's POVThe penthouse was empty by seven.Killian’s side of the bed had been smoothed flat with that familiar, mechanical precision, the sheets cold to the touch. In the kitchen, the espresso machine was wiped down, the breakfast bar pristine, and his car keys gone from the marble tray. He had vanished into the gray morning without leaving a note, without a word to the staff, and without knocking on my door.He hadn't thrown a tantrum. He hadn't demanded an explanation for the way I had gone rigid in his arms the night before. He had simply closed himself off behind that terrifying wall of silence, treating me with the distant, untouchable courtesy he reserved for strangers.I dressed in a dark wool coat, black trousers, and low boots—practical, invisible clothes meant for blending into the pavement. I left my engagement ring in the velvet tray on the vanity, but I kept the simple platinum wedding band on my left finger. In public, for now, the facade had to remain intact.I didn
The Billionaire’s Blood Debt: Ruined by My Enemy Chapter 154: To Turn to Stone
Elowen's POVI didn't take Diego up on dinner.Not tonight. When you have spent years bracing for an ambush, stepping out into an open field feels less like freedom and more like walking straight into crosshairs. I had left the Tribeca loft with his invitation humming between my ribs like a live wire, the warmth of his thumb still faintly burning against the skin between my knuckles.By seven, the cab dropped me at Eighty-Eight.The November rain had turned into a steady, freezing mist that coated the high glass in sheets of blurred silver. The penthouse smelled of nothing—no sawdust, no warm beeswax, no roasting coffee beans. Just the filtered, climate-controlled silence of a home that felt more like a museum after visiting hours.Killian was in the master bedroom.He wasn't sitting behind a desk or staring at a screen. He had his jack
The Billionaire’s Blood Debt: Ruined by My Enemy Chapter 153: The Architect's Gaze
Elowen's POVThe silence in the penthouse had become too heavy to sit in.By noon, the rain had settled over the city, turning the river into a dull sheet of slate. The apartment felt hollowed out—a vast, immaculate expanse of glass and stone where I had nothing left to do except listen to the hum of the heating vents.I put on my coat, took the elevator down to the street, and caught a cab south.Tribeca was washed in gray. The cab tires hissed against the wet asphalt as we turned down the narrow, cobblestone side street, leaving the sharp, vertical towers of Midtown behind for low-slung brick warehouses and cast-iron fire escapes.The heavy iron door of the building clicked open with my key. Inside, the old freight elevator shuddered into motion, groaning behind the scissor gate as it hauled me up to the fourth floor.When the gate slid back, the smell of the loft hit me like a familiar pulse: dry cedar shavings, warm beeswax, roasted coffee, and the chalky dust of old plaster. Tall
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
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