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Chapter 41

Author: Dyana
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-12 04:11:21

ELIAS’ POV

The office walls felt too thin, the ceiling groaning as if the building itself had joined in her game. Shadows bled at the edges of the light spilling from the single cracked window, each one twitching like it was waiting for her signal.

Chloe’s face tilted into my hand, fragile and strong all at once, and it nearly undid me. But Gavin’s ragged cough snapped the moment apart.

“We can’t stay here,” I said, voice iron, pulling my hand back before I lost my grip on everything else. “She’s waiting for us to stop moving.”

Chloe’s gaze turned to Gavin, then back to me. Her lips pressed together, trembling. “He can’t walk far, Elias. He’s bleeding too much.”

“I know.” The words burned like acid. I looked over at the weight of Gavin slumped in that chair. He had minutes….an hour at best. But I couldn’t tell her that. Not yet.

I crouched, gripping Gavin’s jaw. His eyes fluttered half-shut, pain carving his face into something unrecognizable. Still, when he looked at Chloe, he tried
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  • The CEO'S secretary    Chapter 41

    ELIAS’ POVThe office walls felt too thin, the ceiling groaning as if the building itself had joined in her game. Shadows bled at the edges of the light spilling from the single cracked window, each one twitching like it was waiting for her signal.Chloe’s face tilted into my hand, fragile and strong all at once, and it nearly undid me. But Gavin’s ragged cough snapped the moment apart.“We can’t stay here,” I said, voice iron, pulling my hand back before I lost my grip on everything else. “She’s waiting for us to stop moving.”Chloe’s gaze turned to Gavin, then back to me. Her lips pressed together, trembling. “He can’t walk far, Elias. He’s bleeding too much.”“I know.” The words burned like acid. I looked over at the weight of Gavin slumped in that chair. He had minutes….an hour at best. But I couldn’t tell her that. Not yet.I crouched, gripping Gavin’s jaw. His eyes fluttered half-shut, pain carving his face into something unrecognizable. Still, when he looked at Chloe, he tried

  • The CEO'S secretary    Chapter 40

    ELIAS' POV The light cut a sharp-thin line across the floor, hope spilling from the office door. But before Chloe could reach it, her double was on her.The impact made her cry out, the shadow of her body pinning Chloe against the wall. Same face. Same hair. The same trembling mouth twisted into something cruel.The moment her body launched from the dark, instinct pulled me forward faster than thought. My grip on Chloe tore free as I twisted, slamming into the shadow wearing her face.The impact rattled through bone, wood cracking beneath us as I drove her back. But she was stronger than she should’ve been…far stronger. Her arms lashed out, her nails catching my shoulder, dragging heat and pain down my skin.Behind me, Chloe screamed my name. It ripped through me sharper than claws ever could.“Run!” I barked, shoving at the double’s weight.But Chloe didn’t move. I heard the frantic scrape of her hands against the wall, refusing to leave.Her voice cut like glass. “I won’t leave you

  • The CEO'S secretary    Chapter 39

    ELIAS’S POV The silence was too loud.Every creak, every whisper of breath carried weight. I kept my body angled in front of Chloe’s, one arm locked around her hand, the other flexing, ready to strike at nothing but dark.“Stay low,” I told her, forcing calm into my voice. She needed steady, not the storm inside me.Her nod brushed against my shoulder. She didn’t let go. She never let go.Gavin shifted against the wall, coughing hard, the sound thick. He’d lost too much blood. The weak light from his phone guttered, shadows gnawing the edges until it sputtered out again.“She hates the light,” he rasped, dragging air into his lungs. “It burns her. That’s why… why did she killed the power.”It clicked. The replication, the shadows, the way she thrived in the black. Isabelle had bred this thing out of Chloe’s image but built it out of hunger. Of absence.Light could starve her.But Chloe’s double wasn’t gone. She was listening.She laughed out loud from the ceiling beams. “Light won’t

  • The CEO'S secretary    Chapter 38

    ELIAS’S POVHer laugh came again, low and splintering, circling the dark shed.Chloe’s fingers dug into me, her body trembling against my back. Every quiver of her frame drove my fury deeper into bone. I’d kill this thing, whatever it was, even if I had to tear my own hands apart to do it.“Elias…” she whispered, small, breaking.I covered her hands with mine, steady, and strong. “I’m not letting her near you.”A hiss curled from the dark. “You can’t protect her forever. Not from you.”My jaw snapped tight. The truth in her voice wasn’t hers…it was mine. Every regret, every silence, thrown back at me like a knife. And still I couldn’t let it cut.Then Gavin’s voice cut sharp, raw, from the shadows. “She’s feeding on the cracks. That’s how Isabelle built her…off memory, weakness, want. Don’t give her more to use.”Blood slicked his words; he was barely upright, but still fighting.“She’s not real,” I growled back at the dark, more for Chloe than myself. “She’s a parasite. And I’ll end

  • The CEO'S secretary    Chapter 37

    ELIAS’S POVHer whisper cut through me.Behind Chloe.“Wrong choice.”I didn’t think. I lunged.The shed was absolutely dark, but I didn’t need light to know where she was..I heard Chloe Inhale sharply, the trembling sound in her throat, felt the way her body went stiff against the wall.“Get away from her!” My fist swung, catching air, then flesh. The force jarred up my arm, her body jerking back, her hiss cutting the silence like a blade.“Elias!” Chloe’s cry broke, half in relief, half in fear.I shoved forward, bracing my body against hers, shielding her with everything I had. My hand found her face, hot with tears, she was trembling under my palm. She clung to me like I was the only solid thing left, and God help me, I clung back.“She’s not touching you. Not while I breathe.”But the dark laughed again, the sound moving….circling. Always circling.“You can’t protect her,” the double purred. “You never could. You only kept her waiting, starving her, feeding me instead.”The word

  • The CEO'S secretary    Chapter 36

    CHLOE'S POV The flashlight sputtered once,twice….And went out.It was dark again.Her laugh filled the silence, closer than breath.The dark swallowed everything.The sputtering beam from Gavin’s phone died, and the black slammed back into place, thick and suffocating.“Elias…” My voice cracked, swallowed by the walls.“I’ve got you,” he wrapped his hand around mine. The raw anger in his tone should have steadied me. Instead, it made my chest tighten. Because beneath the rage, I heard something else. Fear.A sound shifted in the dark. Not Gavin. Not Elias. Her.“Don’t worry,” she cooed, her voice curling around us, the mirror of mine. “I don’t need the light to find you. I am you.”Something brushed my arm. Too soft. Too real.I flinched back, colliding with Elias’s chest. His arm clamped around me instantly, pulling me flush against him. “Stay still.” His whisper burned hot against my ear.“But Gavin….”“I’ll protect him. But you first.”My breath shuddered. His grip, his heat, his

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