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Chapter 20 THE UNEXPECTED ASSIGNMENT
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2025-12-11 13:30:00NOVA'S POV
The summons came through Katherine's perfectly modulated voice at 2:47 PM on a Tuesday afternoon that felt no different from any other Tuesday, except that everything was different now. The curse had broken. The bond had solidified. And Myles had vanished into the machinery of corporate warfare, leaving me suspended in a state of anxious uncertainty.
"Mr. Rochefort requests your presence in his private office," Katherine said, her eyes deliberately avoiding mine in that way that suggested she knew exactly what kind of meeting this would be. "Immediately."
The walk to his office felt longer than it had any right to. The corridors of the Rochefort building seemed to stretch and contract with each step I took, and by the time I reached his door, my heart was thundering against my ribs with enough force to make breathing difficult.
I knocked, and his voice came back immediately… a low "come in" that held layers of command benea
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I pulled back just enough to look at him. "A target for whom?""Everyone," he replied with brutal honesty. "The DuPonts will see it as evidence that I'm serious about the merger with you… about binding our bloodlines. Isla will see it as a threat to any possibility of removing you from my life. And external parties will see it as an opportunity to exploit our connection.""So you're putting me in danger deliberately?" I asked, and there was an edge to my voice that suggested anger."I'm positioning you where I can protect you most effectively," Myles corrected. His hand tightened on my back, pulling me closer again. "There's a difference."Before I could argue further, he leaned down, and his lips found the sensitive skin of my neck just below my ear. The contact sent a cascade of sensations through me, heat pooling in my abdomen, my pulse accelerating to something dangerous, my hands gripping his suit jacket without conscious intention."Yo
The CEO Who Wants My Soul and Body Chapter 20 THE UNEXPECTED ASSIGNMENT
NOVA'S POVThe summons came through Katherine's perfectly modulated voice at 2:47 PM on a Tuesday afternoon that felt no different from any other Tuesday, except that everything was different now. The curse had broken. The bond had solidified. And Myles had vanished into the machinery of corporate warfare, leaving me suspended in a state of anxious uncertainty."Mr. Rochefort requests your presence in his private office," Katherine said, her eyes deliberately avoiding mine in that way that suggested she knew exactly what kind of meeting this would be. "Immediately."The walk to his office felt longer than it had any right to. The corridors of the Rochefort building seemed to stretch and contract with each step I took, and by the time I reached his door, my heart was thundering against my ribs with enough force to make breathing difficult.I knocked, and his voice came back immediately… a low "come in" that held layers of command benea
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NOVA'S POVI woke to find Myles gone.The sheets beside me were still warm, suggesting he'd only recently left the bed, but the penthouse felt hollow without his presence. I could sense him somehow, not in a mystical way, but in the way that you become attuned to someone's absence after spending the night merged with them completely. The air felt thinner. The light seemed dimmer. Even the city sounds filtering through the windows felt muted.I wrapped myself in one of his shirts… it smelled like him, like cedarwood and smoke and something darker that I'd started to crave… and made my way to the studio where he'd shown me the paintings.I wasn't surprised to find him there, standing before the canvas he'd been working on. The one that showed both of us merging. But something had changed about it overnight. The boundaries between our two figures had blurred even further. Where we touched, the distinction between his body and mine
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For a long moment afterward, we simply lay entwined, our breathing synchronized, our heartbeats aligned. He held me against his chest, and I could feel the rapid deceleration of his pulse as he gradually returned to baseline functioning."I love you," he said quietly. "Not in the way that normal people love. Not with compromise or negotiation or the acknowledgment of boundaries. I love you in the way that a curse loves its target, in the way that obsession loves its focus. Absolutely. Completely. Forever.""I love you too," I replied, and I meant it with the same absoluteness.MYLES' POVAfter Nova fell asleep, Myles remained awake, holding her against his chest and trying very hard not to think about what he'd just done.He'd spent centuries… across multiple lifetimes… learning to control his darkness. Learning to contain his obsession, to channel his possessiveness into productive outlets. But the moment the curse had
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NOVA'S POVThe penthouse that Myles brought me to was different from the safe house or the previous penthouse apartment where I'd experienced the dreams. This space felt lived in… not in the sense of being cluttered or unkempt, but in the way that suggested someone had carefully curated every detail to reflect something deeply personal about themselves.Floor-to-ceiling windows overlooked the city from a height that made the world below feel like an elaborate stage set. Minimalist furniture arranged with mathematical precision. Books lining walls… philosophy, history, economics, art. And paintings. Dozens of paintings, each one depicting the same woman from different angles, different eras, different emotional states.All of them looked like me."How long have you had these?" I asked, moving toward one painting in particular. It showed a woman in a Victorian-era dress, her expression caught between surrender and defiance. The e
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"No," I whispered, reaching toward the glass case.The moment my hand touched the crest, pain exploded through my entire body. Not physical pain, but something deeper…a spiritual agony that suggested I was being torn apart at the molecular level.I collapsed, gasping, my vision fragmenting into overlapping realities. I saw myself dying in a hundred different ways across a hundred different timelines. I saw Myles watching each death, unable to prevent any of them. I saw the eternal cycle of meeting and separation and destruction that had defined our existence across the centuries.And beneath it all, I felt the crest's ancient power trying to sever the thread that connected me to Myles. Trying to make this lifetime different. Trying to finally break the pattern.I screamed, and the sound of my own voice seemed to trigger something in the compound's security systems. Alarms began sounding. Distant explosions suggested that the DuPont facility was com
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