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Chapter 128: The ties that Break.
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**********************Rowe’s POV***********************I was never good at waiting.The action was my currency. Plans were my comfort. I needed structure, time and ng, and leverage—something to sink my teeth into. But right now, all I had was noise.The television in the corner blared the news. Liam’s face was plastered across every screen, his voice silent behind a mask of polished denial. The evidence Claire handed over had cracked the glass, and now the public was watching the empire bleed.But Liam hadn’t responded directly.Not yet.I leaned over the table in my apartment—what was left of it after the break-in. Papers were scattered across the surface. Maps. Notes. Photos. Timelines. It looked like a war room. Felt like one too.Etian would’ve known what to do next.I sat down slowly, the chair creaking beneath me, and let that thought settle like ash in my lungs.Etian should’ve been here.He wasn’t.Because I’d sent him into this. Because I hadn’t been careful enough. Because
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***********************Claire’s POV************************ The flash drive sat in the middle of the table like it weighed a thousand pounds. Rowe stared at it for a full minute before speaking. “You’re sure it’s all there?” “Yes,” I said. “Audio, images, notes. Etian did everything he could. This is the entire skeleton of Liam’s crazy plans." Rowe let out a slow breath, then rubbed a hand across his jaw. He looked exhausted. Grief, guilt, fear—they sat on his shoulders like bricks. “And the moment Liam finds out we’re moving against him, he’ll come at us harder than ever.” he breathed, his expression was impassive. “He already knows,” Mack said flatly. Rowe blinked in sheer surprise. “What?” he asked, his eyes darting from me and then to Mack as if we'd lost our minds. I turned toward him and clicked my phone screen back on. “He called right after I finished going through the files. Taunted me. Threatened me. The usual song and dance.” I whispered. My voice was firm and
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 128: The ties that Break.
**********************Claire’s POV*************---The video looped again, each second sinking deeper into my chest like a knife. Aliana’s eyes—wide, red, pleading—flashed across the screen. Her mouth was gagged, but the terror was unmistakable. Whoever filmed it wanted us to know she was alive... but barely.Mack stood behind me, arms crossed tightly, jaw flexing with restrained fury. The footage had come through an encrypted line, with no metadata, and no sender ID. Just the image of Aliana’s bruised face and the slow, deliberate voice that accompanied it.“You think you’re all so clever. But you forget—I always play the long game.”It was Liam’s voice.I didn’t need confirmation. I didn’t need tech forensics or voice analysis. I knew the way his words curled with arrogance. He wanted me to see this. To hear it. To break.I closed the laptop screen with a soft click and leaned forward, resting my forehead on my palms. My mind buzzed—too much, too fast. Etian’s blood hadn’t even dri
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 126: The unraveling.
**********************Morgan's POV***********************The news anchor’s voice felt like static under my skin.“…latest update on the Aliana Moore case—she has reportedly gone missing just hours after the courtroom adjournment…”I gripped the edge of my desk, my fingers curling so tight the wood creaked beneath the pressure. Her face flashed across the screen. Pale. Hollow-eyed. Shaking as the guards dragged her back through the chaos in that courtroom. I hadn't seen it live, but they were replaying it now—again and again—like vultures circling a corpse they weren’t finished with yet.But it wasn’t Aliana’s disappearance that stole the breath from my lungs.It was the other name.Etian.Etian Ari.“—believed to be deceased. Official reports are pending, but multiple sources confirm Etian Ari, the independent investigator tied to the Sadie Morgan Allister case, was killed in what appears to be an orchestrated attack…”No.No, no, no.I sank into the chair behind me like my knees ha
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The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 124: Obsessed Freak.
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