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Chapter 162: Beneath the Surface.
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The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 165: The Ghost in the Room.
****************************POV: Claire**********************---I’d never realised how loud silence could be until it followed me into every room. No footsteps, no phones, no clicking of heels across the marble. Just… silence. The kind that stretched and creaked like an old house on the verge of breaking.We were winning.At least, that’s what everyone kept saying.But then why did it feel like I was standing in the eye of a hurricane, waiting for the wind to remember me?---I stood in front of the mirror and adjusted the diamond clasp on my wrist. The bracelet had once belonged to Mack’s mother. He gave it to me as a symbol of strength—his family’s legacy, now mine. But it didn’t feel like armour. It felt like a goodbye.I didn’t tell him that, of course.He already had enough to worry about.If there's anything that I don't like__it's making Mack to worry so much about me.---“Claire?” Liz’s voice broke through the crack of the door.I turned slightly. “Come in.” I said, my eye
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 164: No More Shadows.
*******************************POV: Rowe*******************---“I want every inch of that perimeter scrubbed,” I barked into the comm. “Dogs, drones, boots—no gaps, no excuses.” I barked at no one in particular, not the comm.Even before sunrise, the estate grounds throbbed with movement. Guards in black tactical gear stalked the woods, flashlights bouncing off dewy branches. Drones hummed overhead. We were a fortress now—but one built after the fire had already started.Because last night, Liam left another message. A simple, bone-chilling photo of Claire taken just days ago. He had been close. Closer than we ever thought.“Clear at Sector 4,” a voice crackled through the comms.“No movement in the garden sector,” came another louder than the first.I was already jogging toward the eastern wing.---K-9 had found something. Small. Buried shallow under the moss by the fence. I crouched beside the guard digging with gloved fingers and took the plastic-wrapped item he handed me.A bur
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 163: The Pressure Builds.
*****************************POV: Claire********************** --- There’s a certain kind of silence that doesn’t feel safe. Not the comfortable, blanket-wrapped kind that comes after a long day. Not the sweet, post-rain hush where everything smells like earth and renewal. No, this silence is sharp. Like a knife held just out of view. And that morning, it followed me. I stood by the kitchen window, fingers curled around a warm mug of tea I didn’t remember brewing. Outside, the garden was bathed in early light, golden and too still. Even Channel, usually restless at this hour, lay stiff at my feet, her ears tilted back like she heard something I couldn’t. I couldn’t name it, but I felt it. That shift in the air. That invisible pressure behind my ribs. The kind that told you something was coming—you just didn’t know what. Mack entered the room quietly, phone tucked against his ear, his voice was low and clipped. His eyes met mine briefly, his mouth softening a little before t
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 162: Beneath the Surface.
**************************POV: Liam************************ --- They think they’ve won. With their headlines and their security guards and their smug little meetings behind closed doors. They think that the light has flushed me out. That dragging Aliana out of the basement like some wounded hero means I’m finished. But the truth is… They’ve only cleared the first trap. And I’m already five traps ahead. --- The world outside my penthouse window is awake, but inside, everything is still.Stillness wasn’t going away anytime soon because I was actually enjoying how everything's going. No ticking clock. No music. Just the occasional flicker from the screen as my system resets another signal reroute. Sleep is now a luxury that I can't afford. Not because of guilt—please—but because plans like this require perfect timing. Precision. Obsession. That’s the word they like to throw at me now, isn’t it? “Obsession.” Funny how they use that word when what they really mean is: he doe
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 161: Pieces on the Board.
***************************— Mack’s POV*******************---I don't get to sleep much anymore.Not that the bed wasn't comfortable, not that the sheets weren't soft, or that Claire wasn't always beside me, filling me with her warmth. But because my mind rarely shuts off.Not lately. Not with Liam's face splattered across every new station, not with the country howling for justice, and not with the way Claire's hands had started to tremble again when she thought no one was watching.I didn’t sleep much anymore.I’d spent years mastering the art of pretending—smiles, nods, empty handshakes with board members who wanted me out, with investors who wanted blood, with lawyers who swore by loyalty until it was inconvenient. I knew how to wear power like a second skin.But this? This war?It didn’t ask for masks.It demanded armour.And I was running out of pieces to shield the people I loved.---At 4:15 a.m., I rolled out of bed and padded to the large window. Claire was still asleep, on
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 160: The Monster Under the Spotlight.
**************************— Liam’s POV*********************---They were slipping.Not all at once—no. That would’ve been too easy. But I saw it in the little things. The way the media had shifted from pure outrage to confused suspicion. How the headlines softened from “MONSTER IN THE BASEMENT” to “Agyis Dynamics Remains Silent Amid Allegations.” Even the investigative pieces were starting to fade, drowned beneath newer, shinier tragedies.People’s memories were short. Their attention spans are shorter.But mine? Mine was long. Unforgiving.And my patience was wearing thin.---From my suite above the city, I watched the skyline burn gold with the setting sun. The glass reflected a warped version of myself—tired eyes, a fine bruise under my cheekbone from where my father shoved me during his last visit, and lips that couldn’t quite remember what smiling felt like unless Claire’s name was on my tongue.She was the only thing I wanted.Everything else was noise.---I turned away from
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