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Chapter 238 – Ghosts We Don’t Bury
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The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 244: The Closer the Shadow
****************************POV: Mack************************* The air in the room felt heavier than it should have. Not with heat, but with the weight of what she’d just done—a choice that had already set threads snapping in places I couldn’t see yet, but could feel. The sound of the clock on the wall ticked louder than usual. Tick. Tick. Tick. Each second was a reminder that this wasn’t just a moment. This was a fracture. A hairline crack in the glass that would only spread, splintering into places I might never be able to mend. Her face was pale, her eyes stubbornly forward like she was bracing against the sting of her own guilt. But the problem wasn’t just guilt—she didn’t regret it enough to undo it. And that was dangerous. I didn’t speak right away. My voice wasn’t ready. My thoughts weren’t neat enough to shape into sentences without setting the whole thing on fire. Outside the window, the world kept moving. Someone across the street laughed—an easy, oblivious laugh.
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 243: The Walls Closing In
*****************************Claire’s POV************************* The air in the safe house felt different. It wasn’t anything obvious—no open windows, no moved objects, no scent that didn’t belong. It was more like a subtle vibration under my skin, a shift in the rhythm of the space. Every creak of the wooden floorboards seemed louder, every shadow a shade too deep. Mack didn’t notice it at first. He was too focused on the mission board tacked to the far wall, lines of red thread connecting locations, faces, and names. Eve’s face sat at the center now—sharp, beautiful, dangerous. A reminder that safety was an illusion. “You’re pacing,” Mack’s voice pulled me back from staring at her picture. He didn’t look up from the board, but I could hear the frown in his tone. “I’m thinking.” I stopped, pressing my palms against my thighs. “Something’s… off.” His eyes flicked to me then, dark and assessing. “Off how?” “I don’t know,” I admitted, hating how vague it sounded. “Like
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 242: The Lines I Draw.
********************************Mack’s POV********************** The second the door closed behind me, I let the mask slip. In the hallway’s muted light, the air felt heavier—thick with the faint scent of polished wood and salt carried in from the ocean. I kept walking because if I stopped now, I’d turn back, and if I turned back, I’d tell her everything. Claire didn’t need everything. Not yet. She’s stronger than she knows, but strength isn’t the same as readiness. And what’s coming—what’s circling around us now—requires more than just grit. It requires knowing exactly where the knife’s edge is and having the will to push back when it cuts. Eve knows how to cut. My phone buzzed in my pocket. I pulled it out without slowing, thumb sliding over the screen. A message from one of my guys stationed near the eastern perimeter. > No movement yet. But we’re picking up traces—someone’s been here recently. Which meant Eve was playing smart. She’d gotten close enough to rattle
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 241: Shadows in the Silence.
********************************(Claire’s POV)********************* The morning light spills across the room like it’s trying too hard to pretend nothing is wrong. It paints the walls in soft gold, tracing along the edges of the curtains and the bed frame. I used to love mornings like this—clean, unbroken, untouched by the world’s noise. But now, they feel staged. Artificial. The pillow beside me is still warm where Mack must have been lying before he got up. I catch the faint scent of his cologne, mixed with something sharper—adrenaline, maybe. He’s been different since yesterday. More guarded, though he hasn’t said as much. His every move feels measured, like he’s walking a narrow line between truth and something he doesn’t want me to know. I sit up slowly, rubbing the sleep from my eyes, scanning the room as if it might tell me what he won’t. My body still aches from everything Liam put me through, but the sharper pain now sits somewhere deeper—in the knowing that even with
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 240: Quiet Lines Of Defense.
****************************Mack’s POV********************* The air outside Henry’s house was cold enough to bite, but I barely noticed it. My hands were still warm from the handshake we’d shared, yet my mind was replaying the look in his eyes when I’d brought up Eve—sharp, unreadable, and gone too quickly to pin down. It was the kind of look that stays with you, gnawing at the edges of your thoughts. I slid into my car, the door shutting with a muted thud that seemed too final. For a moment, I just sat there, fingers drumming against the steering wheel, staring at the road ahead without seeing it. Henry hadn’t denied anything outright. That was the problem. His silence had been more telling than any admission. I started the engine, letting the quiet hum fill the space. The streets stretched ahead, lined with skeletal trees swaying in the wind, their shadows cutting across the pavement like bars. It wasn’t lost on me—how easy it would be for a predator to hide in shadows like thes
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 239: The Weight of My Son.
****************************** Henry’s POV************** Mack’s words were still ringing in my ears long after he’d left my office. Control your wife. He’d said it like an order, not a request. His jaw tight, his eyes unblinking. The same way his father used to look at me when we were young — when we were friends who believed loyalty was a birthright. Now, that loyalty was a rusted chain cutting into my hands. The door clicked shut behind him, and for a long moment, I just sat there at my desk, fingers curled loosely around a glass I hadn’t touched in over an hour. Whiskey, untouched. My hands weren’t steady enough for it anyway. My reflection in the glass — older, colder, and with far less of a soul than I once had — stared back like a stranger. I knew Mack had every right to say what he said. I also knew Eve was already ten steps ahead of whatever warning he thought he was giving me. And that terrified me. ⸻ I rose, moving to the tall windows overlooking the cit
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