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Chapter 254: The Weight of Coming Home.
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The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 254: The Weight of Coming Home.
*****************************Mack’s POV************************* The silence of the hotel room was the kind that hummed with unspoken truths. The steady rhythm of the air conditioner, the faint echo of traffic from the street below, and the muted tick of the wall clock created a backdrop for the kind of stillness that carried weight. I was sitting propped against the headboard, a blanket pulled loosely across my lap, watching Claire. She sat in the armchair by the window, her knees tucked up under her chin, her hair spilling over her shoulders. The moonlight slipped through the curtains, casting her in shades of silver and shadow. She looked peaceful—yet not. Her gaze was far away, anchored somewhere I couldn’t reach unless she allowed me in. And I knew I wanted to be let in, fully this time. I cleared my throat softly. “Are you ever going to stop staring out the window and talk to me?” Her head snapped toward me, her lips twitching with a ghost of a smile. “I wasn’t staring
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 253: The Line we Crossed.
*********************************Rowe's pov********************** The hotel glowed like a jewel against the night. Agyis had only opened its doors a month ago, but already it hummed with a life that felt both foreign and comforting. Marble floors whispered under every footstep, chandeliers threw soft light over polished wood and velvet, and the whole place smelled faintly of cedar and something floral, like it had been designed to soothe a battlefield of souls. Mack was settled upstairs—stronger every day, surrounded by family, watched over like the crown jewel he was. Seeing him walking with his mother earlier had been enough to loosen the tight band that had wrapped around my chest for weeks. Mack had survived. He was healing. And that meant… the shadows I’d been carrying could finally lift. For the first time in months, I wasn’t moving for survival. I wasn’t bracing myself for the next disaster. Tonight, I was just Rowe. And maybe—finally—Liz could see me that way too. Sh
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 252: A Quiet Dawn
--- *****************************(Claire’s POV)************************ The room was quiet, too quiet for a heart that had grown used to chaos. For days, my pulse had lived in survival mode—every breath sharp, every sound magnified, every shadow a possible threat. Now, the only rhythm was the soft hum of the hospital’s air conditioner and the gentle beeping of the monitors that kept time with Mack’s heart. For the first time in what felt like forever, I could breathe. I sat curled in the corner of the sofa bed they had dragged in for me, still in the same loose sweater someone had insisted I wear when exhaustion refused to let me argue. My hair fell limp around my face, strands unwashed and uncombed, but no one here cared about appearances. All that mattered was the man lying in the bed across from me. Mack. The last twenty-four hours had changed everything. He was awake. He was here. He had survived. The moment his eyes had opened, something in me had cracked wide open. I didn
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 251: After the Storm.
Hint: Born without a heart by Faouzia ********************************Morgan’s POV********************* The room was heavy with the soft hum of machines, yet lighter than it had been in weeks. I could feel the difference the moment I stepped through the door — the shift from fear to relief, from dread to something like gratitude. Mack was awake. The boy I’d known since he could barely reach my desk, the man who had carried more weight than any one soul should, was lying propped against pillows, alive. Claire sat at his side, her hand tucked into his as if the two of them had been born interlocked. Her eyes never left him, not even when the door opened. She didn’t need to look up — the relief in her posture said enough. She had been to hell and back, and now that he was awake, she wasn’t letting go again. Mack’s mother stood on the other side of the bed, one hand smoothing his hair as though he were still a boy. A softness in her eyes I hadn’t seen for years filled the space. For a
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 250: When the Walls finally Fell
*****************************Liz’s POV*************************** I didn’t realize how loud the hospital could be until I tried to listen for my own thoughts. The muted beeps from monitors in the rooms down the hall. The soft, clipped conversations between nurses at the station. The rolling squeak of a supply cart’s wheels. And underneath it all—the constant thud of my own heartbeat. It wasn’t fear anymore. Not the kind that had been strangling me for weeks, the icy grip of uncertainty over Claire’s safety. That nightmare was over. Claire was safe. The people who had wanted to harm her were either locked away or dealt with, and for the first time in what felt like forever, there wasn’t some shadow creeping up behind us. But now… it was Mack. The image wouldn’t leave my mind—him stepping in front of that bullet like it was nothing, like the weight of the world was his to bear alone. It was heroism, yes. But it was also infuriating. How could someone care so little about th
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 249: The Brother Who Wasn't There.
****************************Kevin's POV************************** The first thing that hit me when I walked through the sliding glass doors of the hospital wasn’t the smell—it was the quiet. Not the comfortable kind of quiet, but the heavy, sterile hush that seemed to press into your ears until your own breathing sounded too loud. I hadn’t slept in twenty hours. Neither had Mack's mother, though she hid it better than I did. She strode ahead of me, her heels sharp against the tiles, her bag slung over one shoulder, her composure intact like it always was—even after an international flight. She’d insisted on coming straight from the airport. No hotel, no shower. Not until she saw him. I followed her, still feeling the sting of the last message I’d gotten: Mack’s been shot. No details. No warning. Just that. And me, thousands of miles away, wrapped up in my job to guard his mother through her busy schedules , barely had time to check the internet or anything as such. Turns o
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