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Chapter 89: The Call That Changed Everything.
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*************************Claire’s POV**********************The silence that followed the discovery was thick—stifling, like a storm just before it broke.Aliana. Stalking me.The words felt foreign, sharp-edged and impossible to swallow. My throat tightened as Liz scrolled through the photos one more time—grainy screenshots, security footage, timestamps. All this places Aliana near my building, near Mack’s place, and even outside my office.“She followed you,” Liz breathed, her voice was low and tight. “This wasn’t just a casual coincidence,” she continued.I leaned back against my seat, my arms crossed so tight it hurt. “She said she was jealous,” I murmured. “That she wanted what I had with Mack.” Etian exhaled sharply. “Jealousy doesn’t explain this. This is surveillance, Claire. Strategic. She wasn’t just watching—you were being monitored,” he rasped as he pointed at the photos in front of us.Mack stood beside me, jaw clenched. I felt his hand hover near mine, but he didn’t
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The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 89: The Call That Changed Everything.
***************************Claire's POV******************** I was halfway through the work I had been doing on my laptop in the study when my phone buzzed. It wasn't the vibration that my stomach twisted__ it was the number flashing across the screen. Unknown.Blocked. And yet I knew.I knew before I even answered.My fingers hung in the air as I was about to continue, but I ignored the work and picked it up."Hello?" There was a beat of silence on the other end. Then—Her voice came in.“Claire.”Her voice was strained but unmistakable. Smoky, low, a little huskier than usual—like she’d been screaming hours before and had only just stopped. My heart stuttered in my chest.“Aliana?” I asked.Certainty hitting me.“I don’t have long. They only gave me a minute,” she whispered.I dropped into the nearest chair, gripping the edge of the table. “Where are you?” I muttered, pretending not to know where she was.“You saw the news,” she said quietly.I closed my eyes. “Yeah. I saw it.” My
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 88: Counterstrike.
*****************************Etian's POV*******************The precinct meeting area was colder than I remembered, all sterile tiles and flickering fluorescents that buzzed like a warning in my ears. We'd came out of the visiting area, we'd gone to visit Claire, if I could call that a visit or a confrontation. She hasn't shed a tear. She hadn't pleaded for help. She hadn't confessed. But the betrayal in hee eyes was enough to gut me. Her voice rang like an echo in my head, not because of what she said, but because of what she hadn't said.She didn’t deny it.Not outright.She kept talking about someone framing her.Was it Claire?Liam?Both of them have the resources to orchestrate this, but who is gaining more from it?Everything quietened down. The silence__ it was like a hook lodged in my chest. I couldn't shake it off.Rowe stood beside me, motionless as a statue, jaw tight and eyes distant as we exited through the double doors. His silence had its own weight, like he was calcula
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************************Etian's POV*************************The ride to the precinct was silent. The tension in the air was thick and charged, unspoken, stretching between Rowe and me like a rope fraying at the ends. Even though we’d both seen the news this morning, even after poring over the so-called "evidence," there was still something that didn’t sit right. But it was getting harder to ignore the growing possibility that Aliana was involved.Still, nothing about the whole thing made sense.We arrived at the precinct; we were led through a set of narrow hallways by a stone-faced officer. The scent of cold coffee and bleach lingered in the air. Fluorescent lights buzzed overhead. We stopped at an interview room—sterile, small, and boxed in by glass on one side. The officer gestured silently.Inside, she sat. Aliana. She looked different.Not just because of the grey pyjamas and the absence of her usual sharp polish. But because of the way she sat, back straight but hands clenched
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 85: Breaking The Surface.
*****************************Claire's POV*******************Claire's Apartment, Later That NightI perched on the edge of the couch, my knees bouncing in a rhythm only anxiety could compose. The apartment was lit softly, all the harsh overheads off, leaving the place bathed in warm gold from the floor lamp and the muted city lights outside. Mrs. Amelia had cleaned earlier, not because it needed to be cleaned, but because everything felt dirty. Dirty like the news report on loop or replaying Aliana's face behind the car window.Mack sat beside me in the living room, his hand rested gently against mine. It wasn't much, but it anchored me. I glanced down at our fingers__ not quite laced, but close. Just close enough to keep my mind from wandering with thoughts.The door clicked open."They're here," I murmured as I sat up.Kelvin stepped in first, followed by Liz, her eyes shadowed and jaw tight. Daniel brought up the rear, closing the door behind them with a soft click. I hadn’t seen D
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 84: Colliding Truths.
*********************Liz's POV*******************************The plane touched down with a jolt that mirrored the turbulence in my chest. I should’ve been used to this city. It's chaos, it's noise, it's a strange way of swallowing you whole. But today, it felt like something else entirely—a battlefield.As I stepped through the terminal, my phone buzzed again. Claire had texted to let me know someone was picking me up. “Kelvin,” The message read. My stomach twisted into a tight knot.Out of everyone… Kelvin? I know Claire did that on purpose, her way of trying to stop us from killing each other.I tugged my coat tighter around me and scanned the waiting area, my jaw clenched. And there he was. Leaning against a column like he had nothing better to do, dressed in his usual sleek black coat, eyes cool and unreadable. Always so collected, like the world didn’t faze him. I hated that about him. I hated how easy it had once been to fall into his arms, too.I walked up to him slowly,
The CEO’s Temptation Chapter 83: Smoke and Mirrors.
*****************************Etian's POV********************The sound of the coffee machine sputtering to life cut through the stillness of Rowe’s study. A soft hiss, a whir, and then silence again—just long enough to remind me how heavy the air had become. Morning had barely broken through the clouds, casting the city in a dull, indifferent gray. I sat hunched over Rowe’s desk, nursing the bruises that still throbbed under my shirt and scrolling endlessly through old files.The footage. The blurry image. Aliana’s half-hidden face. And now the new evidence… Too clean. Too convenient.I didn’t trust it. Not because I trusted her—but because this felt designed. Too perfectly placed. Rowe had said it first, and I had agreed. Now, I wasn’t sure.Rowe came in, balancing two mugs. He set one beside me and kept the other in his hand. “You slept?” he asked.I gave a weak snort. “That’s generous.”“Same,” he muttered, lowering himself into the chair across from me. He looked older today. Not
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