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Chapter 81
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The Lover Behind my Back Chapter 81
Helena’s POVI stared at my phone like it had just given me a way out. Maybe it actually has.My thumb hovered over the screen for a second longer than it should have, my mind already trying to catch up with what I was about to do.This was me avoiding it, not taking it head on. I very well know that.I felt it in the way my chest tightened, in the way my thoughts refused to sit still. I wasn’t choosing something, I was running away from something else.From him. From that conversation waiting for me at the end of the day. From the way Barron had looked at me like he already knew the answer I was trying so hard to deny.I let out a slow breath. I don’t have to do this tonight.That thought felt soft, almost like my mind was giving me the permission my body needed. Like something I could hold onto without feeling like I was completely losing control.I picked up my phone and quickly opened the chat. B’s chat.The last message sat there like it had been waiting for me.Tonight. Eight.
The Lover Behind my Back Chapter 80
Helena’s POVI woke up before my alarm.For a second, I didn’t move. I just lay there, staring at the ceiling, feeling that strange in-between state where everything was quiet but not peaceful. My body felt rested enough, but my mind… my mind had already started.It went straight to him.I let out a slow breath and turned my head to the side, pressing my cheek into the pillow like I could bury the thought before it fully formed.“No,” I muttered under my breath.I wasn’t doing this again. Not first thing in the morning.I pushed myself up, swung my legs over the side of the bed, and sat there for a moment longer than necessary, grounding myself. The floor was cool under my feet, something real.That was what I needed. Reality. Not whatever that moment yesterday had been.Not the way it had felt.I stood up before I could drift too far into it and made my way to the bathroom.The light was too bright when I flipped the switch, I squinted slightly as I reached for my toothbrush. The ro
The Lover Behind my Back Chapter 79
Barron's POV “I feel peace.”The words brought a kind of silence in my head I hadn't felt in weeks. I didn't feel empty, I didn't feel numb.I just felt… quiet.I leaned forward on the edge of the bed, my gaze drifting past my feet, past the mart beside me, past the version of myself I had been carrying into every room like armor. It moved past the me in meetings, the me when making decisions. The constant awareness of how I sounded, how I moved, how I was seen.It used to feel necessary. Now it just felt… loud.Cause underneath all of that, beneath the control and the structure and the discipline I had convinced myself I needed—There had always been something simpler.I exhaled slowly, dragging a hand down my face. I didn’t need to think any longer. I already knew.I felt like myself when I was with Helena.The realization didn’t hit hard. It didn’t shake anything. It just melted into me. Soft and certain. Like the only truth I'd ever told myself.I didn’t feel like the man who me
The Lover Behind my Back Chapter 78
Barron’s POVMy head snapped towards the door before I even registered getting up, my body already going stiff like I’d been caught doing something I shouldn’t.And for a second there, I just stared at the dark space. Then a thought dropped in. “Grandma?” I called and she stepped in further.From the way she was standing, she'd been there long enough to see me crumble, long enough to a part of me no one deserved to know. I grimaced, suddenly realizing how vulnerable I was.“How long have you been standing there, grandma?” I asked, pushing myself up from the bed, my voice coming out rougher than I meant it to.Her lips curved slightly, but not enough to call it a smile. “Long enough,” she said simply. “I’ve seen everything.”A breath left my lips as I straightened, dragging a hand down my face before looking away.“It’s nothing you need to worry about,” I muttered, already brushing past it like I could bury the whole thing under tone alone. “I’m fine.”“You’re not fine,” she argued.I
The Lover Behind my Back Chapter 77
Helena’s POVThe rest of the day didn’t feel real.It moved, sure it did. The clock kept ticking and people kept talking when I stepped out. Phones rang from every corner while footsteps passed my door like nothing had happened.But I couldn’t find myself in any of it. I was just… there. Sitting, writing, typing, sorting out files and answering calls when they came.Like my body showed up, but everything else stayed back in that moment.He didn't call after that, didn't send a message. Almost like he'd been plucked out of the earth from there.My fingers hovered over the keyboard longer than they should have, my eyes scanning the same line over and over without actually reading it. Every now and then, I’d catch myself drifting again, my mind slipping back to it before I could stop it.The kiss.My lips pressed together unconsciously, like I could still feel his lips against mine if I tried hard enough. Like it hadn’t completely left.I swallowed and looked down at the file in front o
The Lover Behind my Back Chapter 76
Helena’s POVHis lips touched mine, and with it, everything inside me came rushing out.And afterwards? My body went completely still, like it didn’t know what to do with it. Like it couldn’t process what was happening fast enough to react.A sharp breath got caught somewhere in my chest, my fingers twitching slightly against him as the shock settled deep into my bones.This isn’t happening. This isn’t supposed to happen.My mind scrambled to catch up, to pull me back, to remind me of every single reason why this is wrong, why this needs to stop right now—And for a second, I almost did. I almost pulled away.The thought came clear and loud, pushing hard against my chest, telling me to end it before it got worse, before it could go any further.But then—Something else turned deep within me, not anything loud, not anything too dramatic.Just an empty feeling that felt so much like peace. Like a quiet pull. Like a silent desire.And before I could stop myself, before I could even think
The Lover Behind my Back Chapter 56
Helena's POV What has it been? Months? Years? Gosh.I can't remember the last time I saw those lights or came close to anything like this.He must be kidding me. How did he—“An arcade?”Barron glanced at me briefly. “Yeah?”I let out a small, surprised laugh before I could stop it. “No, I just—di
The Lover Behind my Back Chapter 55
HELENA’S POVI didn’t move.For a second, I just stood there, staring at him through the open window like my brain needed time to catch up with what my eyes were seeing.Maybe they did. Cause why in heaven's name will he be here.Of all people the universe had to send my way today, it had to be Bar
The Lover Behind my Back Chapter 54
TESSY’S POVMy words echoed loudly in my head long after they'd slipped out of my lips.They burned through my ears and down my mind as for a full second, I just stood there.Just standing still, not uttering a word. Like I was waiting for something to pull me back.To stop me. To tell me I hadn’t
The Lover Behind my Back Chapter 53
TESSY’S POVI put in the last effort to have the handle fall before pushing the door open with a soft click.And for a second—I just stood there.Because this… this wasn’t what I expected. Not even close.The room was quiet. Too quiet, having that kind of silence that pressed against your ears and
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