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The Man I Used to Forget Love CHAPTER 21

작가: MIKS DELOSO
last update 게시일: 2026-09-26 04:57:10

That was what he could not bring himself to face for so long. He had let her slip away the night he touched Jessica in the flat paid for with double hours and skipped meals by Rica. He had let her go the morning she left and never even bothered to look back. All that followed - the efforts to make time alone with her, the fixations with the photos of her and White, the alliance with Marcus, the numbers meticulously left - all of that was the helpless floundering of a drowning man.

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    Rica’s breath shuddered out of her. She braced her hands on his chest and began to move, slow at first, then deeper, taking him exactly the way he wanted. The angle was devastating. Every roll of her hips dragged him against the place inside her that made stars burst behind her eyes. Derrick’s hands gripped her hips hard enough to leave bruises, guiding her, urging her faster, his eyes never leaving hers.“That’s it,” he groaned, voice wrecked. “Just like that. Look at me while you take what you need. Look at me while you come on my cock. I want to watch every second of it.”“Derrick..” Her voice broke as the pleasure built again, sharper this time, almost unbearable. “I can’t—it’s too much..”“You can.” One hand slid up her spine to fist in her hair, tilting her head so she had no choice but to keep her eyes on his. “You can take it. You’re mine. You were made

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    The private elevator carried them downward in charged silence. City lights rose past the glass like a slow, indifferent tide. Derrick’s hand remained at the small of Rica’s back the entire descent, fingers splayed in that same proprietary claim he had worn all day. She could still feel the residual heat of the boardroom the weight of every recalculating gaze, the echo of Liam’s broken voice on the speaker, the quiet detonation of power when he had placed her in Marcus’s chair. Yet beneath it all ran a quieter, more dangerous current. Something she had not allowed herself to name until the doors opened onto the penthouse foyer and the night closed around them once more.No staff. No lights beyond the soft glow filtering through the vast windows. The skyline glittered beyond like a thousand silent witnesses. Derrick shrugged out of his jacket with deliberate care and set it aside. When he turned to her, the winter calm was still in place, but the edges had softened into something darker

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    “It wasn’t nothing,” she said, voice calm and precise. “It was five years of me giving and you spending. It was me counting pennies so you could look successful. It was me turning down a life in Chicago because you asked me to stay. And it was you buying another woman a diamond bracelet with money we didn’t have while telling me we couldn’t afford a better ring. That is what we had, Liam. And I am finished pretending it was anything more.”A harsh exhale came through the speaker. “You’re angry. I understand that. But anger fades. What we built doesn’t. I still know you, Rica. Better than he ever will. I know how you take your coffee. I know the way you go quiet when you’re hurt instead of raising your voice. I know the soft place under your left ear that makes you shiver when I..”“Stop.”The word cut through the air like a blade. Derrick’s hand had curled into a fist on the desk

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    A heavy silence followed. Someone shifted in a leather chair. Someone else cleared their throat and then thought better of speaking.Richard Langford, the oldest member of the board and the man who had known Derrick’s father in the years before the collapse, was the first to break. He opened the folder, scanned the first page, and looked up with carefully measured concern.“The exposure was… public, Derrick. Unnecessarily so. There are quieter ways to remove a compromised executive. Ways that do not invite the kind of press attention we are already seeing this morning.”Derrick’s gaze settled on him like frost forming across glass. “Quieter ways leave room for rumor. Rumor leaves room for doubt. Doubt is a liability I no longer tolerate. Marcus sold this firm’s position for the promise of a seat that was never going to be his. He did it while smiling across this table and calling himself loyal. The public nature of his remova

  • The Man I Used to Forget Love   The Man I Used to Forget Love CHAPTER 21

    That was what he could not bring himself to face for so long. He had let her slip away the night he touched Jessica in the flat paid for with double hours and skipped meals by Rica. He had let her go the morning she left and never even bothered to look back. All that followed - the efforts to make time alone with her, the fixations with the photos of her and White, the alliance with Marcus, the numbers meticulously left - all of that was the helpless floundering of a drowning man. Liam sat on the edge of the bed, his arms braced on his knees, his head in his hands. The emptiness of the apartment surrounded him from all sides. For the first time in years, nobody waited for him up. Nobody asked about the meeting. Nobody offered warmth in the darkness of the night. That realization alone, the fact that Rica was currently in the bed of another man and saying those very words he had once thought would always be exclusive to him. He remained in his spot until dawn started t

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    “You don’t get to throw me out,” she said, turning to face him as he closed the door. “Not after everything. Not after I risked..” “Risked what?” Liam’s laugh was sharp and ugly. He walked past her to the sideboard and poured three fingers of whiskey with hands that were not quite steady. “You risked nothing. You were a convenient distraction. A warm body when I was bored. A pretty piece of jewelry I could put on my arm when I wanted to feel like I still had options.” Jessica’s face went white. “That’s not fair.” “Fair?” He turned on her, the glass clenched so tightly in his hand the crystal threatened to crack. “You want to talk about fair? Rica spent five years of her life making mine possible. She counted every penny. She turned down opportunities. She stayed quiet while I spent money we didn’t have on you. And the second she walked away, I reached for the first shiny thing that smiled at me. That was you, Jessica. You were never the point. You were the symptom.”

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