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Aria's povThe flight back to Seattle was the quietest six hours of my life.Not peaceful. Not exactly. Just quiet in that strange, floating way that makes your own thoughts sound louder than the engine.Leo was stretched across two seats beside me, one small arm thrown over his toy airplane like he was afraid someone might steal it in his sleep. His face was soft and relaxed, completely unguarded. Every so often, he made a tiny sound in his sleep, the kind that makes your chest ache for no reason at all.I looked at him, then out the window, then back at him again.The little airplane Adrian had bought him at the airport rested in his hand like a last-minute peace offering. Leo had lit up when he got it. That smile had been genuine, bright, impossible to miss.And that was the problem.It had made me smile too.Which meant now I had to sit with the complicated feeling that followed.I didn’t read. I didn’t work. I didn’t even put on music.I just stared at the clouds and let my thoug
The Night My Best-Friend Ruined Me Chapter 90
Aria’s POVThe boardroom had been a battlefield.And somehow, we had survived it.Edmund was gone. Truly gone this time — not lurking behind contracts or whispered threats or manipulations disguised as concern. The suffocating pressure that had hung over my work, my son, my life for years had finally lifted.I should have felt victorious.Instead, I felt… quiet.Like the world after a storm — when the thunder stops but the air still smells like rain and broken things.Adrian had stayed behind to stabilize the company. The board was united now, shaken into cooperation by fear and necessity. The vaccine project was secure. Funding restored. Public confidence already being managed.On paper, everything was finally right.But emotional wounds didn’t follow corporate timelines.As I stepped into the penthouse, the silence greeted me first. Not peaceful silence — hollow silence. The kind that echoes too loudly.It was time to leave.Most of my bags were already packed, lined neatly near the
The Night My Best-Friend Ruined Me Chapter 89
Adrian’s POVThe boardroom had gone dead quiet in that ugly way silence does when everyone is too scared to speak first.All eyes were on Edmund.He didn’t look smug anymore. That had burned off fast. His face had turned a sickly gray, and he looked cornered, like some wild thing realizing the room had walls.“These are fabrications,” he snapped at last.His voice cracked on the last word.He slammed his fist on the table hard enough to make the water glasses jump.“AI-generated. Deepfakes. All of it. Adrian, you’ve gone too far.” His finger was shaking when he pointed at me. “You’re trying to destroy me with technology. This is a smear campaign. A desperate attempt to seize control.”A few board members stirred. Murmurs started low around the table.That was the thing about men like Edmund. They always thought panic still sounded like power.I let the noise rise for a second, then lifted a hand.It died again.“I expected you to say that,” I said calmly. “Which is why I brought someo
The Night My Best-Friend Ruined Me Chapter 88
Aria's POVThe air in the boardroom felt like static. My hands were steady, but my pulse was loud in my ears. I had insisted on being here — not because I liked drama, but because my name and the work were on the line. I’d told Adrian I’d come: “As lead researcher, I have a right to see who’s going to run the company tied to this vaccine.” He’d given me that look — the one that meant don’t make this harder than it has to be — but he didn’t stop me. Good. I needed to be a witness.Across the table sat the board, faces carved from marble and old money. At the head of the table was Edmund, smirk practically custom-made for the occasion. He looked like a man who had practiced winning in front of mirrors. Calm, polished, arrogant. A predator in a blazer.Adrian — Adrian — started with the safe play, because that’s what he does best: data first. He walked them through the vaccine results like he was reading them aloud to a jury. Careful slides, clean numbers, faces in the room relaxing just
The Night My Best-Friend Ruined Me Chapter 87
Adrian’s POVThe penthouse was a study in quiet. Only the keyboard clicks and the occasional rustle of paper broke the hush. Leo and Aria were finally asleep, but sleep felt like a luxury someone else got to keep. Not me. Not tonight.My office had turned into a war room. Screens glowed with spreadsheets, bank transfers, encrypted threads. I ripped through transaction histories like a man looking for loose threads that would unravel an entire sweater. The vaccine was the headline, the shiny thing for cameras. The real rot was deeper: embezzlement, shell companies, suspicious invoices—Edmund’s fingerprints across the ledger. Every line I highlighted felt like another nail driven into the coffin of his empire. The more I dug, the colder and clearer my purpose became.It was going to be brutal. I knew the cost. Stocks would tank. Investors would freak. Our name would be dragged through the mud. But the alternative—letting him keep siphoning money, keep poisoning the company, let him walk
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Aria’s POVThe car hummed along and for once the engine sounded like white noise instead of an alarm. Leo was asleep in the rear, medals resting on his chest like tiny, ridiculous armor. He breathed slow and even, hair mussed, face still pink from sun and running. I watched him and felt something small and warm unfurl in my ribs. Today had been a miracle in tiny pieces.Adrian drove like he had always known how to be both careful and casual. He kept stealing glances at Leo in the mirror, that same look I’d seen all day, the one that made him look younger somehow. Grass on his jeans, a smudge of dirt on his forehead where he’d wiped his hands and forgotten to wash. Normal bits. I tucked them into my head like contraband.“Thank you,” I said, because I wanted to say more and saying more felt like asking for trouble. “For today. For making it… actually feel normal.”He flicked a glance my way, a small smile. “I should be thanking you. For letting me be there,” he said. He sounded honest,
The Night My Best-Friend Ruined Me Chapter 23
Adrian's POVStepping across the threshold of Aria’s apartment felt like walking into a reality I wasn't supposed to witness.It was a far cry from the sprawling, sterile halls of the Blackwood estate or the glass-and-steel silence of my penthouse.The air here smelled like lavender laundry deterge
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Aria’s POVThe door hadn't even been closed for five minutes, but I was already scrubbing the kitchen counter like I was trying to peel back the very layers of the wood.Adrian had been here.His scent was still clinging to the fabric of my sofa, a heavy, expensive ghost that refused to leave my li
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Aria’s POV.The silence in the lab was so heavy it felt like it was pressing against my eardrums.Everyone was frozen.Thirty pairs of eyes were glued to the primary monitor where the final stabilization simulation was running.The green line on the graph was steady. It hadn’t dipped or spiked in o
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Adrian’s POVThe invitation was sitting on my desk, looking way too expensive for something that was basically an obvious trap.It was heavy, cream-colored, and had the Blackwood crest embossed in gold at the top. It was a charity polo match. Hosted by nobody but my father, of course.See, I spent
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