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The Playboy's Forced Bride Chapter 93: The Silence After
The first board member called Tao Industries at eight forty-seven that morning.Nathaniel told me the exact time later. He had tracked every move from the moment the article dropped, He paid attention to details. Eight forty-seven for the first call. Eight fifty-two for the second. At nine fifteen, four of the seven board members had reached out to the company’s legal team. The lawyers then contacted a public relations (PR) company that specializes in handling scandals and emergencies. The PR company had started carrying out a carefully planned response. A sudden emergency they never saw coming.At nine twenty, Dominic tried calling Adrian.Adrian did not pick up.I did not know any of this while it happened. I spent the morning moving around the apartment like a ghost. I started on the sitting room floor, then drifted to the kitchen, then stood by the window, then paced small circles because sitting still felt impossible. My phone showed forty-one missed calls at nine thirty. I answe
The Playboy's Forced Bride Chapter 92: The Silence After
Adrian left at seven fifteen.He did not storm out right away. For twenty or thirty minutes after our silent standoff in the hallway, the apartment stayed heavy with everything we were not saying, he moved with quiet control. I stayed where I was. I knew better than to follow him at that moment. He needed space to process what he had read and what I had confirmed with those two small words. Pushing him now would only make things worse.I heard him go into his room, and the drawer opened and closed with steady care, clothes rustled as he changed. These were not the sounds of someone falling apart. They were the sounds of a man trying to keep in control of the only thing he still could: the physical world around him, his clothes, his coat. The small routines he could still manage.I stood in the hallway the whole time, I did not knock or call out. I understood that this part belonged to him alone. He had to move through it on his own terms before any real conversation could happen.At s
The Playboy's Forced Bride Chapter 91: Detonation
I woke up at five forty-seven to seventeen missed calls.My phone was on silent, an old habit from years of investigative work. Even when I slept, I tried to control the flow of information. The line between the job and real life had disappeared long ago. I picked up the phone and stared at the screen. The number hit me before my brain fully woke up. Daniel had called four times, Iris three times. There were two numbers I did not recognize. Jack Cho called once at four in the morning. The rest came from colleagues, old contacts, and a source I had not spoken to in eight months. All the calls came between two and six. It was the kind of cluster that happens when people see something big and start reaching for the person in the middle of it.I sat up in bed and rubbed my eyes. My heart already beat faster.I opened the browser and typed my name. The article was the third result.It was not my professional profile or any of the articles published under my name. This piece came from a m
The Playboy's Forced Bride Chapter 90: Before She Can
Adrian came home at eight fifty-three. I heard his key in the lock, it was a sound I had come to know well over eighteen months. I had listened for it in the mornings and evenings without ever admitting to myself how much I waited for it. The moment it turned, I stood up from the chair in the sitting room. I set down the cold tea and straightened my shoulders. The words I needed were right there inside me, ready.I need to tell you something, all of it. Please let me get through it before you respond.I walked into the hallway.He stood at the door with his coat still on. This was the end-of-meeting version of him. He looked tired but relaxed in the way that only happened here in the apartment. When he heard my footsteps, he looked up.“Hey,” he said. His voice carried that warm tone he saved for coming home. “You’re still up.”“I wanted to talk to you,” I said.He caught something in my voice right away. The easy warmth shifted into sharper focus. He did not pretend to act casual. He
The Playboy's Forced Bride Chapter 89: Peace
I got home and Adrian was not there. A note waited on the kitchen counter in his neat, efficient handwriting. The kind I had learned by heart without ever meaning to. It said he had a late meeting and would be back at nine, just three short lines. At the bottom, he wrote his phone number out of habit, even though I had known it for eighteen months.I stood at the counter and read the note twice. Then I folded it carefully and slipped it into my pocket.I had two hours.I could have used them to prepare, I could have sat down and arranged the words in the perfect order. I could have rehearsed the conversation in my head the way I prepared for big interviews or tough meetings. My whole career has taught me that the best truths come from careful planning. You thought through every angle so the words landed clean and strong.But I did not prepare.Instead, I made a cup of tea. I carried it to the sitting room and settled into the chair by the window. I sat there with the decision I had ma
The Playboy's Forced Bride Chapter 88: The Way Through
I took the long way home that afternoon, I didn’t mean to. I left Daniel’s building and started walking the usual route, but I kept going a different way without noticing at first. The busy financial district slowly turned into quieter streets behind the main roads. Those side streets felt different in the Friday light; calmer and just ordinary.The eleven days Daniel gave me hung beside me. I allowed them to come, I did not push the thought away. For once I let my mind turn it over slowly while my legs kept moving.I had been thinking about the wrong conversation all this time. That truth hit me somewhere between the third and fourth block. It came with a sharp kind of clarity that only shows up when you have walked far enough to let your guard down. I had spent weeks imagining how I would confess everything to Adrian, I pictured myself sitting across from him in the apartment, laying out the facts like a careful report. I would manage the damage, control the explosion, and limit how
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