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Chapter 86
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The silence after the kiss was not empty.It was heavy—dense with everything they had just crossed and everything they could no longer walk back from.Elena was the first to step away.Not because she wanted to, but because she had learned—through loss, through displacement, through memory fractures—that moments like these were dangerous not for what they revealed, but for what they took away once they ended.Holden watched her retreat a single step, as if the movement itself pulled something out of his chest. His hands lowered slowly, reluctantly, still warm with the imprint of her waist.Neither spoke.The corridor felt too narrow, too exposed, as though the walls themselves had witnessed something forbidden.“We shouldn’t do that again,” Holden said finally.His voice was controlled. Too controlled.Elena lifted her gaze to his face.“That’s a lie,” she said gently.His jaw tightened.“I’m serious,” he replied. “That kiss didn’t just happen. It meant something.”She nodded. “Yes.”
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Elena woke before dawn, heart racing, the echo of a woman’s voice still reverberating behind her eyes.Nora… run—She sat up abruptly, breath shallow, fingers curling into the sheets as if anchoring herself to the present. The room was dark, quiet, secured in every possible way—yet her body refused to believe she was safe.Her name—or what might once have been her name—felt like a bruise pressed too often.She stood and walked barefoot to the window.The city stretched before her, indifferent and vast, lights flickering like a constellation that refused to explain itself. Somewhere beyond those lights was Silas, weaving truths and half-truths together with deliberate cruelty.And somewhere much closer—too close—was Holden Lu.The realization tightened her chest.This was no longer confusion. No longer momentary attraction blurred by adrenaline and trauma.She missed him.Not his presence—she had that constantly.She missed the way he looked at her before he started pulling away.Groun
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The worst part was not the kiss.It was the silence that followed.Holden left first—not abruptly, not coldly, but with the unmistakable precision of a man retreating before instinct overran reason. He said he needed to handle security updates. He said Silas wouldn’t wait. All true. All insufficient.Elena stood alone in the west wing long after the sound of his footsteps disappeared, one hand resting against the place where his warmth still lingered on her waist.Her body remembered before her mind allowed it.The kiss had been gentle. Careful. Unarmed.And that terrified her far more than the ones fueled by anger or provocation ever had.Those had been shields. This had been a door.She spent the rest of the evening pretending to function.She reviewed files. Answered messages. Listened to advisors speak without absorbing words. The system she had built—calm observation, tactical distance—still operated. But underneath it pulsed something unfamiliar and undeniably human.Want.Not p
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Elena did not plan to think about Holden that morning.She failed before the sun rose.Sleep had come in fragments—short, shallow, interrupted by the echo of his voice in the corridor, by the way he had said her name as if it were something fragile and dangerous. When she finally gave up on rest, gray light had already crept through the curtains, soft and merciless.She sat at the edge of the bed, rubbing the heel of her palm against her brow.This is not anger, she told herself.This is not a power clash.This is not instinctual provocation.That might have been easier.Because anger burned cleanly. You could push against it, fight it, even enjoy the friction.What she felt now was worse.It was quiet.It was an awareness—of his presence, even when he wasn’t there; of the gravity between them that no longer required conflict to exist. She thought of Holden standing in the command room last night—focused, sharp, but undone in the brief moment he admitted he wanted to protect her even
The Rich Man's Proxy Marriage Chapter 86
The silence Holden left behind did not dissolve when the door closed.It settled.Heavier than before.Elena remained seated long after his footsteps disappeared down the corridor, her gaze unfocused, fixed on the grain of the desk beneath her fingers. The room smelled faintly of wood polish and cold air—neutral, controlled, unmistakably his.She hated how comforting that was.Five minutes later, she stood.Ten minutes later, she paced.By the fifteenth minute, she had accepted a truth she had been quietly circling since the safehouse confrontation:Holden Lu was not the kind of man who panicked loudly.His panic looked like distance, orders, structure tightening around emotion until it suffocated.And right now, she was standing at the center of it.Elena left the study.The house was unusually active. Guards moved with clipped efficiency. Voices murmured into earpieces. Screens flickered with live feeds at the far end of the hall.She walked toward the command room without hesitatio
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The aftermath of a real kiss was not loud.There were no dramatic arguments, no impulsive confessions, no reckless decisions made in the heat of adrenaline.Instead, there was silence.The kind that followed something irrevocable.Elena realized this as she sat in the back seat of the car, watching the city blur past the window. Morning traffic crawled under a gray sky, each raindrop leaving faint traces on the glass. The city looked ordinary—too ordinary for the way her chest felt unsettled, almost fragile.Across from her, Holden sat rigid and unreadable.He hadn’t touched her since they left the safehouse.Not even accidentally.Not even when they passed each other in the narrow hallway.The space between them was deliberate.And it hurt more than his anger ever had.Elena clasped her hands together in her lap and forced herself to breathe evenly.This is what you wanted, she reminded herself.Honesty instead of games.Yet honesty had consequences.The car turned into a private roa
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