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Chapter 85: Intentional Harm
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2026-08-07 20:31:22
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Vivian put on a worried face. "Paige, my brothers genuinely like Naomi. You don't need to go pick a fight with her on my account.""No, I'm doing this. Someone needs to stand up for you tonight."Paige squeezed Vivian's hand reassuringly and headed off toward Naomi.Vivian watched her go, something entertained flickering across her face."You're Naomi?"Paige arrived in front of her, chin lifted, sweeping a dismissive glance over her outfit. "You're seriously wearing that to Vivian's birthday party?"Naomi recognized her instantly for what she was Vivian's loyal best friend, here for a fight.She met Paige's stare, unbothered. "What exactly is wrong with what I'm wearing?"The question caught Paige off guard for a beat."Look around. Nobody else is dressed this plain." Paige's expression soured further. "This is genuinely disrespectful to Vivian.""You're in a pretty ordinary outfit yourself," Naomi said, mouth curving faintly. "Should I take that as disrespect too?"Paige, unused to
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The guests had mostly arrived, but Vivian still hadn't come down."Miss, you can head out now," the housekeeper reminded gently.Vivian glanced at her, unbothered. "A little longer."The housekeeper gave up, though she couldn't help the thought forming.Everyone's already here. What exactly is she waiting for?That's when Vivian shot up off the couch, eyes locked on a figure that had just appeared in the entrance hall, something bright sparking behind them.He's here."I'm heading down now."Her mouth curved. She gathered her skirt and descended the stairs.The second she appeared, every set of eyes in the room turned to her."So this is the Sinclair daughter they found?""Absolutely gorgeous. Elegant, too fits the family name.""Wait, wasn't the real daughter missing for over two decades? Feels like she'd look... different, coming back after all that. Isn't this the adopted one?"The murmuring reached Vivian clearly, and the smile on her face dimmed by a fraction."Thank you all for
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The implication being she was there with Sebastian purely to oversee the site nothing more, nothing that warranted his tone.The answer landed cleanly."That right? Because your grasp of this field seems way beyond what most professionals I've worked with have."Praise, sure. But also, unmistakably, a probe.Naomi pressed her lips together. "What exactly are you trying to find out, Mr. Cole?"Sebastian hadn't expected her to just call it outright.He held her gaze, dark and unreadable. "That designer everyone in the industry knows as A. Hart. Is that you?""Seems like a stretch, coincidence-wise same letter, same field, entirely different people."Naomi's composure didn't slip. "You're accusing me of being A. Hart. Do you have proof of that, Mr. Cole?"Watching something flicker across his face at the pushback, Naomi already had her answer.She let a faint smile settle in. "It's one letter. Why does that automatically point to me? Should you be interrogating every architect whose name
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"Marcus, what exactly are you saying?" Naomi's grip on the phone tightened, her breathing catching.Marry Sebastian?His face, his voice, the way he moved through a kitchen like he owned it all of it surfaced uninvited in her mind.A dizzying rush of confusion crowded in behind it.Marcus went quiet on the other end, letting out a long, tired breath."Marcus I'm still technically married," Naomi said, careful.Even if she said yes, would the Cole family really tolerate their heir marrying a divorced woman with two kids?Marcus caught the subtext buried in that and something hopeful crept into his voice. "If the Coles are fine with it, would you say yes?"Something in Naomi went on high alert.Something about this isn't adding up.She didn't answer right away. "Explain the whole thing first. Then I'll decide."Feeling her guard go up, something in Marcus ached quietly. We're actual blood, and there's still this much distance between us.He let the feeling pass. Given everything happeni
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His own daughter was standing there defending another man in front of him.Lily had never once shielded him like that.Ethan didn't think he'd ever been unkind to either of his kids. So why did Lily gravitate this hard toward strangers instead of him?"Mr. Cole, I need to sort some family business." Ethan swallowed down whatever he was actually feeling.The subtext was clear enough a polite ask for Sebastian to leave.Sebastian didn't budge. His dark eyes slid past Ethan and settled on Naomi. "Ms. Hart. Do you actually have family business to handle right now?""No." Naomi cut in fast, turning a cold look on the two of them standing uninvited in her home. "You're the ones who need to leave.""Mom, how could you kick out Dad and me for some other guy?" Julian's eyes went wide, something strange and accusing in the way he looked at her.Naomi wasn't in the mood to explain herself. She grabbed a fistful of Julian's shirt and steered him toward the door.Then her eyes cut to Ethan. "Are y
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