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作者: Goeey
last update 公開日: 2026-09-04 16:13:18

Mother set the bag of fruit on the counter and started humming before she even took off her coat. The tune was one of those half-remembered ones she always reached for when the kitchen felt too quiet.

Gideon looked up from the cutting board. “You’re early.”

“Traffic was light.” She patted my hand twice as she passed me. “Have you eaten?”

“I’m working on it.”

She watched my plate of untouched toast, then nodded once when I picked up a slice. “Good.”

I was supposed to be reviewing the hotel
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  • Touched by the Billionaire, Owned by the Devil   138

    The landlady checked the number on the key, nodded once, and dropped it into a drawer. "Place is clear. Deposit will be processed by the end of the week.""Thank you."She reached for the next file before I'd stepped away from the desk, already halfway through a sentence to someone on the phone pressed against her shoulder. The office was small and warm and smelled faintly of cigarettes somebody had smoked twenty years ago and never aired out. A calendar on the wall was still turned to the wrong month. I let the door close behind me and headed outside.Gideon was waiting on the pavement with his phone in his hand. He slipped it into his pocket when he saw me and fell into step beside me without asking how it went, which was how I knew he'd been standing there the whole time."You didn't have to come in for that.""It's all right. I was already here." I adjusted the strap of my bag and glanced at him. "I had something else to do while we were out anyway."He kept his hands in his pocke

  • Touched by the Billionaire, Owned by the Devil   137

    By the time we walked back into the house, I was expecting the feeling from the prison to follow me through the door. It didn't. I set my bag down in the kitchen and stood there for a moment, listening to the ordinary sounds around me. The house hadn't changed. The same rooms, the same people, the same unfinished pieces of the day. Somehow none of them felt like they were waiting for something to go wrong. Elias took off his jacket and hung it over the back of a chair. "Tea?" "Please." He went to the kettle. Gideon came in from the hall, tossed his keys on the side table, and opened the refrigerator. "I've decided we're having eggs." I looked over. "That's one very strong decision for someone who doesn’t asked what anyone wants, and goes on with his plans anyway." "You're welcome to object." "I'd rather see what happens, because I know you will not stop then." Gideon gave me a look before taking the carton out. "That's usually how people end up eating my cooking."

  • Touched by the Billionaire, Owned by the Devil   136

    Shane was already at the table when they brought us in, dressed in a grey uniform with his hands folded in front of him. The visiting room smelled of disinfectant and old coffee. He looked thinner than I remembered, and his hair had been cut short. His eyes went to me, then Elias, then Gideon, lingering on him before returning to me. We sat. Elias took the chair on my right, close enough that his knee rested against mine beneath the table. Gideon stayed near the wall behind us, arms folded. Shane leaned back in his chair. "You brought both of them." My hands stayed flat on the table. "I did." "Why?" I reached into my jacket pocket and set the ring on the table between us. The metal clicked against the surface. "Found it at the apartment. I'm returning it." He stared at the ring. His jaw tightened briefly before he looked up again. "You came all the way here for that?" "I wanted to give it back myself." His eyes shifted to Elias. "And you needed an audience." Elias ke

  • Touched by the Billionaire, Owned by the Devil   135

    The printout was already on the kitchen table when I came down, and Gideon was standing over it with his coffee. "David sent the summary, it arrived before you woke up." He pushed it toward me across the table. "Shane was convicted this morning on the bribery and related charges. The laboratory's claim was cited in the sentencing notes. He's been sentenced." I picked it up. Three years for the bribery count. Eighteen months for the forged report. Running concurrently. I read it twice before I set it back down. "Three years." "That's the minimum for what he was charged with." Gideon poured a second coffee and set it beside my hand. "David says it could have been longer, but his counsel argued for the lower range. The lab's claim and the forged report both worked against him." Elias came in from the hallway with his jacket still on. He saw the paper in my hand and stopped. "David called?" "Sent the summary." Gideon pushed the coffee cup closer to me. Elias took the print

  • Touched by the Billionaire, Owned by the Devil   134

    The house key felt different in my hand when we stopped outside the old apartment. I'd carried it for months without using it, and now I fitted it into the lock while Elias stood beside me and Gideon waited a few steps back near the stairwell. The key turned. I pushed the door open. Nothing had changed enough to make the place unfamiliar. The same couch sat against the wall, the small table stayed near the window, and dust had gathered over everything. It looked almost exactly as I'd left it, except smaller than the version that had lived in my head. Elias followed me inside. Gideon stayed near the doorway, hands in his pockets, watching the hallway behind us more than the room in front of him. "You can come in," I said. "I know." He didn't move. I went straight to the bedroom and opened the wardrobe. The clothes I hadn't taken were still there, and on the shelf above them sat the folder with my school certificate and a few papers I'd forgotten about. I checked the certificate f

  • Touched by the Billionaire, Owned by the Devil   133

    “It’s David, he is calling.” Elias answered and put the phone on speaker between us. Gideon leaned against the counter with his arms crossed, listening. "Shane was formally charged this morning." David's voice came through the speaker. "Bribery and related offences connected to the forged report. The laboratory filed its civil claim an hour later. They're seeking damages for unauthorised use of their trademark stamp and reputational harm. Both matters are now public." I lowered myself into the nearest chair. The edge of it caught me before I realized I'd been standing. "So he's officially been charged." "Yes. I wanted you to hear it from me before you saw anything online." Elias leaned forward, elbows on his knees. "How strong is the case?" "Strong. The footage, cash records, timing, witness evidence, and the laboratory's documentation all support each other. The forged report is also creating a separate problem for him now that the laboratory has formally denied authorising it

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