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A Naughty Girl

Penulis: Edgy Rose
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-01-25 11:47:00

~ Thea's POV

The first thing I wake up to is my phone buzzing.

I groaned, burying my face deeper into the pillow.

My eyes fluttered open, blinking against the dim light filtering through the heavy blackout curtains. I was in a massive bed with black silk sheets, and there was a heavy arm draped over my waist, pinning me in place like a favored possession.

Stellan.

The phone on the nightstand buzzed again, vibrating against the wood. I reached out blindly, my limbs feeling heavy and loose, and
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    ~ Thea’s POV"Yes."The single word was a wet, breathless sob that tore its way out of my throat, completely shattering the heavy silence of the hospital room. I didn't care about the catastrophic media scandal, the plummeting stock of Vaughn Enterprises, or the bruised, battered state of my own body. Looking down at the billionaire kneeling on the sterile floor, his clothes ruined and his pitch-black eyes burning with an absolute, unconditional devotion, the answer was the easiest truth I had ever spoken."Yes," I repeated, the tears spilling freely over my lashes and tracking down my pale cheeks. "Yes, Stellan. I will marry you."A ragged, heavy exhale ripped through Stellan’s chest, as if he had genuinely been terrified I might refuse him. The lethal, untouchable Dragon of Wall Street let his head drop forward for a fraction of a second in pure, unadulterated relief, before his dark eyes snapped back up to mine.He didn't waste a single heartbeat.With agonizing care, his large fi

  • What Daddy Left Behind   Let's do it like this

    ~ Stellan's POVI stopped breathing. The relentless, deafening roar of the medical machinery, the plummeting stock tickers, the media apocalypse waiting outside the heavy double doors, it all ceased to exist.I looked down at the twenty-one-year-old girl propped up against the hospital pillows. Her dark hair was a tangled mess. A horrific, blossoming purple bruise marred the delicate architecture of her cheekbone. She was battered, exhausted, and tethered to an IV line. Yet, as she stared back at me, her hands fisted in the blood-stained fabric of my ruined shirt, she looked like an absolute, conquering queen.She had just stared down the barrel of her own destruction, and instead of taking the easy way out, instead of letting me fall on my sword and hand her a clean, scandal-free slate, she was actively choosing to chain her soul to the monster of Wall Street.The fortress I had built around my heart completely, irrevocably shattered.I closed the microscopic distance between us an

  • What Daddy Left Behind   I want to marry you

    ~ Thea’s POVSitting on the edge of my hospital bed was simply a man. A man who looked entirely, devastatingly exhausted, his pitch-black eyes stripped of all their titanium armor, leaving only a raw, bleeding vulnerability.I slowly lowered my hands. "What is it?"Stellan looked down at his lap, his jaw clenching tightly before he forced himself to meet my gaze again. "When I first brought you into my home, after Richard's funeral, I made a vow to protect you," Stellan began, his hands resting on his knees, his knuckles white and bruised. "I thought I could manage it clinically. I thought I could be the distant, impenetrable guardian your father asked me to be. But the second you challenged me, the second you looked at me with those beautiful eyes... I was lost."He took a ragged breath, the confession tearing out of him."The control, Thea," he murmured, closing his eyes for a fraction of a second. "The rules, the curfews, the tactical mercenaries at the gates. I know how it looked

  • What Daddy Left Behind   I have something to say.

    ~ Stellan’s POVCaught in my shock and confusion, I let her finish talking."He wasn't angry, Stellan," Thea whispered, her voice trembling, her fingers gripping the fabric of my black t-shirt. Tears pooled in her eyes, shining under the harsh hospital lights, but they weren't tears of sorrow. "He told me he knew. He knew exactly what he was doing when he left me to you. He wasn't betrayed... he was happy."My jaw clenched so tight my teeth ached. A profound, crushing weight, a suffocating guilt that had lived in the darkest corner of my chest since the moment I first pulled her into my bed, began to violently fracture."He said you didn't manipulate the will to get to me," she continued, a wet, breathless laugh escaping her bruised lips. "He said he manipulated you. He knew you needed an anchor, and he knew I needed a fortress."A dark, resonant chuckle tore itself from my throat before I could stop it. The sheer, colossal arrogance of Richard Mercer. Even from beyond the grave, the

  • What Daddy Left Behind   His Devotion

    ~ Thea’s POVThe absolute, terrifying darkness began to thin, replaced by a dull, pulsing ache that radiated from the very center of my bones. Then came the sounds. A steady, rhythmic, mechanical beep. The soft, pneumatic hiss of an oxygen machine. The faint squeak of rubber-soled shoes on a polished floor.The smells hit me next. The sharp, sterile bite of rubbing alcohol, clean cotton, and a faint, underlying trace of rich cedarwood.Cedarwood. I forced my heavy eyelids upward. The harsh, glaring white light of the room temporarily blinded me, sending a sharp spike of pain directly into my skull. I blinked rapidly, my vision swimming in a hazy, unfocused blur before the sterile environment of a massive, high-tech medical suite finally solidified around me.My throat felt as though it had been lined with crushed glass. Every breath was a monumental effort. I tried to swallow the thick, cotton-like dryness in my mouth, parting my cracked lips."Stellan?"The word was barely a whisper

  • What Daddy Left Behind   Meeting Father

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  • What Daddy Left Behind   Where is Ethan?

    ~ Stellan’s POV The lie tasted worse than the cheap wine I had found in her apartment.Just spam, she had said. Just a random number.I sat at the head of the massive mahogany table in the main boardroom of Vaughn Enterprises, my gaze fixed on the skyline of Manhattan visible through the floor-to-

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  • What Daddy Left Behind   Who was that?

    ~Stellan’s POVI withdrew slowly, letting the friction drag a broken whimper from her throat, before slamming back into her with a force that shook the heavy frame of the bed.This wasn’t the first time they were doing this."Is there any space between us now?""No," she sobbed, her nails scoring l

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  • What Daddy Left Behind   Get Out of My Head

    ~ Stellan's POV"Thea..." I whispered one last time, the name scraping against my throat. "Please."I waited.One second. Two. Ten.I pushed off the door, straightening my spine. It was over. She wasn't coming. I had pushed her too far with the press release, with the cold logic of business applied

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  • What Daddy Left Behind   Cryptic Message

    ~ Thea’s POV"Thea?" Stellan asked, his voice dropping an octave, vibrating with a suspicion that made the hair on my arms stand up. "Who was that?"I looked up at him, my heart hammering against my ribs like a trapped bird. I tried to keep my face blank, but I could feel the blood draining from it

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