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Let's do it like this

Author: Edgy Rose
last update publish date: 2026-03-28 10:42:26

~ Stellan's POV

I 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 bac
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  • What Daddy Left Behind   Arrange a Conference

    ~ 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

    ~ Thea’s POVThe freezing, suffocating weight of the narcotic was gone.The agonizing throb in my cheekbone where my uncle had struck me, the sharp, burning ache in my shoulders, the metallic taste of my own blood, it had all entirely vanished. I was no longer lying on the cold, unforgiving marble floor of the Hamptons estate, trapped in a paralyzed, failing body.Instead, I opened my eyes to a world bathed in an impossible, golden warmth.I was standing in the center of a sprawling, sunlit conservatory. It looked vaguely like the greenhouse attached to my childhood home, but the glass walls stretched upward into an infinite, brilliant sky. Lush, emerald-green vines cascaded from the vaulted ceilings, and the air smelled heavily of blooming jasmine and old paper. It was completely silent, a profound stillness of peace.I looked down at my hands. They weren't trembling. They weren't stained with the dark ink Uncle Robert had forced onto my thumb. I was wearing a simple white dress, t

  • What Daddy Left Behind   A Well Grounded Morning

    ~ Stellan's POV"Class," Thea gasped, her fingernails digging into the fitted sheet as her body convulsed around me. "Stellan... I have... Microeconomics.""Fuck Microeconomics," I growled, grinding my hips against hers to catch the last tremors of her release. I didn't pull out. The moment she ha

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  • What Daddy Left Behind   Maya comes for Dinner

    ~ Stellan’s POV"Yes," I said, my voice smooth, detached. "You can."The woman, Elena? Elara?, smiled, a curve of crimson lips that was meant to be enticing. But didn’t even move me one bit.She poured the wine, her movements deliberate, leaning forward so the neckline of her dress gaped, offering

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  • What Daddy Left Behind   A Naughty Girl

    ~ Thea's POVThe 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 ov

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  • What Daddy Left Behind   Meeting Lance

    ~ Stellan’s POVThe administration building of Columbia University smelled of old paper, and the desperate mediocrity of bureaucracy. It was a scent I loathed.I walked down the hallway, Thea was trying to keep up, her gait slightly uneven, a lingering souvenir from the kitchen counter this morning

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-24
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