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Chapter Eighty-Two: The Clock
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Wrecked by my enemy Chapter Eighty-Four: Wei Chen Surfaces
The silence inside Damien Blackwood’s penthouse suite felt thick enough to suffocate a man. Outside the expanse of reinforced glass, the city skyline spread out in an icy grid of light, cold and unbothered by the quiet disaster collapsing inside the room.It had been a brutal, relentless week. Boardroom power plays, hostile regulatory freezes, and constant, unseen pressures had pushed Damien past his usual breaking point. He stood near the glass, his tailored jacket tossed somewhere on the floor, his white shirt unbuttoned halfway down his chest. His sleeves were pushed back to his elbows, exposing the hard lines of his forearms. He held a crystal glass of scotch, though the ice had already melted, watering down the dark liquor he hadn't touched in over an hour.His eyes weren't on the view. They were pinned on the bed.The dark-haired woman he had brought back hours ago was still asleep beneath the rumpled sheets, her bare shoulder glowing pale under the dim, recessed lighting. Her c
Wrecked by my enemy Chapter Eighty-Three: Gala, Second Movement
The grand ballroom of the Plaza was an ornate cage of gilded leaf, crystal chandeliers, and polished white marble that reflected the shifting, tuxedoed sea of Manhattan’s elite. Flashbulbs popped in steady, blinding rhythm near the grand entrance, casting long, stark shadows across the room. The scent of black orchids, expensive champagne, and warm silk hung thick in the air, masking the cold, desperate tension underneath.On paper, tonight was the Hawthorne-Lang annual spring charity gala—a carefully orchestrated public spectacle meant to showcase unity, wealth, and the upcoming merger of two corporate juggernauts.In reality, it was a battleground.They managed the evening. They managed it perfectly.Sophia Lang stood near the towering glass champagne pyramid, holding a thin flute of crystal. She wore a backless dress of dark midnight silk that clung to her curves like liquid night, her skin pale and luminous under the warm glare of the chandeliers. Her posture was flawless. Her smi
Wrecked by my enemy Chapter Eighty-Two: The Clock
The temperature in the executive boardroom on the seventy-fourth floor was kept at a strict sixty-five degrees. It was a cold, sterile box of polished mahogany, floor-to-ceiling reinforced glass, and heavy leather chairs that smelled faintly of expensive oils and old money. Outside, Manhattan was a blurred canvas of slate-gray clouds and low-hanging fog, the city below reduced to a muted, distant hum.Elias sat at the long conference table, his back rigid, his tailored jacket unbuttoned. His hands rested flat on the cool leather blotter in front of him. Beneath the table, his right thigh was tense, every nerve ending in his body fired up and raw.He hadn't slept. The ghost of the red laser dot painted on his chest from the courtyard attack still felt like a physical burn against his skin. Every shadow in the corner of the boardroom looked like a threat; every creak of the floorboards sounded like the approach of an executioner.Across the table sat the board of directors—twelve men an
Wrecked by my enemy Chapter Eighty-One : Nora
The private dining room at the back of the townhouse was cold. It was always cold, built into the shadow of a limestone courtyard where the afternoon sun never quite reached.Elias sat at the end of the long dark table, his suit jacket draped over the back of his chair, the top two buttons of his white shirt undone. The room smelled of seared duck, thyme, and the faint metallic tang of rain leaking down the glass of the French doors.Across from him sat Nora.At twenty-four, she looked so much like their father it was almost sickening—the same high, sharp cheekbones, the same dark eyes that seemed to absorb light rather than reflect it. But unlike Victor, Nora’s intensity was quiet. She wore a simple charcoal sweater, her dark hair pulled back into a loose knot, a heavy silver ring spinning continuously around her thumb as she stared down at her plate. She was finishing her graduate degree in environmental policy, building a life as far away from the boardroom as she could manage, ye
Wrecked by my enemy Chapter Eighty : Sophia Knows About The Veil
The decrypted file on Sophia’s laptop glowed cold against her face. She sat at her desk, staring at a set of files extracted from a shadow server her team had breached three hours ago.At the top of the dossier sat a single name: THE VEIL.Below it lay a membership protocol and an air-gapped calendar log pulled directly from Elias Hawthorne’s personal accounts. A timestamp was locked for three days from now, flagged with an initiation marker matching The Veil’s protocol.Sophia’s breath caught in her throat. The corporate war, the patent disputes, the board mutinies—it was all a front. The Veil was a shadow syndicate controlling proprietary tech through staged market collapses and targeted liquidations.And Elias had a date to meet them.Sophia closed her laptop with a sharp click that echoed in the quiet room. She stood up, smoothing her trousers, and walked straight out of her suite. She didn't call her legal team or alert her guards.She needed Nora Hawthorne.Sophia took the priva
Wrecked by my enemy Chapter Seventy-Nine : The Magazine Cover
The Manhattan rain had transformed into a relentless, icy drizzle, painting the pavements in slick grease and reflecting the blinding neon grid of midtown. It was six in the morning, the city waking up with its usual aggressive roar of taxi horns, screeching subway brakes, and the sharp, metallic scrape of delivery trucks against curb corners.Damien Hawthorne stood under the narrow canvas awning of a corner newsstand on 57th Street, his heavy black cashmere coat turned up at the collar against the damp chill. His eyes were bloodshot, surrounded by dark shadows of bone-deep exhaustion. He hadn't slept in forty-eight hours—not since the oxygen scrubbers had failed in the subterranean vault, not since he and Elias had clawed their way out of the suffocating dark of the upstate compound.His right wrist was tightly bandaged beneath his sleeve, the skin scorched red from forcing a hot hydraulic line to bypass the bunker’s locked steel doors. His jaw was tight, his teeth set so hard his mo
Wrecked by my enemy Chapter Ten: The Blue Tie
The silk felt like a confession.Elias stood in his dressing room, the air thick with the scent of expensive cologne and the sterile chill of the air conditioning. Laid out on the velvet-topped island was his tuxedo—a custom-tailored masterpiece in midnight navy—and beside it, the tie Damien had de
Wrecked by my enemy Chapter 9: The War Room
The boardrooms of the Hawthorne Group were designed to make people feel small. High ceilings, floor-to-ceiling glass overlooking the jagged teeth of the Manhattan skyline, and a table made of a single slab of obsidian that seemed to swallow the light. It was a space built for dominance, for the c
Wrecked by my enemy Chapter Eight: The Architecture of a Lie
The fifty-first floor of the Hawthorne Tower was a cathedral of glass, steel, and hushed voices. It was a sterile, architectural marvel where silence operated as a high-value currency, and every heavy footstep on the polished Italian marble echoed like a gavel hitting a block. Normally, Elias moved
Wrecked by my enemy Chapter Seven: The Reveal
The fifty-first floor of the Hawthorne Tower was quiet, but it was the silence of a pressure cooker seconds before the seal fractures. Elias sat at the head of the massive, polished walnut conference table, his fingers curled tightly over the edge of the wood. The room was flooded with the harsh, c
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