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one night to steal my heart chapter thirteen
Elowen POVCaspian arrived before I'd even finished locking the back door, tires screeching against the curb hard enough that I heard it from inside the house.He didn't knock. He didn't wait for me to answer. By the time I reached the front hallway he was already there, security trailing behind him, his eyes scanning past me toward the living room where Noah sat cross legged on the carpet, blissfully unaware, negotiating snack terms with Ava like the world outside our walls hadn't just tilted sideways again."Are you both alright?" His voice was rough, urgent, nothing like the composed executive I'd watched command a boardroom days earlier."We're fine. Scared, but fine."He exhaled like he'd been holding his breath the entire drive over, and for a moment neither of us said anything, just stood there in my narrow hallway with all the noise of the last two days pressing down on both of us at once."Show me the message again," he said finally.I pulled out my phone with hands that stil
one night to steal my heart chapter twelve
Elowen POVBy noon there were reporters outside my building.I saw them first from the kitchen window, a cluster of them on the sidewalk across the street, cameras slung around their necks like they were waiting for wildlife to emerge from the treeline instead of a single terrified mother trying to keep her son fed and unaware that his entire existence had become public property overnight.Noah, thankfully, had no idea. Ava had come by with Sienna to keep him occupied with cartoons and building blocks in the living room, the two of them shrieking with laughter over something on the television while I stood frozen at the window, watching my worst fear assemble itself in real time on the pavement below.I counted seven of them at first, then lost count somewhere around eleven, watching more cars pull up and park along the curb like the street had turned into some grotesque parade. One of them had a long lens pointed directly at our front door, patient, unmoving, waiting for exactly the
one night to steal my heart chapter Eleven
Caspian POVThe Ashford Global tower had never felt smaller than it did walking through the lobby that morning, every set of eyes following me from the doors to the elevator like I'd already been convicted of something.I hadn't slept. I'd spent the drive over rehearsing what I would say to my uncle, discarding every version because none of them felt like enough. Desmond had spent thirty years learning how to smile at people while quietly working out how to ruin them, and I'd spent most of my life too distracted by grief over my father to notice I was being outmaneuvered by his brother the entire time.My assistant, Priya, was waiting the moment the elevator doors opened onto the executive floor, tablet already in hand, expression carefully neutral in the way she'd perfected over four years of working for me."The board wants an emergency session at ten," she said, falling into step beside me. "Desmond's requested you address the story directly. Publicly.""Of course he has." I didn't
one night to steal my heart chapter ten
Elowen Pov Neither of us slept.Caspian stayed until nearly three in the morning, the two of us sitting at my kitchen table with his phone buzzing every few minutes, each notification worse than the last. By sunrise the story had spread from one gossip site to four major outlets, then to six, then to a number I stopped trying to track because watching it multiply felt like watching a wound refuse to close."They have a photo of us," I said, staring at my own screen with a kind of numb disbelief. "From the boardroom. How does anyone have a photo from inside a private boardroom?"Caspian's jaw tightened. "Someone on the board leaked it. Has to be. No one else had access to that room.""Your uncle.""Or someone loyal to him." He rubbed a hand down his face, and for the first time since I'd met him, he looked less like a billionaire CEO and more like an exhausted man carrying too much at once. "This isn't a coincidence, Elowen. He tries to remove me as CEO the same night this story break
one night to steal my heart chapter nine
Elowen PovI sat alone at that table for exactly four minutes before I stopped pretending I was going to finish my wine and left instead.The valet brought my car around while I stood on the curb replaying the last hour in my head, the question still lodged somewhere behind my ribs like a splinter I couldn't work free. Is he mine. Four words, and Caspian hadn't even waited long enough to hear the answer before his entire world had apparently caved in around him.I drove home with the radio off, my hands too tight on the wheel, replaying every version of how that dinner should have ended. In one version, I told him the truth calmly, on my own terms, before he ever had to ask. In another, I never went to that dinner at all, and Noah stayed exactly what he'd always been to me. Mine. Only mine. Uncomplicated by a man who could unravel our entire life with a single phone call to his lawyers.By the time I picked Noah up from Ava's, I'd convinced myself the whole night had been some strange
one night to steal my heart chapter eight
Elowen Pov Ava insisted on doing my makeup, which meant I had approximately zero say in the final result."You're glowing," she said, stepping back to admire her work while I sat frozen in front of my bathroom mirror. "You never glow. Not even at Xavier's birthday when the open bar was free.""I'm not glowing. I'm sweating. There's a difference.""Keep telling yourself that." She capped the lipstick and handed it to me like a verdict. "It's just dinner, right? A conversation?""Right.""Then why do you look like you're about to walk into battle?"Because I was. Because somewhere between the boardroom and my closet, one dinner had stopped feeling like a conversation and started feeling like the first domino in a line I couldn't see the end of.Noah was already asleep at Ava's by the time I left, tucked into the guest room with Sienna's stuffed rabbit clutched against his chest because he refused to sleep anywhere without something to hold. I kissed his forehead before I left, breathed
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