All Chapters of The Otherside Of Love || Sadistic Billionaire : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Rafael's POV **Warning: this chapter contains content involving harm to a child that some readers may find disturbing. I ran a red light. Horns exploded around me. I didn't look. I didn't care. The only thing I could still see was her message, burned into the inside of my skull like it had been branded there. [I'm meeting someone tonight. A hotel. You don't have to feel obligated to me anymore.] A truck's horn blasted past my window, close enough that the car rocked. I barely registered it. I'd left Debbie mid-sentence, her hand still reaching for my sleeve, her friends still chanting behind me. None of that mattered anymore. I'd pulled Jack's keys out of his jacket without a word and left him standing there with his mouth open. She broke the agreement. That was the fact of it. Natalie had made a deal with me, and she'd broken it, and there was nothing else to think about. She violated the contract. She lied to my face in that elevator. She chose someone else. ‘She wouldn

Natalie's POV I never expected Rafael to come after me. Shouldn't he still be at the party? With Debbie? For one stunned heartbeat, I simply stared at him. Then instinct took over.."You shouldn't be here." I moved to block the doorway, forcing a smile I didn't feel. He couldn't stay. If he did, he'd eventually realize there was no mysterious boyfriend coming. The lie would collapse before I was ready to face it. Rafael didn't answer. He stepped past me as though the room belonged to him, his broad shoulders brushing mine. The door clicked shut behind us. "Rafael…" He was already searching the room. The bathroom. The wardrobe. Behind the curtains. "Where is he?" he demanded. His voice barely sounded like his own. I had known Rafael for years. Calm. Controlled. Impossible to provoke. The man standing in front of me looked nothing like that..His movements were sharp, restless. His jaw was clenched so tightly I thought he might crack a tooth. Every muscle in his body looked str

Natalie's POV “It's Debbie.” Then his mouth on my shoulder, easy, unbothered, like nothing about that call cost him anything at all. That single memory did more damage than the entire drive home combined. My phone lit up again. Rafael. I watched it ring itself out, then deleted the call log without listening to a single voicemail. You knew what this was, Natalie. You just didn't want to believe it. At the end of the six months, he would be marrying the woman he chose. You were just sex partner for him. The house was dark and silent when I let myself in. Tobi and Grandma were asleep. I went straight to the bathroom and turned the water on hot. In the mirror, before I stepped in, I caught it — a faint smear of his color still on my collarbone, where his lips had been an hour ago. I tried to scrubbed at it until it was gone. But it did not. My fingers drifted, without meaning to, to my forehead, to the place he'd kissed twice tonight like it meant something. I started crying aga

Chapter 026 (Prove It) Natalie's POV Two days at the cottage had done what two years of trying never had. I laced up my shoes and went for a run at dawn, the way I used to before Rafael became the center of every decision I made. When I got back, I didn't check my reflection wondering if he'd approve of anything. I didn't wonder if he'd be angry. I didn't even wonder if he'd want me. That, more than anything I could have told myself, was how I knew something had actually shifted. I called Grandma. I hadn't, in two days, though I'd called Tobi every morning. Yesterday, mid-call, Rafael had grabbed the phone out of her hand and roared, "Where the fck are you?" I'd hung up before he finished the sentence, my pulse going wild in a way I refused to examine. Today I dialed without hesitating. "There you are," Grandma said, delighted. "The house has been unbearably quiet. Rafael's buried himself in work for the company anniversary. I've barely seen him." "Working through the weekend?"

Natalie’s POV If looks could kill, Rafael would have buried me right there on the stage. His eyes were fixed on me from across the ballroom, dark and unreadable. I had seen that look before. It was the look he gave people when they had crossed a line they shouldn't have. This time, I was the one who had crossed it. I swallowed hard and forced myself to smile for the cameras. I had expected Rafael to be angry. I hadn't expected him to look as though I'd just taken something from him. Maybe… I had. His control and his certainty. Maybe even his belief that I would always be there waiting for him. The moment Daniel announced our engagement, the entire hall seemed to freeze. Then… "Are you two really engaged?" "When did this happen?" "How long have you been together?" "Is this why Mr. Morris has been spending time in the country?" "Miss Bandera, what does the Merrin family think about your engagement?" Questions flew at us from every direction. I stood there smiling mechani