Alle Kapitel von Falling for my cocky Boss: Kapitel 71 – Kapitel 80

DAMIEN'S POVI immediately knew this would be my chance to give her a lesson as my men told me she was at her parents' house, where nobody could interfere.It was the moment I pulled up to that small, outskirts-of-town house that I reached for the door handle myself, instead of waiting for anyone else to open my door.The two men rushed to me before i moved toward the house with worried looks on their faces.“What is it?” I asked them, raising my eyebrows at them.“About Tessa…” one man scratched his head. “She's no longer here. She left for the city two days ago.”I clenched my fist and shut my eyes tightly before opening them to glare at the two morons in front of me.“Why didn't you tell me sooner?” I kicked one of them in the leg and her yelped in pain.The other quickly replied, “We missed her when she left. We are so sorry, sir.”I let out a sigh. “Her parents are in, right?”“Yes, just her mother.”I entered the house with my jaw clenched and eyes cold. I drank in the tidy liv

AIDEN'S POVThe message from Carson came in right as I was buttoning up my shirt, getting ready to head into work. I unlocked my phone, expecting yet another update on our latest investigation, but what I got stopped me dead in my tracks.An audio recording.I hit the button, and Chloe's voice crackled in over the speaker in an instant-mumbling words spewed from her tongue laced with jealous venom.‘I loved Damien for years, did all for him, all… She just took him away! And to put the cherry on top, she didn't even care. Fine, I framed her. I leaked those documents and made it seem like it was all Tessa's fault. I wanted her gone, and Damien… he helped me cover it up. He wanted her out as much as I did.’The words echoed inside my skull, each one more jagged than the last. So it was true. Chloe's jealousy, her all-screwed-up obsession with Damien, had driven her to take down Tessa's career, and Damien had been more than happy to help. They'd both manipulated everything to make her loo

AIDEN'S POVChloe sat pale-faced before me, lips parted, words apparently caught in her throat. I watched her close for anything resembling regret, a shimmer of guilt in her eyes as the recording replayed her confession. But she just stood frozen, wordless."Nothing to say, Chloe?" My voice cut through thick tension, keen and cold. "Nothing at all?”She fidgeted uncomfortably, her head low as she stared at her hands. Therein lay my answer, and that served only to fan the rising tide of anger inside me."Do you even know what you have done?" I enunciated each word, suppressing my anger. "You manipulated, you lied, and you almost destroyed somebody else's career-all for what? A man's love? A feeling of being in control?”"Aiden, I-", she began, the quake in her voice flat-lined when I sliced her off."I don't wanna hear it," I growled low, leaving no doubt as to the steel in my voice. "You framed Tessa. You knew damn well what you were doing and you did it anyway."She swallowed as her

TESSA'S POVAnd from Uncle Charles, it was a slap in the face. From the instant his eyes alighted on me, his face screwed up, unreadable, an anger-reluctance mix, almost as if he were being haunted by me. Then he said it."I promised her," he muttered. Firm yet barely above a whisper. "I promised that I wouldn't have anything to do with her or her children.”Just like that, I was right there, too shocked to even put his words into context. Every syllable seemed laced with horror to make another shred of proof that he wanted nothing to do with me, nothing to do with my past, nothing to do with the family who abandoned me. It just couldn't be left hanging like that.“Uncle Charles, please," I pleaded, forcing myself finally to meet his eyes. My voice shook but didn't break. "I know you don't want to open old wounds and trust me, I understand. You and your sister had some issues that I don't think I can do anything to solve at this point, but I just found out about her and my brother. I

TESSA'S POV“It was all your fault,” Damien yelled at me. “She left me all by myself to have you with some other man. She never looked back at me just because of you.”I felt the heft of Damiens words in the air, like a slap on skin, still echoing through me long after hed fallen silent. I stared at him, my mind racing on a mad dash to put together venomous hatred he had. Hatred for a mother I'd never known, for a life I'd never shared with him. His anger, cold and deep, was foreign-a wound I couldn't remember inflicting. Mother… it was her all this was?"So, that's it?" I whispered, my voice low and hardly heard, yet boiling with an inner ache. "You've hated me all this time… because of our mother? A woman I never even met?"His eyes never once fluttered, gaze acerbic with a torquing cruelty inside them. "Yes, because she abandoned me. She chose to live an existence with anyone but me inside it. She left me for you, Tessa. You took her from me, and you never even knew it. How ironic.