บททั้งหมดของ Bound By The CEO's Contract : บทที่ 51 - บทที่ 60

POV: AlexanderThe night felt heavier than any night I had lived before. I sat in the dark staring at the faint shadows cast by the streetlights outside the window. The silence in the room was deafening, barely to be endured, but within me was a storm, a storm I had been attempting to hide for so long.Natalie was asleep beside me, her breathing was soft and steady. I recognized the movement of her body, the unevenness of her breathing. She wasn't resting. She was waiting. Waiting for me to say something. Waiting for me to reveal whatever was on my mind. At one point, I went to the sitting room to rest on the couch and I left her in our bedroom.But could I?How do I tell her the man she thought was her dad was the man who was the reason my life had turned into a nightmare? That his name was tangled up with the name that haunted my every breath; Eleanor?No. I couldn't.And I remained silent, although I knew that silence was suffocating her.By morning, the weight was unbearable. I co

POV: NatalieThe silence that came after my dad's words seemed powerful enough to consume me."It's time you knew."But then….. nothing. He didn't say another word. He just sat there, staring at the floor, his face pale and unreadable, his fists clutched in front of him as if he was holding on to something only he could see.My heart pounded harder with each second. I wanted to scream. To shake him. To make him confess right then and there. But I just had to wait. My father was the type of man who liked to be in control, he didn't speak until he was ready.And yet, this time felt different. He wasn't silent because he was choosing to be. He was silent because he was fighting inside himself.Finally, he sat back, exhaling slowly, his eyes closing as if the weight of the whole world rested on his shoulders.“Natalie,” he said softly, “there are pieces of this puzzle that I… I myself don’t fully understand.”The words cut deeper than I expected. My throat tightened. “What do you mean you

(POV: Alexander)I had always thought that the answers to my questions would arrive like the sunlight breaking through a storm: bright, clear, undeniable. But what occurred in that moment was nothing like the sunlight. It was more like a thunder clap that rattled the walls and left us all paralyzed and shocked.The silence in the room felt heavier than a rock. My mother was frozen, staring at Natalie’s father with an unreadable expression on her face; shocking, pain, fear. I couldn’t tell which one weighed on her face more.And then it happened.Her lips quivered apart and she said it. Single word. Just one name.“Jacob.”The name sliced through the air. My body froze, my heart skipping as if it had forgotten how to beat.Natalie gasped next to me. Her father winced just a little, as if the name had struck a hidden wound. My mother’s face turned pale, her hand rising to her lips as if she wanted to take the word back but it was already too late.“What did you just call me?” Natalie’s

Natasha's POVThe tension between us was thicker than it had ever been since that evening at Alexander's house. What should have been a confrontation had become a storm of secrets, a storm no one was prepared for. My father's silence after being referred to as Jacob by Alexander's mother had spoken louder than any word. It was the silence of a man suppressing something long buried.But that silence didn't end at Alexander's doorstep. It accompanied us home. It joined us in the living room, stayed with me in the kitchen while I prepared food, and hung between my father's eyes when my father and I locked eyes. It was there, always there, pressing down on me like a weight I couldn’t shake off.I had not heard from Alexander since that evening. No calls. No messages. Nothing. The distance between him and me was growing wilder, but for some reason I wasn't able to forget all that had happened. I was again reliving it in my head, the surprise in his face, the confusion in my father's eyes,

(Alexander's POV)The night was heavier than it normally was, as if the world itself had decided it was going to press its weight against my shoulders. I couldn't even think straight after finding out the truth, that Victor, the man that had dedicated his entire life to ruining me, wasn't just a rival. He was my brother. My blood.That single realization kept echoing in my mind. I had battled him with everything I had, cursed his name, despised his very existence….yet we shared something more deep than business conflicts. My rage was no longer solely against him, it stretched over toward my mother, toward the secrets she was keeping, toward the lies she allowed to grow roots in our lives.But what I did not expect was how far the truth would reach. It was not only my burden, It belonged to my dad too and when the truth reached him, it shattered him in a manner I never thought possible.It happened the next morning. I was in my room when my father burst in. His face was pale, his lips