All Chapters of The Mafia's Little Raven: Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

LEILA  ..The culmination of weeks of frantic preparation, of late nights fueled by coffee and determination was finally here. With everyone  rushing and teams moving with nervous energy, carrying documents, adjusting displays. People were walking around, checking equipment, making sure every single detail was perfect, trying to decipher what was happening at this moment.  But for me, there was a different feeling. More like a surge of confidence. Based on the knowledge that I knew this company, this strategy, better than anyone. I moved from my office to the conference room, my heels clicking, all set with everything I had on, the presentation outlined in my head, the data supporting every point. It wasn’t just me walking in. It was Veridian. It was my team. The people who ha

LEILA..I was standing behind the podium, my hands gripping the edges as if it were the only solid thing in a suddenly tilting world, the cool wood a small anchor in the rising heat of my shock and the crumbling weight of my composure.My team stood behind me, a unified front moments ago, now frozen in place, their faces reflecting my own stunned disbelief, although they didn’t know who he was to me, but they were shocked that he was here.Everyone knew him of course.Sophia was seated with other Veridian staff observers, her eyes, I knew, fixed on me, a silent broadcast of concern across the expanse of the room.I was at the final segment of the presentation. The crucial closing remarks, the articulation of the vision that had brought us to this pivotal point.My voice was clear moments ago, filled with confidence, ready to lay out the future, to convince these powerful individuals that their investment in Veridian was not a gamble, but a certainty. I had been almost done talking.

DAMIEN..I reached out slowly, my hand lifting towards her face across the small space that separated us, my movement closing the distance not just physically but emotionally, bridging the chasm of years and unspoken words, a silent question posed in the language of touch, of skin on skin, a question I needed answered with a desperation that surprised me, a need that transcended mere curiosity, a need that consumed me.I closed the distances, the small space between us dissolving as I took a step closer, then another, until I was standing just inches away from her, close enough to touch, close enough to feel the heat radiating from her skin, the tremor that still ran through her body, a silent resonance of the storm she couldn't contain, a confirmation of her vulnerability and her strength.I reached out, and my fingers traced the line of her jaw gently, a feather-light touch that sent a jolt through her, I saw it in her eyes, a widening, a deepening of their dark pools, a visible r

LEILA.. He was gone and I was left here alone in this room that felt both empty and utterly full, the air still thick with the scent of our sex, a scent that clung to the fabric of my dress and filled my senses, my body humming and vibrating with the echo of his touch and the raw, undeniable pleasure of it all that still consumed me.What the actual fuck. My mind screamed with disbelief and confusion, trying to make sense of the last few minutes and the last few hours and the sheer, impossible reality of what had just happened here, in my office.One minute I was drowning in a goddamn ocean of brokenness and humiliation in that conference room, my career shattering before my eyes in a public display of my unraveling, the next this. Him. Us.How in the hell did I even get here from that point of utter professional and emotional collapse?From wanting to disappear from the face of the earth, to being completely consumed by him.My mind scrambled, trying to piece together the fractur

LEILA..As I pulled on a t-shirt and jeans I found draped over a chair, clothes that suddenly felt foreign and constricting after being so utterly exposed, Sophia started tidying up the room a little, covering up the evidence of the storm.She picked up a stray sock, smoothed the papers on the desk."Oh, speaking of the week, guess what happened while you were recovering from your intense moment with the boss?""What?""The collaboration" she announced, a note of triumph in her voice, a clear separation between the personal chaos and the professional victory."The big one! The one we've been working on for months! The one that almost went down in flames after the presentation! The one I was convinced we had blown to hell""No way," I was surprised, did someone later save my face."Yes way!" Sophia confirmed, her face alight with excitement, her eyes sparkling."Eleanor was livid, you know? After that screw-up with the initial pitch, said we'd blown it, completely, that it was a disa