Semua Bab Escaping The Billionaire's Embrace : Bab 61 - Bab 70

I didn’t cry.I thought I would.I thought I’d make it to the elevator and fall apart, slide down the wall and sob until my throat cracked. But I didn’t.I rode the elevator down like I was made of steel. Hands still clenched. Face still burning.The lobby lights buzzed overhead. The security guard gave me a stiff, polite nod, like nothing was wrong. Like I hadn’t just stood in the same room as the man who reprogrammed my body and tried to erase my soul.I nodded back.Because that’s the game, isn’t it?Pretend nothing’s bleeding.Pretend you’re not drowning.Pretend you didn’t just learn you were built.It was cold outside. Not winter-cold. But the kind that sneaks under your skin when you’re already brittle inside. My heels clicked across the pavement as I walked to my car, and every sound felt too loud. Like the world was trying to draw attention to me. Like it knew.I sat behind the wheel with the engine off for a long time.Not thinking. Not planning. Just existing.And even tha

I didn’t sleep that night. Not really.I lay in the dark, wide awake, listening to the soft hum of the city outside, feeling the weight of what I had learned settling deeper into my bones. The truth wasn’t a relief. It wasn’t a final revelation that gave me peace. It was a wound that had been opened and left to bleed. It kept oozing, pulling at the fragile stitches I’d managed to tie around myself.I thought about Dylan.I thought about Aiden.But most of all, I thought about me. What was left of me.I could hear the faint sounds of Dylan moving around downstairs, the clink of dishes, the soft murmur of the television. I didn’t want to face him. I couldn’t. He had been a part of it. He had watched. Maybe he thought his guilt was a decent trade for pretending to be my savior. But it wasn’t. Not anymore.I wasn’t angry, though. Anger would have been easier. What I felt was worse. It was a strange kind of emptiness. Like I was floating in the dark, with nothing but a vague sense of be

The weight of the files pressed heavily against my side as I walked, each step a reminder that I was about to change everything. The streets were quieter than usual, maybe it was the time of night or maybe the city just sensed something was off, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was being watched. Not by Dylan. Not by anyone in my past life, but by something darker, something more sinister that had always been lurking just outside my grasp.I didn’t want to think about it. Not yet. Not when I was this close.Aiden.It all came down to him. He had orchestrated everything, had twisted my life into something unrecognizable, had pulled all the strings until I was nothing more than a puppet, dancing on command. But that was over now. The truth was mine, and it was time to make him pay.I made my way to the small apartment I had rented in a motel under an alias. It was nothing special, bare walls, a simple b

The city was waking up as I made my way toward the meeting spot. The streets were bustling with the usual morning rush. People going about their lives, completely unaware of the storm that was brewing just beneath the surface. A storm I was about to set into motion.I hadn’t slept the night before. Too much on my mind. Too much uncertainty. But now, as the early morning light hit the glass buildings and painted the streets in pale gold, I felt... clear. The weight of the decision I had made to trust Sophia was still heavy, but it had solidified into resolve. There was no turning back now.I parked a few blocks away from the location Sophia and I had agreed upon, a small, tucked-away café in the heart of the city, one that no one would think twice about. The kind of place that hid secrets, and I had a feeling we were about to reveal a very big one.I stepped out of the car, the cool air brushing against my skin as I straightened the collar of my jacket. I felt exposed in a way. Not ph

The apartment felt smaller now, the walls closing in around me as I paced back and forth, unable to stay still. The weight of what was about to happen pressed down on me like a crushing force, but I couldn’t afford to buckle. I had already made my choice. There was no turning back.Sophia was on the phone again, her voice sharp and calculated as she negotiated the next steps with her contacts. I could hear the urgency in her tone, but also something else, something more cautious, more calculating. She knew this was as much a game of survival as it was a fight for justice. And for the first time in a long while, I wasn’t sure if we were on the right side of it.I tried to focus on the plan, on what we needed to do to stay ahead. But my thoughts kept circling back to Aiden. Every time his name crossed my mind, the fire in my chest flared hotter. He had controlled my life for far too long, and I had finally broken free. Now, I had a choice, to let him continue manipulating from the sh