Chapter 21 – The Breaking Point

Emery's POVThey tossed me into the van just as they would have tossed a bag of grain. No care. My body, my fragile body clashed into the mental structure of the van. I felt a sharp piercing at the back of my neck making me look conscious. As my eyes lost their light, the last thing I saw was Julian' face, staring back at me, his face composed. Calm as if he hadn't done any grave harm on me like he had done nothing and everything was fine. Oh, my,I had been warned, Killian had told me not to trust his calm face but then I didn't listen. I didn't know how long my eyes had lost their light, but when I regained consciousness, all I knew was that I was moving. At first I wasn't able to recognize what it was that was moving but my memory gave me a flashback of how I was abducted by JulianMy vision was still blur and the world began to return in fragment like broken glasses trying to make itself wholemy senses returned, I felt everything in heightened mode. The cold sting from the

Last Updated : 2025-07-07

Chapter 22 : What He Buried

Emery’s POVI shouldn't have… I shouldn'tI shouldn't have eavesdropped on his call. Sometimes it's better to know nothing than to know at all.My hands were still trembling. I had tiptoed back to the room and collapsed stiff on the cold mattress at the corner of the dark room. The chill crawled up my spine like fingers made of frost.I didn't sleep. I couldn't. How could I?Not after what I had overheard.I listened to every footstep as they passed by the room door. My mind played out every moment with Killian with precision like a broken record — again and againI could hear it.His voice echoed in my head in a circular motion — “if she finds out the truth…” — and something inside me whispered that whatever he was hiding wasn’t just about business or politics.It was about me.And him.And whatever bound us together so tightly that even the lies couldn’t tear it apart.But I had to know.I had to.I had woken up early — morning mist still alive. I moved quickly, my mission in clear

Last Updated : 2025-07-08

Chapter 23: Hollow Without Her

Killian’s POVThe shield I had created to cover her from the world, the cruel one I live in, from the threat of my enemies. that shield had begun to crack.I could feel it. It wasn't noticeable at first, but the cracks had begun to make itself more visibleAnd now?Now, it felt like everything was shattering.I don't know how long it will hold.I didn't even know if it even exists anymore.She had left the club room… she said needed space.And for once, I let her go.Not because I wanted to… but because she looked like she would suffocate if I didn’t.So I watched her walk away.Watched her as her spine stiffenHer bright eyes glistenedHer voice trembled with things yet unsaidEach step she took snapped something between us.And still I stayed glued to the floor.She would come back, she is just angry from not knowing the truth, she is confused, she doesn't know who to believe… yetThat was what I toldDubai hadn't done anythingIt couldn't and it wouldn't“Dubai can't crack the foun

Last Updated : 2025-07-09

Chapter 24: The Breaking Line

Killian’s POVShe was still asleep when I opened my eyes. She was wearing one of my white shirts. Her black hair was entangled with the bedsheet and her skin glowed when kissed by the morning sun Her chest rose and fell softly and then a small smile crawled up to her face like a child. She seemed untouched by the chaos that usually followed her while awake.The deep line of frustration that usually rested on her face was gone—wiped clean by sleep, by the rare peace that rarely visited people like us.And the smile on her had grown. Maybe she was dreaming of her castle and her knight in shining armor just like the one she was always meant to live inIt had been so long since I had seen her this calm, that peace looked like a stranger on her — a sacred strangerShe had asked to stay in my room. I guess she was too scared to stay alone. The traumas had burrowed deep and not all wounded healed in secondsAnd her smiles were just a maskThe air between us had shifted. Our truths had been

Last Updated : 2025-07-10

Chapter 25: Toxic

Emery’s POVI wasn't asleep.I closed my eyes when I noticed Killian sleeping was fading off. Observing him, I knew he was waking up. His breathing had gotten softer and that was always my cue to close my eyes shut. He didn't leave immediately and I was tempted to open my eyes, but I had to wait, I had to see what he would do. And I felt it, I felt his hand brush the strands of my hair, which had fallen to my face.His touch was so soft that I almost leaned in but I had to restrain myself “Everything I do, I do for you and only you” he whispered softlyI had never heard his voice that soft.The pressure on the other side of the bed had lessened. He had gotten up.I took a quick peek at his movement, and I caught him staring at the black Journal, the one that held the secrets of Gina's deathsI couldn't face him.Not yet. I had accepted to stay, but I hadn't come to terms with his ways. I watched him walk out of the room. A call came in.Immediately, he left. I jumped out of the b

Last Updated : 2025-07-12

Chapter 26: Smoke and Silk

Emery’s POV"Smoke grenade, don’t breathe it in!" He said, but his words had come a little too because I had inhaled more than I could take. The smoke had crawled into my lungs, it was sharp and bitter like chemicals. I hadn't attempted to take any form of undiluted chemical into my system before but I had often imagined what it would taste like. And the amount of grenade smoke I had taken fit perfectly with how I had imagined.Killian's teams busted the door open. I couldn’t see anything, all I could make out was flashes of silver and shadows all around us in the thick air. The alarm screamed above us. It was the fire alarm and it was louder than the sound of my own heartbeat that was slamming against my ribs.I couldn't feel anything. All I felt was the suffocating smoke that burned my eyes.But I felt him.Killian.He wrapped his hands tight around my wrist, his grip on me was steady and strong. He pulled me out of the smoky room “Go,” he shouted, dragging me toward the hidden

Last Updated : 2025-07-13

Chapter 27: Tangled Threads

Emery’s POVThe next moment, all I saw was his hands reaching out and cupping my face, then his face slowly got closer to mine and he tucked my hair behind my ears at the same time. I saw him get closer and closer, and my heart was pounding so hard that I feared it would leap out of my chest. I held my breath subconsciously and closed my eyes, all my thoughts were focused on the kiss.And I just knew that this was the moment that would set everything right. I waited for seconds and the moment finally came. I felt his soft lips pressed mine. The kiss was soft and undemanding. The more I felt his lips on mine, the more my legs got weaker, and the world ceased to exist.We had kissed more than a million times, but were always rough, planned, messy, demanding, and hard. It was always Killian's tactic to shut me up, and I never realized that his lips were that soft, and I had forgotten all about the gunfire incident.And I kissed him back. I didn't want to misunderstand him anymore. He di

Last Updated : 2025-07-14

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