All Chapters of One Night's Mistake: Claimed by my Boyfriend's Brother.: Chapter 141 - Chapter 150

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Chapter 140: I'll make sure she's forced out, one way or another.

Bruce looks at me warily when he drops me off.I don’t blame him since I asked him to run about two red lights, but I’m here and the faster I can close this up, the faster I can get back to Lyra.The office is chaos when I arrive. Tension so thick I could cut through it with a knife hangs in the air and everyone is either whispering on phone calls or shuffling papers with shaking hands. Adrian wasn’t exaggerating.Maybe it’s because I didn’t take the main entrance when I left earlier today, but the building does feel like it’s standing on the edge of collapse.Silvia is rushing towards me and the moment she does, her voice is hard as she speaks, “I tried to push all appointments to later as you requested, sir, but in the past hour shareholders have asked for five emergency meetings.I apologize, but I couldn’t keep them all waiting, sir.”I nod and take a breath to prepare myself. It’s going to be a long night.It starts with hours of back-to-back meetings, confronting rumors and stead

Last Updated : 2025-09-22

Chapter 141: A pleasant distraction.

Christian still isn’t back.A sigh leaves my lips as I stare at the door, and the same thought I’ve been having for the past hour flies through my head again. Maybe I should leave the romantic gestures to Christian and just sleep.I thought waiting up for him would be cute and sweet, we could fall asleep together, listening to each other’s heartbeats and dozing off to the sound of each other breathing.I don’t want to stare at the clock again but my eyes flick to it anyway. The soft glow of the numbers only taunts me.Past midnight.It’s well past midnight, and the quiet of the city is all I can hear through the window. I don’t even think cars are driving past anymore, and that says one thing.Christian isn’t coming back home tonight. At least not here.I’m trying not to feel disheartened but the disappointment sits on my chest like a stone.He did say he had things to handle and I know that, but how long can handling those things possibly take? He can’t be handling matters at the off

Last Updated : 2025-09-23

Chapter 142: End her.

Estel’s gaze lingers on me for a while, unreadable, before she exhales slowly and turns back to her laptop screen. “I’m sorry I called you a pleasant distraction.I didn’t mean it, really…. I was just thinking of myself and Ivan, and it must have slipped out.”The tension of the argument dies almost immediately, fizzing out into silence that stretches between us. My heart still pounds, hot and angry, but the longer I stand here, the more I see that I don’t recognize Estel before me, and it’s not just because she’s a bit cruel now. It’s that she’s in so much pain she probably doesn’t recognize herself either.She loved Ivan and the bastard… he just had to break her heart.I let my voice soften as I walk over and ask, “What are you working on?”Estel doesn’t resist the change in subject but her voice shakes a bit even as she says his name. “Ivan.I’ve been combing through his network and trying to see what I can pull up. I can’t hack him directly, and his wife leaves no trace as well, n

Last Updated : 2025-09-24

Chapter 143: A target.

Estel packs her laptop up immediately and pulls out her phone, dialing a number as she does so and breathing loudly as she waits for the line to pick up.I, on the other hand… I’m standing with my heart in my mouth and cold in my bones. I don’t… I don’t understand what’s happening.End Her?That can’t mean me can it?I must have asked that question out loud because Estel whips her head to me with a look of disbelief in her eyes as she asks, “You don’t think that message was referring to you? Even when it had your date of birth encrypted in it?”Tears of fear spring to my eyes immediately but I try to sound as brave as I can while I respond, “It doesn’t make sense for it to be me. Why… why would a crime syndicate have anything to do with me? I’m not a criminal.”Estel’s voice is foreboding as she responds directly, “You’re worse, Lyra.” The silence that falls is like a slap to my mind, waking it up and bringing me to the stark reality of what’s happening as Estel continues, “You’re a t

Last Updated : 2025-09-25

Chapter 144: A sacrifice.

My breath catches as another crash rings out from downstairs. We hear the scrape of furniture as it slides against the floor and heavy footsteps as they march around.My throat closes up, panic surging through me fast and hot. Before I can stop it tears spill down my cheeks. I grip the blanket I had been snuggling into a while ago tight in my fists, and with all that’s inside me I wish I could make myself invisible… I wish this was still just a dream.Someone’s in the apartment.Someone’s in this apartment that Christian assured me was safe. People are in here, and even if Estel hadn’t found a death threat with my birthday date attached boldly to it, it would still be scary. The fact that I know she did only adds to terrify me.It terrifies me because it could be them…..It could be people sent here not to just rob, but end me.The sounds downstairs multiply. Things are being smashed, broken without care. Cabinets flung open. Drawers pulled out.Each sound echoes in the silence of the

Last Updated : 2025-09-26

Chapter 145: Pack up.

Everything in me seems to shake at the sound of Christian’s voice, like water on a lake when a stone has been abruptly thrust into it.For a moment I don’t believe it.I think it’s my mind that’s simply playing games on me, but the intruders never spoke. I don’t think they were ever planning to.They were planning to stay silent and kill me, then go back where they came from, nameless. Right now, the voice that comes from behind the door is soft and urgent.“Lyra. Are you in there, Lyra?”Estel asks me who that is in a sharp whisper but I tell her to shush and make my way slowly but steadily to the door.It sounds like Christian. Whoever this person is sounds like Christian Storm but no matter how fast I want to believe that, I know it’s not wise to be so ready to accept that.It could be Christian, or it could be someone who just sounds like Christian. I don’t know if calling out to him would be wise or if keeping quiet will do me any good so I scramble through my mind for a question

Last Updated : 2025-09-27

Chapter 146: Protect her.

In the aftermath of what’s just happened, Christian’s words land hard. It’s like being pelted by a pebble. They feel like a command, and I want to believe he’s saying them because he wants to protect me, but by instinct, they feel too much like chains tightening around me.I respond without thinking.“No.”I don’t know why I say it yet the words come out anyway. In the silence that follows my mind tries to provide reasons, “I can’t take that kind of decision because of what’s happened here today.I can’t just… move in with you. This is my home, Christian.”It’s a flimsy response and I know it’s not timely in this moment. Christian’s eyes snap to mine with disbelief clear in them “Lyra, you nearly died tonight. Do you understand that? If I hadn’t gotten here when I did you’d be dead.”Christian’s voice catches at that, rising and hardening before he forces it back down and runs a hand over his face, “This isn’t up for discussion, Lyra. I’m not asking.You’re coming with me.”Before I c

Last Updated : 2025-09-28

Chapter 147: Does she love you?

When I wake up again in the morning, it all feels wrong from the second I open my eyes.I couldn’t sleep much and right now I’m feeling the effects of that. The bedroom is too bright, the sounds of guards standing outside the room are too sharp, it feels like I can hear them breathing, and that’s weird since I’m sure it’s all just in my mind.Christian’s guards are usually silent as stone. They must have learnt it from him since that’s all I could think of for the remainder of last night. His silence.My head is aching now and for a moment I want that ache to simply die. For a moment I think maybe it was a nightmare, that my apartment isn’t destroyed and Christian isn’t out there somewhere, staring at the ceiling as he thinks about all the words we said last night, but then the door clicks open and I sit up in the bed immediately.Estel walks in, a tired look in her eyes as she logs her phone in my direction. Her face is pale but the expression in her eyes is a mix of something betwee

Last Updated : 2025-09-28

Chapter 148: I don't think they're my parents.

Christian’s pov.Lyra’s eyes burn with an emotion she tries to keep hidden but I see it anyway. It’s disappointment and anger. Anger that flashes so briefly through her face that I wonder if it’s because I’ve finally told her what I tried to keep from her last night.“Is that why you didn’t want to tell me? Because she’s your fiancée?”I’m beginning to really dislike that word, fiancée, but I know that isn’t true. I would love the word very much if Lyra was the one it referred to. Having it refer to Faye just makes it irritate me.“Yes… and no.”I didn’t want to make an issue out of not saying anything but I’ve managed to do that anyways. I don’t know why I didn’t just tell her when she asked. I felt I wasn’t sure, but I knew all along who it could be. My father doesn’t exactly do assassinations.And Faye did tell me she would do something, I just didn’t expect it to happen that fast. She only made her threats last night, but for her to send assassins to this apartment means she wasn’

Last Updated : 2025-09-29

Chapter 149: Can't handle.

Everything is happening fast. Too fast than I can keep track of it.Lyra's voice wavers at the end and I rub the back of my neck, a bit of awkwardness filling the room.We still haven’t sorted out the issue of the press. Faye and her family have made their move, and now, Lyra has a suspicion that could end up with her questioning her whole life and who she really is. This is the kind of situation that would have me going for hunting in the mountains or an escape to the countryside, but I don’t want to do that.I don’t want to do that without Lyra.I let out a slow breath and paste a rare smile on my face, “Maybe you and Estel should stay at one of my safehouses. Just until I clear this mess.The location is safe and secure, and living there would give you the time and peace to figure things out. Things about your family for example.”A suspicious kind of smile lights up on Lyra’s face, “You’re trying to distract me, Christian Storm.”I don’t deny it but I don’t admit it either.“If tha

Last Updated : 2025-09-29

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