Semua Bab Taming The Charming Director: Bab 41 - Bab 50

For the first time in her life, Raellyn made a decision just as significant as marrying Arnav: she quit her job. The moment felt seismic. After only a week of returning to work and after received a chorus of warm congratulations from her coworkers about her recent marriage. Her sudden resignation sent shockwaves throughout the office like a bolt of lightning on a clear day. The shock rippled across the office, tongues wagging, eyes widening. No one was more stunned than Violet, her closest confidante at work, who wasted no time in confronting her. Violet practically dragged Raellyn aside for answer into an empty meeting room the second she learned Raellyn had handed in her resignation letter just before the lunch break. Sliding it across their boss's desk with fingers that trembled slightly but with eyes that held steel."Explain this to me right now," Violet demanded, her tone bordering on interrogation, hands on her hips, her voice a notch below a full shout. Her usual calm was no

"Is there something you need, Raellyn?"he said without looking up.Her fingers tightened around the small box behind her back. Should she say what he wanted to hear? Or just hand him the gift and get it over with? Still she stood. Silent. Torn. The gift in her hand felt suddenly foolish.He looked up when she didn’t move or respond."Well?" he asked again, more pointedly this time. “Why are you just standing there? If you're not here for anything important, you know where the door is.” His voice was clipped, businesslike. Like she was nothing more than another employee."I am here for something," she said, steadier now. "Just give me a moment." She took a shaky breath.He leaned back slightly in his chair, skeptical. Waiting."I saw a watch today," she began, her voice soft, unsure. "While I was shopping.""You want it? I’ll have someone pick it up for you." Arnav cut in.“No, that’s not what I mean,” She said, quickly.He raised an eyebrow, finally glancing at the small box she broug

If he couldn’t meet her heart with even a shred of mercy, then she would not beg for his warmth again. She would meet his coldness with her own.Her heels echoed like thunderclaps in a cavernous silence against the polished floors as she walked away with a grace that betrayed the storm inside her. Her spine straight, her posture composed but inside, she was shattering. Every step was heavy with sorrow, her lungs aching with unshed tears. A thousand emotions wrestled within her, each louder than the last. She could feel it. Regret swelling in her lungs, mingling with something that almost felt like relief. An awful, terrible kind of relief.Because now, at least, she knew.She had fallen for the wrong man. He was cruel. Calculated. A master of veiled daggers and polite venom. And still, somehow, she had loved him.And the worse part is she had let him break her.But it wasn’t all his fault. She had handed him the knife. She had walked straight into the fire. She had played a part in he

"You didn’t have to do this."Of course, she didn’t. Nothing about their contract demanded this. Arnav had long known that Raellyn was unpredictable. Their marriage contract never demanded any of this. He had tried to understand her, but she remained a riddle. But Arnav couldn’t ignore the flicker of warmth her words stirred in him and yet something in him warmed at her gesture. He wasn’t used to being received like this. No one had ever waited for him. No one had ever cared.Still, something inside him remained guarded. He brushed past her, silent. But she followed him.Still, suspicion stirred beneath the warmth. Was this another ploy?He said nothing and walked ahead. But she followed him into the library.He stopped."Do you need something?" he asked, a hint of irritation returning."Why do you sound like you’re interrogating me?" she countered, placing his bag on the table.He watched her, arms crossed. While she took a seat on the sofa."Your behavior suggests you want something

Arnav suddenly found himself softening, a rare chuckle slipping through his lips as his younger brother hurled curses in his face. There was something oddly comforting about it. A ridiculous, biting humor in the middle of the emotional wreckage he’d waded through for weeks. The absurdity of everything that had happened lately began to settle into something bitterly humorous. How chaos could sometimes be the only tether to reality “She’s honestly the type of woman who left me in awe. She’s... not like the others," he murmured, as if confessing to himself more than to Arsene. " She stunned me. At the time, I thought, why should I waste time on another empty-headed woman with nothing to offer but a high credit card bill and a rehearsed smile? But Raellyn... she’s bold. She challenged me. She has this magnetic defiance that piqued my interest. She didn’t yield. She made me feel something I forgot I could feel. Though I admit, I knew from the start my days of peace were numbered. A more o