All Chapters of One Night Stand series : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

“Where did you go?” Nathan’s voice was low but filled with something dangerous. He stood in the center of the room, his sleeves rolled up, his hair slightly tousled, his jaw tight. The air between them felt heavy, alive with tension.Leah froze at the door. Her pulse stumbled. “Nowhere,” she murmured.But he could see through the lie. Nathan always could. His eyes were sharp, green and burning, tracing every flicker of guilt across her face.He had already known the truth. He had made sure she was followed. Not because he didn’t trust her, or at least that was what he told himself, but because he wanted her safe. Yet the report he had received earlier that evening had shaken him to his core. Marcus. She had met Marcus.The thought burned like acid in his chest.Nathan took a slow step forward. “You don’t lie to me, wife.” His voice was quieter now, but colder.She tried to move past him, but he caught her wrist and pulled her back. Her breath caught as her back hit the wall. He leaned

“Your girl is doing too much,” Edwardo said quietly, his voice calm but carrying that edge that always meant danger. He didn’t even glance at Nathan at first, his gaze fixed on the half-empty glass of whiskey in his hand. The office smelled of tobacco, money, and fear…the three things that had built this empire.Nathan didn’t understand right away what his father meant, but the way he said your girl made his stomach twist. He already knew who Edwardo was talking about. Leah. And if his father was interested in her, it wasn’t good.“She went to see me yesterday,” Edwardo said finally, swirling the drink before taking a slow sip. “Beautiful woman. Brave too. A little naïve, though.”Nathan froze. “She what?”Edwardo smiled faintly, cold and smug. “She came here, uninvited. Said she wanted to make a deal. Imagine that your wife is standing right there, telling me to make Marcus go away. Tell me what to do, she must have loved you too much…son”Nathan’s heart dropped, he didn’t know if it

“Promise me you’ll lay low and allow me to sort this out.”Nathan’s words still echoed in Leah’s mind long after he was gone. He had said them while holding her face in his hands, his eyes searching hers with the kind of desperation that came from fear. She had promised, nodding quietly even though a small voice inside her whispered that promises were fragile things.Now, she sat alone in the living room, her fingers tracing the rim of her teacup, her thoughts restless. The curtains were half drawn, letting in streaks of soft afternoon light. Outside, the city hummed faintly, unaware of the battle unfolding in her heart.Her phone buzzed on the table. She reached for it without thinking, expecting it to be Nathan checking in. Instead, the name on the screen made her chest tighten.Marcus, for a long moment, she just stared at the name. The message preview sat beneath it like bait.We need to talk, no games this time. It’s about Nathan…..Her breath caught, she read the words twice, ma

Leah woke to the sound of water dripping somewhere close. Her head throbbed, her vision blurred as she tried to lift it. For a moment, everything felt far away, like she was underwater. The smell of damp concrete filled her nose, mixed with something metallic, sharp, and heavy.Her hands were tied in front of her, not tightly, but enough to make her wrists ache. She blinked a few times, trying to adjust to the dim light filtering through a single barred window. Her heart began to pound when the memory came back in flashes of the car, the masked man, the sudden pull, her phone slipping from her hand.Panic started to rise, but she forced herself to breathe. Panicking would get her nowhere. She needed to think, to stay calm. Nathan always told her that fear was a weapon if you knew how to use it. She just hoped he was looking for her now.The door creaked open slowly, and a soft light spilled into the room. Her body stiffened as a tall figure stepped in, wearing a dark coat and an expre

/Mimi/After finding out each other names we went straight inside the club…The bass from the club hit me like a heartbeat deep, steady, impossible to ignore. Lights shimmered across bodies moving in rhythm, a blur of color and sound that made the air pulse.Ethan followed just behind me as we wove through the crowd. I could feel his presence even when I didn’t look at him a quiet confidence that tugged at my attention like gravity.“Do you come here often?” I called over the music, grinning at the cliché of my own words.“Not usually,” he said, leaning close so I could hear him. His breath brushed my ear, and I swear the temperature rose ten degrees. “But tonight’s full of surprises.”I turned, arching an eyebrow. “Am I one of them?”He smiled slow, deliberate. “The biggest one so far.”Somewhere behind us, I caught a glimpse of Tasha giving me a thumbs-up before disappearing into the crowd with Zara and Kim. Great. They’d abandoned me to my fate or maybe to my dare.Ethan gestured t