บททั้งหมดของ In Lust with my Sexy Boss: บทที่ 101 - บทที่ 108

Chapter One Hundred and TwoJulian’s POVThe crack of the gunshot was thunder in the narrow room. My body moved before my mind could catch up, instinct, not thought. I slammed Aria to the ground, rolling her beneath me as the bullet tore through the air.The metallic sting of gunpowder burned my throat. For a heartbeat, I couldn’t tell if the wet warmth against my side was hers or mine.Aria’s gasp cut through the haze. “Julian!”I pushed up, shielding her with my frame, scanning the dim room, every muscle strung tight. My chest hammered, not from the close call, but from the possibility that I might look down and see her blood staining my hands.Her wide eyes locked onto me, trembling, desperate. She touched my ribs where the heat burned. When her fingers came away slick with red, her lips parted in a choked sob.It was mine.I forced a jagged breath. “It’s nothing,” I lied through gritted teeth. “Stay down.”Celeste’s laugh slithered across the stone walls, low and cold. “Always the

Chapter One Hundred and FourAria’s POVThe air thickened as the doors slammed shut one by one, their echoes reverberating like war drums in my chest. The lights flickered overhead, shadows stretching across Julian’s face, making his eyes look darker, harder, almost like the man I feared he could become.For a moment, neither of us moved. The silence between us wasn’t silence at all. It was filled with all the things we hadn’t said, my doubts, his confessions, the ghosts of everyone who had died because of us.The hum of machinery grew louder, closer, like some beast awakening under the compound’s skin. My pulse thrummed in my ears, too fast, too heavy.“Julian…” My voice shook, and I hated it. Hated that I sounded small when I wanted to sound unbreakable. “What has she done?”He scanned the room, jaw tight, his posture coiled like a predator ready to strike. “She’s cutting off our exits. Forcing us to stay where she wants us.” His eyes flicked to mine, softer just for a second. “She’

Chapter One Hundred and SixAria’s POVThe lights exploded above us, raining tiny shards like fireflies before the chamber was swallowed whole by darkness. My breath caught in my throat. The sudden silence pressed in, broken only by the thundering of my pulse and the rasp of Julian’s breathing somewhere close.But it wasn’t the dark that terrified me. It was Celeste’s words, still echoing like poison through my veins.Assigned.A piece in his game.Not chance. Not choice.My body shook. I wrapped my arms around myself as though I could hold together the splintering pieces of my heart.“Aria” Julian’s voice cut through the void, thick with desperation. “Don’t listen to her. She twists everything.”“Then tell me she’s lying.” My own voice sounded strange to my ears, sharp, cracked, trembling with fury and something far worse: fear. “Say the words, Julian. Tell me I wasn’t just some pawn you were ordered to seduce.”A pause. Too long. Too heavy. My lungs seized on the silence.Then: “It

Chapter One Hundred and EightAria’s POVThe silence after her words was unbearable. Even the dust in the corridor seemed to freeze midair, waiting. Julian’s chest rose and fell against my back, every breath jagged, every muscle iron-hard.“Prove it?” My voice was a rasp, my throat raw. “How?”Celeste’s smile widened slow, patient, like she had been waiting for me to ask. She stepped closer, her perfume faint but suffocating, a scent too sweet, too perfect. “You really want to know, little dove?”Julian’s hand gripped my wrist so tightly it bordered on pain. “Aria. Don’t. She twists everything”“because truth hurts,” Celeste finished smoothly, her gaze slicing past him and straight into me. Her eyes were sharp, glimmering with a satisfaction that made bile rise in my throat. “Do you know why he touches you the way he does? Why every kiss feels like it consumes you, as though he knows exactly how to unravel you piece by piece?”I swallowed hard, my pulse roaring in my ears. “Because he