Lahat ng Kabanata ng The billionaire virgin wife: Kabanata 111 - Kabanata 113

The office was louder than usual. Not with voices, but with silence. The heavy kind. The kind that pressed against the walls and seeped into the air like smoke. It was not the comfortable silence of focused workers at their desks, nor the neutral hush of a Monday morning. This was the other kind. The heavy, suffocating quiet that came with eyes following your every step, with gossip pulsing through the veins of the building, sharp and poisonous.When Isabella stepped out of the private elevator beside Damian the next morning, she felt the weight of it immediately. The silence clung to her like a second skin. Stares burned into her flesh, prickling her shoulders, sinking claws into her chest. The world seemed to tilt under the scrutiny.She could hear the faint shuffle of papers being deliberately rearranged, the pointed coughs that were not coughs at all, the faint hush of voices dropping to whispers as soon as they noticed her presence. Every sound seemed designed to remind her she w

The kitchen looked like a battlefield.Flour dusted the countertops, streaked Damian’s black shirt, and somehow clung stubbornly to Isabella’s hair, forming tiny clouds of white that shimmered in the soft afternoon light. A bowl sat lopsided on the marble island, half-filled with what was supposed to be chocolate mousse. Instead, it looked like melted pudding on the verge of collapse, a sad imitation of her earlier confidence.Damian stood across from her, arms crossed, eyes narrowed but not without amusement. His usual commanding presence was slightly undermined by the specks of flour dotting his pristine shirt and his carefully combed hair.“That does not look edible,” he said finally, his tone flat, though his gaze betrayed a hint of amusement.Isabella doubled over with laughter, clutching her stomach as a small piece of chocolate smeared onto her fingers. “You are the billionaire CEO everyone fears, and yet you cannot even whisk cream properly,” she teased, the sound of her laugh