Lahat ng Kabanata ng Addicted to the enemy: Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 40

Aria got home exhausted then Damian appeared at her door even she forgot to close the gate due to exhaustion but Damian entered…Damian’s knock was sharp, impatient the kind that didn’t wait for permission.Aria turned, clutching her phone, still shaken from the scene at the ceremony. His eyes when he entered were wild, confused, angry and something else she couldn’t name.He didn’t speak at first. Just stared. Then ,“You’re Aria Lancaster.”Her lips parted, confusion slicing through her. “What?”“You heard me,” he said, voice low, strained. “That man wasn’t lying, was he? Tell me the truth, Aria. Who the hell are you?”She blinked, stepping back. “Damian, what are you talking about? Have you lost your mind?”He moved closer, jaw tightening. “Don’t play dumb. You heard him shout it in the hall. Aria Lancaster. Everyone did. I saw the way you froze. Why didn’t you deny it then?”Her pulse kicked. “Because I didn’t owe a random lunatic a response in the middle of my graduation!” she sn

The Cole Tower boardroom was chaos.Files slammed on the glass table, phones buzzed nonstop, and Damian stood dead center, his suit sharp but his expression pale as fury burned in his father’s eyes.Mr. Cole, the man everyone feared in silence, was pacing like a storm barely contained.“Do you have any idea what you’ve done?” his voice thundered.Damian’s jaw tightened. “It was a technical shutdown, Dad. I told IT to freeze the global data backup until…”“Until?” his father cut in sharply. “Until you single-handedly cost this family a billion-dollar alliance with the Lancaster Group?”The entire room went still. The name hit like a curse.Damian’s chest tightened. “The Lancaster project?”He frowned. “That deal was already unstable.”“Because you made it unstable!” his father roared. “You paused the transition server without consulting the board. That system held three major offshore contracts, and now, because of your little stunt, the Lancasters have lost two international partners.

Aria sat hunched over her laptop, eyes bloodshot from sleeplessness. The air in her apartment was still except for the soft hum of the system fan. Her hand trembled slightly as she clicked into a dark-web forum she’d paid heavily to access.A single search bar blinked on the screen. She typed the word “Lancaster.”For a moment nothing happened, then dozens of encrypted links appeared some red-flagged with government seals, others marked classified. Her throat went dry.“Alright… let’s see what you’ve been hiding,” she muttered.She scrolled until one link caught her eye: POLICE INTELLIGENCE – CASE 0219L / SEALED / RESTRICTED BY SID AUTHORITY.Her heartbeat quickened. The system demanded a high-level login key. Aria hesitated for a second, then opened a small notepad beside her keyboard inside was a string of codes her friend from the Special Investigation Department (SID) once gave her during a campus project.“Please still work,” she whispered.She entered the credentials and held he

Aria woke to the faint hum of her laptop.The screen glowed against the darkness of her room, lines of code flickering across it green, foreign, moving too fast for her to process.She rubbed her eyes, her heart pounding. “What the hell…?”At the top of the screen, the words AmeliaCare Database Accessing Secure Mode blinked in faint blue.Her pulse stuttered. That name again. AmeliaCare.It shouldn’t even exist anymore it was supposed to be gone, erased, rebranded years ago as Texas Care Hospital.“Dr. Adrian?” she muttered, fumbling for her phone and calling him.No response.She tried again. Straight to voicemail.A sudden ping pulled her eyes back to the screen.The code had stopped. The window dissolved into a dark chatbox.At the top corner: User: GreyWolfA new message appeared.GreyWolf: You’re just like your mother. But I wish you’d take after the part she feared.Aria froze. Then, swallowing her nerves, she typed back.Aria: What part?A small pause. Then the reply came.Gre

“Seriously, Damian… just go.”Aria’s voice cracked, though she tried to sound firm. Her eyes were red, her breathing uneven. “I can’t think straight with you here. Go back to work, or home, or anywhere. I just I can’t.”Damian stood in the doorway, rainwater dripping from his hair. “Aria, you don’t need this. Whatever that file said, true or false, how does it even affect me?”She laughed bitterly. “Are you hearing yourself? My so-called father was your father’s partner, and now I find both families smiling in a picture together. So what does that make us, Damian? One big family reunion?”“Aria, it’s not—”“Get out.” Her tone was cold enough to slice air. “Please, just get out.”He hesitated. “You’ll regret pushing me away when you need me most.”She turned her back on him. “I already regret meeting you.”The silence between them stretched. Damian finally stepped out, the sound of his shoes fading down the corridor. The gate clicked shut behind him.Aria stood still for a long time, s