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CHAPTER 161

Eunice's povThere was always a moment I thought I had everything planned.Barely noticeable if you didn’t know what to look for, and easy to miss if you were distracted by everything happening on the surface. I had learned to watch it a long time ago, because that moment was where the control you held over someone either held or slipped, and most people never realized which side they were on until it was too late.I had built everything I did around understanding that.Around seeing what others didn’t. Around staying one step ahead even when the situation didn’t look like it favored me.And for a long time, that had been enough. It had always been enough until now.I stood exactly where I needed to be, Jocelyn was held firmly against me, the gun steady against her head, and the entire space still revolved around that single point of control. Nothing about the position itself had changed, and nothing about the immediate threat had weakened.From the outside, it still looked like I ha

CHAPTER 162

Jocelyn’s POVThe room had become so quiet that every breath felt loud.No one was speaking now. The tension had moved beyond words. Everyone is waiting for the smallest mistake to tear everything open.Eunice’s grip remained locked around me. To her the way she held might be strong but I knew so well the grip had loosened, it was not the way she held me when I first came in. She was trying to hide it, trying to hold herself together the way she always did, but she was no longer completely in control.Daniel had done that.And if I could see it, then I knew there was a chance for me to escape from her grip.My pulse hammered so hard it hurt. Every beat seemed to strike against my ribs like a warning, but beneath the fear, something else had risen. I was done standing here like an object to be traded between them. Done waiting for someone else to save me. Done letting Eunice decide what happened next.I kept my breathing even.I kept my face still and I watched.Daniel’s eyes were on

CHAPTER 163

Daniel's povEunice had always known how to hide weakness behind posture, behind silence, behind the kind of composure that made others second-guess themselves. But I knew her too well for that. I had spent enough years watching her turn moments to her advantage, enough years learning what she concealed and what she revealed, to recognize the smallest crack when it formed.And it formed.It was there in the way her grip shifted, in the split second where her focus scattered instead of sharpening, and in the tiny pause that should never have existed in someone like her.That was all I needed.I moved before the thought had fully finished in my mind. My body reacted faster than logic ever could, driven by something deeper than calculation and sharper than reason.Jocelyn was the only thing in my mind.I lunged forward, closing the gap with enough force that Eunice had no time to reset herself. My hand caught Jocelyn first, gripping her arm and shoulder at once, and I pulled her hard tow

CHAPTER 164

Jocelyn’s POVI shook my head slowly.“I’m fine.”The words came out softer than I intended, roughened by smoke, fear, and the strain of everything that had happened in the last few minutes. They sounded small in the wrecked room, almost fragile against the chaos that still lingered around us.But they were the only words I could manage.I wasn’t fine.My pulse was still racing hard enough to make my hands tremble. My knees felt weak, as if they might give out the moment I stopped leaning on something solid. My ears still rang from the gunshots, and every sharp sound in the room made my body tense before I could stop it. The smell of gunpowder clung to the air. His men were moving around us, voices low and urgent, clearing the aftermath of what had nearly become a disaster.Nothing about me was fine and yet I said it anyway.Maybe because I didn’t know how to explain what I actually felt. Maybe because the truth was too large to fit into a sentence.Maybe because Daniel was still hold

CHAPTER 165

Daniel's Pov The police were later allowed to enter the room and led Eunice away.The two policemen held her firmly at either side, guiding her toward the waiting vehicle while the rest of my security team kept the place locked down.She walked at first with the same rigid pride she had. Anyone who didn’t know her would have believed she still had her way out of the situation.I stood a few feet away and watched in silence, my hands at my sides, the night air cool against skin that still carried the heat of fear. Around us, the men moved with quiet efficiency. The doors opened and shut. But my focus stayed on Eunice not because I wanted one last look not because I needed answers. Because the endings deserved to be seen clearly.Eunice turned towards me before reaching the car. Her eyes found mine immediately. For years, that look had meant something. It had carried challenges, invitations, warnings, manipulation. There had been a time I could not separate one from the other.Now it

CHAPTER 166

Jocelyn’s POVBy the time we got back home, the silence felt different.Maybe it was because we had nearly lost everything outside those walls.Maybe it was because fear had stripped away the illusions both of us hid behind.Maybe it was because when something breaks open badly enough, it becomes impossible to return to pretending.Daniel walked in ahead of me, then stopped near the center of the living room as if he had only just realized we were here. For a man who noticed everything, he looked strangely distant now. Not distracted in the careless sense. More like someone whose body had arrived before the rest of him.He loosened his tie with one hand and set his keys on the table without looking at where they landed. The movement was small, ordinary, but I watched it anyway.I watched everything now. The fatigue in the set of his shoulders.The tension still lingered in the way he held himself too straight. The silence around him that no longer felt cold, only tired.He turned slig

CHAPTER 167

Daniel's Pov She finally lifted her head from my chest. She stood in front of me with that look in her eyes again. The one that always reached deeper than words.Jocelyn had many expressions I had come to recognize over time. Some were sharp enough to warn me before she spoke. Some were unreadable on purpose. But this one was different and honesty from her always carried weight because she never offered it cheaply.The morning air moved quietly around us, cool and thin after the long night, and everything beyond the small space between us felt distant. Jocelyn was looking at me like the answer to something important depended on what I did next.I knew that feeling. I had caused it enough times.Too many times, if I was honest.There had been moments when I stepped close only to step back again. Moments when I let tension speak in place of truth because truth required more than I wanted to give. Moments when I hid behind sarcasm, behind timing, behind plans, behind every convenient

CHAPTER 168

Jocelyn’s povThe gala was brighter than ever.The light spilled from the crystal chandeliers in a long rivers across the floors. Music drifted through the ballroom. The glasses caught the glow of gold fixtures. The diamonds flashed at wrists and throats. It was the kind of night built for appearances.The kind of place where smiles were worn beautifully. Where one glance could carry more meaning than a speech. Where everyone looked beautiful and very few people were honest.The kind of place where everything once began.I stood at the top of the grand staircase for a brief moment before descending beside Daniel, and the memory of the first gala I had attended with him came back so sharply that I almost felt it physically.That night I had stood beside a stranger I was tied to by circumstance, not trust. I had worn my confidence like a borrowed jewelry.That night Daniel had been unreadable, cold, impossible to predict. He had looked perfect in every sense that mattered to people lik

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