All Chapters of Belonging to You: Chapter 51 - Chapter 54

Abigail’s POV The week that followed was chaos.Not the messy, disorganized kind.The Castillo kind.Which meant everything was precise, extravagant, and somehow twice as overwhelming.Alberto Castillo’s Oak Jubilee birthday celebration was apparently not something to be taken lightly. The preparations alone felt like planning a royal coronation.Every department of the Castillo Group was involved.Design teams.Event planners.Security.Media.Even the household had been pulled into special arrangements.And somehow I had been right in the middle of it all.Back-to-back meetings. Errands. Deliveries. Endless coordination.Which meant very little time with the Castillos themselves.One dark-haired Castillo in particular.Christian.The thought of him alone made my stomach do something stupid.We had barely seen each other since the diner.Since the dance.Since that moment that had felt far too real for something that was never supposed to be real at all.He’d been swamped with work.

Christian’s POVThe last conference call ended at six-thirty.My shoulders ached. My jaw felt tight.Too many calls. Too many moving parts. Too many people expecting everything to run like clockwork.The Castillo way.I dragged a hand down my face and leaned back in my chair for a second.Silence never lasted long in this house.Even now, I could hear the distant clatter of dishes, footsteps crossing marble floors, someone calling out instructions down the hall.The estate had been chaos all week.Not the careless kind. The controlled, orchestrated kind that came with too many people trying to make one thing perfect.Abuelo’s oak jubilee.It had been planned like a state event. Meetings layered over meetings. Schedules revised, then revised again. Deliveries at all hours. Florists, caterers, decorators, security.At some point, I had stopped keeping track.And somehow, in the middle of it all, I’d still been dragged into back-to-back conference calls.I exhaled and pushed to my feet.