All Chapters of The CEO'S Forbidden Protection : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

I finally told Alex everything about me he’s always wanted to know. It felt like a truck was lifted off of me.Just when I thought things were finally going well for us, Noah’s call came in. I picked up the phone, answered the call, and put it on speaker since I no longer have to keep anything from Alex.“He’s dead.” Was the first thing Noah said.“What do you mean by that? Who is dead?”“Isaac. He was found dead in his apartment a few hours ago,” he explained.“What’s the cause of death?”“It was drug overdose. According to them it’s suicide, which we know that’s not true.”The room went completely still.Alex’s fingers, which had been resting lightly against my wrist, tightened slowly. My chest felt hollow.Isaac was a pawn that was used by Ben for Joe’s benefit. He was hired to aid Alex’s kidnapping but failed. He was finally going to be useful to us by standing as a living witness to testify against Joe. He was murdered because dead men didn’t talk. Dead men didn’t testify. Dead m

I could feel my hands literally shaking, as I walked towards the building my Uncle decided to meet me at an old cafe after so many back and forth. He sounded annoyed on the phone call, he was confident no one can harm him, then why was he hiding. Uncle Joe was never married, at least not that I’ve heard of. Come to think of it he truly is evil. He's old, lonely and bitter, probably because of his terrible lifestyle. Ethan was already in the flower shop close to the café. We had another round of argument about my meeting with my uncle before we left the house. “I told you I’ll be fine , we’ve talked about this like a million times already.” I told him “You don’t know what’s in your uncles head.” He said. He had me put on a smart glass even after Noah gave me a smart pen which had a recorder and camera. He also had a tracking device installed into my wristwatch and one that looks like a button at the top part of my suit shirt making it look like just as regular extra button. And tha

I sat restless in the flower shop close to the café where Alex and his scumbag of an uncle were scheduled to meet. The thought of Alex meeting his uncle alone in a building filled with armed men made everything worse.“I swear, if anything goes wrong, which I know it wouldn’t, I’ll hold you responsible,” I told Noah when we went through the plan one last time at the safe house.He just nodded.I could hear everything Alex and his uncle were saying through the earpiece. Every word. But the moment I heard the first gunshot, my heart nearly stopped. It took everything in me not to storm into the building and rip his uncle’s throat open with my bare hands.Not long after the first shot, another rang out.And I heard Alex groan in pain.I didn’t stop to think. I just stood up.“Don’t you dare!” Noah’s voice came sharply through the earpiece. We had been communicating from the start of the meeting.Joe Blackwood would definitely breathe his last if he hurt even a strand of hair on Alex’s hea

Sleep refused to come.The bedroom smelled like him. His soap. His cologne. The faint trace of blood and antiseptic that hadn’t fully faded yet. I lay on my back, one arm draped over my eyes, replaying his words like they were etched into bone.How am I supposed to love someone I can’t trust?That sentence had done more damage than Joe Blackwood ever could.I turned my head toward the door, half-expecting it to open. Half-hoping he’d change his mind. He didn’t. The guest room door remained closed, a quiet declaration I couldn’t argue with.I deserved this.That truth sat heavy in my chest.I’d told him I wouldn’t hide anything from him again. I’d meant it. God, I had meant it. But intentions didn’t erase impact, and my reasons—however logical they’d seemed—had shattered something fragile we’d only just begun to build.I exhaled slowly and sat up, swinging my legs off the bed. The clock on the nightstand read 2:47 a.m.Too late to sleep. Too early to fix anything.I stood and crossed t

It happened in less than a breath. One second, Alex’s car was still in front of me, and the next... Metal screamed. A car burst from nowhere, a violent blur of headlights and steel, slamming into Alex’s side with a force so brutal it stole the air from my lungs. The sound wasn’t just loud, it was wrong. The kind of sound that rewires your brain forever. “No!” The word tore out of me as Alex’s car spun, flipping like it weighed nothing, glass exploding into the air. Time slowed in that horrifying way it does when reality fractures. I watched his car roll once,third time then slam to a stop. Fire sparked almost immediately. My entire world narrowed to that burning wreck. I didn’t remember pulling over. Didn’t remember throwing my car into park or leaving the door wide open in the middle of the road. I just knew my feet were moving, my body running on instinct older than fear, older than thought. “Alex!” I screamed, sprinting toward the wreckage. Heat slammed into me as I got