All Chapters of FORBIDDEN AFFAIR WITH THE BIKER I CAN'T HAVE : Chapter 151 - Chapter 158

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CHAPTER 151: THE SCALDED HAND

ELARA’S POVI made the tea again. The cup was warming on the tray. I reached across for the kettle and my hand mistakenly hit the hot part that had been sitting over the heat. The pain brought tears to my eyes. It was sharp and mean.I pulled my hand back and pressed my lips together.I looked at the ceiling for a moment, blinking.The burn across my palm was already reddening, a stripe of angry heat from the base of my fingers to the heel of my hand. It was not the worst pain I’d experienced in recent memory, which was a thought that arrived and immediately made things worse rather than better.I put both hands flat on the kitchen counter.The tile was cool under my palms. And the tears came.Not because of the burn. The burn was the thing that broke the surface but it was not the thing underneath. Underneath was everything I’d been carrying since. I felt so much pain and I didn’t know what to do with it.Underneath was Victoria’s voice. I’ll show you who runs this house.Undernea

CHAPTER 152: OUTSIDE

ELARA’S POVThe burn calmed down after a few minutes under cold water.Dominic wrapped my palm in a clean cloth, keeping it loose the way he said, and then stepped back and gave me room to breathe. He was good at that. Giving room without making it obvious he was doing it.We ended up outside on the back terrace. Two old chairs and a small iron table between them, the paint chipped off the legs in places. The garden stretched out in front of us, quiet and green, Mr. Heng’s tools lined up neatly against the shed wall even though he’d gone home an hour ago.We sat for a while without talking.It wasn’t uncomfortable. That was the thing that surprised me. Silence with most people had started to feel like something that needed to be managed, filled, handled carefully. With Dominic it just sat there between us like it was welcome.“So what do you actually do,” he said eventually, “when you’re not working?”I thought about it honestly. “I read if there’s something worth reading. Sometime

CHAPTER 153: THURSDAY

ELARA’S POVI woke up before my alarm. I laid in the dark staring at the ceiling for a while. The house was quiet. And Thursday was finally here. My stomach felt really uneasy like I was going to throw up.Thursday.I sat up and put my feet on the floor and told myself very clearly that I was going out tonight. That it was a night market twenty minutes away with two people who had never once made me feel unsafe. That the fear I was feeling was old fear, borrowed from other situations, and it did not actually belong to tonight.It didn’t fully work. But I got up anyway.That was the thing I’d learned about fear over the past year. You didn’t have to feel brave. You just had to move while scared and eventually your body caught up with what your mind had already decided.If I was going to build a life again, any kind of life, I had to start somewhere. I had to take one step outside and then another and keep going until outside didn’t feel like enemy territory anymore.Tonight was the

CHAPTER 154:THE DOOR

KNOX’S POVI stood in the hallway for a full minute after she went down the stairs.Just standing there with my jacket half on and my phone in my hand like an idiot.I heard the front door open. I heard Priya’s voice, bright and immediate. Heard a car start in the driveway. Heard everything get quiet again.She was gone.I finished putting my jacket on slowly and stood there trying to understand what was happening inside my chest. It was an odd feeling. Not painful exactly. More like something that didn’t have a name yet.I went back into my office and sat down at my desk.Picked up my phone. Put it down.Picked it up again.I opened the security app out of habit. The front gate camera. The driveway. I watched Dominic’s car pull out onto the street and disappear.I put the phone face down on the desk.This was ridiculous.Dominic was good. I knew that. I trusted him. He was one of maybe four people in my life I trusted without condition.He was careful and steady and honest and he w

CHAPTER 155: THE BEACH

KNOX’S POVI gave it an hour.Sat in my office pretending to work, listening to the house settle around me, telling myself I was fine and this was fine and there was absolutely no reason to go looking for anyone.Then I heard Priya come upstairs. I heard her door close. the house go quiet in the particular way it went quiet when everyone was in for the night.I waited another ten minutes.Then I went out into the hallway.Maria was coming up the stairs with a folded towel.“Is she back?” I asked. Keeping my voice casual.Maria looked at me. “Priya is back. Miss Elara chose to stay out a little longer.”I looked at her. “Alone?”“Dominic dropped them both off. Priya came inside. Miss Elara said she wanted some air.”“How long ago?”Maria considered this. “Maybe forty minutes.”Forty minutes. Alone outside at night.I was already moving toward the stairs before I finished the thought.“Mr. Reyes,” Maria called after me.I didn’t stop.I went to the front gate first and looked both ways

CHAPTER 156: THE CALL

VICTORIA’S POVI called at ten.It rang twice and Knox picked up, which meant he wasn’t asleep and wasn’t busy, which meant he was choosing to answer quickly.“Hey,” he said.“Hey.” I kept my voice light. “How’s the evening?”“Quiet. You?”“Fine. I’m at home.” I paused. “Is everything okay there?”“Yes. Everything’s fine.”Short answers. Knox gave short answers when he was distracted by something he didn’t want to talk about yet. I had learned that in eight months of knowing him.“Has your guest settled in for the night?” I asked.A small pause. “I think so.”I left it there.We talked for a few more minutes about nothing important and then said goodnight and I put the phone down and sat with it in my lap.The next morning I called Maria.Maria was loyal to Knox first and always would be. But she was also honest in the way that certain straightforward women were honest, not cruel, not gossiping, just factual when asked a direct question.“How is everything in the house?” I asked.“F

CHAPTER 157: THE MOTORCYCLE

KNOX’S POVI woke up thinking about her.That had been happening more frequently than I knew what to do with.I closed my eye, and all I could think of was her, my Elera.My hand moved almost on its own, pressing down over the front of my pants. I was already half-hard just from the memory of her laugh.I shouldn’t do this. But the need was sudden and sharp. I slid my zipper down, and freed myself. My cock was heavy and aching in my palm.I wrapped my fingers around the length and gave one slow stroke.A low sound escaped me — half sigh, half groan.I pictured her closer. Closer than she had any right to be in my mind. Her hand instead of mine. Those dark eyes watching me while she touched me. The way her breath might catch if I pulled her against me.I stroked faster, thumb brushing over the head, spreading the bead of precum that had already formed. Another soft moan slipped out, quiet but raw. I bit my lip to keep it from getting louder, but the pleasure built quickly, fueled by

CHAPTER 158; THE SEARCH

KNOX’S POVI sat at my desk for twenty minutes after everyone came back inside.I wasn’t working. I had a document open on my laptop that I hadn’t read a single word of. I was thinking about Dominic’s motorcycle and the way Elara had looked standing beside it. The way her whole face had changed when she laughed.She hadn’t looked at me like that once since she arrived.That was the thing I kept coming back to.She was polite with me. Careful. She answered my questions and occasionally asked her own and she was always composed and measured and appropriate. But she never laughed like that around me. Never stood with her arms uncrossed and her head thrown back and her whole body relaxed the way it had been in the driveway this morning.She was comfortable with Dominic.She was not comfortable with me.I didn’t fully understand why that bothered me as much as it did. But it did. It bothered me considerably.I closed the laptop.I thought about what Dominic had said. You should take her

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