All Chapters of Beneath His Cold Vows: Chapter 221 - Chapter 230

Edward's POV Margaret Chen's office sat on the forty-third floor of a building I'd walked past thousand times without ever entering. Minimalist in the way only people with real power could afford to be. No awards on the walls. No family photos. Just floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking midtown and

Edward's POV Saturday arrived the way weekends always did when you had nothing to fill them with. Slowly. Relentlessly. Without mercy. I woke at six-thirty out of habit. The apartment was silent. Too big for one person. I'd never really noticed that before. In nearly three years of marriage,

Twenty minutes later, I was in my car, moving through Manhattan with no destination. That was a lie. I hadn’t planned it consciously, but my hands knew where they were going. Muscle memory. Habit. Instinct I hadn’t broken yet. Twenty-five minutes after leaving the estate, I pulled over half a blo

Edward's POV Monday arrived as Mondays always do. Inevitable. Unforgiving. I walked into the Valentine Group building at seven-thirty. The lobby was serene—just security and the early shift cleaners. My footsteps echoed across the marble. Leo fell into step beside me before I reached the elevato

The line connected at noon exactly. "Edward Valentine." "James Hartley, acquisitions. I have Patricia Voss from operations and Michael Chang from IT with me." "Let's start with the timeline." James's voice came through clearly. "We've broken integration into four phases. Phase one begins immedia