All Chapters of Beneath His Cold Vows: Chapter 301 - Chapter 310

Edmund's pen had stopped moving. Catherine Monroe had taken her reading glasses off. Around the table, the quality of the silence had changed. No longer the silence of people waiting for a meeting to proceed. The silence of people trying to decide what they were sitting in the middle of. "That is a

Edward's POV The panelling on the far wall ran in clean vertical lines from floor to ceiling. I had counted them twice already. The monitor registered everything in intervals. My shoulder was immobilized. My ribs announced themselves every time I breathed too deeply, which I had stopped doing some

Alicia's POV The apartment smelled like coffee and garlic from whatever Elena had made earlier. I dropped my bag by the door. Walked to the kitchen. Filled a glass with water. Drank it standing at the sink, looking out the small window at the building across the street. Elena was on the couch wh

"The vendor contract," I said. "Walk me through the reasoning." He did. His logic was solid. One variable was misweighted. I corrected it. He noted it. No argument. Leo respected precision. After twenty minutes I noticed he had stopped writing. "What," I said. "Nothing." He glanced at me. "You s

I met her gaze, letting her see everything. “I would have wished it was,” I said, my own voice quiet. “You were his wife. You deserved everything. But it isn’t. Before Valentine, there was Voices Beyond Borders. There was other work. This came from me. From my accounts. It’s clean.” She searched my