All Chapters of Beneath His Cold Vows: Chapter 321 - Chapter 330

Her hands. Both of them. One at my arm, one flat against my chest. "I have you." The voice from the road. Low. Certain. "Stay still." "I'm not—" "Couch." She moved me the way she'd moved me in that hospital room. Knowing where the sling was. Knowing the ribs. Not being told once. And I let her,

I looked at her. She looked at me. "Because it was," I said. She held my gaze. "You don't know that." "Yes I do," I said. "And so do you." She looked away. Her thumb brushing my ribs. Once. The small, unconscious motion she had kept doing, and I had noticed every single time. "Not ready," she

I had closed the distance. His mouth was right there and my eyes were closing and his breath against my lips and his thumb still tracing my jaw and the room had gone so quiet I could hear my own pulse and— The door opened. I was off the couch before I knew I'd moved. My elbow caught his ribs on t

Alicias's POV The smile lasted three seconds. I counted them. Lucy’s lead set the page down and moved to the podium. The courtroom followed her. That collective stillness of a room sensing something was about to begin. Cole had told me: she'll start soft. Let her. Answer only what's asked. Don’t

Alicia's POV Cole didn't pause. Didn't shuffle papers. Didn't let the room fall back into whatever Lucy's lead had left behind. He was already standing. "Ms. Valentine." His voice carried nothing performative in it. No architecture. Just direct. "You walked out of the board meeting that afterno