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chapter Thirty one

The morning sun sliced through the gaps in my blinds like sharp blades, dragging me out of a nightmare I wasn’t ready to leave. Adrian’s gentle face had twisted into Alex’s furious stare, and I woke tangled in sweat-soaked sheets, breathing like I’d been running for my life.My head throbbed. My heart wouldn’t sit still.I reached for my phone, praying for a moment of clarity, but instead Adrian’s message lit up my screen:Thinking of you. Coffee?Simple,Sweet, and Safe.And somehow it only made everything inside me twist harder.Adrian was warmth. A steady hand in a world full of storms.But Alex… Alex was the storm , unpredictable, consuming, the kind of danger that made my body come alive in ways that terrified me.And I was trapped between them, stretched thin by two very different kinds of fire.I rushed across campus, the cold morning air biting at my skin as fallen leaves crunched under my sneakers. Adrian waited beneath the old oak tree, leaning against the trunk with

최신 업데이트 : 2025-12-07

Chapter Thirty two

The weekend came too fast.I stood outside the glass doors of Alex’s building, clutching my laptop bag like a shield. The doorman waved me up without asking my name; he already knew. Thirty-second floor. Penthouse. Of course it was the penthouse.The elevator opened straight into his living room, all dark wood and city lights bleeding through floor-to-ceiling windows. Alex was leaning against the kitchen island, he wore a simple shirt ,showing his forearms corded and inked. He didn’t smile. He just looked at me like he’d been starving for days and I was the first meal in sight.“Thought you might bail,” he said, voice low.“I almost did.”He pushed off the island, closing the distance in three slow strides,But you didn’t.I swallowed, We have a project.“Yeah,” he murmured, stopping just short of touching me. “We do.”We actually tried to work. For maybe twenty minutes. Books spread across the dining table, laptops open, coffee going cold. I kept my eyes on the screen, recitin

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chapter Thirty three

The days after Alex slid inside me felt like walking through a dream I wasn’t allowed to wake from. My body still carried him (the ache between my thighs, the faint bruises on my hips where his fingers had dug in like he was trying to brand me). Every time I closed my eyes I felt it again: the slow, deliberate push, the way he’d looked down at me like I was something sacred and profane all at once. I’d sworn to myself it would never happen. Not with him,not with anyone. And then I’d opened my legs and let him ruin me in the most exquisite way possible.I wanted to scrub the memory off my skin.Instead, I went to work.The café smelled like burnt sugar and espresso grounds, same as always, but everything felt tilted. Kacey spotted it the second I walked through the door (she always could). She leaned over the counter, red curls falling into her eyes, grinning like a cat who’d swallowed the entire aviary.“Sooo,” she drawled, wiping a glass that didn’t need wiping. How many times did Al

최신 업데이트 : 2025-12-08

chapter Thirty-four

Clara’s POV I don’t remember running. I only remember the cold bite of the night air on my face and the way my lungs burned like I’d swallowed glass. The elevator took forever. I punched the button until my knuckles bled. When the doors finally opened to the lobby, I kept going, past the doorman who called after me, out onto the street where taxis were.I walked until my feet bled inside my heels until the city sounds turned into white noise. I ended up on the Brooklyn Bridge because it was far enough that no one would find me quickly. The wind whipped my hair across my face, and I let it. I wanted it to hurt.My mother was alive.My mother was married to the Roberts.My mother had watched Alex talk about the girl he was falling for and had no idea it was me.And I… God, I had let him inside me I had begged for it. I had allow my lips kissed his ,even squirted on his cock, whispering his name like it was holy.I pressed my palms to the railing and screamed into the dark. The sound

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Chapter Thirty five– The Weight of the Truth

Clara’s POV Morning slammed into me like a cruel truth I wasn’t ready for. I woke up in the Roberts’ penthouse guest room, tangled in silk sheets that didn’t belong to me, my body aching everywhere Alex had touched me held me claimed me. Bruises shaped like his fingers dotted my skin,My lips still throbbed from the way he kissed me like I was air after drowning. And my heart… God, my heart felt shattered in too many directions to count. I stared up at the ceiling, swallowing against the knot in my throat. Last night replayed in flashes the dinner, the tension, the emotions spilling out like broken glass, the way he looked at me like he couldn’t breathe without me… Then the universe decided to break me all over again. My mother was alive. Not in a grave. Not in ashes. Not lost somewhere in the ocean But Alive. And the crash,the crash that destroyed my childhood… The crash that stole everything from me… Might not have been an accident. My chest ached , I curled

최신 업데이트 : 2025-12-09

chapter Thirty-Six

Clara’s POVThe sky outside the café had turned that bruised purple of early winter dusk by the time I clocked out, my hands raw from scrubbing counters I didn’t need to scrub, my mind a whirlwind of half-formed questions that wouldn’t let go. Kacey had hugged me so tightly saying goodbye like she was afraid I’d shatter on the sidewalk, whispering one last Call me if anything feels off babygirl into my ear. I nodded, but my feet were already carrying me toward the subway, toward the penthouse I’d run from that morning I couldn’t leave it like this the ghost of my mother’s face haunting me, the text like a noose tightening around my neck. I needed answers, even if they tore me apart.*********The elevator ride up felt like i was going into examination hall, my reflection in the mirrored walls showing a girl I barely recognized: pale, eyes hollowed out by too many tears, the black dress from last night still clinging like a bad memory.When the doors slid open, the foyer was quiet,

최신 업데이트 : 2025-12-10

Chapter Thirty-seven

Clara’s POVBella Cross walks into my life the way smoke enters a room soft… invisible… and choking before you even notice.She wasn’t always this way.There was a time we were friends, or at least I thought we were.Back when it was the three of us —Me, Bella, Ethan.The little trio everyone on campus thought was inseparable.Ethan’s parents moved back to Korea, and just like that he was gone.Bella didn’t cry, or even felt his absence.She just smiled like moving pieces made space for her new game.I should’ve known.But I trusted her.I let her sit in my silence.I told her things I shouldn’t have.I let her call me “bestie” even when something in my chest felt wrong.And today… that “wrong” feeling becomes a monster.*********Kacey and I were talking at the café two days ago, whispering about the detective, the plane crash, the horrifying possibility that it wasn’t an accident,the surprise that my supposed dead mother was alive And then… what I never should have sa

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chapter Thirty Eight

I decided something the minute the sun came up and the dorm was still quiet.I was done crying in showers. Done letting their whispers crawl under my skin like insects. Done pretending I was small enough to disappear.If the whole campus wanted to call me the girl who kissed her stepbrother, let them.Words don’t kill.Secrets do.So I pulled my hair into a messy knot, threw on the old black hoodie that still smelled like Dad’s office, and I went straight to the one place that always felt like walking into a tomb: Langford Industries.The lobby was too bright, too marble, too silent. My sneakers didn’t make a sound. I took the elevator to the fourth floor, the one nobody uses anymore, punched in the code Dad made me memorize when I was nine (my birthday backward), and slipped inside the archive room.It still smelled like him. Old paper, coffee, the faint cedar of his cologne trapped in the vents. I used to sit on these tables and swing my legs while he worked. Now the silence pressed

최신 업데이트 : 2025-12-11

chapter Thirty nine

The door creaked open.Alex’s hand tightened around mine not possessive, not forceful, but protective in a way that made my heart clench painfully.A janitor stepped inside, blinking at the lights.“Oh sorry,” he muttered, Didn’t know anyone was using the archive room.I sagged against the table, knees weak with relief.Alex didn’t let go of my hand until the janitor disappeared again, the automatic lock clicking back into place.When he finally released me, it felt like the room lost its warmth.He turned toward me slowly, as if he feared I might bolt.“Clara,” he whispered, please tell me what’s going on.His voice wasn’t demanding. It wasn’t angry.It was scared.And that frightened me more than the documents.I took a shaky breath and grabbed my backpack, stuffing the files inside.“I can’t talk here,” I said. “Not with cameras. Not in a building connected to my father… connected to everything.”Alex moved closer, cautiously, like approaching a wounded animal.Then talk to me outs

최신 업데이트 : 2025-12-11

chapter forty

Clara’s POV The deeper I dig, the darker everything gets. For the last three nights, I’ve barely slept. I go to work. I smile at customers. I pretend I’m fine,Then I come home to the empty apartment, open my laptop, and dive back into the black hole of my father’s files. Tonight, I’m sitting cross-legged on the floor in the middle of stacks of documents I shouldn’t even have. My father’s handwriting, messy and desperate in his last weeks, stares up at me like a ghost refusing to rest. At first, the files made no sense , numbers that didn’t add up, contracts with entire pages missing, encrypted digital folders. But then I found it. A folder hidden inside a folder labelled OLD BUDGETS,It should’ve contained spreadsheets. Instead, there were scanned letters and confidential proposals that made my stomach drop. Dubai Group of Technology Preliminary Partnership Draft. My father’s name was signed at the bottom. And right under it…. Roberts Group – Competing Acquisition Notes

최신 업데이트 : 2025-12-12

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