All Chapters of When My Body Learned Your Name: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

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Chapter Sixty One

ANNASunlight crept through the blinds and fell across my face in soft stripes. I blinked awake slowly, feeling the lingering warmth of Carson pressed against me. My body remembered last night, the feel of his hands, the weight of him over me, the heat and fire that had consumed us. My chest still ached with a strange mix of satisfaction and exhaustion, and my hair was tangled from the pillow.“Morning,” he murmured, voice rough and low, eyes half-lidded as he looked down at me. I smiled, pressing closer.“Morning,” I whispered back, letting myself savor the closeness for a few more minutes.His arms wrapped around me tighter, and I let myself melt against him, content to linger in the afterglow of the night we’d shared. His skin was still warm, his heartbeat steady beneath my cheek. I wanted to memorize every inch of him, to keep this moment frozen forever. But eventually, the reality of the day began to tug at me, and Carson shifted, disentangling himself.“I’m going to make breakfa

Chapter Sixty Two

ANNAI felt the weight of Carson’s eyes on me as we stepped out of the car, his hand lingering briefly on mine. I wanted that touch to comfort me, but it did nothing to steady the pit in my stomach. His father stood there, arms crossed, posture rigid, eyes sharp, and that judgment cut through me sharper than any word Carson had thrown at me last night. I tried to straighten my shoulders, to summon the calm I usually carried at work, but I was unprepared for this, unprepared to face this level of scrutiny.“And who the hell are you?” His father’s voice was measured but lethal, every syllable packed with expectation, with authority, with the kind of disappointment that made you feel small before you even had the chance to speak. My mouth opened, closed, and opened again, the words lodged somewhere in my throat. I wanted to say something, anything, to explain, to remind him I was an employee, that I had a right to be here, that I wasn’t a frivolous distraction. But the words wouldn’t com

Chapter Sixty Three

CARSONI could feel the words hitting me like a punch to the gut before I even processed them. Step down. Step down. I kept repeating them in my head, willing them to make sense, willing the sentence to fold into some kind of logic I could grab onto. But there was none. My mind went blank. For a moment, I couldn’t breathe, couldn’t move, couldn’t even blink. Everything I had built, everything I had fought for, everything I had believed I controlled, collapsed in a single sentence. Step down.I wanted to scream. I wanted to throw something, anything. I wanted to storm out, to disappear, to leave this judgment behind me. I felt the heat of anger rolling through my chest, mingled with the ache of disbelief, and underneath it all, something I refused to name, a sadness that gnawed at me like acid. My body was moving before my mind could catch up. My legs carried me across the polished floor without permission. I left Anna standing there, frozen, like a ghost caught in the chaos I had crea

Chapter Sixty Four

ANNAThe office felt heavier than usual. Even though Carson and I had agreed to fight, to reclaim what was ours, the weight of expectation pressed down on us. Every monitor, every ticker, every chart screamed at me in a language I had learned to understand only recently, and yet today it felt like the numbers were mocking us.“Share prices are still falling,” Carson muttered, leaning against the edge of the conference table. His tie was loosened, sleeves rolled up, hair slightly messy from running his hands through it one too many times. The intensity in his eyes made my stomach tighten. I could see the fire in him, but I could also see the exhaustion, the pressure of carrying Archer Group’s entire legacy on his shoulders.“I know,” I said quietly, scanning the spreadsheets we had pulled. “But we have to find a trigger, something that restores confidence fast. Investors respond to momentum, perception. If we can show them someone believes in the company again, it’ll cascade.”He looke

Chapter Sixty Five

ANNAThe morning light felt harsh, unforgiving, slicing through the blinds like judgment. I had barely finished my coffee when the notifications started flooding in. Alerts from the trading platform, frantic emails from the board, whispers of panic from the trading floor. Something was wrong, and I could feel it in my gut before I even looked at the numbers.I opened my laptop, heart hammering. My stomach dropped the instant I saw the share graph. The upward trajectory we had fought for, the stabilization I had helped orchestrate, was collapsing faster than it had risen. The shares weren’t just fluctuating, they were plummeting, dragging everything down with them.“No,” I whispered, pressing my hands to the keyboard as if that could somehow stop it.Carson appeared behind me, moving quickly, eyes already scanning the same numbers, his expression a storm contained by sheer control. He didn’t speak immediately, just absorbed the information, and I could see the anger beginning to coil i

Chapter Sixty Six

ANNAThe office was too quiet.Not the peaceful kind of quiet that came after a long day of work, but the tense, brittle silence that settled when everyone was waiting for disaster to strike. Monitors glowed across the trading floor, numbers flickering red and green in rapid succession, and every few seconds another notification chimed through the system like a warning bell.I sat at my desk with my laptop open, fingers hovering over the keyboard. The graphs on my screen dipped and climbed in small, uncertain waves, and each movement made my stomach tighten.Carson had been gone for nearly an hour.Gone to see Emma.I pressed my lips together and forced myself to look back at the projections. If Emma agreed to help, the company would stabilize quickly. Her capital alone could slow the panic, and the board would finally breathe again.But the thought of Carson sitting across from her, negotiating not just money but his future, made my chest feel tight.Grace walked past my desk then, h

Chapter Sixty Seven

ANNAThe office had never felt this different before.The same desks stood in neat rows. The same glass walls reflected the afternoon light. The same low hum of computers and distant phone calls drifted through the air. Yet the atmosphere had shifted entirely, as if the building itself had decided to breathe easier now that the crisis was over.Archer Group had survived.The headlines on every business platform said the same thing.CARSON ARCHER SAVES COMPANY WITH PRIVATE INVESTOR MOVE.I had read the headline three times that morning before finally closing the tab. Each time the words stung a little more.Across the floor, Carson stood near the conference room speaking with two board members. Their expressions were full of admiration, nodding enthusiastically as he explained something on his tablet. Every now and then one of them laughed, clapping him on the shoulder as if he had just performed a miracle.I tried to focus on my screen, but my attention kept drifting toward them.Grac

Chapter Sixty Eight

ANNAThe sound of my phone vibrating against the nightstand dragged me out of sleep.For a moment I didn’t move. My eyes stayed closed while my mind tried to catch up with the sudden interruption. The morning light creeping through my curtains told me it was still early, far earlier than I usually woke up.The phone buzzed again.With a groan, I reached blindly across the nightstand until my fingers found it. My eyes were still half closed when I glanced at the screen.Carson.That woke me up immediately.My heart gave a quick, unexpected thump as I answered.“Hello?” My voice came out rough with sleep.“Good morning.”His voice was calm, warm, and entirely too awake for this hour.I pushed myself upright against the headboard, brushing messy strands of hair out of my face.“Carson?” I said, confused. “Why are you calling this early?”There was a brief pause on the other end.“I’m outside,” he said simply. “Come open the door.”I blinked.“What?”“I’m outside your building.”My brain

Chapter Sixty Nine

ANNAI woke up with the strange feeling that I had forgotten something important.For a moment I stayed still, staring at the ceiling while sunlight filtered softly through the curtains. The room smelled faintly of Carson’s cologne mixed with the warmth of fresh morning air drifting in from the open window.Then the memory of the morning came rushing back.Carson showing up at my door.Breakfast.The kiss.The bedroom.My cheeks warmed immediately.I rolled onto my side and noticed Carson standing near the window, pulling on his shirt while glancing at his phone. His hair was still slightly messy, and there was a relaxed ease in the way he moved that made it clear he wasn’t thinking about board meetings or stock markets at the moment.“Good morning,” he said without looking up.“You’re very confident for someone who just invaded my apartment this morning,” I muttered, stretching lazily under the sheets.He chuckled and slipped his phone into his pocket.“You didn’t seem to mind the in

Chapter Seventy

ANNAI woke to the sound of my phone buzzing insistently against the nightstand. Groaning, I squinted at the screen, already dreading what I might find. My thumb hovered over the notifications, heart sinking the instant I saw the messages from unknown numbers, all traced back to Luke—or at least, people connected to him. He had been trying to reach me. Tracking me. My stomach knotted, cold dread wrapping around me like a vise.I pushed myself upright, tossing the blankets aside, and ran a hand through my hair. I couldn’t let this happen. Not again. Not now. Not ever.I spent the next hour tracing every digital footprint I’d left, changing passwords, updating security questions, making sure nothing could lead him to me. It was meticulous work, exhausting and terrifying, but necessary. My mind kept running through scenarios, every possibility of him showing up or finding me. I couldn’t let him disrupt the fragile control I had worked so hard to establish over my life.By the time I fina

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