All Chapters of What Daddy Left Behind: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

~ Stellan's POVI couldn’t get her words out of my fucking mind.The silence of my executive office was usually my sanctuary, a place where the noise of the world was shut out so I could work in peace. But today, the silence was deafening, entirely filled with the ghost of a single, breathy purr.“Uncle, don't punish him too hard, okay? I just want him to discipline his daughter better.”I leaned back in my leather chair, staring blindly at the panoramic view of the Manhattan skyline, my jaw clenched so tight it ached. I had already executed her request. Within three minutes of our call ending, I had systematically pulled every cent of Vaughn Enterprise funding from Governor Sterling’s reelection campaign. This was relatively small compared to what I could have actually done to him.I had placed three calls to his heaviest backers, ensuring his political career would be nothing but ash by the end of the fiscal quarter.I would do it again in a heartbeat. I would bankrupt a nation if

~ Thea's POVI moaned my nipples turning to stone at his words.This was not meant to turn my body into water. Because why the fuck am I? Leaking down there just from his threatening tone.A baby? Inside?Fuck, he wants to breed me.I should be panicking right now, but here I am taking it like a good girl, arching my hips like a damn cat while he drives into me with a quiet groan that makes my toes curl.I was twenty-one years old, a college student barely holding the fragmented pieces of her life together, completely reliant on the man currently pinning me to the mattress. The very concept of a baby, of a pregnancy, should have terrified me into freezing. It should have been a bucket of ice water over the blazing inferno of our sex.Instead, snapping my hips back to meet his.My breath hitched violently, a high, broken gasp escaping my lips. My body reacted before my mind could even process the psychological weight of his confession. My inner walls spasmed, clenching around his thic

~ Thea’s POVThe campus courtyard was a picture-perfect collegiate scene, students lounging on the grass, debating philosophy, and stressing over midterms.For a fleeting, beautiful moment, I felt entirely normal.I was sitting cross-legged on a thick plaid blanket under the shade of a massive oak tree, my textbooks scattered uselessly around me. Across from me, Maya was leaning back on her hands, her head resting comfortably on Liam’s thigh.Liam didn't look at me with the polite, guarded distance of a friend’s boyfriend anymore. He looked at me with the easy, relaxed familiarity of someone who had shared a dark, uninhibited secret.Liam casually plucked a green grape from the plastic container resting beside him. He dangled it over Maya’s face, a lazy, affectionate smile playing on his lips. Maya parted her mouth, catching the grape and giving his fingers a playful nip before chewing."You guys are entirely too domestic right now," I teased, pulling my leather jacket a little tight

~ Stellan’s POVStellan frowned.The Kinsley acquisition was a seven-billion-dollar deal that had taken six months of aggressive, relentless maneuvering to bring to the table. I was standing at the head of the boardroom, in the middle of dismantling their lead negotiator's final defense, when the double doors crashed open.The echoing bang shattered the hushed professionalism of the room. Fifteen high-powered executives snapped their heads around, their expressions twisting in outrage at the unprecedented intrusion.But the exact second my pitch-black eyes landed on the doorway, the entire corporate empire I had spent my life building ceased to exist.Thea stood on the threshold. She was breathing heavily, her leather jacket slightly askew, her dark eyes wild with a frantic, desperate energy. She didn't look like the pliant, ruined girl I had left tangled in my charcoal sheets just a few hours ago. She looked terrified, cornered, and vibrating with absolute fury."Thea," I breathed,

~ Thea’s POV"You forbid me?" I snapped back. "You don't own the world, Stellan! And you sure as hell don't own me! Let me go!"I thrashed against him, my boots kicking out, my body twisting violently to break free from the cage of his arms. He didn't flinch. He didn't even stumble. He simply absorbed my blows."I am not letting you walk out that door," he growled, his voice a low, vibrating menace that shook the floorboards. He stepped into my space, using his massive frame to press me completely flat against the bedroom wall. "There is a ghost out there hunting you, Thea. Someone got close enough to touch you today. Do you understand what that means? I will lock you in this room and throw away the key before I let you walk back out into the crosshairs.""I don't care!" I sobbed, the tears streaming hot and fast down my cheeks. "I would rather take my chances with a stalker than be your permanent prisoner! I hate this! I hate you for doing this to me!"It was a lie, and we both knew