All Chapters of HIS SECRET DESIRE (MxM): Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

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Chapter 61—The Other Side of the Coin

Sophie's POVKatherine opened the door before I even knocked, like she'd been watching through the window since I called, and the moment I saw her face something in my chest cracked open in a way I hadn't expected. I'd held myself together the entire drive over, kept my breathing steady and my jaw set, but the way Katherine looked at me like she already knew something was terribly wrong just from the sound of my voice on the phone made all of that careful composure start to unravel.Come in, she said softly, pulling me inside and wrapping an arm around my shoulders.She guided me to the living room and disappeared into the kitchen without a word, returning with two glasses of wine and settling beside me on the couch with the quiet ease of someone who'd been my friend long enough to know that sometimes you just needed to sit with someone before you could speak.I told her everything. The hotel receipt I'd found tucked in the dry cleaning, the Tuesday and Friday pattern I'd noticed over

Last Updated : 2026-02-18

Chapter 62—Closure

Robin's POVI almost cancelled three times before I finally got out of my car and walked toward the restaurant, telling myself the only reason I was doing this was to say what needed to be said to his face so he'd stop calling and texting and showing up in my city like the past year hadn't happened.Mitchell had told me not to go, had sat on my kitchen counter that morning with her coffee and looked at me like I was making the worst decision of the week. You don't owe him a conversation Robin, she'd said, you don't owe him anything, you could just keep blocking every number he uses and eventually he'd get the message.But I knew Adam, and I knew that eventually wasn't something he understood, that he'd keep finding ways to reach me until I either gave him what he wanted or looked him directly in the eye and made it completely undeniable. So I'd told Mitchell I'd be fine, grabbed my keys and driven over.The place Adam had chosen was quiet, one of those small neighbourhood spots with l

Last Updated : 2026-02-18

Chapter 63—Something in the Air

Christopher's POVI couldn't explain it, not in any way that made logical sense, but something had felt off all week, like a low hum running beneath everything I touched at work, in traffic, at home, something I couldn't identify and couldn't shake no matter how much I tried to focus on other things.It wasn't Robin, things with Robin had actually been steadier lately, the weekend at the cottage had given us both something to hold onto, some evidence that what we had could be good and quiet and real when the rest of the world wasn't pressing in. I'd texted him Monday night and he'd texted back and there had been none of the usual heaviness, just the two of us talking the way people talked when they felt settled with each other.It wasn't work either, the company was running well, the northern expansion was gaining traction with the board, and even Victor had been quieter than usual which should have felt like relief but for some reason made the hum louder instead. Something about Vict

Last Updated : 2026-02-19

Chapter 64—The Truth Between Us

Sophie's POVI'd rehearsed this moment a dozen times in the mirror over the past few days, standing in my bathroom with the door locked, going through the words I'd say and how I'd say them, trying to find a version of this conversation that didn't feel like detonating something I could never put back together.None of the rehearsals had helped, because no rehearsal could prepare you for the actual weight of sitting across from someone you'd shared a life with and asking them to stop lying to you.I'd spent three days carrying Tio's photos around in my phone like a secret of my own, opening them and closing them, looking at Christopher's face in those images and trying to reconcile the man in them with the man who sat across from me at dinner and asked about my charity meetings and remembered how I took my coffee. Two versions of the same person and somehow I'd only ever known one of them.Katherine's advice had been practical and I'd understood it, but every time I tried to imagine s

Last Updated : 2026-02-19

Chapter 65—Confession

Christopher's POVThe moment I said it, I'll tell you everything, something loosened in my chest that had been wound tight for so long I'd forgotten what it felt like without it.I hadn't planned to say it quite like that, hadn't planned to say it at all tonight the way I usually didn't plan anything, just managed and delayed and found reasons to wait a little longer. But Sophie had sat down across from me with those photos and that quiet steady voice and asked me for the truth, and something in me had simply stopped being able to refuse.Sophie sat very still across from me, her hands folded in her lap, her face composed in that careful way she had that I'd always mistaken for coolness but was starting to understand was just her way of holding herself together when something threatened to knock her over. She was doing it now, keeping herself upright, and I respected her for it in a way I hadn't given myself the chance to before.I didn't know where to begin so I started with the simp

Last Updated : 2026-02-20

Chapter 66—What Was Never Ours

Sophie's POVHe didn't answer immediately, and the silence stretched between us long enough that I almost repeated the question.Then he said, you don't know him.That wasn't what I asked, I said.He looked at me steadily. I know.Then answer it, I said quietly.I held his gaze and something shifted in me, not rage, not the dramatic collapse I'd half expected from myself, just a dull ache settling into the space where shock had been. I'd looked at those photos dozens of times over the past few days and still somehow hearing him confirm it felt different, heavier.I leaned back slightly and folded my arms, not defensively, just needing something to hold onto.How long? I asked.A few months.And you were going to tell me when exactly?He was quiet for a beat. I was trying to figure out how.Figure out how, I repeated. Christopher, we have lived in the same apartment for ten years. There were a thousand moments you could have said something.I know, he said. I know that.Then why didn't

Last Updated : 2026-02-20

Chapter 67—The Line He Wouldn't Cross

Christopher POVI looked at her for a long moment after she said it, feeling the weight of the request settle over the room, and I knew before I opened my mouth that my answer was going to change things, possibly in a way that couldn't be undone.Part of me wanted to say yes, wanted to give her the one thing she'd asked for tonight because she'd been calm and honest and she deserved some kindness after everything. But saying yes would have been another lie, and I'd just spent the last hour telling her I was done with lies.I can't do that, I said.Sophie's expression didn't change immediately, just held steady the way it did when she was processing something she hadn't expected. Then something flickered across her face, just briefly, before she pulled it back under control.You can't, she repeated.I won't, I said, because it was more honest. I won't end it Sophie, I'm sorry.She was quiet for a beat, and when she spoke her voice was measured and careful. I just asked you one thing. O

Last Updated : 2026-02-21

Chapter 68—What We Can't Lose

Robin's POVThe call came in the late afternoon haze. Christopher's name flashed on my screen. I picked up before the second ring finished buzzing."I need to see you," he said, voice already rough around the edges. "Cabin. Tonight.""I'll be there," I answered, simple as that.I got there first. Sat on the porch steps with my arms resting on my knees, eyes fixed on the dirt road cutting through the trees. Waited until his headlights finally carved white streaks across the trunks. He parked, stepped out, and walked straight to me. No greeting. Just that look, like something inside him had finally split open and all the pressure was bleeding out."Tell me," I said.He sat down heavy beside me. Started talking. Sophie at the kitchen table with the photos laid out between them like playing cards. No yelling, just quiet, brutal honesty. Her asking him to walk away clean. Him refusing flat-out. Him telling her the truth, that he loved me, that he'd loved me for longer than he could pretend

Last Updated : 2026-02-21

Chapter 69—The Weight of It

Sophie's POVI sat on the edge of my bed for a long time after I walked out on Christopher, my hands flat on my thighs, staring at the wall without really seeing it.The anger had carried me out of that living room and down the hallway and through the door and then it had simply run out, the way anger always did when it had nowhere left to go, leaving something quieter and heavier behind it.I wasn't sure how long I sat there. Long enough for the sounds of the apartment to settle into silence, for whatever small noises Christopher made in the living room to stop. Long enough for the city outside my window to shift from evening into something darker and stiller.I wasn't crying, which surprised me a little. I'd expected to cry, had braced for it on the drive from Katherine's, in the days between finding the photos and finding the courage to sit down across from my husband and ask him to look me in the eye. But the tears hadn't come and they weren't coming now either, just this flat exh

Last Updated : 2026-02-22

Chapter 70—The Call That Changes Everything

Sophie's POVI made the call the next morning.Not in a fit of rage, not while I was still trembling from the night before, but after a full night of lying awake in the silence of my room, staring at the ceiling, turning the same question over and over until the answer stopped changing. Every time I circled back to the same place. If Christopher wouldn't stop on his own, someone else had to make him.I waited until I heard Christopher leave for work, heard the front door close, heard the elevator down the hall. I waited until the apartment was completely quiet and the only sound was the city outside, and then I sat at my vanity with my phone in both hands and found Richard Hall's number.I had never called him directly before. We spoke at dinners, at events, at the occasional family gathering where proximity made conversation unavoidable. But I had never called him myself, woman to man, and the unfamiliarity of it made my pulse pick up.My hands were steady though.He answered on the

Last Updated : 2026-02-22

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