All Chapters of HIS SECRET DESIRE (MxM): Chapter 71 - Chapter 79

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Chapter 71—The Ultimatum

Christopher's POVThe drive to my parents' house took forty minutes and I spent every one of them in a silence that had nothing to do with peace.I knew by the time I pulled through the gate. Not the specifics, not the exact shape of what I was walking into, but enough. Sophie had made a call. I didn't need proof. I knew my wife, and the woman who had walked out of our living room two nights ago with that controlled fury behind her eyes was not a woman who would sit quietly and absorb things.My mother opened the front door before I reached it, and the look on her face confirmed the rest. She had that expression she only ever wore when something had already happened that she couldn't undo and was trying to soften the landing.Christopher, she said softly.Where is he, I said.The dining room, she said, her hand reaching for my arm. Please just listen to him first. Please just hear him out before you say anything, just give him that.I touched her hand briefly and walked past her.My f

Last Updated : 2026-02-23

Chapter 72—The Call

Christopher's POVI sat in my car outside my parents' house for a long time before I started the engine.The night was quiet around me, the kind of quiet that only existed away from the city, nothing pressing against it, nothing filling the space. I could still see the lights of the house through the windscreen, warm in every window, like nothing inside had changed at all, like the conversation I'd just walked out of had simply been absorbed into the walls and the furniture and the long history of things this family managed by not talking about them.I kept thinking about my mother's face. Not my father's, I'd had enough experience with my father's expressions to know how to put distance between myself and them, but my mother standing in the doorway with her arms folded and her eyes full, saying I love you in that broken voice that meant she meant it and also couldn't see past her own fear to do anything useful with it.I sat with that for a while. Let it hurt the way it needed to.Th

Last Updated : 2026-02-23

Chapter 73—Not The Cabin

Robin's POVI didn't say anything for so long that Christopher said my name twice.The words he'd just told me were sitting in my chest in a pile I hadn't figured out how to sort through yet. The ultimatum. His father's voice across a dinner table. His mother crying. One week. And Christopher saying he didn't need a week, that he'd already said no, that he was ready to lose all of it.All of it.For me.I pressed my free hand flat against my thigh and stared at the wall of my apartment and tried to find the right words and kept coming up empty. It almost never happened to me. I always had words, Mitchell had teased me about it often enough, said I was the kind of person who processed everything out loud whether the other person was ready or not. But this had reached past the part of me that knew how to speak and was sitting somewhere deeper, somewhere that didn't have language yet.The inheritance. The company. His mother crying.Him saying he didn't need a week.Robin, Christopher sa

Last Updated : 2026-02-24

Chapter 74—The Kindest Thing

Robin's POVHe knew.I could see it in his face the moment I said those words, the quiet dread settling in behind his eyes, the way his jaw tightened slightly before he could stop it. He knew before I said another word and I watched him decide to fight it anyway.Don't, he said.I haven't said anything yet, I said quietly.You don't have to. I know where this is going Robin and I need you to not go there.I looked at him across the small table, the low restaurant noise around us, the ordinary evening carrying on at every other table while ours felt like the edge of something.Let me say it, I said. Please just let me say it.He looked at me and his expression was something I hadn't seen from him before, raw in a way Christopher Hall almost never let himself be in front of anyone, and I had to hold myself very still to keep going.I've been lied to, I said. Before you, before any of this, I was with someone who looked me in the eye every single day and lied. Who made me feel chosen and

Last Updated : 2026-02-24

Chapter 75—Surrender

Christopher's POVI sat at that table for a long time after he left.The restaurant carried on around me. Someone laughed at the table by the window. A waiter refilled a glass. The quiet ordinary music of an evening that had no idea what had just happened at my small corner table, and I sat in the middle of all of it with my hands flat on the surface and Robin's empty chair across from me and tried to remember how to breathe normally.He'd walked out and I hadn't stopped him.I'd almost followed him. I'd gotten halfway to standing, my hand already reaching for my jacket, and then something had stopped me, some small terrible voice that said he'd made his choice and following him out into the street and arguing with him on the pavement wouldn't change it, would only make both of us hurt for longer. Robin knew what he was doing. He always knew what he was doing.I sat back down and stayed there until the waiter came and asked gently if I needed anything else, and I said no thank you and

Last Updated : 2026-02-25

Chapter 76—The Question She Can't Answer

Sophie POVThe apartment was quiet when I woke up that morning, the particular quiet of a space where two people were living separate lives under the same roof and both of them knew it.Christopher had come home late the night before. I'd heard the front door, heard him move through the apartment, heard him settle in the guest room he'd been using since our conversation, and I'd lain in my bed with my eyes open and said nothing. We hadn't spoken in two days. Not since he'd walked out of the living room and I'd gone to my room and made the decision that changed everything.I made coffee and stood at the kitchen window and watched the city wake up below, and I thought about Richard Hall's voice on the phone. That cold controlled tone when I'd finished telling him, the way he'd said good and moved on, the brisk efficiency of a man snapping a problem back into place.You were right to call me.I'd believed that when he said it. I'd told myself all the way through that decision that I'd be

Last Updated : 2026-02-25

Chapter 77—An Unexpected Conversation

Sophie's POVI almost didn't go.I'd been invited to the Morrison Foundation gala weeks before any of this happened, back when my life had still looked like something I understood, and RSVP'd without thinking twice because attending events like this was simply part of what I did. But standing in front of my mirror that evening with the apartment quiet and Christopher somewhere on the other side of the city attending a work dinner he hadn't invited me to and hadn't needed to, I'd held my earrings in one hand and thought seriously about texting my apologies and spending the evening in my dressing gown instead.Katherine had called while I was deciding and told me I needed to get out of that apartment, that sitting alone in a space full of silence and unresolved things was not going to help anything, and that I had a new dress and good jewellery and a reason to use both.So I went.The venue was exactly what these evenings always were, beautiful and busy and a little relentless, the kind

Last Updated : 2026-02-26

Chapter 78—The Elevator

Sophie's POVHe called two days later. Not too soon to look desperate, not too late to seem like he didn’t give a damn. Perfect timing.He suggested coffee. I told him I’d rather do dinner, that I didn’t trust conversations designed to wrap up after one drink. There was a short pause on his end, then he laughed low and said, “Fair enough,” before naming a restaurant I’d heard people talk about but never tried myself. Quiet, expensive, the kind of place where the lighting was dim enough to feel private and the noise level let you actually hear each other.I said yes.The restaurant sat on the fourteenth floor, all soft amber lights, floor-to-ceiling windows, and a view that turned the city into something almost unreal. Tio was already there when the host led me over. He stood up as I approached. Old-school, but it didn’t feel performative. Just him.“You look good,” he said. Simple. No bullshit.“Thank you,” I answered, and sat.Dinner was easy. Easier than I thought it could be. He ta

Last Updated : 2026-02-26

Chapter 79—Going Through the Motions

Christopher's POVWeeks passed.I knew they were passing because the calendar told me so, because the projects at Golden Anchor moved forward and the board meetings came and went and the quarterly reports landed on my desk with new numbers on them. Not because anything felt different from one day to the next. Everything felt the same. The same flat grey sameness that had been sitting over everything since the night I drove home from the restaurant and went to bed in the guest room and woke up and went to work and did it all again.Work was the only place that made sense anymore.I arrived earlier than anyone else. I stayed later. I filled every hour between with meetings and calls and decisions that needed making, and when those ran out I found more, read reports I could have delegated, sat through briefings I'd once have sent someone else to. My assistant had stopped asking if I needed anything by the second week because the answer was always the same and I always said it the same wa

Last Updated : 2026-02-28

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