Chapter 41

~ DAMIEN'S POV ~I was on a call when I checked my watch for the first time.One hour and fourteen minutes.Eva had said she was going to check on Marty and would not be long. I had assumed thirty minutes at most. I finished the call and told myself to wait.But I was not someone who waited well.I used the time to go through my Paris property files, which I had been sitting on for two days now. If the competition board was going to keep us here, I was going to make the stay worth something. I had seven properties in Paris, one in the seventh, two further out, and none of them were currently set up for extended use. That needed to change.Also, I had been watching videos.This was not something I would be admitting to Roman or anyone else, but for the past week, I had been going through content online about what women apparently wanted from the men in their lives. Most of it was useless. Some of it was not. I had been taking notes in my head and had several plans forming that I was

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Chapter 42

~ Damien's POV ~“Put me down right now, Damien. My ass is literally in the air for everyone to see.”I kept walking down the hotel corridor, her body draped over my shoulder. “It wasn’t like you cared back at the club.”She wriggled and made a protesting sound. The thin dress rode higher on her thighs. I used my free hand to tug it down over her bare skin. The elevator doors opened. I stepped inside. Roman followed, Marty still over his own shoulder. No one spoke during the ride up.When we reached the suite I opened the door and slammed it shut behind us. The sound echoed throughout the quiet corridor. I carried Eva to the bed and set her on her feet. She swayed the moment her toes touched the carpet, one hand grabbing my arm to steady herself. Her cheeks were flushed and her eyes looked glassy from the alcohol. The little dress clung to her, showing everything and wrinkled from the ride.She kicked one shoe off. It skidded under the coffee table. The second followed and landed cr

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Chapter 43

~ Damien's POV ~ I stood there with the card still in my hand long after Roman had walked away. The words stayed fixed in my mind even though my eyes no longer focused on the letters. The noise from the street, the flashing lights of the security vehicles, the murmurs from the gathered crowd, everything faded into the background until it felt distant and unimportant.Fear crept in again, the same cold fear that had gripped me earlier in the evening when her phone kept ringing without answer. I worried I would fail to protect Eva the same way I had failed to protect my mother. The thought lodged in my chest and refused to leave.What most people never knew was that the Blackwood family operated like a dungeon for every child born into it. You either became ruthless or you got killed off. There was no middle ground, no room for softness.My mother, Elizabeth, always saw the good in people. She had spotted a woman injured on the side of the road one rainy night and stopped to help.

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Lahat ng Kabanata ng Hidden Heiress Rising: Married to my Ex-Husband’s Uncle: Kabanata 41 - Kabanata 43

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43