All Chapters of His Tamed Wife, The Wild Heiress: Chapter 191 - Chapter 193

Chapter 191MARCUSI had been watching Love Island for forty minutes before the knock came.This was not something I advertised. The version of Marcus Bellamy that existed in professional contexts—in boardrooms, at charity events, in the orbit of Damien Castellan's world—was not a version that watched reality television on a Wednesday afternoon with a bag of crisps and strong opinions about the authenticity of various contestants' emotional responses.The version at home was different."Zach is absolutely not straight," I said, to the television. "Look at him. Look at the way he looks at Bryce. That is not how straight men look at each other."The television did not respond."And Bryce is worse," I said. "At least Zach is trying. Bryce isn't even trying. Bryce is just—" I gestured at the screen. "He's just being Bryce, which is the most obviously gay thing anyone has done in the history of a show that is ostensibly about heterosexual coupling."The television continued to show Zach an

Chapter 193MARCUSI sat in my sitting room with the phone in my hand and the television still showing Love Island on mute and the bag of crisps on the cushion beside me.I thought about Damien.Sixteen years of knowing him. Fifteen of them as the person he showed the world, the CEO, the strategist, the man who had built something significant and maintained it with the specific discipline of someone who understood exactly what he was maintaining it from.The one before that—the year I had known the other version, the one that had needed to negotiate a departure, the one that had required a specific kind of oversight commitment as the price of being allowed to leave—that year lived in its own compartment and had stayed there for fifteen years.Until today.I looked at the window.The woman with the dog was gone. The delivery vehicle was gone. The street was doing its ordinary things.They had Damien.The accountability concern was something I didn't have the access level to understand,