บททั้งหมดของ Crave Me, Daddy’s Good Girl: บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 20

VERONICA POV Xavier Cross. That was the same person who sent his assistant to invite me into his private VIP lounge at the bar. Aside from that one moment, I still can’t place where exactly I’ve heard the name before. It’s nagging at the back of my mind like a half-remembered song. I look at Diana. She’s wearing that smug, satisfied look—like she just won the lottery and I’m the prize. I’m not about to let her have this one so easily. I force out an obviously fake laugh, trying to play it off. “Who the hell is that? I’ve never even met anyone named Xavier Cross.” “Stop lying!” She laughs, eyes bright. “Everyone saw him carrying you out of that party. It’s literally trending.” My laugh dies in my throat. My breath catches. “Trending? What are you talking about? Show me.” She’s already scrolling, smirking like she’s been waiting for this. “You’re so sneaky—you went to some fancy-ass masked party and didn’t even invite me? Rude.” Then she shoves her phone in my face. I

VERONICA POV “Zane! What are you doing?” My voice came out louder than I meant, sharp with panic as I tried to twist free. He didn’t answer right away. Just held my gaze, steady and unblinking. “What does it look like I’m doing, kitten?” I rolled my eyes, mostly to hide how fast my pulse was racing. “Zane, stop. I’ve told you a hundred times. You can’t keep doing this. I’m a single mom. There has to be some distance between us.” He tilted his head slightly. “Give me five good, authentic reasons why being a single mom means I should keep my distance, Honey. Go on.” “Because I have kids, and—” He cut me off gently, finger brushing my lips. “Shhh. Your eyes… they’re spellbinding. I can’t look away.” My heart slammed against my ribs. I tried again to pull my wrists free. No use. Then his mouth was on mine—firm, insistent. I pushed at his chest, but he was built like a wall. He’s a Gym freak, I can’t handle his biceps that feel like they're carved from stone, talk more o

VERONICA POVI had planned to leave Los Angeles the next morning. Being shortlisted for Vanguard Mall felt like some kind of cosmic mistake. I was twenty-eight, running a small but steady bakery in Atlanta. I could expand on my own terms, in my own time. I didn’t belong in rooms full of polished entrepreneurs and million-dollar leases.“I’m changing our flight,” I told Natasha while she filled the tub for the kids’ bath. “This whole thing is useless. They shortlisted me by accident.”Her face fell. She set the pitcher down. “Veronica, this is my first time in Los Angeles. Please let me have one more day with the kids. I could take them to Central Park tomorrow at noon. They’d love it.”“But Natasha—”“Please. Just one more day. I know you’re missing your lovey dovey Zane already, lover girl.”I rolled my eyes, cheeks warming. “No…no I’m not… Fine. Just one more day.”She squealed and threw her arms around me. “You’re the sweetest! The kids are going to be so excited when I tell them.”

XAVIER POV Last night, as soon as I stepped into the meeting hall to greet the old business acquaintances Kade had told me were waiting, people closed in around me. My former investor partners had all shifted into trading now, and they were trying to persuade me to merge my company with their operations since I had more than enough capital to make it happen. Even though the conversation with them, along with the board members and brand owners present, was genuinely productive, my eyes kept drifting back toward the door. Then I saw her. Veronica slipped into the crowd with Jason trailing right behind her. Panic surged through me like ice water. I cut every conversation short and pushed my way through the bodies until I reached the corridor. By the time I burst out the exit, she was already gone. I took the private elevator straight down to the ground floor, slid into my car, and told Luca, my driver, to follow the taxi she had hailed. I knew that boy Jason had angered my Veronica,

THIRD PERSON POV Zane groaned and leaned forward in the leather booth, rubbing his face with both hands. “We have to act fast. He dares not send those divorce papers through.” Kade let out a low laugh, shaking his head. “You know how your brother can be. He has taken this whole thing personally because of that Veronica girl.” Zane gritted his teeth, jaw tight. “I need to do something about that lady. Xavier must not find out she already has children for him.” He turned to Camila, his brows furrowed deeply. “It’s all your fault. If you had listened to me, we wouldn’t be in this mess right now.” Camila frowned, her perfectly shaped eyebrows pulling together. “What do you mean by ‘if I didn’t listen to you’?” “I told you to drop the damn modeling career and go back to Xavier,” Zane said, his voice low and sharp. “If you had been with him all these years, we would have had the property signed over a long time ago. But no. You insisted on finishing your modeling thing first befo