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Chapter 31: The Apartment Raid

Josie’s POVFor a moment, the air inside the penthouse felt too thick to breathe.The storm had been building for days, since the gala shooting, since the shooter confessed about Sarah’s family, since the shadows around Julian’s supposed death began to unravel.Now the pieces were finally lining up.And Alexander Hart was not the type of man who waited patiently when he saw his enemies.He was already dialing Chris as he walked toward the door.“Get the team ready,” Alexander said into the phone, his voice cold and controlled. “We’re going out.”I followed him without hesitation.Alexander glanced over his shoulder when he heard my footsteps behind him. “Josie.”I stopped a few feet away, crossing my arms. “Don’t even start.”His dark eyes narrowed slightly. “You’re not coming.”“Yes, I am.”“This isn’t a meeting or a boardroom discussion,” he said quietly. “It’s a raid.”I tilted my head. “You think that scares me?”Alexander didn’t answer immediately. Instead, he studied my face the

Chapter 32: Hidden Messages

Josie’s POVThe message on the screen sat there like a threat.“You’re already too late.”For a moment, no one spoke.The soft hum of the laptop fan filled the silent apartment while the words sank into my mind.Alexander was the first to react.His expression hardened instantly, the warmth that had briefly appeared earlier disappearing behind the cold,mask everyone feared.“Chris,” he said quietly.Chris stepped closer to the desk, eyes fixed on the screen.“Yeah.”“Can you get into it?”Chris cracked his knuckles and pulled the laptop closer.“If they didn’t wipe the drive, yes.”He opened a small device from his pocket and connected it to the side of the laptop. The screen flickered as code began scrolling across it.Lines and lines of text filled the display.I didn’t understand most of it.But Chris did.“Interesting,” he muttered.Alexander crossed his arms beside me, watching the screen with intense focus.“Talk.”Chris smirked slightly.“They tried to encrypt everything, but w

Chapter 33: Betrayal Confirmed

Josie’s POVThe silence after the bomb was disarmed felt heavier than the seconds before it.For a few moments, none of us moved.Alexander was still standing close enough that I could feel the warmth of his body beside mine. The kiss we had just shared lingered between us like something fragile neither of us wanted to acknowledge out loud.Chris, however, clearly had no intention of respecting the moment.He cleared his throat again and slid back into the chair in front of the laptop.“Well,” he said, stretching slightly, “that was exciting. But I’m guessing we should probably see what else our enemies left behind before the building explodes again.”Alexander didn’t look away from me immediately.His dark eyes searched my face as if he was trying to read something hidden beneath my calm expression.I didn’t know what he saw.But after a second, he stepped back.The distance between us felt… strange.Too cold.Too sudden or maybe it's just my assumption.“Continue,” Alexander said qu

Chapter 34: The Dangerous Meeting

Josie’s POVThe city cafe Alexander chose for the meeting was the kind of place that looked calm on the surface but was impossible to approach without being seen.Floor-to-ceiling windows faced the busy street outside. Elegant music played softly in the background. The smell of fresh coffee drifted through the air as quiet conversations filled the room.To anyone else, it would look like a normal afternoon.But I knew better.Two of Alexander’s security men were seated near the entrance pretending to read newspapers. Another sat at the bar with an earpiece hidden beneath his hair. Chris was outside in a car across the street watching the entrance through a tablet connected to the building cameras.And Alexander himself sat directly across from me at the small round table for now till it was time.He looked calm.Relaxed.Almost bored.But I had already learned how to read the man behind that mask.Alexander Hart was ready to kill someone if necessary.“You’re still thinking about back

Chapter 35: A Mother’s Fear

Josie’s POVThe sound of my palm hitting Daniel’s face still echoed in my ears as I stood up from the café table.For a moment, no one moved.Daniel slowly touched his cheek, stunned by the sudden violence.But I wasn’t looking at him anymore.My mind was stuck on the words he had said earlier.You and Lily may be targets.The room suddenly felt smaller.Too loud and too crowded.“I’m leaving,” I said quietly.Alexander stood up immediately.His chair scraped slightly against the floor as he moved beside me.“Josie.”But I was already walking toward the door.I didn’t look back.Didn’t care about the people staring.Didn’t care about Daniel calling my name behind me.The only thought inside my head was Lily.My daughter,my child.The one innocent person in this entire world.If Julian and Sarah were planning something bigger…If Lily was somehow involved in that plan…My chest tightened painfully.Outside, the afternoon air felt colder than before.I wrapped my arms around myself wit

Chapter 36: Red Room Reckoning

Josie’s POVThe blindfold was soaked through,tears, sweat, drool,but Alexander didn’t remove it.He didn’t speak either.Not yet.I heard the soft metallic clink of the cuffs being unhooked from the headboard. My arms fell limply to my sides, shoulders screaming from the strain, but the relief lasted only seconds.Strong hands gripped under my arms and hauled me upright. My legs were jelly; he had to hold most of my weight as he walked me backward across the room.My bare feet met cold polished wood.Then colder metal.He pressed my spine against something smooth and unyielding,a tall, padded St. Andrew’s cross bolted to the far wall. The leather covering smelled faintly of clean saddle soap and older, darker things.“Arms up,” he ordered, voice stripped to its lowest register.I obeyed instantly.He cuffed each wrist high above my head, spreading me wide. Ankles next,spread even wider. The position forced my back to arch slightly, breasts thrust forward, cunt still dripping his cum d

Chapter 37: Dawn in the Red Room

Josie’s POVI woke to the scent of leather, sex, and him.My body ached in the most delicious, ruined way.My thighs were sticky, my body still tingling from everything he had done to me, my wrists faintly bruised where the cuffs had bitten deep.The blindfold was gone, but the red lighting had dimmed to a soft amber glow that made everything feel like a dream I never wanted to leave.Alexander’s arm was a steel band across my waist, holding me flush against his chest. His heartbeat thumped steady and strong beneath my ear. One of his legs pinned mine open, possessive even in sleep, as if his body refused to let me drift even an inch away.I shifted slightly and felt the low growl vibrate through him before his eyes opened very alert and ready to devour me.“You’re awake,” he murmured, voice rough from the hours we’d spent breaking each other.I swallowed, throat still raw from screaming his name. “I… I called you Daddy.”A slow, dangerous smile curved his lips. He rolled me onto my

Chapter 38: Panic

Josie’s POVThe silence after Chris’s words felt wrong and heavy.Alexander didn’t speak.He just stood there, phone still in his hand, his expression unreadable but I could feel it. The shift. The temperature in the room dropped, not because he raised his voice, but because he didn’t. That was always worse. When Alexander went quiet, something inside him was breaking… or preparing to destroy something else.“Sarah…” I whispered, my fingers curling slightly at my sides. “She didn’t just hate me.”No answer.I turned to look at him,His jaw was tight, his eyes darker than I had ever seen them, something violent and controlled sitting just beneath the surface.“She killed me,” I said again, this time more firmly.Still nothing.But then he moved. Slowly. Deliberately. He placed the phone down on the desk like it was nothing, like the world hadn’t just shifted in a way.“That means,” he said quietly, “this was never about taking your place.”My heartbeat quickened.“It was about removing

Chapter 39: The Trap

Josie’s POVThe message burned into my mind long after the screen went dark.Bring Josie alone… if you ever want to see Lily again.My heart was still racing, panic clawing at my chest as I turned toward Alexander. “We don’t have time,” I said, my voice shaking despite my effort to stay calm. “I’m going.”“No.”The word came instantly. Cold. Absolute.I froze.For a moment, we just stared at each other.“You don’t get to decide that,” I snapped, stepping closer. “That’s my daughter.”“And you’re my wife,” he shot back, his voice low but sharp enough to cut. “Which means I don’t send you into a trap.”My chest tightened. “If it means getting Lily back, I’ll walk into anything.”“And that’s exactly why they asked for you alone.”The tension between us snapped tight, suffocating. The guards in the room didn’t move. No one dared to interrupt.“You think I care if it’s a trap?” I demanded. “Alexander, they have Lily!”“And you think I’ll hand you over to them?” His voice rose just slightly

Chapter 40: Enemy in Our Territory

Josie’s POVThe room they kept her in was cold.Not the kind of cold that came from air conditioning, but the kind that settled into your bones and stayed there, whispering to you that mercy did not exist here.Sarah Kane sat tied to a metal chair in the center of it, her once-perfect appearance stripped away. Her hair was disheveled, her makeup ruined, her breathing uneven.For the first time since I had ever known her… she looked human, in the most vulnerable and and afraid way.Alexander stood a few feet away from her, sleeves rolled up, his expression carved from stone. There was no anger on his face, Not even rage.Just that terrifying calm look of his.The kind that meant someone was about to go down.“You should have run further,” he said quietly.Sarah laughed weakly, though her eyes betrayed her. “And leave everything behind? That’s not how this works.”Alexander tilted his head slightly. “No?”Her gaze flickered toward me as I stepped into the room.The moment our eyes met…

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