All Chapters of Reborn To Seduce My Bully's Alpha Father : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

CHAPTER 22The file didn't need to be delivered until morning.I delivered it anyway.The corridor outside his study was empty at nine-thirty. My shift was technically done. My apron was folded over my arm and I had every reasonable excuse to walk downstairs and out the side entrance and go home.Instead I knocked ,once on his door.A pause. Then, "Come in."He was on the sofa. Not behind his desk where the furniture kept things professional and the distance was easy to maintain. Just sitting with one ankle crossed over his knee, a file open in one hand, reading glasses low on his nose.The lamplight made him look less like a CEO and more like a man.Which was worse.His eyes lifted when I entered. Dropped the file in my hand."That couldn't wait until morning?""I thought you'd want to see it tonight." I crossed the room slowly and set it on the table beside his untouched drink, close enough that I had to lean slightly past him to place it down.He went very still.I straightened and

Chapter 24 Now his body heat wrapped around me.Now, breathing felt like something I had to remember to do intentionally."And what exactly do you plan to do with that information?" he asked.My fingers tightened around the towel basket.I should have answered lightly.Should have smiled.Should have played it smarter.Instead, the truth slipped out before I could stop it."I want more."Silence.Real silence.The kind that rings.His gaze dropped to my mouth so slowly it almost hurt.Then lifted again."More what?" he asked, and his voice was rougher now. Lower.The question should have embarrassed me.It didn't.Or maybe I was too far gone to feel embarrassed anymore."More than warnings," I said softly.His entire body went still.That dangerous stillness men like him had right before they did something reckless."Aria."I barely heard my own heartbeat over the way he said my name.Not sharp this time.Not irritated.Something worse.Something hungry.I looked up at him and knew I

Chapter 26Caden cornered me after my afternoon class.Of course he did.I had barely made it down the side path behind the humanities building when his scent hit first, expensive cologne over wolf and anger. A second later, his hand caught my wrist and yanked me into the narrow space between the brick wall and the hedges."Let go," I snapped.Caden didn't.His golden eyes were too bright, too sharp. The kind of look that said he'd been spiraling for hours and had finally decided to make it my problem."You smell like him."There it was.I kept my face blank even though my pulse jumped."I don't know what you're talking about."He laughed once, ugly and disbelieving."Don't insult me, Aria." His grip tightened. "You think I can't tell? You think I don't know my father's scent?"I yanked my hand, but he only stepped closer."You've been avoiding me all week," he said. "Running around like you're untouchable now. Acting like you've won something.""I don't need to act."That hit.His ja

CHAPTER 28Matthias ended the call and stood very still for a second.Too still.The kind of stillness that wasn't calm at all.It was a control stretched tight over something much darker."Caden's not missing," I said quietly. "He's avoiding you."Matthias's jaw flexed."Same result."He slipped his phone back into his pocket and looked at me.Really looked at me.And suddenly the room didn't feel dangerous because of Caden anymore.It felt dangerous because of us.Because five seconds before Dante's call, Matthias had me pinned against him like he was done pretending this wasn't inevitable.And now we were both standing there trying to act like we hadn't nearly made a much bigger mistake.I folded my arms, mostly to give my hands something to do."So what now?"Matthias didn't answer immediately.He crossed the room toward the window, one hand loosening his tie again like he was trying to physically drag himself back under control.The city lights reflected faintly against the glass

Chapter 30The next morning, I made it through exactly two classes before Caden found me.I should have expected it.Things had been too quiet.Too easy.Which meant he was planning something.I was cutting through the side path behind the humanities building when I felt it first, that sick pull low in my chest—the mate bond.My whole body tensed before I even saw him.Then his voice came from behind me."You smell different."I stopped walking.Of course that was the first thing he said.I turned slowly.Caden was leaning against the brick wall beside the path, hands in his pockets, expensive black hoodie, dark jeans, that same polished rich-boy face that would have looked harmless to anyone who didn't know what lived underneath it.But I knew better now.His eyes were on me in a way that made my skin crawl.Not warm.Not longing.Possessive.Suspicious.Dangerous."What do you want?" I asked.He pushed off the wall and walked toward me slowly.Predator-slow.Deliberate.I hated that