All Chapters of You Shouldn’t Have Found Me : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

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Chapter 51 — The Man at Reception

The knock came again.Sebastian closed his eyes for a second before straightening his tie and glancing at Zara, who was still standing near his desk with a smile she was failing spectacularly to hide."Stop smiling.""I can't.""You can.""You look nervous.""I'm not nervous.""You are."Another knock, sharper this time."Boss?"Sebastian finally opened the door.Nathan stood outside with his laptop in one hand and the moment his eyes landed on Sebastian, then flicked to Zara, then back again, something in his expression shifted in real time."I'll come back.""No." Sebastian stepped aside. "Come in."Nathan walked in slowly, visibly biting back a smile. "I didn't see anything.""You didn't.""Absolutely nothing."Sebastian gave him a look sharp enough to end the conversation.Nathan raised both hands in surrender. "Okay."Zara turned away and busied herself with the files on the desk, cheeks warm."What did you find?"Nathan's expression went serious in an instant, the teasing gone.

Chapter 52 — The Confrontation

Tessa looked up the moment the door opened, expecting her assistant and the expression on her face changed the instant she saw Sebastian standing there instead.He didn't knock. Didn't greet her. Didn't even glance back to close the door before crossing the room straight toward her desk.She leaned back slowly in her chair, studying him with the kind of calm that took effort to hold."You look angry.""I'm not here to discuss how I look."A faint smile touched her lips. "Then why are you here?"He stopped in front of her desk, eyes fixed on hers. "Who was the man you were speaking to downstairs?"For a fraction of a second, something flickered across her face — there and gone before he could name it."What man?""Don't play games with me, Tessa."She rose from her chair and smoothed the front of her dress, unhurried, like the accusation hadn't landed at all. "I speak to a lot of people, Sebastian. You'll have to be more specific.""The man at reception."Her smile disappeared."I don'

Chapter 53 — No Way Out

Sebastian didn't return to his office after leaving Tessa's. He walked straight toward the private elevator, expression unreadable, Nathan falling into step close behind him."Where are we going?" Nathan asked."Bring Daniel to the old conference room."Nathan stopped for half a second. "You want him questioned?""I want answers.""Should I tell security?""No."Nathan studied him carefully, reading something in the set of his jaw. "You want this quiet.""I want it quiet enough that whoever is watching us doesn't know what we're doing."Nathan nodded once and reached for his phone. "Understood."Daniel received the message less than ten minutes later. Mr. Hawthorne wanted to see him.He arrived at the old conference room expecting a meeting, a table, an agenda, maybe Nathan hovering with a laptop. Instead, the moment he stepped inside, the door swung shut behind him on its own weight.He turned around.The lock clicked into place.Daniel looked back slowly, pulse ticking up a notch.S

Chapter 54 — Tessa

Tessa’s Pov: The moment the door closed behind Sebastian, Tessa remained standing exactly where he'd left her, eyes fixed on the empty space he'd occupied only seconds before. His words kept replaying in her head, the last warning especially but instead of fear, something bitter and familiar settled into her chest.He had never looked at her like that before.Not even when she'd slapped Zara.Not even when he'd threatened to end everything between them.It was always Zara now.Everything was Zara.She walked back to her desk and sank into the chair, staring blankly at the files scattered across it without really seeing them. Her phone sat where she'd left it. She picked it up, turned it over once in her hand, and then a notification lit the screen.She opened it.“He knows about the man.”Her fingers tightened around the phone until her knuckles paled.She typed quickly, thumbs moving faster than she meant them to.“How much does he know?”The reply came almost instantly.“Enough to

Chapter 55 — The Price of Silence

Tessa stayed seated for several minutes, staring at the location pinned on her phone screen. She knew she should delete the message, pretend she'd never seen it, walk away from whatever game these people were playing with her. Something kept her frozen in the chair instead.Her father's voice returned to her, the memory so clear it almost felt like he was sitting across the desk from her again.“Take care of her, Sebastian.”That promise had been the reason she'd tolerated so much for so long. The reason she'd kept believing he would eventually remember exactly who he'd sworn to protect.Her phone buzzed again.“Come alone.”She swallowed hard.She should have ignored it.Instead, she stood.---Meanwhile, Sebastian was still in the conference room with Daniel and Nathan, staring at the executive access code glowing on the screen between them."How is my code being used without my knowledge?"Nathan shook his head. "That's what we're trying to figure out."Sebastian turned to Daniel.

Chapter 56 — The Choice

The lights came back on.Tessa was alone.She stood completely still, staring at the empty space where the voice had come from, her heart pounding so violently she could hear it in her own ears. She turned in a slow circle, scanning the abandoned room for any sign of whoever had been speaking to her.There was nothing.Only the chair.Only the silence, pressing back in now that the voice had left it.Her phone was still in her hand.“Tomorrow, you will make Sebastian choose.”She read it once more, then deleted it, thumb pressing down harder than the action required.She didn't know who this person was. But she knew one thing now, with total certainty.They weren't asking anymore.She hurried out of the building, the gravel lot swallowing the sound of her footsteps, got into her car, and drove away without once checking the rearview mirror.By the time she reached her apartment, the sky had gone fully dark, streetlights blurring past the window on the drive home in a way she barely re

Chapter 57 — What She Gave Away

Sebastian stood at the window long after Nathan had gone quiet beside him, the city spread out below in its usual indifferent glitter, none of it aware that somewhere in the sprawl a decision was quietly rearranging itself in his head.“Maybe she was afraid of someone too.”It wasn't proof of anything. It was barely even a theory. But once the thought existed, he couldn't put it back where it came from."Nathan.""Yeah?""Pull Tessa's access history. Not tonight's. Everything, the last three months."Nathan glanced at him sideways. "You think someone used her.""I think I've been asking the wrong question."---It took Nathan most of the night.Sebastian didn't go home. He stayed in the office with the blinds half-drawn, working through unrelated files he didn't really need to work through, the kind of task a person picks up when they need their hands busy more than they need the task done. Somewhere past two in the morning, Nathan knocked once and let himself in without waiting for a

Chapter 58 — The Name I Buried

Zara sat up in bed long after the call ended, the phone still warm in her hand, her heart beating in a way that had nothing to do with sleep.“I think I know who this is.”She hadn't meant to say it out loud. The words had come before she'd decided to let them, the way a name sometimes surfaces on its own when you spend years pretending you'd scrubbed it out completely.Sebastian's voice had gone very still on the other end."Zara. Who?"She hadn't answered. She'd told him she needed a minute, and he'd let her have it no pushing, no demanding, just the sound of his breathing on the line while she sat in the dark trying to remember how to say a name she hadn't spoken aloud in three years.Chloe stirred on the other side of the room, sitting up slowly. "Zara?""I'm okay.""You don't look okay."Zara pulled her knees up to her chest, the blanket bunching around her, and stared at the wall instead of at her friend."Do you remember," she said quietly, "when I told you I moved here because

Chapter 59 — Marcus Vale

Marcus sat alone in the dimly lit room, phone resting face-up on the table, staring at the photograph propped against the lamp in front of him. It was the same photograph he'd looked at countless times over the past three years creased now at one corner from handling, the color gone slightly warm with age. Tonight, though, something about it felt different.Zara was smiling in it.She looked happy.That was the one detail he could never quite get past.His phone buzzed against the table, the vibration rattling faintly on the wood. He picked it up without hurrying.“She knows your name.”His expression didn't change. He typed slowly, unbothered, each letter deliberate.“She was always going to remember me.”The reply came almost instantly.“Then what happens now?”Marcus leaned back in his chair, the old wood creaking under him, and let a faint smile touch the corner of his mouth."Now?" he said aloud, to no one, the word settling into the empty room like it deserved an audience.He lo

Chapter 60 — The Voice

Sebastian had been staring at the same file for nearly five minutes, the words on the screen blurring into meaninglessness, before Nathan finally broke the silence."There's nothing."Sebastian looked up. "Nothing?""Nothing current. No address, no employment records, no active accounts, no registered vehicle." Nathan scrolled through the empty results one more time, as if repetition might change them. "Marcus Vale practically disappeared from every database years ago."Sebastian leaned back slowly, jaw tight. "People don't just disappear.""Apparently, this one did.""Then find out where he went."Nathan closed the file and opened another, his fingers moving fast across the keys. "There's one thing."Sebastian's eyes came back to him immediately."His last known address.""Where?"Nathan turned the screen toward him."An apartment building that was demolished seven years ago."Sebastian frowned. "Seven years?""Yes.""Then how was he seen around Zara's old apartment months ago?"Nath

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