All Chapters of Twisted INTENTIONS : Chapter 71 - Chapter 77

The restaurant was small.Not fancy.Not expensive.Just quiet.Warm lights.Soft conversations.People finishing late dinners after long workdays.Selena picked this place intentionally.Not too formal.Not too personal.Just somewhere normal.She sat down and placed the menu aside.Across from her—Marisa still looked slightly uncomfortable.Like she wasn’t sure why she agreed to come.Selena noticed.But didn’t say anything.A waiter came.They ordered.Silence followed.Marisa played with her glass.Selena watched quietly.Then smiled.“You’re acting like I brought you here to fire you.”Marisa laughed awkwardly.“No.”Selena looked at her.Then said casually—“You’ve been strange lately.”Marisa’s fingers stopped.Only for half a second.But Selena noticed.Marisa forced a smile.“Have I?”Selena nodded.“You seem stressed.”Marisa looked away.“Work.”Selena stared for a moment.Then nodded.Fair answer.But somehow—it didn’t feel complete.Food arrived.They started eating.Th

Chapter 75The next morning Marisa arrived earlier than usual.Not because she had work.She just didn’t want to think.The office was still quiet.Only a few employees had arrived.She sat down and opened her laptop.Her inbox loaded.Nothing urgent.Normal.Everything looked normal.She stared at the screen for a while.Then her phone vibrated.Her shoulders stiffened immediately.She already knew.No greeting.No explanation.Just one message.Need updated schedule for next phase.Marisa looked at it.Her expression remained blank.But something tightened in her chest.She locked the phone.Opened her work files.Tried to ignore it.Two minutes later.Another message.Today.Marisa closed her eyes.Her fingers slowly curled.Then she unlocked the phone.Opened the message again.Stared.This was normal.This had become normal.Information. Updates. Small things.Nothing huge.Nothing obvious.That was what she told herself.But suddenly she remembered yesterday.Selena smiling.Say

The atmosphere inside Laurent Enterprises felt different that morning.Everyone could feel it.From the assistants rushing through the hallways to the unusually serious expressions on department managers’ faces, the tension in the building was impossible to ignore.Today mattered.The client arriving next week was one thing.But today’s internal presentation would determine whether the final proposal moved forward exactly as planned.And everyone knew one thing.Project Aurora belonged to Selena.Even people outside her department knew how much time she had spent working on it.For the past week, employees had barely seen her outside meeting rooms and conference halls.She was either working, reviewing, fixing, or preparing.And surprisingly—people respected her for it.By nine thirty, the conference room was almost full.Sarah stood near the back reviewing files while several employees whispered among themselves.“She barely sleeps.”“I heard Adrian personally approved her strategy.