All Chapters of One Night Stand With My Billionaire Boss : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

(Ciara’s POV)The morning felt normal at first.Too normal.The kind of normal that made me suspicious before anything even happened.I sat at my desk, trying to focus on the document in front of me, but my mind kept drifting back to last night.To Lucas.To the kiss.And worse… to the way he looked at me after it, like he wasn’t entirely sure what line he had just crossed but also not regretting it enough to pretend it didn’t matter.I exhaled slowly and pressed my fingers lightly against my temple.“Focus, Ciara,” I whispered to myself. “Just focus.”“Talking to yourself again?”I looked up instantly.Lizzie stood beside my desk with a teasing smile, holding two cups of coffee.“I brought you something that might prevent you from overthinking your entire life before 10 a.m.,” she said.I let out a small breath of relief.“You’re a lifesaver,” I said.“I know,” she replied proudly as she placed one cup in front of me. “Now tell me why you look like you didn’t sleep at all.”“I slept,

Ciara’s POV)I had barely taken two steps away from the crowd when I felt it.A presence.Close.Certain.Before I could even turn, a hand closed around mine.Warm.Firm.Unmistakably his.My breath caught slightly as Lucas Blake pulled me forward without hesitation.“Sir” I started, surprised.“Come with me,” he said simply.No explanation.No pause.Just certainty.And for reasons I didn’t fully understand, I followed.The hallway outside the main office felt quieter, almost detached from the chaos I had just left behind. His grip didn’t loosen, not even once, as he guided me past glass walls and closed doors until we reached his office.The moment we stepped inside, he shut the door behind us.Click.Silence.The world outside disappeared instantly.Only then did he release my hand.But the warmth stayed.Too long.Too noticeable.I cleared my throat slightly, trying to steady myself.“Thank you,” I said quietly.He didn’t respond immediately.Instead, he turned away, walking a few

(Ciara’s POV)I was halfway through organizing the briefing documents when the atmosphere in the office changed again.Not slowly.Not subtly.Instantly.It was the kind of shift that didn’t need explanation.Because everyone reacted to it before I even saw the cause.Whispers started first.Then silence followed.Then I felt it.That pressure in the air.I looked up just in time to see her.Taylor Wilson.Walking in like she owned the building, like rules were something designed for other people, not her.She didn’t look around.She didn’t need to.Her eyes locked onto mine immediately.And she smiled.Not warmly.Not politely.But like she was enjoying something I hadn’t been told about.My fingers tightened slightly around the file in my hand.Lizzie, beside me, went still.“Oh no,” she muttered under her breath.Taylor didn’t stop walking.She didn’t acknowledge anyone else.She walked straight toward Lucas’s office.And then she looked at me again.That same look.The one that sa

(Ciara’s POV)Something about the way Taylor left the office stayed with me longer than I expected, not because she walked out angrily, but because she walked out like someone who had not lost anything at all, and that kind of confidence did not come from defeat, it came from certainty, and I suddenly understood that what I had just seen was not the end of anything, but only the beginning of something I was not prepared for, because Taylor Wilson did not look like someone reacting to a situation, she looked like someone who had already planned ten steps ahead of it.I sat back down slowly at my desk, trying to steady my thoughts, but nothing was steady anymore, not my breathing, not my focus, not even the way my hands hovered over the keyboard without typing anything meaningful, because my mind kept replaying everything she said, every word sharp enough to cut deeper than I expected, and every expression she wore that suggested she knew something I did not, and for the first time sinc

(Ciara’s POV)The sound of the door opening behind us did not just interrupt the moment, it shattered it completely, and in that instant everything that had felt suspended between Lucas and me collapsed back into reality so quickly that I could not even process what I had been about to do or what he had been about to do, because all I could think about was the fact that someone was standing behind us and had most likely seen more than they were ever supposed to see.I froze where I stood, my back still lightly pressed against the wall and Lucas still standing far too close for comfort, and for a brief second neither of us moved, as though we were both trying to decide how to step away without making it obvious that something had just happened between us that could not be explained in simple professional terms.My heart was racing so loudly that I was certain whoever had walked in could hear it, and I slowly turned my head toward the door, bracing myself for the worst possible outcome,