All Chapters of Fractured Hearts: He Left Me, Now He Wants Me Back: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

Charlotte’s POVI gasped the moment my body hit the pavement. Pain shot through me so suddenly that I couldn’t even scream properly.I could only groan as I lay there, soaked from head to toe, my palms pressed against the wet ground while the rain continued pouring over me.For several seconds, I couldn’t move. My breathing came in uneven bursts while every part of me felt heavy.I tried to push myself up, but my arms trembled beneath my weight.“Come on, Charlotte.” My voice was barely audible beneath the thunderous sound of the rain.“Get up.” I tried again but this time, I managed to get one knee underneath me.Then I heard it. Footsteps… my entire body stiffened instantly.They were faint at first. Almost indistinguishable from the sound of the rain but they were there.Someone was behind me. I turned around as quickly as I could with my heart slamming against my ribs. “Who’s there?”I squinted through the curtain of rain. For one brief second, I saw a figure standing several mete

Charlotte’s POVI stared at Ryan’s office for several seconds before finally pushing myself out of my chair.My heart was already racing. I knew what I was about to do was wrong.I knew I had no business going through Ryan’s office without his permission, and the thought of being caught made my stomach twist.But what other choice did I have? The blackmailer had made it clear that time wasn’t on my side.The investigators I’d hired were still working to uncover the truth, but I didn’t know whether they would discover anything before the blackmailer decided to act.I didn’t even know what Project ZeroGrid was. Maybe if I could find out what it meant, I would finally understand why someone was willing to threaten me over it.Maybe there was something in that file that would explain everything.I walked out of my office. The executive wing was almost empty. That made everything easier or perhaps it only made what I was doing feel even more wrong.I approached Ryan’s office and stopped ju

Alexander’s POVI had been trying for the better part of twenty minutes to drown Desiree’s voice into the background, but the music playing throughout the clubhouse wasn’t loud enough to accomplish that.She simply wouldn’t stop talking.I took another slow sip of my drink and stared across the table, pretending to be interested in anything other than the conversation beside me.Victor leaned toward Frederick Prescott and whispered something into his ear. Whatever he said made Frederick’s expression tighten before he gave a short nod.Across from them, Charles Carrington was making a pathetic attempt to capture the attention of Charlotte’s former secretary, who seemed far more interested in her phone than in him.Margot Kensington and her daughter, Milly, were the only two people genuinely listening to Desiree.“…and that’s exactly how I managed to control the student council election,” Desiree continued proudly. “Everyone thought I had no chance, but by the end of the week, everyone

Charlotte’s POV“Charlotte!” I flinched.I hadn’t even realized Anna had been calling my name. “Charlotte!”I blinked rapidly and turned toward her. “Sorry. What?”Anna stood beside my desk with several files in her arms, staring at me with a puzzled expression. “I’ve been calling you for minutes.”“I didn’t hear you.”“Are you alright?”I forced a smile. “Yes. I’m fine.”She placed the files on my desk. “These are the production files you asked for.”“Thank you.”She lingered for another second. “Are you sure you’re okay?”“I’m just tired.”She nodded reluctantly. “Alright.”Once she left, I leaned back in my chair. My mind immediately returned to the man in the conference room.‘Project ZeroGrid is the future.’ His words had stayed with me.He wasn’t entirely wrong about one thing. Which is, I wanted my own empire. I wanted to build something again. I wanted to stand at the top of something that belonged to me.But I didn’t want to destroy someone else’s life to achieve it and that

Charlotte’s POVI screamed with everything I had but the sound that came out was nothing more than a muffled cry beneath the fabric tied tightly across my mouth.My chest heaved as I struggled against the ropes binding my hands behind my back. My wrists burned painfully from how tightly they had been tied, and my legs were bound together so firmly that even shifting them felt almost impossible.I tried again but got no result making panic surged through me more.I twisted my body, attempting to find some weak point in the ropes, but every movement only made them dig deeper into my skin.Tears streamed down my face. What was going to happen to me?I had woken up in the trunk of a van sometime during the night, with no idea where Derrick had taken me. The last thing I remembered was standing in that house, begging him to show me mercy before he kicked me hard on my head and everything went black.Since waking up, I have tried everything I could think of. I had kicked the van. I had twis