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111. The Elevator

I stared at him.For several seconds, I couldn't move.Andrew Hale was standing in the doorway of my office.And somehow, he had just walked straight into my office as though appearing here in the middle of a workday was the most normal thing in the world.My mind went completely blank.Outside, the commotion that had filled the hallway suddenly died down.Silence settled over the entire floor.It was the kind of silence that came when everyone was watching something they weren't supposed to be watching.I could practically feel the employees staring through the glass walls.Andrew didn't seem bothered. He simply looked at me.What was he doing here?Why had he come?And why did my heart suddenly feel like it was beating much faster?"Annalise." His voice finally pulled me back.I blinked.He raised his hand and snapped his fingers lightly in front of my face.I immediately straightened. "What are you doing here?"The question came out more abruptly than I intended.Linda glanced betw

112. Sweetelle

After a twenty-minute ride, Sweetelle came into view.I almost forgot to breathe.The new confectionery stood right in the middle of the city, occupying an enormous corner lot surrounded by glass buildings and busy streets.It was beautiful.The building itself was several stories high, with enormous floor-to-ceiling windows that allowed people outside to see the warm, inviting interior. Cream-colored walls were decorated with elegant gold details, while huge flower arrangements stood beside the entrance.Above the main entrance was the familiar Sweetelle logo.A smiling little crown above the brand name.I stared at it.For some reason, seeing that logo again made something inside me ache.It looked almost exactly like the one from my childhood.The same colors.The same playful design.The same little crown that had once seemed so magical to me.A nostalgic feeling washed over me. I could almost hear my younger self begging for ice cream.The memory was so vivid that I had to look a

113. Killed Her

"Xander?" I sat up straighter. "What happened?"Before he could answer, a loud commotion suddenly erupted from his end of the call.Someone shouted something. Then there was a loud crash."Xander?"I pulled the phone away from my ear and stared at the screen.Beep.The call had ended.I frowned.What had happened?How had Xander gotten himself into trouble at Nightingale Bar?I immediately looked toward the driver."Are you alright, Mrs. Hale?" he asked from the front seat."No." I tightened my grip on my phone. "Take me to Nightingale Bar."The driver nodded and immediately changed direction.I didn't know what kind of trouble Xander had gotten himself into, but the urgency in his voice worried me.Just to be safe, I dialed the emergency number and explained the situation.I asked one of the officers to meet me at Nightingale. Because I wasn't taking any chances. The danger might be more than I could handle.At Nightingale BarThe moment I stepped inside, loud music hit my ears.The

114. The Nightmare

After almost an hour's ride, the Villa finally came into view.The residential area was completely different from the bustling downtown.There were barely any cars on the roads now. Most of the houses were dark, their windows glowing faintly behind curtains. The streetlights stood quietly along the empty roads, casting soft pools of light over the pavement.It was already midnight.I looked out the window and sighed.Andrew must be asleep already.The driver pulled into the parking lot and stopped."Thank you," I murmured and stepped out, grabbed my bag, and walked toward the entrance.The moment I stepped inside, I was greeted by silence.The enormous living room looked completely different at night.There were no servants moving around.No voices.No footsteps.Only the faint ticking of the wall clock could be heard in the quiet space.I adjusted the strap of my bag and started toward the stairs."You are back."I stopped.The calm voice came from the dining area. But there was some

115. His Fantasy

One moment, she's warm.Another moment, she was cold.I still couldn't understand it. We'd been talking, just talking, nothing heavy, nothing that should have mattered. Then somewhere in the middle of a sentence, she went quiet and shifted away from me, sliding all the way to the far edge of the bed like she needed the distance to breathe.I reached out once, my hand hovering near her shoulder, then let it drop.I sighed.I'd been trying. God knows I'd been trying. But no matter what I did, there was always that wall around her heart, thick and unmovable, and I was starting to wonder if I'd ever find a way past it.Did it have something to do with her ex-husband?I already knew the answer. I'd known for a while that she was lying to me about the bruise on her wrist, the one she tried to hide under her sleeve and brushed off as nothing. So I looked into it myself, and what I found made my blood boil. Her ex had shown up at her office and put his hands on her.The anger simmered in my c

116. Remarry

Annalise's POVThe Scholarship.Thank goodness for that phone call. It cut him off right before he could finish the question, and honestly, it was almost funny that he was even asking about it now, after all these years.Did he lose part of his memory or something? Ten years, and he suddenly wanted to know why I turned it down?I shoved the thought aside and focused on the road, my hands tight around the steering wheel as I drove toward the mansion.Almost an hour later, I arrived and found the whole family gathered in the living room. There were other people there too, faces I didn't recognize.The tension in the room hit me the moment I stepped through the door. Nobody looked happy."Where is Xander?" Grandpa's voice cut through the room before I'd even taken off my coat. "Why didn't you return with him?"I frowned. "Xander didn't come to my place."And even if he had, I wouldn't have known, since I hadn't actually been staying at my apartment. But that part I kept to myself.Grandp

117. The Warmth

"Marriage isn't a bed of roses," I replied. "And deciding to stop living with someone who gives you a headache every single day, that isn't a crime either. Being single isn't a crime, right?"Mom went quiet. She just stood there, watching me for a long moment before she reached out and stroked my hair, the way she used to whenever she wanted me to listen."It's my fault," she said softly. "You and your sister got lost all those years ago because of me. I don't know how you were raised out there, what you went through, what it did to you." Her hand trembled slightly against my head. "But marriage takes patience too. Perseverance, to protect the love you've built. So don't give up yet. I'm sure the right man will come."I doubted that, somewhere deep inside. But I didn't have the heart to argue with her, not after everything. I just pulled her into a brief hug, then said I needed to go.On my way back to the villa, my phone buzzed with a text.Andrew: You're taking long. Everything okay

118. Disqualified

My finger hovered over the screen before I finally opened the announcement.[A Message From The Board of Judges — Global Designers Forum: First, we owe every participant a sincere apology for the delay in releasing these results. What should have taken a week took nearly a month, and we understand the anxiety that silence caused.The reason for the delay was not a simple one. During the final round of verification, our panel discovered that a small number of entries bore troubling similarities to previously published work, both from within this competition and from established names in the industry. Out of respect for the integrity of this platform and everyone who submitted original work in good faith, we placed all results on hold until a full review could be completed.That review is now finished.We are proud to announce our three finalists: Leon Harttman, Aurelia Voss, and Designer X.However, following an in-depth comparative assessment conducted by our panel and two independen

119. Not Going!

I sat there for a while, still trying to process what Tania had just said, and before I could fully catch up with my own thoughts, she’d already left the room.No.I gasped and sprang to my feet, hurrying down the stairs two at a time.I found Andrew sitting in the living room, dressed in casual clothes like this place belonged to him. Tania sat across from him, firing off questions one after another, but Andrew seemed far more interested in whatever he was doing on his phone.Then, as if he’d sensed me, he looked up, and his eyes lit up the second they landed on me.That expression again.It made my heart skip a beat and made me deeply uncomfortable at the same time.I couldn’t believe he’d already spilled everything I’d spent so long hiding from Tania. Was he even taking the contract seriously?“Anna, you might actually kill your husband if you keep staring at him like that,” Tania said.I realized then that I must have been glaring at him the whole time.It was hard not to. My irri

120. Extraordinary

A Few Hours Later.My knee wouldn’t stop bouncing.I pressed my palm flat against it, forcing it still, and it started up again within seconds like it had a mind of its own. My fingers found the hem of my dress next, twisting the fabric, smoothing it, twisting it again. I caught my own reflection in the window and barely recognized the woman staring back, jaw tight, eyes too wide, looking like she was on her way to a court hearing instead of dinner.I was doing the exact thing I swore I wouldn’t do.A part of me dreaded meeting his parents. A smaller, more humiliating part of me dreaded what they’d think of me the second I stepped out of that car, whether they’d take one look and decide I wasn’t enough, wasn’t right, wasn’t worth the trouble their son had clearly gone through to bring me here. Funny, really, how quickly I’d gone from refusing to attend to sitting here already dressed for it, already halfway to the mansion, already trapped by a promise I’d let myself believe.Because t

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