All Chapters of Taming the Arrogant Billionaire: Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

Arya's POVI hated the ranch before I even opened the car door.The drive had felt endless. My signal dropped twice, and with every mile, I was leaving the world I understood farther behind. When the driver finally stopped, I stared at the house through the window. Open land stretched around it, with fences, trees, and a porch that looked as if it belonged on the cover of a magazine. None of it felt right.This was where Julian had chosen to go. He had not picked a hotel, one of his private properties, or anywhere discreet where he could work without interruption. He had chosen this place.The moment I stepped out, I regretted my choice of shoes. The ground was uneven, and one heel caught in the gravel. Just perfect. I steadied myself, adjusted my coat, and walked up the path.

Leon's POVArya had been quiet for fifteen minutes, which was long enough to tell me she was furious.When she was only annoyed, she talked. Real anger was different. Real anger made her fold her arms, stare out the passenger window, and hold herself so still that she looked carved into the seat.I glanced at her again, and she caught me."What are you looking at?" she asked."I'm trying to figure out how long you plan to keep this up.""Keep what up?""The silence. It's starting to feel unnatural."She gave me a look. "Maybe I don't have anything to say to you.""Th

Arya's POVComing back to the office should have felt like slipping into something familiar. Instead it felt like walking into a room where the furniture had been moved while I was away. Everything looked the same, but the flow was different.My office was exactly where I left it. The city spread beyond the windows in clean lines of glass and steel, the view that always made more sense to me than fields and fences. But the rhythm of the place had shifted and I noticed it before lunch.The first message didn't come from Julian. It came from Claire. A request for revisions on a contract I had been handling for weeks. I stared at the screen too long. Normally Julian would have forwarded it himself with a blunt comment telling me to fix the vague language because they would fight clause seven. Now everything came through someone else.I made the revisions anyway. Twenty minutes later another request arrived. By early afternoon it was obvious this wasn't a temporary inconvenience but an in

Julian's POVSavannah shifted. "You are doing it again," she murmured."What?" I asked."Thinking," she said."I am always thinking," I said."No," she said. She pushed herself up slightly. "This is different."I sighed. "You are very dramatic.""And you are avoiding the question," she said."You did not ask one," I said.Her brows lifted. "Fine," she said, and moved until she was lying partly over me. "What are you thinking about?" she asked."Nothing important," I said.She stared at me. "That look is intimidating," she said."Good," I said."I am terrified," she said."Julian," she said, and I sighed again. "Work," I admitted.Her expression softened. "Arya?" she asked.I hesitated. That was enough. She rested her chin against my chest. "What happened?" she asked."Nothing happened," I said."That does not sound convincing," she said."Because nothing happened," I insisted."Then why do you look stressed?" she asked.I looked toward the ceiling and she followed my gaze as if the an

Julian's POVBy the time we reached the city, I had stopped pretending any of this could wait.The drive had been quiet, not awkward, just focused. Savannah sat beside me with one hand over mine whenever I wasn't using it to answer a call or check a message. She didn't complain about the interruptions. That made me feel worse than if she had.Claire had been feeding me updates for the last hour. The Wallace file had been accessed after business hours. An earlier version, one that contained language that should never have been seen outside legal. One that could wreck negotiations if it had been copied or leaked. The credentials used to access it belonged to Arya.That was bad enough. Worse was the fact that Arya couldn't be reached.We stepped into