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CHAPTER 74

(Kyle's POV)She was breaking right in front of me and pretending she wasn't.Amanda Wells kept asking questions in that steady, professional voice of hers, and Lara kept answering them with her back straight and her chin up and her hands folded in her lap like she was sitting through a job interview instead of reliving the worst years of her life.But I could see it. The tremor in her lower lip that she bit down on every few seconds. The way her fingers turned white from pressing into each other too hard. The slight crack in her voice when Amanda asked her to describe the night she lost the baby in more detail."Walk me through the hospital timeline again, Mrs. Morrison. You arrived at approximately nine PM. When did you first notice the bleeding?"Lara's breath hitched. Just once. Just barely. But I caught it because I had spent weeks learning the exact rhythm of this woman's breathing, and any interruption in it made something inside my chest clench like a fist."Around seven thirt

Last Updated : 2026-10-29

CHAPTER 75

(Lara’s POV)There was a time when talking about Maxton made me feel like someone was pouring acid down my throat. Every word burned. Every memory pulled me back into that apartment where the walls knew my screams better than my own name.But after weeks of sitting across from Brennan and answering his questions, something had shifted inside me. The acid was still there, but it had cooled. Hardened. Turned into something I could hold without it melting through my fingers.I could talk about the abuse now without my hands shaking. I could describe the nights he came home drunk and angry without losing my voice halfway through. I could look Brennan in the eye when he asked me about the miscarriage and answer in full sentences instead of broken whispers.It did not mean the pain was gone. It meant I had learned how to carry it without collapsing.Brennan left around six that evening, and I was sitting on the couch with a cup of tea feeling something close to peace when Kyle walked throug

Last Updated : 2026-10-29

CHAPTER 75

(Lara’s POV)My phone rang at nine in the morning while I was pouring coffee in Kyle’s kitchen. The number on the screen made my blood run cold because I had memorized it the way you memorize the sound of a fire alarm. Not because you want to, but because your survival depends on it.Sarah Morrison.I stared at the screen for three rings. My thumb hovered over the decline button, but something inside me, something that had grown teeth over the past few weeks of therapy and legal prep and Kyle’s quiet, stubborn refusal to let me shrink, that something made me press accept instead.“What do you want, Sarah?”“Lara, darling.” Her voice was honey poured over broken glass. Sweet on the surface, sharp underneath, designed to cut you while you were still tasting the sweetness. “I’m calling because I think we can help each other.”“I don’t need your help.”“Oh, but you do.” A pause. The kind Sarah used like a weapon, letting the silence stretch until you started filling it with your own fear.

Last Updated : 2026-10-30

CHAPTER 76

(Lara's POV)Sarah dropped the lawsuit on a Tuesday.No warning, no dramatic press conference, no public statement dripping with her usual venomous self righteousness. Just a quiet legal filing that made the ten million dollar claim vanish like it had never existed.I found out from Brennan, who called Kyle's phone while we were eating dinner. Kyle answered, listened for thirty seconds, then hung up and looked at me across the table with an expression that was equal parts satisfaction and restraint."Sarah withdrew the suit.""What? Why?""Because she's smart enough to know when she's holding a losing hand."He did not elaborate, and I did not push. But the relief that flooded through my body was so overwhelming I had to set my fork down and press both hands flat against the table just to keep myself steady. Ten million dollars. Gone. One less weapon pointed at my head.I did not know exactly what Kyle told Sarah or what he showed her. But whatever it was, it worked. And for the first

Last Updated : 2026-10-31

CHAPTER 77 PART 1

(Kyle's POV)The thirty day deadline was circled in red on my calendar like a bullet wound.Twenty two days left. That was how long I had before the board voted on my removal, and Sarah had spent every single one of the days leading up to it whispering poison into the ears of every shareholder who would listen. Marcus Chen had already flipped three votes in her favor.Two more were leaning. If the count hit majority, I was out, and everything I had built over the past decade would belong to the woman who stole two million dollars from the company she was now trying to take over.The only reason I still had room to breathe was my mother's shares.When she died, she left her fifteen percent stake in Morrison Enterprises to me in a trust that could not be touched, sold, or transferred without my personal authorization.I had signed those shares over to Lara as part of our original agreement, which meant Lara now held enough voting power to block any removal motion as long as she voted in

Last Updated : 2026-10-31

CHAPTER 77 PART 2

Her skin was warm and slippery under my fingers, and the contact sent a current through my body that had nothing to do with concern and everything to do with the fact that I was touching her bare skin while she was wearing almost nothing and my self control was hanging by a thread so thin it was practically invisible."Can you put weight on it?""I think so. It just twisted. Nothing's broken."I slid my arm around her waist and helped her stand. The towel shifted again, and she grabbed it with her free hand, pressing it against her chest. But she was close now. So close I could feel the heat from the shower still rising off her skin and smell the soap she used, something sweet and clean that made my head spin every time I caught it on her pillow or in the air after she left a room."I'm fine, Kyle. You can let go."I should have let go. Every rational part of my brain was screaming at me to release her waist, step back, leave the bathroom, close the door behind me. She was half naked

Last Updated : 2026-10-31

CHAPTER 78 PART 1

(Lara's POV)I woke up with Kyle's arm around my waist and his breath warm against the back of my neck.For a few seconds, before reality crashed back in, I let myself just feel it. The weight of him beside me. The heat of his chest pressed against my back. The way his fingers rested against my stomach, loose and trusting, like holding me in his sleep was the most natural thing his body had ever done.Last night changed everything.Not just the physical part, though that alone had rewritten something deep inside my brain. The way he touched me was so different from anything I had ever known that it felt like learning a new language. Gentle where Maxton was rough. Patient where Maxton was demanding. Every time his hands moved across my skin, they asked permission without words, and every time I gave it, he treated my body like something worth protecting instead of something to be used.But it was after, lying in the dark with our legs tangled together and his lips pressed against my ha

Last Updated : 2026-11-01

CHAPTER 78 PART 2

Hartley nodded slowly. Sympathetically. Like he cared. Then the warmth drained from his expression and something sharper took its place."Mrs. Morrison, isn't it true that within seventy two hours of leaving your husband, you were living in the penthouse apartment of Kyle Morrison, a man whose net worth is approximately forty times that of your former husband?""Kyle offered me protection. I had nowhere else to go.""Protection. Interesting word." Hartley paced in front of the jury box. "So you left a man you claim abused you and moved directly into the home of his significantly wealthier stepbrother. Would you say the financial upgrade was a coincidence, or was it part of the plan?"My blood heated. I could feel the anger rising in my chest, climbing up my throat, begging me to scream at this man who was standing in a courtroom twisting the worst night of my life into a gold digger narrative for twelve strangers.But Brennan's voice echoed in my head. Stay calm. Answer the question.

Last Updated : 2026-11-01

CHAPTER 79 PART 1

(Lara’s POV)Hartley was not finished with me.He walked back to the defense table, picked up a folder, and returned to the center of the courtroom with the slow, measured steps of a man who believed he was about to deliver a killing blow. The folder was thick. Red. The kind of folder lawyers used when they wanted the jury to notice what was inside before it was even opened.“Mrs. Morrison, let’s talk about your pregnancy.”My blood went cold.“You claim my client caused you to lose your child. Is that correct?”“He beat me while I was seven months pregnant. I went into premature labor and lost the baby at the hospital.”“That is your version of events.” Hartley opened the folder. “But isn’t it also possible that you terminated the pregnancy voluntarily because you had already decided to leave Maxton and a child would complicate your exit strategy?”The words hit me like a punch to the throat. My fingers gripped the railing of the witness box so hard my knuckles turned white.“That is

Last Updated : 2026-11-03

CHAPTER 79 PART 2

I looked at Kyle. He was sitting in the gallery with his jaw locked and his eyes burning and his hands gripping the bench in front of him so hard I could see the tendons standing out against his skin. He looked like a man using every ounce of self control he possessed to keep himself from vaulting over that railing and putting his fist through Kenneth Hartley’s face.Our eyes met. And in that single, silent exchange, he gave me everything I needed.Courage.I turned back to Hartley and stood up in the witness box.“He beat me until I lost our baby.” My voice came out loud. Clear. Steady in a way I did not recognize because it belonged to a version of myself that I had buried under three years of silence and fear and the desperate, exhausting effort of staying alive. “I didn’t seduce anyone. I ran for my life because I thought he would kill me next time.”Hartley opened his mouth.I did not let him speak.“I married Kyle because I had nowhere else to go and Maxton was stalking me. I’m

Last Updated : 2026-11-03

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