All Chapters of The Brother boss’s obssession : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

My fingers tightened around my phone."He hired a lawyer?"Adrian's expression changed immediately."Yes." He looked as troubled as I felt."He's actually doing this?" I said, my disbelief plain.Liam had spent years making me feel like I wasn't enough. Not thin enough. Not attractive enough. Not successful enough. But this was different. He wasn't just trying to hurt me anymore. He was trying to claim a place in my child's life before my baby had even taken a breath — after he'd told me to abort it."He's only doing this to serve his own purpose," I said.Adrian reached for my phone. "Let me see."I handed it to him. His eyes moved across the message. His jaw tightened."He's not getting near you.""This isn't about getting near me." I swallowed. "It's about the baby."Adrian looked at me. "Then we'll deal with it."The certainty in his voice should have comforted me. Instead, it scared me. Because Liam wasn't the kind of man who backed down when he lost. He got worse, and he'd do an

I almost turned around when I saw my desk. For a second, I couldn't understand what I was looking at. Then I stopped walking. The photographs were everywhere. Pictures of me from company events, campaign meetings, birthdays, even a few private photographs I'd kept tucked inside the frame beside my computer — they had all been ripped from their frames and scattered across my desk. Some were torn in half. Others had been scribbled over with black ink. My face had been crossed out again and again. My stomach tightened. Someone had taken the time to do this. Not accidentally. Not in anger that lasted five seconds. They had stood at my desk and deliberately destroyed pieces of my life. I looked around the marketing floor. People had noticed. A few employees quickly looked away when they caught my eye. I hated that. I hated being looked at like I was something fragile. After everything that had happened, I had promised myself I wasn't going to hide anymore. I walked toward my desk. M

I stared at the screen for so long that Maya finally leaned over my shoulder. "What is it?"I didn't answer. I was looking at Liam's bank records. More specifically, I was looking at a transfer dated nearly five months before I had ever suspected he was cheating on me. The amount wasn't enormous by Vance standards, but it was far too large to ignore.$75,000."That's Liam's account?" Maya asked."Yes." My stomach tightened.The transfer had been made directly into Liam's personal account. The sender wasn't a person. It was a company I'd never heard of.MERIDIAN HOLDINGS."What the hell is Meridian Holdings?" Maya whispered."I don't know."I scrolled back through the records. There was another transfer. Smaller. Then another. Three payments in total, all from the same company, all before Liam started sleeping with Zoe.I swallowed hard. "This doesn't make sense."Maya pulled a chair closer. "Maybe it's a business payment.""Liam wasn't running a business.""Then an investment?""He di

I almost turned around before I knocked. Grace's house looked exactly the way I remembered it—small, quiet, and tucked behind a row of old trees. Nothing about it had changed, yet standing there with Meridian Holdings still hanging over my head made everything feel different. I raised my hand and knocked. Once. Twice. For several seconds, there was no answer. Then I heard the lock turn. The door opened only a few inches. Grace looked through the gap, and the moment she saw me, her expression changed. "Chloe?" "Hi, Aunt Grace."She stared at me as though she hadn't expected to see me standing there. Then her eyes dropped briefly to my stomach. Her face softened. "You should have called." "I did." "I mean before coming." "I know." She hesitated before opening the door wider. "Come in."I stepped inside. The familiar smell of cinnamon and old books greeted me. Grace had always kept the place warm and comfortable, the kind of home where nothing seemed urgent. Today, even the silence felt

Adrian's question stayed between us. "Why have you been calling your aunt?"I stared at him, my phone still in his hand. For a moment, I thought about lying again. Then I remembered Grace's face. The fear in her eyes. The way her voice had broken when she told me my father died because of a Vance. I couldn't keep it from Adrian anymore."Because she knows something."Adrian's expression tightened. "About what?""My father."He slowly lowered my phone. "What about your father?"I took a breath. "I went to see Grace because of Meridian."That got his attention. "What did she say?""She told me to stay away from it.""Why?""She wouldn't explain."Adrian stepped closer. "Chloe, what happened at that house?"I looked down. "I asked her about you."His face changed. "About me?""About your family."Silence. I could see the questions forming in his eyes. I forced myself to continue. "When I said your name, she went pale."Adrian didn't move. "Which name?""Vance."His jaw tightened. "What d