All Chapters of Mr. CEO, I Came Back With Your Baby: Chapter 71 - Chapter 78

ASHVINI was sure that in the next ten minutes he would talk. This method was taught to me by my father, who found it interesting to teach his twelve-year-old son torture methods used in the military that kept you alive but made you wish you were dead. “You're Blackwood. There is no room for weakness. Every time you squirm or cry at the sight of blood, I’ll make you watch the torture sessions live until you become the man this family needs you to be.”The man the family needed. From a fucking twelve-year-old.I remembered sitting in that cold room beside my father, trying desperately not to look at the man tied to the chair in front of us while my father calmly explained what was happening as though he were teaching me mathematics. I was too young to understand why a child needed to know how much pain another human being could endure, but old enough to understand that showing fear would only make things worse for me.So I learned.I learned to keep my face still when someone screamed.

EVELYNThe moment I stepped out of the elevator, I knew something was wrong.I could not explain what changed, and there was nothing visibly different about the corridor leading to the boardroom, yet the familiar space suddenly felt strangely hostile. The polished floors reflected the cold white lights above me, the walls were lined with framed photographs of Luna & Co.’s biggest milestones, and the glass doors ahead carried the company logo I always looked at with nothing but pride. Today, every familiar detail seemed to carry a warning I could not quite understand.Leo’s call was what woke me up this morning, and I found nothing odd about it except that he was panicking and telling me the company was about to declare bankruptcy and had demanded an emergency meeting. A month had passed since I was in the hospital with Luna, and now she was much better and back to school. I asked them to investigate the matter and find out what happened, but somehow, the teacher was missing from that

EVELYNHis familiar scent surrounded me.The warmth of his body pressed against mine, and suddenly I was twenty-five again, lying awake beside the man I loved in secret, listening to his breathing while pretending that morning would never come.He kissed me on my most sensitive spot on the side of my neck, making me moan.The sound escaped before I could stop it, and Ashvin seemed to take it as encouragement. His lips traveled slowly along the side of my neck, lingering beneath my ear before returning to the spot that always made it difficult for me to think clearly. I felt his hand tighten around my waist as though he, too, was struggling to contain the intensity of what was happening between us. His other hand moved into my hair, and tilted my head to give himself better access, I closed my eyes and let out another helpless breath and just then, his mouth returned to mine, and this time the kiss was deeper, more demanding, as though the brief distance between us had become unbeara

EVELYN“You’re kidding!” Sophie gasped as she pulled me away from Luna’s room so we wouldn’t wake her.“I wish I was.” I sighed as I walked away from her and threw my exhausted body onto the couch. Luna was finally doing so much better, and Dr. Wilson said she could go back to school, but I wanted to put that on hold till I found out what really happened back then for her to faint, with her teacher knowing she couldn’t do such a tough dance. Luckily, she was checked on time and was able to quickly recover. After the encounter with Ashvin, I called Leo, telling him what to put in the contract and not to make any mistake of leaving any loophole. I knew Ashvin well enough to know one missed term or condition was enough for him to swallow you whole and turn the tide in his favour. I’d watched him do it for five years, and I had no intention of becoming his victim. When we got discharged, I was ready to see a pile of bills or for them to tell me my insurance couldn’t cover it and my car