Semua Bab THE BILLIONAIRE'S FATAL WEAKNESS: A NANNY’S SECRET : Bab 1 - Bab 5

SERENAThe man who answers the door doesn't look like a billionaire. He looks like a ghost. His charcoal suit is impeccable, expensive, tailored to perfection, but it hangs on his lean frame like it belongs to someone else, like he's wearing a costume that doesn't quite fit. His dark hair is artfully disheveled, as if he's been running his fingers through it all day, and his eyes—his eyes are the color of storm clouds, gray and volatile, with dark circles beneath them that speak of sleepless nights and endless worry. He is tall, broad-shouldered, but there is a hollowness to him, a emptiness that makes me think of a building that's been abandoned but still has its lights on. He looks like he hasn't slept in a month, like he's been carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders and it's slowly crushing him.His hands are bruised. Fresh. Raw. I notice the purple and red splotches across his knuckles before I notice anything else about him, the way the skin is split in places, the way

SERENAI'm still holding Leo's drawing of the house with no door when I hear footsteps behind me, the soft padding of leather soles against hardwood floor. I turn, and Alexander is standing in the doorway, his expression unreadable, his bruised hands hanging at his sides like wounded animals. He looks at me, then at Leo, then at the drawing in my hands, and something flickers across his face—something I can't quite name, something that might be hope or fear or both."Come with me," he says, and his voice is flat, controlled, the voice of a man who's learned to keep his emotions locked away in a vault. "There's something else you need to see."I glance at Leo, who has already retreated back into his silence, his gaze fixed on the wall again, his small body folded into itself like he's trying to disappear. I set the drawing down gently on his desk, making sure he sees me handling it with care, and follow Alexander out of the room, closing the door softly behind me. He leads me through t