All Chapters of FOURFOLD OBSESSION: Chained By Their Desires : Chapter 21 - Chapter 22

MIA'S POV I woke up to a strange, heavy quiet — the kind of quiet that told me it was later than it should be before I'd even opened my eyes. I reached for my phone on instinct, squinting against the light already pouring through the curtains, and found the time first. Half past eleven. Nobody had come to wake me. Nobody had knocked, called through the door, sent the housekeeper up with the usual complaint about breakfast going cold. Then I saw the text. Priya: HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY TO YOU. I hope you're being spoiled rotten this exact second. see you later, birthday girl x I stared at the screen for a second before it landed properly. My birthday. I'd genuinely forgotten, somewhere between everything else that had happened in the last two weeks, that today was the day. And nobody in this house had said a word. I lay there a moment, feeling something small and stupid curdle in my chest. Not Priya — Priya, a girl I'd known for less than twenty-four hours, had remembered.