Todos os capítulos de A night with the rival ceo: Capítulo 11 - Capítulo 20

RHEAThe first thing I noticed when Alexander came back was that he barely looked at me.Not the way he usually did.There was always something in his eyes whenever he looked at me, something that made me uncomfortable because I could never quite figure out what the hell he was thinking. Sometimes it was amusement, sometimes that irritating confidence of his, sometimes something warmer that I refused to name because naming it would make it real.But this time, there was nothing.His eyes passed over me once when he entered the office, and then they moved away, that was it, and somehow, that hurt more than hell, cause he was never this way? Or was it that he believed them? But was he really at wrong, cause this was his company. I stood there with the file I had been holding pressed against my chest, watching him walk past me with his jaw tight and his expression completely unreadable.He looked pissed, really pissed, but I couldn’t tell who he was pissed at.Maybe it was me, it would

RHEAThe company was finally reopened three days later.Three days.That was how long the entire building had remained practically frozen after everything that happened, and honestly, I understood why Alexander had shut it down in the first place.People needed time to calm down.Employees were scared. The media had been circling the company like vultures, and every department was still dealing with the aftermath of the healthcare project disaster, but businesses didn’t stop because people were scared.Contracts still needed to be signed.Projects still needed to move.Employees still needed to get paid.So, on Monday morning, Sinclair Group opened its doors again, and somehow, walking back into the building felt stranger than walking out of it.Everyone was pretending everything was normal.They weren’t.I could feel the tension the second I stepped through the glass doors.Conversations became quieter when people passed me. A few employees smiled politely, but I could see the curio

RHEA How did we get here?Alexander was still standing in front of me, and j was still on the table Our eyes were locked to each other, and for some reason, neither of us seemed willing to move.I could hear my own heartbeat, and it was getting louder with every second because he was looking at me in a way that made it impossible to remember all the reasons I had been telling myself not to get too close to him.This was Alexander.My contract husband.The man I had promised myself I wouldn’t fall for.And yet, as his eyes dropped to my lips, my entire body went still.I swallowed.He leaned closer, and I should have moved.I knew I should have moved, but I didn’t, and when his hand came up slowly, almost as if he was giving me enough time to stop him, my breath caught.His fingers barely touched my face before—“Oh.”We both stopped.I turned toward the door so quickly that my heart almost jumped out of my chest.Sofia was standing there, and the moment she saw us, her eyebrows lift

RHEAWhen I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was a white ceiling.For a few seconds, I had no idea where I was, and then the smell hit me, followed by the dull ache spreading through my body, and suddenly everything came rushing back, and it made my heart started pounding, cause I knew I was saved, or else I would be unalive now, and the only person that could save me was…. I turned my head and found him sitting beside my bed, his elbows resting on his knees as he stared at his phone.Fuck.My eyes dropped to my hands as I remembered the hospital, the diagnosis, the words that had been haunting me ever since, and it made me hella scared cause I didn’t wanted Alexander find out.I didn’t even know why I cared so much about hiding it from him when our marriage was supposed to be nothing more than a contract, but the thought of him looking at me differently because he knew I was sick made something inside me twist painfully.I forced myself to calm down before he noticed how terrif

RHEAMy fingers clawed desperately at Sofia’s wrists as I fought to pull her hands away from my neck, but she only tightened her grip, and the more I struggled, the more painfully my lungs burned for air.I couldn’t believe this was happening, cause this was fucking Sofia, the woman who had spent weeks smiling at me, bringing me food, asking whether I had rested, and acting like she cared about my recovery while quietly destroying everything between Alexander and me.I had been right.Every warning inside my head had been right, and Alexander hadn’t believed me.The thought hurt almost as much as the hands pressing against my throat.I tried to speak, but nothing came out properly, so I grabbed her wrists harder and kicked at her legs, desperate to make her lose her balance. My vision was already beginning to blur, and panic spread through me when I realized that I was running out of strength.“Sofia…”My voice came out as barely a whisper, but that witch didn’t stop.“You should ha