All Chapters of A night with the rival ceo: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

RHEA Alexander looking completely broken was what hurt me.Sofia had been his best friend for years, and I could see how deeply that betrayal had hit him. His shoulders were tense, his face had lost all its usual confidence, and for a moment, he looked less like the powerful CEO everyone feared and more like a man who had just discovered that someone he trusted had been lying to him for years.“I don’t understand,” he said quietly, and Sofia’s expression softened as she really thought she could use that best friend card on him again “I am your best friend.” She said with tears on her eyes, and Alexander looked at her for several seconds, before parting his lips “You were.”The past tense seemed to hurt her more than his anger had.She looked down, then turned toward the door as Security moved aside to let her pass.Alexander didn’t stop them, didn’t defend her, and he didn’t ask for another chance.He simply stood there and watched the woman who had once been his closest friend wa

ALEX I stood there long after Sofia was taken away, unable to move as I stared at the door she had disappeared through, because no matter how many times I replayed everything that had just happened in my head, some part of me still couldn’t accept it.Sofia had lied to me, the same woman I had known for years, the woman i had trusted enough to defend without even thinking twice, had been working against Rhea, and while Rhea had been trying to warn me, I had looked straight into her eyes and convinced himself that she was simply jealous.Fuck.My jaw tightened as I looked at Rhea again, and the moment my eyes landed on the bruising around her neck, guilt hit me so hard that I almost couldn’t breathe.She had tried to tell me, she had fucking tried.She had told me that she didn’t trust Sofia, and instead of listening to her, I had made her feel like she was being unreasonable, like she was some jealous wife who couldn’t stand another woman being close to her husband, and now Sofia ha

RHEA How many aura point did I lose for begging my contracted husband to kiss me? I really didn't know , but j just couldn't keep it in anymore, so I might not be the best girl but it’s all good, cause I just want Alexander Sinclair and I wanted him right now. “Do what you did again.”His hand stopped against my face, and his eyes searched mine.“What?”He asked, and more tears rolled down my cheeks “The kiss.”My voice cracked, and was barely a whisper, but I knew he had heard me cause his expression immediately changed.“Rhea…”I took a shaky breath and stepped closer, cause I didn’t know what I was doing.I only knew that I couldn’t stand there pretending that I hadn’t felt anything when every part of me was screaming for him.“Please.”His eyes dropped to my lips, only for a second, but I saw it, and then I saw the way his jaw tightened afterward, as though he was fighting with himself, and that tiny reaction made my heart beat even harder.…..AlexanderThat one word hit me

UNKNOWNThe public had finally started to turn in Rhea’s favor, and that was exactly what I had been afraid of because sympathy was dangerous when it was allowed to grow unchecked.People were beginning to see Rhea as the victim instead of the woman they had once blamed for the hospital disaster, and the more they talked about her betrayal, her suffering, and everything she had supposedly survived, the more difficult it would become to touch her without making her look even more innocent.I couldn’t allow that to happen.If Rhea was given enough time, she would eventually start putting the pieces together, and once she understood that Sofia had only been one part of something much bigger, she might begin looking in places she had never thought to look before. I had spent too much time making sure the truth stayed buried to let her stumble across it now, so I knew I had to change the story before she had the chance to change it herself.I didn’t need to destroy her all at once because

RHEA Just when I thought my life couldn’t get any more complicated that as it already is, because of the yet again scandal, my dear ol ex boyfriend, whom I haven’t thought about in a long while, Darius came running back At least, that was what I kept telling myself whenever his name crossed my mind, because after everything he had done, thinking about him felt like giving him another piece of my time that he didn’t deserve. I had already spent enough nights wondering why I hadn’t been enough for him, got drunk and meet Alexander that night because of himHe broke me while he had chosen my fucking step sister Mira, the actual person I thought I was going to build a life with had been able to look me in the eyes while secretly destroying everything we had.So when I started seeing his face again, I tried to ignore it.The first time was on a business channel playing quietly in the background while I waited for a meeting, and there he was, standing outside some event with several repo