Reluctantly Yours Pdf Novels & Stories

Good. For now, we're going to focus on getting him inside the research facility. Mark's POV "No!" I said again for the umpteenth time, not willing to give in to their requests. These elders were really starting to get on my nerves with their incessant bugging. "How dare you stand before the council of elders to disobey our orders." Elder Bruce raged. "First off, I'm sitting comfortably. Secondly, go find someone else to give your bullshit orders." I replied with a sarcastic smile.

I felt uneasy and exasperated because, of all the people who could help me in my situation, they were the ones sturdily convincing me to go with them. As she was sending an assuring smile at me, I breathed heavily and nodded before picking up my car key. I gave all my prowess to resist however, she was persistent, too. I believed she doesn't accept rejection because I could single out how empowered she is as a woman. As I didn’t want to be rude in front of her after offering kindness, eventually, I succumbed and stepped out of my car.

Fuck. “I think there’s a misunderstanding. These are from my company,” she says while spreading the files on the sofa. “From Loan Dolphin. I don’t understand.” Her eyes flick to mine, I should say something. Reassure her. Anxiety coats her tone, lashes at my heart and I refuse to take the files she stretches to me. “Please tell me this is a mistake, Brandon.” It’s not. “You mistakenly came in contact with these files. Someone you know dropped them with you.”

The room suddenly felt colder now, quieter too, and no matter how hard I tried calming myself down, one terrifying thought kept repeating loudly inside my head. What exactly was Dante trying to do? I swallowed hard and quickly flipped through the remaining pages faster now, my heartbeat becoming louder with every second. Then suddenly something slipped loose from inside the file. A document. It landed softly across the desk. At first I barely paid attention to it. Until my eyes landed on the words written boldly across the top. Marriage Contract. My entire body froze. Slowly, almost nervously now, I picked it up from the desk and stared at it harder.

I think of Jaxton, steady through every storm, never once trying to force an answer from me the way Dean is forcing one now. "No," I say, and the word comes out clear, steady, carrying across the entire hall without hesitation. "I don't accept your reclamation, Dean. I appreciate that you've changed. I believe you regret what you did. But respect isn't proven by cornering someone into answering in front of witnesses when private conversation would have honored the choice you claim to want me to have." Dean's face falls, something raw and wounded crossing his expression, but he doesn't argue, doesn't push further, simply absorbs the answer with a quiet dignity that almost makes the refusal ha

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, he said to me in a curt voice I straightened my back, raised a brow so high, I though it would start to twitch and pulled on my most daring look. The man however was not intimidated, he looked like a person who had to deal with brats every day. Damn! I need to get inside. “I need to see your invitation code if you insist ma’am”, he said, almost in a polite tone. I looked him dead in the eyes with my heart somersaulting in my chest. He stared back unfazed.

When he finally slid a stack of papers toward me, I skimmed them briefly before setting them down with little interest. "Your company’s financials are underwhelming," I stated bluntly. "This project has no potential." His expression faltered before he forced his usual confident smile. "I assure you, Mr. Ignacio, with your investment, we can push it to new heights." "I’m not interested, Mr. Parker. Your company is not a viable investment opportunity." Vincent’s jaw tightened. I expected him to argue, to persist,he always did. But instead, his smile shifted, his tone dropping into something far more calculated.

I tightened my lips to control myself from smiling after seeing her cute red face. "Alpha" Patrick knocked on the door and walked inside with a file in his hand, but before, he would've given it to me. Gloria snatched that file from me and gave it to Monika. "You should ask your Alpha to take a break instead of giving him the file. Are you stupid?" Gloria growled at poor Patrick. I shook my head, realising now they both were going to fight like a child. "I'm not stupid. It was an Alpha order. How can you expect me to deny him?" He snarled and was about to snatch the file from Monika's hand harshly but stopped when I mindlinked him.

I felt Isabelle’s venom. But tonight, the balance was tilting. My phone dinged again. UNKNOWN: “They’re asking for your permission to use the file in the board hearings.” My fingers hovered over the keyboard. I didn’t know who the sender was. But I felt the weight of it. The next step would require bravery. I replied: “Yes.” I pressed send. Then I lay back, the darkness filled with quiet purpose.