Chapter 145 After Ava and Riley finally left, the apartment became strangely quiet again. Sienna slowly walked toward her bedroom. But the silence did not last long. The moment she entered the room, a sudden buzzing sound broke through the quiet. Her attention immediately shifted to the study table, her
Chapter 144 Sienna slowly began recounting everything that had happened the previous day. At first, neither Ava nor Riley interrupted her. They simply listened quietly as she explained how everything had started with Benjamin Foster. She told them about Benjamin cornering her, his disgusting behavior, and how he had tried
Chapter 143 Riley released a heavy sigh. “Sorry for lying to you. But I worked there because my dad wanted me to start as an entry-level employee without anyone knowing who I was.” He lifted his hands defensively. “So technically… not my fault. So, you can’t blame me.” “No one
Chapter 142 “Zach…” Sienna whispered softly. Worry and confusion filled her eyes at the same time as she looked up at him. “Can you wait in my bedroom?” Zachary fell silent as though genuinely considering her request. But, several seconds later, he shook his head. “I’ll go out for a
Chapter 392 The longer she looked at him, the more the contradiction between everything she thought she had known about Oliver and everything she had witnessed tonight pressed against the inside of her skull with a weight that made coherent thought difficult. She had believed she understood him. Had believed
Chapter 391 He shook his head again, and this time the gesture carried finality. “You are a disgrace, Lovi. Not just to me. To everything you were taught. To everything you could have been.” Master Bushman reached into his jacket and withdrew two more daggers. The blades gleamed in the
Chapter 390 Felt the blades shifting within him, ripping through tissue and muscle in ways that his brain could not fully process because the pain had moved past the point where pain functioned as useful information and had become something closer to white noise – a constant, screaming static that
Chapter 389 At that moment, Oliver stood. The motion was slow and deliberate, each stage of it measured and final – the straightening of his knees, the shift of his weight, the adjustment of his posture as he rose to his full height and turned away from where Lovi was
Chapter 388 At that moment, something inside Lovi finally broke completely. Whatever composure he had been clinging to – whatever final shred of dignity or pride or self-preservation instinct that had been holding him upright in any psychological sense – it all shattered at once, and what emerged in its
Chapter 387 His shoulders shook slightly. “It was greed. That is the only word for it. My greed overran my reasoning and my judgment and every standard I was ever taught, and I allowed it to drive me to a place that I – that I cannot defend. I know
Chapter 386 Oliver’s voice cut in before Cora could respond. “Take her to the car. Make sure she is comfortable and safe. Stay with her until I am finished here.” The secretary bowed again, deeper this time, acknowledging the instruction without hesitation. “Yes, Master.” She turned to Cora and gestured
Chapter 385 Lovi stood exactly where he had been standing throughout the entire exchange, and his body had begun betraying him in ways he could neither control nor hide. His eyes had gone wide – so wide it felt like his face could not contain them – and his legs
Chapter 384 The warehouse, which had been filled moments ago with the sounds of struggle and shouted commands and boots striking concrete, went completely and utterly still. And in that stillness, in the center of all of it, Lovi stood frozen. The phone that had been in his hand –
Chapter 383 At that moment, every head in the warehouse turned in the direction of that voice with the kind of synchronized, involuntary movement that happens when a sound carries enough authority to override individual will entirely. Cora turned too. And something happened in her mind the moment she turned
Chapter 382 At that moment, the sound of that voice did something to Cora that nothing else in the entire nightmare of that evening had managed to do. It broke her. Not in the way that Lovi had been trying to break her all night – not through fear or
Chapter 381 He turned toward the ten men standing in formation behind her and gestured sharply toward five of them specifically, singling them out with a quick series of hand signals that were clearly understood by everyone in the room except Cora herself. “Hold her,” he said, his voice taking
Chapter 380 He gestured around the room with a sweep of his hand. “And now you are seeing, in very concrete terms, exactly what your stubbornness is costing you. This is not something I wanted, Cora. Force is never my first preference – it is messy, it is unpleasant, and
Chapter 379 She took one step forward, and there was nothing hesitant in it. “Let me give you something in return right now. Let me give you my own answer, and I need you to listen to every single word because I am not going to repeat it.” Her voice
Chapter 378 He stood up from his chair and gestured toward the bed positioned deliberately at the far side of the room. “The problem is that I cannot simply trust your word, Cora. I cannot take you at your agreement, should you decide to give it, because I know you.
Chapter 377 Lovi’s voice came from behind her, quiet but carrying an edge that stopped the air in the room. “Because my hand is already resting on the send button right now, Cora. It is sitting right there, and all it requires is the slightest additional pressure.” His voice remained