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Chapter 10
“So tell me,” Jack Fowler said loudly enough for the nearby guests to hear, his glass raised with ease, “when a man survives on nothing but scraps, is it still called resilience or just plain stubbornness?”The ripple of laughter that followed was not wholehearted, but enough to encourage him. He basked in the attention, turning his head slightly toward Bella, as though waiting for her to share the moment. Her lips pressed into a thin line instead, but she didn’t stop him. Around them, more guests just stayed prepared, the initial tension was just an appetizer and they were waiting for the main meal. The reason for the event had been announced, with Lila taking the stage and the donations were already piling up and looking good. Kadmiel’s gaze rose, slowly, he took the time to look at Fowler, if Fowler had seen the death stare, he would have stopped the jokes definitely. Bella’s breath caught. She knew that look, Kadmiel’s ability to pierce through a room without raising his voic
Chapter 9
“Why does he have to be here…” Bella muttered, but Jack Fowler caught it. She had frozen where she stood, her eyes locked on Kadmiel who sat low-key at a side table with Lila leaning comfortably close to him. The moment stretched longer than she intended, making her anxious, her throat dry, her palms restless against the fabric of her gown. Kadmiel did not move either. He just stared at her, steady, unflinching and unreadable. The loud music was a bit reduced now, there was still a lot of clinking, and chatter in the banquet. Then Bella, almost defiantly, blinked first and turned away. The deliberate shift cut something in Kadmiel. To her, it was a choice. To him, it was a declaration, she was moving on, and so he should just accept it.Lila tilted her head, watching him. “You look like you have seen a ghost.” Her words came with a smirk, but her eyes searched his face with a sharpness that caught his discomfort.“It’s nothing,” Kadmiel replied, though his voice carried a weight
Chapter 8
The grand ballroom was a sea of light and murmurs, chandeliers glittering above as waiters carried trays of champagne through the crowd. Lila’s charity banquet had already drawn a lot of dignitaries, wealthy investors, and politicians eager to be seen supporting her foundation. Conversations blended into a low hum of power and vanity, the kind of atmosphere where every handshake was carefully calculated and carried a whole lot of power. At one of the tables tucked toward the side of the hall was Kadmiel. His shoulders were angled away from the spotlight, his posture deliberately reserved. He wore a crisp black suit, Lila’s choice, of course, but his expression carried no interest in the event unfolding around him. He scanned the hall with the watchfulness of a soldier rather than the delight of a guest, nothing else mattered to him, nothing in here at the moment. Lila, however, refused to let him fade into the background. She leaned against his arm as though it were her rightful
Chapter 7
Kadmiel’s hands were still curled around the fragments when the suite door closed behind them. The hotel’s hushed luxury wrapped around him, but none of it dulled the things running through his mind. He stood near the center table, the broken pendant lying in his palm like a wound he could not close.Lila watched him in silence for a moment, her usual playful spark dimmed by the heaviness in his shoulders. She moved closer to him, measuring her steps, her expression softening as she reached out to gently cover his hand with hers.“Kad,” she said, her voice low, almost tender. “Don’t let what they did disturb you. They are just sad people, come on.”He shook his head slowly. “It was more than a necklace. It was… the last piece of something I thought I still carried intact. And now even that…” His words cut off, not from lack of strength, but because he knew speaking further would unravel the control he still had left.Lila leaned against the table, keeping her hand on his. “Then we
Chapter 6
“Restrain them.”Lila’s words followed the simple hand gesture, it was a smooth yet sharp command, and her guards moved instantly as though their jobs depended on it, it probably did though. Two of the six men stepped forward,grabbing Daniel by the arms while another pair seized Agnes. Daniel struggled at once, his voice loud across the lobby in an outraged snarl.“Unhand me! Do you even know who I am? Do you know who my sister is?” He twisted uselessly against the guards’ hold, his face became red at this point and eyes wild. “Bella, my sister runs Group B. She is the fucking CEO. Do you understand? Group B! If you think you can humiliate me, then wait until my brother-in-law hears of this. Jack Fowler will crush every one of you. He is the heir of the A family, one of the most influential men in the country.”Agnes’s voice chimed in, even as she writhed against the grip of the guards. “This is an outrage. We will not be treated like criminals in public. I will sue every last one
Chapter 5
But then Agnes seemed to regain herself. “You are just really fooling at this point.”Kadmiel’s gaze never left the pendant as Agnes held it now with a smug smile, her fingers brushing the gold chain with deliberate carelessness.“You think you can demand what isn’t yours?” she asked, her tone icy but laced with mockery. “A token of your so-called family legacy? You have no claim here, Kadmiel. Not anymore. If Bella wanted it back, she would have asked herself. But she didn’t. And neither should you.”“I do not want to battle words with you anymore,” Kadmiel said evenly, his voice carrying the authority of a man accustomed to command, “I want what belongs to me. Hand it over.”Agnes laughed, soft and cruel. “Belongs to you? Everything about you has belonged to misery and failure. You are the prisoner, the ex-husband, the man everyone warned my daughter against. And now, you stand here expecting me to respect a mere trinket you insist carries your precious ‘bloodline’? Kadmiel, you amu
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