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Chapter 84
Ryan leaned back in his chair, his hands loosely clasped on the desk. His voice was calm, smooth, almost polite but it still held authority when he spoke.“If you don’t mind, Elizabeth,” he said, looking directly at her, “I’d like to have a private meeting with Mr. Wentworth. I’d appreciate it if you and Julian could step outside for now, so the space is more appropriate for the discussion. It’s a confidential matter.”The way he phrased it was gentle enough on the surface, but the message underneath was clear.She didn't belong in a place like that.Elizabeth froze. The words felt like an invisible hand pressing her backwards. It wasn’t just the request that stunned her, it was the realization of what it meant. She wasn’t in control. She wasn’t in a position to linger. This was his space, and she was being dismissed from it.Her legs felt heavy, almost unwilling to respond. For a moment she simply stood there, her eyes moving between Ryan and the floor, as if hoping someone would t
Chapter 83
The room was so quiet you could have heard the faint ticking of the clock on the far wall. Ryan hadn’t moved since the second-in-command revealed who he truly was. He sat there, calm and unbothered, watching Elizabeth lose her strength and composure. Elizabeth’s body felt rooted to the spot, her eyes locked on Ryan as though she couldn’t trust her own vision. Her throat bobbed as she swallowed, her lips parting slightly, but the words came out broken.“But… how…?” she stammered, unable to believe what she was seeing.Her voice didn’t carry the arrogance she had wielded just minutes ago. It was softer, smaller, and perhaps for the first time in Ryan’s presence, almost humble.Her wings had been broken…Julian, standing just a step behind her, blinked rapidly, his mind scrambling to make sense of the scene. But rather than allow the truth to settle in, he leaned closer to Elizabeth, lowering his voice into a whisper meant only for her.“You… you don’t actually believe this, do you?
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Here voice was filled with impatience, “what do you mean… by that?”Her chin moved upward, and there was a mockery in her tone as she kept speaking.“Because from where I’m standing, Mr. Wentworth, it sounds suspiciously like you’re defending him.” She jabbed her thumb over her shoulder in Ryan’s direction without even looking at him. “And if you are, then—”She didn’t get the chance to finish.Mr. Wentworth’s patience, which had been dangling by a single worn thread all morning, finally snapped.His expression hardened, and without a word, he stepped forward and took hold of her arm firmly, but not rough enough to hurt.Elizabeth gasped at the contact, her eyes widening. “Excuse me? What do you think—?”He didn’t answer. Instead, he turned and instantly dragged her into the office.She stumbled into the office threshold. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” she hissed, jerking her arm back the moment they were fully inside. “You can’t just pull people around like that. I…”Bu
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Elizabeth stood frozen for a moment, her breath caught somewhere between disbelief and outrage.Her eyes darted between the black access card in Ryan’s hand and the door that had just swung open without hesitation.It wasn’t just any door. It was the door to the CEO’s office.“What…” she gasped, her voice trembling more from shock than fear, “—what is that card? How did you even…”Julian, standing beside her, was just as stunned. His mouth hung open as if words had abandoned him entirely.And then Ryan walked right in like he belonged there.Like the place was his.Elizabeth’s shock morphed instantly into suspicion. Her mind scrambled for a logical explanation, and instead of finding one, it settled on the most ridiculous, and the most satisfying conclusion.She straightened her back, pointing toward the office door like she was pointing out a criminal in a police lineup. “SECURITY!” she screamed at the top of her lungs, her voice echoing down the corridor like a siren.Her shriek dr
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Elizabeth sat directly across from Ryan and Claudia, her arms tightly crossed over her chest. She watched them like a predator watching its prey that didn’t yet know it was being hunted.Julian sat beside her, absently scrolling through his phone.Elizabeth couldn’t stop staring.She wasn’t sure what it was, but something about Claudia Duval deeply irritated her. It was probably because she believed Ryan was getting into places he wouldn't usually have access to because of her.Elizabeth’s blood boiled.She hated Claudia for no reason other than existing too close to Ryan.“That's it… I hate for being associated with Ryan,” she thought in her mind. After all, Ryan had somehow climbed his way up since she left him. He’d taken her father’s company — her company. McCarthy Technologies was supposed to be hers one day and now it was gone. It was stolen, ripped away from her and it was all Claudia's fault, so she thought.She gave them a murderous glare.All of a sudden, the lights flicker
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Ryan and Claudia made their way through the corridor side by side. Claudia’s hand was looped casually through Ryan’s arm as they walked.She looked ahead toward the large, frosted glass door at the far end of the corridor, the one marked in clean, bold letters “Chief Executive Officer.”As they neared the door, she tilted her head slightly toward Ryan and asked softly, “Are we going in now? Or do you want to wait a bit before dealing with them?”Ryan raised his brow and reached for the handle. “Let’s just get it over with,” he murmured.He reached for the handle and pushed the door open.But immediately they stepped inside, they both stopped suddenly. Ryan blinked in surprise and took a step back, his face wrinkling in distaste from the warm air that hit him.The office felt like a sauna, and it felt stuffy and suffocating. Ryan looked around and saw that the AC wasn't working and the ceiling fan spun slowly, barely moving the heat.Ryan frowned, stepping further inside and glancing a
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