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Playing the victim
Chapter 24Aria took a threatening step closer, her shadow looming over him where he sat sprawled on the floor. Her fists were clenched so tightly her knuckles whitened, her whole body trembling with restrained violence.“You stood there,” she growled, her eyes boring into his. “You let him sink. You wanted him dead.” Her voice cracked with both pain and fury. “Do you have any idea what it felt like to hold him in my arms—cold, lifeless—because of you?”Paxton sneered, though his eyes flickered with unease. “You’re crazy,” he snapped, trying to mask the tremor in his voice. “I don’t know what game you’re playing, but you can’t pin this on me. Everyone knows Alexander is weak—he probably slipped. That’s not my fault!”Aria’s jaw tightened, her hand twitching dangerously at her side, like she might strike him again. Her voice dropped to a deadly whisper. “Don’t lie to me, Paxton. I swear, if anything happens to Alex, you’ll regret the day you ever set foot in this house.”The silence th
Fist fight
Chapter 23The cold, sterile light of the hospital corridor pressed down on them, its hum as suffocating as the silence that followed. Aria and Selena stood side by side, their hands still entwined, both trembling with the same raw fear. The clock on the wall ticked mercilessly, each second dragging like an eternity.Selena paced in a tight line before the trauma room doors, her wet hair clinging to her shoulders, droplets trailing down her trembling arms. She stopped every few moments to glance toward the shut doors, as if sheer willpower might force them open.Aria, in contrast, sat slumped against the wall, her knees drawn up, her hands digging into her scalp. She had always been strong, the unshakable one, but now she looked hollow, every breath catching in her throat.“Why is it taking so long?” Selena whispered hoarsely, her voice cracking. She turned suddenly to Aria, her eyes wild. “What if… what if he doesn’t—”“Don’t say it.” Aria’s voice was sharp, cutting through her own d
Emergency ward
Chapter 23Selena stepped out from the hallway, now dressed in her swimming trunks, her hair tied back. She hummed lightly, expecting to see Alexander sitting awkwardly by the edge, maybe lost in thought as usual. But the poolside was strangely quiet too quiet.Her smile vanished when she noticed the ripples across the water, the faint trail of bubbles rising to the surface. Her chest tightened instantly.“Alexander?” she called, stepping closer, her eyes scanning the pool. That was when she saw it his body sinking, limp, swallowed by the blue glow beneath the water.“God, no!” Her scream tore through the night.Without a second thought, Selena dove in, cutting through the water with desperate speed. The cold hit her skin, but she ignored it, pushing herself deeper, her arms stretching toward him. Alexander’s body floated downward, his eyes half-closed, his lips pale, streams of bubbles slipping weakly from his mouth.“Alexander!” She reached him just in time, hooking her arm firmly a
Pool phobia
Chapter 22 Alexander walked slowly to the poolside, his steps dragging as though the weight of his thoughts was too heavy for his legs. The quiet shimmer of the water reflected the lights around the villa, calm and peaceful, but inside him, there was nothing but turmoil. He sat down at the edge, his fingers tracing idle patterns on the tiles, his gaze distant. How quickly life had turned upside down. Just weeks ago, he was the boy everyone looked down on, mocked for being poor, scorned for not belonging in their world. Yet here he was heir to an empire, a billionaire in disguise. The irony gnawed at him. He clenched his fists, fighting the childish urge to laugh in Paxton’s face, to slam his black card onto the table and watch their arrogant smirks vanish. He longed to shout, My father could buy your entire generation and still have change left over. But he couldn’t. Not yet. One wrong move, one slip of the tongue, and everything his father had warned him about would collapse. Pr
Scholarship thief
Chapter 21 Paxton’s finger was still trembling in Aria’s face when she tilted her head and laughed softly, the sound laced with scorn. Then, with calm defiance, she spoke. “Paxton, you can’t touch me,” she said, her voice rising so everyone could hear. “If you knew who my parents are, you wouldn’t dare bark in my direction. You’d bow at my feet instead. I don’t need to make noise my name speaks louder than your arrogance ever could.” The room froze, students leaning in, eyes wide. Paxton’s face flickered with unease, though he quickly masked it with a scowl. Aria stepped closer, her voice sharpening. “You know the saying, don’t you? Empty barrels make the loudest noise. That’s you, Paxton. All talk, no weight. And now… now I think I’ll focus on you. I want to dig, to find out who your parents really are. Because from where I’m standing, I’m certain their achievements don’t even come close to my family’s don’t even scrape the surface of what my parents have built.” Paxton’s ja
Contaminated
Chapter 20The silence that followed Selena’s warning didn’t last long.From further down the table, Tommy suddenly pushed his chair back with a loud scrape. His smirk was cruel, his voice booming so everyone could hear.“Respect?” he scoffed. “Don’t make me laugh. What does Alexander know about respect when he’s nothing but a thief?”A ripple of gasps went through the students. All eyes turned toward Alexander, the energy in the room shifting into something sharper, uglier.Alexander’s head snapped toward Tommy, shock flashing across his face. “What did you just say?”Tommy folded his arms, leaning lazily against the table as though he owned the room. “You heard me. Isn’t that what you do? Going around stealing from people money, food, whatever you can get your hands on. Like a rat scavenging in a house where he doesn’t belong.”The words hit hard, slicing deeper than Paxton’s earlier taunt. Murmurs rose across the table, whispers flying from mouth to mouth like fire spreading throug
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