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Chapter 92
Chapter 92Ethan sat in the parked car and read the messages twice.The first time to absorb the content. The second time to read between it.Victoria had forwarded everything exactly as received — no edits, no commentary, just the raw thread of what the Stone family had put in writing. He scrolled slowly, letting each line land with its full weight before moving to the next.The demand was clear enough. The new acquisition — the development Victoria had finalized earlier that week, the one that had made the magazine cover, the one that had apparently been the specific irritant that pushed whoever was pulling the Stone family's strings from impatience into action — was to be transferred. Not negotiated. Not discussed. Transferred, on their timeline, in the manner they specified. A series of asset movements, structured to look administrative from the outside and designed to quietly hollow out what Victoria had built before she'd even had the chance to consolidate it.The compliance win
Chapter 91
Chapter 91The car park had mostly emptied by the time Sarah found him.Simon Stone was leaning against the side of his car with the particular stillness of a man whose body had stopped moving but whose mind hadn't. His arms were crossed loosely, his gaze somewhere out past the concrete pillars and the scattered vehicles, fixed on nothing specific. He didn't look troubled, exactly. He looked like a man running calculations that the rest of the world wasn't privy to.Sarah had seen that look before. She'd decided, somewhere along the way, that it made him more attractive rather than less.She crossed the garage toward him, heels clicking a soft rhythm against the floor, and arranged her expression into something warm and open — the version of herself she'd learned to lead with when she wanted something. She'd had time to recover from the corridor. To recalibrate. The embarrassment of the moment with Ethan had already been folded away into a corner of her mind she didn't intend to visit
Chapter 90
Chapter 90Sarah's mind was moving faster than her composure could keep up with.*Ethan Cole.*Here. In this club. Stepping out of a private room like he owned the corridor, that same unhurried ease about him that had always made her feel, irrationally, like he was the one setting the pace of whatever room he was in. She hadn't seen him since the gala. Hadn't expected to see him here tonight, of all nights, with Simon Stone standing two feet to her left.She blinked once. Then the instinct arrived, quick and bright and dressed up as opportunity.*Perfect.*She could work with this. She could absolutely work with this.The smirk found her face before she'd fully decided to let it. Here was her chance, handed to her without effort — Ethan walking out of the shadows and directly into the tableau she couldn't have arranged better herself. All she had to do was let him see it. Let him see *her*, standing beside a man like Simon Stone, relaxed and chosen and completely unbothered.Surely th
Chapter 89
Chapter 89Sarah Wilson sat upright on the edge of the bed, the thick white duvet pulled tightly around her naked body. The sheets were still warm beneath her, the air in the room heavy with the scent of sweat and expensive cologne.From the bathroom came the steady sound of running water.Simon Stone was still inside.They had just finished having sex.Sarah sighed softly, biting her lower lip as a pleased smile spread across her face. Her fingers absentmindedly traced the edge of the duvet as she leaned back slightly against the headboard.Simon had called her.And she had come without hesitation.Now she had become his personal relief method. Whenever he was stressed or simply wanted sex, he summoned her, and she came running. It was humiliating in a way… but Sarah found that she didn’t really mind.In fact, she preferred it.She had realized something recently.Being close to Simon Stone would benefit her far more than anything she could have gotten from Drake Hastings.Simon was
Chapter 88
Chapter 88The view from his office window was one of the things Ethan had quietly come to appreciate.Boston stretched out below him in layers — glass towers catching the morning light, the older brick faces of buildings that had been here long before any of this, the distant shimmer of the harbor where the city met the water and decided to stop. From up here, the noise was gone. The traffic, the voices, the weight of everything requiring his attention — all of it reduced to a silent panorama that asked nothing of him.He stood with one hand in his pocket and his coffee still unmade on the desk behind him, just looking.The knock came at precisely the right moment — not interrupting a thought so much as completing one."Come in."The door opened and Rebecca stepped through, tablet tucked under one arm, a fresh coffee in her other hand, her low heels precise against the floor. She moved with a quiet efficiency. She set the coffee on his desk, straightened, and looked toward the window
Chapter 87
Chapter 87Simon Stone had been in the middle of something when the summons came.The cell was underground, concrete walls, single hanging bulb, the kind of room that didn't appear on any floor plan. Three men were zip-tied to chairs, one of them already sporting a broken nose from the first round. They had made the mistake of skimming from a Stone family operation, which was the kind of mistake that people in their position only ever made once. Simon had been working through the second round when his phone buzzed against his thigh.He'd looked at the screen. Stepped back. Handed the work off to his men with two words and a look that communicated the rest, then wiped his hands on a cloth and walked out without breaking stride.---Now he stood outside his father's home office door, and he didn't go in.He stood in the corridor and breathed.His right hand formed a fist at his side, slow and deliberate — fingers curling inward until his knuckles whitened — then released. Then again. A
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