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Eliana stormed into her father's private office, arms folded, irritation running under her skin. Incidents of the last twenty-four hours ran through her mind—the attempted kidnapping, Nathaniel's threats, and now that her professional relationship with him had all been a cover for sabotage.She was done playing his game.The door opened and Saben stepped inside, his jaw clenched and firm. He had two bruises on his jaw from last night's fight, but his blue eyes flared with anger."You require protection," Saben said succinctly.Eliana halted her pacing. "I don't require bodyguards Saben."Saben swallowed a bitter breath. "Listen, Eliana. Nathaniel is not going to let go. He's released you last night because he wanted to make a point, but next time?" His voice was constricted. "Next time, he won't be so kind sis.""I can take care of myself.""Eliana—""Stop it."Both responded to the door opening as Benedict Thompson stepped inside.Eliana's father was a major presence, big and tall, w
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Eliana met his gaze with steady eyes, her voice steadfast. "I will be careful. And I will not surrender."Eliana arrived at her family's mansion, a towering building that spoke volumes about the prestige enjoyed by the Thompson family. As soon as she set her foot within, a stuffy icy cold glare welcomed her, and it was from her father, Benedict Thompson. He had already settled into the majestic study, whiskey in one hand and the index finger of the other performing a drumroll on the polished surface of the wood desk."Eliana." His tone was low, menacing. "Speak."She was standing stiffly. "What are you saying?"Benedict's lips thinned into a straight line and he slapped a paper on the table. The title leered at her in block letters:THOMPSON ENTERPRISES AND SABRINA- ULTRA BREAKS ALLIANCES WITH HARPER INDUSTRIES – BUSINESS WAR RAGES ONHer mother, Sabrina, lingered in the background, her face filled with concern. "Eliana, what is it?"Eliana sighed, facing her father. "Nathaniel was un
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At home, Eliana lay on the couch, sifting through her emails as Saben strode back and forth in the living room."I do not like it," Saben growled. "You must stay under the radar, not fight a business war with Nathaniel Harper."Eliana didn't look up. "I'm not fighting one. I'm closing one."Saben groaned, running his fingers through his hair. "Do you even hear yourself? You sound like—""A businesswoman fighting for her empire?" she cut in, finally glancing at him. "Good. Because that is what I am."Lucas, who'd remained by the door, finally spoke up. "We have to prepare for the worst."Eliana shut her laptop. "What do you suggest?"Lucas stepped closer, his dominance reasserting. "More security surrounding your office and home. I'll have more people monitoring Nathaniel's moves. We need eyes on everyone."Saben nodded. "Done. I can also try asking some of my business contacts if Nathaniel's been doing anything unusual."Eliana sat back in her chair, still smiling. "Nathaniel thinks h
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Saben shifted restlessly in his seat. "So what do we do now? Just sit around and wait for Nathaniel to make the first move?"Eliana smiled. "No, we make the first strike."Lucas snarled. "I knew you would say that."Damian gazed at her for the first time. "You want to strike first?"Eliana nodded. "Nathaniel Harper has sabotaged our projects long enough. I'm sick of explaining ourselves."Gregson, just off the plane, dumped his briefcase onto the table. "So you'll be delighted to hear that we've got enough evidence to initiate a full-scale investigation of Harper Industries. Fraud, violation of contract, industrial sabotage—take your choice, we've got it all."Saben straightened to attention. "You're pulling my leg. We can actually nail him in court?"Gregson nodded. "If you approve, we can initiate the first round of litigation tomorrow morning."Eliana's pen crushed tightly between her fingers. "Do it."Saben went on to remain unhappily restless. "Eliana, you can't possibly believe
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Eliana's belly rumbled in protest. Eliana's stomach rumbled in protest. "Who are you?" she ground out.Then came the unmistakable low rumble of amusement from the other end of the line: "Eliana, my sweetheart. You thought you would just escape off the map?" Nathaniel. Eliana gripped the phone tightly. "I do not play games, Nathaniel.""Oh, you'd better Eliana. Because this isn't quite over." He had a smooth voice, a trail of laughter. "You left me out. You'll be sorry."Eliana gritted her teeth. "I don't think so Mr.Harper."Nathaniel exhaled. "You're leaping to conclusions. Think clearly before this becomes complicated."Eliana was furious, but her voice didn't tremble. "Was that a threat?""A promise."The line went dead.She slapped her phone onto the counter, her heart racing.Saben, listening, furrowed his brow. "What did you tell him?"Eliana rolled her eyes. "That this is hardly over."Damian, leaning in the doorway, cracked his knuckles. "Then we ensure he doesn't get a seco
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Nathaniel Harper gripped the armrests of his chair, the knuckles a sickly white. He heard out William Harper's acidic words."She needs to be taken care of," William explained, stirring the whiskey in his glass. "Eliana Auburn is a threat. And threats need to be eliminated."Nathaniel's jaw groaned shut. "You want her murdered."William rocked back in his chair, serene. "Aren't I?There was a silence between them. Power had always rested in the Harper home, on the basis of cruelty, but this. this Nathaniel would never do."No." He was coldly serene, his fists bunched in his palms. "I have nothing to do with it."William laughed. "When did you ever get all big and get a conscience?""This has nothing to do with conscience," Nathaniel growled. "This is control. I want to destroy her in business, not kill her."His father's laughter as he shook his head. "You are weak, just like your mother was."Nathaniel's countenance burned with anger, but he kept himself in check. "I won't have blood
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"That son of a bastard desires war? He can have it."A phone rang in the quiet.Unknown caller.She drew a bitter breath and picked it up. "If this is Nathaniel, you'd better hope you catch me first."Derisive, mocking laughter. "Oh, Eliana, I must say, you're a bit more meat than I'd expected.""No."Her hand gripped the phone. "William.""Shocked?" Sarcasm edging his tone. "You shouldn't be. You knew that this was on the table the moment you crossed me."Eliana's icy stare. "You're mad if you think that's going to frighten you."William inflated his feathers in a puffy fashion. "Oh, darling, this isn't scaring you. This is putting you in order, really. And trust me, I'm just getting warmed up."Eliana's racing heart, but cold tone. "You'll regret this."Low, menacing laugh. "We'll see, darling. We'll see."The phone went dead.Eliana hung the phone with slow deliberation.Saben glared at her, concern twisting his face. "What did he say?"She glared back at him, flames burning in her
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Wendy came closer, never once looking away from Damian. "What are you proposing, then?Damian's own tone did not shake, his voice pleasant but cold. "We bring him down. We cut him off from resources, expose him for what he's done, and take away any sanctuary for him to be found. By law or otherwise."Benedict's expression wasn't changing, but a fleeting moment of evil crept into his eyes. "And if that is not enough?"Damian's lips didn't move much. "Then we make sure he doesn't try it again."Sabrina gasped unevenly. "This is war."Benedict nodded. "And we win."Gregson took the folder, reading it. "Then we need to act fast."Damian looked at Benedict. "I've already got people waiting. But if we do this, we can't go back."Benedict did not flinch at him. "We weren't going back."Wendy smiled. "Finally, some sense being said."Benedict's phone rang at that time again.Unknown Caller.He winced inwardly. In a moment of quiet, he activated the speaker.Low, silky voice filled the room."
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Her fingers stroked the material. "Okay," she breathed.The boutique manager came back once more, and Eliana smiled, her voice more even now. "We'll take this one.""Good choice, Miss Thompson." The manager clicked her fingers together, obviously delighted. "We'll have it steamed and wrapped up to deliver this evening, or would you like to take it with you?"He rested against the door of the fitting room, arms crossed, suit perfect, tie razor-sharp—but jaw clenched, eyes contained, tracking her each movement in the mirror."You're staring," she said without raising her gaze."You knew you would."Eliana swung around reluctantly, glancing at him.The way he regarded her—it wasn't admiration. It was possession, and something in his eyes that bordered on restraint."Well?" she breathed. "Too much?"His gaze dropped to the V of the neckline, black, and up to her face."It's perfect," he said softly. "Perilously perfect."A silence. The whir of the boutique died under weight of air between
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There was silence. Alexa was always too professional ever to say anything that wasn't absolutely imperative, but Eliana could almost feel the twitch of interest in the static."Oh, of course, ma'am. I'll alert Mr. Wolfe right away."The intercom clicked off.Eliana slowly breathing out through her nose, her fingers running along the top of the desk as if signing the lines of her own doubt.Why does the ring of his name feel like pulling on wire that had twisted hard against her ribcage?Damian Wolfe. Her shadow. Her bodyguard. The man whose lips whispered softly, and whose eyes whispered too loudly, leaving her quivering.It was not right—the way he gazed at her. The way he avoided gazing at her when he should have.As Nathaniel had been comfortable with the old version of her… Damian was comfortable with the woman she wasn't yet. With the one with burning rage, fear, and smoldering lust all twisted up in one.She sat back from her computer screen, attempting to escape in work, but he
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She did not scroll to the top of her phone contact list. She did not have to. Damian Wolfe was the first on everyone else's list—just like Nathaniel Carter was. Two names. Two men. One choice she'd never been able to make.Until today.Her thumb was still hovering, her breathing even.One telephone call changed the direction of her life.Before she could get cold feet, she heard footsteps—heavy, slow, familiar.She turned.Damian stood in the doorway to her office.And something about the way he was looking at her—as if she were his shelter and his tempest—stole her breath."Eliana," he said softly. "I'm not going to press you. I swear. I just. I needed to confirm that you were okay.""I am not," Eliana said softly. "But I will be."He bobbed his head. "Good. Because I've watched you shatter and remade myself. I understand how strong you can be once you finally begin not to attempt to flee from yourself."There was something primal in his gaze, something smothered yet deeply well-wrou
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Vincent smiled at her. "Does your security detail have a habit of crashing high-level meetings?"Noelle smiled to himself as he put away the tray."Men, take a five."Reluctance was there, but Vincent finally relented. "As you desire, bella."The others flowed out of the room, and he was left alone with her.Eliana stood in front of Damian, arms crossed, but her voice was filled with softness. "You didn't need to defend me like that."He leaned in over her. "I wasn't sticking up for you. I was reminding them who the hell you are.""I know who I am.""Then why are you allowing this world to destroy you just so you won't hurt?" His words cut her like glass."I'm not avoiding—You haven't even cried," Damian breathed, pulling another closer to her. "Not for the disaster Harper created. Not for Nathaniel. Not even for you."She pulled her face away. "If I do, I would not be able to stop."She waited. Then:"I'd defend you if you did."Her eyes were burning. She raised her face, and there
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She hauled herself up, carefully brushing her matted hair out of her face, her heart slowed a bit now. More confident. Less frantic.Her gaze returned to the phone.No new messages.And for once, that didn't sting like abandonment.It felt like freedom.She stood, walked barefoot into the kitchen, and poured the forgotten tea down the drain. It had cooled. Like the version of herself who sat around waiting for someone else to pick her.That version had fallen silent now, too.A vibration on the counter startled her.Damian.Just his name. No note. Just a missed call.She gazed at it forever, then she murdered the screen's power. She wasn't ready—not for him, not yet. Perhaps never.She moved to the living room, attracted by the hum of the television behind her. Her brother's form glowed under the blue light, stretched out on the couch with a pillow over his face as if he hadn't intended to sleep but the rest of the world had otherwise."Saben?" she whispered.He groaned. "Mmhmm?""Did
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The door closed gently, but to Eliana it was a gunshot.Her spine against the wood, she was frozen, her breathing barely more than a stillness. Her voice was still stuck in her throat, her heart bruising under the words she had said to Nathaniel-the words she had only recently realized for herself. "What have I done?" Eliana whispered into the silence, her voice faltering slightly.The Thompson estates did hulk over her in oppressive silence. The sort that did not forgive-it judged.Stumbling, she fell to the couch with her knees buckling under her. Her hand brushed against the thick cushion next to her, which Nathaniel would lean against for drawing her into himself and whisper, "You feel like home.""Then why do I feel so far from it now?" she whispered.Her phone flashed when she answered it. No messages. No missed calls. No apologies. No begging. No promises. Just her. Alone. With the wreckage of something she couldn't fix.She stared at Damian's name burning on her screen. Her t
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Eliana resolved to speak with Nathaniel.Nathaniel's presidential suite door was too intimate. It repelled her.She’d memorized the weight of her hand knocking on it. The scent of his cedarwood cologne that always lingered in the hallway. The way her heart used to leap—used to believe—that she belonged here.But now, everything felt quieter.Not empty. Just. still.He opened the door after two knocks, like he’d been waiting. Like he knew.“Eliana.” His voice cracked the silence like thunder rolling in slow motion. “You’re here.”She nodded, catching her breath.He hadn't slept. Rumpled shirt, rolled-up sleeves. Hair ever so slightly too messy. Eyes ever so slightly too shattered.As if he'd been injured by her very indecision."May I enter?" she asked, knowing the response in advance. Nathaniel stepped aside. "You don't need permission."She entered as if it would be her last time ever pushing the door open.He stood there with arms crossed over chest, shoulder blade against the wall
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The sun filtered a reluctant angle over Eliana's headboard blinds, tinting the floor in pale golden stripes as if someone was trying to make amends for a bitter, long-fought battle. She was lying on her side, the crescent moon charm still amazing her palm, her fingers clenched around it as if it might prevent her heart from breaking into fragments.But there was reality—that her heart was already broken. In more than one place.Tap. Light. Soothing."Enter," she breathed, already suspecting who it was.Sabrina entered, loose linen thrown over her, bearing a tray full of hot tea. She put it down on the floor without a word at all, eyes drinking in the broken pieces of her daughter's mind.Eliana sat up, legs tucked under her, hair wet from last night's rain. "May I ask you something?" she asked."Always," Sabrina replied, sitting on the bed, facing her."How did you know?" Eliana's voice broke. "How did you know Dad was the one? Was it easy?"Sabrina's eyes softened. "No. God, no. It w
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The storm was over, but the earthy scent of the rain remained. Fragile mist curled from the window panes of Eliana's room; now the sun had to struggle to break free from the clouds, while everything around looked bathed in soft golden light. The world looked washed clean—fresh, mysterious, like a blank page with wet ink smeared at the edges.Eliana sat on the edge of her bed, the silver crescent pendant sitting quietly in her palm. She smoothed its curve with her thumb repeatedly, as though it would somehow open up a hidden answer to her if she pressed hard enough.The sketch Saben left lay beside her, and she’d stared at it until the ink seemed to blur and reshape itself. Damian on one side. Nathaniel on the other. And her—right in the middle, like a bridge being pulled at both ends.She hadn’t slept. Not really. Just drifted in and out of thoughts so loud they echoed inside her skull."You’re the shadow that never departed.""You were the light when I was shattering."Two truths. Tw
