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CHASING HIS RUNAWAY MATE CHAPTER 23
Beatrice's POVI couldn't even wait for the bell to go off in the office so I could go home and meet the apples of my eyes.I walked into the house, my mind exploding in different Angles. Everything just happened in a little period. I'm sure Xander was stunned that I could confront him just like that, but the sad reality is that I still can't get out of that company because even if I hide in a hole, Xander will find me. So I think relocating is the best option. I have to discuss it with Sarah, and everything will be done. I needed space and time, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that no matter how hard I tried, it would follow me.The kids were in the living room, laughing and playing, completely unaware of the tension that had built up between their mother and their father — the man who had always seemed to be a constant, whether I liked it or not."Mom!" Charlotte shouted as I walked through the door.I forced a smile, trying to push away the discomfort in my chest. "Hey, sweetie.
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Beatrice's POVI don't even care if I was putting him in danger now. I only need to go back and stay back because apart from his cruelty, he isn't totally inhumane and he is even my mate and I need to get reassurance that he is safe.I returned back to the hotel. I ran to Xander's room after collecting the spare key in the room from the receptionist. I immediately opened the door and I found that Xander was still sleeping. My mind was. At rest. I moved onto the couch so as to sleep. I hadn't slept for too long when I felt a gentle pair of warm hands touch me. I don't know what happened but I was immediately aroused, my nipple stood straight immediately and I had goosebumps all over but what's all this?It's only Xander and I in the room so definitely, it must be Xander and when I looked up,it was actually him. I wanted to actually get his hands off me but my wolf had completely taken over me, instead, I drew him closer and our mouths were locked into each other, our tongues were entan
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Xander’s POV I had pushed Beatrice away but she didn't even consider I was cruel but still took good care of me. I had been so rough to get yesterday, explored her interior,made marks on her but she didn't even complain. I felt we were the goddess made— mate. The rhythmic ticking of the hotel clock filled the silence between us, each second stretching longer than it should. My fever had subsided slightly, though my body still ached from the night before. But I barely focused on that—I was more preoccupied with something else.Beatrice.She had stayed. The smell of her cologne lingered in the air, it reminded me of the cloth of hers that I had kept at home. Even when I pushed her away, even when I told her to leave, she stayed. She placed a cool cloth against my forehead, made sure I drank water, and sat beside me in silence as I drifted in and out of sleep.I thought we could be affectionate to each other from here because no one had done that for me before.Not out of obligation.
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Beatrice’s POV.What had just happened in there? I was in there yesterday,our wolves were so into each other, I had to endure the pain. My tongue was sore and my back was filled with wounds. All that just happened a while ago — I can't stop reminiscing on the past events. The shrill ringing of my phone broke the heavy silence between us.Xander’s grip on my wrist tightened for a moment before he let go, his gaze shifting toward the phone screen. I followed his eyes and felt my heart sink.The triplets had called and I knew the reason for this call was because they had been worrying since they had been with aunty Sarah since and I've not been home since. I think I knew what angered Xander that made him push me out of his house. I had saved their contact with love emojis, not thinking twice about it. They were my children, my everything. But now, as Xander’s face darkened and his jaw clenched, I realized how it must have looked to him, was he jealous? Well i thought that was cute
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V Beatrice’s POVMonday mornings were never easyBut this one?This one was a complete and utter disaster.I had overslept.I never oversleep.Well… apart from some random occasions, but those were rare—so rare that even my own body was betraying me this time.Yesterday had been a whirlwind. Between taking care of Xander, escorting him to the hotel after his reckless behavior, dealing with his insufferable attitude, and then going home to the triplets—because, apparently, motherhood didn’t care whether I was exhausted or not—I had barely gotten a second to breathe.I had collapsed onto my bed, telling myself I would just rest my eyes for a minute after the day's stress.A minute. But after my eyes was flashed open the next morning, the rays of the sun directly shone on my face .“Shit!” I bolted upright, my pulse pounding in my ears. Oh my goodness, Xander would have begun the meeting. The panic hit instantly.No alarm. No backup plan. Just pure, unfiltered chaos.My brain went in
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Beatrice’s POVThe office was quite silent today, everyone was facing their business, today was really a bad day to start with,only for me to enter the company and find out, my days of working was wasted?I gathered my things and prepared to leave immediately it was 6:45. My eyes was glued to the clock so tightly that every seconds was noticed.The time on the wall clock says 6:45pm. My shift had ended but my mind had been shifted onto something else. Frustration and exhaustion. Xander had pushed me to my limit today. I always thought the way he used to act to me was the way he knew best but now it was clearly evident that he was punishing me. After the tense conversation we had his office, I had spent the rest of the day buried in work, trying—and failing—to drown out the emotions bubbling inside me. But no matter how many reports I skimmed, I still couldn’t shake the angry feeling in me. He had dismissed my proposal, forced me to redo it, only to quietly use my original versio
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Beatrice’s POVThe night felt endless. Even after my call with Sarah, sleep was nothing more than a cruel game—taunting me, pulling me close, only to rip me away each time I drifted off. My mind raced with too many thoughts, too many what-ifs, too many scenarios where everything could go wrong. I was literally thinking about my triplets, if Xander found out I had kept such a huge secret from him for the past 5 years, would he forgive me or punish me? would he take them away from me? So many questions roamed freely in my mind. I tossed and turned for hours, but exhaustion finally won— I was seriously tired from thinking, it was as ig my brain was totally stressed out.Then, at exactly 3:00 a.m., the sharp buzz of my phone jolted me awake, I had left my mobile data on. I groaned, rubbing my eyes before reaching for it, squinting at the bright screen. A single message notification sat at the top.Company Memo:A mandatory two-week business trip has been scheduled in the next two days.
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Beatrice’s POV. It was like – A Day of FirstsFor the first time in years, I left work early and i fely really glad beautiful I'll be able to do the catching up i need to do with my kids, it has been a long while since we last had fun has a family.No late meetings. No emergency emails. No last-minute assignments from Xander. Just a simple instruction from him: Go home early today. At first, I thought I misheard him. The Xander I knew—the ruthless, unyielding CEO—never gave me a break. But he had looked me in the eyes and said it, almost as if he was… trying to make things right or maybe he realized he has done a lot of bad things and it needed fixing. The memory of his apology from yesterday still echoed in my mind. Xander Thane had apologized. And while I was not naive enough to believe that meant everything between us was suddenly fine, I couldn’t deny that something was shifting, like a whole Xander apologized to me. Today is definitely great. For better or worse, I wasn’t su
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Xander’s POVShe was turning toward the exit when, as soon as Beatrice’s eyes fell on the check, time went deliciously slow.The way her breath hitched, the slightest tremor in her fingers as they curled a bit against the table, as if she were bracing herself against the temptation to reach out and touch the check, I did not miss. A check for an obscene sum of money. A check that might alter her life completely.Good.She needed to see it. She needed to understand what it meant — what I was willing to do to have her here.Her eyes skimmed the numbers again, widening ever so slightly and then sliding back up to meet mine. Her face was hesitant, the logical voice that told her this offer was too good to be ignored battling with the uncertainty that made her take the step back.I leaned back in my chair, watching her closely. The way that her shoulders got tense, the way her throat moved with a swallow — she weighed a possible choice, she was trying to talk herself out of it, trying to
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Xander’s POVI sank back in my chair, exhaling slowly as the final piece of the crisis with my family fell into place.It had been chaos these last couple of days, blinding, deafening, a settling storm that pushed the bursts of stifled resentments and history and the heavy chains of obligations weighing me down. But I had handled it.The crisis was resolved.And yet I did not feel at peace.Instead, some new disturbance had crept into my head and burrowed inside, like a parasite feasting on my anger.Robert Lee.My fingers were clenched in a fist on my desk, the shining wood creaking beneath the strain. Ryder stood across from me with his arms crossed, his face surly.“He offered her a job,” Ryder said, speaking under his breath.My jaw locked. My teeth automatically tensed as I felt a sudden sharp pain, but I barely noticed.That bastard.I should’ve seen it coming.He was always vulture overhead at the first sign of weakness, and dialysis was no exception. As soon as he perceived a
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Beatrice’s POVThe closer I got to my apartment, the more I could think of Robert’s offer. I should forget about it. Assume that meeting never took place. But the promise of more — more freedom, more recognition, more security — wrapped around me like an intoxicating perfume I couldn’t wash off.Was this a trap?You deserve better.The voice of Robert slinked into my head like a venomous whisper.My mind raced then, which by the time I got to my apartment, gave me a headache from too much analysis. My fingers shook a little as I unlocked the door and walked in.I was suddenly surrounded by warmth. Sarah was snuggled up on the couch, a heavy blanket wrapped around her, a bowl of popcorn half-empty on her lap. As I walked in, she looked up, her sharp brown eyes scanning my face in one quick motion. I was not expecting her here, though I was sure she had the spare key to my apartment.Her brows furrowed. She knows something’s up.“What happened?” she said, putting the bowl to the side.I
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Beatrice’s POVI should say no. I should walk away.But curiosity — dangerous, reckless curiosity — held me in place.How many times had I reminded myself that I wouldn’t consider anything that issued from Robert Lee? He was the competitor of our company. And here I was, standing in front of him, debating whether to listen.That alone told me how much my world had changed.“…One coffee,” I said after a long pause, my voice steadier than I felt. “That’s all.”“After you,” he said smoothly.I rolled my eyes but said nothing. There was no point. The moment I hesitated was the moment I had made my decision.The interior was engulfed with the smell of lush coffee, leather chairs, and polished wood as I walked in. It was an expensive café, the kind of place where businessmen met over lattes to broker million-dollar deals, where power traded hands in hushed conversations, where a guy like Robert Lee felt right at home.A waiter promptly directed us to a secluded corner booth, away from pryi
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Beatrice's POV.All I knew as I walked into the office that morning is that I was going to take on Xander.He’d avoided me for the last two days. Not in the blatant, in-your-face way, but in subtle, calculated moves that left me little choice but to notice. There were no wayward glances across the office, no charged silences sparking between us. Not even a casual brushing of fingers or the well-known heat that always simmered when we occupied the same space.As if everything that was said and done in Cape Town never happened.Like it had never mattered at all.I was done being patient.Bursting toward his office, I barely noticed the curious looks from staffers as I flung the door open without knocking.Xander was at his desk, scanning files, feigning indifference. He hardly even looked up at my abrupt entrance.“Beatrice,” he acknowledged flatly.That was it. No warmth. No teasing. Just cold detachment.Something inside me snapped.I slammed the door behind me, the noise reverberati
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Beatrice’s POVThe second after I opened the front door I hardly had time to breathe before being attacked by three forces of nature; Sarah told me something about aunty Silvia. I suppose she had already taken them home."Mommy!""You're finally back!""You were gone forever!"I stumbled a little but managed to keep standing as Caleb, Cooper and Charlotte all wrapped around me like overexcited puppies. I laughed, the tension of the past few days evaporating as I hugged them back.“I missed you guys too,” I said, tousling Cooper’s hair then hitting Charlotte’s forehead with a kiss. I gripped Caleb’s arm, warmth spreading in my chest. But “it’s not that long ago.”Charlotte recoiled, her lips retreating into a theatrical pout. "It has! You were gone for days, and you hardly called us!”Cooper huffed, his arms crossed. "Yeah! And do you know how boring it is without you? There was no one to adjudicate our beefs.”Caleb smirked. "Not true. I settled them my way."Charlotte shifted to loo
CHASING HIS RUNAWAY MATE CHAPTER 54
Beatrice’s POVThe droning of the private jet was constant, a soft, nearly soothing sound as it sliced through the clouds. But inside, the quiet was excruciating.I sat rigidly in my cushy seat, fingers gripping the arm rests, looking out the window at endless sky. My stomach knotted with anxiety, and thoughts raced through my mind.I was trapped on a maddening loop, rewinding every single moment of our time in Cape Town, replaying it in my mind, again and again, and refusing to let me sleep.How Xander had looked at me in the light of the stars, dark and unreadable but with something that made my heart beat faster. The way he’d pulled me against him in the storm, his warmth bleeding into me, rooting me to place when the outside world had felt as if it was tearing apart. How just his touch had made me shiver, stirring something deep inside that I thought I had buried a long time before.I hadn’t imagined it.I knew what I had felt.But now?Xander sat across from me now, his great bo
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Beatrice's POV.That evening, the suite was strangely quiet.Perhaps because it was our final night here.Perhaps because neither of us wanted to admit that truth.I watched from my bedroom window as sunset turned the ocean into brilliant orange and crimson. It was a view to behold, like art ripped from a canvas, but the radiance of it all felt bittersweet.Reality was waiting for us.And neither Xander nor I had the courage to mention it.There was a smell of salt and blooming jasmine, a combination of the sea and the villa’s gardens. Usually the waves crashing against the shore would be a soothing comfort, their rhythmic lull welcoming, but tonight they only enhanced the quiet tension that still wrapped around me.I had become accustomed to the quiet here. The weird, delicate bubble we’d created around ourselves. But then tomorrow, that bubble would burst.Would all of us, everything between us, disappear with it?I was startled by a soft knock on my door.My heart slammed in my ch
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Beatrice's POVIt was unlike all the other mornings I had spent in this suite. There was nothing weighing heavily on me; there was no confusion fogging my mind.For once, the past wasn’t disturbing my thoughts.Instead, I could only think of him.Yesterday’s words from Xander echoed in my head."I want you.""But I’m scared."His confession had shaken me to my core. I had poisoned my own mind until I could not see clearly enough to understand that what had sprung up between us was not temporary, nor was it something that could be manufactured by circumstance.But now?I wasn’t so sure anymore.I elongated myself, muscles achy from the tightness of the last few days. Sunlight streamed through the high glass windows, creating golden diagrams on the silk sheets. The storm was over and there was a cool morning wind coming in through the open balcony doors.I breathed out, my fingers sliding across the space beside me. It was empty — though the fading warmth told me he had been there.Had
