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Falling for my cocky Boss Chapter 115
CHLOE'S POVMy playing fingers reached for the elevator button; it suddenly dawned on me just how very rattled my hands were. Wired-my body was a vessel full of adrenaline inside, but the will seemed nowhere close to being shaken.I carefully placed documents I had managed to take out of Damien's office in my bag, bunched under a series of excuses and guiltiness. At this very moment, my world was going to detonate into smithereens-the very second Aiden beheld these papers-but it needed doing.Approaching the office, my mind was already there, racing and swirling like a storm of self-detestedness.How was this ever supposed to come to this?This wasn't how things were supposed to go. I was the one who was supposed to have the upper hand-calculating, manipulative, perhaps even cruel, not like this. Teaming up with Damien was supposed to power me up, finally make me worth paying attention to. Really, though, it was the opposite way around: I was being maneuvered into a pawn in some game
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CHLOE'S POVThe first omen came with a call-a number unknown. My stomach twisted, and my shaking hand reached for the receiver."Hello?Line crackled for a second or two, then Damien's unmistakable voice, cold, furious, hit my ears."You think I wouldn't find out, Chloe?" - his words ran down my spine.I froze; my mind whirred on. He knew. How, I had no idea, but he knew."I-I don't know what you are talking about," I managed to say, my teeth only barely not chattering with each word."You have betrayed me," Damien growled. "Actually, you think that I'm stupid? You really believe you'll be able to walk scot-free out of this? My people will find you."This was as if all air had been sucked from this room. My legs gave in, and I sat on the edge of the bed."Damien, please, I-”He cut me off: "Don't bother trying, Chloe. You're done. I don't care where you run, where you hide. You'll regret crossing me."And with that, the line was dead. I stared at the phone, my heart noisily pounding a
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AIDEN'S POVIt was unbearable: all the clues remained unsolved. All the papers lay strewn around my desk-a map showing property reports and a number of noted associates of Damien's; partial evidence, Chloe had managed to acquire-they just didn't seem enough. In the meantime, every single tick of the timekeeper played its role.I rubbed a hand over my face, trying to force my exhausted brain into action. I could practically hear Tessa's soft, scared voice begging me to find her. The thought of her out there-suffering-while I was here-with dead ends one after another-clawed at my insides."Dammit," I muttered, slamming my fist against the desk.My phone buzzed, shrill in the silence. I snatched it off, my heart racing with that unlisted number flashing in my screen. For half a second, I wondered if this could be Damien again-another call to taunt me. I answered anyway.“Aiden Gray speaking.”"Aiden… it's me."The voice on the other side of the line shook, and for a few moments, it took
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AIDEN'S POVI glared hard at the paper clutched in my hand; its contents were already burned inside my brain. My flesh, all my instincts, told me it was some form of trap, something grotesquely amusing to Damien merely for the kick of hurting me again. I did not give a damn. Tessa was gone somewhere, terrified and bleeding. I would've stopped time to get her home, if need be.I yanked my jacket on, belting my holster onto my side, and dialed Dad. It rang twice before the gruff voice I'd heard a million times before filtered across the line."Aiden?" he said-surprised. "It's late. What's going on?""Dad," I said-surprisingly, my tone sounded calm-"I need you to trust me. Damien has Tessa and I'm going to get her back."“Are you sure about this?” He asked.“Yes, dad,” I answered. “I have evidences that points him as the mastermind behind the company scandal. I'm going to take care of this once and for all.”There was such a long silence until his voice dropped to a whisper. "Do you have
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AIDEN'S POVEach shallow heave shook an ache up my ribs, and yet I would not fall back-that smugness in Damien's grin begged for a rise of nothing but boiling blood within. It was arrogance, a poison swelling up the warehouse, that seemed to choke upon everything in its path.“Still standing?" Damien sneered, circling me in a stride that made him happy and superior for taking me down. "I gotta say, Aiden-you have got guts. But guts ain't gonna win any wars."My fists writhed together, wringing ache after ache out. "You certainly talk big for your breeches, Damien. Perhaps you should turn back in, having queried that question within thine, where 'twill most come down over you at its fall.".He laughed, a low mirthless sound. "You really think you're in the driver's seat here? Shall we just go over a few facts? You're alone. You're outnumbered. Tessa's hanging on by her fingernails. And me?" He spread his arms wide, some kind of monarch surveying his domain. "I'm untouchable.”Not much
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AIDEN'S POVThe only sound in that room was that soft beeping of the heart monitor. Tessa was lying still, her face pale, serene in sleep. Her hand was in mine, warm and fragile, an accusing reminder of how close I'd come to losing her. I couldn't dwell on that particular thought for too long. There was just so much to be done.I ran my hand through my hair and blew out a slow breath to steady the storm raging inside. The door opened, and in stepped the lead detective, a grim-looking man in his mid-fifties: Detective Reynolds."Aiden," he plunged straight into it, professional with just that tad of urgency inside his voice, "you ready to talk?"I nodded, releasing Tessa's hand before responding deliberately, "Yeah. Step outside."I seated, facing Reynolds and his partner, Detective Harris, across the little, antiseptic-smelling waiting room in which they had placed me for questioning, I saw into eyes that were on me as each man drew out a pad.Reynolds leaned forward and commenced wit
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AIDEN'S POVThe first pale light of morning had crept into the office windows, but I hardly noticed. Facing me, my father, Richard Gray, sat somber, both of us poring over financial reports and investor letters. Damien's betrayal wasn't just personal; it was professional devastation."This is worse than I thought," my father muttered, massaging his temples. His voice didn't break, but I knew the edge was there, waiting.I leaned back in my chair and scanned the paper in front of me. "Damien funneled millions out of the company into offshore accounts. Projects he greenlit were designed to fail, eroding investor confidence. No surprise our stock has plummeted.”My father looked at me, his regret deep in his eyes. "We should have seen this coming. I should have seen this coming."“You are not at fault,” I said emphatically with a guilt-eating feeling inside my stomach. “It all stood at my door. I was supposed to do a long, long time acting sooner, being much watchful, embracing him into
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AIDEN'S POVMy ringing phone yanked me out of sleep. I blinked, disoriented, and glanced at the time: 3:17 a.m. Tessa stirred on the hospital bed. Her breathing was soft laboring. She started to sleep through the night, but every now and then, the nightmares dragged her right back, clutched in terror.I plucked the phone from the nightstand, the number glaring back at me unknown. My gut twisted. This wasn't good.Sliding out of bed, my voice was low, gruff with a growl, as I answered, "Who is this?"A slow, filtered chuckle filled the line, and a shiver slid down my spine as the venomous, mocking tone of Damien drawled through. "Aiden, missed me?Anger had my chest tight as "Damien," I spat, taut on the phone and about to crack it."I have been keeping busy," he said matter-of-factly, like discussing the weather. "It takes time, you know, in planning your downfall. But don't you worry; I'm close, pretty close.”“Cut the games, Damien," I said sharply, "you're done. The police have you
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TESSA'S POVSunlight streamed through the huge window panes of our house onto the invitations laid across the dining table. I sat with a pen in hand, writing down final guest names, while Aiden leaned against the counter sipping his coffee."We could just elope, you know," he joked, the corner of one lip tugging upwards with a mischievous smirk.I turned a mock glare his way. "After all this planning? Not in your life, Aiden GRAY. We're doing this properly."He laughed, setting his mug down as he ambled over to me. "Properly, huh? That's why you've been vetoing half my suggestions?""You wanted a firework display during the vows!" I reminded him, laughing.“And what’s wrong with that? It would’ve been epic.” He leaned down, pressing a kiss to my temple. “But fine, no fireworks. As long as you’re there, it’ll be perfect.”It was what he said that always made my heart flutter, and the words this time were not an exception. It was one of those weddings that put me into anticipation and j
Falling for my cocky Boss Chapter 130
AIDEN'S POVMonths melted away.Weirdly, life went on since it all came crashing down. It had been months since Damien's death, Chloe leaving the city, Tessa and me over his grave saying our goodbyes. Time didn't heal everything; that it never could. But the space it gave. to breathe, rebuild, and put pieces of our lives back into place-was something all of us had desperately needed.That, with me and Tessa, gradually slipped into rhythm, and whatever in our daily life had disappeared with time turned into the time worth living. The daily morning coffee on the balcony, the late evening lying on the couch curled up, making small talks about the future-this had become a routine thing with us. Indeed, chaos seemed to bypass us somehow, yet the shadows took one corner of my mind with the coming night.But as I watched Tessa, humming to herself and arranging flowers in the sitting room, it suddenly hit me-the ton of bricks they say are always used in such situations. I loved her; I had alw
Falling for my cocky Boss Chapter 129
AIDEN'S POVI did not want to come here. I had told myself that I wouldn't-that some things quite simply were not worth a second chance. But here we were. Tessa stood beside me, her hand in mine, as we walked through the cemetery toward Damien's grave. The wind was cold, a bite into my skin, but nothing compared to the chill now setting into my chest.There it lay, the newly turned soil, the headstone, and the blunt inscription stating his name: "Damien Gray." Seemed so … normal. No great sentences of poetically flowing verbiages, no flowery platitudes of an exaggerated regard. A plain, uneventful name to denote an end of the life so full of promise to me and torn by just so many things… in particular by myself.I had stopped in front of the grave, said nothing. All these emotions warred in my brain, jumbling anger, guilt, sorrow. And it wasn't just because of what happened to him. It was for everything, things that could have gone differently, which I should have done."Do you think
Falling for my cocky Boss Chapter 128
TESSA'S POVChloe sat up against the mountain of pillows that propped her back. Her skin was a dull white; those alert features dulled by exhaustion and pain. When her gaze locked with mine, something flickered over her face-shame, perhaps? Regret?"Tessa," she husked out, her voice husky, yet steady. "I didn't expect you to be here.”"I did," I said, stepping inside. The door clicked shut behind me, and the soft hum of machinery in the room served to fill the brief moment of silence.A minute swept by with neither of us speaking. I had absolutely no idea where to begin, while Chloe seemed to fish for the right words. Then she spoke.“I'm so sorry," Chloe said, her voice breaking. She looked down at her hands, which were twisting the hospital blanket over and over in a nervous fashion. "For everything. For what I did to you. For what I let Damien do.”Her words were like a wave, and all the anger and hurt I'd been trying to bury surfaced. I crossed my arms, my voice sharper than I mea
Falling for my cocky Boss Chapter 127
AIDEN'S POVIt all boiled down to me standing against cold brick outside of a hospital. The sharp night air almost nipped my skin but couldn't take away what had been brewing inside of me since the night Damien was finally gone.Dead.The word reverberated in my mind, hollow yet heavy. He had not reached the hospital. Just a few minutes later, when the ambulance had speedily gone away from the warehouse, the police confirmed that my brother was no longer alive. In the pit of my chest, a tussle between relief and guilt twisted itself into this sensation, which has made me so ill.I stared upwards, trying to make sense of the darkened sky. It was a path he'd chosen, wasn't it? He'd refused every olive branch, clung to his rage, and let it consume him. Still, a part of me couldn't help but ask: What if?The sound of footsteps pulled me from my reverie. Tessa came forward, her face ashen, eyes red-rimmed from crying. She wrapped her arms around her middle, as if holding herself to protect
Falling for my cocky Boss Chapter 126
AIDEN'S POVThe ropes chafing my wrists were heaved into the painfully darkened room by two of Damien's men. My rib cage was racing, pounding within me like a war drum, as my eyes coursed over every inch, scanning the space for her. The echoes of my footsteps rattled through this large, high-ceilinged area, joined by the smothering tension in the air.Then I see her.“Tessa!” screams my hoarse voice in desperation while seeing her tied around the chair, white faced, and tear streaks covering it, her arms bound behind her back, a gag over her mouth, muffling her cries while her big terrified eyes remained fixed on mine, imploring for help.It came finally with the breaking of the silence from Damien's cruel laughter. "Well, well, your Prince Charming is finally here.""Let her go, Damien," I said, shaking all over with anger mixed with fear.Damienne cocked his head to one side, his face a mockery. "And miss this little family reunion? I don't think so.”Damien started to circle me wit
Falling for my cocky Boss Chapter 125
TESSA'S POVThe stench of that dark room shredded through my senses. My wrists throbbed, sore where the coarse ropes had lacerated into the skin, and with each weak inhalation, it was like the final one that could break this tenuous will hanging by a thread.I was not going to back away from him, not from Damien after what he pulled on Aiden, on me, and our lives.Standing in the doorway was a mountain of a man, with a great scar running down his cheek, scraping his boots on the floor and yawning and weighing his weight on one side. He had been left to watch me; now or never was the time to try anything that came into my head.I pulled carefully, testing the looseness of the rope binding my hands, my heart racing in my chest. Hours of subtly working at this knot had finally paid off; it gave way just enough for me to slide my wrists free.I glanced over to the guard, who now had his head leaned back against the wall, his eyes shutting.Go, Tessa. Now.Summoning every last shred of cou
Falling for my cocky Boss Chapter 124
AIDEN'S POVThe house was creepily silent when I went in-the kind of silence that twisted my gut. Something was off because it was too still, too empty."Tessa?" I called out, dropping keys on the counter. Nobody answered.My eyes scanned around the living room, the kitchen-nothing. My chest had already tightened as I tried again, louder this time. "Tessa? Marcus? Garret?"No response.And then I saw it-her phone. It lay on the counter, cracked at the screen, looking like she had dropped it there in haste. Tessa would never leave her phone lying anywhere.Now dread set in as my heart began racing, strode toward the security room for some answers, though my gut already told me otherwise.I burst through the door into the room to find Marcus and two other guards huddled around the monitors."Where the hell is Tessa?" I growled low, an edge to my voice that could cut through glass.Marcus slowly turned to me, white as marble, and seemed to fish for his answer. "Sir… we were reviewing the
Falling for my cocky Boss Chapter 123
TESSA'S POVIt wasn't until we stopped before Aiden's building that the car came to rest; it was my safe refuge now turned into a sanctuary in which the fears inside my head seemed to nestle. Those were instances from two weeks ago, haunting in my mind like some unsavable storm-accusations which memory just didn't seem willing or able to rid itself of."You're home," Aiden whispered, and immediately his voice was an anchor of solace amidst my rioting thoughts.Turning back to him, I pushed a small smile. "Home," I echoed, though the word felt wrong. Was I ever again safe?Aiden climbed out first, coming around and pulling my door open. His firm hand reached inside toward me, steady and reassuringly strong. "Come on; got you.I hesitated, staring at his hand. For a moment, the hospital was safer. Out here, the world was too big, too dangerous. But I chased the fear away, telling myself Aiden would never let anything happen to me.I took his hand and he led me out of the car."Take it e
