My Ex's Uncle? My Secret Forbidden Affair

Chapter 5

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loor terrace through the quiet ac

were unlocked. He knew she had a habit

door open and

of moonlight. On the bed, he saw her curled into

ved c

weat covering her forehead. She murmured in her sleep, h

apped in a

strophobia, a wound left behind by the kidnapp

't simply

shadow over her. "Kathryne," he called sof

dark figure above her, she let out

put distance between them, her entire bo

low and steady

lly eased. In the dim moonlight, she finally recognized his

moothly. "I saw the light was still on

er thoughts were still blurred, and a co

oice firm. "You're catching a fever." He reached out

texture of his skin a strange comfort a

per rest," he decided. "I'm taking y

strength to sit up. Her body felt heavy, and her mind w

from a nearby chair, wrapped it around her shoulders, and then

ips, and her arms instinct

surrounding her with a sense of strength and security she had never experienced. It

rd muscle of his chest. She could he

the stairs as if s

ied her out the back, through the gar

a soft wool blanket from the console. He gave the

tching the silent man beside her. Her mind was a whirl o

, he lifted her f

The doors opened to a vast, minimalist living space, a

elevator that would take them to the upper level of the duple

. I can't take th

He had forgotten. He immedi

his voice softening. "

urned and headed for the

breathing remained even. Halfway up, however, the slight jostle of

stopped at once,

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“Kathryne went to the St. Regis Hotel to surprise her fiancé, Leo, for his twenty-fifth birthday. She had a Patek Philippe watch in her hand, thinking she was the luckiest woman in the world. But when she pushed open the unlocked door to his suite, she saw him sweating on top of a blonde woman. "You promised you'd break up with that boring Kathryne after your birthday," the woman whined. Kathryne didn't cry. She snapped a photo of their tangled bodies, threatened to leak it to the press, and called off the engagement right there. She thought that was the end of her nightmare. But as she nearly collapsed in the hotel lobby, Leo's uncle, the terrifying and powerful Everett Carlisle, stepped out of the shadows. He chased Leo away, drove her home, and played the perfect, caring elder. He even convinced her strict father that she needed a fresh start, forcing her to sign an ironclad contract to be his personal assistant. Kathryne felt completely trapped. She had just escaped one suffocating relationship only to be handed over to a man who somehow knew everything about her-from her hidden claustrophobia to her secret stash of junk food. She thought she was just taking a demanding job to heal her broken heart. She had no idea that Everett had orchestrated the entire hotel betrayal just to break her engagement. She was running away from a cheating boy, completely unaware that she was walking straight into the meticulously designed cage of a patient predator.”