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Chapter 2 The Contract She Couldn't Refuse

Word Count: 1155    |    Released on: 16/07/2025

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from

were painfully precise. My mind

e. Silent. Unreadable. His gaze heavy as iron chains, tightening slo

obed

he outside world

uest

sonal

s was captivity, dressed up

lungs. "You... expect

-sentence. Humiliati

. I'm not

w, you'

Reeves's voice was steady, cool, precise-the voice of

eyes never leaving mine, "if you keep s

y hated him. His calmness. His c

he wasn'

shoved unopened into drawers. Every sleepless night spent star

ause he saw str

he contract away like it might burn me. "Why

r. The dim light caught on the steel watch hugging

you're de

rds. He didn't need to elaborate

on makes peopl

ened. I foug

e was hollow. I hat

ntly-though I would

say oth

ng violently against the polished

re in

ch. "And yet,

tween us. Thick.

creamed at me to walk. To

e, I had

I had n

ion hit me l

I said, but it sounded w

argue. He d

ll button on the

e doors behind

lack suits. Their expressions were

uri

umping into the edge of the desk. Da

u reconsider,

pression was unreadable. A b

with a signed contract and enou

ce softening to someth

left to whatever waits for you

d desperately,

't a nego

It w

never

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stoo

slow, deliber

a predator circling prey. When

fr

mething darker, something masculine and unnameable. His p

k questions. Someone who follo

g my chin up, thoug

why

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a

ened. A crack

u remind me

stopp

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not your

hing about any of

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outh before my mind

gloat. He d

mply

at, my life was

or the pen. My vision blurred as

Car

ign now. Like it bel

ontract silently. He didn't thank

ed anoth

es more human than the guards. But there

said curtly. "He'll esc

nthouse? I...

coldly. "You ju

panic claw

can't. I

d his desk, turning awa

me soft behind m

urity guard

rstood

king out of

my ow

ord, I foll

or after floor disappeared bene

flection in th

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nted. Eye

had just s

othing. He d

tor dinged, he

loor was anothe

that clicked beneath my trembling footsteps. Wealth d

ll be yo

ed to

ave a choi

ftened. Jus

Carter. No

e. The door clicked

e room. Lavish bed. Silken

it felt

n't co

as a

sinking onto its edge, bu

had I

was I

e terror, past the sham

g I coul

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Damon

tract I signed was only the beg

penthouse walls, I

it

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no one left wh

ven m

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