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Chapter 102: Haunting Shadows
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Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 171: Photographs
Author's POV The news of Adrian's engagement reached Italy before the sun rose there.An invitation, gold foiled and formal, had been sent across the ocean to Samuel, son of Evzen, Adrian's grandfather. Since Peter's death, the space between father and son had never quite closed. Evzen had tried, in his own quiet ways, but Samuel carried grief like a debt he refused to let anyone else pay down for him.When the invitation reached his desk, something in his chest curdled instantly.He did not go.Instead he called his father two days before the engagement, voice smooth with regret he did not feel.-------------(Two days ago)"Papa," he said, the word rolling easily off his tongue, practiced, warm. "I am so sorry. This week has been a disaster. A deal fell apart, then came back together, and now there are lawyers everywhere wanting signatures I cannot come from a plane.""You are not coming," Evzen said. Not a question."I wish I could. God knows I wish I could." Samuel let a small, c
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 170: Aromatic Candles, Music and Dim Light
Ethan's POVAdrian’s arms slid under my knees and back before I could fully step out of the shower. The world tilted; my head settled against the damp curve of his shoulder. I was still pliant, still warm from the water and everything that had happened against the tile. He carried me through the bedroom without hurry, the soft pad of his bare feet the only sound until he lowered me onto the mattress.The bed was wide and already turned down. On the low side table sat a small woven basket—condoms, a bottle of something clear, a remote. Around it, several thick candles waited in glass holders. The far wall was lined with vertical wooden panels of staggered heights, a large television mounted above them. Speakers were built into the false ceiling and the sides of the wall, almost invisible.Adrian set me down carefully, then moved around the room. He lit the candles one by one; the scent of something warm and resinous—sandalwood, maybe, or amber—rose into the air. He picked up the remote
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 169: Please take me down (18+)
Ethan's POVThe car rolled forward in silence, the kind that felt heavy with unspoken questions. I sat beside Adrian, watching the coastal road unspool beyond the tinted windows. Grandpa had only said the place was “arranged.” No address. No explanation. Just a driver and the quiet certainty that whatever waited at the end of this drive had already been decided without us.Salt air slipped in through a crack in the window. The light softened into late-afternoon gold. When the private road curved and the gates appeared—black iron against a stretch of pale stucco—I understood. Santa Barbara. A small house perched above the water, its windows open to the Pacific like it had been waiting for us.I stared. Adrian’s hand found mine on the seat between us, fingers warm and steady.“Wow,” he said, voice low, almost disbelieving. “He actually bought it. While I just planned.”A short, helpless laugh left me. “Great.”The driver handed over a single key. It fit the outer gate with a soft click.
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 168: Speech, Toast and Dinner
Ethan's POV My chair scraped back before I fully decided to stand, my legs a little unsteady beneath me. Every face at the table was turned toward me, waiting, warm, expectant. I found Adrian's eyes first, anchoring myself there the way I'd learned to all night. "I'm not good at speeches," I started, my voice thinner than I wanted it to be. A few soft laughs rippled through the table, kind ones. "But I'll try." I turned the glass slowly in my hand, gathering whatever nerve I had left. "I never thought I'd be someone's choice. Not really. Not like this." My throat tightened around the words. "And then Adrian happened, and somehow I became exactly that. Someone's choice. His choice." I glanced at him, and his eyes hadn't moved from mine once. "I don't have big words for what tonight means. I just know that whatever this is between us, I don't want to spend a single day without it. Thank you all for being here. And Adrian," my voice cracked slightly, "thank you for choosing me too."
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 167: A tower
The cake table stood draped in white and gold, and I braced myself for the usual ceremony, the knife, the polite smiles, the practiced first bite. Instead, what came out on a silver trolley made my mouth fall open. A tower of Chicken Drumsticks stacked in a perfect spiral, each one wrapped at the bone in gleaming silver foil, rising almost as tall as the cake stand it had replaced. "What is this?" I said, laughing before I could stop myself. Adrian just smiled, that small, satisfied curve of his mouth that meant he had been planning this for weeks and enjoying every second of my confusion. "Cakes are boring to cut. Told you." I couldn't stop laughing. The guests around us were just as amused, phones staying firmly in pockets but eyes wide, a ripple of delighted murmurs spreading through the crowd at the sheer audacity of it. Only Adrian would replace a wedding cake with a monument to fried chicken and somehow make it feel romantic. We each picked one, the foil cool and smooth a
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 166: Fairytale Coming True
Ethan's POV The Grand Royal Hotel looked like something out of a dream I never let myself have. Lights climbed the building all the way to where the sky started, and the whole structure glowed like it had been carved out of gold and set on fire from the inside. Los Angeles sprawled beneath it, indifferent, unaware that somewhere inside that blaze of light my entire life was about to change. But here, tonight, none of that mattered. Nothing outside these walls mattered. No press. No phones. Adrian had made that clear in a voice that left no room for negotiation. "Anyone caught taking a picture loses the phone. On the spot." He had said it once, at the entrance, and the silence that followed told me everyone understood he meant it. I sat in front of the mirror while Davel adjusted my collar for what felt like the tenth time, the stylist fussing over my hair after finishing it twice already. My hands wouldn't stop shaking. I pressed them flat against my knees, willing them still, a
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 60: The Scent of Absence
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Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 52: The King Doesn't Speak Twice
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Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 38: Did I Really Do It? (18+)
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Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 5: Strip Down
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