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Chapter 56 — Damien's POV
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2026-07-05 06:31:04
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HIS BLIND OBSESSION Chapter 56 — Damien's POV
I had written that word in 2019. A Sunday morning in late October. The park bench. The trees turning. The fountain running. I had been reading Paradise Lost for the fourth time because Milton was the only writer I had found who made darkness feel purposeful rather than punishing and I had reached the final book and written one word inside the cover because it was the only word that felt true. Sufficient. Not good. Not happy. Not whole. Sufficient. The understanding that what you had was enough. That the life in front of you, with all its limitations and losses and the loneliness of a man who ran a company and could not figure out how to let anyone past the professional distance, was sufficient. I had believed that when I wrote it. I had stopped believing it sometime in the last four months without noticing. I sat at my desk and thought about Noah twenty feet away with that book in his drawer and Lena's handwriting on the first page and my word underneath it and felt something
HIS BLIND OBSESSION Chapter 55 — Noah's POV
The retraction went live at nine am. I read it at my desk with my coffee going cold beside me. It was thorough. More thorough than I expected. Hale's lawyers had clearly been told to make it clean because anything less would only add to his exposure. *Cole Enterprises wishes to clarify that Mr Noah Carter's role within the company is entirely professional in nature and reflects his exceptional competence. Mr Carter identified a significant liability clause in the Mercer restructuring contract that protected Cole Enterprises from considerable financial exposure. His work on the Calloway acquisition was instrumental in preserving a transaction worth thirty-eight million dollars. Any suggestion of impropriety or irregular conduct on Mr Carter's part is without foundation and is hereby retracted in full.* My name. In print. Cleared. I read it twice and felt something in my chest unclench that had been tight since the filing dropped. My phone was going. Daniel three times. Marcus once
HIS BLIND OBSESSION Chapter 54 — Damien's POV
Marcus called at two fifteen. "It's over," he said. I put the Mercer file down. "Tell me," I said. "The recording Daniel told us about," Marcus said. "Hale recorded that call illegally. New York is a two party consent state. He needed Daniel's permission to record and he didn't have it." A pause. "His entire press conference was built on illegally obtained material. His lawyers just figured out what that means for the criminal case." "It means he handed us everything," I said. "It means," Marcus said, "that the recording he used to go public is itself evidence of another crime. Illegal wiretapping. On top of the data breach. On top of the fraudulent filing." Another pause. "His legal team called twenty minutes ago. They want to settle." "Again," I said. "Different terms this time," Marcus said. "He drops everything. The countersuit. The injunction. The press campaign. He issues a public statement retracting the claims about Noah. He pays a penalty for the breach and the illega
HIS BLIND OBSESSION Chapter 53 — Noah's POV
Daniel looked terrible.That was the first thing. He stepped out of the elevator with his coat still on and his hair not right and the easy warmth of him completely gone, replaced by something tight and hollowed out that I had never seen on his face before.He saw me first.Stopped."Noah," he said."He's in his office," I said. "He's ready to see you."Daniel nodded. Didn't move immediately."I didn't know," he said. To me. Not asking for absolution. Just saying it."I know," I said."I should have—""Daniel," I said. "Go in."He went.I stayed at my desk.The office door closed.I pulled up the press response Marcus had drafted and read through it and made three edits and sent it back and tried very hard not to track the sounds coming from down the hall.I failed at that completely.Not words. Just tone. Damien's voice, low and even, the controlled version. Then Daniel's, tighter, the hollowed out quality of someone being careful with themselves. Then silence. Then Damien again.The
HIS BLIND OBSESSION Chapter 52 — Damien's POV
I knew before Marcus said it. I had known for twenty minutes, sitting with Noah's hand over mine, running through the list the same way I ran through everything methodically, without sentiment, until only one answer remained. Walsh. Dr Anand. Marcus. Daniel. Noah. Not Walsh. He had been my doctor for three years. His entire practice depended on discretion. Not Dr Anand. She had called Noah directly to warn him. That was not the behaviour of someone selling information to the press. Not Marcus. He had been with me for seven years. He had protected things far more damaging than a medical procedure. Not Noah. That left one person. My phone rang. Daniel. I answered. "Damien," he said. His voice was wrong. The warmth stripped out of it, replaced by something I had not heard from him in a long time. "I need to tell you something." "I know," I said. A pause. "You know," he said. "Yes," I said. "Damien—" "Tell me how," I said. "Not who. I know who. Tell me how it happened." A
HIS BLIND OBSESSION Chapter 51 — Noah's POV
The article went live at six am. I was already awake. I had been awake since four, lying in the dark thinking about Hale's new terms that Damien hadn't told me about but that Marcus had texted me at eleven pm anyway because Marcus had decided I deserved to know. He wants Noah removed from Cole Enterprises entirely. And Damien had said no without hesitating. I had read that text four times and then put my phone face down and stared at the ceiling until six am when Victoria's piece dropped and my phone lit up like something had caught fire. I opened it. The headline was: **NOAH CARTER: THE MAN WHO SAVED A $38 MILLION DEAL AND WHY RICHARD HALE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW HIS NAME** I sat up. Read it from the beginning. Victoria had done exactly what she said. Not one word about the romantic angle. Not one word about the filing's implications. Just Noah Carter, twenty three, literature degree, who had found a liability clause an entire legal team missed, who had saved the Calloway
HIS BLIND OBSESSION Chapter 9 - Noah’s POV
I woke up at five forty-three having slept approximately never and decided that was fine. Fine was a word I was getting very comfortable with. Fine covered a lot of ground if you didn’t look at it too closely. I made his coffee. Six twenty-eight. Right side of the desk. Two inches from the corner
HIS BLIND OBSESSION Chapter 1- Noah’s POV
The first time Damien Cole touched me, I couldn’t breathe. His hand found my jaw in the dark, certain, deliberate. His thumb pressed just below my lip and he tilted my face up toward his, and even though I knew he couldn’t see me, it felt like being seen more completely than I had ever been seen
HIS BLIND OBSESSION Chapter 2- Damien’s POV
I knew he was nervous before he sat down. Most people were nervous around me. I’d stopped finding it interesting years ago. Nervousness made people stupid and stupid people wasted my time, and the one thing I did not have patience for was the wasting of my time. I heard it in the way he walked. S
HIS BLIND OBSESSION Chapter 5 - Noah’s POV
Day nine started badly and got worse. Eli’s doctor had called again in the morning. Not with news, just a reminder. Two weeks was now one week and the number Dr. Reeves had given me hadn’t gotten any smaller and my first paycheck wasn’t coming until Friday and even then it wasn’t going to be enoug
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