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Chapter 25: Don't Look
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2026-07-03 15:28:19"I'm not playing games." Sloane pressed herself against the car door, voice rising with desperate urgency. "You told me to leave. You suspended me. You can't just—"
His mouth came down on hers.
The words died.
Everything died — sound, thought, the ability to remember why any of this was a terrible idea. His kiss wasn't gentle. It wasn't asking permission. It was the kiss of a man who had decided something and was done waiting for her to agree, warm an
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Jamie Cross looked up at her with red-rimmed eyes and a chin that wouldn't stop wobbling, and Sloane made a decision she was probably going to regret."Okay." She lowered her voice to a whisper. "But it has to be our secret. Just yours and mine. Nobody else finds out. Can you do that?"His wet face transformed instantly — sorrow to delight, like flipping a switch. "I love secrets!""I know." She held out her pinky finger.He grabbed it with both hands, squeezed once, and sealed it with the gravity of a four-year-old who had just made the most important deal of his life.She knew — she knew — that Claire had orchestrated this. That Jamie hadn't wandered to PIERCE Tower alone. That his knowing her name, calling her sister, was Claire's doing — a breadcrumb left deliberately, a door pushed open.But Jamie himself was just a child.Same age as her six. Same wide eyes. Same complete, devas
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The temperature in the pantry dropped ten degrees in an instant.Sloane felt it the moment the question left her mouth — felt the shift in Declan's body, the way the air around him changed, like a pressure system rolling in off the lake. His jaw went tight. Those black eyes went cold in a way that was different from his usual cold — deeper, older, the kind of cold that came from somewhere that had never fully healed."It seems," he said softly, "that you have a lot of nerve."Oh no.She opened her mouth to walk it back — I didn't mean anything by it, forget I said it, Mr. Pierce, I'm so sorry—His mouth came down on her neck.Not a kiss.A bite.Sharp, sudden, the pressure of his teeth against the curve of her throat — and Sloane's entire world reduced to that single point of sensation. She gasped. Her spine arched. One hand flew to his jacket lapel and gripped i
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Sloane stood alone in the executive pantry and stared at the espresso machine like it owed her an apology.Salt, she thought. If I could just find salt.She opened the refrigerator. Ice maker. Nothing else.She checked the drawers. Napkins, stirrers, a tiny jar of agave that would not accomplish what she needed it to accomplish.She opened the cabinet above the machine. Coffee beans, filters, a spare portafilter.No salt.She stood there for a moment, hands braced on the counter, and thought about what she was doing — genuinely contemplating sabotaging her own job by seasoning the CEO's coffee — and felt the first real laugh of the week trying to climb up her throat.She pressed her lips together and killed it.Don't, she told herself. Don't find this funny. This is not funny.But she knew the truth: even if she'd found a full saltshaker, she wouldn't have used it.B
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"Help you?" Sloane looked at her mother across the coffee shop table and almost laughed. "Claire. Declan Pierce cut off his entire family years ago. Everyone in that building knows it. What exactly are you going to do for me from the outside of a locked door?"Claire's mouth tightened. The admission sat between them like a stone neither of them wanted to pick up."I know you hate me," Claire said quietly."I don't." Sloane said it simply, without heat. "Hate takes energy I've already spent."Disappointment was the right word. Disappointment so complete and so old it had calcified into something that barely felt like anything at all. You couldn't hate someone you'd stopped expecting things from."The milk powder." Claire leaned forward, grasping at something lighter, something safe. "I saw you carrying so much of it. Why do you need—""I like it in my coffee." Sloane stood. Picked up her bag. "I've said everything I came to say
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The train rocked through the dark tunnel and Sloane gripped the pole so hard her knuckles went bone white.Her reflection stared back at her from the black window opposite — pale face, hollow eyes, four canisters of baby formula at her feet like an anchor. Around her, strangers scrolled phones and dozed against the glass, each sealed in their own world.She was completely alone in hers.Claire Bowen.The name kept surfacing, unwanted and sharp. She pushed it down. It came back.She'd heard the gossip on the forty-second floor. Declan's half-brother's mother. Destroyed a marriage to take the position. Old money, younger woman, a son born into a family that never fully accepted her.She hadn't connected the name to a face until tonight.Until a woman with manicured hands and a designer coat looked at her on a Chicago sidewalk and said her old name like a prayer.Like she'd been waiting to say it.
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The moment Sloane walked back into that office, her hands decided to betray her.She set the coffee down too hard.The cup hit the saucer with a crack that split the conversation in half. Coffee sloshed over the rim, spread across the side table in a dark, spreading stain, and every pair of eyes in the room snapped to her simultaneously.Oh no.One of the executives — the one who'd been talking the most, the one with the practiced confidence of a man performing for his audience — seized the moment immediately."Really." He turned to her with the expression of someone who had just been handed a gift. "You can't even serve coffee properly? That needs to be remade—""Mind your own business."Three words. Quiet. Absolute.Declan's voice filled the room and then emptied it of everything else.The executive's mouth closed so fast Sloane heard his teeth.Declan's fingers — long,
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It was him.Sloane's brain screamed it. Her body already knew — every nerve ending firing at once, her stomach dropping forty-two floors in a single second.Move. Say something. Do NOT let him see it on your face.She forced her feet across the threshold, chin up, expression smooth, heart detonatin
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Three years later."Breakfast! Now or never!"Sloane set the last of the six bottles on the kitchen table, stepped back, and braced herself.The bedroom door exploded open.Six children hit the hallway at full sprint, a stampede of tiny feet and shrieking voices, and Sloane had approximately two se
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The city never slept. Neither did its pain.Chicago's skyline bled neon through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Ember Lounge, but Sloane Carter wasn't looking at any of it. She was staring at the ring of condensation her glass left on the bar, counting drinks the way other women counted regrets.Se
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