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Chapter 80

Author: Ummi Salmat
last update publish date: 2026-07-21 02:00:00

 THE FINAL BETRAYALS

Daniel arrived less than forty minutes after the call.

Cole was still standing in Helen's office when he heard the elevator. 

Daniel appeared in the doorway.

He looked at Cole. Looked at the empty office. Said nothing, because there was nothing useful to say about an empty office.

He held out a file.

"The last seventy-two hours. We finish

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  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 80

    THE FINAL BETRAYALSDaniel arrived less than forty minutes after the call.Cole was still standing in Helen's office when he heard the elevator.Daniel appeared in the doorway.He looked at Cole. Looked at the empty office. Said nothing, because there was nothing useful to say about an empty office.He held out a file."The last seventy-two hours. We finished cross-checking everything."Cole took it. Opened it.The first page contained timestamps. Locations. Names. Organized with the particular precision of someone who understood that the difference between useful information and unusable information was the quality of its assembly.*Sunday, 1:12 PM — Lyla Lucas, departing primary residence.**1:34 PM — Vehicle collected Vivian Lucas.*

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 79

    SHE'S GONECole arrived at the office before eight.The executive floor was quiet in the way it was always quiet at this hour — that particular pre-day stillness of a space not yet occupied, monitors dark, the ambient hum of the building doing its work without anyone there to notice it.He noticed the difference before he'd fully registered what he was noticing.Something absent.He walked toward his office.Slowed.Stopped.Helen's office was dark.She didn't always arrive before him, though she usually did, and he'd learned over two years to calibrate the morning partly by whether her light was on when he stepped off the elevator.But it wasn't just the darkness.He looked through the glass wall.And understood immediately.&n

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 78

    LEAVING BEFORE DAWNBy Monday morning, Helen James had made her decision.She had woken before dawn with her hand resting over her stomach and the quiet, unshakeable understanding that she was no longer making decisions for only herself.That had clarified everything.She was leaving.She called in at seven-fifteen.Not Cole's office. The general HR line, which was answered by a junior coordinator who had no reason to question anything.Her voice was steady. Apologetic. Entirely convincing.Linda had been taken to the hospital overnight — nothing critical, they were saying, but she needed someone with her. Helen wouldn't be in today. She was sorry for the short notice.The coordinator said, of course, that they hoped Linda would recover quickly and that they'd let the relevant

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 77

    DECISION TO LIVEAfter Vivian and Lyla left, silence settled over the apartment.Helen sat beneath her blanket on the sofa with the ginger tea still untouched beside her and her hand resting over her stomach in the way it kept doing without her permission.She wasn't thinking about Cole.She was thinking about the life growing inside her.About what safety looked like.About what protection meant.About what she was willing to go through, and for how long, and whether going through it here — in this city, in that building, ten feet from that man — was actually the choice it felt like, or whether it was something else dressed up as staying.She was still sitting there when she heard Linda's key in the lock.Linda came through the door carrying shopping bags and a coffee she'd picked up for he

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 75

    A PROMISE SHE MADE ALONEHelen James did not make a decision that night.Some truths were simply too heavy to carry all at once.Long after the tears had subsided, long after the tea Linda had brewed had grown cold on the coffee table, Helen remained curled beneath a blanket on the sofa, staring at nothing.The apartment had fallen into complete silence.The pregnancy test still rested on the bathroom sink.She hadn't thrown it away.She hadn't looked at it again.She didn't need to.Two pink lines.They had changed everything.Outside, life continued as though nothing extraordinary had happened. Cars moved along the street below. Laughter drifted from a nearby restaurant. Music floated through the open window from an apartment across the courtyard.

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 76

    THE WOMEN AT HER DOORVivian Lucas stood in the hallway with perfect posture and an expensive coat, and the particular expression of a woman who had decided before leaving her house that this visit was going to go a specific way.Beside her, in cream and composed and wearing a smile that didn't reach the part of the face where genuine smiles lived — Lyla.Helen's fingers went cold around the door frame.For a long moment, nobody spoke.She had imagined, in the darker hours of the past two weeks, a great many things. Imagined seeing Cole in the elevator and having to maintain composure. Imagined Linda eventually asking the question Helen wasn't ready to answer. Imagined her mother calling and somehow knowing from the quality of her voice alone.She had not imagined this.Mother and wife, together, at the door of an apartment whose ad

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 2

    THE CHALLENGEAt eight o'clock sharp, the elevator chimed.He stepped out in a crisp white suit, a navy tie catching the first stretch of morning light. His expression, as always, gave nothing away.Helen straightened immediately.“Good morning, sir.”A brief nod. Nothing more.He walked past her i

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 1

    THE NEW JOBHelen James pulled her blazer tighter around her and took a deep breath as the taxi slowed to a stop.“Madam, we’re here,” the driver said.She looked up—and her breath caught.Cole Designs.The building stood tall and imposing, a striking piece of modern architecture. Its glass façade

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 5

    Crossing the LineThe office remained silent long after the phone call ended.Cole stood motionless beside the glass window, his phone clenched tightly in his hand while the city lights stretched endlessly beneath him. Vivian’s words still echoed inside his head, sharp and exhausting.You need to f

  • My Secretary Is The Mistress   Chapter 4

    A PHONE CALLThey arrived almost at the same time — though their mornings had clearly begun differently.Helen stepped out of the taxi, checking the time on her wristwatch. She tucked a loose strand of hair neatly behind her ear and hurried toward the glass entrance of Cole Designs, her heels clic

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