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Chapter 9
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2026-07-22 01:01:16
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The Billionaire’s Secret Baby Chapter 9
**Mrs Backwood’s POV**I couldn't believe I was seeing my son in that position. As I opened the door to his study, my breath was held in place-not because of surprise but pure annoyance. There lay my perfectly poised son, lying by himself with a half-undressed girl relaxed over his chest like she belong there.One of his arms was around her waist, as though he caught her just as she stumbled.The sight stopped me dead in my tracks. My son, Lucian Backwood. The boy who abhorred any form of disarray. And here I was with...this.The file on his desk was open, documents splayed across the floor.Both stayed still for a moment, and the girl’s hair caressed his collar as her mouth parted slightly in horror. She then moved backwards, murmuring something under her breath as if that would make the scene disappear.Lucian snapped up the second he noticed me, his face devoid of any expression."Mother," he finally said in an even tone, as though nothing was out of the ordinary. "Lucian," I sa
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**Lucian’s POV**Faces don’t matter. That’s what I told myself as I leaned back in my chair, poring over the numbers on the quarterly report. But the face of the new secretary wouldn’t leave my head. Celeste Monroe. The way she had looked at me earlier that morning… Wide-eyed, uncertain, as though she recognised me or knew me. That line of her jaw, the slight tremor in her voice as she spoke. It felt familiar. But it doesn’t matter, I don’t concern myself with faces. Even if I’ve seen her before, who cares? Maybe she was at one of my mother’s lavish soirées. Maybe she’s a client’s daughter who visited some event. Just another transient form in the ceaseless blur of the world. I turned a page, forcing my eyes back to the profit margins, the projected expansion. Those were the only things that mattered. A soft knock, then two more sharp raps before the door swung open without my consent."Lucian."Leona of course. She glided into the room as if she owned it, her expensive perfume c
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**Celeste**The office was silent, the glass walls gleamed, the AC hummed and I felt so closed in and stuffy I couldn’t think, I could barely breathe. Lucian Backwood. The man I had desperately tried to forget sat just a few feet away, totally in control, as if the past seven years hadn't happened. As if he hadn't left me to suffer. His dark eyes scanned me as I approached, his gaze raking me up and down like I was nothing but a file on his desk. No hint of recognition. It stung. I gripped my folder harder, my nails digging in, telling myself not to freak out. “Sit down,” he commanded, his voice clipped and arrogant, as if I were some mere servant. I sat on the chair opposite him, my heart thudding against my ribs like it wanted to fall out. “You’re here for the secretary position.” His voice was smooth and deep, but somehow cold, nothing like the warm voice I remembered from that night.“Yes, sir,” I managed to say, forcing the words from my tight throat. He leaned back in his
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**Lucian’s POV**The city never slept. But it bent for men like me.Blackwood Tower stuck out in the sky like a knife, a reminder of everything I'd fought to build. My office was at the top, with the city below looking like my own personal playground. I should have been working on the contracts on my desk. They were big deals that would really boost the company. But I was stuck on something that bugged me, and I couldn't figure out what it was.“Are you going to stare at those papers until they catch fire?”I didn’t bother lifting my head. “Are you going to sit there until I throw you out?”Finley slouched deeper into the chair opposite me, grinning like the devil. “You’ve been gone for weeks, and that’s the first thing you say to me? No ‘hello’? No ‘I missed you, Fin’? Cold, even for you.”“I didn’t miss you,” I said flatly.“Liar.” He smirked, propping his feet up on the edge of my desk.I shot him a glare sharp enough to strip paint. “Get your feet off my desk before I break them.
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