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The Billionaire's Showgirl Chapter Sixty-Two
The world outside Euphoria had become a storm of flashing lights.Not the beautiful kind that belonged to cameras and chandeliers and opening-night celebrations, but the violent red and white glare of emergency vehicles reflecting across glass towers, polished marble, and the terrified faces of people who had arrived expecting champagne and spectacle and instead found themselves watching smoke pour from the theater Luca Moretti had built like a temple.Paramedics surrounded me almost immediately.Someone wrapped a blanket around my shoulders.Someone else pressed an oxygen mask into my hands and told me to breathe slowly.I wanted to tell them that breathing slowly was an unreasonable request considering I had just been trapped inside a burning theater, carried out in the arms of a billionaire, and photographed by what appeared to be half the media outlets in Nevada.Instead, I nodded because arguing required air.Luca did not move fr
The Billionaire's Showgirl Chapter Sixty-One
The moment Luca understood that I was still inside the theater, the entire world seemed to stop breathing.I saw it happen through the haze and smoke and flashing emergency lights, not with perfect clarity, but with the strange, sharpened awareness that comes when fear strips away everything unimportant. The backstage monitor still hanging above the corridor flickered between camera angles from the auditorium, and for one impossible second, I saw him rise from his private box.The entire audience saw it too.Hundreds of people had already been evacuated into the grand lobby of Euphoria, their beautiful gowns and expensive tuxedos illuminated by emergency lights as security officers guided them farther from the building. Politicians, celebrities, investors, and reporters all turned their attention upward as Luca Moretti descended the stairs two at a time.Someone tried to stop him.I watched one of his security men grab his arm.Brian.
The Billionaire's Showgirl Chapter Sixty
For one suspended second, nobody moved.The smoke curling beneath the backstage door looked almost delicate at first, a thin gray ribbon unfurling across the floor as though someone had released it on purpose for dramatic effect. In a theater like Euphoria, where angels descended through clouds and demons emerged from crimson fog, smoke belonged to the illusion. It belonged to stagecraft. It belonged to the fantasy we were selling to the wealthiest audience in Nevada.Then the smell reached us.Sharp.Bitter.Wrong.Beth's hand tightened around mine."Sienna."Her voice was barely more than a whisper, but the fear inside it cut straight through the music still swelling beyond the wings.A stagehand rushed past us with a headset pressed against one ear, his expression tense but not yet panicked. Another followed with a fire extinguisher, muttering something about an electrical panel near the dressing rooms, while two more crew members moved quickly toward the far corridor as though thi
The Billionaire's Showgirl Chapter Fifty-Nine
The first time I stepped onto the stage at Euphoria, I felt as though I had walked directly into the center of every dream I had ever been too afraid to say out loud.The theater was unlike anything I had ever seen.Not merely beautiful.Not merely expensive.Sacred.The walls curved around the audience in sweeping layers of velvet, gold, and deep rose, creating the illusion that the entire room had been carved from some impossible jewel buried beneath the Nevada desert. Thousands of tiny lights shimmered overhead like captured stars, while the enormous curtain in front of me glowed faintly beneath the stage lamps, waiting to rise on the first performance ever held inside Luca Moretti's impossible new city.Euphoria.Even the name felt dangerous.A promise.A temptation.A warning.Backstage, the dancers moved around one another in practiced silence, their costumes whispering softly as stagehands checked harnesses, adjusted props, and murmured into headsets. Beth stood beside me dress
The Billionaire's Showgirl Chapter Fifty-Eight
The performance began the moment the elevator doors opened.Not on a stage.Not beneath spotlights.Not with music swelling in the background.It began with a hundred powerful people turning their attention toward me and seeing exactly what Luca wanted them to see.His future wife.The queen of New Zenith.The woman who inspired an entire city.And God help me, I played the role beautifully.Luca kept one hand at the small of my back as he guided me through Euphoria's grand opening gala, introducing me to governors, investors, celebrities, hotel executives, and business leaders whose names I recognized from newspapers and television interviews. Every single one of them congratulated us. Every single one of them admired the ring on my finger. Every single one of them treated me as though I had always belonged in rooms like these.Perhaps the most dangerous thing about Luca Moretti was that he made impossible dreams feel ordinary.Because this was everything I had wanted as a little gir
The Billionaire's Showgirl Chapter Fifty-Seven
The diamond caught the light from a hundred crystal chandeliers and scattered it across the polished marble floor like fragments of starlight, and still I couldn't bring myself to move.Or breathe.Or think.The weight of the ring on my finger felt impossibly real.Luca stood before me with the patience of a man who had already learned that some moments could not be rushed, his dark eyes fixed entirely upon my face as he waited for an answer I wasn't certain I knew how to give.Around us, Euphoria pulsed softly with life.Staff moved through the grand halls making final preparations.Musicians tuned instruments somewhere beyond the ballroom doors.The first helicopters carrying investors and dignitaries would begin arriving within the hour.And I stood inside a temple built in my image, wearing an engagement ring from the most powerful man in Nevada.The absurdity of my life had officially surpassed anything I could have imagined.My voice emerged as little more than a whisper."You'r
The Billionaire's Showgirl Chapter Thirty-Two
Sleep should have come easily.The guest suite was larger than my entire apartment had been before moving into The Cashmere Crown. Soft cream-colored walls reflected the moonlight pouring through floor-to-ceiling windows, while luxurious linens wrapped around me like a cloud. Beyond the gl
The Billionaire's Showgirl Chapter Thirty
While dinner was being prepared, I found myself wandering through the house with no real destination in mind.The property was so large that it felt impossible to explore in a single evening. Every hallway seemed to lead somewhere unexpected. One doorway opened into a library lined with da
The Billionaire's Showgirl Chapter Twenty-Six
I spent entirely too much time getting ready.Not because I didn't know what to wear.Because I cared.That realization annoyed me more than it should have.I stood in front of the mirror inside my villa for what felt like the hundredth time, smoothing imaginary wrinkles from a dress that didn't hav
The Billionaire's Showgirl Chapter Twenty-Five
I barely slept.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw the security footage playing across the screen.Dom entering the Velvet Suite.Luca leaving alone.Myself standing in the hallway, unknowingly stepping into a secret that had followed me for months.The memory r
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