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Chapter Nineteen
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The CEO’s forbidden desire Chapter Twenty-One
EthanHe made it two steps into the hallway before Julian caught his wrist.“Stop, wait please” Julian’s voice wasn’t loud, but there was something in it Ethan hadn’t heard before, it was something bolder, something that had apparently decided it was done being careful.“Julian—”“No.” Julian didn’t let go of his wrist. If anything his grip tightened, and when Ethan turned to face him, he found none of the uncertainty he’d braced for, only Julian, chin up, eyes bright mixed with a great deal like want with nowhere left to hide. “I am so tired Ethan, I’m not asking you to explain whatever’s going on in your head right now. I’m asking you to stop pretending you don’t want this. Because I know you do. I’ve known about it since the hotel. I think you’ve known it a lot longer than that.”Ethan opened his mouth, already reaching for something that would put a little space back between them and make this easier to carry.Nothing came.Julian was still holding his wrist. And the hallway was
The CEO’s forbidden desire Chapter Twenty
JulianJulian woke to curtains he didn't recognize, he looked around and the bed wasn't his as well. An arm slung loosely across his waist. It took him a confused second to remember where he was and who he was with; Richard, in his apartment. The skyline was still visible past the curtains Richard never bothered closing. A faint expensive smell of a candle burning on the dresser awakened him even more. He reached for his phone on the nightstand, squinting against the light, the time sent a small jolt of panic through his body.The time was 9:47. He was supposed to be at his desk by nine.He sat up fast, removing Richard's arm from the process, and was always scanning for his clothes when he saw the message notification sitting below the time.A message from Ethan.He went very still.What I said to you wasn't about anything you did. I apologize for my rudeness and erratic behavior. It read.Julian read it twice and immediately felt an unwelcome twist, low in his chest. Relief came f
The CEO’s forbidden desire Chapter Nineteen
EthanA ping from his phone jolted him up from his sleep. He looked around and realized he had dozed off in his office. He walked to the door and sighed with relief, seeing it locked from inside. He felt extremely disoriented as he walked back to his desk, he didn't like it when he was losing any bit of control.He searched around for his phone, seeing it glow faintly on his desk sent a shiver up his spine. He wavered before picking it up.It was a new message.From the same unknown number.It read: “How do you feel going home to an empty penthouse while your subordinates live your dreams openly? I guess you like being in the closet that much.”He didn’t sleep in his own bed that night. He ended up, sometime past one in the morning, in the small private study two floors above his home office, a room that Ethan almost never used, mostly because using it required walking past the oil portrait that hung just inside the door, Alistair Cross, silver-haired and unsmiling, painted the yea
The CEO’s forbidden desire Chapter Eighteen
JulianMaya was already at the table when Julian arrived, two menus untouched in front of her, sunglasses pushed up into her hair even though they were sitting inside. She had that particular look she got when she’d been holding something in all morning and was about thirty seconds from letting it out whether or not anyone asked.“Okay,” she said, before he’d even sat down. “I need to vent, and then I promise I’ll ask about your disaster, because I know you have one. You always have one lately.”“Charming greeting.” Julian slid into the booth across from her, dropping his bag beside him. “Go ahead. Vent.”Maya had been his closest friend since college. Since a mandatory freshman class had somehow turned into years of unending late night phone calls venting to each other about anything, terrible foods and apartments and enough shared trauma bonding that Julain genuinely wasn’t sure who he’d have been without her in his life. She worked for nonprofit fundraising meaning she mostly spent
The CEO’s forbidden desire Chapter Seventeen
Ethan The office was quiet after Julian left. The quiet that comes after a door slams and the sound of it is still somehow the loudest thing in the room.Ethan stood behind his desk with his hand still curled slightly, like it remembered the shape of Julian’s arm even after letting go of it. He looked down at his own fingers and didn’t recognize them for a second. They were shaking. Not badly. Just enough that when he reached for the water glass on his desk, he had to set it back down without drinking from it, because his hand wasn’t steady enough to bring it to his mouth without spilling.Get out.He hadn’t meant to say it like that, Goodness, he hadn't meant to say any of what he said, not the small cruelty of implying Julian had invented the whole thing out of nothing. He walked into his office to get a chance to talk to Julian. He remembers standing at the window rehearsing it before Julian even knocked. And somehow between the door opening and him seeing Julian’s face rememberi
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Julian“I'm fine. Get some rest” Julian didn’t get a single ounce of rest. Fine wasn’t the word he would have used for a man who had looked, in the space of a single knock, like he had swallowed something that threatened to come back up. He arrived at the office early, coffee in hand, replaying how Ethan’s hand rested in his jaw tilting his head towards his before Preston’s knock ruined everything. It kept replaying in his head like a maddening loop. He began rehearsing versions of a conversation he had no idea where to start from as he neared Ethan’s office. Hey, about last night. What was that about? Are we going to talk about it or pretend it didn’t happen? Because I need to know.He shook his head.None of them sounded right. He decided in the end to simply knock and see what would happen, which in retrospect was possibly the least strategic plan he’d committed to.Ethan’s door was shut when he got there, blinds drawn the way they’d been the night before.He drew a deep breath
The CEO’s forbidden desire Prologue
Julian Hayes slammed his laptop shut so hard the screen flickered in protest. The rejection email still burned his eyes; we regret to inform you that your manuscript does not align with our current list. Another one. The fifth one today.His rent was due in four days and he had $47.86 in his accoun
The CEO’s forbidden desire Chapter Nine
EthanEthan woke before dawn, the faint light of sunrise creeping through the hotel curtains like an unwelcome reminder that the night was over. His head throbbed lightly from the drinks, but it was nothing compared to the heavier weight pressing on his chest. The memory of last night had refused
The CEO’s forbidden desire Chapter Eight
Julian Julian closed the door to his hotel room and leaned against it for a long moment, letting out a slow breath. The day had been something to say the least, productive, quite exhausting but also enjoyable. This was his first business trip and he felt really important. He kicked off his shoes,
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EthanThe town car glided smoothly out of Manhattan, the skyline shrinking in the rearview mirror as they headed toward Connecticut. Ethan kept his tablet open on his lap, pretending to review quarterly distributor reports, but his focus was broken. Julian sat beside him in the back seat, laptop
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