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CHAPTER 17: Crossfire!
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2026-02-12 22:24:08
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When Forbidden Feels This Good CHAPTER 117: The Cool Night
Scarlett's POVThe balcony had emptied itself of my mother's warmth and was now just a balcony again, which is to say it was beautiful and indifferent and large enough that two people could stand in it without being close to each other if they were careful about where they positioned themselves.I had poured the wine before I fully decided to pour it.The bottle was still on the table from my mother's earlier hospitality, and my hand had found it with the automatic motion of someone reaching for something familiar in an unfamiliar moment, the glass filling with the deep red of a Cabernet that James kept in quantities that suggested he understood the therapeutic value of good wine on difficult evenings.Ezra was still standing.Not intruding. Not filling the silence with the social effort that some people deployed when silence made them uncomfortable. Just present in it, looking out at the garden with the settled quality of someone who had made peace with being somewhere he was not ent
When Forbidden Feels This Good CHAPTER 116: Something Is Cooking
Scarlett’s POVClean and cold, the specific guilt of deceiving someone whose trust you had done nothing to deserve to lose, someone whose delight in the deception was genuine and warm and entirely uninformed."But Mum…""I'm sure Cade and James won't mind." She had the particular forward momentum of a woman who had made up her mind and was now in the implementation phase. "So go and tell the housekeeper to prepare the guest room.""It's fine, Mrs Blackwood." Ezra's voice, from the chair, carrying the appropriate note of genuine reluctance, the protest of someone who did not want to impose and meant it. "I can find a hotel, it's really no trouble…""Nonsense." My mother picked up her glass, looked at it, set it down again with the decisive quality of someone closing a chapter. "Scarlett has been hiding you from me. And now that I have finally met you, we have to bond properly." She smiled at him with the complete, uncomplicated warmth she gave to people she had decided were family, and
When Forbidden Feels This Good CHAPTER 115: Stay The Night
Scarlett’s POV My room had become a holding cell.Not literally, not in the way the underground parking level had been a holding cell, not with guns and concrete and the specific cold of genuine captivity. But in the functional sense of a space I was occupying because leaving it required a performance I had not yet assembled the materials for, because the corridor beyond the door contained a sitting room that contained a man who was pretending to be my boyfriend at the instruction of the man I actually loved, and navigating that corridor required a version of myself I was still in the process of constructing.I paced.The room was large enough that pacing was possible without immediately hitting a wall, which was something, the Blackwood estate having been built with the generous spatial logic of people who understood that rooms should be larger than the furniture in them. I made use of the space, moving from the window to the wardrobe and back, from the wardrobe to the door and back
When Forbidden Feels This Good CHAPTER 114: The Proposition
Cade's POVMy father was in his study when I found him.Not the main study, the one with the mahogany desk and the folder systems and the careful architecture of a man who conducted serious business in serious spaces. The smaller one, the one off the east corridor that most people in the house did not know existed, that James used in the early mornings and the late evenings when he wanted to think without the performance of his primary workspace around him.The door was slightly open.I knocked anyway."Come in."He was at the window, which was where he went when he was working through something, standing with a glass of something amber and his reading glasses pushed up onto his forehead and the specific quality of a man interrupted mid-thought, turning toward the door with the measured patience of someone who had learned, over decades, that interruptions were either worth their cost or they were not and there was no value in being irritated about them before you knew which kind you w
When Forbidden Feels This Good CHAPTER 113:The Lies Between Us
Cade's POVThe door had barely stopped vibrating from the force of her breath against mine when the knock came.Sharp. Sudden. Real.Scarlett jerked back like she had been burned, her fingers slipping from my shirt as if touching me had become dangerous in a split second. I felt it too. That shift. That snap from heat to something tense and fragile.“Hey son, can I talk to you for a sec?”My father’s voice cut clean through the moment.Scarlett’s eyes widened. For a second, she looked like she might bolt straight through the wall instead of the door. She moved fast, crossing the room in hurried steps, stopping by the window like she had always been there. Like nothing had almost happened.Like I had not almost ruined everything.“Come in,” I said, forcing my voice to stay level.The door opened, and my father stepped in, his presence filling the room before he even spoke again. His eyes went to me first, then shifted, catching the figure by the window.He paused.Not long. Just enough
When Forbidden Feels This Good CHAPTER 113: Temporary Solution
Scarlett’s POV His hands were over mine, warm and solid, pressed flat against his chest with both of his covering both of mine, and his chest rose and fell with a breathing that was not entirely steady, the breathing of someone who had also been holding something for too long and had arrived, in this room with this door closed, at the end of their capacity to hold it.I looked up at him.His eyes were red.Not the red of crying, not the released kind. The red of someone who had not slept and had been somewhere very frightening and had come back from it carrying things that had not finished being processed, that were still moving through him in ways his body was registering even as his face tried to manage the expression.The sight of his red eyes did to me what his steadiness could not.The tears arrived. Quietly, without drama, without the gasping overwhelm of the car park or the clinic bathroom. Just warm and continuous, running down my face with the patient persistence of somethin
When Forbidden Feels This Good CHAPTER 43: Family Dinner!
Scarlett's POVThe dining room felt like a stage set for a play I hadn't rehearsed for.Crystal chandelier casting prismatic light across white linen tablecloth. Fine china that probably cost more than my entire education. Silverware arranged with the kind of precision that spoke of old money and o
Last Updated : 2026-03-26When Forbidden Feels This Good CHAPTER 42: Welcome Home
Scarlett's POVA billionaire.The word circled my mind like a vulture, refusing to land, refusing to make sense. I kept testing it, rolling it around in my thoughts like a stone I'd found that might be precious or might be glass.One billion, two hundred and two thousand dollars.The number was so
Last Updated : 2026-03-26When Forbidden Feels This Good CHAPTER 36: The Decoy
Cade's POVThe villa felt like a tomb.I couldn't stand still. Couldn't sit. Couldn't do anything except pace the length of the operating room while Russo's men spread blueprints across every available surface and spoke in hushed, urgent Italian that I only half-heard.Giovanni's architectural plan
Last Updated : 2026-03-24When Forbidden Feels This Good CHAPTER 12: Princess Treatment
Scarlett's POVI woke up to the smell of coffee and something sweet. Pancakes, maybe. Or French toast.For a disoriented moment, I forgot where I was. Forgot everything that had happened in the past forty-eight hours. The hospital. The pregnancy test. The confession that had torn itself from my thr
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