All Chapters of The Devil In Therapy: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

ELIANThe terrifying thing was… I was starting to worry he might be right.The realization followed me all the way home.It sat beside me on my way home, it followed me into the elevator, it unlocked my apartment door with me and it stood silently in the middle of my living room while rain kept tapping the windows.I hated it.. I hated him.I hated the way my lips still felt warm, I hated the way my body reacted whenever he got too close.Most of all, I hated that I had kissed him back.And fucking hell it was not because of the blackmail or because I was afraid of him it was because I wanted to.It was my free will.The thought made me throw my keys onto the counter harder than necessary.“Fantastic,” I muttered.My reflection stared back at me from the dark television screen.I looked like a man who had just been thoroughly kissed in the rain and left to wander the world looking for more of that kiss.My stomach twisted.For fuck same I was thirty-five years old, respected psychol

EILANI regretted texting him the second I stepped back into the hospital not because the conversation had gone badly.That was the problem.. It hadn’t.The entire exchange replayed itself in my head while I walked through the corridor toward my office.Did you eat lunch?The question seemed harmless and normal, it was the sort of thing people asked each other every day.Yet somehow, asking Aiden that felt different.I pushed open my office door and immediately froze only to find a cup of coffee on my desk.I stared at it then at the closed door then back at the coffee and a slow whimper escaped me.“Unbelievable.”The man was a menace.. A complete menace and somehow, despite telling him to leave me alone less than an hour ago, my first reaction wasn’t anger.It was checking whether the coffee was still hot and the realization made me groan.I dropped into my chair and rubbed both hands over my face.This was getting worse.. Much worse than I though.A knock sounded against the door.

ELIANI should have gone straight home that was the sensible thing to do.. The logical thing.The thing any mentally stable person would have done after spending ten minutes standing in a hospital parking lot staring after the taillights of a man who had completely overturned their life.Instead, I found myself sitting inside my car with the paper bag of food resting on the passenger seat.Watching it, thinking about it and overthinking it.. Which was unfortunately one of my greatest talents.The rain continued to tap softly against the windshield while the city glowed beyond the glass.My fingers tightened around the steering wheel.. This was becoming a problem.Not Aiden.I corrected myself immediately because Aiden was already a problem.. The real issue was me because somewhere between the threats and the obsession and the chaos, I had started looking forward to seeing him.The realization made me close my eyes. “Fantastic.”My voice echoed quietly through the empty car.I was a t

ELIANAll this while I thought he was just playing games with me but now I knew that I wasn’t the only one falling.The realization followed me long after Aiden left my office.It sat across from me while I finished paperwork.It followed me through patient sessions.It lingered in every quiet moment between conversations.By the time evening arrived, I was beginning to regret having functioning thoughts at all, because once I noticed it, I couldn’t unsee it.The jealousy.. The possessiveness.. The way he looked at me when he thought I wasn’t paying attention.For weeks, I had convinced myself that Aiden’s obsession was exactly that.An obsession.. Something unhealthy , something irrational and something that would eventually burn itself out.But lately there had been moments that complicated everything.The coffee.. The food.. The way he’d looked almost embarrassed while admitting he’d stolen my wedding invitation.As if the thought of another person’s name beside mine genuinely both

ELIAN I should have known something was wrong the moment I slept peacefully. Nothing about my life had been peaceful since Aiden Knight bulldozed his way into it. Yet somehow, exhaustion dragged me under the moment my head touched the pillow. And then I dreamed. At first, it felt ordinary. I was standing in the middle of my office. The familiar scent of coffee lingered in the air. Patient files sat neatly on my desk. The blinds were half open, allowing golden afternoon sunlight to spill across the room. Everything looked normal. Until I realized I wasn’t alone. Aiden sat in the chair across from me. Exactly where his patients were supposed to sit. His long legs were stretched comfortably in front of him. One arm rested over the armrest the other held a coffee cup. He wasn’t saying anything.. Just watching me. The same way he always did like was the only thing worth looking at and strange tension settled over the room. The kind that always appeared whenev