I Told You To Run But You Didn't (Georgia) novel Chapter 39

Chapter 39

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Georgia’s POV

His eyes held mine, and a slow, humorless smile touched his lips. “Do I strike you as a man who is careless with his enemies, Georgia?” he asked, his voice a low, corky purr. “Or one who would lie when the truth is far more interesting?”

Frustration and a thousand unanswered questions boiled inside me. Words were his weapon, and I couldn’t win this fight on his terms. So I chose my own.

Then I snatched the heavy shotgun from his loose grip. He let me take it, a touch of surprise and dark amusement in his eyes. I snapped the barrel shut and barked at the terrified machine operator. “Pull!”

A clay disk launched into the sky. BOOM! It vaporized.

“Again!” I commanded. BOOM!

“Again!” BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Five shots. Five obliterated targets. Less than ten seconds. The movements were clean, brutal, and professional.

Smoke curled from the hot barrel as a ringing silence fell over the lawn.

A collective gasp echoed from the terrace. I turned, my chest heaving, to see Lucas, Kiara, and Peter standing there, frozen.

Three years, I thought, a bitter taste in my mouth. For three years of marriage, I had hidden this. I had played the part of the quiet, simple, ordinary wife, burying every ounce of my training… all for a man who now stared at me as if I were a complete stranger.

Estevan looked utterly unfazed. In fact, he looked satisfied. “Ah, my ten o’clock has arrived,” he said smoothly, as if this were a normal part of his morning routine. “I wasn’t in the mood for the office. I decided to have them come to my territory instead.”

I lowered the shotgun, my voice a low hiss meant only for him. “And you let them walk in on this knowingly making them think there’s something going on between us. They’re already putting pie together.”

“Are you worried about what Lucas thinks?” Estevan asked, taking the shotgun from my hands, his finge brushing mine. His voice was soft, but his eyes were sharp and probing. “Are you concerned about his feelings? I thought you were done with him.”

I just frowned at him, my silence a better answer than ay word I could offer. Finally, Lucas, Kiara, and Peter walked hesitantly toward us, their expressions a mixture of fear and awe.

Estevan didn’t even glance at them. He handed the shot un to one of his guards without looking.

“Harvey,” he called out to his secretary, who was waiting by the door. “Have my legal team and the final contracts ready in the study in one hour.” He then looked at Lucas and Kiara, his gaze dismissive. “I’m going to have my breakfast. Be there on time,”

And with that, he turned and walked into the mansion, leaving me alone with the people of my past life.

The silence was thick and awkward. Then, Lucas grabbed my arm, pulling me a few feet away from Kiara

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and Peter, his voice a low, urgent whisper.

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“That… with the gun,” he stammered, his eyes wide with a confusion I’d never seen before. “I’ve never… Where did you learn to shoot like that, Gia?”

“I was trained, Lucas,” I said, my voice flat as I pulled my arm from his grasp. “There’s a lot you don’t know about me. You were always too busy looking at yourself o ever really see me.”

“Listen,” he said, his eyes pleading. “I know I messed up. But we can fix this. Kiara… she and I, it’s not serious. We don’t even have a label on it. It’s nothing.” He leaned in, his voice full of a desperate, false promise. “I’ll buy us a new house, Gia. Anywhere you want. A private state where my mother and sister can never bother you again. Just you and me. We can go back to the way things were.”

I looked at him, at his pathetic, desperate offer to buy me a new, prettier enclosure, and I felt nothing but a profound sense of pity. Go back? Back to being invisible He still doesn’t get it. He never will.

“Lucas,” I said, my voice soft but firm. “There is no ‘us’ to fix. You need to stop.” I took a step back, creating a final, unbridgeable distance between them. “Worry about your new partner. My life is no longer your

concern.”

He grabbed my arm again, his grip desperate, stopping me from leaving. Across the lawn, Kiara was a statue of pure fury, her eyes boring into us while Peter tried in vain to coax her back inside the mansion.

“Gia, wait. Please,” Lucas begged, his voice rushed and panicked. “I’ll talk to them. My mother, my sister… I will make them apologize to you. I swear it.”

He saw the disbelief on my face and pressed on, his words tumbling out in a pathetic stream. “Think about it. Three years. Are we really just going to throw three years of our life away? We can start over. A clean slate, I promise.” His eyes lit up with a new, selfish hope. “After I sign this contract today, the company will be secure again! Everything will be back on track!”

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