Just Before My Wedding: Trapped By My Ruthless Boss novel Chapter 116

Chapter 116

KISAREL

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By four in the evening, I had read the same email four times and still could not remember what it was about.

My fingers hovered over the keyboard, but my mind kept slipping away from the screen and crawling back to Oceans message from last night.

I hated that I still looked forward to it. After everything that happened today, that stupid message was still the thing keeping me from packing my bag and leaving the office without looking back.

I was pathetic, yes, but I wasn’t leaving until I found out what he had planned.

The office door opened, and Moonie walked in. She looked radiant, and that annoyed me to a point of embarrassment.

She glowed in a soft champagne dress that hugged her body without begging for attention, with her blonde hair falling over one shoulder. She was perfect.

She didn’t even acknowledge me at all.

She just walked straight to Oceans’s office, pushed the door open, and disappeared inside.

I watched through the glass as Oceans looked up from the files spread across his desk.

I expected him to frown or be irritated. Maybe give her that cold, impatient look he gave people who interrupted him during work.

But he didn’t until Moonie crossed the office and hugged him.

I stopped breathing for a second.

His hands came up slowly, not with the kind of hunger I knew from him, but they came up.

One settled at her back. The other rested near her waist before he pulled away just enough to look at her.

Moonie said something I couldn’t hear, and whatever it was, it made his mouth move faintly. He hadn’t given her a full smile, but what he gave her was enough to hurt.

Moonie kissed his cheek. And before my mind could prepare itself, she sat sideways on his thigh, with her arm still wrapped around him, and her face angled toward his.

My chest tightened so hard I had to look down at my hands for a few seconds.

Oceans dropped the file he had been holding…

He actually dropped it.

The same man who barely looked up when I entered his office three times today now sat there with Moonie on his lap. giving her his attention like the world outside that room had lowered its volume for her.

I swallowed the burn in my throat

Moone’s anus did around his neck. She leaned closer, talking animatedly, and then she let out a bright, careless laugh that made her throw her head bask

Her fugers kept playing with the hair at the nape of his neck. She looked happy, like a woman in love.

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Tears stung the corners of my eyes. I blinked them back, hard, refusing to let them fall.

He couldn’t touch her, I reminded myself. He told me. He said his body only responded to me.

But his arms were around her now. His hands were on her waist.

I looked away when she kissed him on his lips, and he didn’t pull away.

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I don’t know how long I sat there, staring at my screen and seeing nothing while I heard their muffled laughter through the glass. But it was long enough for the anger to curdle into shame, and for the hope I had been carrying all day to shriveland die.

The door to his office opened, and they stepped out together, hand in hand.

Oceans’s gaze found me briefly. “Miss Harry, you can leave whenever you’re done with what you’re working on.”

Before I could lift my head properly, Moonie tugged at his wrist.

“Oceans, come on. We’re already late.”

“I know,” he said, and they both walked out the door.

***

What if Jorinda was right?

I kept asking this question until I was back home. As usual, Jace was not home yet. So, I had all the time in the world to ponder over stupid things like, what if Moonie really did have him wrapped around her finger?

She had asked for Jorinda, and Oceans had given Jorinda back her job.

She had walked into his office without invitation, sat on his lap, kissed him, and walked out with him while I sat outside like the help.

And maybe one day soon,

she would ask for me gone too.

I sat on the edge of Jace’s bed with my shoes still on, my bag dropped somewhere near the wardrobe, and my phone lying facedown beside me like it was the reason my chest hurt. I didn’t want to keep looking at it. I couldn’t stop checking to see if there’d be a message from Oceans, but there was none. No “Surprise is still happening.” No “Come outside.” Nothing

I opened the Gram app, be I needed something mindless to stop me from thinking.

The first post in my feed nearly stopped my heart.

Moonie.

is a bitch.

Coincidence is

For a few seconds, I only stared blankly.

It was a carousel of professional photos of Moon and Oceans. The first one was already burning through my heart before I could swipe away.

Curiosity finally s

set in

I began to swipe through the carousel.

This was why Oceans abandoned our evening plans… I thought to myself.

The third photo I saw almost made me drop my phone.

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They were both sitting on a velvet couch. Moonie was curled into his side, her lips pressed to his jaw. His hand was on her thigh. His other hand was cupping her face.

He looked at her like she was the only woman in the world.

My throat closed as I scrolled to the caption, because pain apparently made me stupid.

Moon Harry:

‘Some stories are written long before the world gets to read them.

Next weekend, I get to stand beside the man fate returned to me, and we finally make forever official.

Engagement celebration loading… Mrs. Stark era begins soon.

Oceans Stark, you are my forever.

My breath stopped as I read it again because my mind rejected it the first time.

Next weekend…

Oceans had lied to me. He looked me in the eyes and lied.

My fingers trembled as I scrolled lower.

Comments poured in.

“Power couple.”

“Finally!”

“The wedding of the year is coming

“Moonie Stark sounds perfect already.”

Someone had tagged a gossip page. Another person had written that the party venue was already booked and invitations had gone out privately.

I pressed a hand

Invitations

ainst my chest, but it did nothing to stop the pain gathering there.

he out…

Yet, he lied to me a