Just Before My Wedding: Trapped By My Ruthless Boss novel Chapter 159

Chapter 159

Chapter 159

OCEANS.

My world came to a standstill.

“No, I repeated the word an unhealthy number of times as a raw scoff escaped me breathlessly. “No. You’re wrong. You’ve got it twisted, Elgin: you’re grieving, and you’ve bent the story to fit the grief. Kisarel is my assistant. She’s been at that desk for years. I would know. You think I could sit ten feet from the woman who took a bullet for me every day and not know it? Not feel it?” I was shaking my head, like the motion could throw the thought off. “It’s not her. It’s Moonie. It has always been Moonie. She has the watch-”

“She has a watch she took off a jacket.” Elgin’s voice sounded very quiet. “You said it yourself. You left the jacket with her. Anyone could have lifted a watch out of a pocket, Oceans.”

I turned away from him because his words were tearing me open. I put both hands flat on the glass wall of my own office and looked out at a city that had stopped meaning anything.

I tried, God help me, I tried to keep the door shut. Because if I let it open – if I let myself actually look at what was standing on the other side of it- I’d break into a million pieces.

The scar

It was high on her left shoulder. I’d traced it with my mouth so many times. She told me it was a childhood accident when I asked. I had moved on without being able to fix the puzzle.

I shrugged it off like a fucking fool

I had kissed the wound she took for me and never pushed to find out if she was lying about it or not.

The door opened up either way, flooding my mind with images of how many times I had left her to bleed…

I’d been so unfair to her. Nothing about my life and my world was ever fair to her. And the thought of it alone threatened to kill me.

I prioritized another woman over the one woman I was meant to worship all my life.

Fuck

I pressed the heel of my hand against my eyes. “She took a bullet for me, and I took her life apart with my own hands. That’s the story. Six years I searched so I could give her anything she asked for, and God actually did put her in front of me, but I was too blind to see”

“Stop, Elgin said, almost irritated. “You may drown in yourself later. You should drown, for a long time, and I will not stop you. But you don’t have to do that in front of me. What I expect from you is to get your ass out of this office and go get her out of whatever shit hole hotel she said she was staying at, because when she told me about the hotel last night, it didn’t sound like a place your savior should be staying” His voice was rising one inch per word, as if something else was lying beneath all he was letting out.

“She doesn’t even want to see me.” My throat worked. “Fuck. I’ll have to push if I have to. I will…” I pushed off the window and walked toward my desk.

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Chapter 159

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“You should. You had better do everything within your power to move her out of that place.” He went on like I hadn’t just said I’ll do exactly that. But I let him talk, if that made him feel better. “She is alone, Oceans. Alone and terrified and fired and pregnant, and the only people left standing near her are a stranger I don’t trust and a fiancé who’s-”

He stopped.

Dead.

And so did I.

Slowly, I lifted my head from my desk where I was about to pick up my keys, and when my gaze met him, I saw blood drain from his face.

“What the fuck did you just say?” I couldn’t recognize my own voice.

“Mr. Stark. I have to…”

“What the fuck…” I bit out, my vision already turning red. “…did you just say?”

“God. I broke my promise to her.” He held his forehead, and I saw the genuine panic on his face.

“Elgin!” I snapped.

“She’s pregnant, Oceans!” He snapped back. “And do not ask me the question I can see forming on your face, because you have no right to it. But, yes, It’s yours! Happy now?”

Fuck.

Happy?

I was fucking floating in the clouds right now.

The woman I loved, the woman I was in love with, was finally carrying my seed. It was a fucking testimony I’ll go to church and share with an attentive congregation on Sunday morning.

I crossed the room, and for the first time in my life, I did one thing even I was shocked about… I pulled Elgin in for a tight hug.

“Fuck. Thank you for this.” I said, patting his shoulder in appreciation. “I promise you, I’ll go bring her back with me. She won’t stay in that shithole anymore. And she’ll be well taken care of with me. I swear it to you, Elgin.”

“But she asked me not to tell you.” The worry on his face could drown an entire community, but that was the least of my problems right now.

I had a baby coming. That’s what’s important.

I turned around immediately and walked back to my desk to gather my things. I was too eager to see her. Now I had even more reasons to see her. And no one was going to stop me.

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