The CEO's Regret: Darling, Don’t Leave Me novel Chapter 161

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Chapter 116. Lating Your Guard Down

Chapter 116: Letting Your Guard Down?-1

Alexander

New York always smells of ambition. Expensive coffee, quick decisions… and opportunities.

I enter the building with a firm step, as always. People greet me, some with respect, others with that slight tension that my presence generates. I’m used to it… And the truth is, I like it. Control… I’ve always liked it.

The elevator opens and I enter without looking at anyone. I press the button on the floor where her office is. Her office, Clara.

I lean my back against the elevator mirror and put my hands in my pants pockets. My reflection shows me a calm image… but my mind is not so calm.

Not after what I saw, not after what I confirmed.

She and Ethan… Again.

I let out a small humorless laugh.

“Interesting,” I murmured.

It doesn’t bother me that she has someone, it bothers me who.

Because he is not just any man.

It’s that man, the same one who broke her. The same one that made her shut up, shrink… to disappear into a version of herself that did not do her justice.

And yet… She came back.

I slowly shake my head as the elevator stops, the doors open.

I walk outside as calmly as I entered, but now with a much clearer idea in my head.

I am not going to repeat what I said before, I am not going to point out mistakes. That… it doesn’t work with someone like Clara.

She doesn’t need to be told she’s wrong, she needs… realize. And that’s where I come in.

Clara left that shitty marriage when she realized what she was doing with her life. So, I need to talk some sense into her.

I walk down the corridor discreetly observing the movement of the company, I analyze, I

Chapter 116. Letting Your Guard Down?

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I stop for a second in front of one of the work areas. I see their team, the way they move, how they respond… Efficiency, order, discipline.

I smile barely.

“You did well…” I murmur, more to me than to her.

She’s not just a pretty woman, I already knew that.

She is intelligent, structured, dangerously capable. And that… I like it more than I should.

I keep walking until I reach my office inside the company. I enter without haste, leave my jacket on the chair and approach the desk.

But I don’t sit down, not yet.

My attention is diverted to a folder that is on the surface, I open it. It is no coincidence.

None of this is.

Information about her, about her growth, about her movements in the city, but it is not enough.

Not for what I want, so I close the folder calmly.

“I want to know more,” I say quietly.

Not from her company, not from her numbers. From her.

Of what she feels, of what she thinks. Why… after all… returned to him.

I walk to the window and look out over the city.

That landscape of the city looked like a game board. And I… I’ve always been good at playing.

“I’m not going to tell you you’re wrong,” I murmured.

My reflection is drawn on the glass.

Calm, safe.

But with something else behind it.

Something darker.

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“I’m going to let you discover it alone”

I bow my head slightly.

“And when that happens…”

I pause, a very slight one.

“I’m going to be there.”

Not to pick up the pieces, no. I smile.

“To make sure that this time- choose better.”

And this time… I don’t plan to lose, I don’t plan to lose.

The phrase floats in my mind as I watch the city through the glass.

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