The CEO's Regret: Darling, Don’t Leave Me novel Chapter 194

Chapter 136: An Intruder.-2

As if it were not my home. As if it were not me.

“CLARA!”

His voice reaches me loudly.

Clara, Clara, Clara.

I blink, I try to focus.

“Are you okay?”

I can’t answer, not right away.

My throat hurts, my breathing is not stable. My hands are still shaking, and Alexander returns to the man.

It holds him, immobilizes him.

“Don’t move!”

The intruder struggles, but he no longer has control.

He no longer has an advantage, he no longer has anything.

Only chaos, only defeat. And then… Everything breaks inside me.

Fear, tension, control. Everything.

I start to cry, unable to stop it. Unable to hold it back.

My body shrinks, my hands cover my face. And the sound comes out broken, uncontrollable.

Alexander quits, not completely, but long enough.

He approaches me, bends down.

“Clara…”

His voice changes, it is no longer harsh. It is no longer aggressive. It is… different. It is… lower.

More… human.

“Look at me.”

I can’t, not right away. But I try.

My eyes lift, and I see him. And in that moment… he’s the only thing I recognize. The only certainty.

The only reality, and I throw myself at him.

Without thinking about it, without measuring, without anything. I hug him tight and desperate.

As if that were the only thing keeping me here.

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“It’s okay,” he says, holding me up. “It’s over, it’s over…”

But it’s not over, not for me. Not yet.

My body is still shaking, my hands clinging to his shirt.

My tears don’t stop.

“He was here,” I manage to say between sobs, “He was here…”

“I know.”

His hand runs down my back, slow, steady.

“Not anymore.”

I’m breathing badly, messy, fast. But his presence… It anchors me a bit.

Just a little.

Seconds, minutes perhaps, pass. I don’t know.

Time does not exist now, only this. This moment, this chaos. And he… Little by little…

I realize.

Who he is, where I am. What happened, and that… changes something.

Not the fear, but the way it happens.

I pull away, not abruptly. But enough.

My hands go down, my breathing tries to stabilize. I look at him and I see him differently.

Not like before, not like in the office. Not like in the discussion. But as… The man who saved me. And that… It’s complicated. Very complicated.

Because now I see him with gratitude.

“Thank you,” I whisper.

My voice still trembles, he nods. But he says nothing.

He gets up, looks at the man. Who is now on the reduced floor.

“We have to call the police.”

I nod, but I don’t move. I can’t.

He does, picks up the phone. Speak of the address. He explains, controlled, confident. As always.

I stay there, on the ground. Trying to come back, trying to understand. Trying to breathe.

My gaze falls into the void, and then… I remember.

Ethan

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My chest tightens, my hands reach for the phone, I find it. I mark it, he answers quickly.

As always.

“Clara?”

And at that moment… everything comes back. Fear, chaos, pain.

I feel very sensitive to hearing his voice.

“Ethan…”

My voice breaks completely, I can’t hold it. I can’t control it.

“Clara, what’s going on?”

“There’s someone…” I cry, “there was someone…”

I can’t speak. I can’t explain.

“Clara!”

His voice changes to a loud and tense one.

“Where are you?”

“At home…”

“Don’t move.”

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The line is cut. And I know what that means… he is going to come. And when he comes… Everything is going to change again. And I… I don’t know if I’m ready for that, but the only thing I know right now… I don’t want to be alone again. And that I need to see him here.

I felt Alexander’s hand on my shoulder, my attention goes to him immediately.

“What’s the matter?” he asked.

“Nothing, I’m… I’m better now.”

He looks at my phone and says,

“He’ll come, right?”

I nodded knowing that he knows who I was calling.

“He should be more aware of you, Clara… if it weren’t for me… if it weren’t for…”

He glances at some folders on the floor, papers scattered everywhere, and finishes.

“I don’t know what would have happened. I just knew… I had to come, I guess hunches don’t fail.”

The man tries to move, but Alexander hit him so hard that he has no way to run away. I saw him and for a

moment, while that guy was lying on the ground, our eyes connected and I saw something in his eyes that… It may sound strange, but… I felt compassion for him.

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“You’ll be fine,” Alexander says, crossing my path and cutting off my eyes. He puts his hands on my shoulders and makes me look him in the eye.

“Come here.”

I felt how he stuck my body to his, how he wrapped around my back and tried to give me security.

“Thank you.”

That was all I could repeat.

“The police will arrive soon and everything, everything will be fine.”

His voice was calm and gentle, as if he were trying to reassure me.

“Okay…”

When I looked at the apartment door, I saw neighbors peeking out and the building management staff

coming in.

I nodded to his words seeing how everyone looked at me with regret and some pity.

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