The CEO's Regret: Darling, Don’t Leave Me novel Chapter 195

Chapter 137: A Safe Place.-1

Ethan

There are things you recognize without seeing them. The tone of a voice, a silence, a breath. A breakdown

… and when I hear Clara… I know.

Something is wrong. Very wrong.

“Ethan…”

It is not her voice, not the same as always. Not the one I know.

It’s another… a broken, fragile, unarmed one and that… It goes straight through me.

“Clara, what’s going on?”

She doesn’t respond right away, just… Cry. And that sound… It takes the air out of me.

“There’s someone,” she says between sobs, “there was someone…”

The world literally stops.

I don’t think, I don’t analyze. I don’t ask anymore, I act.

My whole day was fine, just until that moment.

“Where are you?”

“At home…”

That’s all I need.

“Don’t move.”

Short, not because I want to. Because if I keep listening to her like this… I lose control.

I take the keys, I go out. The door slams shut behind me.

I don’t remember going downstairs, I don’t remember getting to the car. I just know that I’m driving fast,

too fast.

Traffic doesn’t exist, lights don’t matter… Nothing matters, just her.

My mind goes to a thousand, there are scenarios, images. Chances, all bad, all worse.

I squeeze the steering wheel tightly.

“Damn it…”

My jaw is tense, my shoulders stiff. My uncontrolled breathing.

No, no, nothing can’t have happened. It can’t.

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But her voice… It was not an exaggeration. It was not just any scare, it was real fear. And that…

That turns on something I can’t turn off.

I arrive at the building, stopped in its tracks. I get out of the car without turning it off completely.

The door stays open, I don’t care. I go in and the guard tries to say something, I don’t listen.

I don’t stop. I just say:

“Clara’s apartment.”

My tone leaves no room for questions, I go up. The elevator takes too long. I press the button several

times. Useless.

“Come on… come on…”

When it arrives, I step inside without waiting. Every second feels heavy, every floor an eternity. My foot taps the floor.

Impatient, tense.

When it finally opens… I go out.

I walk fast, almost running.

The corridor becomes endless, but the door… I see it open.

My heart gives a sharp blow, I don’t knock, I don’t warn go in and the first thing I see… is him.

Alexander… is standing near Clara.

My body tenses up immediately, but I don’t say anything yet.

Because then… I see her.

And everything else… it takes a back seat.

She is sitting, in an armchair, her face… her eyes… her body…

Everything about her screams the same thing.

Fear.

My chest tightens tightly.

“Clara…”

She looks up and when she sees me… She gets up immediately.

Clair

She runs toward me without hesitation, without stopping. And when she reaches me… she throws herself

at me.

Her arms wrap tightly around me, she clings.

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As if that were the only thing holding her.

hug her tightly without thinking, without measuring.

My hand goes straight to her head, I hold her against me.

“I’m here,” I murmur, “I’m already here…”

Her body is shaking, I feel it. Everything about her is altered, her breathing is irregular.

Fast.

“Ethan,” she says between sobs, “there was someone…”

“I know… calm down… it’s over…”

But it hasn’t happened, not for her. And I understand it.

My hand runs down her back, trying to calm her, anchor her. But inside… I’m far from calm.

I look up, and there it is… Alexander, he’s watching seriously, tense.

“What happened?”

My voice is firmer now, more direct. Without ceasing to hug her.

He answers.

“Someone entered the apartment.”

Direct, blunt.

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