The Wife He Never Meant to Love (Lila and Damon) novel Chapter 151

Chapter 151

Chapter 151

The night air at the port was thick with salt and silence.

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Damon stood at the edge of the dock, his gaze fixed on the small boat cutting through the dark waters. Its engine hummed faintly, the sound growing weaker as it carried Mark farther away.

Farther into uncertainty.

Beside him, Simon watched the same fading silhouette, his expression unreadable.

“Let’s go,” Simon said quietly. “You have to trust him.”

The boat became smaller, its outline slowly swallowed by the darkness until there was nothing left—no sound, no light. Just the restless movement of the sea.

Damon remained still for a moment longer.

Then he gave a single nod.

Without another word, he turned and walked back toward the car waiting behind them. His steps were steady, controlled-but there was a weight in them, something tightly restrained.

He had wanted to go.

Every instinct told him to be on that boat, to stand beside Mark and see things through himself. But Simon had stopped him—firm, unyielding.

Things were getting worse.

The men they were hunting were no longer just hiding—they were reacting. Fighting back. One by one, the lines were being drawn, and every move now carried consequences.

Damon couldn’t afford to disappear.

He had to stay visible. Úntouchable.

Back at the city, another storm had been brewing.

Maddy.

She had insisted on returning to work at Blackthorne Industries, as if nothing had happened—as if the past weeks hadn’t unraveled everything around them. Damon had refused without hesitation.

Since then, she had made scenes-loud, public, relentless.

But Damon didn’t respond.

Didn’t engage.

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Didn’t even look her way.

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The last update he received was brief and clinical-she had been rushed to the hospital. Bitten. Badly.

The wife of the same man who had turned against her had found her first.

Simon leaned against the car, watching Damon in silence for a second before speaking again.

“You’re not going to visit her?”

Damon didn’t even pause as he reached for the car door.

“No.”

The answer was flat.

Final.

If anything, he had grown colder.

More distant.

He didn’t want any woman near him-not now. Not when every connection risked turning into another headline, another scandal, another weakness waiting to be exploited.

The car door shut with a muted thud.

And as the engine roared to life, Damon stared ahead into the darkness-his expression unreadable, his thoughts locked away behind walls no one could reach.

Somewhere far from the quiet town…

the storm was only getting worse.

The silence inside the car stretched, heavy and unbroken-

until a phone rang.

Sharp. Sudden.

Simon glanced at the screen before answering, his expression tightening just slightly.

“I know where Lila is.”

Maddy’s voice came through immediately-no greeting, no hesitation.

Simon didn’t respond right away. Instead, his eyes shifted briefly to Damon, who sat beside him, unmoving, his gaze fixed ahead.

“Tell Damon,” Maddy continued, her tone edged with urgency, “I know where Lila is.”

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Still, Simon said nothing.

“What do you want, Maddy?” he finally asked, his voice calm but guarded.

A faint scoff echoed from the other end.

“Tell Damon to meet me in my hospital room,” she said. “I’ll give the information.”

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Simon leaned back slightly, his eyes narrowing. “Is the information worth the effort of seeing you?”

There was a brief pause-then Maddy’s voice returned, sharper this time.

“Simon, if you don’t believe me, fine. But know this-Eric is also hunting Lila.”

That got his attention.

Beside him, Damon’s posture shifted almost imperceptibly.

“If anything,” Maddy added, her voice lowering, “maybe he already has her.”

The line went dead.

Silence fell again-but this time, it was different.

Tense.

Charged.

Simon slowly lowered the phone, his gaze lingering on the dark screen for a second before turning to Damon.

Damon hadn’t moved.

But the stillness around him had changed.

“What did she say?” he asked.

His voice was quiet.

Too quiet.

Simon studied him briefly, then spoke without embellishment. “She claims she knows where Lila is. Wants you to meet her at the hospital.”

A pause.

Then-

“She also said Eric is hunting her.”

That was enough..

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The air inside the car seemed to tighten, like something unseen had just snapped into place.

For the first time that night, Damon turned his head.

Slowly.

“Drive,” he said.

No hesitation. No doubt.

Just a command.

Simon didn’t argue.

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The engine roared as the car pulled away from the port, cutting through the darkness with urgency now.

Because whatever game Maddy was playing…

it had just become real.

Damon entered through the back door.

If there was one thing he refused, it was being caught in front of the media-especially now, when every move he made could be twisted into something else. The front entrance was already swarming with cameras and reporters, waiting like vultures.

He had anticipated that.

The injured man’s wife had been brought through the main entrance instead, just enough to stir chaos and draw attention. Questions, flashes, noise-it was all directed away from him.

A calculated distraction.

By the time Damon reached Maddy’s room, the hallway was quiet.

He stepped inside without hesitation.

Maddy sat on the bed, her back straight, her gaze already fixed on the door as if she had been waiting.

For a moment, Damon simply looked at her.

She was no longer the fragile woman she once showed him. That softness-whether real or not-was gone. In its place was something sharper, more unstable.

If anything, she had become a madwoman.

Damon walked in and took the chair beside her bed, his movements calm, controlled. He didn’t speak.

Didn’t need to.

Maddy’s eyes shifted past him-to Simon.

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A silent demand.

Leave.

Simon almost scoffed.

Not a chance.

:

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He leaned casually against the wall instead, a faint smirk forming as he observed the two of them. If anything. he had started to understand these situations better now. The difference between a woman who threw herself at a man… and a woman who wanted nothing from him but business.

That understanding didn’t come naturally.

Jade had drilled that into him-patiently, repeatedly-until he could finally see it for himself. He wasn’t an expert yet, but he knew enough.

. And right now?

Maddy wasn’t here for business.

She was slipping back into old patterns.

Simon’s eyes narrowed slightly as he watched her-the subtle shift in posture, the way her gaze lingered on Damon just a little too long.

She was trying to draw him in.

To pull him closer.

To throw herself at him again.

Simon straightened.

Not happening.

Damon was already on edge-any wrong move, any unnecessary contact, could tip things in a direction none of them wanted.

So Simon stayed exactly where he was.

Alert.

Unmoving.

A silent barrier.

If Maddy tried anything-

she wouldn’t even get the chance to touch him.

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“Damon… can we talk? Just the two of us?”

Maddy’s voice carried a quiet insistence, her eyes flicking toward Simon-clearly expecting him to leave.

Simon didn’t move.

“No,” he said plainly. “Damon is my client.”

The refusal landed without hesitation.

Maddy went still, her jaw tightening.

Damon didn’t even glance at Simon this time. “Just like he said-he’s my lawyer. Now talk.”

His tone had hardened, patience already thinning.

Maddy let out a shaky breath, her composure cracking just enough to reveal the storm underneath.

“Damon… did you know?” she began, her voice trembling. “I was stripped of my dignity… sold like a piece of meat in a market. Like I wasn’t even human…”

Her eyes reddened, tears spilling freely now.

Damon watched her.

Unmoved.

“That’s not what I’m asking,” he said coldly.

The words cut through her sobbing.

“Do you hate me that much?” Maddy choked out. “It’s all because of Lila, Damon. She set me up-for a crime I didn’t do…”

Her voice broke as she cried harder.

Damon’s expression didn’t change.

“Whatever Lila did,” he said, his voice low and sharp, “she did it right.”

The room fell into a suffocating silence.

“I know what you’ve been doing while working with me,” he continued. “I know about you and Jasper. I know you set Lila up.”

Each word landed with precision.

Final. Certain.

Maddy shook her head desperately. “No-Damon, believe me! I did nothing wrong to Lila. I don’t deserve what happened to me!”

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“Where is Lila?”

Damon’s patience was gone.

Completely.

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“I don’t know! I don’t know who bought her-you should know that!” Maddy shot back, her voice rising in panic and frustration.

Damon’s gaze darkened.

Then Maddy laughed-a broken, bitter sound.

“Do you really think Lila will come back to you after what you did at the auction?” she said, her voice sharpening with something crueler now. “You threw money at me… but when she was standing there-waiting -you said nothing.”

The words hit harder than anything before.

“Maybe the man who bought her already has her every night…” Maddy continued, her voice dropping into something venomous. “Just like Eric did to me.”

Silence crashed into the room.

Heavy.

Violent.

For the first time, something in Damon shifted.

Not visibly-not completely.

But enough.

The air around him changed-tightening, darkening, like a storm finally breaking through restraint.

And Simon saw it immediately.

Every muscle in Damon’s body had gone still-

too still.

The kind of stillness that came right before something snapped.

That was the last thing Damon wanted to hear.

He stood up abruptly.

The chair scraped harshly against the floor, the sound cutting through the room like a warning. When he looked at Maddy again, his eyes were no longer just cold-

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they were ice.

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“If something happens to Lila…” his voice dropped, low and dangerous, “I swear, Maddy-you will regret throwing my wife into that auction.”

The word wife hit harder than anything else.

Before she could react, Damon’s hand shot out, gripping her wrist.

Tight.

Unforgiving.

Maddy let out a sharp cry, her face twisting in pain. “D-Damon-!”

Her voice broke into a whine as she struggled, her other hand trying to pry his grip away. “You’re hurting me

-!”

But Damon didn’t loosen.

Not immediately.

For a split second, it looked like he might actually crush her wrist-like all the restraint he had been holding onto was finally slipping.

That was enough.

Simon moved.

Quick and decisive, he stepped forward and grabbed Damon’s arm, forcefully pulling him back.

“That’s enough,” Simon said firmly.

There was no hesitation in his voice this time.

He dragged Damon away from the bed, putting distance between him and Maddy before things escalated any further.

Maddy collapsed back against the mattress, clutching her wrist, her breathing uneven-half in pain, half in something else entirely.

Damon didn’t look at her again.

Simon pushed him out of the room, the door shutting behind them with a heavy click.

The hallway felt colder.

Quieter.

Damon stood there for a moment, his chest rising and falling slowly, his jaw clenched tight.

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Then-

“Bring Maddy to a mental hospital,” he said flatly.

No hesitation. No doubt.

“She’s not in her right mind. If anything… she could harm another person.”

Simon studied him for a second, then gave a small nod.

“Consider it done.”

Damon didn’t respond.

His gaze was already somewhere else—

far from the hospital…

and fixed on only one thing.

Lila.

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