The Wife He Never Meant to Love (Lila and Damon) novel Chapter 77

Chapter 77

Chapter 77

The quiet, almost harmonious life slowly returned to Forest Villa.

Days passed peacefully.

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Lila spent most of her time in her study room or the small library, buried in books and research papers. She had resumed working on her master’s degree, determined to finish it on time after losing so much time already.

Sometimes Damon would see her late at night, still awake, typing on her laptop with a serious expression.

She barely spoke to him unless it was necessary.

But she didn’t leave either.

For Damon, that was enough.

One afternoon, while Damon was reviewing documents in his study, a bodyguard knocked and stepped inside.

“Sir.”

The bodyguard placed a small bag on the desk.

“These pills were found in Madam’s car.”

Damon raised an eyebrow and opened the bag.

Inside were several packs of contraceptive pills.

For a moment, Damon stared at them.

Then he chuckled quietly.

“So that’s why…”

He leaned back in his chair, twirling one of the pill packs between his fingers.

That explained why Lila never held back whenever they were together.

She had made sure of it.

She had never intended to carry his child.

The thought should have irritated him.

But strangely…

It didn’t bother him at all.

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Damon tossed the pills back into the bag.

Whatever Lila wanted-

He would give it to her.

Freedom.

Distance.

Even the illusion that she could leave him one day.

Damon leaned back in his chair, a slow, calculating smile spreading across his lips.

Because in the end…

She wouldn’t.

The trap had already been set long ago.

And Lila-

Would forever be bound to him.

Only him.

During his university years, Damon first saw Lila at a small coffee shop near the campus.

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She stood behind the counter, tying her hair into a loose ponytail while taking orders from the long line of students. She looked simple—no expensive clothes, no makeup that tried too hard-yet she was effortlessly beautiful.

Damon noticed her immediately.

At first, he thought it would be easy.

He was Damon Blackthorne after all. Women rarely refused him.

But one evening, while sitting with a few men from the elite circle, he overheard something interesting.

“Don’t bother with that girl,” one of them said. “Lila doesn’t date men from powerful families.”

“Why?” Damon asked casually.

“She said she wants a normal life. No powerful families, no business marriages, no drama.”

Damon had been warned.

Still, he didn’t believe it.

So he approached her.

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And just as the rumors said-

Lila rejected him.

On the spot.

Calmly.

Directly.

Every single time he asked.

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There were even rumors circulating among the students.

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They said Lila once had a child with an ex-lover who abandoned her after she got pregnant. That was supposedly why she worked nonstop while finishing her accounting degree.

Damon never confirmed if it was true.

But the rumors didn’t change anything.

Instead, he began watching her more closely.

Quietly.

From the shadows.

He anonymously gave her a scholarship.

Whenever he visited the coffee shop, he left generous tips-far more than what the drinks cost.

Lila never knew it came from him.

When the coffee shop began struggling financially and was on the brink of bankruptcy, Damon simply bought it.

The owner never even knew why.

Soon after, Lila received a huge salary increase and was offered the position of accountant for the shop.

Damon made sure she stayed.

Where he could see her.

Every day.

Then one day he heard something that nearly drove him insane.

Lila had a boyfriend.

The thought of another man touching her made something dark twist inside him.

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Damon made sure no one could truly have her.

He befriended the man.

Smiled.

Drank with him.

Acted like a helpful acquaintance.

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Meanwhile, Damon buried him under endless errands and opportunities he himself created-jobs, side work, obligations that kept the man constantly busy.

Too tired.

Too distracted.

Too exhausted to spend proper nights with Lila.

Whenever the man tried to take Lila on dates, Damon would appear.

Coincidentally.

Every time.

He hated the thought of Lila kissing another man.

Eventually Damon grew tired of the game.

So he ended it.

He bribed the man’s parents.

Forced them to pressure their son into leaving the city and abandoning the relationship.

And it worked.

The man disappeared from Lila’s life.

After graduation, Damon sent her an official offer letter for a position at Blackthorne Industries.

But Lila never replied.

She simply vanished.

For years, Damon lost track of her.

Then came the engagement arrangement with Maddy.

When Maddy eventually rejected the marriage, Damon felt something strange.

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Relief.

Like an obligation had been lifted from his shoulders.

And the first thing he did-

Was start searching for Lila again.

When he finally found her…

He discovered she already had another lover.

But even after finding her again, Damon did not immediately step back into Lila’s life.

Instead, he circled around it.

Quietly.

Patiently.

He watched from afar as Lila smiled, laughed, and loved another man.

A life that should have been his.

Damon waited.

He had always been good at waiting.

And eventually, the man failed.

The man drifted astray-careless, unfaithful, weak.

Damon did not hesitate.

The moment he confirmed the betrayal, he anonymously sent Lila the proof.

Photos.

Messages.

Enough to destroy any trust that remained.

The relationship collapsed exactly as Damon expected.

And just to make sure the man would never come crawling back-

Damon made sure their paths would never cross again.

The man disappeared from Lila’s world as if he had never existed.

Still, Damon kept his distance.

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Until another problem appeared.

At the company where Lila worked, the owner’s son began harassing her. Constant calls. Unwanted advances. Cornering her in the office.

Damon watched it happen once.

That was enough.

Within months, the company collapsed under a series of financial disasters and legal problems no one could fully explain.

The owner’s son vanished from the business world shortly after.

And once again, Lila was forced to leave her job.

Damon saw an opportunity.

But he knew one thing very clearly-

If he personally approached Lila, she would reject him again.

Just like before.

So he hunted down the one person who could convince her.

Ina.

Damon found him first.

Because Damon knew the truth.

The only way Lila would ever agree to join Blackthorne Industries….

Was if Ina was the one who asked her to come.