<b>Chapter </b><b>28 </b>
The door clicked shut behind him with a quiet finality.
Alejandro stood still for a moment, his fingers still curled around the handle. His jaw stunned by what happrised.
He exhaled slowly, then rolled his neck unlilit cracked. Her voice rang in his head.
My entire life has been hijacked by people like you…”
tight, eyes locked on the far wall of his bedroom. He was still
He didn’t like the way it lingered, and he definitely didn’t like the way it had sunk under his skin like a splinter he couldn’t remove
He turned away from the door and walked to the bathu oom, lipping on the lights.
Pausing when he got to the mirror, he turned to face it, already knowing what he would
The version of himself that stared back these days wasn’t the man the world loved. Not the yboy in tailored suits andzy smiles.
This version was colder. More ruthless. A man sharpened by guilt, sculpted by vengeance, and <b>draped </b>in just enough charm to keep suspicion away
Taking off his clothes<b>, </b>he stopped into the ss shower and turned the dial all the way to cold.
A second passed. Then the water burst from the rain head. He didn’t flinch as the <b>water </b>touched him.
He stood there, bare, rigid, letting the cold cascade over him as the silence pressed in–amplified by the sting of every drop.
“I was going to use <b>the </b>injection on Nathaniel, get some naked pictures of him and threaten him into giving me my <b>career </b>back, but the bastard was a step ahead<b>, </b>and he drugged me.”
Her words echoed in his <b>head </b><b>again</b>. Louder this time, and his fingers curled against the tiled wall
A part of him didn’t want to believe her, but the <b>logical </b>part realized she had to be telling the truth.
His mind took him back to that night, and it made so much sense as <b>to </b>why she looked out <b>of </b><b>ce </b>that night.
She was, out of ce, and her carrying an <b>injection </b>with <b>a </b>drug that lethal finally made sense.
‘So that’s why you were there, he muttered to <b>himself</b>, and he chuckled, a bit hurt that she hadn’t been trying to get his attention like he had initially
thought.
He’d been convinced she was just another maniptive beauty. But she wasn’t. She was just an unlucky woman, desperate and alone.
Nivera was born with money, Privilege. Legacy. A name that opened doors around the world,
She shouldn’t have been desperate enough to <b>corner </b>a man like Nathaniel ckwell if her family had supported her.
But she was.
And tonight, <b>she’d </b>looked at him like she hated high more than anyone. He mmed his hand t against the wall, the p echoing in the stone chamber.
<b>Good</b>! An evil fire burned in his eyes. He needed her to hate him, as that would make things easier. That would keep the line clear.
He tilted his head back beneath the water and closed his eyes.
Just because it had been proven that she wasn’t in the wrong that night didn’t change the fact that she <b>had </b>caught his attention, and she was going to be very useful in the grand scheme of things
20:39 Wed<b>, </b>23 Júl 。 & G
By the time he stepped out of the shooves, an hour had passed, but his head was much clearer and his thoughts were straight.
Picking up his phone, be dialed a number, and the receiver picked up on the spend ring
“Nivera’s name is under fire; shake them up Without any more words, he disconnected the call, as the message had been passed across
He didn’t have to check the inte to know what Nivea was talking about. The inte wht a very brutal ce, and he wasn’t that crust not to b sorry for her, especially as she had gone through something simr.
Alejandra clicked his tongue over the thought of doing something simr to Nathaniel, which was taking steps to ensure he did something about it.
He broke out of his thoughts when his phone vibrated. “Get some sleep, you have to be early tomorrow, you assholer
A smile appeared on his face as he read Antonio’s message. “Take your own advice, bastard He responded as he then proceeded to get dressed
As he did, his reflection caught him once more. He was back. Cold Huthless, and just the way he liked it.