Chapter 11
Chapter 11
It all felt like a bad dream.
Damien Sterling returned from the government office in a daze, his mind swirling as he stepped back into the villa.
e couldn’t even remember how he’d gotten home.
None of it made sense.
Just a week ago, everything had been fine.
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Celeste had been her usual playful self, begging him to spend her birthday with her.
And now?
If he had known that would be her last birthday, he would never have missed it–no matter
what.
“Damien, what’s wrong?”
Isolde Langley sauntered out of the bedroom, draped in a black lace nightgown that clung
to her curves.
Her movements were deliberate, designed to draw his attention.
She slid
up
beside him, her tone soft and soothing.
“Your face looks so tense… Are you still worrying about Celeste?”
Her fingers trailed lightly along his arm as she continued.
“You said it yourself–she’s eighteen now, an adult. We can’t treat her like a child forever.”
“Maybe she just needed some time to cool off. She’s probably off on some trip with friends, letting off steam.”
As she spoke, Isolde wrapped her arms around Damien’s neck, leaning into him with
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feigned concern.
Celeste was finally out of the picture.
All she needed was one final step to cement her place as the mistress of the Sterling
household.
And that step?
nsuring Damien was hers completely.
Leaning closer, Isolde whispered, her voice dripping with seduction, “You’re too tense, Damien. Let me help you relax…”
She let her hand slide lower, toward his most intimate space, ready to claim him once and
for all.
But before she could touch him, Damien’s hand shot up, gripping her throat with a sudden, unrelenting force.
“Ugh-!”
Isolde choked, her eyes widening in shock. Her hands clawed at his wrist as she gasped for
air.
“D–Damien, stop! You’re hurting me!”
Damien’s grip tightened, his face an unreadable mask of ice.
“Celeste had cancer,” he said, his voice colder than a winter storm.
“So tell me why did the doctor that night insist she was fine?”
Panic flickered in Isolde’s eyes, her usual composure beginning to crack.
“I–I don’t know!” she stammered, trying to sound convincing.
“I don’t even know that doctor! Maybe… maybe he made a mistake?”
But her performance wasn’t fooling Damien anymore.
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“Really?”
His voice was deadly calm, his gaze cutting into her like a blade.
“Then why did my team just discover that the doctor who ran Celeste’s tests is your
half–brother?”
Isolde’s face turned ashen.
he had never imagined Damien would dig this deep, uncovering the family ties she had kept hidden.
Her father, the owner of the hospital, had always denied her existence.
No one in the public knew about her connection to the hospital–or to the doctor.
But now Damien knew everything.
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