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Betrayed By Him: Claimed By The Boss

Author: Cornelia

Chapter 1

Word Count: 1022 | Released on: Today at 16:27

the Upper East Side pe

ed box. Her shoulders ached with a dull, heavy

ing the tight muscles pul

s slid open wi

pushed it forward onto the familiar marble floor

k heels, her bare feet

le table to drop her keys, h

tin stilettos sat carelessly n

id-air. The metal ke

ew those shoes. She had complimente

Caleb's twenty-two-year

her index finger, a nervous habit she couldn't

ted down the

hed, breathy giggl

groan followed. A man'

ngs stoppe

too heavy to inhale. A cold sweat broke out

sharp, twisting physical pain t

her fingertips, leavi

her Hermes Birkin bag

t the thick rug

wed by another, louder moan e

body moved on pure,

ld hardwood floor of the hallway. Each step f

skin slapping against skin

e heavy mahogany door

ernoon sunlight spilled into the dark hallw

sitate. She d

ht hand and pushed

sun poured through the floor-to-ceiling window

on top o

white Egyptian cotton sheets Kati

d open. She saw Katia

ed scream ripped fr

ess, frantically pulling the white duvet

ipped his head around, h

against the solid oak headbo

rfectly still

idn't cry. Her face was

pletely straight,

was flushed a dark, ugly red, his ba

e floor and shoved his legs into the

," he

his messy brown hair-his tel

ching out his hands to grab her shou

the fabric of her bla

arp, filled with pu

oze in the empty

red. The panic in his eyes morphed

" Caleb shouted, his voice e

ou care more about your Wall Street deals than

jaw locked so tight her

es. Her manicured nails bit so hard into her pal

uncurled he

ee-carat oval diamond caught the sunlight,

slow, heavy rhyth

inched the platinum band, and pulled it

oked a

rew th

nd struck him dead in the

flin

ced off his skin and h

lic clinking sound before coming to a

g is off,"

pitch or emotion. It sounded lik

until Friday to buy out

t in my account by 5:00 PM, my lawye

vet, her face pale. "Kati

her gaze to th

, cold, and entire

ped her mouth shut, shrinking back

t look at C

her bare feet carrying

ure rigid, leaving the apartment and

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“After an exhausting fourteen-hour flight, Katia returned to her Upper East Side penthouse, expecting the quiet comfort of the life she had built. Instead, she found a pair of familiar red stilettos in the foyer and her fiancé, Caleb, tangled in their bedsheets with his twenty-two-year-old assistant. She didn't scream or cry. She simply took off her three-carat engagement ring, threw it at his bare chest, and demanded he buy out her half of the penthouse by Friday. Seeking to numb the sickening disgust, she got blackout drunk and crashed at a luxury hotel, accidentally stumbling into the wrong suite. Thinking the imposing man inside was a high-end escort hired by her friend, she threw him over her shoulder and spent a wild night with him. The next morning, she left five thousand dollars on his nightstand with a lipstick-stained note. "Good Job." For six years, she had funded Caleb's dreams and built his startup from the ground up, only to be treated like a lifeless ATM. With ruthless precision, she spent the next two months systematically bankrupting his company, cutting off his venture capital, and erasing his life's work. She felt no heartbreak, only a cold, calculating need to cleanse herself of his betrayal. But when Katia finally returned to corporate headquarters to co-lead a massive merger, she literally crashed into the new Vice President. Strong arms caught her waist, and the sharp scent of cedarwood and whiskey hit her like a freight train. "You came back," Jackson whispered, his eyes burning as he stared at the woman who had treated him like a cheap gigolo.”