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Scandal in his arms

Chapter 4 The Scandal

Word Count: 1386    |    Released on: 22/08/2026

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n her voice a couple of times. I was sitting on the edge of her guest bed in my clothes from the day

drove the duration of the city across town to get to me with no questions asked. Charlotte, being a journalist, is busy, sha

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closed lid of the toilet like it was about t

to be a stained jacket. More photos were taken of me and Cassian entering the hotel with me also pictured looking at the camer

headlines on a

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knew what she was doing. Another climber who saw a rich man an

ispered. "Your engagement is scheduled to be a

. Before Charlotte could do anyth

, ba

w poisonous voice

a multi-billionaire. I have to say, that was crafty of you. He'll take care of your expenses and pay for you

rise, sharp and angry, her voice that she only kept for sourc

going to use a different number" she sa

tting next to me. Her hands we

erful man. If he was going to do anything after l

late. The headlines already put a new spin on it.

but I resisted and compromised. I said there were some things that I could not leave behind. Like ne

od on the sidewalk outside his place, while Charlotte stood by me, as I

the street. One of t

the woman fr

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. I was collecting every word, and this reality of being shamed by them in every comment section

ationship behind, and running away from that chapter of

r what felt like hours. Her voice wa

ve to do this

e fear and the ground continuously moving out from under my feet, C

chords and gave her

d react, or how much this would affect him. There was no going back to the life I had built, w

s deciding what to do with the woman who

s drank. She made work calls in the other room with her work voice. Afterward she jo

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n her face. She asked, "The p

ot

He's the kind of guy who doesn't leave things to chance. So I doubt he's the type to intent

deep down I knew it was only a matter

ging through everything they could find on social media from years prior. They spun my father's failed business into a narrative about

efore you know it, they'll come up with their own versi

kno

ts, about a man who had gotten in over his head. Ultimately, the story the papers had actually printed and the ver

uest bedroom window. Across that same noise, Cassian Rowe was handling the same

't the first person he

lowed, more than how I figured in all of it, I was thinking of the

robably not even one of the last, but I was going to

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“Valerie Quinn is 23. She is careful and quiet, used to making herself small in the lives of others. She used to be the girl with the big plans and a life stretching beyond the limits of her hometown, but that all went up in smoke the year her father's business failed. She never saw those fails as truly unfortunate, more like someone took her future. It was her father's business partner who disappeared along with the family's wealth. By the next year, the family had lost their house, their vehicles, and most of their "friends." It took a toll on her mother, but more so on Valerie. Valerie learned to do without the help of others and took whatever job she could secure in the city. Like most of her peers, her wage work gave her little sleep and even less hope. Her life changed when she met Liam. She thought he was safe. He had an apartment and a stable job. He was someone who made her feel like she was finally wanted. Something that didn't take long to feel safe, began to feel much more suffocating. He changed in subtle ways over the course of those 3 years. More so, he taught her that everything he did, whether it be cheating, or later how he treated her, was always a result of her working too much or how she was too sensitive and expected too much. She got to the point where she physically couldn't leave, and enduring his silence was the scariest feeling she had, when really she was surrounded by how much she was alone. Cassian Rowe, 30, controls the strategic side of Rowe Industries, living the picture perfect life, with an engagement to a woman that merges two rich and powerful families. Cassian has learned the hard way that emotion is a liability, working relentlessly over the years to ensure there are no gaps through which someone can reach the real him, hiding the purest part of his desire from the world. The deelite of all figures in his life is that he is rarely known. Women lust over him, and business associates look at him with the highest regard, yet very few actually know him.”