Chapter 25 Out of Reach
Elijah's POV
My fingers had just returned to her ankle when I heard someone approaching.
The waitstaff wore non-slip soles — they moved in near silence. But this person wore dress shoes, each step carrying the deliberate rhythm of someone who had spent too many nights on red carpets.
"Good evenin...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Full Payment, Move-In Within a Week
2. Chapter 2 The Shared Client No.1
3. Chapter 3 The Name at the Top
4. Chapter 4 The Measure of an Entrance
5. Chapter 5 The Ghost Classmate?
6. Chapter 6 The Hidden Camera
7. Chapter 7 The Red Carpet and the Wager
8. Chapter 8 The Weight of the Contract
9. Chapter 9 A Gavel Drop Over the Phone
10. Chapter 10 Before the Gavel Falls
11. Chapter 11 The Gavel and the Gambit
12. Chapter 12 The Hunt
13. Chapter 13 Not a Cage
14. Chapter 14 Those Who Need Not Bow
15. Chapter 15 Homecoming
16. Chapter 16 The First Evening After the Contract
17. Chapter 17 No Need to Engage Directly
18. Chapter 18 Double Reckoning
19. Chapter 19 Cyrus's Reckoning
20. Chapter 20 A Call I Made Myself
21. Chapter 21 The Undercurrents
22. Chapter 22 What the Eye Already Knows
23. Chapter 23 The One Who Won't Cut
24. Chapter 24 Social Distance
25. Chapter 25 Out of Reach
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