The Heiress He UnderestimatedChapter 21
The Heiress He Underestimated
Chapter 21
The next week passed in a strange double life, a tightrope walk between two worlds that were about to collide. In the daylight, she was Elyrian Nethys, the blissfully engaged billionaire darling. She lunched with. Xan’s mother, a woman with frosted hair and eyes like chips of ice, who patted her hand and spoke of flower arrangements and of good bloodlines. She endured dress fittings for the Valdris gala, standing for hours in silk and tulle while her father beamed in the corner, already counting his future wealth.At night, she was Dr. Mystral, the architect of a desperate plan. She worked until her eyes burned, refining the Chimera Protocol on her lab computers. The data from Drakonius’s new tests was both inspiring and terrifying. She saw the enemy clearly now, a mutating shadow in his cells. Her proposed treatment was a wild, beautiful gamble–a combination of targeted viral vectors and synthesized proteins designed to outsmart his own DNA.It was brilliant but it was also terrifying. The margin for error was zero.And in the quiet, stolen moments between these two roles, she was simply Elera, texting with a man who was slowly becoming more than a business partner.It started with logistics. Drakonius would text about the legal papers for their marriage, dry and factual. She would reply with a question about his symptoms. Did the new amino acid supplement cause nausea? He would answer, then sometimes add a quiet observation. The sunset from the medical wing is particularly stark tonight. It reminds me of a painting I saw in Oslo.
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