I Ran Away After Three Years as Stand in, CEO Went Mad Chapter 14

I Ran Away After Three Years as Stand in, CEO Went Mad Chapter 14

Declan’s new company went public.

My followers hit nearly ten million. My career was booming. We both had bright futures.

At a gala that Declan sponsored,

I walked in on his arm, dressed to the nines.

A slacker trust-fund kid looked at me, confused. “Who’s this?”

Declan said flatly, “My ‘arrangement.””

A mega influencer with millions of followers looked at Declan with gossipy eyes. “Mr. Thorne, what’s your relationship with her?”

I said flatly, “My ‘arrangement.””

“So you two are?”

“Mutual arrangements.”

Silence.

Behind us, someone muttered, “Is the word ‘partner’ that hard to say?”

I smiled slightly. “In the circle, there’s no ‘partner.’ Only ‘arrangement.””

The trust-fund kid murmured, “So I’m a guy without an arrangement…….”

I could clearly see Declan’s body stiffen.

The tough-guy things he’d said back in his early twenties came back to haunt him for years.

After Declan and I went public, there was some congratulating and some side-eyeing. But whatever.

They were just NPCs in my story.

The System disappeared one random night. The script was a mess, and it did what it could to stitch

it back together.

Its final entry read: [In the end, Sloane and Declan lived happily ever after.]