THE WIFE WHO STOLE HIS HEART
Five years back, Izabela Romano's world fell apart. She caught her rich husband in bed with her best friend while she was in labor! Heartbroken, the former heiress vanished with their daughter, never wanting to see them again.
Now, she's back as the tough CEO of Romano Enterprises, stronger than before. But when her five-year-old daughter, Emma, gets really sick, Izabela has to face Michael Sterling, the billionaire who's spent the last five years searching for them.
Michael thought he knew why their marriage ended. But when he finds out the truth about that night, he realizes he was a pawn in a dangerous game of company secrets and revenge. Now, with their daughter's life at risk and enemies closing in, can they find their way back to each other?
From betrayal comes a love story that spans the globe, changes lives, and proves that some relationships can survive anything. But when the past puts their daughter in danger and criminals target their family, Izabela and Michael must fight for their love and their lives.
In a world of big money and deadly secrets, can their second chance at love last? Or will forgiveness be too much to ask?
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Chapter: Chapter 61: The opening move was complete. Now came the waiting, the pressure, the inexorable logic that would force Elena to choose between her pride and Emma's safety.I walked back to the window, looking down at the city where panic was spreading through the Romano family like wildfire. Police cars, federal agents, private security—all of them scrambling to find one small girl in a city of millions.They wouldn't find her, of course. Sophia was too broken to think clearly, too desperate to make smart choices. She'd hidden Emma exactly where I'd suggested—in plain sight, in a place so obvious they'd never think to look there.My phone buzzed with another text from Sophia: *She keeps asking for her parents. What do I tell her?*I smiled as I typed back: *Tell her that sometimes families have to change to become better. Tell her Uncle Thomas is working very hard to make sure she's safe forever.*The response came quickly: *She doesn't understand. She just wants to go home.**Home is wherever the
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Chapter: Chapter 60: The Devil's Bargain
The call came exactly twelve minutes after Sophia disappeared with Emma. I timed it perfectly—long enough for panic to set in, short enough to prevent any real rescue attempts. Forty-seven years in corporate warfare has taught me that timing is everything when you're closing the deal that matters most."Elena." I didn't bother with pleasantries as my sister answered on the first ring. "I assume you've discovered Emma is missing."The silence that followed was pure Romano—my sister calculating her response with the same cold intelligence that had kept her in power for decades."Thomas." Her voice carried forty years of steel. "Where is my great-granddaughter?""Safe. For now." I walked to the window of my downtown office, looking out at the Seattle skyline where somewhere below, the Romano empire was finally within my grasp. "But her continued safety depends entirely on your next decision.""What decision?"I smiled, savoring this moment I'd been orchestrating for three years. "The dec
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Chapter: Chapter 59:I thought about that while I smoothed my dolphin's fur. "So if you love me, you should want me to go home to my family.""Yes." Sophia's voice was very quiet. "That's exactly what I should want.""But you brought me here instead.""Because sometimes, Emma, love means doing something that feels wrong to prevent something worse from happening." Sophia pulled out a phone. "I have to make a call now. To your parents. And I'm going to say some things that might sound scary, but I want you to remember what I told you about love, okay?"I nodded, even though my tummy was feeling funny again.Sophia dialed the phone and waited. When someone answered, her whole voice changed. It got colder and sadder."Bella? Yes, it's Sophia. Emma is with me, and she's safe." There was a long pause while Sophia listened. "No, you can't talk to her yet. First, we need to discuss what's going to happen next."I could hear Mommy's voice through the phone, but I couldn't understand the words. She sounded scared a
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Chapter: Chapter 58: The TakingThe sad lady's hands were shaking when she picked me up from the garden. I was playing with my dolphins by the big fountain when she came through the gate that was supposed to keep strangers out. Someone must have given her the secret numbers, because the gate just opened for her like it opens for family."Hello, Emma," she said, and her voice sounded different than at school. Less scary, more... broken, like when I dropped Mommy's favorite mug and couldn't fix it. "I'm Sophia. I'm here to help you."I remembered what Mommy and Daddy taught me about strangers, even strangers who know my name. "I'm not supposed to go with people unless Mommy says it's okay."Sophia knelt down next to me, and I could see she'd been crying. Her eyes were all red and puffy like mine get when I'm really sad. "Emma, your mommy is in trouble. Big trouble. And I'm the only one who can help her."That made my tummy feel funny. "What kind of trouble?""The bad men who were chasing her and Daddy? They want to hu
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Chapter: Chapter 57: The Courthouse Chase
James Morrison was dead within thirty seconds of hanging up his phone.That's what would have happened if Thomas Romano's hired muscle had been even slightly more competent. Instead, the bullet meant for James's head shattered the courthouse window behind us as I tackled him to the marble floor of the King County Courthouse lobby."Stay down!" Detective Martinez's voice cut through the chaos as tourists and lawyers scattered like startled birds. "Federal agents, everyone on the ground!"But Thomas's men weren't interested in following law enforcement orders. They were interested in permanent solutions to temporary problems namely, James Morrison's evidence and my continued existence."Bella, this way!" James grabbed my hand, blood streaming from where flying glass had cut his temple. "The recording we have to get it to the prosecutors!"We ran toward the elevator bank as gunfire erupted behind us. Real gunfire. In the courthouse. Thomas Romano had officially lost his mind, or maybe he
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Chapter: Chapter 56: The Wedding That Wasn't
The marriage license felt like it weighed a thousand pounds in my purse as I walked up the courthouse steps toward James Morrison. He stood there in his best suit, looking like a man about to attend his own funeral instead of his own wedding."Bella, wait." He held up his hand, his expression shifting to something I couldn't read. "There's something I need to tell you. Something that changes everything."My stomach dropped. After everything we'd been through, after Mikel's sacrifice and my broken heart, was James having second thoughts?"What do you mean?"James pulled out a small device from his jacket pocket—a digital recorder, its red light still blinking. "I've been wearing a wire for the last twenty-four hours. Everything Thomas said to me yesterday, every threat, every confession—it's all recorded."The world tilted sideways. "What?""Attorney-client privilege doesn't protect criminal activity, Bella. When Thomas threatened my life, when he revealed his plan to physically take E
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