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?
Basahin
Chapter: Chapter 102: Ever AfterThe violin sang under my fingers as I finished Bach's Concerto in A Minor, the same piece I struggled with at five, scared of everything. Now, at twelve, I get that music, like families, needs practice, patience, and guts to keep going even when it feels impossible."Beautiful, Emma," Mom said from the kitchen, her hands covered in flour from making Sunday dinner for the whole Romano-Sterling crew. "You've gotten so much better this year."I put down my violin and looked around our living room, where family photos were everywhere, like love you can see. Wedding pictures from seven years ago, when I surprised everyone with my vows. Baby pictures of Michael and Sophia, the twins who came right on time and made me the big sister I always wanted to be. Pictures from Great-Grandma Elena's 80th birthday, Uncle Thomas teaching the twins about gardening, Detective Sarah and Uncle Lucas's wedding three years ago."Mom, can I ask you something before everyone gets here?"She wiped her hands on
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Chapter: Chapter 101: The Honeymoon PromiseOur suite looked over Elliott Bay. Seattle's lights winked like little secrets through the big windows. I watched Bella take off her Romano family necklace. Her wedding dress made a soft pile around her, like spilled light. Seeing that, I felt something warm inside, way beyond just wanting her – it was like finally being where I belonged.Mrs. Romano-Sterling, I said softly as I walked to her, trying to show how much I respected her after the crazy day we'd been through, So, how's it feel to be married to your business partner... again?Bella turned to me, her face glowing. She looked happily tired from celebrating with two hundred people who'd been in our corner the whole time. Mr. Romano-Sterling, it feels like we finally got it right, y'know?I could spot the garden out the window. That's where we'd just promised to stick together forever, where Emma surprised everyone by saying her own vows. And where my mom came back after thirty years to see that things were okay, the thing she
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Chapter: Chapter 100: Dancing Through the YearsThe security tablet trembled in my hands as I tried to focus on perimeter protocols while Detective Sarah Martinez reviewed guest lists across Elena's kitchen table. Six hours until Bella and Mikel's wedding ceremony, and I could barely string together a coherent sentence about unmarked police units positioned around the garden."Lucas, you've checked that same surveillance report three times in five minutes," Sarah observed, her dark eyes studying me with the same intensity she brought to interrogating suspects. "What's really going on?"I set down the tablet and met her gaze directly for the first time in months. Sarah Martinez had been part of our family's security team for over a year, coordinating law enforcement support through every Romano crisis. Professional, brilliant, unshakeable in dangerous situations.And I'd been falling in love with her for eight months without finding the courage to say a word."Sarah, can I ask you something that has nothing to do with wedding securi
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Chapter: Chapter 99: Lucas's Love StoryThe wedding security briefing should've been easy: check the area, confirm the guest list, and go over emergency plans. Instead, there I was, staring at Detective Sarah Martinez across Elena's kitchen table, totally blanking on every rule I knew after 15 years of protecting families."Lucas, you with me?" Sarah's voice had that mix of amusement and annoyance I'd come to love over the past year of working together. "I just said we have three unmarked cars around the garden, and you're looking at me like I'm speaking Martian."I forced myself to look at the security tablet, but I kept getting distracted by how the afternoon sun lit up the gold in her eyes. "Sorry. Right. Three cars. Got it."Sarah leaned back, studying me like I was a suspect. "Lucas Romano, what's up? You've been out of it all week, and today you can barely talk."Her being so direct felt like a challenge I couldn't dodge with being polite or talking about family stuff. Sarah Martinez didn't take excuses from criminals
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Chapter: Chapter 98: Reception NewsThe string quartet played in Elena's pretty garden as the two hundred guests moved from the ceremony to tables with vanilla-scented roses. My new husband and I walked through rice and happy cheers, with Emma next to us, still throwing shiny rose petals and yelling to everyone that she helped plan the best Romano wedding ever."Mrs. Romano-Sterling," Mikel whispered as we stopped at our table. "How's it feel to be married to your business partner?"I smiled and fixed my sapphire ring, catching the sun. "Mr. Romano-Sterling, it feels like home and an adventure at the same time."Emma got on the chair between us, her dress still clean after hours of fun. "Mom and Dad, when do we tell everyone the big family secret?"I got nervous. We planned to announce the baby during the toasts, but Emma wanted to tell everyone now."After dinner," Mikel said, squeezing my hand. "Big news needs the right time."Lucas came to our table with Detective Sarah Martinez, both with champagne and smiles. "Read
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Chapter: Chapter 97: The Vows RenewedFather Morrison's hands shook a bit as he held Emma's crayon-covered vows next to our fancy promises. It was kind of perfect, seeing our kid's simple words next to what Mikel and I had learned after a tough few years."Friends and family," Father Morrison said, loud enough for everyone in Elena's yard to hear. He'd seen, like, a zillion Romano events. "We're here not just for a wedding, but to celebrate a love that's been through the wringer and came out stronger."Two hundred people got quiet, but I could pretty much only see Mikel. He was in his tux, crying, looking at me like he still couldn't believe this was happening."Bella and Mikel, seven years ago, you made promises based on feelings. Today, you're making promises based on what you know and what you choose." Father Morrison smiled at us and Emma, who was standing there holding her flowers, proud that she'd set the mood just right."Mikel Sterling, tell us what you wrote for Bella."Mikel pulled out a paper, his hands shaking
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His Discarded Mate
Ella believed that she would die of refusal. She did not think that it would free her.
Expectant and abandoned, Ella runs to the enemy land with nothing but the life develops within her, the son of her former mate, the child he will never see again. Alpha Kane Winters is her savior and his help has a price not known to her until it is too late. He doesn't see Ella. He observes the apparition of the deceased mate.
Stuck between the obsessive love of Kane and the desperate redemption of Nathaniel, Ella gets to realize something she never suspected and that is her strength. However, in a case when old evils, conspiracy of councils, and malevolent magic are united against her yet to be born child, she will not be strong enough.
To pursue the fools gold, Nathaniel sacrificed a diamond. Now he will torch the world to show that he is a different man but words are empty and Ella cannot trust him anymore ever since that night when he preferred another woman to her screams.
Rejection cannot break some bonds. Others are in blood, stampeded with treachery, and trying with unbelievable decisions. Fighting to secure the future of her son, Ella will have to realize the fact that the worst monsters wear the mask of rescuers, the redemption requires more than excuses, and that there are situations when the only means of getting somewhere is not to wait to be rescued.
Because a Luna doesn't kneel. She rises. And when she does it, the entire world shakes.
Basahin
Chapter: Chapter 40: The Price of FreedomChapter 40: The Price of FreedomPOV: EllaThe safe house looked normal from outside. A colonial-style home in what could've been any wealthy suburb, complete with manicured lawn and security gate that opened with a remote.I'd expected a dungeon. A cage.Instead, Theron led me through a foyer with marble floors and fresh flowers."Your room is upstairs," he said, like this was a hotel. "Second door on the right. There's a nursery adjacent—fully equipped, though we have three weeks yet before it's needed."My hand pressed against my stomach. My son kicked in response, as if sensing the danger."You said my father would be released.""And he was." Theron checked his watch. "Approximately seven minutes ago. The paramedics are quite competent. He'll survive.""Then let me go." I stopped in the foyer, refusing to climb those stairs. "That was the deal.""The deal was your father's freedom in exchange for your testimony withdrawal." His smile was patient, condescending. "You fulfilled your
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Chapter: Chapter 39: ConvergenceChapter 39: ConvergencePOV: NathanielI hit the warehouse doing ninety, tires screaming against asphalt.Kane's vehicle rounded the opposite corner at the same moment—east entrance while I took north. For once, our timing was accidentally perfect.We both slammed to a stop. Doors flew open.Our eyes met across the hood of my car. Gold wolf-eyes on both sides. Every territorial instinct screams to fight.But Ella was inside."Together," I said.Kane's jaw worked. Then he nodded once.We moved as one unit toward the main entrance. The door hung open—wrong. Everything about this felt wrong."Too quiet," Kane muttered.I pulled my weapon. "I know."We breached fast and low. The warehouse interior was lit like a stage—harsh industrial lights highlighting the center space where chains hung empty.And beneath them, crumpled on concrete, was Richard Montgomery.I was moving before conscious thought. Kane hit the space a second after me, both of us dropping to our knees beside Ella's father.
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Chapter: Chapter 38: The Choice That Screams Everything Up Chapter 38: The Choice That Screams Everything UpPOV: EllaThe address was this busted-up warehouse. Rusted metal, smashed windows—the kind of spot people vanish from.Total trap.Still, I went.My hands were shaking so badly on the wheel. Every part of me was screaming to bail, to just trust that Nathaniel and Kane would figure something else out. But my phone timer read forty-three minutes, and the image of my dad's busted fingers was burned into my head.I parked a couple of blocks away and walked the rest.The front door? Unlocked, of course. Theron wanted me to stroll right in, thinking I was in control.Inside, the warehouse was cleaner than it had any right to be. Concrete floor, swept clean. Harsh lights casting hard shadows. And smack in the middle, under a spotlight that felt way too dramatic, was my dad.Richard Montgomery was hanging from chains, barely conscious. His face? Messed up doesn't even begin to cover it—swollen, bloody, a roadmap of agony. But he was still bre
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Chapter: CHAPTER 37: Racing Against DeathsCHAPTER 37: Racing Against DeathsElla POVThe timer on my phone read 47:23 when Nathaniel burst into the hospital.His face was bloody. His shirt was ripped, with cuts all over his ribs. But he was holding onto that vial like it was life itself.Sarah! He was hoarse as he ran toward us. Now!Dr. Sarah was already on it, grabbing the antidote and heading to Luna's room. I caught Nathaniel as he almost fell; he was so heavy, even with me being pregnant.You're hurt, I said quietly.I'm alive. He put his head against mine, panting. That's what matters.Kane came out of Luna's room, looking totally wrecked. He saw Nathaniel, then the empty vial thing Sarah had dropped.You got it. He didn't even ask; he was just grateful.Yep. Nathaniel stood up straight, wincing. Now, fingers crossed it works.We all went into Luna's room. Dr. Sarah was working fast, getting the injection ready. Luna's heart monitor was beeping like crazy, each beep fainter than the last.This is still experimental, Sar
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Chapter: Chapter 36: Unexpected Team-UpChapter 36: Unexpected Team-UpNathaniel POVThe emergency exit banged shut behind me. Alarms wailed through Ashworth Memorial, sounding like wounded animals. I gripped the vial in my pocket—the one thing that could save Luna if I could just get out of here.Big if.I heard heavy security boots thundering above me. I'd taken the service stairs to avoid the main floors, but Theron's men were everywhere. This hospital was his turf, his twisted hunting ground.I reached the second-floor landing and then heard it.A door opened. Quiet steps.I spun around, ready to fight.Vivian Ashworth stepped into the stairwell.We just stared. She wasn’t the polished woman who’d fooled me for so long. Her hair was a tangled mess, mascara streaked under her eyes like black rivers. She wore scrubs, not her usual elegant clothes.“Nathaniel.” Her voice cracked on my name.“Move.” I started toward her, but she didn’t budge.“I can help you.” She raised empty hands, trembling. “I know where the guards are.
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Chapter: Chapter 35: The Antidote MissionChapter 35: The Antidote MissionElla POVSarah pointed at the monitor, her hands shaking. Four hours. Maybe less.Luna's heartbeat was all over the place on the screen, each beep weaker than the last. The silver poison was tearing her apart, and we were utterly helpless.Except for one desperate shot.The facility's right here. Harrison tossed some blueprints onto the hospital table, pointing at a building on the east side of Theron's turf. It's a private research place, supposedly working on groundbreaking new ways to heal supernaturals.What are they really up to? I asked, already knowing it couldn't be good.Experimenting. Nathaniel's voice was ice-cold. Theron's been using werewolves as guinea pigs. There's an antidote because he created the poison first.My stomach twisted in horror. He's been testing weapons.For years. Harrison slid another paper across. That silver stuff? It's designed to bypass our healing powers. It's just one of many horrors he's cooked up.I looked at Nat
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