Lost In Pain
Aurora, be honest with me. What do you truly desire?" Zane asked, his gaze unwavering as he stared deep into my eyes.
"I'm...confused," I admitted in a low tone, struggling to maintain my sanity.
Just then, my phone chimed. I swiped the screen to see a message notification, it was from Mark. It read. 'We have a history together, Aurora. A future.'
A tear streamed down my cheek as I stared at my phone. "Well?" Zane's voice snapped me back to reality. "You have to make a choice."
"But-" my lips quivered as my mind reeled. "But what if I can't?"
He let out a sigh as he took a step back. "Then you'll lose everything."
--------
Aurora's tenth anniversary was supposed to be a celebration of a decade of devotion with Mark.. Instead, it became the day her whole world shattered. Dumped and heartbroken by the only man she had ever loved and trusted, she kept the secret of her pregnancy to herself. Seeking momentary oblivion in a bar, she finds her surrendering to a one night stand with an unforgettable stranger.
Fate's cruel test continued when Aurora starts a new job, only to find the man from her one night stand was Zane, her boss. Zane's interest in her was evident, while she was hesitant, still nursing the wounds from Mark's betrayal and the burden of her pregnancy, she tried her best to resist him in every way possible.
When an accident forces hee secret into the open, Zane jumps to the conclusion that the child was his, but kept it hidden to himself. After few months later, Aurora finally told him the truth, but to her surprise, he wasn't disappointed and still insisted that he wanted them both regardless who the child's biological father was.
Read
Chapter: Chapter Seventeen The Ghost in His EyesThe city didn’t sleep.But Aurora did. For the first time in days, exhaustion dragged her under like a slow tide — and even then, her dreams were knives.When she woke, the sky outside the safe house was a bruised gray. Elara was gone, leaving only a folded note on the counter.> “He’s moving. You’ll find him where the mirrors lie.”No signature. No hint of where or when. Just those words that felt like prophecy.Aurora showered, dressed in black, and stared at her reflection in the cracked bathroom mirror. The woman staring back looked sharper than she remembered — colder, hungrier. Her eyes had lost the softness that once begged to be seen. They were steel now. Zane had forged her into something even he might not be able to control.By the time she reached
Last Updated: 2025-11-21
Chapter: Chapter Sixteen The Fire We StartThe key felt impossibly heavy in Aurora’s palm.It had seemed like a trinket when Zane gave it to her — a private joke about destiny and doors and futures. Now, in the thin light of her safe house, it was a detonator. Every legend she’d never asked to be part of, every bargain she’d signed in ambition’s name, converged into the cold metal between her fingers.Elara watched her without comment, the hum of the laptop like the heartbeat of an engine at idle. “You ready to burn it all down?” she asked.Aurora swallowed. “If it’s the only way to find him.” Her voice was calm, but beneath it was a furnace of fear and fury she could no longer ignore. The files had been merciless; Project Lyra had mapped her life like a constellation — intended to be predictable, controllable. She’d been a designed asset, a blade
Last Updated: 2025-11-01
Chapter: Chapter FifteenThe Price of LoveWhen Aurora woke, the world was silent.Not the peaceful kind of silence — the kind that follows devastation.A stillness that hums with absence.The warehouse was gone. The rain. The gunfire. Even Zane’s voice — erased as if it had never existed.She was lying on a narrow bed in a dim, unfamiliar room. The air smelled of salt and old wood. Faint light filtered through the cracks in the boarded window. Her head throbbed. Her hands were bandaged.For a few long seconds, she couldn’t move. Her body remembered before her mind did — the sprint through the storm, the shouting, the flash of a gun. And then the sound. That one final sound she had prayed not to hear again.The shot.Her breath came in shallow gasps.“No,” she whispered. “No, no, no…&rdquo
Last Updated: 2025-11-01
Chapter: Chapter Fourteen Before the Storm BreaksThe rain didn’t stop for two days.It fell like grief — relentless, heavy, unending — as if the city itself was mourning him.Zane was gone. The sound of that gunshot still lived in Aurora’s bones, replaying over and over until every heartbeat became an echo of that single, deafening moment. The police called it an “incident,” the kind that conveniently disappeared from reports before sunrise. No body was found. No suspects. No proof.Just a smear of blood on the rain-soaked alley floor.But Aurora knew better. Zane wasn’t the type of man to vanish without reason. He was the storm — chaos and control in a single breath. If he was gone, it was because someone had forced his hand. Or worse — because he was playing a game she hadn’t yet learned the rules to.She hadn’t slept. The walls of her apartment were covered with printouts, maps, corporate connections, and photos — a web of ink and red thread that pulsed like a second heart in the room. Every line led back
Last Updated: 2025-11-01
Chapter: Chapter Thirteen —The Secrets We KeepThe night Zane walked out of that restaurant, something inside Aurora fractured.Not completely — not the kind of break that bleeds — but a clean, quiet crack that splits truth from illusion.For the first time, she wasn’t sure if she knew the man she’d fallen into.He had vanished again, like smoke curling through her fingers. His number went unanswered, his office suddenly “unavailable,” his apartment — locked, lights off, curtains drawn. It was as if Zane Wilson had been erased.But ghosts always leave traces.Aurora found hers in a single text that arrived two days later, unsigned, untraceable:“Stay away from the Wilson deal. It’s not what you think.”Her heart stuttered. The Wilson deal was his project — the merger she’d built her proposal around. Why would someone warn her about it unless—Unless Zane wasn’t the man running it anymore.Unless he was being run.That night, she sat in her apartment surrounded by paperwork, screens glowing with company files a
Last Updated: 2025-11-01
Chapter: Chapter Twelve — The Obsession CurveThe days after that night were eerily quiet.No messages. No late-night summons. Not even the occasional passing glance that used to send heat curling through Aurora’s veins. Zane had vanished behind the cool mask of professionalism — polite, detached, untouchable.It should have been a relief.Instead, it felt like punishment.Aurora told herself she would focus on work, bury herself in the endless tide of proposals, deals, and client meetings. But his absence followed her like a shadow. Every room he wasn’t in felt wrong, every silence echoed with something unsaid.By Wednesday, she couldn’t stand it anymore.She went to his office after hours, telling herself it was about business — a project update, a contract revision, anything to justify the impulse. But when she opened the door, she froze.Zane was there. Alone.And he looked… undone.His jacket was discarded, his tie loose, his e
Last Updated: 2025-10-25
LOGIN
