Chasing Midnight Promises
She thought he was her dream—until he became her wrecking ball.
Mia believed in fairy tales because her parents lived one. Raised in love, she dreamed of a man like her father: gentle, loyal, and kind.
So when Noah Bradford walked in with a charming smile and stormy eyes, she thought she had found forever. But Noah wasn’t a dream. He was every warning wrapped in temptation. At twenty-five, he used love like a weapon.
Haunted by a past where love meant betrayal, he vowed never to feel again. Mia wasn’t special—just another target. She should have walked away. But Mia stayed. Even when it hurt, even when he tried to break her, she held on—believing love could fix him.
Then came Christian Turner. Assigned as Mia’s bodyguard, he quickly became more than a shadow. Calm, protective, and quietly intense, Christian vowed to keep her safe—because in his eyes, Mia’s tears weren’t just pain. They were danger.
And Noah had done nothing but make her cry. Christian’s mission is clear: protect Mia, even if it means standing between her and the man she still loves. Even if Noah dares to return. But Mia’s heart isn’t the only thing at risk.
Ava, the woman who discarded Noah, wants him back. Hannah, the only woman he ever loved, has unfinished business. And Isabella—Mia’s younger sister—is hungry for Noah, and the family fortune, too. Trapped between her past and a man who would burn the world to protect her, Mia must face the truth: sometimes love doesn’t heal. It destroys.
Will she walk away with her heart intact or lose herself trying to save someone who never wanted to be saved?
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Chapter: Chapter 122: Who Would Have Thought? The sound of my mistake didn’t just fade—it traveled. It ricocheted off the hollow metal walls, stretching into the dark until it finally thinned… and then vanished.But the silence didn’t survive for long.Footsteps bled into it—measured, deliberate, each one heavy enough to carry authority, yet slow enough to suggest the person was counting the seconds between them. Gravel shifted beneath unseen weight, whispering against the already suffocating air. A faint metallic tang rode the air, as if the walls themselves were sweating rust.Beside me, Raven’s fingers closed around my sleeve. Each new step tightened her grip, a silent attempt to hold back whatever was coming.Damian’s device trembled in his hand, its buzz swelling until it gnawed at my ears. The pitch climbed fast—urgent, desperate—matching the stiffness creeping into all our muscles.We froze. Every instinct screamed to silence that damned thing before it revealed us. But the device didn’t care. Its rising whine felt like a
Last Updated: 2025-08-14
Chapter: Chapter 121: Steel Shadows Raven leaned against the window, pressing her palm to the glass. “This place… it’s dead.”Noah looked around, jaw tight. “No. It’s worse than dead.”And he was right.Dead things don’t stare back at you.But some of the shadows here… they watched.We didn’t say it out loud.But we all felt it.The deeper we went, the heavier the air became—thick with tension. With warning.This wasn’t just a ruined neighborhood.It was a graveyard of something unspoken.Of something that wasn’t ready to stay buried.And we were driving straight into its heart.The car finally came to a halt with a quiet hiss, tires crunching over gravel and glass. Ahead stretched an eerie, desolate space. The headlights cut through the darkness to reveal rows upon rows of massive 40-foot containers—stacked like forgotten building blocks of a collapsed world.There were dozens of them.No movement.No sound.Just silence that didn’t feel natural—like it was holding its breath.We stepped out slowly.The air hit me like
Last Updated: 2025-08-12
Chapter: Chapter 120: Half Eaten SkeletonsThe three of us sprinted through the quiet street. The world blurred past—lamp posts, fences, broken sidewalks—all melting into one long stretch of desperate momentum.And then we saw it.Three blocks away, parked by the curb like something out of a billionaire’s fantasy: the car.A sleek, obsidian-black Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut. Every inch of it shimmered like wet oil under the faint streetlights. Its curves were sharp, aggressive. The body—low and lethal—looked like it could slice through air itself. The headlights, narrow slits glowing faintly, gave it the face of something alive—something that wasn’t built to wait.Raven slowed to a stop, breathless. Her eyes widened. “Are you… seeing this?” she muttered.I didn’t answer. My pulse was loud in my ears. I stepped beside her, bent a little, and peered through the dark glass.Damian was already inside.Calm. Focused.Waiting.The interior glowed faintly blue, the dashboard unlike anything I’d ever seen—like a cockpit from a futuristic
Last Updated: 2025-08-10
Chapter: Chapter 119: For Raya Damian's words echoed in my ears—but they didn’t make sense. Not after what he’d said before.I felt the question rising in me like a scream.But I wasn’t the only one confused. We all were.Damian just stood there, eyes fixed on the device. Unmoving.Like he already knew we were out of time.Then he added, his voice flat with urgency, “And if Ava gets to her first… I don’t know what the outcome would be.”A heavy silence followed.The words sank deep, twisting in my stomach like a knot I couldn’t undo. My confusion thickened.I stepped forward, my brows pulling together. “Wait... wait,” I said, my voice a mix of panic and disbelief. “You just said Ava doesn’t have a hand in Raya’s disappearance. So why are you still saying we need to get to her before Ava does? How does that even make any sense?!”My words were loud. Sharp. They cut through the moment like a blade.Damian looked at me, something frantic flickering behind his eyes. “There’s no time to explain all that,” he said quickl
Last Updated: 2025-08-08
Chapter: Chapter 118: Ava Didn't Do It “This might come as a surprise,” he said, voice low and deliberate, “but Ava… she has no hand in Raya’s disappearance.”Time paused.Noah blinked, his face a tangle of confusion and disbelief.“It’s not Ava?” he whispered, like the words tasted foreign in his mouth.Even Noah didn’t believe it wasn’t Ava. Not fully. Not yet.Raven’s mouth dropped wide open.Her body stiffened like she’d been hit with something invisible. Her eyes darted—first to me, then to Noah, whose expression was locked in place, his lips parted like he couldn’t decide whether to speak or breathe.Then… her gaze dragged back to Damian. Slow. Reluctant. Heavy with disbelief.She opened her mouth, but nothing came. Her lips moved, but the words refused to form.The silence around her was deafening—sharp, pressurized, building toward something bigger.Her throat worked as if forcing sound, but whatever she wanted to say crumbled before it could reach her tongue.She turned to me again, desperation flashing across her
Last Updated: 2025-08-07
Chapter: Chapter 117: The Anonymous Sender Noah stepped forward like the name had jolted him awake. His stare pinned the man with sharp suspicion, chest rising.“You know her?” he asked, voice taut.The stranger didn’t speak immediately. Instead, he stretched his hand out toward Noah like this was a business meeting instead of a moment crackling with unease.“My name is Damian Kress,” he said calmly, voice smooth. “And I know where Raya is.”You could hear our hearts skip. The world tilted.“You do?” we all asked in one breath.He nodded, unfazed. His calmness unsettled me more than panic ever could.Noah’s eyes narrowed. “Who the hell are you?”Damian’s lips curved into something that tried to be a smile but didn’t quite make it. “I’m the anonymous sender.”The words dropped like thunder.The air shifted—like the clouds above us had pressed down closer.My throat went dry. Raven gasped softly beside me, fingers twitching at her sides.“What?” Raven whispered, blinking rapidly.Damian nodded again. “The strange movement you sa
Last Updated: 2025-08-05
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