His hidden heir
ContemporaryCEODecisiveRunaway with a BabyForgivenessPregnant
It started with the most annoying encounter at the mall.
One glance at him, she wished she never crossed paths with him again, He wished so too.
Not until fate brought them back again. At her father's party. Something about her pulled him slowly and deeply without warning. He tried to shrug it off but he couldn't.
Then one night, Alex had too many drinks and Alice is to meet her friend at the hotel when she walked into the room where he is...and they crossed a line they aren't meant to.
During the act, he made it clear: He never wanted kids.
She nodded, not until her test results came back positive.
Years later, their paths cross again. He sees a little boy with his hair type....and he demands to know who he is. But the man beside her, Chris Wales, holds secrets darker than anyone suspected. Secrets that tie him to her blood in the most twisted way.
Can a child mend what fate once broke?
Or will secrets tear them apart once more?
Or will secrets, lies, and a mother’s manipulations tear them apart once more?
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Chapter: Chapter 150Epilogue — Two Years LaterThe smell of barbecue drifted across the gardens.Children's laughter echoed from somewhere near the fountain.Music played softly beneath the old oak tree.It was Sunday.Some traditions never changed.---Alex stood behind the grill wearing the same faded apron he'd refused to replace for years.Alicia walked past carrying a bowl of fruit."You know we could buy you a new one."Alex looked down at the apron."It's lucky.""It has three holes.""They're lucky holes."She laughed."I married a very strange man.""You absolutely did.""And I'd do it again."He smiled."I was hoping you'd say that."---The George estate had changed over the years.Not because the house had grown bigger.Because it had grown louder.There were bicycles leaning against the porch.Blankets spread across the lawn.Coffee mugs abandoned on garden tables.Signs that people actually lived there.Exactly the way Alicia always wanted.---"Mom!"Alicia turned just in time to see Aiden
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Chapter: Chapter 149Alicia's POVThe house woke before sunrise.Not because anyone had set an alarm.Because today...My son was getting married.I stood in the kitchen, staring out at the gardens with a cup of coffee warming my hands.The same gardens where Alex had once asked me to marry him.The same gardens where Aiden had learned to ride a bicycle.The same gardens where our family gathered every Sunday.Today...They would witness another beginning."You've been standing there for ten minutes."I smiled without turning around."I know."Alex wrapped an arm around my waist."You okay?"I nodded."I just..."I laughed softly."...I still remember holding him the day he was born."Alex rested his chin on my shoulder."And now he's old enough to have someone else nagging him."I elbowed him lightly."Emily doesn't nag.""Give her time."We both laughed.---Upstairs...Aiden stood in front of the mirror adjusting his tie.For the third time."No."Alex said from the doorway."You've made it worse."Aid
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Chapter: Chapter 148Zara's POV"You know this is your wedding, right?"Zara looked at the mountain of fabric spread across the fitting room."I was beginning to suspect."The bridal consultant laughed."Most brides are excited.""I am excited."Zara sighed dramatically."I'm just discovering that weddings involve... decisions.""So many decisions.""What flowers?""What music?""What napkins?"The consultant smiled."You'd be surprised how passionate people become about napkins.""I already am."---Across town...Ryan was having a very different conversation."I don't care what color the ties are."Alex laughed."You should probably pretend to care."Ryan adjusted his suit jacket."I'll wear whatever Zara tells me.""That's smart.""I've learned."Marcus grinned from the other side of the room."So..."Ryan looked up."You nervous?""A little."Marcus nodded thoughtfully."Good."Ryan frowned."Good?""It means you understand how important this is."Alex smiled quietly.Marcus had a way of saying the ri
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Chapter: Chapter 147Aiden's POVI bought the ring on a Wednesday.Not because I had planned to.Because I happened to walk past a small jewelry store after meeting with one of my professors.I almost kept walking.Then I remembered something Grandpa Henry had written in his letter to Mom.When you know, you'll know.For years, I thought he had been talking about Mom and Dad.Now...I finally understood.---The jewelry store wasn't flashy.There were no giant displays or security guards standing at every corner.Just warm lights.Wooden shelves.And an elderly man polishing a watch behind the counter.He smiled as I walked in."Looking for something special?"I laughed nervously."I think so.""For yourself?"I shook my head."For someone I love."The man smiled."The best reason."---For almost an hour, he showed me different rings.Some were enormous.Some were covered in diamonds.Some probably cost more than my first car would.None of them felt right.Then he opened one final tray.Simple.Platinum
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Chapter: Chapter 146Alex's POVSunday dinners had become a tradition without anyone ever officially deciding they were.No invitations.No schedule.By six o'clock every Sunday, everyone simply... arrived.Ryan usually brought dessert.Zara claimed she'd help in the kitchen and then somehow disappeared whenever dishes needed washing.Emily arrived early enough for Alicia to insist she taste everything before dinner.And Aiden...Aiden walked in as though he'd never spent ten weeks away.Some things didn't need to be relearned.They simply picked up where they had left off.---"This is cheating."I looked up from the grill.Ryan frowned."What is?""You brought cheesecake.""So?""You know that's my favorite."Ryan smiled innocently."I had no idea.""Liar.""I've been part of this family long enough to know your weaknesses."I laughed."Fair enough."From inside the house, Zara called out,"He's right, Alex! You'd forgive almost anything if there's cheesecake involved.""I heard that!""I wanted you to!
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Chapter: Chapter 145Alicia's POVThere were exactly twenty-three minutes until Aiden's flight landed.Not that I was counting.Alex glanced at his watch."You've checked the arrivals board five times.""Four.""It was five."Ryan looked up from his coffee."I counted six."I sighed dramatically."I liked Alex better."Ryan laughed."I'll take that as a compliment."Zara slipped her arm through mine."Relax.""I am relaxed."She looked at me."You reorganized the flowers in the lounge.""They looked uneven.""There weren't any flowers.""...There are now."Alex chuckled."I missed this."I turned toward him."Missed what?""You fussing over Aiden.""I do not fuss."He raised an eyebrow."Our son is twenty-two years old.""I know.""And you packed him three extra sandwiches.""They were homemade.""Exactly."Even Emily laughed.---The arrival board changed.LANDED.Almost instantly, the entire group stood.No one said a word.They simply drifted toward the security doors.Waiting.Watching.Looking for on
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His Forbidden Guard
ContemporaryDark RomanceSteamyHidden IdentityProtectiveHero/HeroinForbidden LoveRevengeLove-Triangle
“You're making this hard for me, Leo…” tears spilled out from Daveson's eyes as he was pressed against the wall with Leonard's tall frame hovering before him.
“...shhhh…it's also difficult for me too, imagine knowing you're a traitor but I feel powerless to do anything. What the fuck have you done to me Dave….” His breath hitched.
Daveson's dad got imprisoned and died the night he was released at the hospital. Daveson's world shattered and crumbled, his mum left him too leaving him with nothing to survive on and he was just sixteen.
Four years later, the young Daveson was now grown and changed to a man seeking for revenge of his father's death. He finds hints and evidences of the perpetrator of the whole event and it's Lissa Heyden, New York's top lady.
Working his way through, he gets into the Heyden's house and meets Leonard Heyden who seemed to be both his blessing and nemesis.
How would he fall in love with the son of the person who ruined his family and why should he love when all he got in his past love was heartbreak. A lot of dark hidden secrets capable of breaking mutual trust soon come to view.
Let's delve into their world of forbidden romance and revenge, it's also perfect for hate to love fans.
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Chapter: Chapter 147: Just to be with you"I came into your home to expose your mother for what she actually did. I never wanted to hurt you. I did not know, when I started, that there would be a you to want anything about at all.""Do you understand what you're describing." Leonard's hands had curled at his sides, and he had pulled back, put distance between them on the bed that felt, to Daveson, like the widest distance that had ever existed between two people occupying the same six feet of space. "Every conversation. Every moment on that roof. The coffee, the drive home from the gala, last night in that room with the antiseptic when I told you I loved you. You're telling me all of that happened alongside a plan to burn my family to the ground.""Yes.""Just yes.""I won't lie to you about it, not after everything, not after last night. Yes. All of that happened alongside the plan. And somewhere in the middle of it, the plan stopped being the only true thing, and you became true too, and I did not know how to tell you that w
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Chapter: Chapter 146: The thing he came here to doDaveson did not sleep.Leonard did, eventually, sometime past three, exhaustion finally winning out over the adrenaline that had kept him rigid and watchful for hours after the last of Ivanna's men had been zipped into bags and driven away from the east lawn in vehicles that did not officially exist. He slept with one hand still fisted loosely in the fabric of Daveson's shirt, as though some unconscious part of him intended to notice immediately if Daveson tried to leave the bed, and Daveson lay very still beside him and looked at the ceiling and did the thing he had been avoiding since one in the morning.He let himself actually think about it.The notebook was still in his desk drawer down the hall. The flagged transactions were still there, his father's name still attached to a ledger that Lissa Heyden had built her rise on the back of, still waiting for the moment Daveson had spent eighteen months preparing to deliver, the moment where the careful architecture of his presence in t
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Chapter: Chapter 145: The man who did not dieSix weeks before Ivanna ever set foot in this house through a side entrance, in a hospital that existed on no directory a person could consult if they went looking for it, Roarke John opened his eyes and understood, before he understood anything else, that he was supposed to be dead.The last clear memory he had was the parking structure outside the prison. Release papers folded in his coat pocket. Eleven years reduced on appeal, then reduced again to time served on a technicality his lawyer had fought so long for that Roarke had stopped believing in it, and then, astonishingly, the gate had opened and he had walked out into cold October air a free man for the first time in nearly a decade.He had gotten as far as the second level of the structure.He remembered a shape stepping out from between two parked cars. A second shape behind it. He remembered thinking, with the strange clarity that arrives in the half second before violence, she couldn't even wait one night, and then the memo
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Chapter: Chapter 144: Just Two of usWhat happened in the half second after that shot went out did not, for a long time afterward, arrange itself in Daveson's memory as a sequence with a clean beginning and end. He knew that Leonard moved. He knew that one of Leonard's men, positioned behind Ivanna and closer than she had accounted for, returned fire in the same instant her shot went wide into the dark past Daveson's shoulder. He knew that Ivanna went down, and that she did not get back up, and that the quality of the night changed in the specific absolute way it changed when something that had been alive stopped being alive.The gunfire tapered. Then stopped.Leonard's men were securing the last of Ivanna's people, and the eastern treeline had gone quiet, and somewhere in the house lights were coming on, staff waking to a night that had broken open around them, and none of it mattered to Daveson nearly as much as the fact that Leonard had turned from where Ivanna's body lay and was crossing back to him with an expressio
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Chapter: Chapter 143: What Ivanna WantedThe car brought them home in silence, and the silence did not break when they reached the estate.Leonard's hand had not moved from the edge of Daveson's for the entire drive. It did not move now, either, as the car slowed through the gate, and Daveson understood without being told that whatever had happened on that sidewalk had rearranged something in Leonard that was not going to quietly rearrange itself back.He should have known the day was not finished with them.He thought about it afterward, in the specific unproductive way you thought about things you could not have changed, and he decided that the mistake, if there was one, was in believing that the danger belonged to midtown, belonged to daylight and a public sidewalk and three professionals who had already failed once. He had catalogued the attack, filed it, begun the necessary work of understanding what it meant. He had not accounted for a second attempt arriving the same night, arriving here, arriving with a different arc
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Chapter: Chapter 142: Just UsHe drove his heel into the lobby man's instep and felt the grip loosen by a degree and tried to use the degree and did not have enough of it, and the SUV's rear door was open and the corner man had his other arm and he was running out of the kind of time that mattered.Then he heard Leonard's voice.Not from far away. Close, from the direction of the parking structure, with the specific carrying quality of a voice that was not raised and did not need to be raised because the authority in it was not dependent on volume."Let him go."Two words.The grip on Daveson's arms did not immediately release. But it hesitated, which was its own specific information, and in the hesitation Daveson heard movement, multiple sets of footsteps, and he understood that Leonard had not come alone.What followed was brief and efficient and not clean.Leonard's men, four of them, came in with the coordinated quality of people who had been briefed and positioned and were executing rather than improvising, a
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