Novel-novel oleh Senshara

Elara’s POV, “I’m Seraphina, Lucien’s wife.” She beams and my brain falters. It’s too early for this, I think and manuever past her towards the stairs. Lucien’s wife? “You must be Elara.” She continues. “I heard about you from the kitchen maids. The gold-digger who’s trapped Lucien with a baby.”I freeze for just a second and turn to her with a grin. “You talked about me with the maids? I didn’t know you were a fan.”“A what?” She fake-laughs, lifting a hand to her mouth. “I didn’t know Lucien’s new favorite trait in women being is funny.” She sneers, and I roll my eyes, then turn my back to continue going to the kitchen. She follows me. “Where’s the baby?” She asks when we get to the door, and I purse my lips, scanning the place for coffee. In the Kórvac’s mansion, there’s a separate, smaller kitchen where no maids or cooks invade. Only for the family. “There is no baby. You should listen to your gossip well.” I almost sigh in ecstasy when I sight the coffee mixer. “You say you’r

Elara’s POV, “It’s late, isn’t it? You have work tomorrow.” I turn to see him staring at me intensely, and I swallow. “Yeah, I do. Wait, what?” I sputter out, “You’re letting me work now?”He shifts his weight on the bed, and it's so frustrating that I can feel it everywhere on my body. “Yes. Unfortunately, it’s going to be tough to make people believe we’re getting married.”“Why?”He raises his hand and pats his cheek once. “You slapped the shit out of me, remember? It’s a miracle no one saw. They did see you running away, though.”I blush, suddenly so embarrassed. “Right, that. I should apologize.”“You should.” He licks his lower lip, still staring at me. I look away. “Tha…that was…that was it. That was the apology.”“Are you nervous, Solis?” His voice is hoarser, and I could hear him on my skin. I look to see that he is much closer, and his hands are inches away from my hips. “No.”The room is hotter now; the extra panty lines I’m wearing beneath all this dig into my skin li

Elara's POV, CRASH!! I throw another vase on the wall and continue pacing around. It's been two hours, thirty-six minutes, forty seconds since they'd locked me in here. I bit into my fingernails and looked out the window. Trying to break the glass was futile. Suddenly, I started to hyperventilate. I started having flashbacks of when Dorine would lock me up in a shack and starve me for a day. Claiming I had no right to eat because I was an illegitimate child. Because of that, I became afraid of closed spaces, and the darkness became my friend. I run to the door and bang on it. "Hey! I know you're out there. Let me out! Please let me out! I'm suffocating here!"I bang on it, but no one comes. Just like no one did in that shack. I slid down the door and curled myself into a ball, shutting my eyes tight.The darkness is my friend. The darkness is infinite. Endless space. I'm not locked up in the darkness..."Mummy?"I snap my head up and crawl to the door. "Asher, baby...is that you?"

Elara's POV, Everyone in the courtyard freeze, but I don't. I grab Asher, throw him over my shoulder, and bolt to the front gate. Asher screams, confused at what's happening, and I don't need to look back to know that Lucien had sent people after me. "Get her!"I'm athletic, so when the men come at me, I hit and kick at them, escaping their hold. "You fools! What do I hire you for?"I turn, still running, and stick my tongue out at him. He looks lethal but he isn't even chasing me, and I find out why soon enough. I pass the gates successfully and tuck Asher in; he grabs my hand before I can move. "Mum, what are you doing? Why are we leaving Daddy?"I bite my lip and yank my hand gently from his. I promise myself I'll explain as soon as we get to the airport. "I'm so sorry, Asher."I get in, start the car, and press the accelerator to move, but... it doesn't. I ignite again and again and again and..."No!!! No, you fucker Lucien!"I bang my head on the steering wheel and panic when

Elara's POV,"No." His voice is cold. "You'll sign because you have no choice. You're going to die, Solis." I laugh, and it's loud, cracked, and ugly. "How cute."His voice drops. "You will die, once my enemies find out... and our son becomes a bargaining chip."My blood turns cold. "They won't'..." I whisper because I know they won't. I've been hiding longer than he'd ever imagined. "My mother will raise him. My enemies will want him. My world-" He stops short.He doesn't want me to know,,except I already do. His world will devour Asher alive. "You're the only reason he's still just a child," he finishes quietly.Silence crashes down as the truth hits me like a blade between the ribs.I've been cornered again, just like the Virelli mansion.I scream. I curse. I kick until my head spins and my vision blurs from being upside down too long. He watches without stopping me.When I finally go still, trembling and breathless, I twist upward with the last of my strength and grab his colla

Elara's POV,“...the boss is agitated. I heard he's wondering about the hacker's next plan.” One of my co-workers says. I think he's the logistics manager, I can't remember his name. “Yeah. I heard he went on a rampage in his office yesterday because the person he'd hired to find the hacker didn't do the job.” Another chimes in and I inwardly roll my eyes. These people never come to work to…well, work. “Shh, he's passing.” One of them says in hushed tones and we all stand up as Lucien Kòrvac passes without a glance at us. From my seat, I can see the frustration and anger on his face. Pfft, he should be happy I've stopped.It's been a week since that night I found out the truth. Lucien never married Anya. So I'd been just tormenting an innocent company. I stopped only to find out that it made Lucien angrier. Apparently, he'd been so close to finding the person and when the person suddenly stopped, leaving no traces, he'd gone on a rampage. He finally passes into the elevator and eve