THE WRONG SISTER
Arwen was never supposed to be here. Her sister was the beautiful and confident one.
The one promised to billionaire tycoon Caelum Ravencroft.
But days before her wedding to billionaire CEO Caelum Ravencroft, the perfect Isolde disappears. To save their family from ruin, her quiet, overlooked sister Arwen is pushed into her place.
Caelum is powerful, distant, and used to getting exactly what he wants. He expects a polished bride who fits his world. What he gets instead is Arwen-quiet, thoughtful, an artist who hides her dreams and her pain behind polite smiles. He doesn’t trust her. She doesn’t trust him. But living under the same roof, pretending to be husband and wife, cracks something open neither of them planned.
Then a message shatters everything:
Don’t trust her.
When Arwen’s secret is exposed, she’s thrown out with nothing but heartbreak — and a truth that could change everything. Because while Caelum believed she was lying to him, he never saw the real danger closing in.
Now his enemies are circling and his empire is burning. The only woman who can save him is the one he lost.
But… She’s already gone. And she’s carrying his heir.
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Chapter: Chapter 79: The Obsession ReignitedHe went straight to his office and locked the door.He stood in the middle of the room for a second, and then went to his desk and sat down.He put both hands on the surface and buried his head in his hands.He never did that, he wasn't raised to be that kind of person. He was always in control but at this moment…He brought himself to think about the cliff house again. He hadn't let himself go there in five months. He couldn't because it held memories he couldn't retrieve.He lifted his head, and opened the drawer.The necklace was still there… exactly where he'd left it. He picked it up and held it looking at the wall.He remembered how he placed it round her neck, and how her face lit up.His eyes darted to the space where the painting usually leaned. It was still there just facing inward. He'd turned it that way two months ago because he thought it'd keep his memory of Arwen away.He stood up and turned it around.The garden. The iron gate. The road beyond, in pencil lines she’d n
Last Updated: 2026-05-19
Chapter: Chapter 78: The CalculationNobody moved.The senior counsel had stopped writing mid-sentence.“Caelum.” The senior counsel’s voice came out careful. “We don’t have to…”“Give us the room,” Silas said quietly.She looked at him.“Both of you,” Silas said. “Now… please.”She gathered her folders and stood up. The junior counsel was already standing. The door opened and closed and then it was just the two of them in the room with Viktor’s proposal still on the screen.The room was completely quiet.Caelum hadn’t moved. He was standing at the end of the table with the phone in his hand and his eyes on the screen and some expression on his face that Silas had never seen before in several years of working with him.Silas waited. The silence stretched.Caelum put the phone on the table.“The timeline,” Caelum said.His voice came out rough at the edges.“Caelum…”“The press conference was five months ago.” He wasn’t talking to Silas. He was talking to the photo. “Before that, the estate. Before that…”He stopped. And
Last Updated: 2026-05-17
Chapter: Chapter 77: The War RoomSilas glanced at the phone, turned it face down again, and kept his pen moving.“So if the legal challenge only buys us two weeks,” Caelum said finally, “we go directly to the shareholder before Viktor’s Thursday meeting.”The senior counsel nodded.“Not through lawyers. I go myself.”The senior counsel looked at him. “Are you sure that is…”“I know what it is.”“It could read as pressure. If the shareholder feels…”“I’m not pressuring anyone. I’m just going to have a conversation.” He stood up and moved to the whiteboard. “Viktor has been talking to this man for weeks. He has been building a relationship. Making him feel like he’s being seen.” He picked up the marker. “While we’ve only been sending documents. That stops now.”Silas sat up in his chair. “Caelum, if you approach him directly and it goes wrong…”“Then it goes wrong and we’d be exactly where we are right now.” He wrote the shareholder’s name on the board. “What else do we know about him personally.”The junior counsel sh
Last Updated: 2026-05-16
Chapter: Chapter 76: The Photo SellsThe paparazzo had been going through the shots for two hours. Most of them had blurry edges, the wrong angle, the subject half-turned away. That was fine.But the third one.He stopped on the third one and just sat there at his kitchen table with his cold tea looking at it.The woman was laughing at something. Head tilted back, completely unguarded. Her left hand was resting on her stomach. Not deliberately. It was natural.And the stomach it was resting on was unmistakably, five or six months pregnant.He pulled up the Crowe article on his laptop. The comparison photos from eight months ago. The same grey eyes, same jaw, and the slight build.He put them side by side with his shot.Completely different hair but that wasn’t a disguise, that was just a Tuesday.He picked up his phone.His editor picked up almost immediately, which meant she was still awake, which meant he wasn’t the only one working late.“I’ve got Arwen Valehart,” he said.She didn’t say anything for a second. “The Rav
Last Updated: 2026-05-14
Chapter: Chapter 75: The BumpIt was already twenty-two weeks. Her coat had stopped buttoning.Arwen stood in front of Cora’s bathroom mirror on a Tuesday morning, both hands pulling the front panels together, and they just… didn’t meet anymore.She looked at herself in the mirror for a moment.Then she went to find Cora.Cora looked at the coat, went to a box at the back of her wardrobe and came out with two loose linen shirts and a pair of drawstring trousers that had belonged to her daughter.“She won’t miss them,” Cora said. “She lives in Barcelona.”“Cora…”“Try them on.”She tried them on and they fit. She looked at herself in the mirror again.The bump was there. It had always been there, but now it was… visible. No more hiding it under a baggy jumper or a strategic coat.She put her hand on it.Felt the baby shift slightly under her palm.“Right,” she said to the mirror. “Okay.”-----She’d called the meeting for eleven.The park on Renner Street had a cluster of benches under old trees at the far end, aw
Last Updated: 2026-05-12
Chapter: Chapter 74: The Unseen RivalViktor Ashbourne could absorb a large setback with something close to grace — redirect, restructure, move on. But small losses irritated him in a specific way. Like something that had no business stopping him had stopped him anyway and he couldn’t immediately work out how.The tech firm acquisition failing was a stone in a shoe.He found out Thursday morning when his legal team called to say that heads of terms for a strategic partnership between the tech firm and the florist had been filed with the district registry Wednesday evening. Joint IP. Shared operational infrastructure. Mission framework legally entangled across both entities in a way that made a clean acquisition of either one effectively impossible without triggering a full dual-entity review.He listened to the whole explanation without saying a word.Then he said, “Who drafted it?”“We don’t know yet. It’s not a standard template. The language is… specific. Whoever wrote it knew exactly what clause they were protecting ag
Last Updated: 2026-05-10
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