Chapter: Chapter 6It felt like the room was turning around us. I stared at Alexander, my hands dropping to my sides. The rich smell of scotch on his breath suddenly felt suffocating.“What do you mean, a twin?” My voice was barely a whisper. “Alexander, that’s impossible. I was there. I gave birth to Leo. There was only one baby.”Alexander didn’t look at me. He turned his back, staring down at his phone, his jaw clenched so tightly the bone looked like it might lose control.“The records were manipulated the night my brother died,” he said. His voice was cold and emotionless. “Julian didn’t create a single embryo. He created two. They were identical split embryos. The digital log shows that while one was delivered to you, the second container was marked to be thrown away. It was a cover story.”He turned to face me, his stormy sea-gray eyes dark. “It wasn’t discarded. Someone paid the laboratory head five million dollars to scrub the digital footprint and smuggle the second embryo out. It happened abo
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Chapter: Chapter 5The tiny red dot burned on my forehead like a brand. I couldn’t blink. I couldn’t breathe.I looked at my mother, waiting for even the smallest sign that she still cared about me, waiting for her to scream at Victor to stop. But she just stood there by her leather sofa, her knuckles white around her crystal glass, her eyes moving quickly toward the dark corners of the warehouse.She wasn’t trying to save me. She was calculating her getaway.“Elena,” Alexander’s voice was a low, chilling whisper that seemed to come from the shadows themselves. He hadn’t looked back at me. The dim light made his face look hard and unreasonable. “Don't move.”“You think I won't do it, Alexander?” Victor shouted, his voice cracking with a sudden, desperate panic. He hadn’t expected the Ice King to be this cold. He had expected a negotiation, not a death sentence. “One word from me, and your precious little contract wife paints this floor red!”“Then say the word, Victor,” Alexander replied.He took a sl
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Chapter: Chapter 4The words coming out of the speaker didn’t make sense. They couldn’t.‘My mother?’My mind violently rejected the thought. My mother, Eleanor, was supposed to be fading away in a private medical suite, her heart failing, her body kept alive only by the thousands of dollars of machinery Alexander had just agreed to fund.She was the reason I had swallowed my pride and walked into Alexander’s office in the first place. She was the only family I had left.“That's a lie,” I breathed, my voice barely a whisper against the dark fabric of Alexander’s jacket. I pulled away from him, staring at the partition speaker as if I could force Marcus to take the words back.“Marcus, look again. You made a mistake. My stepfather, Victor, hates her! He’s the one who ran her into debt. She would never ally with him, and she would never touch Leo!”“The paper trail doesn’t lie, Elena,” Alexander said. There was no shock or confusion in his voice. He sounded calm, cold, and without emotions. The warmth th
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Chapter: Chapter 3The rain hit my face like sharp needles, but I didn’t care. I ran across the muddy grass as fast as I could, my heels sinking into the dirt until I finally kicked them off and kept running barefoot toward the open front door of the little house.“Leo! Mrs. Gable!” I screamed desperately.My voice was filled with fear. I rushed through the doorway, my breath uneven.Inside, the small, cozy living room was a mess. A floor lamp lay on its side, the bulb broken into pieces across the wooden floor. The small wooden rocking chair where I used to feed Leo was pushed hard against the wall.“Leo!” I screamed, rushing toward the back bedroom.The small white crib was empty. The blue blanket my mother had knitted for him was lying on the floor in a messy crushed-up way, soaked in muddy water from a boot print.He was gone. My two-year-old boy was completely gone.“Elena! Stop!”Strong hands suddenly grabbed my shoulders from behind and turned me around. I found myself face-to-face with Alexander
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Chapter: Chapter 2The mahogany desk bit into my lower back as Alexander leaned his full weight into me.His fingers dug into my upper arms, tight enough that I knew I’d have purple bruises by tomorrow morning. But I barely felt the physical pain. My mind was spinning with panic and disbelief.How did he find out? How did Marcus get those records?I had been so careful. I used a fake name at the clinic, paid for everything in cash from a hidden savings account and chose a tiny, unnamed town three hours north of the city to hide my son, Leo.“I asked you a question, Elena,” Alexander said. His voice wasn’t loud, but it had a quiet, vibrating anger that made the hairs on my arms stand up. “Where is my brother’s son?”“I don’t... I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I lied. It was a terrible lie, cracked and breathless but my instincts were screaming at me to protect Leo at all costs.Alexander let out a harsh, dry, fake laugh. “Don’t play games with me,” he said, his voice low and dangerous. “Not now,
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Chapter: Chapter 1Elena’s POV“If you want me to sign away my life, Mr. Blackwood, the least you can do is look me in the eye while you destroy it.”My voice trembled, but I pushed the words out anyway. I stood in the middle of his massive sixty-fifth-floor penthouse, my heels digging into the soft carpet. Outside, Manhattan was just a flash of headlights and skyscrapers but inside, it felt like a fancy frozen tomb.Alexander Blackwood didn’t even blink. He just kept staring out the floor-to-ceiling glass, his hands shoved carelessly into the pockets of his tailored suit pants. He was the kind of man people whispered about in corporate boardrooms, calling him ruthless, extremely rich, and completely lacking empathy. The media called him a financial genius but standing this close to him, I felt a sense of danger.“You’re three minutes late, Miss Vance,” he said. His voice was low and rough, breaking through the quiet room. He still hadn't turned around.I swallowed hard, my knuckles turning white as I
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