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Chapter 19- Court of shadows

Penulis: Jechera
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-20 23:52:35

-TRISTAN-

It had been a week since I filed the injunction against Cassian Hale.

A week since the world learned that I’d done the one thing everyone had been waiting for — drawn a line in the sand.

And a week since my wife stopped speaking to me properly.

The media turned it into a circus. Every morning, new headlines—

“Cassian Hale Demands Paternity Test for Liana Halenti’s Son.”

“The Halenti-Hale War: Billionaires and Bloodlines.”

They called it a scandal.

For me, it was damage control.

For Liana, it was betrayal.

I understood that.

But understanding her anger didn’t make it easier to live with.

She’d barely looked at me since the morning it broke. Every time she did, I saw the question she hadn’t stopped asking: Why didn’t you tell me?

Because if I had, she would’ve stopped me.

And for once, I couldn’t afford her mercy.

⸻

The courthouse was already surrounded when we arrived. Reporters screamed our names from behind barriers, cameras flashing like lightning.

“Mr. Halenti! Mrs. Hale
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  • BILLIONAIRE’s REGRET : I MARRIED EX- HUSBAND ENEMY   Chapter 29- Under my skin

    -LIANA-The siren screamed so loud it swallowed my thoughts.I sat rigid beside Tristan as the paramedics worked, the world flashing red and white outside the ambulance windows.He was half-conscious, jaw locked in pain, his breath coming out in ragged bursts. The smell of burned fabric and flesh clung to the air like smoke.“Stay with me,” I said, gripping his hand as they checked his vitals. “We’re almost there.”His fingers twitched, just once.“BP’s dropping,” one of the medics shouted. “We need IV access now!”Another tore open a packet, slipping a line into his arm. A saline bag swung above us, the tube glinting faintly in the strobe of the siren lights.The ride lasted only minutes, but it felt like hours — every second stretching out, clawing at my chest.When the ambulance doors burst open, cold hospital air hit me like a slap.“Move, move!” a nurse yelled, running alongside as they wheeled Tristan inside.I stumbled after them, my heels slick with adrenaline. “I’m with him—”

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  • BILLIONAIRE’s REGRET : I MARRIED EX- HUSBAND ENEMY   Chapter 26- The enemy’s boardroom

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