LOGINI thought my past was buried. I was wrong. On the eve of my wedding, anonymous messages began to haunt me—warnings that some things never stay buried. I ignored them. I had moved on. I was happy. I was marrying a good man. Until he walked into my wedding. Eden Blackwood—my first love, my deepest wound, now the untouchable billionaire CEO everyone worships. Seven years ago, he vanished without explanation. Now he’s back, looking at me like I still belong to him. I am married to another man. He refuses to accept that. I escaped him once. But this time… he came for me.
View MoreChapter 26 – The Man in the ShadowsEVELYN'S POVSleep had become a stranger.Every time I closed my eyes, another memory found me.The anonymous messages.Eden's sudden return.Mia's confession.Oscar's question.Do you still love him?hI had never answered.Not because I wanted to lie.Because I honestly didn't know how.Love wasn't something that disappeared because a calendar said seven years had passed. But neither was marriage something you could simply walk away from because your past came knocking.My heart felt like it belonged to two different lives.Neither of them was letting go.A knock interrupted my thoughts.I looked toward the bedroom door."Eve?"Oscar's voice."You awake?"I quickly wiped my eyes before unlocking the door.He stood there wearing a simple white T-shirt and grey sweatpants, holding two mugs of coffee."I figured neither of us was sleeping."A small smile escaped me."You figured right."He handed me one mug before sitting beside me on the edge of the
CHAPTER 25 – THE NAME SHE WAS NEVER MEANT TO SEEEVELYNThe first thing I noticed was the smell.Smoke.Not strong enough to choke me anymore, but enough to remind me that only hours ago, flames had swallowed Oscar's office.I opened my eyes slowly.White ceiling.Hospital.A dull ache pulsed behind my temple."You scared us."I turned my head.Mia sat beside the bed, her eyes swollen from crying."You've been unconscious for six hours."I tried to sit up."My..."Pain shot through my ribs."Evelyn, don't.""Where's Oscar?"The question escaped before anything else.Mia lowered her eyes.No answer.That silence was worse than any words.I swallowed hard."Eden?""Outside.""And Detective Harris?""They're talking to the police."My heart refused to slow.Everything had happened too fast.The explosion.The masked figure.Oscar's recording.Nothing made sense anymore.The door opened.Eden walked inside.His suit was wrinkled.A small cut crossed his forehead.For the first time since
EVELYN"I want everyone out."My voice was so quiet that even I barely recognized it.Detective Harris looked at me for a long second before nodding.Within moments, the officers filed out of Oscar's hidden room.Only three people remained.Me.Eden.Detective Harris.The walls still stared back at me.Hundreds of photographs.Years of my life pinned to corkboards like evidence.Some had dates.Some had locations.Some had handwritten notes.My knees nearly gave way."This isn't possible."I walked toward one of the photographs.It had been taken outside the hospital the day my grandmother died.I remembered crying until I couldn't breathe.Oscar had arrived fifteen minutes later and wrapped his coat around my shoulders.He had told me he came because Mia called him.Now...This picture proved someone had been watching me long before Oscar arrived.The note beneath it read:Subject emotionally vulnerable. Continue observation.I covered my mouth."No..."Detective Harris stepped close
EVELYN"Where is Oscar?"The question came out before I realized I was speaking.Eden didn't answer immediately.His eyes stayed fixed on the road as he drove through the rain, one hand gripping the steering wheel, the other clutching the bloodstained envelope resting on the passenger seat between us.Behind us, sirens wailed.The abandoned church was disappearing into the distance.But the image of the woman collapsing onto those stone steps refused to leave my mind.Her last words echoed inside my head.Your father...What about my father?He had died when I was twelve.Or at least...That was what I'd been told."Where is Oscar?" I repeated.This time Eden looked at me."I don't know.""Don't lie to me!""I'm not."I laughed bitterly."You expect me to believe that? Five minutes after someone kidnaps my husband, you suddenly appear like some kind of hero?"His jaw tightened."I wasn't following you.""Really?""No.""Then how did you know where I was?"Silence.I already knew the a






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