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Betrayal Between the vows
Huling Na-update : 2025-07-29
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some years ago Elias Ward was declared dead in a plane crash. There were no survivors, no body, just the wreckage and a thousand unanswered questions. Lucas grieved. He let go the only way he knew how: by breaking quietly every single day. Elias came back. Alive. Different. Wealthier than ever. And with no memory of Lucas, or the vows they once made. Now they’re strangers with history stitched between them, trying to make sense of the pieces. But something doesn’t add up. The crash, the silence, the secrets. Elias starts to remember bits flashes of headlights, a chase, a crash that wasn’t in the sky at all. And the closer they get to the truth, the more dangerous everything becomes. Someone didn’t just want Elias gone. They wanted him forgotten. But Lucas never forgot. He stayed. He waited. And now, standing face to face with the man who used to be his husband, he’ll risk everything to find out what really happened.
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Chapter One: Ghosts Don’t Knock Twice
The knock came late.
Three quick knocks, a pause, then one more. Strange rhythm. Not random. It felt... familiar. Lucas was in the kitchen, drying a mug. He just stood there, towel in hand, heart thudding. That knock he hadn’t heard it in a long, long time. Years. He didn’t move right away. Just listened. Rain tapped softly against the window. The kind of night where everything feels heavier. Then he walked toward the door. Slowly. Floor creaked beneath his bare feet. Every step made his chest feel tighter. Could’ve been anything, right? A neighbor. Someone lost. Delivery gone wrong. He opened the door. And froze. Elias. Alive. Standing there. Wet from the rain, coat clinging to him, eyes searching. Lucas didn’t say anything. Couldn’t. His mind wasn’t catching up. “Lucas,” Elias said, voice low. Careful. Lucas stared. Soaked hair, thinner face, but it was him. Still him. The man he’d lost. The man they’d said was dead. Plane crash. No survivors. No body. Just an empty grave and a lot of grief. “This isn’t real,” Lucas whispered. “You died. I buried you.” Elias shook his head, slow. “I don’t remember any of that. But they told me... you’re my husband.” The words hit like a punch to the gut. Lucas let out a weird laugh bitter, sharp. “Are you hearing yourself?” “I didn’t know who else to go to,” Elias said. Lucas stepped out into the rain without thinking. Water soaked through his shirt in seconds. His hands were trembling. “You’ve been gone for three years. You show up with nothing? No call, no letter?” “I’m not trying to hurt you.” Lucas looked at him, jaw tight. “Bit late.” Elias lowered his gaze. “I woke up in Zurich. Hospital. Doctors said I was in an accident. My passport had my name. My lawyers looked into it. They found you. Found... us.” Lucas couldn’t even breathe for a second. “You were alive,” he said, barely a whisper. “And you didn’t come home.” “I didn’t know I had one,” Elias said, quiet. Lucas backed up a step, grabbing the doorframe. “God, I can’t believe this.” “I’m not here to fight.” “Then why are you here?” Elias took a breath. “My family trust. There's a clause. If I’m not married or mentally stable by the end of the year, my brother gets everything.” Lucas stared at him. “So this is about money.” “It’s not,” Elias said. “It’s about control. I don’t trust him. I need help.” Lucas shook his head. “You can’t just say ‘help’ and expect me to play along. You don’t even remember me.” “I don’t,” Elias admitted. “But when I saw you just now… something hurt. In here.” He pressed his hand against his chest. “I don’t know why. But it did.” Lucas looked at him. Those eyes were the same but they didn’t know him anymore. “I can’t do this,” Lucas said, almost a whisper. “Just... think about it,” Elias said. Then he turned and walked off into the dark, disappearing like he was never there. Lucas stood there for a while. Rain dripping from his hair, his shirt clinging to him. He couldn’t move. Later, he sat on the bed in silence. Reached into his nightstand, pulled out an old photo their wedding day. The two of them smiling like idiots. So happy. Lucas stared at Elias’s face in the picture. “I waited for you,” he whispered. A drop maybe a tear, maybe just water landed on the photo. The ink bled. Morning came, gray and slow. Jesse walked in like always, no knock. Tossed a coffee at Lucas without saying anything. “Saw your light on at 4 a.m.,” he said. “You didn’t sleep.” Lucas didn’t answer. Jesse sat beside him. “What’s going on?” Lucas swallowed. “He’s back.” Jesse blinked. “Who?” “El... Elias.” Jesse stared at him like he’d lost it. “Come on. Don’t say that.” “I’m not joking,” Lucas said. “It’s him. Same face. Same voice. But no memory.” Jesse leaned back. “Holy shit.” “He wants me to pretend we’re still married,” Lucas said. “For the trust?” “Yeah.” Jesse just stared. “That’s messed up.” “I told him no,” Lucas said. “Good.” Lucas stared into his coffee. “But I think I’m gonna say yes.” Jesse turned. “What?” Lucas met his eyes, voice barely holding. “If there’s even a small chance I could get him back... I have to try.” Jesse shook his head slowly. “Or he breaks your heart all over again.” Lucas gave a sad smile. “It’s already broken.”Pinakabagong kabanata
Betrayal Between the vows Chapter 10: Always You
Spring turned the mountains into something almost unreal buds bursting from every branch, wildflowers scattered like confetti along the trail, and birds singing like the world had finally decided to breathe again.Inside the small cabin, Lucas stood in front of the mirror, wrestling with his tie. His hands were unsteady, but not from nerves. It felt more like awe or maybe something quieter. Gratitude.He was about to marry Elias. Again.But this time, it wasn’t about legalities. No contract. No silent threats. Just the two of them. Their decision.The door creaked open. In the mirror’s reflection, Elias stood behind him barefoot, damp from the lake, his hair a mess, that crooked smile on his lips. A navy suit hung casually from his frame, tie forgotten.“Hey,” Elias said softly.Lucas turned, breath catching. “Hey.”“You ready?” Elias asked, teasing just a little.Lucas let out a breath that felt three years long. “I’ve been ready.”They chose a small meadow near the river, a place wo
Huling Na-update : 2025-07-29Betrayal Between the vows Chapter 9: The Cost of Memory
Chapter Nine: The Cost of MemoryIt started with the smell.Burned leather. Oil. Wet pavement screeching beneath tires that couldn’t hold.Elias jerked upright in bed, gasping like the air had turned to smoke. His chest heaved. Sweat clung to his skin. Lucas sat up beside him in an instant, hands already on his shoulders.“Elias?”His name came out like a lifeline. But Elias wasn’t fully here yet. His eyes were wild, distant.“I remember,” he whispered. “I remember the night I disappeared.”Lucas’s fingers tightened.“I wasn’t on that plane,” Elias said, each word brittle, like something cracking loose from the inside. “I was in a car. I was running.”Lucas’s voice softened. “Running from who?”Elias met his eyes and something inside him shattered. “Dorian.”They sat in silence on the couch, twin mugs of tea cooling between them, untouched.Elias stared into nothing. “The night I made that tape... I went to confront him. I’d figured it all out how he was manipulating the trust, how he
Huling Na-update : 2025-07-29Betrayal Between the vows Chapter Eight: What We Left Behind
Lucas hadn’t stepped inside his family’s house in nearly five years.The moment the doorman saw him, he froze. The housekeeper looked confused, blinking like she’d seen a ghost. But the second Lucas said who he was there to see, the tension vanished. No questions. Just a quiet nod and the door slowly opening like it still remembered how to welcome him home.The house looked the same. Felt the same, too. Cold. Heavy. All that marble and silence pressing down like a tomb. Everything clean, expensive, hollow.His mother was waiting at the foot of the stairs.She looked older hair silvering at the edges, her frame a little thinner but her presence hadn’t softened. She still stood like a statue. Elegant. Icy. Unshakable.“I was wondering when you’d come,” she said flatly. No smile. No warmth.Lucas didn’t come any closer. “I need answers.”She tilted her head just slightly. “Of course you do. Especially after that charming little display on the news.”That word display hit harder than he e
Huling Na-update : 2025-07-26Betrayal Between the vows Chapter Seven: The Wedding That Never Happened
The cassette tape sat between them on the table, small and silent and heavier than it should’ve been.Lucas had kept it buried in his bag since the morning it arrived. He wasn’t sure Elias was ready. Honestly, he wasn’t sure he was ready either. But after the nightmare, after Elias remembered a car instead of a plane… it felt wrong to keep waiting.He slid it across the table slowly.Elias stared at it like it might bite him. “Where’d this come from?”“No name. No note. It just… showed up,” Lucas said. “In the mail. A plain package.”Elias leaned forward, squinting at the worn label.June 12 Wedding Audio (Uncut)“June twelfth,” Elias murmured. “That’s... two days before the wedding.”Lucas nodded once, then crossed the room to the old bookshelf where their half-broken cassette player sat. He hadn’t touched it in years. Left it behind after the memorial because he couldn’t bear to throw it away. It still smelled faintly of old wood and regret.He slipped the tape in. Hit play.There
Huling Na-update : 2025-07-26Betrayal Between the vows Chapter Six: The Cabin in the Pines
The trees didn’t speak, but they carried memory.Lucas drove in silence, one hand steady on the wheel, the other resting in his lap. The road wound through the pines like it always had narrow, familiar, lined with damp moss and gravel. Branches reached over the car like arms, as if the forest were trying to bring them home. No cars. No sound but the tires crunching the earth. Just them and the trees.Elias stared out the window, quiet. He hadn’t said much since they passed the last town.Lucas exhaled slowly as the wooden gate came into view.“We’re here,” he said, voice rough.Elias leaned forward, peering through the windshield. “It’s… quiet. Looks like a painting.”Lucas didn’t answer. He parked. Got out. The gate stuck the way it always did, creaking when he pushed it open. The cabin sat back behind the trees same weathered cedar, same slope of the roof, still a little crooked from the storm three winters ago. Moss had spread across one side. The porch sagged slightly. The windows
Huling Na-update : 2025-07-26Betrayal Between the vows Chapter Five: Family of Shadows
It had been more than four years since Lucas last spoke to his mother.But the moment her name lit up on his phone screen, his chest tightened like a vice.There it was:MOM Incoming Call.He just stood there, staring at the screen, frozen. In the background, he could still hear the soft rush of water from the shower Elias was down the hall. Which meant Lucas was alone. Alone with the decision to answer or let it go to voicemail.He didn’t think. He just picked up.“Hello?”A pause, long enough to sting.Then her voice: sharp, clipped, always a little too cold. “You sound tired.”Lucas dragged a hand down his face. “Yeah. I am tired.”“I saw you on TV,” she said. Her tone already starting its descent into judgment. “At that press conference. Standing beside that man. This is your life now? Playing house with a billionaire who doesn’t even know who you are?”Lucas closed his eyes. Here it was the same old routine. Guilt and frustration wrapped in her concern. “It’s not what you think.”
Huling Na-update : 2025-07-21
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