LOGINThree years ago, Annalise Sterling abandoned everything. Her family. Her name. Her future. She disappeared from the powerful Sterling family and built a quiet life for herself, believing she had finally found the one thing she always wanted—love. Then reality shattered. After losing her unborn child, Annalise discovers that the marriage she spent three years protecting was built on lies. The man she devoted herself to was never truly hers, and the life she sacrificed everything for was never real. This time, she walks away. But returning to her old life proves far more dangerous than leaving it. The family she abandoned wants her back. The empire she secretly helped build is on the verge of collapse. And the grandfather who once drove her away is determined to decide her future once again, Including forcing her into a marriage with the one man she swore never to face again. Andrew Hale. The man who knows exactly why she ran. The man tied to the darkest chapter of her past. And the only man capable of destroying the walls around her heart.
View MoreAnnalise’s POVFind them?The words rang hollow in my ears. I stood in that cramped little bedroom with my children's clothes on the floor and a stranger telling me that it would now be easy, and I realized that I no longer had any faith left in him. How fast could the police possibly move? Fingerprints, fabric samples, device records. It all sounded like days of paperwork, and I did not have days.Whoever had my babies had already fled this hideout. They had moved them somewhere else, somewhere I could not reach.Worse, they had probably taken them straight to Andrew Hale.The thought hit me like a slap. I sprang to my feet so quickly that the room spun, and before anyone could say a word, I rushed out of that bedroom and down the hallway and flew down the stairs, my footsteps pounding against the old wood."Anna!" Tania's voice echoed behind me. "Wait!""Big Sis, where are you going?" Xander shouted.I burst through the building's front door and out into the street. The evening air
The Metropolitan Cybercrime and Criminal Investigations Bureau occupied the entire fourth floor of a gray concrete building downtown, and I had already walked its length so many times that I could have drawn the floor plan from memory. Past the dispensing machine that hummed in the corner. Past the wall of corkboards pinned with faded wanted notices. Past the long desk where uniformed officers sat hunched over their keyboards, sipping coffee out of paper cups, glancing at me every now and then with the carefully neutral expression of people who had already seen too many frightened mothers.I turned at the window, and I walked back.It had been hours. Hours since the strange woman's voice had come out of Xander's phone and vanished again. Hours since we had piled into cars and rushed through the city to this building, where Xander had practically thrown his phone onto the front desk and demanded that someone trace the number. The clock above the door ticked toward the evening. Outside
Felix’s POVArya cursed so loudly that I flinched, and then her phone went flying across the room and cracked against the wall with a sound like a gunshot."Deranged!" she shouted, pacing in a tight circle, her hands clawing at her hair. "The man is completely deranged! I had no idea Alexander Sterling was such a dumbass. I give him a golden opportunity, a secret that could bury his enemy, and he accuses me of kidnapping his children? Who does that? What kind of idiot hears the words Andrew Hale and immediately thinks of his own kids?"I had heard every word of that phone call from the other side of the room, and when it ended, I had pressed my palm over my face and stood there for a good long minute, wondering if this whole plan had been a mistake from the very start.Alexander Sterling had been our last option. Our only one. Andrew Hale would not budge, and now his greatest enemy had hung up on us.So what now?Arya stopped pacing and turned to me, her arms crossed, her eyes narrowe
I exchanged a confused glance with Tania, and the words slipped out before I could stop them."Five grandkids?"Xander ran both hands through his hair, his shoulders heaving. "My kids, Annie and Jeff. They went missing this morning at the amusement park." His voice shook with fury, though I could tell most of it was aimed at himself. "That careless nanny and that useless driver. They had one job. One! Keep two little children in sight for a couple of hours. And I let them go without me. I should have gone with them. I should have followed them to that park myself.""Don't blame yourself," Cassandra said softly, laying a hand on his arm. "It isn't your fault. If anyone should be blamed, it's me. I was supposed to go with them today, remember? I'm the one who canceled my plans. If I had been there, maybe none of this would have happened.""Stop it, both of you," my father murmured, though his voice was heavy.My mother was still kneeling on the marble, her face buried in her hands, her
I only glanced at the device once then went about my morning routine.After I was done, I picked up my phone to find several messages piled up.[Annalise, where are you? Why aren't you answering my calls?][Where did you sleep last night, Annalise?][What is going on between you and Alexander Sterl
My fingers instinctively tightened around the phone, hearing Tania’s words.I didn't hear her wrong, did I?“I checked your marriage certificate, Anna. It was fake!” Tania groaned. “Don’t tell me the scumbag tricked you!”Tricked me…Aiden himself asked me to marry him.Three years ago, he’d knocke
Cassandra pointed at me, her soft voice echoing in the hallway. That was when Aiden peeled his gaze from her, and the tender look on his face was instantly gone.But instead of appearing confused, only fear and frustration flashed in his eyes.He quickly let go of Cassandra, While Cassandra tremb
The next day, I discharged myself from the hospital.Standing across the bustling street outside the hospital’s skyscraper, my eyes squinted at the burning sun.For thirty minutes, not a single taxi stopped.Then, suddenly, a convoy of black luxury cars swept onto the street, instantly drawing ever












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