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179. Five Years Later
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2026-10-07 19:23:33
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Don’t Beg for Love 204. Getting Married
Annalise’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
Don’t Beg for Love 203. The Evidence
Annalise’s POVThe 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 ev
Don’t Beg for Love 202. Tricked!
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
Don’t Beg for Love 201. His Total Downfall
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
Don’t Beg for Love 200. All Gone Missing
Find them before the day is over.I exchanged a confused glance with Tania, and in the same second I understood that something was terribly wrong here. This was not a family gathering. It was a search party. Whoever Xander was looking for, the whole mansion had been turned upside down for them.Then a voice cracked through the noise from somewhere in the crowd."Big Sis? Is that really you?"I turned toward the sound, and Cassandra came rushing across the lawn, her heels abandoned somewhere behind her, her hair loose and tangled. Her face was red and swollen, as though she had been crying for hours, and fresh tears spilled from her eyes as she threw her arms around me and held on with surprising strength."Where have you been all these years?" she sobbed against my shoulder. "We searched everywhere for you. Everywhere! We couldn't find you, Big Sis, not a single trace. What happened to you out there? Why are you so thin?"I did not have time to answer. A hush had swept across the lawn
Don’t Beg for Love 199. Back Home
Annalise's POVThe moment my feet touched the arrivals hall of L.A. International, nostalgia hit me so hard that I actually stopped walking.It was the smell first. That particular blend of jet fuel and fresh coffee and warm, recycled air that every airport carries, but this one carried something else underneath, something that belonged only to this city. The same bright signs. The same hurried crowds. The same overhead announcements echoing in two languages. I knew every corner of this place, and every corner knew me, and my chest tightened with a feeling I could not name properly. It was part homesickness and part dread, and a small, stubborn part of it was hesitation, the kind that makes a person want to turn around and climb right back onto the plane.Five years ago, I had walked out of this airport with my luggage in one hand and my stomach in the other, and I had promised myself that I would never return. I had built a whole life on that promise. A boutique, three children, an
Don’t Beg for Love 2. Big Sis, Please Come Home
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
Don’t Beg for Love 1. The Twentieth Time He Chose Her
“We are sorry, Miss. We tried our best, but the fetus was gone. We had to evacuate it to prevent damage to your womb.”The word “it” echoed through my mind, cutting through my last strand of hope.Yet, the doctor’s words, along with the beeping of the heart’s monitor and every noise inside the hosp
Don’t Beg for Love 5. The Place I Swore to Leave
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
Don’t Beg for Love 4. Designer X Has Returned
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
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