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189. The Lead
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2026-10-14 14:12:53
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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 198. Too Easy
Felix’s POVI stood there with the cigarette burning between my fingers, mouth hanging open, completely speechless. It was a speech worthy of a doctor's convention, delivered in a voice that barely cleared the height of my belt. Somewhere inside me, a small, cold fear began to creep in. What kind of child talked like that? What kind of child stayed awake after bedtime to deliver a health lecture to the adult paid to babysit him?Arya swiveled around in her chair, and to my horror, she was smiling at the boy. A sweet, warm, motherly smile I had never once seen on her face. She even clapped her hands."That was wonderful, sweetheart," she cooed. "Where did you learn all that?""I read it in a health magazine," Liam said."You can read?" She gasped dramatically, pressing a hand to her chest."I'm not a baby," Liam replied flatly.Then he turned his attention back to me, and I felt my insides twist. "When are you going to take us to Andrew Hale? We're already in L.A."I let out a nervo
Don’t Beg for Love 197. A Formidable Enemy
Felix’s POV"He hung up on me!" Arya slammed the phone down on the desk so hard that the pens in the cup beside it jumped. "Can you believe that? He actually hung up on me!"I stared at her, genuinely thrown. In all the years I had known her, nobody had ever hung up on Arya and gotten away with it. People tended to stay on the line out of sheer terror."Wait," I said, scratching the back of my neck. "Are you sure that was really Andrew Hale's private number?"She shot me a look sharp enough to cut glass. "Of course it was. Do you think so little of me? I can get any number in this world if I want it. Presidents, bankers, the Pope, you name it. That was his private line, and he answered it himself."Which only made it stranger. I pulled out the rickety chair across from her and dropped into it, rubbing my jaw while I thought. The room we were in was a cramped little office above a shuttered laundromat, a place Arya used whenever she wanted to be somewhere nobody would think to look. A
Don’t Beg for Love 196. Mystery Call
Courtney wiped her tears with the back of her hand so fast that I almost missed it, and by the time she turned toward my mother, her face had rearranged itself into something soft and shy. Her cheeks even held a little color, the way a bride's should."It's nothing, Mom," she said, with a small, embarrassed laugh. "We were only talking."She lowered her lashes and let a blush bloom across her face, and I stood there and watched the performance with a kind of numb fascination. She was good at it. Better than good. A stranger walking in would have believed every second.My mother looked from her to me, and then something in her expression shifted, as if she had stumbled into a moment that was not meant for her eyes. A pleased little chuckle escaped her."Oh, I see," she said, waving a hand. "I'm sorry for interrupting. Don't mind me. You two will have plenty of time for this after the wedding." She stepped forward and looped her arm through Courtney's. "Come, dear. Come downstairs with
Don’t Beg for Love 195. His Condition
The Meridian Diagnostic Imaging Suite occupied the entire basement level of the hospital, and it felt exactly the way my mood did. Cold, pale, and swallowed by silence. The walls were a washed-out gray that no amount of fluorescent lighting could warm, and the air carried that sterile, metallic scent that clings to every hospital corridor no matter how expensive the building. A nurse in light blue scrubs walked ahead of me, her rubber soles squeaking against the polished floor, and I followed her without really seeing anything around me. A clock ticked somewhere behind a closed door. Somewhere farther down the hall, a child was crying, and the sound traveled through the empty corridor like something lost."Please change into the gown, Mr. Hale," she said, handing me a folded bundle of thin blue fabric. "The technician will call you in shortly."The whole-body scanner stood in the center of the examination room like a monument to everything I had been avoiding. It was a massive white
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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