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Chapter 165 Ruby Watches
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2026-09-03 00:06:37
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Forced to Marry My Late Mother's Husband Chapter 166 What Mara's Sister Said
[POV: Aurora Blake]The morning of their last full day in Paris was bright and cold. Aurora sat in the sitting room of the hotel suite, reading a new article on her phone.The piece had been published by a major culinary journalist who attended the press conference. The journalist did not just write about the compound preparation. The journalist wrote about the origin of Ghost Kitchen Group. The article mentioned Mara Oswald.The journalist named Mara correctly. The piece described her as the original brilliant chef who trained Julian. It treated her memory with absolute respect. It framed her as the foundation of everything that came after. The story was told with her dignity completely intact. The article recognized that the empire was built on the ashes of what had been lost twenty years ago.Aurora read the final paragraph twice. The journalist noted that Julian’s fifteen years of anonymity were directly tied to the tragedy of the kitchen fire, but they did not use the fire as a c
Forced to Marry My Late Mother's Husband Chapter 165 Ruby Watches
[POV: Aurora Blake]The final day of the World Culinary Summit in Paris was a blur of scheduled meetings and closing receptions.The main hall was empty. The stages were being dismantled. The industry was already returning to its respective kitchens across the globe, carrying the shockwave of Julian Oswald’s revelation with them.Aurora was walking down one of the long, carpeted corridors toward the main lobby. Her phone had not stopped vibrating for forty-eight hours. The blog was holding steady at fifteen million subscribers. The book was a major literary event. The private record of her life was now public history.Nadia Vance stepped out of a side conference room.The communications director looked tired but intensely satisfied. The global rollout of the Ghost Chef’s identity had been executed flawlessly.Nadia saw Aurora and raised a hand. "Hold on," Nadia said.Aurora stopped. "Is there another press inquiry?""Hundreds," Nadia said, walking over. "But that is not why I stopped
Forced to Marry My Late Mother's Husband Chapter 164 Nadia's Prediction
[POV: Aurora Blake]The final day of the World Culinary Summit in Paris was a blur of scheduled meetings and closing receptions.The main hall was empty. The stages were being dismantled. The industry was already returning to its respective kitchens across the globe, carrying the shockwave of Julian Oswald’s revelation with them.Aurora was walking down one of the long, carpeted corridors toward the main lobby. Her phone had not stopped vibrating for forty-eight hours. The blog was holding steady at fifteen million subscribers. The book was a major literary event. The private record of her life was now public history.Nadia Vance stepped out of a side conference room.The communications director looked tired but intensely satisfied. The global rollout of the Ghost Chef’s identity had been executed flawlessly.Nadia saw Aurora and raised a hand. "Hold on," Nadia said.Aurora stopped. "Is there another press inquiry?""Hundreds," Nadia said, walking over. "But that is not why I stopped
Forced to Marry My Late Mother's Husband Chapter 163 What the Blog Becomes
[POV: Aurora Blake]The blog hit fifteen million subscribers on Wednesday morning.It had been forty-eight hours since Julian Oswald stood on the stage of the World Culinary Summit and ended fifteen years of anonymity. The internet had not stopped moving since.Aurora sat on the sofa in the Paris hotel suite, her laptop open on her knees.The coverage was everywhere. Every major culinary publication, every industry newsletter, every high-end culture magazine had published a variation of the same story. The Ghost Chef had a name. The compound preparation was real.But as Aurora scrolled through the articles, she noticed something specific.She was not written about as Julian Oswald’s wife. She was not framed as his young partner or a convenient narrative device.The press room at the Summit had logged the technical details correctly. She was written about as Aurora Blake-Oswald, Director of Palate Research. She was recognized as the co-architect of the compound. The industry had receiv
Forced to Marry My Late Mother's Husband Chapter 162 The Press Conference
[POV: Aurora Blake]The press room at the World Culinary Summit was packed. Forty of the industry’s top journalists sat in rows of folding chairs, their recorders running, their cameras waiting.It was the morning after the keynote.Julian Oswald walked into the room. He did not look like a man who had spent fifteen years hiding from the people waiting for him. He looked like the founder of a billion-dollar empire taking his seat.Aurora walked in beside him.She was not directed to sit in the audience. She was not positioned slightly behind him. She took the seat directly to his right at the long table at the front of the room. The placard in front of her read: Aurora Blake-Oswald, Director of Palate Research, GKG.The questions began immediately.They were not lifestyle questions. The journalists in this room were experts, and they treated the press conference like a technical briefing."Mr. Oswald," a senior correspondent from a London food journal asked. "The compound preparation
Forced to Marry My Late Mother's Husband Chapter 161 What Julian Carries
[POV: Julian Oswald]The city of Paris was quiet at three in the morning.Julian stood at the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel suite. He looked out over the grid of streetlights and the dark curve of the Seine. He was not anxious. He was not reviewing the thermal parameters of a new menu or the logistics of a global supply chain.He was finished with something very large.He rested one hand against the cold glass. The Ghost Chef was gone. The anonymity he had maintained for fifteen years had been dismantled on a public stage twelve hours ago.He thought about the construction of that anonymity. He had not built it out of arrogance. He had built it because of Mara's death. He had built it to protect the grief, to create a rigid, impenetrable structure where the work could continue without the world demanding access to the man doing it.The Ghost Chef was a shell. It was a perfectly functioning machine. It was necessary.He thought about why he had maintained it past practical neces
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Forced to Marry My Late Mother's Husband Chapter 6 The Unlocked Door
The clock on the bedside table read midnight. It was her sixth night in Cedar Falls.Aurora gave up on trying to sleep. She threw off the heavy quilt and walked out of her bedroom. The wooden stairs felt freezing against her bare feet.She reached the bottom landing and turned into the back hall.T
Forced to Marry My Late Mother's Husband Chapter 5 The Filing
The morning light in the kitchen was perfectly clear. It was the fourth morning. Aurora sat at the island with a mug of coffee. Julian stood at the counter across from her, wiping down a spotless surface.Lily sat at the small kitchen table. A glass of milk rested in front of her.Behind Julian, ne
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