LOGIN“Nephew…can you explain why my wife knows you?” The question came from Damien, my new husband. Brian stared at the ring on my finger, then slowly, his eyes lifted to the man standing next to me. The man whose arms were tightened around my waist. Everyone in the room was staring at me, and the man standing across from me had just turned white. My ex-husband, The husband who abandoned me three years ago. The husband who was apparently… Damien’s nephew. ~~~ I thought I had buried that part of my life. The grief. The betrayal. The little pink coffin that took my daughter away forever and Brian, the man who left me alone in the hospital while our child was dying. Three years later, I finally learned how to breathe again. In other to repay the kindness of the Stark family, I decided to marry a stranger. Damien is cold, controlled and impossible to read. A billionaire heir trapped in a one year marriage contract by his families. I married him and for the first time in years, I felt free… Until one family dinner changed everything. Now my dead marriage isn’t so dead. My ex-husband wants a second chance. My new husband wants answers. And Damien has just discovered that the woman he calls wife once belonged to his own blood. The problem? Damien doesn’t share. And he certainly doesn’t let go…Not of what’s his.
View MoreBy the time Katie reached home, her breathing had become uneven and the betrayal she had spent years refusing to mention finally came crashing down on her. She shut the door behind her and stood there for minutes without moving, her hand gripping the handle while the image replayed in her head with a painful clarity.Brian leaning towards Rita, pecking on Rita’s forehead. The holding of hands while walking into the restaurant. For a man who abandoned his wife for three years, wasn’t it clear enough that he had either remarried or fallen in love with Rita?Katie let out a shaky breath and dropped her bag onto the floor, she walked slowly towards the couch and sat down, but the moment she lowered her head into the seat, her composure broke.Her chest tightened painfully, her eyes burned and suddenly tears spilled down her face. Katie covered her mouth immediately, embarrassed to make noise even though nobody was there to hear her.Three years…after three years of waiting. She rememb
The restaurant sat at the top of one of the largest buildings in the city, floor to ceiling glass wall giving a clear view of the busy city. Damien Stark sat alone at a private table set apart from the restaurant with a glass of untouched water in front of him, his posture straight and his expression unreadable although he checked the time occasionally with quiet impatience.A server approached and asked if he needed anything, but he dismissed him with a short nod that carried no warmth and the server left immediately as though relieved to escape the cold silence around him.Damien reached for his phone instead and placed a call, holding it to his ear while his gaze stayed fixed on the entrance of the restaurant. The call connected almost immediately. “Father,” Damien said simply, his voice lacking patience.Donald Stark’s voice came through. “Has she arrived?”Damien leaned slightly into the chair, his eyes narrowing a little as he watched the entrance again. “No.”“She will come.
(Three years later.)Katie Anderson stood quietly in front of a white headstone with a bouquet of fresh lilies resting in her hands.The cemetery was peaceful in a way she had never learned to appreciate since Madison died. The silence here always felt different from ordinary silence. It carried memories…painful ones.A soft breeze moved through the rows of graves and lifted strands of her dark hair away from her face.Katie looked down at the grave before her. The letters engraved into the stone had long stopped feeling unreal. “Madison Anderson, Beloved Daughter”Her fingers tightened around the flowers before she crouched and carefully placed Madison’s favorite flowers…white lilies.Katie adjusted one of the stems and smiled faintly. “You still have terrible taste.”Her voice was quiet. Her eyes stayed fixed on the grave. “You always said roses looked too ugly and lilies were more beautiful.”Her smile lingered briefly before fading. Three years had passed since she buried her dau
The shrill sound of a heart monitor echoed through the operating theatre as doctors and nurses moved frantically around the small body lying on the operating table.“Charge again!”A doctor stepped back while another adjusted the equipment. The room was filled with tension so thick it seemed to suffocate everyone inside it. Nurses rushed from one side of the theatre to the other, exchanging urgent instructions while machines beeped relentlessly.“Clear!”The child’s body jerked slightly from the shock. Nothing. The monitor continued its terrifying rhythm.Outside the theatre, Katie Anderson paced restlessly along the corridor, her trembling fingers gripping her phone so tightly that her knuckles had turned white. Every few seconds she glanced toward the closed doors, desperately searching for any sign that things were getting better. There was none.The doctors had rushed Madison into surgery almost an hour ago after her condition suddenly worsened, and since then, nobody had come o






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