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Shadows of Truth

Author: Mahmuda Mary
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-03 00:06:16

Elena turned her face toward the car window, her temple resting against the cool pane of glass as the city blurred past. Lights smeared into ribbons neon, gold, and the faint pulse of red from brake lamps. The rain from earlier still clung to the glass, and each droplet distorted the outside world into fractured images. It felt oddly fitting, like her life reflected back at her: recognizable yet bent out of shape, broken into pieces no one else could see.

She closed her eyes for a moment, willing her heartbeat to slow. But it was no use. The storm inside her refused to quiet.

The silence stretched, taut and suffocating, until Cassian's voice finally cut through. Low, deliberate and controlled.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

Her breath caught.

Tell him what? That the ground beneath her feet had shifted. That every choice she'd made since then had been a desperate attempt to protect something fragile? She could pretend she didn't understand, but there was something in his tone an u
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  • His Baby, My Secret   The Choice of Protection

    Cassian sat in the sterile corridor long after the footsteps faded, the only sound left was the low hum of the fluorescent lights above. Time stretched mercilessly, each minute dragging like a chain around his neck. The man who never waited for anything now found himself powerless, chained to a single door. Behind it lay Elena, who is fragile, silent, carrying both a secret and a life that suddenly meant more to him than his entire empire. He leaned forward, elbows on his knees, his hands clasped so tightly they trembled. The mask he wore in boardrooms, the impenetrable steel had shattered. For the first time in years, he wasn't the CEO of Wolfe Enterprises. He was just a man. A man afraid. Memories he had buried clawed back to the surface.... Another night, another hospital, another fragile figure slipping through his hands. He had sworn never to let himself feel this powerless again. Yet here he was, sitting in this white-walled corridor, terrified history was about to repeat

  • His Baby, My Secret   Not While I'm Here..

    The hospital corridors blurred into streaks of white and blinding light as Cassian stormed through the doors, Elena cradled against his chest. She felt weightless in his arms, too light...yet heavier than anything he had ever carried in his life. "Emergency! She needs help... Now!" Cassian's voice cut through the sterile quiet of the hospital like a blade, fierce and commanding, the kind of tone that made entire boardrooms fall silent. But beneath that thunder, beneath the steel, was something no one ever heard from him which is raw and desperation, the kind that clawed its way out of a man who was losing control. The echo of his words bounced off the white walls, colliding with the antiseptic smell that clung to the corridors. Fluorescent lights glared down like merciless sentinels, cold and unfeeling, while the world around him blurred into frantic footsteps and the shrill beep of distant monitors. Yet Cassian saw none of it. All he saw was the fragile weight in his arms. El

  • His Baby, My Secret   The Edge of Losing Her

    Elena's trembling fingers barely managed to dial the number, but before the call could properly connect, a sharp wave of pain ripped through her body. Her hand slipped and the phone tumbled from her grasp, landing on the floor with the screen still glowing, the ring echoing faintly into the silence. Her body curled instinctively against the sofa armrest, breath jagged, shallow, as if each inhale demanded more courage than she had to give. "Please…" The word broke free, raw and fragile, almost lost in the shadows that seemed to press closer with every second. Every heartbeat was a hammer. Every pulse a knife. Every second a reminder of how alone she felt in the quiet storm of her own body. Outside, Cassian had only just reached the steps leading toward his car. Something stopped him cold...an unshakable weight pressing in his chest, a wrongness he couldn't explain. His phone vibrated in his pocket. He pulled it out, and his eyes hardened instantly at the sight of the name fla

  • His Baby, My Secret   What She Can't Carry Alone

    Elena still stood by the edge of the sofa, her chest rising and falling unevenly, breath trapped in her lungs. The air in the room hadn't eased; it was thick, almost suffocating, as if Liam's shadow still lingered in every corner. Cassian didn't speak. The silence was his weapon, just as much as his presence. His steps were deliberate as he moved deeper into her small apartment, his gaze sweeping over everything with the sharpness of a blade. Then his eyes stopped.....On the table! A mess of envelopes lay scattered across the surface, some torn open, some unopened, their pale edges curled from being handled too often. The print on them was clear enough: electricity, water, rent. Each stamped with the same word, the same mark of defeat...Unpaid. Elena's heart lurched. She darted forward, as if suddenly remembering and reached for the papers in a desperate attempt to gather them before he could see too much. But it was too late. Cassian was already there. His hand moved faster

  • His Baby, My Secret   Claim and Counterclaim

    Elena's breath came in shallow bursts, her fingers gripping the doorframe as if it were the only thing holding her upright. Liam's presence pressed against the room like a stormcloud, heavy and suffocating. "Secrets, Lena," he murmured, tilting his head. "You were never good at hiding them from me." Her stomach clenched. "Listen to one thing carefully, Mr Liam... This is my life and I stopped you from crossing that line a long time ago. So you don't belong here right now. Just leave...I said" But his eyes darkened, sliding down lingering on the protective way her arm hovered near her abdomen. He smirked, slow and knowing and her pulse spiked with panic. Before she could slam the door, a new sound cut through the tension which is low, powerful and also unmistakable. A knock.... Liam's smile faltered and on the other hand Elena's heart lurched. No one else should be here... The doorframe vibrated under another knock, harder this time, followed by a voice that froze her blo

  • His Baby, My Secret   Chains I Thought I Broke

    Elena lingered at the door of her small apartment, the night pressing down around her. The streetlights outside flickered in and out, throwing shadows across the narrow hallway. Her keys rattled in her trembling hand, the tiny sound echoing louder than it should have, as if her fear was trying to escape through the cracks in the metal. When the door finally clicked open, silence greeted her. The lamp by the window buzzed weakly, casting a pale glow that only made the emptiness of the room sharper. Bills lay scattered across the table, their numbers glaring at her like silent accusations. She dropped her bag and sank onto the worn sofa. Her palm drifted instinctively to her abdomen, pressing lightly against the soft curve there. A quiet warmth radiated back, a fragile pulse of life that reminded her, this wasn't some nightmare she could wake from. This was real. But Cassian's voice refused to leave her mind. "Some things stop being just yours the moment another life is invo

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