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Chapter 36: The Child Standing Behind Me
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2026-10-17 10:00:20
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His Wife, His weakness Chapter 45: The Daughter of the Sterling Family
Thomas fell before Aria could scream.Blood splashed across her hands as she caught him, and the gunshot echoed through the hidden passage.“THOMAS!”He slid against the stone wall, clutching his stomach. His eyes were wide with shock, but he was still breathing.“Don't move,” Aria whispered desperately. “Please, don't move.”Thomas grabbed her wrist.“Run.”“I won't leave you!”“Aria, listen to me!” He coughed, and blood appeared at the corner of his mouth. “If Alexander finds you here, he'll finish what he started twenty-four years ago.”Aria pressed both hands against his wound.“Then tell me what he started!”Thomas looked toward the narrow crack in the passage door.“Your birth.”A second gunshot struck the stone above their heads.Dust rained down.From the chamber beyond, Alexander Sterling called calmly, “You have ten seconds to come out, Aria. If you don't, Thomas will be the first person I kill in front of you.”Thomas shut his eyes.“Don't listen to him.”Aria stared at the
His Wife, His weakness Chapter 44: The Baby Julian Buried
“Because he was the one who buried her.”Aria dropped the phone.It struck the floor, but Victoria's voice continued through the speaker.“Aria? Are you listening to me?”Julian tried to reach for her, but the pain from his wound forced him back against the pillows.“Hang up!” he shouted.Aria stared at him.“You buried my daughter?”“No.”Victoria's voice sharpened. “Don't let him lie to you again! Ask him what happened at St. Agnes twenty-four years ago. Ask him why a newborn baby was placed in a coffin with no name.”Aria bent and snatched up the phone.“Where is my daughter?”A pause.Then Victoria whispered, “Where the first Aria was supposed to be.”The call ended.Aria stood motionless, the phone pressed against her ear.Behind her, Julian was breathing hard.“Aria, look at me.”She turned slowly.“Did you bury a baby?”“No.”“Did you know about a baby?”He hesitated.It was only a second.But that second destroyed something inside her.“You did,” she whispered.“I knew about a
His Wife, His weakness Chapter 43: The Wife Who Was Buried Alive
The corpse smiled at Aria, and Detective Mensah fired.“GET DOWN!”The gunshot exploded through the mortuary.Aria threw herself sideways as the bullet struck the metal examination table. Nathaniel grabbed her by the shoulders and dragged her behind a row of drawers.The woman on the table didn't fall.She sat upright, her dark hair hanging across her face, the silver ring resting in her palm.Then she began to laugh.“You always did panic when someone tried to kill me.”Aria pressed a hand against her mouth.The voice was hers.The face was hers.Even the small crease between the woman's eyebrows was exactly like the one Aria saw in the mirror whenever she was frightened.But the woman on the table had been lying beneath a sheet moments earlier.And everyone had believed her dead.Mensah kept his weapon trained on her.“Identify yourself!”The woman tilted her head.“Which name would you prefer, Detective? Evelyn? Aria? Or perhaps the name they gave me before they decided I wasn't su
His Wife, His weakness Chapter 42: The Body Behind the Door
The dead woman's voice came through the door again.“Open up, Aria. I brought the body you buried.”Aria stopped breathing.Beside her, Julian tried to sit up, but pain dragged him back against the pillow. The heart monitor screamed faster, betraying the terror on his face.“Don't open that door,” he rasped.Aria stared at the handle.“Who is she?”“Don't.”“You just told me I had a twin. Now someone wearing my voice claims she has a body. I deserve answers!”Julian reached for her wrist. His fingers were cold.“Aria, listen to me. Whatever happens, don't let her see your left hand.”The words made her blood run cold.Outside, the woman laughed softly.“You still give orders when you're frightened, Julian. How touching.”Aria snatched her hand away.“You know him?”“I knew him before he learned to lie.”A metallic scrape came from the other side of the door.Then the lock clicked.Aria stumbled backward.The door opened by itself.A woman stood in the doorway, dressed in a pale hospit
His Wife, His weakness Chapter 41: The Man Who Took the Bullet
Julian hit the floor before Aria realized the gun had fired.“JULIAN!”Her scream tore through the underground room.Blood spread across his white shirt, dark and fast. For one terrible second, he lay completely still, his eyes open and fixed on nothing.Aria dropped beside him.“No. No, you don't get to do this.” She pressed both hands against his chest, searching for the wound. “Julian, look at me!”He tried to speak, but only a broken breath escaped him.Behind them, Isabelle Vale lowered her smoking gun.“Interesting,” she murmured. “He still chose you.”Aria looked up at her.“You shot him!”“I did.”“You crazy—”Aria lunged, but Detective Mensah caught her around the waist before she could reach Isabelle.“Stay with him!” he shouted. “I'll handle her!”Mensah drew his weapon.Isabelle smiled.“You should check your ammunition, Detective.”A sharp click sounded from Mensah's gun.His expression changed.Before he could react, the lights went out.Someone screamed.A door slammed.
His Wife, His weakness Chapter 40: Ten Minutes to Choose
The countdown began with a gunshot.Elena screamed as her television exploded.Glass sprayed across the apartment. Julian pulled Aria behind the sofa while Nathaniel tackled Detective Mensah to the floor.Aria's phone slipped from her hand, but the countdown continued on its glowing screen.09:42.09:41.09:40.A new message appeared.CHOOSE WHICH CHILD LIVES.Below it were two photographs.The first showed a newborn inside an incubator, a hospital bracelet around its wrist.The second showed a little girl sitting on a metal chair, her hands tied behind her back.Both children had Aria's face.Both wore the same crescent-shaped birthmark.And both photographs carried the same date.Thirty years earlier."Those pictures are impossible," Aria whispered.Julian picked up the phone."Impossible doesn't mean harmless. Someone has a live feed or access to records we haven't found.""There's a child in that second picture!""Or someone wants us to believe there is."A third message arrived.
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