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I Married the Man Raising My Real Daughter A Name in the file
Chapter 16Isabella's POVI could not sleep that night, my mind still circling restlessly around my father's strange confession at dinner, the mysterious widower who had refused a marriage alliance twice without so much as an explanation offered in return.Curiosity, I had learned long ago, was rarely a comfortable companion. It sat now in my chest like a smouldering coal, refusing to let me rest, until finally, sometime past midnight, I gave up entirely on sleep and slipped quietly out of my room instead.The house lay silent around me, the corridors lit only by the pale glow of security lamps filtering through tall windows, casting long, shifting shadows across the polished floor. My bare feet made no sound against the cool marble as I made my way toward my mother's private study, the small room at the end of the east wing where she kept records of every alliance, every donation, every family connection our name had ever touched.I told myself I was simply looking for information on
I Married the Man Raising My Real Daughter The marriage condition
Chapter 15Isabella's POVThe dining room smelled of rice and grilled fish, the same fragrant blend my mother's cook had prepared every Sunday of my childhood, and for one brief, foolish moment, standing in that doorway, I allowed myself to pretend the last seven years had never happened at all.My father sat at the head of the table, his reading glasses perched low on his nose, a stack of documents spread neatly before him despite the food already steaming in serving dishes around it. He looked up as I entered, and something in his expression softened, though he quickly masked it beneath his usual composed formality."Sit, Isabella." He gestured to the chair across from him, the same seat I had occupied as a girl, and I lowered myself into it slowly, my heart already thudding with quiet unease at the seriousness etched across his face.My mother hovered near the sideboard, wringing her hands slightly, refusing to meet my eyes, which told me, more clearly than any words could, that wh
I Married the Man Raising My Real Daughter The hart empire
Chapter 14Isabella's POVThe Hart Corporation building rose taller than I remembered, glass and steel catching the morning sun in blinding sheets, the same tower my grandfather had raised decades ago from nothing but stubbornness and ambition, the same tower I had walked away from without so much as a backward glance seven years earlier.My father stood beside me at the entrance, silent, his jaw tight, his eyes carefully avoiding mine even now. Things between us remained fragile, unspoken apologies still sitting heavy and unaddressed on both our tongues, but he had come, at least, dressed in his finest suit, to walk me through those doors himself. That, I decided, was enough of a beginning for one morning."Are you certain about this?" he asked quietly, his hand resting briefly on my shoulder as we approached the revolving doors, the closest thing to affection either of us had managed since my return."I have never been more certain of anything, Daddy." My voice came out steadier tha
I Married the Man Raising My Real Daughter Going home
Chapter 13Isabella's POVI stared at my mother's contact for a long while before I finally pressed call, my thumb hovering over the screen the way it might hover over the edge of a cliff.She had never truly given up on me, not once in all these years, even when I gave her every reason to. She was the one who called whenever her spies within Marcus's circle whispered that I looked tired, or thinner, or sadder than the last time someone had seen me. She was the one who pleaded, again and again, for me to come home, long before I ever had the courage to consider it seriously. It was my father who had gone silent, who had disowned me outright the day I chose Marcus over the life they built for me, his pride too wounded, I suspected, to ever be the one to call first.Perhaps it is time I stopped making her beg.The house was quiet around me, the afternoon light slanting gold and heavy through the sitting room windows, dust motes drifting lazily in the beam like tiny, unbothered spirits.
I Married the Man Raising My Real Daughter The Papers
Chapter 12Isabella's POVI did not sleep that night, though I lay in bed long enough for the ceiling above me to blur into shapeless grey shadow, my mind replaying Marcus's laughter over and over until it wore a groove into the back of my skull.You will be crawling back within the month. You always do.By the time the sun rose, thin and pale through my bedroom curtains, something in me had hardened past the point of return. I rose up and showered until the water ran cold, and sat down at the small writing desk in the corner of my room, i lodged in the hostel, i can't find myself going back to that house, after everything that happened.I opened my laptop and pulled up the divorce documents again, The first one Marcus refused to sign it, I'm drifting another one, he has no choice, I'm not that naive again. My fingers moved steadily across the keyboard, correcting clauses, tightening language around the custody surrender I no longer needed to word so gently, since Chloe was never trul
I Married the Man Raising My Real Daughter Seven years of lies
Chapter 11Isabella's POV"That bracelet." The words scraped out of me, thin and disbelieving, my eyes fixed on the sapphire winking against Selena's wrist under the office lights.She lifted her arm slightly, almost proudly, turning it so the gold caught the light better, as though I had complimented her rather than accused her."This old thing? Marcus gave it to me years ago. I did not realize it came with a receipt attached, darling." Her tone was light, playful even, the same tone she used to tease me over dinner in a life that now felt as though it belonged to a stranger."I cried over that bracelet." My voice shook, and I hated it, hated that even now, standing in the wreckage of everything, some small part of me still ached over something as foolish as jewellery. "I turned my whole house upside down looking for it. I apologized to the dry cleaners a dozen times for a mistake that was never mine to make."Selena only shrugged, unbothered, her hand curling more firmly around Marc
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