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Chapter 86 - The Homecoming
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IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY Chapter 88 - The Visitor
Eliza's POVThe garden was quiet that morning.Too quiet.I'd learned to listen to the silence over the years. The way it settled before a storm. The way the birds stopped singing when someone was near. The way the gate didn't creak because someone was holding it still.I set down my pruning shears. Walked toward the gate.A woman stood on the other side.Not Margaret. Not Sarah. Someone new. Mid forties. Dark hair pulled back. Eyes that had seen too much."You're Eliza Sterling.""I am."She reached through the gate. Handed me a folded piece of paper. "My name is Rebecca. I'm on the list. The journal."I opened the paper. My mother's handwriting. A name. A date. A note: Rebecca, my daughter. Placed with a family in Idaho. She doesn't know about me. Please tell her when she's ready."She never told me," Rebecca said. "My adoptive parents. They said I was found. Abandoned. They didn't k
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY Chapter 87 -The Journal
Eliza's POVDaniel had been with us for a week when he found the journal.It was hidden in the attic, beneath the floorboards where my father had kept his most private papers. I'd never known it was there. Neither had Eleanor.Daniel held it carefully, the leather cracked, the pages yellowed. "I was looking for old books. Something to read. I didn't expect to find this."I took it from him. Opened to the first page.My mother's handwriting.For my children the ones I have and the ones I lost. This is the truth. All of it.The PagesWe read it together, sitting on the floor of the attic, the afternoon light filtering through the small window.My mother had written about everything. Her childhood, her recruitment into the Collective, her escape. The night she met my father. The birth of Daniel the son they took from her arms before she could name him.They told me he died. They lied. I
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY CHAPTER 84 - The Photograph
Eliza's POV The photograph arrived on a Tuesday. No envelope. No postmark. Just a slip of paper tucked inside the garden gate, where the latch still caught if you didn't push it just right. Clara found it first. "Mama, someone left this." She handed me the photograph. Old. Worn. The corners soft from years of handling. My mother. Standing in front of a building I didn't recognize. Young. Pregnant. One hand resting on her belly, the other raised in a wave. Beside her, a woman whose face had been scratched out. "Who is that?" Clara asked. "I don't know." But my voice didn't sound like my own. The Search Adam was in the city. Reyes was at the federal building. Eleanor was in the garden, deadheading roses. I sat at my desk, the photograph in my hands, and tried to remember. I'd never seen this image before. Ne
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY Chapter 86 - The Homecoming
Eliza's POVThe driveway had never felt so long.I sat in the passenger seat, watching the familiar gates approach, the garden visible beyond, the house where Clara was waiting. Daniel was in the back, quiet, his hands folded in his lap. Adam drove with one hand on the wheel, the other resting on my knee."Are you nervous?" I asked, turning to look at my brother."Yes.""Me too."He almost smiled. "You've done this before. Faced the unknown.""I've done it a hundred times. It never gets easier."Adam pulled through the gates. Parked beneath the old oak tree. Cut the engine."Home," he said.I looked at Daniel. "Ready?"He took a breath. "Ready."The GardenEleanor was at the gate.She'd been watching for us, her hands wrapped around the wooden post, her eyes fixed on the car. She didn't move as we walked toward her. Didn't speak.Daniel sto
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY Chapter 85 - The Brother
Eliza's POV The photograph stayed in my hand all night. I couldn't put it down. Couldn't look away. The face staring back at me was a stranger's, but the eyes those were my mother's eyes. The same shape, the same depth, the same shadow of sorrow I'd seen in every picture she'd left behind. Thirty-five years old. My brother. He'd been alive this whole time. Living somewhere. Breathing somewhere. Maybe wondering where he came from, who his family was, why he'd been taken. Adam stayed awake with me. He didn't try to talk. Didn't try to comfort. Just sat beside me on the couch, his hand on my back, his presence steady. At dawn, Reyes arrived. "We found something." The File She spread documents across the kitchen table. Birth certificates. Adoption records. Court filings from the 1980s, sealed until recently. "His name is Daniel," Rey
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY CHAPTER 83 - THE GARDEN GATE
Eliza's POVThe garden gate had been broken for weeks.Clara kept promising to fix it. Adam kept offering to hire someone. But every morning, I walked out to find the gate still sagging on its hinges, the latch still hanging loose, the gap still wide enough for anyone to slip through.Reyes noticed. "You need to fix that.""I know.""You're not going to fix it."I looked at the gate. At the garden beyond. At the tree Clara had planted, now tall enough to cast shade across the bench where I sat every evening."I'm thinking about it."Reyes shook her head. "You're impossible.""You're just figuring that out?"She smiled. Left for the city.I stayed in the garden, watching the gate swing in the breeze, and thought about all the things I'd been putting off.The VisitShe came at noon.I knew her before I saw her face. The way she walked. The way she held her
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY CHAPTER 7
Eliza's POVLara Chen didn't look like a dragon slayer.She looked like someone's favorite aunt—soft curves, silver-streaked hair pulled into a loose bun, reading glasses perched on her nose. She wore a cardigan the color of oatmeal and held a porcelain teacup with both hands. H
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY CHAPTER 61
Eliza's POVThe message glowed on my phone like a warning.Same place. Same time. Come alone.I read it again, as if the words would rearrange themselves into something less threatening. They didn't.Adam pulled the car to the side of the road. Turned to f
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY CHAPTER 56
Eliza's POVThe photograph sat on my desk for three days.My mother and my aunt. Young. Laughing. Innocent. A world away from the women they'd become. One dead. One carrying the weight of forty years.I picked it up every morning. Looked at it. Tried to reconcile t
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY CHAPTER 51
Eliza's POVOne year later.I stood on the balcony of our home—not a safe house, not a temporary shelter, but home—and watched the sun rise over Los Angeles.The city glittered below, waking slowly, full of lives and dreams and stories I'd never know. Somewhere out
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