LOGINHis tie hung loose, his eyes darker than sin. The scent of whiskey lingered on his breath as he leaned closer. “Tell me to stop,” he murmured, the words brushing against my skin like a dare. “You’re drunk,” I said, staring into those grey eyes as my heartbeat filled the silence. He smiled faintly, his gaze trailing from my hair until it fell on my lips. “Drunk,” he whispered, his thumb grazing my mouth as if testing how soft it was, “but not blind. You want this as much as I do.” ----- After her husband’s mysterious death, Mara Lawson becomes the center of a scandal threatening to destroy the powerful Lawson empire. Elias Lawson, her late husband’s twin, is everything she should resist—dangerous, magnetic, and forbidden. David Hale, her ex-lover, the man who walked away once and now wants forgiveness… and another chance. Between the man who broke her and the one who could ruin her, Mara is caught in a web of passion, guilt, and secrets that could shatter them all. Because in the Lawson world, love is never pure—it’s just another sin waiting to be punished.
View MoreMara’s Pov (Epilogue)And that was how I married the man I loved, without hiding.I didn’t even know he had quietly taken care of everything I once thought would haunt me forever—clearing the legal ties between Philip and me, removing every shadow that made me feel like I didn’t fully belong to myself. It was only then I realized I had never truly been free until Elias made sure I was.No one could call our love forbidden anymore.Not the world. Not the past. Not even me.My love for Elias only grew stronger with each passing day as we planned our wedding together. He gave me everything I once thought only existed in dreams—the dress, the atmosphere, the life I never thought I deserved. I still remember my wedding dress so clearly; it wasn’t just beautiful, it felt like it had been made from everything I had survived.And the vows he said to me… I still hear them sometimes when everything is quiet.I loved him deeply. Completely. He was my world, and I would never trade his love for a
Mara's PovThe room suddenly felt too quiet.He walked up to me slowly and held my hand. I heard soft whispers from the crowd, and my heart kept beating as if it could fall out of my chest. He made me face him, and I wondered what he was about to do.“Mara,” he began calmly.“If I had planned every moment of my life, I still would not have been prepared for you.”“I did not come into your world as someone looking for love. I came into it looking for truth. Answers. Clarity for things I thought were already decided in my mind.”“But you… changed what I thought I already understood.”“At first, I thought I was observing you.”“Then I realized I was misunderstanding you.”“And somewhere between those two, without permission from either of us, you became the only thing I could not walk away from.”A few soft murmurs moved through the crowd, but I barely heard them anymore. My entire world had narrowed to his voice.“We did not begin gently. We did not begin right. We began with questions,
Mara’s PovI had been staring at the same wrapped box for what felt like too long, turning it slightly in my hands like it would suddenly start telling me whether it was enough or not.“It’s not enough,” I muttered under my breath.Andrea looked up from where she was helping Camille arrange some things on the table and gave me a look that was halfway between amusement and concern.“What exactly are you trying to achieve with ‘enough’?” she asked.I sighed, placing the box back down carefully like it might break under pressure. “It’s his birthday, Andrea. Elias doesn’t just… do normal birthdays. It’s been a long time since he last celebrated. And I—” I hesitated, suddenly feeling a little ridiculous even saying it out loud, “I don’t know what to get him that actually means something.”Camille let out a soft laugh from across the room, shaking her head slightly as she adjusted the flower arrangement on the table.“Sweetheart,” she said gently, “you could give him a plain piece of paper
Elias Pov It was the weekend, and for once I woke up to a silence that felt like peace itself.There were no urgent calls waiting, no decisions pressing against the back of my mind, and no reason to immediately step into responsibility the moment I opened my eyes. It felt peaceful, and I found myself enjoying every moment of it.I stayed in bed longer than usual, staring at the ceiling while daylight slowly filtered through the curtains. Even in the stillness, my thoughts didn’t settle easily. They moved on their own, drifting between recent events, things that had ended, and things that had not yet properly begun again, and I found myself waiting for something to interrupt the quiet, because experience had taught me that peace rarely lasted without consequence.Eventually, I got up.The house felt different as I moved through it. Not empty, not loud, but subtly shifted in a way I couldn’t immediately define. There was movement somewhere downstairs, soft sounds of footsteps and obje
Elias POVI didn’t sleep that night. Not after the way Mara had come apart in my arms.I stayed awake, watching the moon crawl across the sky, my hand resting protectively on her waist as she finally drifted into sleep. Every time she whimpered or stirred, I was there, pressing a kiss to her forehe
Mara's povIt was freezing cold, the perfect weather for a garden wedding. I clutched the mug Margarette had prepared for me, the steam rising in spirals to warm my face. Today being the day of the wedding made me nervous. I took a slow sip of the tea, my mind calculating the possibility of the w
Elias POVThe drive back to the Lawson Group was a blur. My hands gripped the steering wheel so hard my knuckles were white, the image of that disappearing silhouette at Scott Enterprise burning into the back of my eyelids. But as the elevator rose towards my office floor, I forced the mask back on
Elias’s POVI watched Camille walk away. I didn’t give her the satisfaction of a response, but that didn’t mean I was going to sit idle. Since this mess involves Mara, I will be moving ten steps ahead in my mind. Every time David’s name came up in the same breath as hers, it felt like a low-grade f












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