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Love was Never for Sale

ผู้เขียน: Saylam Mangenda
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BEN

A year later…I woke up to the sound of birds.

Not car horns.

Not phones ringing.

Not footsteps rushing through hallways.

Not Matteo calling with another emergency.

Just birds.

I opened my eyes slowly and stared at the wooden ceiling above me. For a few seconds, I forgot where I was.

Then I heard the soft rustling of leaves outside our bedroom window.

Italy.

I smiled.

I still couldn't believe this was my life.

The vineyard stretched endlessly beyond the windows of the old house. Rows and row
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  • LOVE FOR SALE    Love was Never for Sale

    BENA year later…I woke up to the sound of birds.Not car horns.Not phones ringing.Not footsteps rushing through hallways.Not Matteo calling with another emergency.Just birds.I opened my eyes slowly and stared at the wooden ceiling above me. For a few seconds, I forgot where I was.Then I heard the soft rustling of leaves outside our bedroom window.Italy.I smiled.I still couldn't believe this was my life.The vineyard stretched endlessly beyond the windows of the old house. Rows and rows of grapevines covered the hills, glowing beneath the morning sun. There was something peaceful about this place.Something that made my heart finally understand what it meant to rest.I turned my head.Ambrose was still asleep beside me.His hair was slightly messy, one arm resting beneath his head.I smiled.There had been a time when I thought loving someone meant constantly fighting to keep them.Holding on.Proving yourself.Being afraid that if you loosened your grip, they would disappear

  • LOVE FOR SALE    The Courtroom

    BENThe courtroom was quieter than I expected. Maybe because I had imagined this day so many times that I had convinced myself it would feel dramatic.It didn't.There were no explosions.No screaming.No running.Just people sitting in their places, waiting for the truth to be spoken.I sat beside Ambrose.His hand rested over mine.Across the room, Zane sat with his lawyers. For the first time since I had seen him again, he looked smaller, not physically.Just...Human.The mask was gone.The mystery was gone.The man who had spent years hiding behind threats and shadows was sitting in a courtroom surrounded by people who knew exactly what he had done.He looked at me and our eyes met and I didn't look away.He did.The prosecutor began presenting the evidence.The recordings.The photographs.The messages.The surveillance equipment.The communication between Zane and Asher. The evidence connecting him to the explosion. Everything I had spent months trying to understand was finally

  • LOVE FOR SALE    A Chapter Closed

    ASHERI had spent my entire life believing something had been stolen from me.A family.A name.An inheritance.A company.A future.And I had spent years looking at Ben as if she were the thief. She wasn't. She had been a baby. A child who had never asked to be born into someone else's tragedy.I knew that now.But knowing the truth didn't erase what I had done. I sat alone in the interview room, staring at the table. For the first time, I had nothing to fight for.No company to reclaim.No family to impress.No enemy to blame.Just myself and I didn't like what I saw.The door opened.My lawyer walked in.He placed a folder on the table."The authorities have reviewed your cooperation."I looked at him."And?""You'll still face charges."I nodded.I expected that."But your cooperation with the investigation will be taken into consideration."I leaned back."How much time?""We don't know yet."I stared at the ceiling.For years, I had been obsessed with getting what I believed bel

  • LOVE FOR SALE    Asher's Ending

    BENThree weeks after Zane's arrest, I finally walked into the police station without feeling like I was walking into a nightmare.That alone felt like progress.For weeks, my life had revolved around police reports, lawyers, investigators and questions.What did Zane say?When did he contact you?Did you recognize his voice?Did you receive this message?Did you know he was alive?Did he ever threaten you before the explosion?I had answered the same questions so many times that sometimes I felt like I was reliving the worst moments of my life over and over again.But this time was different.Today, Matteo had called and said they had finished the main part of the investigation.Ambrose was sitting beside me in the waiting room. His hand was wrapped around mine."You don't have to do this if you're not ready," he said.I looked at him."I am.""You sure?"I nodded."I've spent enough time being afraid of the truth."He squeezed my hand.The door opened.Matteo stepped outside."Ben.

  • LOVE FOR SALE    Loving Again

    NOLANI used to think losing Ben was the worst thing that could happen to me.I was wrong. The worst thing was losing myself while trying to hold on to her.For months, I had blamed everyone.Ben.My father.Even myself but mostly myself.I had convinced myself that if I loved Ben hard enough, she would eventually come back.That if I reminded her of our memories, our marriage, our life together...She would remember that I was supposed to be the one but she wasn't supposed to be anything.Not anymore.She was free.And strangely enough, accepting that didn't hurt as much as I thought it would. I sat behind my desk, staring at the papers in front of me.For once, I wasn't working.I was thinking.Thinking about Ben.About the baby we had lost.About everything that had happened between us.I still loved her.I wasn't going to lie about that but love didn't always disappear just because a relationship ended. Sometimes it simply changed.I heard a knock on my door."Come in."Rose walked

  • LOVE FOR SALE    Embracing my Daughter

    AMBROSEI had faced men with guns.I had stood in front of cameras while the entire world judged me.I had survived an explosion that took years of my memories from me.I had watched the woman I loved walk away from me and somehow...None of those things had scared me as much as what I was about to do.I sat alone in my study, staring at the small photograph on my desk.Alessia.She was smiling in the picture.Her hair was slightly messy, one of her front teeth was missing, and she was holding the drawing she had made for me.Mummy.Her.Grandpa.Three people.One family.Except there was something she didn't know. Something I had carried inside me for years.I wasn't her grandfather but her father.The word still felt strange in my mind.Father.I had spent years loving her as my granddaughter because that was the only role she knew me as. I had never wanted to take that away from her.But keeping the truth from her forever wasn't an option either.She deserved to know where she came

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