MasukAlora Hale lost her voice five years ago. By the time she realized it, her husband had already replaced her. Silenced by an accident and slowly erased from her own marriage, Alora lives quietly beside a man who no longer sees value in her— until the night he sends her to a hotel under false pretenses and sells her body for profit. She escapes. But that survival leaves her with something she never expected. Pregnant by a stranger who vanishes without a trace, Alora is divorced, stripped of her child, and cast out with nothing into a city that rewards power and devours the weak. Determined to destroy her devilish husband, she begins hunting for the only person capable of crushing him. Morningstar. The most feared businessman in the city; the kind of man whose absence can collapse markets. Morningstar is stunning, untouchable, unapproachable, and rumored to be incapable of attachment. He is also the last man Alora ever expected to find… and the father of her unborn child. Bound together by a secret neither of them planned, Alora is pulled into Morningstar’s world under a strict contract— one that might dissolve into live love or chaos. In the end, secrets would be unraveled and betrayals would surface as the quiet woman everyone underestimated begins her rise. Because when a woman who has lost everything decides to fight back, she doesn’t beg. She destroys.
Lihat lebih banyak{Morningstar}By the time I stepped into the security wing, they were already assembled.The room was not small, yet it felt contained with the number of men standing inside it. Some stood with their hands behind their backs, others with their arms at their sides, all of them facing forward with the same alert posture. The moment I entered, their attention shifted completely.No one spoke.I walked past the first line and stopped where I could see all of them clearly.“Who saw her last?”The question moved through the room without resistance, but the answer did not come immediately. There was a brief exchange of glances before two men stepped forward.“I did, sir,” one of them said.The other nodded. “Same, sir.”I looked at the first one. “When?”“Two mornings ago, sir. Early. Just after sunrise.”“She was leaving?”“Yes, sir.”“Alone?”“Yes.”There was no hesitation in his answer, but there was something else missing from it. I shifted my attention to the second man.“You saw her as
{Morningstar}I adjusted the cuff of my sleeve as I crossed the hallway, the fabric settling cleanly against my wrist before I reached for the file waiting on the console table. The pages were already arranged, the notes marked where they needed to be. I flipped through them once, then continued walking, my attention moving ahead of me rather than settling anywhere for too long.A maid stepped aside to clear my path.“Good morning, sir.”I gave a slight nod without slowing.My phone vibrated once in my hand. I glanced at the screen, read the message, and responded with a short reply before slipping it back into my pocket. By the time I reached the study, I had already moved on to the next item that required attention.“Sir…?”I didn’t stop at the doorway. “Yes.”It was Mrs. Hargrove. Her voice carried a faint hesitation that didn’t belong in the usual order of things.“Mrs. Alora hasn’t come out this morning.”I set the file down on the desk and opened it, scanning the first page as
{Alora's POV}Morning came without clarity.The light found its way into the room in a slow, steady wash, slipping past the curtains and settling across the walls and floor as though nothing had shifted overnight. It carried the same quiet presence it always did, gentle and undemanding, but it didn’t feel like anything that belonged to me.I opened my eyes to it without knowing when I had fallen asleep.There was no sense of rest behind it. My body felt heavier than it should have, my limbs slow to respond as I shifted slightly against the mattress. For a moment, I stayed there, staring upward, letting the ceiling come into focus in pieces rather than all at once.Nothing pressed.Nothing pulled.It was quieter than the night before, but not in a way that felt different. Just… continued.I pushed myself up slowly, the movement taking more effort than it should have. The dull ache behind my eyes had settled into something constant, no longer sharp enough to draw attention, but present
{Alora’s POV}I didn’t realize how long I had been sitting there until the light in the room started to change.It wasn’t something I noticed all at once. It happened gradually, the brightness thinning until the corners of the room softened and the edges of things were no longer as sharp as they had been earlier. At some point, the light that had stretched across the floor pulled back, leaving more of the space in shadow.I stayed where I was.I had moved from the door to the bed at some point, though I couldn’t remember exactly when that happened. The transition hadn’t felt like a decision. My body had simply followed through with it, the way it had done everything else since I got back.A knock came, soft enough that it didn’t disturb the quiet so much as enter it.I turned my head slightly toward the door.“Miss?”The voice carried through the wood, careful and measured. I recognized it as Mrs Hargrove, but I didn’t respond.“I’ll leave it here.”There was a brief pause, followed b












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