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CHAPTER TEN
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MARRIED TO ONE, PROMISED TO ANOTHER CHAPTER TEN
The evening breeze drifted gently through the gardens as Adrian and Natalie made their way back toward the mansion.Neither of them spoke immediately.The silence between them felt very comfortable. It had become… easy.For Adrian, that realization was unsettling.He had spent years believing conversations were either necessary or pointless. Small talk had never interested him, and silence had always been preferable to forced conversation.Yet with Natalie…He found himself wanting the walk to last a little longer.As they reached the marble steps leading into the mansion, Adrian glanced sideways at her.“I have another question.”Natalie laughed softly.“I thought the interview was over.”“So did I.”She smiled.“What do you want to know?”He slipped one hand into his pocket as they continued walking.“What was your favorite food growing up?”Natalie’s eyes lit up almost instantly.Without thinking, she answered,“Pasta and meatballs.”Adrian chuckled.“That was a very quick answer.”
MARRIED TO ONE, PROMISED TO ANOTHER CHAPTER NINE
Natalie spent the next hour trying to concentrate on the books spread across the library table.She couldn’t.Every few minutes, her eyes drifted back to her phone.She still couldn’t believe Adrian had called just to tell her he was coming home early.Not because of a business dinner, but simply because he wanted to have dinner with her.A smile tugged at her lips before she quickly shook her head.“Stop smiling.”She muttered to herself.“It’s just dinner.”Yet her heart refused to listen.By late afternoon, the golden rays of the sun filtered through the tall windows of the mansion, bathing the halls in a soft amber glow.Natalie had changed into a simple cream-colored strapless dress.Compared to the extravagant outfits Maria usually wore, this was rather modest.She looked at herself in the mirror before smoothing invisible wrinkles from the skirt.“What if he doesn’t like it?”The question slipped out before she could stop herself.Immediately, she frowned.“Why do I even care?”
MARRIED TO ONE, PROMISED TO ANOTHER CHAPTER EIGHT
The rhythmic tapping of fingers against the polished wood echoed through Adrian Lewis’s office. Stacks of documents covered the large mahogany desk before him, each waiting for his signature. Across the room, floor-to-ceiling windows overlooked the bustling skyline of Panilton, where traffic crawled through the afternoon streets like tiny streams of light. Normally, Adrian would have been completely absorbed in work. Today… He had signed the same page twice. His attention wasn’t on the reports. It wasn’t on the upcoming board meeting. And it certainly wasn’t on the figures Ethan had been explaining for the past five minutes. It was somewhere else. Back at the Lewis mansion. Back with his wife. “…Sir?” Ethan’s voice finally broke through his thoughts. Adrian looked up. “Hm?” Ethan blinked. “I asked whether you’d prefer Thursday or Friday for the investors’ meeting.” A brief silence followed. Adrian glanced down at the document in front of him before realizing he hadn’
MARRIED TO ONE, PROMISED TO ANOTHER CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER 7The black Rolls-Royce glided silently through the towering iron gates of the Lewis estate before merging onto the quiet streets of Panilton.Morning traffic had already begun to build, but inside the luxury car, everything remained calm.Normally, Adrian used the forty-minute drive to the office to review contracts, answer emails, or prepare for the meetings waiting for him at Lewis Corporation. His tablet rarely left his hands, and by the time he arrived at work, half his day's decisions had already been made.Today was different.The tablet lay untouched beside him.His laptop remained closed.Instead of reviewing financial reports, Adrian found himself staring absentmindedly through the tinted window as the city drifted past.His thoughts, much to his own surprise, kept wandering back to the Lewis mansion.More specifically...To the woman he had left there.A faint smile tugged at the corner of his lips as he remembered the look on Natalie's face that morning."I've deci
MARRIED TO ONE, PROMISED TO ANOTHER CHAPTER SIX
Later that same morning…The soft click of the bedroom door echoed through the room as Adrian left for work.Natalie stood motionless beside the bed, listening to the sound of his footsteps fade farther and farther down the hallway until the mansion became completely silent.Only then did she let out the breath she hadn't realized she had been holding.Her eyes drifted to the bedside table where the phone had been on. And how a few minutes earlier, it had carried a voice that threatened to destroy everything she had begun to hope for.Slowly, Natalie sat on the edge of the bed and wrapped her arms around herself.The conversation replayed in her mind for what felt like the hundredth time."Adriii, baby… I'm sorry. I shouldn't have run away.""Please tell me you forgive me.""I'll apologize to Papa too… Please just let me come back home."Natalie squeezed her eyes shut."No…"The whisper escaped before she could stop it."It couldn’t be Maria."She opened her eyes again and stared bla
MARRIED TO ONE, PROMISED TO ANOTHER Chapter Five
That evening, the mansion felt strangely peaceful.The tension from earlier had faded into quiet silence.Natalie wandered through the halls absentmindedly until she stopped in front of a framed photograph resting on one of the walls.It was Adrian and Maria.Much younger.Teenagers, maybe.Maria stood beside him smiling confidently while Adrian looked noticeably colder even back then.Natalie tilted her head slightly.“So who exactly are you?” she murmured softly to the girl in the photo.After everything that had happened, she still hadn’t fully processed the strangest part of all this—Why did Maria look exactly like her?Natalie sighed softly.“She probably ran away because of that overly controlling man,” she muttered with a small laugh.Unfortunately for her—That “overly controlling man” was standing directly behind her.“You find me controlling?”Natalie nearly screamed.She spun around quickly to find Adrian leaning casually against the hallway entrance.“How long have you be
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