LOGINChapter 28Nathan’s pov I followed Lyra—oh, I mean the lady who looked exactly like my Lyra—immediately after she ignored me, the refusal cutting deeper than any physical blow. But my subconscious told me, when has she become “my Lyra” Her denial felt like a lie, but her eyes held a cold emptiness I did not recognize. What the hell did Dr. Noah mean by claiming they were engaged? Engaged? The word hammered at the back of my skull, a fresh wave of blinding rage and confusion. This is my Lyra. I know it in the very core of my fractured soul. But why is she claiming she is not? What devastating event happened five long years ago to rip her from my life, and what has turned her into this stranger named Angela?I desperately need to call Marcus, I hope pick up. He is the only one who can confirm it, at least they are siblings and he would know her more than me. I was pulling out my phone, my fingers flying to his contact, when I heard the low murmur of voices echoing from the cor
Chapter 27 Angela's POV “Engage? Say what that means and why you thought a boardroom full of shareholders was the appropriate place to announce it to a woman who did not even know your name before.” Noah looked at me for a moment. His jaw was set but his eyes were doing something more complicated, moving over my face in a way that felt less like assessment and more like he was searching for something specific and not finding it in the place he expected. “You do not remember me,” he said. It was not a question. “I have never met you before yesterday,” I said. Something moved through his expression at that. There and gone too quickly for me to catch the full shape of it. “We met when we were seven years old,” he said, and his voice had shifted into something more careful, the way someone’s voice shifted when they were choosing each word with full awareness that the wrong one would end the conversation. “Our families had an arrangement. It was made between both sides when we we
Chapter 26Angela's POVThe weird man's reaction got me more and I turned my head back to the doctor."Engaged?" I asked again, wanting to be sure I heard that right.I just met this disrespectful man yesterday and we were already engaged?I turned back to Darius glaring hard at him. "What is he talking about?" I mouthed at him."Well… I tried to explain to you yesterday, but you said you did not want to know," he explained and a scoff left my mouth immediately. "Why am I engaged to him? This is the first time I am meeting him, what the fuck is actually happening?"I said, completely forgetting that I was still sitting in a meeting. The entire room went dead silent and I caught myself, pressing my lips together and pulling them in. I looked around the table slowly and that was when I found the weird man's eyes still on mine. He had stood up at some point and he was still standing, looking at me with an expression I could not quite name, steady and unreadable and entirely too focuse
Chapter 25The man from outside the hospital. The one who had said that name twice and looked at me like he was seeing something he had given up on finding.He was wearing a suit today, dark charcoal, and he looked composed in a way that was clearly costing him something. His jaw was set and his hands were loose at his sides and he was looking at me with those same eyes, that same particular quality of intensity that made my skin feel tight across my shoulders.I held his gaze for exactly two seconds.Then I looked back at the CFO.“You were saying the Q3 timeline has flexibility,” I said calmly. “Walk me through what that means in practical terms.”From my peripheral vision I saw the stranger pull out a chair midway down the table and sit. He did not announce himself. He did not apologise for being late. He just sat down and opened the folder in front of him and nobody at the table acted like anything unusual had happened, which told me he was expected.I took one note in my margi
Chapter 24Nathan’s POV “Lyra…” I breathed out shakily, holding the wheel of the car, that was Lyra, she was the one. But what’s happening? Why can’t she recognize me? After 5 years of searching, those people helping me to search sent her pictures to me and I quickly rushed out and went to the airport, but only for her faint. What’s happening? What’s wrong? I picked up my phone and dialed the guy who had been helping me to look for her. He was also the same person who sent me an image of her at the airport. He is my manager. “She said she is not Lyra,” I stated the moment the call connected, my voice coming out flat and controlled even though my hands were not.I was still parked outside the hospital.“Sir?” Kofi’s voice came through carefully, the same measured tone he used every time he had bad news he was building up to.“Are you there?”“Yes. I am here.” I pressed my thumb hard against the steering wheel. “Run a full background check on the name Angela Wyatt. Everything. Medi
Chapter 23Angela's POVMy head was pounding so hard that when I finally managed to crack my eyes open, the white fluorescent light above me felt like a direct attack. I shut them again immediately and just let the pain sit, because fighting it was making it worse., I lay there trying to remember where I was and how I had gotten there.The inside of my eyelids were orange from the light above me. Fluorescent, I thought, that particular flat brightness that only ever meant hospitals or airport bathrooms, and I was fairly certain I was not in an airport bathroom.My eyes snapped open.White ceiling, white walls, the faint smell of antiseptic and something chemical underneath it. A figure standing close, blurry at first, then coming into focus slowly. A male in white coat, stethoscope hanging around his neck."Are you awake?" the voice said, and I realised I had been watching their mouth move without actually processing the words.I turned my head carefully and looked at him. He was w
CHAPTER 5Lyra's POVI woke up with the sunrise streaming through the window, my body stiff from barely sleeping after Nathan's strange midnight appearance. I had spent hours lying in the dark trying to make sense of why he had been standing in my doorway like that, staring at me with that look of
Chapter 14 “I want to be inside you, Ara. I want to make you feel good.”“Yes,” Ivy made me say, even though I hadn’t decided that was what I wanted. “Please, Kael.”His hands went to the waistband of my shorts and he started to pull them down. I lifted my hips to help him and soon they joined my
Chapter 7"Ara," Nathan called, and the sound of that nickname coming from his lips made me stumble backward so hard I almost tripped over my own feet.I opened my mouth but nothing came out, my throat had closed up completely and all I could do was stare at him kneeling there on the kitchen floor
Chapter 8 "Like what?" Kael asked, genuinely confused.My stomach dropped straight through the floor, he wasn't feeling it. The mate bond was only going one way. I could feel it pulling at me, could feel Ivy going absolutely insane in my head, but Kael felt nothing."Kael is in Nathan's body," Iv







