LOGINI woke up in his bed after one confusing night, and suddenly I was married to Dylan Carter, the man I'd loved in silence for twelve years. The man who was supposed to marry my sister. Everyone thinks I'm a scheming gold-digger who trapped Riverside's most eligible bachelor. Even Dylan believes I drugged him and orchestrated everything. He looks at me with pure hatred, spending every night with my sister while I wait alone in our empty house. Then I discovered I'm pregnant. But before I could tell him, I overheard the truth: my "perfect" sister Sophie was the one who planned that night. She drugged Dylan, called the reporters, set the whole trap, she just walked into the wrong room. And my adoptive family? They only took me in because Sophie needed my bone marrow. Everything I believed was a lie. Now Sophie's faking suicide attempts to manipulate Dylan into divorcing me, and my so-called family has disowned me in front of everyone. I'm alone, pregnant, and everyone in Riverside thinks I'm the villain in this story. But I've decided something: I'm not giving up. Not my husband, not my baby, and definitely not my future. Sophie wants the life she thinks I stole? She'll have to go through me first.
View MoreThe Truth She CarriedDylan POVI left.I did not shout.I did not demand answers.I did not break anything.That surprised everyone.Maybe even me.Because years ago, anger was the only emotion I understood.Anger was easier than pain.Anger made me feel powerful.But standing there, surrounded by people who had lied to me for years, I felt something else.Empty.I walked outside the old estate and kept walking.The cold air hit my face.Behind me, I heard footsteps.“Dylan.”Emma.I stopped.But I didn’t turn around.“I need a minute.”She was quiet.Then:“Okay.”I expected her to argue.She didn’t.That was new.She stood beside me, leaving space between us.Not trying to fix me.Not trying to force me to talk.Just there.After a while, I said:“How do you do it?”She looked at me.“Do what?”“Keep standing after finding out everyone you trusted lied to you.”Her expression changed.Because she knew exactly what I meant.“I don’t always stand.”The answer surprised me.“What?”“I
The Man Who Was Always WatchingDylan POVThe room became silent.Not the comfortable kind of silence.The kind that arrives after something breaks.I stared at the image on Nathan’s screen.The reflection was blurry.Distorted.But there was no mistake.The person standing behind my mother at the accident scene…was Nathan.My closest friend.My investigator.The man who had helped me uncover every secret.The man who had stood beside me while my entire family collapsed.“No.”The word came out quietly.Nathan looked at me.“Dylan.”I lifted my hand.“Don’t.”His expression changed.Not anger.Not guilt.Something worse.Fear.“Explain.”Nobody spoke.My mother looked between us.She knew.Emma looked confused.She had trusted Nathan too.And suddenly I wondered how many times we had all sat in the same room with a person who knew more than he admitted.“How long?”Nathan looked away.“How long what?”“How long have you known?”His silence answered before his words did.“Dylan…”“How
The Woman Who Stayed SilentDylan POVI stared at the photograph.My mother.Standing beside my father’s damaged car.The world around me became strangely quiet.I could hear Nathan saying something.I could hear Emma breathing beside me.But none of it made sense.My mother.The woman who held my hand when I was sick.The woman who told me I was her greatest blessing.The woman I spent my entire life defending.Was standing beside the accident that supposedly killed my father.“No.”The word escaped before I could stop it.Nathan looked at me carefully.“Dylan.”“No.”I grabbed the photograph.“This is not possible.”Nathan didn’t argue.That scared me more.“Look at the timestamp.”I did.The date.The location.Everything matched.The night my father died.Emma stepped closer.“Maybe there is an explanation.”I looked at her.“Is there?”She didn’t answer.Because she knew.There might be.But there might not.And that uncertainty was destroying me.Nathan placed the file on the ta
The Man Who Was Supposed to Be DeadDylan POVThe photograph stayed on my screen.I wanted to believe it was fake.A trick.Another manipulation.Another carefully designed lie.But something about it felt different.Because I knew that place.The old Carter estate.The place my grandfather abandoned after my father’s death.The place nobody was allowed to enter.The place everyone avoided discussing.And standing outside it was my father.Alive.Three days after the accident that supposedly killed him.“Dylan?”Emma’s voice pulled me back.I looked up.Everyone was watching me.My mother.Emma.Nathan.Everyone waiting for me to say something.I couldn’t.Because if the photograph was real, then my entire understanding of my father’s death was a lie.“My father was alive.”The words sounded strange.My mother closed her eyes.“I was afraid this would happen.”I looked at her.“You knew?”“No.”“Then why are you afraid?”She looked toward the photograph.“Because I knew the truth woul
Emma POV"Nothing," I said quickly. Too quickly. "Nothing's wrong with me."Dylan's eyes narrowed. He was studying me now, really looking at me in a way he hadn't since that first morning we woke up together. I could see his mind working, putting pieces together."You've been doing that all day, ha
Emma POV I woke up several hours later to the sound of raised voices downstairs. Dylan's voice was angry and sharp. And another voice, male, equally angry.I got out of bed and crept to the top of the stairs, staying in the shadows where I couldn't be seen.Dylan was in the foyer, and standing wit
Emma POVI'd never seen Dylan look at me like that before. Well, that wasn't exactly true. He'd looked at me with hatred plenty of times, with disgust and contempt and barely concealed loathing. But this was different. This was rage mixed with something else, something darker that made my blood run
Emma POVA strong hand caught my arms, steadying me before I could fall."Careful there."I looked up, and my heart stopped.It was Dylan's younger brother, Marcus Carter. I'd only met him once, briefly, at the wedding. He'd been away on business ever since, somewhere overseas. I didn't even know h












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