MasukI 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.
Lihat lebih banyakThe Mother I Never KnewEmma POVThe name remained on the screen.Biological Mother: Evelyn Carter.I stared at it.Waiting for someone to tell me it was another mistake.Another manipulation.Another carefully designed lie.But nobody spoke.Because everyone knew.Everyone except me.Again.I looked at my mother.The woman who raised me.The woman who held my hand when I was sick.The woman who cried when I called her for the first time after leaving home.“Is it true?”My voice barely came out.Evelyn looked at me.Her eyes were already filled with tears.That was my answer.“You knew.”She closed her eyes.“Emma…”“No.”I stepped back.“Not another explanation.”My voice shook.“I don’t want another reason.”She swallowed.“I wanted to tell you.”“When?”She looked down.I laughed bitterly.“When I was ready?”Silence.“Everyone always says that.”I pointed around the room.“Everyone decides when I can handle the truth.”Dylan moved closer.“Emma.”I looked at him.“No.”I wasn’t a
The Choice That Defines UsEmma POVThe screen waited.Two options.Two choices.Two futures.RELEASE TRUTHDESTROY TRUTHI stared at the words.It looked simple.Almost too simple.But nothing in my life had ever been simple.Behind me, I heard Dylan breathing.Nathan was trying to override the system.Alexander was watching the screen.Sophie stood completely still.Everyone was waiting for me.And that was the part I hated.Not the decision.The expectation.For years, people had placed things on my shoulders.Secrets.Promises.Responsibilities.They called it protection.They called it love.But it always felt the same.Like a burden I never chose.“Emma.”I looked at Dylan.His voice was calm.Not demanding.Not controlling.“What?”“Whatever you choose…”He paused.“It has to be your choice.”I studied him.The old Dylan would have told me what to do.He would have explained why his answer was the logical one.He would have decided because he believed he knew better.But this D
The Last DesignEmma POVFor the first time, I understood why everyone had been afraid of me.Not because I was dangerous.Not because I carried something valuable.But because I represented something they could not control.A choice.A person who could not be reduced to a plan.I stared at the frozen screen.It was about creating someone who could end the project forever.My entire life had been a mystery.A puzzle.A collection of missing pieces.But now I understood something.The people who controlled my life had spent years trying to answer one question.Could a person survive being treated like an object…and still remain human?I looked at Dylan.He was staring at the screen too.“What are you thinking?”He looked at me.“That my father knew.”“About me?”“Yes.”“And he still let me live with the Bennetts.”His face tightened.“No.”I looked at him.“He knew.”“Yes.”“So why?”Dylan didn’t answer.Because he didn’t know.Nobody knew.That was the hardest part.After all the sec
The Choice That Changed EverythingDylan POVFreedom.The word appeared on the screen.For a moment, nothing happened.I expected alarms.I expected the system to reject me.I expected Victor to laugh and tell me I had failed.Instead, the entire room went silent.The countdown stopped.06:55Changed to:SYSTEM PAUSEDNobody moved.Emma looked at me.“What did you do?”I stared at the screen.“I don’t know.”Nathan stepped closer.“That wasn’t supposed to happen.”I looked at him.“What does that mean?”He studied the system.“The entire project was built around one principle.”“Which was?”“Control.”The screen flickered.New words appeared.FINAL SUBJECT RESPONSE ACCEPTEDNathan’s eyes widened.“It accepted your choice.”Alexander looked confused.“Why?”Nathan stared at the screen.“Because the system wasn’t designed to reward obedience.”Emma frowned.“Then what was it designed for?”Nathan looked at me.“To identify whether someone could reject power.”Silence.Victor’s voice ret
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
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












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