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Casey’s Secret

Author: Belle
last update publish date: 2026-10-29 20:58:03

Casey came over the next evening with ice cream and the face she wore when she'd been on a ledge for years, and everyone knew Casey's faces, so Anika cleared the penthouse within ten minutes — Ravi to the stairwell, Carlos to an invented errand, Christopher, at Anika's one raised eyebrow, to the terrace door, open a crack. He stayed. It was about his family. Casey needed him to hear it and she'd never have chosen that, so Anika chose it for her.

"Okay," Anika said, on the couch, opening the ice
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    The wedding was in the garden, of course. Everyone had assumed the cathedral — the papers had, the city had, the two empires' combined lawyers had drawn up cathedral plans out of pure muscle memory. But Anika Delacroix had been to exactly one wedding she'd ever loved, and it had been Mary and Joseph's, thirty years ago, in a garden like this one — so the Delacroix garden it was, in June, with the Lantern Wing blazing behind it and every window lit, as every window had been lit every night since the day she ordered it: if the house burned dark once, it never burns dark again. The guest list was the guest list of her life. Carlos walked her down the aisle — in his livery, thirty years old and pressed, walking on the inside of the path, on the exact flagstone route he'd carried a screaming child out on, going the other direction, in the dark. He cried the entire length of the garden and denied all of it later, and the only person who teased him for it was Ryan, Mary's son — home from

  • Revenge Of The Secret Heiress    The Verdict of the Heart

    The trial in Anika's heart closed on a Friday, which was fitting, because that was the day the table was booked. It had been months since the evening at the door — the no, the honest no, the trial still running over a corridor and a hospital and the worst hour of her life. And in the months between, life had done what life does to verdicts: it had worn them down with a thousand small exhibits she hadn't noticed entering the record. Exhibit: the night of the gala, when a stranger in green silk had attached herself to his arm, and Christopher had turned his first free step toward Anika to make the situation shared — because that was his reflex now, before suspicion, before ego: her side of the board, out loud, in public. Exhibit: the night of the Ember File, when she'd stood in the living room shaking with the knowledge that her memory had been surveilled for years — and he had not fixed it, because it couldn't be fixed, and he hadn't tried to manage her through it. He'd said "say m

  • Revenge Of The Secret Heiress    The Man in the Dark Coat

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  • Revenge Of The Secret Heiress    The Last Dance of the Golds

    The Golds' fall didn't happen in one night. It happened the way old buildings fall — over years, and then all at once.The audit came first. It had a polite name — a routine review of historical asset transfers — and it was signed by the new audit team at Delacroix Corp, which was to say Priya, two hires she'd made herself, and a mandate from the owner. The papers had barely dried on the heiress's reveal before Priya's team found the first thread of the oldest theft: the Gold estate itself, the very house Anika had scrubbed, had been purchased thirty years ago with money laundered out of the dying Delacroix trust. Not the ashes — the trust. Lark Gold Sr. had been the trust's co-administrator, and the Gold fortune had been seeded, brick by brick, out of the family whose maid they'd raised.The auction came three weeks later, by court order. Fraud, stolen assets, conspiracy — the DA's case had been fed, quietly, by Carlos's fifteen years of documents, Kessler's files, and the Ember File

  • Revenge Of The Secret Heiress    The Matchstick

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  • Revenge Of The Secret Heiress    Casey’s Secret

    Casey came over the next evening with ice cream and the face she wore when she'd been on a ledge for years, and everyone knew Casey's faces, so Anika cleared the penthouse within ten minutes — Ravi to the stairwell, Carlos to an invented errand, Christopher, at Anika's one raised eyebrow, to the terrace door, open a crack. He stayed. It was about his family. Casey needed him to hear it and she'd never have chosen that, so Anika chose it for her."Okay," Anika said, on the couch, opening the ice cream like a paramedic. "Ledge. Talk.""I was thirteen." Casey didn't touch her bowl. She watched her hands. "The night of — you know, the night I'm about to tell you about, my dad had been strange for months. I told myself thirteen-year-old things — he's tired, the company, whatever. But he was taking calls at two in the morning in the study, and hiding to do it, in a house where my father doesn't hide anything because hiding is for people who can't own the room." Her voice did the Casey thing

  • Revenge Of The Secret Heiress    Pretty Doctor

    Anika quickly made payment for her medicine, and on her way out, threw two pills in her mouth. She was on her way to the hospital. Heaving in a deep sigh as she arrived at the entrance, she told herself to be strong. She would call Lark again and try to...try to what? Well! She would figure someth

  • Revenge Of The Secret Heiress    Pregnancy Stripes

    Anika's chest was rising and falling from fear. Why did Tori have to see her? This was so humiliating!"Uh...Tori, I-" She tried to speak but the right words just wouldn't form. "How dare you! Thief!" Before Anika could say another word, Tori jumped up on her, pulling her hair so tight that strand

  • Revenge Of The Secret Heiress    Call the police!

    Immediately, everyone began to laugh out loud. Anika was too stunned to even understand the situation. How could she be this humiliated like this?Anna grabbed her purse, "I'm gonna head out. Bye, friend." Then ran away. They laughed and kept chatting as if Desiree had not just bullied her. Anika

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    No one might had known Anika had cried all night. She always raised her head up high and smiled through it all. "You're basically Cinderella at this point," Anika's friend Anna said to her. Anika had just finished the laundry. "Exactly. Because I'm married to my prince charming," she smiled, thro

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