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CHAPTER 351: RIVER'S THERAPY
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2026-04-28 14:53:56
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The wedding venue was small. A renovated firehouse in TriBeCa, all exposed brick and soaring windows, filled with the scent of lilies (ironic, Marcus had noted, but Sophia insisted they were classic) and expensive beeswax candles.It was intimate. Only fifty people. The family. The inner circle.Marcus stood at the altar. He was wearing a tuxedo. This time, it wasn't a torture device. It was an honor.He looked out at the room.Liam stood beside him as his best man, looking proud and annoyingly handsome. Ethan, the ring bearer, was standing very still in his own tiny tuxedo, his hand clamped over his pocket where the rings (and probably a Lego figurine) were safely stowed. He wasn't wearing his cape, but he had a red pocket square that matched it perfectly.And in the front row, sitting next to an empty chair reserved for Sarah Sterling, was Aurora.She looked radiant in a silver gown that matched her eyes. On her lap sat River.River was wearing a suit. A miniature, three-piece suit
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 351: RIVER'S THERAPY
The room was different from the others.It didn't have a bed like the blue room. It didn't have a high chair like the food room. It didn't have a big window like the sky room where the baby cried.It had sand.River sat on a small chair. His feet didn't touch the floor. He wiggled his toes inside his new sneakers. They were blue. They lit up when he stomped. He liked to stomp, but he was afraid to do it here.A lady was sitting on the floor. Her name was Dr. Yuki.She wasn't like the other ladies. She didn't click pens. She didn't ask questions. She just sat there, moving little plastic people around in a wooden box filled with sand."This is the safe place," Dr. Yuki said. Her voice was quiet. Like a secret.River didn't believe her. There were no safe places. There were only hiding places.He clutched the red cape. Ethan had given it to him. Ethan said it was magic. River didn't know about magic, but he knew the cape felt soft. He rubbed the velvet against his cheek."You can touch
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The playroom was neutral territory.It wasn't the guest room, where River hoarded his fears and his apple slices. It wasn't the master bedroom, where Aurora and Liam managed the logistics of their expanded family. It was a sun-drenched demilitarized zone filled with soft rugs, low shelves, and the bright, primary-colored chaos of childhood.Aurora sat in the corner on a beanbag chair, pretending to read a magazine. In reality, she was a surveillance operative.Her target was the boy sitting inside a fortress of cardboard bricks.River had built a wall. Literally. He had taken the large, faux-brick blocks and constructed a three-sided barricade against the wall near the window. He sat inside it, knees pulled to his chest, clutching the red cape Ethan had given him. He wasn't playing. He was occupying.And then, there was the siege engine.Hope was eighteen months old. She was a force of nature in a diaper and a tulle skirt she refused to take off. She didn't understand walls. She didn'
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The penthouse didn't smell like white tea and cedar anymore.It smelled of rotting fruit.Liam kneeled by the sofa in the living room. He lifted the heavy velvet cushion. Underneath, pressed into the expensive joinery of the frame, was a graveyard of half-eaten food. Apple slices turning brown. A chicken nugget, rock-hard. A slice of cheese that had sweated its oil into the fabric."Found another one," Liam said. He didn't shout. He didn't have the energy to shout.Aurora walked in from the hallway. She was holding a trash bag. She looked like she had gone twelve rounds with a heavyweight. Her hair was pulled back in a messy bun, and there was a scratch—red and angry—on her cheek."Where was it?" she asked, holding the bag open."Under the B&B Italia sofa," Liam said, tossing the nugget in. "Structural damage is... sticky.""He's preparing for a famine," Aurora said. She sat down on the coffee table, disregarding the rule about sitting on tables. "Ms. Gable said he would hoard. It's a
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The elevator chime was usually a soft, pleasant sound. A G-major ping that announced home.Today, it sounded like a gavel.Aurora stood in the foyer. Her hands were clasped in front of her, squeezing so tight the knuckles were white. Beside her, Liam stood with his hands in his pockets, rocking slightly on his heels. A tell. He was bracing for impact.Behind them, down the hall, Marcus was keeping the perimeter. Ethan was in his room, door cracked, watching. Hope was in her playpen in the living room, oblivious, chewing on the ear of a stuffed rabbit.The doors slid open.Ms. Gable stepped out first. She looked tired. Her suit was rumpled.And then, River.He didn't step out. He was pulled out, gently, by the hand.He was smaller than Aurora remembered.In the waiting room, he had been sitting down. Here, standing on the vast expanse of the herringbone oak floor, he looked microscopic. He wore the same gray sweatpants, the same stained t-shirt. He carried a plastic grocery bag—bright
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