Pustaka
Cari
Beranda / Romance / Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride / CHAPTER 351: RIVER'S THERAPY

Share

CHAPTER 351: RIVER'S THERAPY

Penulis: Evve
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-04-28 14:53:56

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 ladi
Lanjutkan membaca buku ini secara gratis
Pindai kode untuk mengunduh Aplikasi
Bab sebelumnya Bab selanjutnya
Bab Terkunci

Bab terbaru

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 458: HOPE'S PROPOSAL

    The dining room table was no longer a place for meals. It was a stage.Hope stood at the head of the table. She was fourteen years old. She wore a black turtleneck and wide-leg trousers—an outfit she had borrowed from Sophia’s "minimalist archive." It was slightly too big in the shoulders, but she liked the weight of it. It felt like armor.She adjusted the lighting. The dimmer switch was set to fifty percent. The afternoon sun was filtered through the sheer drapes, creating a soft, diffuse glow that hit the center of the table perfectly.On the mahogany surface, there were no plates. There were three objects.A vase made of poured resin and reclaimed glass.A swatch of fabric that looked like a storm cloud woven into wool.A sketchbook, closed."They're here," Ethan whispered.He was sitting in the corner, acting as her technical support (he was running the projector she didn't plan to use, just in case). He looked up from his tablet. "Do you want me to announce them?""No," Hope sai

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 457: THE MENTOR AND THE STUDENT

    The view from the corner office of Vale-Cross Global hadn't changed in ten years, but the man looking at it had.Liam Cross stood at the window, nursing a cup of tea. He drank less coffee these days. Dr. Hale had been right about the cortisol; survival was a marathon, not a sprint.Behind him, at the smaller desk usually reserved for junior associates, sat Ethan.Ethan was sixteen now. He had grown into his height, filling out the lanky frame with the lean muscle of a runner. He wore a button-down shirt that fit him properly, sleeves rolled up to his elbows, revealing wrists that looked capable.He was typing. Fast. The sound of the mechanical keyboard was a rapid-fire staccato in the quiet room."You're typing like you're angry at the code," Liam observed, turning around."I'm not angry," Ethan said, not looking up. "I'm optimizing. The legacy database for the foundation housing grants is a mess. It's built on spaghetti code from 2015. If I don't untangle it, the scholarship disburse

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 456: THE INTERN

    The code on the monitor wasn't just text. It was a language, and right now, it was screaming.Ethan Vale-Cross sat in the bullpen of the AVA-Cross Technology Division on the twelfth floor. He was sixteen years old. He was wearing a hoodie he had bought at a thrift store in Brooklyn because he didn't want anyone to know his sneakers cost four hundred dollars. He had an ID badge clipped to his lanyard that simply said E. Cross - Summer Intern.Most people assumed he was a nephew. Or a cousin. Or a charity case.They didn't know he was the heir.And Ethan intended to keep it that way."It's a memory leak," said the Senior Engineer, a man named Patterson who had been sweating through his shirt since 9:00 AM. "It's in the kernel. We have to scrap the update.""We can't scrap it," another engineer argued. "The Tokyo integration goes live in forty-eight hours. If the logistics platform crashes, we lose real-time tracking on half the fleet."Ethan didn't speak. He adjusted his noise-canceling

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 455: LILY

    The hospital room was different this time. It wasn't the sterile, high-tech fortress of the NICU, nor the tense waiting room of surgery.It was just a room. A room with beige walls and a window overlooking the same skyline that had witnessed every tragedy and triumph of the Cross family.But inside the room, there was only triumph.Marcus Cross sat on the edge of the bed. He was wearing a t-shirt that said Vale-Cross Foundation Construction Crew, covered in faint traces of sawdust because he had come straight from the site when Sophia called. His boots were on the floor. His hands—large, scarred, calloused—were wrapped around Sophia’s."You okay?" he asked. His voice was rougher than usual.Sophia leaned back against the pillows. She looked exhausted, her hair damp with sweat, her face pale. But her eyes were bright. Triumphant."I am perfect," she whispered. "Did you see her? Did you see the lungs on her?""I heard her," Marcus said. "I think they heard her in Jersey."He looked at t

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 454: GRACE ARRIVES

    The room didn't smell like iodine or panic. It smelled of lavender oil (Emma’s diffuser) and crushed ice.Aurora sat on a birthing ball beside the hospital bed, her hand resting on Emma’s knee. The lights were dimmed. A playlist of acoustic folk music—Emma’s choice—drifted from a speaker in the corner.It was the most boring, beautiful scene Aurora had ever witnessed."You're doing amazing," Aurora whispered.Emma opened her eyes. She was sweating, her hair plastered to her temples, riding the crest of a contraction that had started a minute ago. She gripped the bedrails, her knuckles white, breathing through the pain with a rhythmic, guttural sound."It’s... intense," Emma gasped as the wave receded. She slumped back against the pillows."You're at eight centimeters," the nurse said, checking the monitor. "Almost there."Aurora looked at Liam.He was standing on the other side of the bed, holding a cup of ice chips. He looked calm. His shoulders were relaxed. He wasn't wearing a bunn

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 453: THE MERCY THAT ISN'T

    The gun sat on the table between them. A black, ugly weight on the scarred wood.Isabella stared at it. Her chest heaved, the oxygen cannula whistling with every desperate breath. She looked like a gambler who had bet everything on red, only to watch the ball land on black."You coward," she hissed again. "You don't have the spine for it."Aurora stood over her. She felt tall. She felt like a spire that had weathered a hurricane and hadn't lost a single pane of glass."It isn't cowardice, Isabella," Aurora said. Her voice was ice. Clear. Transparent. "It's architecture. You don't build a future on a foundation of murder. That’s your design. Not mine."Isabella’s hands clawed at the armrests. "I gave you a chance. I gave you the ending.""You gave me a trap," Aurora corrected. "You wanted me to kill you so I would become you. You wanted to infect me with your violence so that every time I looked in the mirror, I would see your face."She leaned down. She placed her hands on the table,

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   Chapter 165: The Debate

    The honeymoon was over.Not the marriage. The marriage was thriving, a warm, solid thing built on Sunday pancakes and shared glances. But the business honeymoon—the polite, tentative "we are partners" phase—had lasted exactly three weeks.It was 10 AM on a Tuesday. The conference room at the AVA fl

    last updateTerakhir Diperbarui : 2026-03-29

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   Chapter 168: The Creative Tension

    The design studio at 2 AM was a pressure cooker.The "Alliance" collection was eighty percent complete. The sketches were finalized. The fabrics were sourced (from Italy and Portugal). The "Fog" silk had arrived, shimmering like captured moonlight on the cutting table.But the final piece—the "Show

    last updateTerakhir Diperbarui : 2026-03-29

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   Chapter 167: The Design Process

    The studio in the AVA flagship was no longer a battleground. It was a laboratory.It was a Tuesday morning, three weeks into the "Alliance" project. The honeymoon phase of the European press tour was over, and the reality of the work had settled in. The glamour of the TGV rides and the "normal" pic

    last updateTerakhir Diperbarui : 2026-03-29

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   Chapter 160: He's a Good Dad

    The "robot arm" was a hit. Ethan had spent the entire car ride home explaining the various functionalities of his blue cast. It could block lasers. It could smash rocks. It was, apparently, better than a regular arm in every conceivable way. By the time they reached the penthouse, the trauma of

    last updateTerakhir Diperbarui : 2026-03-28
Bab Lainnya

Anda juga akan menyukai

Jelajahi dan baca novel bagus secara gratis
Akses gratis ke berbagai novel bagus di aplikasi GoodNovel. Unduh buku yang kamu suka dan baca di mana saja & kapan saja.
Baca buku gratis di Aplikasi
Pindai kode untuk membaca di Aplikasi
DMCA.com Protection Status