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Chapter 135: Adrian's Loyalty

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last update 게시일: 2026-01-25 00:36:34

The Cross Empire tower, usually a bastion of ruthless, unified ambition, was fracturing.

It wasn't visible from the street. The glass facade was as impenetrable as ever. But inside, on the executive floors, the fault lines were widening.

Adrian Cross sat in his office, the door closed. He was the CFO. The "numbers guy." The brother who kept the lights on while Liam built the kingdom.

He was also, according to the whispers in the hallway, the "Successor."

Sterling—the investor who had tried
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  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 413: THE LINE

    The kitchen was bright. Brutally, insolently bright.The morning sun reflected off the stainless steel appliances and the white marble island, creating a glare that made Liam squint. But he didn't look away from his wife.Aurora stood by the espresso machine. She was wearing the black turtleneck and trousers she had changed into—the uniform of an executioner. Her hands were steady as she reached for her car keys on the counter."I'm going to find her," she said again. Her voice was flat. It had no bottom. "And I'm going to kill her."It wasn't a threat. It was a schedule. A blueprint.Liam didn't jump up. He didn't block the door. He didn't shout.He pulled out a barstool and sat down.He folded his hands on the cold marble. He looked at the keys. He looked at her."Sit down, Aurora," he said."I'm leaving, Liam.""You're leaving," he agreed. "But not yet. Sit down."She hesitated. Her hand hovered over the keys. The scorched gold ring on her pinky finger caught the light—a dull, ugly

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 412: THE COLD MORNING

    The light in the room was wrong.It wasn't the soft, amber glow of evening. It was the hard, flat gray of a late afternoon that had given up on the sun.Aurora opened her eyes.She didn't gasp. She didn't flinch. She simply transitioned from unconsciousness to consciousness with the click of a shutter.The ceiling was the same. The crown molding. The recessed lights.But she was different.She lay perfectly still under the heavy down duvet. Her body felt heavy, weighted by the sedative Dr. Aris had prescribed over the phone—a chemical blanket thrown over a fire. The fire was out now.The heat was gone. The screaming rage that had torn through her throat eighteen hours ago had evaporated, leaving behind a landscape of absolute zero.She flexed her fingers. They were stiff. Her right hand ached. She opened it.The ring was gone.She sat up. Her head swam—a momentary vertigo from the drugs—but she steadied herself. She looked at the nightstand.There it was.The gold band. Scorched. Blac

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 411: THE DESTRUCTION

    The scream didn't stop.It didn't taper off into a sob. It didn't break into a whimper. It just kept going, a continuous, tearing sound that shredded the lining of Aurora’s throat and filled the penthouse with the frequency of absolute ruin.She wasn't screaming because she was sad. She was screaming because the world she lived in—the world of gravity, logic, and cause-and-effect—had just been incinerated.I killed them.The note on the table wasn't paper anymore. It was fire.Aurora grabbed the heavy crystal vase in the center of the table—white roses, innocent, stupid roses—and she threw it.It didn't just fall. It flew. It smashed into the mirrored wall of the dining room, exploding in a shower of glass, water, and petals. The sound of the crash was satisfying. It was the only thing that made sense."Aurora!" Liam’s voice was a distant roar, underwater.She didn't look at him. She looked at the room.The perfect, curated, architectural life she had built. The herringbone floors. Th

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 410: THE RING

    The penthouse was quiet, suspended in the amber hush of evening that felt less like peace and more like a held breath.Aurora sat at the dining room table. In front of her, a legal pad was filled with notes. Interview Prep. Timeline. Themes.She had written "Survival" at the top of the page and underlined it three times. Tomorrow, she would sit down with Diane Sawyer again. Tomorrow, she would tell the story of the last ten years—the depression, the recovery, the lawsuit, the victory. She would frame it as a triumph. She would wear white. She would smile.She picked up her Montblanc pen. She felt... ready.For the first time in a decade, the narrative belonged to her. Isabella Voss was a footnote. A cautionary tale in an orange jumpsuit.Ding-dong.The doorbell chimed.Aurora frowned. It was 8:30 PM. Too late for deliveries. Too early for Marcus, who was coming over later to review the security for the interview."Liam?" she called out."In the nursery!" Liam shouted back. "Hope won't

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 409: THE BOTH

    The words vomited out of her, acid and hot, burning her throat as they hit the cool air of Dr. Chen’s office."Maybe they're right," Aurora sobbed. Her body was curled tight on the moss-green sofa, her hands gripping her knees so hard her knuckles popped. "Maybe I am exactly what Isabella says I am. Maybe I'm a monster who built a castle on a graveyard."She looked at Liam, then quickly away, unable to bear the love in his eyes because it felt like a spotlight on her fraudulence."My mother walked into the ocean because she was empty," Aurora whispered. "My father worked himself to death to cover it up. And I... I took the money. I took the insurance payout and I went to architecture school. I built AVA on the checks from their deaths."She took a ragged breath."And then I married you," she said to Liam’s shoes. "Not for love. Not at first. For revenge. For leverage. I used you. I used everyone. Just like Henry used Isabella."The silence that followed was heavy, filled only with the

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 408: FORCING THE DOOR

    The phone felt slick in Liam’s hand."Bring her in," Dr. Chen said. Her voice was tinny through the receiver, stripped of its usual calm warmth. It sounded like an order from air traffic control to a pilot whose engine had just flamed out. "Now, Liam. Don't wait for an appointment slot. Just drive.""She won't move," Liam said. He was standing in the hallway, staring at the closed mahogany door of the master bedroom. "She's... she's calcified.""Then you move her," Dr. Chen said. "You carry her if you have to. But get her out of that room. Isolation is the accelerant."The line went dead.Liam lowered the phone. He looked at the door.It was just wood. Expensive, solid-core mahogany with a brass handle. He had installed it to keep the world out, to give them a sanctuary.Now, it was a coffin lid.He walked to it. He pressed his palm against the grain. It was cool.Inside, there was silence. Not the peaceful silence of sleep, but the heavy, pressurized silence of a submarine that had g

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   Chapter 196: The Morning After

    The "Happy Family" was put to the test by a leaky faucet. It was 6 AM on a Monday. The penthouse was quiet, save for the rhythmic drip, drip, drip coming from the kitchen sink. Aurora stood in the doorway, wrapped in her robe, staring at the puddle forming on the marble floor. "It's a metaphor,

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  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   Chapter 189: The Apology

    The morning rain had cleared, leaving the New York sky a brilliant, scrubbed-clean blue.Liam and Aurora sat on the terrace of the penthouse, drinking coffee. It was Sunday. No work. No school. Just the quiet hum of the city below and the sound of Ethan watching cartoons inside.They were happy. It

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  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   Chapter 181: The Arrest

    The interrogation room at the 20th Precinct was not a place for billionaires. It was a box of gray cinder blocks, fluorescent lights, and a two-way mirror that reflected nothing but exhaustion.Aurora sat at a metal table. She was still wearing her blood-stained white suit from the "wolf" days, tho

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  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   Chapter 177: The Escalation

    The Plaza Hotel suite was a gilded cage.It was 10 AM on a Monday. The city outside was bustling, alive with the start of a new week. But inside the penthouse, time felt suspended, thick with the residue of fear.Aurora sat on the velvet sofa, her laptop open but ignored. She was watching Ethan.He

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