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Chapter 17: A Choice
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Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 318: MARCUS AND SOPHIA
The kitchen of the penthouse was designed for a chef who didn't exist.It had two sub-zero fridges, a range that cost more than Marcus’s truck, and an island made of a single, seamless slab of Calacatta marble that was currently buried under a blizzard of legal paperwork.It was 1:00 AM. The rest of the apartment was silent. Liam and Aurora were finally asleep in the master bedroom—a tentative, exhausted peace that Marcus dared not disturb. Hope was with Mrs. Higgins. Ethan was dreaming of Death Stars.Marcus sat on a barstool, his elbows resting on the cool marble. He was rubbing his eyes with the heels of his hands, trying to scrub away the grit of a eighteen-hour day."You are smudging the witness list," a voice said.Marcus looked up.Sophia Laurent stood on the other side of the island. She looked... impeccable. That was the only word for it. It was one in the morning, she had been managing the logistics of a high-profile trial prep all day, and yet not a single hair of her blond
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 317: THE INTERVIEW
The makeup chair was high, placing Aurora at eye level with the bright, unforgiving lights of the studio vanity.A woman with a brush was dusting powder over Aurora’s nose. "Just a little matte," the makeup artist murmured. "The HD cameras pick up everything."Aurora looked at her reflection.She didn't look like the CEO of AVA. She wasn't wearing a power suit. She was wearing a soft cream cashmere sweater and dark trousers. Her hair was down, loose waves framing a face that was thinner than the public remembered, but no longer gaunt.She looked... human."You look beautiful," Liam said.He was standing in the doorway of the green room, leaning against the frame. He was wearing jeans and a blazer—the "supportive husband" uniform. He had insisted on coming, on driving her, on holding her hand until the cameras rolled."I look terrified," Aurora corrected, smoothing the fabric of her trousers."You look real," Liam said. He walked over and squeezed her shoulder. "And that's what they ne
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 316: WAR ROOM REDUX
The study had been returned to its wartime configuration.The blackout curtains were open, revealing the glittering skyline that served as the board on which they played. The whiteboard was wiped clean of the old diagrams, ready for new targets. Pizza boxes sat on the sidebar next to stacks of legal briefs that were thick enough to stop a bullet.Liam stood at the head of the mahogany desk. He looked around the room at the team assembled.It wasn't just lawyers this time. It was a phalanx.Arthur Vance and Harper, the legal eagles, occupied the sofa. Marcus leaned against the bookshelves, arms crossed, looking like a bouncer at a club no one wanted to enter. Sophia sat in the wingback chair, an iPad balanced on her knees, her face set in a grim, elegant line.And at the center, in the high-backed leather chair usually reserved for Liam, sat Aurora.She wasn't wearing pajamas. She was wearing a silk blouse the color of steel and trousers that were loose but structured. She had fed Hope
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 315: MAMA BEAR AWAKENS
The nursery was silent, save for the soft, rhythmic breathing of the baby in the crib.Aurora stood over the railing. Her hands were gripping the wood so hard her knuckles were white, but she wasn't trembling anymore.She looked down at Hope.Hope was sleeping on her back, arms thrown up by her head in a posture of total surrender. She was defenseless. She was three months old, five pounds of potential, and she had already been labeled.Daughter of a suicide. Unloved. Stranger.The words from the leaked medical files burned in Aurora’s mind like acid. They weren't just insults. They were a narrative. A cage that Isabella Voss was building around this child before she could even walk.The door behind Aurora burst open.Liam rushed in. He was breathless, his shirt unbuttoned at the collar, panic radiating off him in waves. He expected to find a woman falling apart. He expected to find a mother saying goodbye."Aurora," he gasped, reaching for her. "Don't. Please, don't let them win. We
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 314: THE LEAK
The morning light was deceptive. It was bright, sharp, and clean, filtering through the nursery windows where Aurora was feeding Hope.Hope was three months old. She was smiling. She was drinking six ounces every four hours. She was a victory.Aurora sat in the glider, humming Bohemian Rhapsody under her breath. The song was their ritual now. The nonsense lyrics felt right. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?For the last month, it had felt like fantasy. The good kind. The kind where the monster was in jail, the baby was healthy, and the mother was... present.Then, the phone buzzed.It wasn't a text. It wasn't an email. It was a news alert.PING.Aurora ignored it. She was busy.PING. PING. PING.Three in a row. Urgent.Aurora sighed. She shifted Hope to her shoulder to burp her."Hold on, little bit," she whispered. "Let me check the perimeter."She reached for her phone on the side table.She unlocked the screen.The headline was waiting for her.EXCLUSIVE: THE PRIVATE MED
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 313: ISABELLA'S STRATEGY
The conference room at the Rikers Island Rose M. Singer Center was a cage disguised as an office.The table was bolted to the floor. The chairs were molded plastic, orange and unforgiving. The fluorescent lights buzzed with the frantic energy of a thousand trapped flies.Isabella Voss sat at the center of the table. She was wearing the jumpsuit again, but she wore it like couture. Her posture was impeccable—spine aligned, chin lifted, hands folded on the scarred surface with the serenity of a saint waiting for canonization.Across from her sat the Sharks.That’s what the tabloids called them. The defense team she had assembled with the last of her liquid assets before the freeze order hit.There was Arthur Blackwood, her longtime corporate counsel, looking like a man who had boarded the Titanic hoping for a shuffleboard trophy. He was sweating through his collar.And there was Elena Kostas. The criminal litigator. A woman with hair like spun silver and a reputation for cross-examining
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride Chapter 96: AVA's Victory
The car ride home was silent.But it wasn't the heavy, suffocating silence of the past. It was a silence born of exhaustion and a strange, humming sense of peace.Aurora sat in the back of the black SUV, her head resting against the cool leather. Her eyes were closed, but she could still see the li
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