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Chapter 45: The Business Proposal
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2025-12-28 00:23:49
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Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 425: THE DANCE
The reception tent was a canopy of white silk and Edison bulbs, glowing against the deepening indigo of the Hamptons twilight.It smelled of salt air, roasted figs, and the heavy, sweet scent of the peonies Aurora had fought for.Aurora stood at the edge of the dance floor, a crystal glass in her hand. The wine was a vintage Rosé, pale pink and crying with condensation. She ran her thumb over the stem.She hadn't had a drink in eight months. Between the IVF cycles, the two-week waits, and the brief, bright flares of hope that had eventually flickered out, her body had been a temple. A laboratory. A waiting room.Tonight, it was just a body.She took a sip. The wine was cool, tart, and grounding. It tasted like permission."You're hiding," a voice rumbled in her ear.Liam.He stepped up beside her, sliding his arm around her waist. He had shed his tuxedo jacket, his white shirt glowing in the ambient light, cuffs rolled up to reveal his forearms. He smelled of sea breeze and the expens
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 424: THE WEDDING
The Hamptons light was different from the city light. It wasn't sharp or demanding. It was soft, diffused by the salt air of the Atlantic, turning everything it touched into a watercolor painting.Marcus Cross stood under the pergola in the back garden of the estate. He was wearing a tuxedo. It fit perfectly. He didn't feel like a penguin today. He felt like a man who had finally found his footing.He looked out at the guests.Fifty chairs. White wood. Arranged in a semicircle on the grass.In the front row, Mrs. Higgins was dabbing her eyes with a lace handkerchief. Dr. Chen sat next to Dr. Evans—the medical team that had kept the family alive.And standing beside him, solid as a retaining wall, was Liam."You okay?" Liam whispered.Marcus looked at his brother. Liam looked tired—he always looked tired—but his eyes were bright blue and clear."I'm good," Marcus said. "I'm really good.""Ring?""Ethan has it."Marcus looked at his nephew. Ethan was thirteen now. He stood a few feet aw
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 423: THE SURPRISE
The test sat on the marble vanity of the loft bathroom. It was a sleek, plastic wand, aggressively modern, incongruous with the vintage perfume bottles and the stack of French fashion magazines.Sophia Laurent stared at it.Two lines.She blinked. She picked it up. She held it to the light coming from the frosted window.Still two lines. Pink. Unapologetic."Impossible," she whispered in French. "C'est impossible."She was thirty-eight years old. She had spent the last decade building a career, surviving a divorce, and convincing herself that her legacy would be built in stone and silk, not flesh and blood. She had made peace with the idea of being the cool aunt. The godmother. The designer.She wasn't supposed to be the mother.She touched her stomach. It felt exactly the same as it had yesterday—flat, firm from Pilates. But inside...A tiny architect was already at work.The front door of the loft opened. Heavy boots on the concrete floor."Sophia?" Marcus called out. "I brought din
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 422: PLANNING LIGHT
The café on Mercer Street was quickly becoming Sophia’s favorite place in New York. It wasn't just the espresso—which was excellent, dark and rich like the soil in the vineyards of Bordeaux—it was the light.The afternoon sun streamed through the front window, catching the dust motes and turning them into floating gold. It was a good place to build a new life.Sophia sat at the marble table, her notebook open. It was filled with sketches, not for a building, but for a wedding.Venue: The Brownstone (back garden). Flowers: Peonies (white, heavy). Music: Cello (live).She tapped her pen against the paper. It was simple. Elegant. And terrifying.The door chimed.Aurora walked in.She was wearing a trench coat over jeans and a sweater. Her hair was pulled back, revealing the sharp angles of her face. She looked tired. There were shadows under her eyes that no amount of concealer could hide—the shadows of a woman who had just realized her entire life was a script written by someone else.B
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 421: PROPOSAL
The power outage in TriBeCa was localized, inconvenient, and—Marcus Cross decided—the best thing that had happened all week.He stood in the kitchen of Sophia’s loft. The industrial space was usually bright, flooded with city light and the glow of her design screens. Tonight, it was a cave of soft, flickering shadows.Candles were everywhere. Beeswax pillars on the island. Tea lights on the windowsill. A candelabra on the dining table that looked like it belonged in a French château (it probably did)."It is not burned," Sophia said from the stove. "It is charred. It is a technique."She was holding a skillet. The smell of something that used to be chicken but was now carbon filled the air.Marcus smiled. He leaned against the counter, watching her.They had been together for three years. Three years of "cohabitating," of sharing keys, of him fixing her shelves and her fixing his wardrobe. They were a team. The General and the Contractor.But they weren't... this.He touched the pocke
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 420: WHAT WAS REAL
The butcher paper made a harsh crinkling sound as Aurora smoothed it out on the duvet cover.It was 2:00 AM. The master bedroom was lit only by the bedside lamp on Liam’s side, casting a warm, yellow pool of light that felt too small to hold the darkness of the revelation spread out between them.Liam sat on the edge of the bed. He was wearing his pajama bottoms, his chest bare. He leaned over the paper, reading the timeline Aurora had drawn in the study.1980. 2004. 2019.His eyes tracked the black lines. The red lines. The arrows connecting Isabella to Evelyn to Aurora to him.He didn't speak. He read it once. Then he read it again.Aurora sat on the other side of the paper, her legs tucked under her. She was wearing the silk pajamas that she had worn for days, but she didn't feel numb anymore. She felt flayed. Exposed.She watched his face. She looked for anger. She looked for disgust.Instead, she saw a profound, devastating sadness."She wrote the script," Liam whispered.He trac
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride Chapter 109: The Son He Never Knew
The discovery of Michel was a punch to the gut that left Liam Cross winded, even as he sat in the climate-controlled comfort of his office. The photo on his screen was not a scandal. It wasn't incriminating. It was just... happy. Aurora, laughing. Her head thrown back, her throat exposed, the bl
Última actualización : 2026-03-24Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride Chapter 104: Liam's Regret
The penthouse of the Cross Empire tower was not built for silence. It was built for power, for parties, for the noise of success. But tonight, it was a mausoleum. Liam Cross stood in the center of the living room, the lights off, the only illumination coming from the city that lay at his feet li
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The tarmac at Teterboro was slick with rain, reflecting the red and blue lights of the ambulance like a kaleidoscope of violence.Aurora stood by the open doors of the ambulance. She was still wearing the white tuxedo dress, now ruined, stained with the blood of the man she had spent five years try
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The beach house in Montauk was a fortress of silence. The storm that had battered the coast the day before had passed, leaving behind a bruised, steel-gray sky and a sea that was still angry, churning with white foam. Aurora sat on the deck, wrapped in a blanket, watching the waves. Liam was go
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