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Chapter 72: The Resemblance
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Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride Chapter 85: Vanessa's Scheme Begins
The exile from Cross Empire had not been a retreat for Vanessa Leigh. It had been a incubation.Her office—the "Special Projects" purgatory—was gone. Her access cards were deactivated. Her company phone was wiped.She was, for the first time in a decade, unemployed.But she was not powerless.She sat in her apartment on the Upper East Side, a space that was as cold and sterile as the ambition that had paid for it. The lights were off. The only illumination came from the city outside, casting long, jagged shadows across the floor.On the glass coffee table in front of her, lay the "weapon."The plastic bag with the juice box straw. The DNA test results. The photos of Liam and Ethan.She had thought it was "Game Over." She had thought she had won.But then Liam had bought the bank. He had sealed the records. He had dismantled her leverage with a single, terrifying display of financial brute force.You have nothing.His words echoed in the silent room.She picked up the DNA report. She c
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The Atlantic Ocean was not a polite body of water.It was a violent, gray, churning expanse that slammed against the Montauk shoreline with a deafening, rhythmic roar.It was the sound of erosion. The sound of things being worn down, grain by grain, until nothing was left but the bedrock.Liam Cross stood at the edge of the surf, the cuffs of his dark jeans soaked, his expensive leather boots ruined by the salt water.He didn't care.He was on his knees in the wet sand, digging."Deeper, Liam!" Ethan commanded, his small voice barely audible over the wind. "The moat has to be deep. Or the dragon will swim across!"Ethan was a blur of energy, his navy blue coat unzipped, his chestnut hair whipped by the wind. He was holding a bright red plastic shovel with the same seriousness Liam usually reserved for signing mergers."Right," Liam said, scooping out a heavy handful of cold, wet sand. "Deeper. We can't have dragons swimming."He dug. The cold bit into his fingers—his "bear hands"—numb
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride Chapter 83: The Lie
The city beyond the tinted windows of the Maybach was a blur of steel and rain, a fitting backdrop for the storm raging inside the car.Aurora sat next to Liam, her body angled slightly away from him, a reflex she couldn't quite shake.The silence between them was no longer the loaded, electric quiet of the elevator.It was heavier. Denser. It was the silence of a truce built on a foundation of secrets that were slowly, agonizingly, being unearthed.They had just left the school. They had faced the cameras. They had presented the "united front."But the front was a facade."We should talk," Liam said. His voice was low, barely audible over the hum of the engine. He wasn't looking at her. He was looking at his hands—the "bear hands" that had held their son."We are talking," Aurora said, her voice tight. She was watching Ethan in the rearview mirror. He was in the third row of seats, happily playing with a new toy car Liam’s driver had "found" for him. He was oblivious. He was safe."N
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride Chapter 82: Aurora?
The elevator doors closed on the most pivotal moment of Aurora Vale’s life, sealing her inside the descending steel box with the man she had spent five years running from.But this time, the air wasn't heavy with fear. It was charged with something new. Something dangerous.A partnership.Liam stood next to her. He wasn't invading her space. He wasn't looming. He was simply... there. A solid, warm, quiet presence that felt less like a threat and more like a gravitational pull.He didn't speak. He didn't try to touch her. He just let the silence stretch, a truce woven from the thin, fragile threads of their new agreement.Co-parents. Co-CEOs.It sounded like a business plan. It felt like a tightrope walk over a canyon.Ding.The elevator doors opened into the lobby. The chaos of the morning had subsided, but the energy of the city was still frantic."My car is waiting," Liam said, gesturing to the glass doors where his black Maybach idled at the curb."We can take mine," Aurora suggest
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride Chapter 81: The Private Meeting
The office was silent, save for the steady, rhythmic thrum of the city fifty floors below. It was a sound Aurora had once found terrifying, a mechanical monster waiting to devour her. Now, it was just noise.Inside the room, however, the silence was a living thing. It was heavy with the weight of five years, of secrets kept and lies told, of a love that had been burned to ash and was now, impossibly, trying to spark again.Liam Cross stood by his desk, his hand resting on the phone he had just used to buy a bank.He looked at her.His eyes were gray. Not the cold, slate gray of the CEO who had crushed her supply chain. They were the gray of a storm that had finally broken, leaving the air clear and sharp. They were raw. They were open."The records are sealed," he repeated, his voice low. "You are safe."Aurora stared at him. She was still holding the ring, her fingers curled around the cold, hard diamond. It dug into her palm, a physical anchor in a room that felt like it was spinnin
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride Chapter 80: The Confrontation Setup
The invitation was not printed on heavy cream cardstock. It did not come with a wax seal or a courier.It was a single, digital line, blinking on Aurora's phone screen.From: Liam Cross To: Aurora Vale Subject: CollaborationMy office. Tomorrow. 10 AM. Alone.Aurora stared at the message. It was 9 PM. Ethan was asleep, safe in the "fortress" of Liam's guest suite, surrounded by guards he thought were "knights."She was sitting in the living room of the suite, a glass of water in her hand, her knees drawn up to her chest.Collaboration.It was a code. A lie. A trap.He wasn't asking for a meeting about fabric or distribution. He was asking for a confession.She had been living under his roof for forty-eight hours. Forty-eight hours of polite, agonizing distance. He had kept his promise. He had protected them. He had hunted down the leak—Sophia's "fixer"—and he had silenced Vanessa.But he hadn't come to see her.He had sat in the hallway outside her door at night—she had seen the sha
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