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Chapter 8: A Bride's Intuition

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last update Data de publicação: 2025-12-22 16:32:17

The words on the screen were stark and black against the white light.

Don't do it. Check the groom's suite. Third floor. Room 305.

Aurora’s blood, which had been moving sluggishly, turned to ice water and then, instantly, to fire.

Her phone. The one she'd left on the penthouse terrace.

She hadn't forgotten it. He had. Liam, in his cold, calculated fury in the foyer, had forgotten she’d left it there. He must have sent someone to retrieve it, and they, seeing the text, had tried to warn her.

Or.
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  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 374: PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

    The photo wasn't perfect.It was a selfie.Aurora held the phone high, her arm extended, capturing the chaos of the penthouse living room. Liam was laughing, his head thrown back. Ethan was making a peace sign (because he was cool now). River was holding up the ultrasound photo, looking proud. Hope was trying to eat a bagel.And in the center, Aurora was smiling.Not the polite, armored smile of a CEO. Not the brave, terrified smile of a woman in recovery.It was a real smile. Messy. Radiant. Unfiltered.She looked at the image on her screen."Are we sure?" she asked.Liam was sitting next to her on the sofa. He leaned over her shoulder."We're sure," he said. "Twelve weeks. The genetic testing came back clean. The heartbeat is strong. It's time.""It feels... big," Aurora admitted. "Putting it out there. After everything.""It is big," Liam agreed. "But it's our story. And if we tell it... maybe it helps someone else rewrite theirs."Aurora nodded. She opened the social media app for

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 373: VIABILITY ULTRASOUND

    The room was dark. Not the comforting dark of the nursery at night, but the pressurized, clinical dark of a room where destiny is decided.Aurora lay on the exam table. Her feet were in the stirrups—the same stirrups where she had lost the first two embryos, the same stirrups where they had planted this one. The paper sheet crinkled under her legs, a sound that seemed deafening in the silence."Okay," Dr. Rosenberg said. His voice was calm, devoid of the nervous energy vibrating off Aurora and Liam. "Let's take a look."He squeezed the gel onto the wand. It was warm. A small mercy.Aurora gripped Liam’s hand. His palm was sweating. He was staring at the black monitor screen, his jaw set so hard she could see the muscle jumping beneath the skin. He looked like he was waiting for a verdict in a murder trial.Please, Aurora prayed. She didn't know who she was praying to—God, the universe, the science, the iron ring. Just be there. Just stay.Dr. Rosenberg inserted the wand.Aurora closed

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 372: TELLING THE KIDS (CAREFULLY)

    The secret sat in the center of the room, invisible but heavy, displacing the air like a localized high-pressure system.Liam sat on the living room rug. It was Saturday morning. The penthouse was filled with the lazy, golden dust of a weekend that had no schedule.Ethan was lying on his stomach, reading a graphic novel about black holes. River was sitting cross-legged, sorting his matchbox cars by color (a spectrum that moved precisely from red to violet). Hope was trying to put a pair of sunglasses on Buster, the golden retriever, who tolerated the indignity with a heavy sigh.It was perfect. It was a closed loop of safety.And they were about to introduce a variable that could blow it wide open.Liam looked at Aurora. She was sitting on the sofa, her hands wrapped around a mug of decaf tea. She looked calm—the Zoloft and the therapy were holding the walls up—but Liam saw the tremor in her fingers.She nodded. Time."Hey, guys," Liam said. His voice rumbled in his chest. "Board meet

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 371: POSITIVE

    The office was exactly the same as it had been two weeks ago.The same beige walls. The same air vent rattling softly in the corner. The same framed photos of babies that looked like a gallery of taunts.Aurora sat in the same velvet chair. She was wearing the same black dress she had worn for the last verdict. It was a superstition now. Or maybe a uniform for grief. She had prepared herself for the end. She had built the walls to contain the explosion of the "No."Liam sat next to her. His hand was clamped over hers, his thumb pressing into her pulse point. He was checking to see if she was still there."It’s 2:15," Aurora whispered. "He's late.""He's reviewing the labs," Liam said. "It takes time.""Bad news takes time," Aurora said. "Good news walks in the door."She looked at the door handle. It was brass. Scratched.She thought about the conversation in the dark. If it's negative... we close the door.She was ready to close it. She had made her peace with the three children she

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 370: THE SECOND WAIT

    The second wait wasn't a pause. It was a siege.The first time, fourteen days had felt like a long, boring stretch of highway. This time, every hour was a minefield. Every twinge in her abdomen was a potential explosion. Every trip to the bathroom was a reconnaissance mission to check for blood.Aurora sat in her office at Vale-Cross Global. It was Day 4.She was reviewing the foundation specs for the Bronx housing project, but her eyes kept drifting to the calendar on her tablet. Ten days left."Aurora?"Claire stood in the doorway. She held a stack of fabric swatches for the lobby."The indigo or the charcoal?" Claire asked. "Marcus says charcoal is more durable. I say indigo has more soul.""Indigo," Aurora said automatically. Then she stopped. She looked at the swatches. "Wait. Let me see."She forced herself to focus. She forced her brain to engage with textures and weave counts, pushing the biological countdown into the background."Charcoal," she corrected. "Marcus is right. It

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER 369: SECOND ROUND

    The map of their desperation was drawn in purple and yellow ink across Aurora’s abdomen.Liam uncapped the syringe. The needle seemed larger this time. Sharper. Or maybe his eyes were just tired of looking at it.Aurora sat on the edge of the bathtub, her pajama top hiked up. She didn't look at the needle. She looked at the tile floor, her jaw set in a line of grim endurance that reminded him of the day she testified in court."Ready?" Liam asked. His voice was a low rumble in the quiet bathroom."Do it," she said.He pinched an inch of skin near her hip. There wasn't much clear space left. The bruising from the first round had barely faded before they started the second. Dr. Rosenberg had increased the dosage—Menopur, Gonal-F, a cocktail of hormones designed to force nature’s hand.Liam pushed the needle in.Aurora didn't flinch. She just exhaled, a long, shuddering breath that rattled in her chest."I'm sorry," Liam whispered. He hated this part. He hated being the one to inflict th

  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   Chapter 184: The Therapy

    The waiting room of Dr. Aris Thorne, Child Psychologist, was designed to be disarming.It was painted a soft, soothing blue. There were fish tanks bubbling quietly in the corners. The furniture was rounded, soft, and child-sized. It was a world away from the sharp edges of the Cross Empire tower or

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  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   Chapter 173: Vanessa's Desperation

    The apartment in Queens was a tomb of dead ambitions.Vanessa Leigh sat on the floor, surrounded by the debris of her life.Cardboard boxes filled with expensive clothes she could no longer wear. Stacks of legal notices she couldn't pay. A half-empty bottle of cheap vodka that tasted like gasoline.

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  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   Chapter 169: Liam's Longing

    The morning light in the AVA studio was unforgiving, but it couldn't find a flaw in Aurora Vale.She was standing on a ladder, adjusting the lighting rig for the final walkthrough of the "Alliance" show. She wore her work uniform—leggings, oversized sweater, hair in a messy bun—but to Liam, watchin

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  • Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride   Chapter 164: The Proposal

    The contract with LVMH was a thick, glossy document that smelled of legal toner and global domination. It sat on the table of the conference room at the Cross Empire tower. Liam and Aurora sat on one side. The LVMH executives—a team of impeccably dressed French men and women—sat on the other. "

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