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Chapter 9: Forbidden Door
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Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 351: RIVER'S THERAPY
The room was different from the others.It didn't have a bed like the blue room. It didn't have a high chair like the food room. It didn't have a big window like the sky room where the baby cried.It had sand.River sat on a small chair. His feet didn't touch the floor. He wiggled his toes inside his new sneakers. They were blue. They lit up when he stomped. He liked to stomp, but he was afraid to do it here.A lady was sitting on the floor. Her name was Dr. Yuki.She wasn't like the other ladies. She didn't click pens. She didn't ask questions. She just sat there, moving little plastic people around in a wooden box filled with sand."This is the safe place," Dr. Yuki said. Her voice was quiet. Like a secret.River didn't believe her. There were no safe places. There were only hiding places.He clutched the red cape. Ethan had given it to him. Ethan said it was magic. River didn't know about magic, but he knew the cape felt soft. He rubbed the velvet against his cheek."You can touch
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 350: HOPE'S REACTION
The playroom was neutral territory.It wasn't the guest room, where River hoarded his fears and his apple slices. It wasn't the master bedroom, where Aurora and Liam managed the logistics of their expanded family. It was a sun-drenched demilitarized zone filled with soft rugs, low shelves, and the bright, primary-colored chaos of childhood.Aurora sat in the corner on a beanbag chair, pretending to read a magazine. In reality, she was a surveillance operative.Her target was the boy sitting inside a fortress of cardboard bricks.River had built a wall. Literally. He had taken the large, faux-brick blocks and constructed a three-sided barricade against the wall near the window. He sat inside it, knees pulled to his chest, clutching the red cape Ethan had given him. He wasn't playing. He was occupying.And then, there was the siege engine.Hope was eighteen months old. She was a force of nature in a diaper and a tulle skirt she refused to take off. She didn't understand walls. She didn'
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 349: THE FIRST WEEK
The penthouse didn't smell like white tea and cedar anymore.It smelled of rotting fruit.Liam kneeled by the sofa in the living room. He lifted the heavy velvet cushion. Underneath, pressed into the expensive joinery of the frame, was a graveyard of half-eaten food. Apple slices turning brown. A chicken nugget, rock-hard. A slice of cheese that had sweated its oil into the fabric."Found another one," Liam said. He didn't shout. He didn't have the energy to shout.Aurora walked in from the hallway. She was holding a trash bag. She looked like she had gone twelve rounds with a heavyweight. Her hair was pulled back in a messy bun, and there was a scratch—red and angry—on her cheek."Where was it?" she asked, holding the bag open."Under the B&B Italia sofa," Liam said, tossing the nugget in. "Structural damage is... sticky.""He's preparing for a famine," Aurora said. She sat down on the coffee table, disregarding the rule about sitting on tables. "Ms. Gable said he would hoard. It's a
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 348: RIVER ARRIVES
The elevator chime was usually a soft, pleasant sound. A G-major ping that announced home.Today, it sounded like a gavel.Aurora stood in the foyer. Her hands were clasped in front of her, squeezing so tight the knuckles were white. Beside her, Liam stood with his hands in his pockets, rocking slightly on his heels. A tell. He was bracing for impact.Behind them, down the hall, Marcus was keeping the perimeter. Ethan was in his room, door cracked, watching. Hope was in her playpen in the living room, oblivious, chewing on the ear of a stuffed rabbit.The doors slid open.Ms. Gable stepped out first. She looked tired. Her suit was rumpled.And then, River.He didn't step out. He was pulled out, gently, by the hand.He was smaller than Aurora remembered.In the waiting room, he had been sitting down. Here, standing on the vast expanse of the herringbone oak floor, he looked microscopic. He wore the same gray sweatpants, the same stained t-shirt. He carried a plastic grocery bag—bright
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 347: PREPARING ETHAN
The question wasn't if Ethan wanted a brother. He had a sister, and she was okay, even if she cried a lot and drooled on his Star Destroyer.The question was if he wanted this brother.Ethan sat on the floor of his bedroom. It was his Safe Zone. The walls were painted blue (his choice). The shelves were filled with his things—books about space, rocks he had found in Central Park, the worry stone Dr. Chen’s friend had given him.His parents were sitting on his bed. They looked serious."His name is River," Mom said. She was sitting cross-legged, wearing her soft sweater. She looked nice, not like the scary lady who stayed in bed all day. "He's three years old. He's very small for his age.""Why?" Ethan asked."Because he didn't have enough food," Dad said. Dad’s voice was low and rumbly, like a car engine. "And because he was scared."Ethan looked at his hands. He knew about being scared. He knew about the bad man in the lobby. He knew about the ants."Is he scared of ants too?" Ethan
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 346: THE PROCESS
The dining room table had disappeared.In its place was a landscape of paper, a white and cream topography that shifted every time the air conditioning kicked on. Aurora sat at the head of this paper mountain, her hand cramping around the barrel of her Montblanc pen.It was midnight. The city outside was a grid of glittering indifference, but inside the circle of lamplight, the questions were intimate and accusing.Have you ever been hospitalized for a psychiatric condition?Aurora stared at the box. It was a quarter-inch square. Too small to hold the weight of the last six months. Too small for the gray room, the white noise, the feeling of the ocean pulling at her ankles.She could lie. She could check No and rely on the privacy laws that were supposed to protect her.But River had been lied to enough.She pressed the nib to the paper. The ink bled slightly into the fiber.Yes.She wrote the explanation in the margin. Postpartum depression. Treated. Managed.The words looked sterile
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride Chapter 16: The Discovery
Two weeks.Fourteen days. Three hundred and thirty-six hours.Time had become a thick, gray, viscous thing, like the cold Montauk fog that pressed against the windows of the beach house.Aurora had not left. The house was her fortress and her cell.She existed in a state of suspended animation. She
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The vow hung in the cold, salt-damp air, a new and terrible covenant.He will never know you. I will die before I let him touch you.Aurora was still on the bathroom floor, but the hysterical, broken woman who had laughed and sobbed was gone. In her place was a new creature, forged in the ice of th
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The bus was hot, and it smelled of damp wool and exhaust. Aurora was huddled in the back, on a hard plastic seat that vibrated with the rattling of the engine. She had been on it for over an hour, a ghost in her ivory slip, tucked into the anonymity of the crowd. People got on, people got off. Th
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The vow she’d made in the cold, fog-gray bathroom had settled in her bones.He will never know you.It was a promise that had solidified the ice. The hysterical, broken woman who had sobbed on the bathroom floor was gone, frozen out. In her place was a new, cold, calculating intelligence.She was n
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