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Chapter 70: A Lingering Mistake
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2025-07-06 01:04:31
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Secrets of a Hidden Marriage Chapter 153: You Two Will Never Happen
The name lands between us like a grenade with the pin already pulled.Adam Hart.Chloe says it. I think it. And then neither of us speaks for a full three seconds because we both know exactly how complicated that two-word answer is.I'm the one who breaks the silence — by immediately shaking my head."No."Chloe gives me the look. The patient, infuriatingly reasonable look she reserves for moments when I'm being my own worst obstacle. "Allie—""The whole reason I didn't want to do this play in the first place was because I didn't want to perform on stage with Adam." I press my fingers against my temple. "Recruiting him to my team is a completely different level of humiliating.""It's not humiliating. It's strategic.""He walked past me yesterday like I was a fire hydrant, Chloe.""I know.""He doesn't speak to me. He doesn't acknowledge that I exist. He has made it abundantly, efficiently clear that he wants nothing to do with me—""I know all of that," she says, still calm, still rea
Secrets of a Hidden Marriage Chapter 152: Three Slaps or a Public Apology — Your Choice
One vote.I stare at the final number on my screen until the digits blur, and then I let myself feel it — that quiet, vicious satisfaction of watching someone spend thousands of dollars and hours of desperation to beat you, only to fall short by the smallest possible margin.Noah didn't just help me win. He made it art.I can picture Felicity's face when the poll closed — that frozen moment of disbelief, refreshing the page over and over, watching her number stay perpetually one step behind no matter how much she threw at it. No matter how many fake accounts, how much money, how many favors called in.One vote.It should be enough to keep her up all night.It is absolutely not enough to make her stop.She files a complaint with the Academic Affairs Office by eight the next morning.I find out from Chloe, who finds out from a junior who works the front desk, who texts her before I've finished my first
Secrets of a Hidden Marriage Chapter 151: One Vote. That's All She Needed.
I'm barely through the courtyard doors before I pull up Liam's contact and hit call.It rings twice."Allie." His voice is low, unhurried — but I can hear the faint ambient hum of a conference room in the background. He's in a meeting. Of course he is. "Is something wrong?""I need a favor."A beat. Then, without missing a step: "Go ahead."I press my back against the exterior wall of the journalism building, keeping my voice down. "Your hacker friend — Noah. The one who traced that anonymous post Cher used on the campus forum. Can you give me his contact?"Silence for exactly two seconds."I'll send it now," Liam says.That's it. No interrogation, no what do you need him for, no are you sure about this. Just — I'll send it now.Something warm moves through my chest before I can stop it."You're not going to ask why?" I say."If you wanted to tell me, you would h
Secrets of a Hidden Marriage Chapter 150: I'm Coming For That Role Now
I don't go to my own department first.I go straight to the Performing Arts building.I'd looked up Felicity Montgomery's schedule the night before — old journalist habit, never walk into a confrontation without knowing your terrain. She has a large lecture in Meridian Hall at nine. Two hundred seats, tiered rows, the kind of class that empties like a burst dam the second the bell rings.I'm standing at the bottom of the steps when it does.Students flood out around me, and I feel the exact moment the whispers start. A girl near the door clocks me first, nudges her friend, and suddenly there's a ripple of recognition spreading outward like I've dropped something in still water.I hear "black lotus" twice before I've taken three steps. I hear "green tea" once. I keep my chin level and my eyes forward.Then I see her.Felicity Montgomery, descending the stairs with two friends flanking her like a security detail, hair perfect, chin high, wearing the specific expression of someone who we
Secrets of a Hidden Marriage Chapter 149: She Posted It. I Know It Was Her.
I sit with it for a minute.The vote totals. The gap that's closed overnight. The fact that by some miracle of ballot-stuffing, Felicity Montgomery now leads the female poll by fifty thousand votes and the gap is so clean and so sudden that it could only mean one thing — she paid for it.And here's the thing I notice first, the thing that surprises even me:I'm not upset.I let out a slow breath and actually feel my shoulders drop an inch. No more stage play. No more standing opposite Adam Hart under a spotlight while half of Ashford University films it on their phones and posts theories about what it means. No more navigating that minefield while Liam watches from a distance, expressionless, processing.Felicity wants it that badly? Fine. She can have it.I close the forum app.Then I notice the notif
Secrets of a Hidden Marriage Chapter 148: Thirty Thousand Votes and One Very Big Problem
We've been sitting in the booth long enough that the lunch crowd has thinned out and our drinks have gone warm, but neither of us is in a hurry to leave. There's something about what Chloe just told me — the weight of it, the quiet devastation — that makes me want to stay right here, in this small anonymous restaurant, a little longer.Then she shifts gears completely."Oh — I almost forgot." She pulls out her phone, scrolling. "Have you checked the Ashford forum lately?"I stare at her. "I would rather eat glass."She almost smiles. "You might want to make an exception. Your name is all over the National Collegiate Arts Showcase voting poll. You're leading by a lot, Allie. Like, a lot a lot."I blink. "The what?""The Showcase." She turns her phone toward me. "You seriously don't know about this?"I take her phone, squinting at the screen. "I was on a film set for the entire summer, Chloe. I missed approxim
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Did she say something wrong again?The moment the word left her lips, Allie caught it—the subtle twitch in Adam’s brow, the slight narrowing of his eyes.A flicker of irritation, barely there, but sharp enough to slice through her confidence.Adam folded his arms across his chest, his stance as clo
Last Updated : 2026-04-05Secrets of a Hidden Marriage Chapter 124: The Edge of Desire
Liam looked stunned for a split second.I could see it—the slight hitch in his breath, the way his gaze lingered on me just a little too long. It was rare to catch him off guard, and I had done it with one kiss. A soft one. Barely there. But enough.My cheeks burned with the aftermath. I turned my
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Liam’s eyebrows twitched slightly.That was twice today.I had kissed him—completely unprovoked. And now, I couldn’t even look him in the eye.God, what was wrong with me?My cheeks were burning, the heat spreading down my neck like a wildfire. Had I been too forward? Was I misreading him entirely?
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