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Chapter 71: Trouble in the Spotlight

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Allie Brooks stirred awake to the sound of Liam Hart’s deep voice. He had just stepped out of the bathroom, freshly showered, and was buttoning up his crisp shirt. His hair glistened with droplets of water, and he exuded a calm confidence that made Allie’s stomach churn with mixed emotions.

With a playful tap on her hip, Liam teased, “Wake up, lazybones. Big day ahead.”

Allie groaned and buried her face into the pillow. Her mind was already a storm of questions. Was Liam drunk last night? Did h
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  • Secrets of a Hidden Marriage   Chapter 241: Bastard. Jinx.

    Catherine doesn't leave.She circles back. Returns to the bed. Stands over Mia with the specific, predatory posture of someone who has been waiting for this moment for a long time and is not finished.Mia is still in the corner. Smaller now. The way people get when they've been hit and the hit has reminded them of other hits, older ones, the kind that leave marks you can't see.Catherine's voice is vicious. Controlled. Each word placed with the precision of someone who has practiced this speech."I don't know what my brother and his wife were thinking. They rushed back to celebrate your birthday and died for it. A plane crash. Because of you. Because of a child they shouldn't have adopted in the first place."Mia says nothing."And George." Catherine's lip curls. "Foolish boy. Defending you all these years. Protecting a bastard sprung from who knows where.""I'm not a bastard," Mia says. Her voice is quiet.

  • Secrets of a Hidden Marriage   Chapter 240: You're Nothing More Than a Dog the Stone Family Keeps for Amusement

    A hundred questions. A thousand suspicions.Why does everything happen in sequence, each event feeding the next like pieces on a board? Someone frames me for the necklace. Then a gunman shows up at a rooftop. Then a media campaign launches against me with the speed and precision of something that was planned in advance.Each incident, on its own, could be coincidence. Together, they form a pattern. And the pattern has a shape that I can almost see but not quite, like a face pressing against frosted glass.The first person I think of is Mia.But the math doesn't work.Liam trusts her. That's one problem. The bigger problem is the hostage situation. Mia was on that rooftop with a gun to her head and a man holding her by the throat. She nearly died. She did nearly die. If the gunman hadn't slipped, if Liam hadn't caught her, if the crowd hadn't pulled them back, Mia Stone would be dead.Nobody orchestrates their own near

  • Secrets of a Hidden Marriage   Chapter 239: Allie Brooks, Get Out of the Entertainment Circle

    I understand now.The crowd. The signs. The matching shirts. The organized, coordinated energy of people who showed up at a specific hospital at a specific time to confront a specific person.They're Mia Stone's fans.I should have guessed. The language on the signs, the terminology, the specific vocabulary of celebrity fandom: "Heavenly Empress," "get out of the entertainment industry," "home wrecker." These aren't random strangers with opinions. These are devoted followers who have been told, online, in real time, that the woman they love is being wronged by the woman standing in front of them.I can argue with three people. Maybe five.I cannot argue with ten women who are screaming and throwing water bottles and swinging promotional boards like weapons.The first bottle hits the ground beside my foot. The second grazes my shoulder. The promotional board catches the edge of my arm and the plastic cuts a thin line a

  • Secrets of a Hidden Marriage   Chapter 238: Headline

    The journalists are still outside.I can see them through the hospital's ground-floor windows, a wall of cameras and microphones and the specific, hungry energy of people who have just been handed the story of the year. By tomorrow morning, every outlet in Chicago will have the same headline: Mia Stone, rooftop, gunman, fall. Liam Hart, hero. And somewhere in the fine print, my name. The wife who stood behind the perimeter and watched the whole thing.George arrives thirty minutes later.He comes through the hospital entrance at a pace that's almost a run, his suit jacket unbuttoned, his hair off-center, dust on his shoes from a terminal floor. I've never seen George look anything other than composed. Right now he looks terrified."How is she? Where is she?"His voice breaks on the last word. His eyes are wet."Neurology," Liam says. "Third floor. She's sedated."George doesn't wait for more. He pushes thro

  • Secrets of a Hidden Marriage   Chapter 237: Suddenly Going Crazy

    His hand leaves Mia's neck.For one second, everything holds. The man is at the edge. Mia is free. Liam is two feet away. The gun is pointed at the ground. The crowd behind the perimeter is holding its breath.Then the man's face changes.He sees something. Some expression on Mia's face, some micro-second flicker that tells him what he already suspected. She's not going to agree. She was never going to agree. The proposal, the marriage, the fantasy he's been building in his head for months, none of it was real. It was his. Only his."You lied to me!" he screams, lunging forward. "She would never agree! She would never!"His hand grabs Mia's wrist.The gun comes up.Liam moves first.He steps forward and knocks the gun out of the man's grip. It clatters across the concrete, spinning toward the far wall. The man stumbles, his balance gone, his feet sliding on the smooth rooftop surface.

  • Secrets of a Hidden Marriage   Chapter 236: Let Him Die. Is That Okay?

    Mia's screaming pushes the man over the edge. Not the physical edge, the other one. The one inside his head, the line between desperation and something far more dangerous.His face changes. The soft, pleading expression hardens into something else. Something ugly. He raises the gun and points it directly at Liam."Bingbing," he says, his voice suddenly tender, almost gentle, "do you see? The man you spent your youth loving married someone else. He betrayed you. Shall I avenge you? Shall I put him down? Wouldn't that make you happy?"Mia's eyes go red with rage."If you touch him," she says, each word precise, each word a blade, "I will never forgive you. Not in this life. Not in any life after. I will haunt you until you die of fear."The man's brow furrows."You're still protecting him?" His voice cracks. "He abandoned you, Bingbing. He chose another woman. And you still love him? Why can't you look at me? I love you

  • Secrets of a Hidden Marriage   Chapter 24: Shattered Bonds

    "Allie," Nick's voice was low, almost pleading, as he stepped closer to her under the late afternoon sun. His figure, lean but tense, seemed a shadow of its former self. The confident, commanding man she once knew was now filled with raw vulnerability.“Allie,” he repeated, his voice cracking. “I’v

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  • Secrets of a Hidden Marriage   Chapter 21: The Dance of Deception

    Vivian Brooks stood seething, her expression twisted with fury. "Allie Brooks, you think you’re better than me? Who do you think you are to look down on me?"Allie folded her arms, her gaze unwavering. "Vivian, I’m not here to argue. But if you keep pushing me, I won’t just stand by."Vivian’s face

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  • Secrets of a Hidden Marriage   Chapter 14: Hidden Intentions

    The room fell silent, all eyes on Allie.Cher’s smile was razor-sharp. “Allie and Mr. Hart... well, they have a special connection.”Her words hung in the air like a trap. Whispers started, suspicion spreading like wildfire.Kane raised an eyebrow. “Allie, you know Liam Hart?”Allie hesitated, then

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  • Secrets of a Hidden Marriage   Chapter 12: What Are You Doing, Liam?

    Liam’s eyes narrowed, a dark expression crossing his face. He couldn’t believe what he’d just heard. "What did you just say?" His tone was ice cold.Allie blinked, her vision still foggy, and mumbled, "Nick... I thought you were him... I thought... Lawson..." Her words were barely more than a whisp

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