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Chapter 2

Autor: Homecoming
It was late when Liam returned to the villa.

Stella clearly wasn't waiting for him. The rest of the villa was dark.

Liam felt his way toward the only light and unexpectedly heard soft, breathy moans.

Under the dim bedside lamp, Stella held Skyler's photograph and murmured:

"Skyler, darling, once I marry you..."

Her voice was tender and lovestruck, nothing like the cold tone she used with Liam.

Liam waited, but Stella seemed unable to satisfy herself that night. She lost herself completely.

Only when she caught sight of his reflection did her unfocused gaze clear.

She frowned at him impatiently. "Why are you standing there?"

"I came to resign," Liam said calmly, ignoring her irritation.

Still, the sight of her face sent a faint ache through his chest.

Suzy would never have treated him this way.

But Stella wasn't Suzy.

Suzy was dead.

Stella frowned. "Tired of being my secretary? Going back to being the Sheridan heir?

"Of course. Someone like you, who uses his status to bully Skyler, couldn't stand a little hardship.

"Fine. Finish the project with Graham Lewis, and then you can leave."

She handed Liam an invitation.

Stella seemed to know it would hurt him.

She smiled cruelly.

"It's my wedding. Make sure you come."

Liam looked at the gold-embossed invitation and agreed with a smile.

Nothing stirred in his eyes.

Stella always insisted that he bullied Skyler.

Without his grandfather Leonard Sheridan to protect him, Liam’s father would have ruined him long ago. The social climber was married to Liam’s mother for ten years and cheated on her for eleven.

The pain caused by Skyler's mother even drove Liam's mother to her death.

This was the hundredth time.

...

The next morning, Liam found Stella, who rarely got up early, bringing in breakfast.

She had bought a shrimp omelet and a box of mini beef pies.

Liam reached for the omelet, but Stella slapped his hand away.

“What are you doing? Don’t you like beef pies?”

Liam froze.

For a moment, he thought she remembered the bet he lost for her, when he had to eat a hundred mini beef pies straight from the oven.

The scalding gravy blistered his mouth. He couldn’t eat for three days afterward, and even the sight of those pies made him feel sick.

He shouldn't have expected her to remember.

"Fine." Liam drew back his reddened hand.

He didn't look at the food again and only drank water.

Stella glared at him. "What's that supposed to mean? Are you throwing another spoiled-heir tantrum?"

Liam studied her for a moment, then calmly put a beef pie in his mouth.

He chewed mechanically before hurrying to the bathroom to retch.

Stella followed him on instinct and brought him water to rinse his mouth.

"What's wrong? Do you need to go to the hospital?"

Before Liam could answer, Skyler's voice came from behind her. "What's wrong with Liam? Did he eat something bad?"

Stella's brows drew together. The concern in her eyes turned cold.

"Liam, you're unbelievable. You made yourself throw up just to upset me.

"What, is the breakfast I bought you not good enough?"

He was still retching, almost bringing up stomach acid.

But Stella glanced at her watch and took Skyler's arm. "You need to clock in at the office in ten minutes. Skyler, let's go. We can eat on the way."

By the time Liam rinsed his mouth, Stella's car was long gone.

He worked as her secretary for three years and never once got a ride to work with her.

On Skyler's first day as his replacement, he sat in Stella's passenger seat.

Liam couldn't put his feelings into words. It only felt a little easier when he reminded himself that Stella wasn't Suzy.

Suzy was so good to him that he couldn't forget her unless he let Stella hurt him.

There were never other boys around Suzy. She only had eyes for him.

She remembered everything he liked, knew his weaknesses, and understood his heart. Before the car accident, Liam thought they would be together forever.

But there was no forever.

Suzy was dead.

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    Suzy’s depression improved after Liam came home.She no longer needed medication to sleep. She only needed to hold him.She still had nightmares sometimes and dreamed that he left her again.Whenever she woke him, Liam gently rubbed her back and reassured her until she fell asleep.A month after his return, Suzy couldn’t wait any longer to propose.She offered him Everjoy and every asset she owned as a wedding gift. She didn’t keep a single dollar for herself.When she went out for business dinners, she liked to play the pauper and text Liam to ask for allowance.Liam was happy to indulge her.Leonard supported the marriage, and they soon held a small wedding at an island resort with only their loved ones present.Afterward, they ran Everjoy together. They had no desire to build an empire; they only wanted the company to thrive.Whenever they had time off, they traveled together. They stayed close, eager to make up for the years they lost.They weren’t using birth control, and Suzy so

  • She Looked Like My Dead First Love Until I Learned Why   Chapter 25

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    Three years passed in the blink of an eye.No other man entered Suzy’s life.She still found no news of Liam.Nearly every night without word from him left her unable to sleep.She checked his old social media accounts again and again to see if he changed his profile picture or bio.The hope of seeing him again kept her going.She hired specialists to restore everything Liam sent people to destroy.She even turned a room into a place to keep their belongings, as if they were her most precious treasures.She renamed the Watson Group to Everjoy.Outside of work, she spent most of her time in churches and chapels, and sometimes visited other places of worship.Suzy never believed in any of it before, but she needed to believe that someone could keep Liam safe.She even made a pilgrimage to a chapel and crossed its stone floor on her knees, praying all the way.By the time she reached the altar, her knees were raw and bleeding.She asked for only one thing: for Liam to survive cancer.She

  • She Looked Like My Dead First Love Until I Learned Why   Chapter 23

    Skyler heard that Liam had left Suzy and thought he might have another chance with her.He slipped back into the country without her watchers noticing.Late one night, he found Suzy speaking to Liam’s photograph.“Liam, I’ll do anything if you come back.“I’ve always kept a place for you beside me. I promise I won’t fall for anyone else.”Skyler spent so long being tormented overseas, and he still couldn’t understand why Stella’s feelings toward him changed so suddenly.She even sent him divorce papers to sign.Skyler refused.But Suzy found a way to make him sign. After several rounds of electric shocks, he put his trembling hand to the papers.Liam had already stripped Louis of most of his power in the Sheridan family. Without Stella’s protection, Skyler would have nothing left.But the sight of Suzy with Liam’s photograph made his stomach turn.He felt sick.No one told him that the woman he thought was Stella was Suzy.It disgusted him. He thought women were all the same in the end

  • She Looked Like My Dead First Love Until I Learned Why   Chapter 22

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  • She Looked Like My Dead First Love Until I Learned Why   Chapter 21

    Suzy sank to her knees. She could not understand why Liam changed his mind so quickly.But she refused to give up.Every day, she brought meals she cooked to the Sheridan estate and waited outside for him.The gates never opened for her. She did not see Liam even once.He returned every Watson Group share she gave him.After Liam dealt with Louis, he took Leonard abroad to recover.Suzy wanted to follow them.But Liam threatened to take his own life if she left the country.Each day, the only news she heard about him was which bar he visited and which woman he spent the night with.Photos, recordings, and videos piled up on Suzy’s desk.Each one wore her down.Even so, she sent him updates about her day, though he never replied.She announced on every social media account she had that Liam was the love of her life.Then she watched him post a statement saying he had nothing to do with her.Nothing Suzy did seemed to move him.However, she refused to give up. She found Liam’s record o

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