MasukClara Merrick thought she understood the man she married. Nikolai Sarkhel was supposed to be her husband, the heir of a powerful crime dynasty, a man who claimed he could never have children. So when he insisted on IVF using her own genetic material and a donor, Clara agreed… believing it was the only way to build the family they were denied. But the truth shatters everything. Nikolai was never infertile. He was never faithful either. Behind Clara’s back, he builds a life with her own sister and demands she terminate the child growing inside her. Broken, betrayed, and nearly destroyed in an underground clinic, Clara escapes with one desperate secret—her baby is still alive. Fleeing her past, she vanishes into the remote silence of Montana, assuming a new identity… Isla Cross. There, she finds fragile safety in a sleepy town… and an even more dangerous man. Rebel Montgomery is a tattooed biker feared by everyone who crosses him. Cold, dominant, untouchable and unknowingly, the man assigned to dismantle the very criminal empire Clara was born into. As obsession turns into attachment, Clara dares to believe she might be safe again. But the past doesn’t stay buried. Nikolai comes hunting her. Secrets unravel. Betrayals multiply. And Rebel is revealed to be something far more dangerous than a biker, an undercover strike commander hiding in plain sight. When lies collide and loyalties fracture, Clara is forced to choose between the man who destroyed her first life… and the man who might destroy her second. But in a world ruled by power, blood, and obsession… love is never the safe choice. It is the deadliest one.
Lihat lebih banyak004Inside Sarkhel’s mansion in Silicon Valley, Nick threw a wild, indulgent party meant purely for his own pleasure and satisfaction. The night revolved around his personal celebrations, including Calla’s pregnancy and the finalization of his divorce from Clara.For Nick, it was a moment of triumph and release. He celebrated his newfound freedom from Clara and what he believed had been a forced marriage, one imposed on him by her father, savoring the feeling of finally living life on his own terms.A scatter of the guests consisted of Nikolai’s personal bodyguards and staff, but the majority of the crowd were Calla’s fellow models.By the poolside, Calla and Nick were lost in their own world, having the absolute time of their lives.They were locked in a relentless, breathless embrace, trading heavy kisses without a single pause. The temperature soared even higher when two other women slipped into the scene, eagerly melting into their increasingly steamy, uninhibited display.As the
003Clara had been raised by her adoptive parents, Samuel and Ruth, devoted people of faith who had instilled in her the sanctity of life from an early age. Because of the values they had nurtured in her heart, the very thought of ending her pregnancy was unthinkable. No matter how relentlessly Nick pressured her, Clara could never bring herself to abort the child growing inside her womb.Clara glanced at the fading sky outside the window. She had less than an hour before sunset. With trembling hands, she packed a few clothes and gathered her most important documents into a worn travel bag.There was no way she would trade a roof over her head for the life of the innocent little angel growing inside her womb. If staying in that apartment meant killing her baby, then she would leave. No matter how uncertain her future was, she would choose her child every single time.With only a few dollars in her pocket and the wedding ring Nikolai had given her, Clara set out on the road alone. The
002The night after Clara discovered her husband Nick’s devastating betrayal, she drove fifty miles away from Atherton, desperate to escape the suffocating pain and heartbreak. She spent two days alone in a quiet inn, drowning in tears and silence, but no amount of distance, solitude, or sleepless nights could ease the ache that had shattered her heart.Clara felt lost and hollow, as if part of her had died. With Nick set to divorce her and a baby growing inside her womb, she had no idea what future awaited her.Yet despite the heartbreak, Clara still found herself returning to the apartment she shared with Nick. She wanted to run away from everything, but she simply couldn't.Inside the apartment, waiting for Clara, was her aunt Esther Merrick, the sister of her late adoptive father.Esther welcomed Clara with a deadly glare before striking her across the face with a sharp slap, the sound echoing through the silent apartment.Esther’s eyes burned with rage as she stepped closer, her
001It was almost eight in the evening, yet Clara had not received a single call or text from her husband, Nikolai Sarkhel, not even the usual signal that he wanted her to come to his bookstore; it was their first wedding anniversary, and Clara had accidentally discovered that Nick had personally hired the same florist and event styling shop to prepare something special, the same place where she had gone to bring her gift for him, and while she was there, the staff congratulated her warmly, telling the unsuspecting Clara that her husband had already planned a surprise for her.At the stroke of exactly eight in the evening, Clara finally decided she would go to Nick’s bookstore on her own will, carefully bringing the box she had prepared to gift him, that inside it was a positive pregnancy test result she believed would probably make Nick so happy.Two months after their civil wedding, Nick came home from the clinic carrying a report that confirmed what he had feared… he had a medical





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