MasukShe gave up her future to save his life. Six years ago, Aurora Hale, once hailed as a medical prodigy, walked away from her dreams to become nothing more than a devoted wife. For six years, she devoted her life to the man she loved, quietly standing in his shadow while others basked in his light, and he reveled in good health, thanks to her. But in return for her devotion came betrayal. To Ethan and his powerful family, she was nothing but a college dropout, an unworthy woman who had schemed her way into their home. And when his elegant first love, Dr. Celeste Moore, returned, even their daughter turned against her. Broken with hurt, Aurora files for divorce and walks away from the man and family who never saw her worth, reclaiming her true identity as the brilliant scientist the world once called a medicine genius. Now, the woman they dismissed as ordinary is about to shock the world. And the man who once cast her aside, realized too late what kind of genius he let go. He comes begging, pleading for her to let him back into her life, his life slipping away from him, but she treats him like one who never existed to her. "Please return, Mr Langford. Never again will I stoop so low to be with someone like you."
Lihat lebih banyakChapter Eighty-EightWith those words, she turned on her heels and scurried towards the door.“Celeste.”Ethan’s hand closed around her wrist before she had taken three steps. Celeste stopped, her chest heaving with emotions.She felt Ethan’s grip on her soft flesh, firm but not rough, the grip of a man who did not want her to leave and was not certain he could explain why.Her other hand gripped the silky material of her nightdress tightly,“I won’t make a scene,” she said through gritted teeth, “ I’ll be gone by morning. You won’t even have to—”“Celeste, stop!” Ethan uttered with a frustrated tone, “Why are you doing this?”Celeste let herself be turned back around. She let her eyes be wet. She looked up at him with the expression of a woman at the edge of something, and it was close enough to true that it cost her very little to hold.“Ethan Langford, how could you ask me that?” She said in a tight voice, her throat burning with undyed tears.She could not believe he was asking her
Chapter Eighty-SevenThe light under Ethan’s study door was the thin, concentrated kind that meant he had been sitting in the same position for hours. The kind of light that did not invite company.Celeste stood outside the door, and adjusted the straps of her flimsy nightdress. The material was so thin that it left nothing to the imagination. She took a deep breath and knocked tentatively on the heavy oak door..Inside, Ethan paused at the sound. He frowned, wondering who on earth pulled be awake by that time in the house, and even more still had the guts to come to his study.He somehow had an inkling of who would be at the door, and that was why he’d paused.He really did not need any disturbance that night,The knock came again this time, more rapt and urgent. Ethan sighed, and rubbed his brow.“Come in.”Celeste opened the door and stepped inside.The study was the most honest room in the Langford estate, she had always thought. It did not perform wealth the way the formal rooms
Chapter Eighty-SixLater that night, Celeste laid awake long after the house went quiet.She stared up at the ceiling of the room, sighing heavily. Sometimes she tossed and turned, her head whirling with unsettling thoughts.The room she was occupying in the Langford mansion was beautiful. It had been redecorated at her insistence when she’d moved into the house newly.Back then, Aurora had still been in the house but Ethan had done everything she’d asked for. She was only supposed to stay in the house for a short while, after Aurora had supposedly made her twist her ankle, but she’d demanded a full redecoration when she’d arrived.She knew the house had been decorated according to Aurora’s taste. That was why she had extreme pleasure in disseminating whatever was there.She’d changed everything; the colors, the furniture, the view over the east garden. Celeste had made it clear, without saying it directly, that the room was a statement of intention. Her presence in this wing of the
Chapter Eighty-EightThat feeling of safety did not last long however.Later that week, Celeste and the rest could finally return to home. Vera and Bella went along with them to meet Ethan as B’s discuss his next line of action.By the time they had all gathered in the main dining room, Vera and Bella had moved from the relief of Celeste’s perceived advantages to the familiar, more satisfying territory of grievance.Aurora was the easier target.Aurora was always the easier target.“There’s really no need to continue to dwell on that vicious woman any longer. She was just a gold digger,” Vera said, with a haughty little sniff, her nose head high.Her voice carried the particular satisfaction of a conclusion she had arrived at long ago and enjoyed revisiting. “That’s all she ever was. Latching on to the Vaughn family the moment she was out of this one. Did I not say from the beginning? A woman like that, with nothing to her name, with no family, no breeding, no—”“Enough.”Ethan’s voic
Chapter Seventy“Leave the office, Nadia.” Caspian uttered coldly, “This discussion is over.”“No, it isn’t.” Nadia uttered, shaking her head frantically, “I had specifically sent my paper in to the Helios foundation. What if it was showcased in the event? Are you saying that you will deny me the o
Chapter Fifty-NineThe next day, Ethan was in a serious meeting with his assistant and some members of his innovation team.Carter was on his feet in the opulent meeting room, explaining something using slides and a projector.His voice was controlled and precise, every word landing exactly where h
Chapter Fifty-Eight“No!”That single word sent a rippled through the air and made the women stare at Ethan in shock.“No?!” Vera repeated, as though trying to be sure of what she was hearing, “Did you just say no to what I said?!”Ethan inhaled deeply, then looked round at them with his intense bl
Chapter Forty-SixCaspian raised an eyebrow at that statement.“She saved you?” He asked, looking from the little girl to Aurora.“Yes, from the mean girls.” Shannon uttered once more.Caspian expression did not change but Aurora noticed the way sharp glint in his eyes at that statement. He reached












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