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.THE SUBSTITUE WIFE RETURNS
Last Updated : 2026-10-31
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Ariana Hale was the ailing twin that nobody ever gave a thought, until her sister vanished one day before the wedding. Being compelled to substitute her at the altar, Ariana was a wife in front of people and a replacement behind the closed doors. Ariana was sent away and paid to keep the swap a secretwhen her sister came back. The same man who turned her away is dying of a slow poison years later... and the only doctor who can heal him is the woman he drove away. Secrets are revealed, emotions resurface and her lost children are discovered and Damien has to struggle to keep the woman he loves before her ailing health takes her away from him permanently.
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.THE SUBSTITUE WIFE RETURNS Chapter 60: The Man They Chose for Me
Ariana’s POV I stared at the screen, waiting for the words to rearrange themselves into something that made sense. They didn’t. Damien Blackwood. A childhood photograph. Victor standing beside him. And beneath it, the words that had just turned my entire relationship into another experiment. PROJECT ARIANA’S FUTURE HUSBAND. I slowly turned toward Damien. “What is this?” He stared at the screen, his face unreadable. “I’ve never seen that photograph before.” “That’s not what I asked.” “Ariana—” “Were you part of this project?” “No.” The answer came quickly, but something in his expression made my stomach twist. It wasn’t guilt exactly. It was recognition. “You know something,” I whispered. He dragged a hand over his face. “When I was a child, I was taken to a medical facility. My parents told me it was for treatment after an accident. I remember tests, doctors, and a man who asked me strange questions. I never knew it was connected to Victor.” “And you never thought to mentio
Last Updated : 2026-10-31.THE SUBSTITUE WIFE RETURNS Chapter 59: The First Betrayal
Ariana’s POV “Then why do you have the scar from the day you hurt me?” Damien stared at his palm as though he’d never seen it before. His mouth opened, but no words came out. For once, the man who always had something clever to say looked completely lost. “Ariana, I don’t know.” I stepped away from him. “Stop saying that!” My voice echoed through the maintenance room. Christopher went quiet, Gabriel lowered his weapon, and even Adrian stopped examining the terminal. I looked at Damien, fighting the tears burning behind my eyes. “First, I discover that our relationship might have been planned. Now I remember you standing in a white room with a syringe in your hand. How am I supposed to believe you?” “Because I’m telling you the truth.” “Your truth keeps changing!” He flinched. I hated that I noticed. I hated that some part of me still wanted to reach for him, to tell him everything would be fine. But I couldn’t comfort the person who might have helped destroy my childhood. Da
Last Updated : 2026-10-31.THE SUBSTITUE WIFE RETURNS Chapter 58: The Thing That Wore My Face
Ariana’s POV“RUN!”Damien didn’t have to tell me twice. We raced through the collapsing corridor as explosions shook the facility. Behind us, something enormous dragged itself out of the underground chamber, its movements sending tremors through the walls. I didn’t look back until we reached a junction. Big mistake. A silver hand, easily twice the size of a human’s, burst through the floor behind us.“Okay!” Christopher shouted, scrambling after Gabriel. “I’ve officially reached my limit. Whatever is down there can keep the entire planet. I’m retiring!”“Retiring to where?” Damien yelled.“Somewhere without evil laboratories!”“Keep running!”“That’s literally what I’m doing!”Damien pulled me around the corner just as the corridor collapsed. We crashed into a maintenance room, and Gabriel slammed the security door shut. For three seconds, everyone stood panting in the darkness. Then Christopher pointed at Damien and me. “If either of you starts kissing right now, I’m opening that do
Last Updated : 2026-10-31.THE SUBSTITUE WIFE RETURNS Chapter 57: My Father’s Voice
Ariana’s POV“It’s time you came home.”The words echoed through the chamber.Nobody moved.I stared at the screen, unable to look away from the man I’d spent seventeen years believing was dead.My father.He looked older than I remembered from the few photographs I’d seen. His hair was streaked with gray, a deep scar ran from his temple to his jaw, and those silver eyes…Those eyes were the same ones that had haunted my nightmares.Damien moved closer to me.“You don’t have to listen to him.”My father smiled on the screen.“Still protecting her?”Damien’s jaw tightened.“Still hiding behind screens?”My father actually laughed.“I like you.”“Everybody keeps saying that.”Christopher muttered, “It’s getting annoying.”I almost laughed.Almost.Then my father’s expression changed.“Ariana, you have no idea how long I’ve waited for this moment.”I stepped forward.“You’re dead.”“No.”“You died seventeen years ago.”“That is what your mother wanted you to believe.”I turned sharply to
Last Updated : 2026-09-17.THE SUBSTITUE WIFE RETURNS Chapter 1 - Bad News and Broken Bonds.
I sat in the chair in the doctor office trying not to think too hard. I was a little shaky in the hands, and I managed to sit still. The white walls, the slight odor of antiseptic, and the quiet ticking of the clock did not help to soothe the pit in my stomach. Dr. Morrison, the expert who had trea
.THE SUBSTITUE WIFE RETURNS Chapter 5 - Rules of the Substitute.
My father stood next to me with his shoulders straight, and his face calm but agonizingly firm. He cleared his throat. “Damien… I owe you an explanation.”Damien didn’t respond. He was upset, with his hands crossed, his jaw set, and his eyes steadfastly focused on my father with a warning that was s
.THE SUBSTITUE WIFE RETURNS Chapter 4 - The Wedding and the revelation.
The church was more stunning than I had dreamed yet I was unable to appreciate it.I grabbed the arm of my father and my fingers shook as I tried to calm my heart. Each beat was louder than the music that was playing in the background and resonating in my chest.“You ready, huh?” my father said, his
.THE SUBSTITUE WIFE RETURNS Chapter 3 - Forced to Act
“Where is she?” I questioned myself when I emerged out of the last house on my list, and, as usual, she was not there. “Where are you Alina?” I mumbled.I had already checked all possible places I could think of last night after father had left my room. I had called at the houses of the friends o
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