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Chapter 13: Fractured Glass
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2026-05-11 14:03:07
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The bald man—probably the team lead—spoke rapidly into his comms. “Alpha team in position. Civilian down, minor laceration. Threat appears neutralized for now. Requesting immediate extraction and sweep of the perimeter.”Another guard helped an older woman who had fallen near the broken doors. Sirens wailed in the distance. My mind raced. A sniper. At the hospital. Targeting me? Or just creating chaos? The timing….right when I was explaining the marriage to Martin…felt too perfect to be random.The lead guard crouched beside us. “We need to move you both to a secure location inside. Stay between us.”We didn’t argue. With the guards flanking us, we hurried deeper into the hospital, past worried staff and through double doors marked “Staff Only.” My legs felt like jelly. Every shadow made me flinch. Martin kept glancing at me, his anger temporarily buried under shock and something that looked a lot like fear. We ended up in a small administrative office on the second floor.One guard s
The Billionaire's Hidden Price Chapter 13: Fractured Glass
Lyra POV I stood in front of the full-length mirror in the bedroom that still didn’t feel like mine, tugging at the hem of my simple gray sweater. It was one of the few pieces I’d brought from my old apartment. It was soft, cozy, and worn at the cuffs, nothing like the designer clothes Alexander had filled the closet with. Today, I didn’t want to look like Alexander King’s wife. I just wanted to look like Lyra. Like someone who could walk into a hospital and face her mother without the weight of this ridiculous contract crushing her chest or a lot of people rushing to take my signature.My hands shook a little as I brushed my hair back into a ponytail. Mom had been stable, the nurses said, but stable wasn’t the same as awake and smiling. And Martin… God, Martin. I hadn’t spoken to him properly since the wedding. A few vague texts, that was all. He deserved better. He’d been my rock for years after Dad’s disappearance, through Mom’s illness, and through every late-night worry session
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The Billionaire's Hidden Price Chapter 11: The Space Between Us
Lyra POV I put the ring back on, but that didn't mean I was at peace. Not even close.By midday, the mansion had settled into its usual rhythm. Staff moved quietly through the halls, and security stood at their posts like statues. Everything ran like a machine: precise, efficient, and cold. Somewhere in the middle of all of it, I sat at the edge of the window seat in my room, knees pulled to my chest, watching the city below as if it held answers I hadn't yet thought to ask for.My mother was stable. Christopher had confirmed that through a brief, formal message delivered to my phone by someone I didn't ask for. Martin was being monitored, which I hated the sound of but accepted because the alternative was worse. And Alexander Dayn was somewhere in this same building, doing whatever powerful men did when the world wasn't looking.I tried not to think about him, but I failed.—-----------It was the smell that found me first.Rich, warm, and unmistakably coffee. It drifted under the d
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Lyra POV The moment the car door closed behind us, silence filled in. For a moment I experienced something I had never seen or known ever since my life began, and now the silence swallowed everything. Not the peaceful kind but the suffocating kind. The kind that makes you have a lot of questions to ask.I stared straight ahead, my fingers clenched tightly in my lap, the ring on my finger feeling heavier than it should. It didn't feel beautiful or special. It felt like a chain.“You didn’t tell me.”My voice broke the silence before I could stop it.Alexander didn’t respond immediately.He sat across from me, calm as ever, like nothing had happened. Like he hadn’t just proposed to me in front of hundreds of people.Like my entire life hadn’t just been turned upside down.I turned to him, my eyes burning.“You didn’t tell me you were going to propose!”This time, he looked at me. Like he was expecting a reaction.“I told you,” he said calmly, “that this is where everything begins.”My
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