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Chapter 10

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The door creaked open the next morning, spilling a shaft of grey light across the carpet like a wound through the gloom. Savannah didn’t stir from the bed. Her eyes, red and dry, stared at the ornate ceiling, her face pale and slack from another sleepless night. Every part of her ached—not from physical strain, but from the weight of knowing she was trapped, bound to a man who wore his secrets like armour.

Colton stood in the doorway. He didn’t announce himself. His presence said enough. Broad-shouldered in a black cashmere sweater, jaw tight, hands clenched at his sides, he watched her from the shadows as though trying to gauge whether she was still salvageable—or if she’d become another casualty of his cold logic.

“Why?” he said. Just that. One word: heavy as thunder. “Why did you run?”

Savannah shifted slowly, rising until she sat upright against the headboard. Her lips were chapped, her hair tangled, but her voice held its steel.

“Why did you let me think Magnolia was dead?” She s
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  • The Billionaire's Hidden Vows   Chapter 10

    The door creaked open the next morning, spilling a shaft of grey light across the carpet like a wound through the gloom. Savannah didn’t stir from the bed. Her eyes, red and dry, stared at the ornate ceiling, her face pale and slack from another sleepless night. Every part of her ached—not from physical strain, but from the weight of knowing she was trapped, bound to a man who wore his secrets like armour.Colton stood in the doorway. He didn’t announce himself. His presence said enough. Broad-shouldered in a black cashmere sweater, jaw tight, hands clenched at his sides, he watched her from the shadows as though trying to gauge whether she was still salvageable—or if she’d become another casualty of his cold logic.“Why?” he said. Just that. One word: heavy as thunder. “Why did you run?”Savannah shifted slowly, rising until she sat upright against the headboard. Her lips were chapped, her hair tangled, but her voice held its steel.“Why did you let me think Magnolia was dead?” She s

  • The Billionaire's Hidden Vows   Chapter 9

    Savannah waited until the night swallowed the penthouse in silence. The lights dimmed, footsteps ceased, and even the security cameras seemed to blink slower. Every step toward the door felt like a scream inside her chest.She clutched her hoodie tighter, heart thudding like war drums. The biometric lock was a beast she couldn’t tame, but she’d learnt the rhythms—when Rhett did his perimeter walk, when the system reset. The hallway echoed faintly as Rhett passed the opposite wing. She had a five-minute window.She slid down the service stairwell, silent and barefoot, adrenaline pulsing in every muscle. Her fingers clutched the stair rail as she descended four flights, pausing every few steps to listen. The cold metal bit into her skin, and her breath came out in shallow bursts, the panic rising faster than her feet could move.The lobby burst open in her vision like salvation. She dashed across the marble, ignoring the doorman’s stunned expression, ignoring her name as it was called,

  • The Billionaire's Hidden Vows   Chapter 8

    The hum of the penthouse elevator pierced the afternoon lull, echoing off the marble and glass like a warning bell. Savannah, curled up with a novel she hadn’t turned a page in for over an hour, barely lifted her head. She was too tired to pretend to care—until the soft chime announced the arrival of someone unexpected.“Well, well. If it isn’t the ghost bride,” came a drawling voice laced with honey and venom.Savannah sat up straighter. A man strolled into view with the confidence of someone who had never been denied anything. Dressed in a tailored navy suit that clung to his athletic frame, Jaxon Whitmore exuded a kind of danger that was different from Colton’s—slicker, looser, more playful, but no less threatening.His grin was lazy and razor-sharp. “You’ve got taste, cousin,” he said, and Savannah’s stomach dropped. “Shame you always ruin it.”Colton appeared a moment later, stepping into the space like a storm cloud wrapped in Armani. His jaw clenched.“You weren’t invited.”“Th

  • The Billionaire's Hidden Vows   Chapter 7

    Savannah stood at the penthouse’s towering windows, watching the city blur behind the thick pane of glass. Below, the world bustled—cars honking, people rushing, lives unfolding in the rhythm of freedom. A world she no longer belonged to. And she was up here, gilded in marble and silence, wrapped in an illusion of opulence that suffocated more than it soothed.She pressed her hand to the glass. It was cool. Unyielding. The distance between her and the world below wasn’t just measured in floors or feet—it was in heartbeats and fear and a growing dread that the walls around her were tightening by the hour. Each breath she took felt heavier than the last.The silence in the penthouse was oppressive. No music. No ambient noise. Just her own thoughts chasing themselves in circles. The vastness of the space only made her feel smaller, lonelier. Everything gleamed, but nothing felt alive.She turned away from the window, drawn to the elevator like a moth to the only light left. Maybe she jus

  • The Billionaire's Hidden Vows   Chapter 6

    The light above Savannah buzzed, a faint electric hum pulsing through the silence like a heartbeat. Her chest tightened. The bloodstained wedding dress stared at her from inside the glass case, and the air around it seemed to throb with something too ancient and cruel to name.She took a step back, her breath shallow, hands shaking. Every detail in the room burnt into her memory: the frayed hem of the dress, the dark streak of blood on the bodice, and the eerie stillness that felt like the calm before a storm.Then—“I warned you.”Colton’s voice didn’t echo. It slid through the air like silk—calm, almost gentle. And yet it chilled her more than a scream ever could.She spun around.He stood just beyond the doorway, the soft golden light behind him painting his face in half-shadow. His suit was immaculate. His tie was loosened just enough to suggest he'd been expecting her to make this mistake. His gaze held none of the rage she feared.Only disappointment. And calculation.“I—I didn’

  • The Billionaire's Hidden Vows   Chapter 5

    It started with a book falling off the shelf.Savannah had barely touched the spine of a leather-bound volume when it tumbled forward, knocking over the rest like dominoes. She sighed and bent to pick them up, fingers tracing the cracked bindings. One book had fallen flat, its cover ajar like a mouth waiting to speak.Beneath it, something fluttered to the floor.A folded piece of newsprint.Curious, Savannah unfolded it slowly, feeling the age in its brittle corners. It was a clipping from a local paper, dated six years ago. The headline made her heart skip:Heiress Magnolia Quinn Declared Dead After Mysterious Disappearance.She scanned the small, grainy photo. The woman was beautiful. Regal. Her dark eyes held a defiant challenge. But it wasn’t her expression that froze Savannah’s blood.It was the ring on her left hand.Her ring. The same delicate, old-fashioned wedding band Colton had given Savannah the day she signed the contract. Identical in every curve, every scratch.Magnoli

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