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Chapter 22: The Truth He Buried
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The Billionaire's Legal Wife Chapter 38: The Lies He Built
Duke Austen sat behind his desk, head bowed, hands clasped together so tightly his knuckles were white. Outside the window, the city lights flickered like distant stars, indifferent to the wreckage inside him. He hadn’t slept in two days. His assistant had been dismissed hours ago. The office was silent except for the faint sound of the hospital wing located on the same floor—as if he had built his empire close enough to hear people fight for their lives but far enough to pretend he wasn’t responsible for any of it. Across from him sat Ashley’s older brother. Ashley's brother's face was carved in stone, jaw clenched, eyes raw with something between fury and heartbreak. The thick envelope on the table sat like a bomb between them. He stared at it. “You’re serious.” Duke didn’t lift his head. “Yes.” “You’re actually doing this.” his voice rose. “You’re paying me to hide her from her own life? From you?" Duke forced himself to look up. His eyes were red—glassy, exhausted, and hol
The Billionaire's Legal Wife Chapter 37: Hugged Of The Devil
The moment Duke stepped out of the recovery wing, the weight of his lie wrapped around his throat like a tightening noose. Every step is brought back with what he had just done. He felt like he was walking away from the burning wreckage of his own soul. A nurse hurried after him. “Mr. Austen—sir, wait!” He stopped, barely turning. “What?” The nurse looked rattled. “She’s awake. She'd been asking a lot. We don't know what to say," Duke’s breath stuttered. The nurse continued softly, "There must be someone to accompany her. She's still not in a good condition." He stepped back instinctively, shaking his head. “I—I can’t. It’s better if I’m not there. I'll call someone to look for her. Just do your best for her fast recovery." Without another word, he turned and strode down the hallway until the voices behind him faded. He didn’t notice Alexandra leaning against the wall near the elevators, arms crossed, watching him like a hawk waiting to consume something already dying.
The Billionaire's Legal Wife Chapter 36: Walking Away
The fluorescent lights of the hospital corridor buzzed faintly, a sterile hum that grated against Duke Austen’s nerves as he stood rigidly outside the trauma unit. His suit was still soaked from the storm. Blood smeared his sleeves—her blood. His hands trembled, not from the cold, but from the memory of her limp body in his arms. Ashley. The sliding doors finally opened. A doctor stepped out, removing his gloves with a practiced calm that Duke found unbearable. “Mr. Austen,” the doctor began gently, “we managed to stabilize her.”vDuke’s chest lifted with a painful, fleeting breath of relief. “But…” The doctor hesitated. “There is significant head trauma.” Duke felt the floor tilt beneath him. “What does that mean? Is she— Is she going to wake up?” “She is breathing on her own now,” the doctor said. “But when she does wake, there may be neurological complications. Memory disruption. Confusion. Trauma-induced amnesia is a possibility.” Duke stared blankly, as if the words were fil
The Billionaire's Legal Wife Chapter 35: Before Everything Turned Black
Rain hammered the ground so violently, but Duke didn’t feel any of it. He was drenched, trembling, breathless—his entire focus locked on the overturned car holding the woman he had just destroyed with his own words. “Ashley!” he shouted again, voice breaking as he tried to wrench the door open. The metal groaned but didn’t budge. “Stay with me—baby, please—just—just look at me again!” Her head slumped against the shattered window, blood trailing in a thin red line down her cheek. Duke’s heart nearly stopped. “No. No, no, no—Ashley!” He slammed his fist against the jammed door. “Wake up! I’m right here—dammit, open your eyes!” He tried again, grabbing the metal, pulling with everything he had. His hands slipped—either from the rain, or because they were shaking too hard. He didn’t know anymore. “Help!” he screamed into the night, voice cracking. “Somebody—HELP!” No one answered him. Just the storm. Just the sound of the woman he loved struggling to breathe. He leaned down to the
The Billionaire's Legal Wife Chapter 34: The Heartbreaking Accident
The rain was already falling hard when Ashley sped out of the basement parking, wipers slashing across the windshield like frantic hands. Her pulse was still shaking from Duke’s last words—words she never thought he’d be cruel enough to say. “Maybe marrying you was my mistake.” The kind of sentence that didn’t just bruise—it carved, hollowed, ripped something out of her. Inside the car, he gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles bleached. Her chest felt too small to contain all the hurt. “Why would you say that to her?” she whispered into the empty car, voice cracking. “Why would he—after everything?” The city lights blurred behind raindrops as she turned onto the highway. Thunder cracked. It almost sounded like the sky itself was splitting from the force of what happened between them. She hit the gas harder. Not because she wanted to run. She just… didn’t know how to stay anymore.Then her phone buzzed on the dashboard. DUKE CALLING. Her breath hitched. “No,” she
The Billionaire's Legal Wife Chapter 32: Too Hard to Be Fix
Ashley didn’t look back as she walked down the hall toward their bedroom. Her footsteps were quiet, but the silence she left behind was thunderous. Duke stood frozen in the living room, the side of his face still stinging from her slap—not from pain, but from the raw truth behind it. He deserved that. A part of him knew it. A part of him hated it. But the loudest part—the one tangled in pride, betrayal, insecurity—refused to admit it. “Ashley,” he finally said, but his voice came out rough, weaker than he intended. She didn’t stop. Duke ran a hand down his face, exhaling harshly. His pulse was still thundering with anger, but beneath it now was something worse—unease. Fear. The sinking sensation that he’d just crossed a line he couldn’t take back. Inside the bedroom, Ashley opened their closet and grabbed the suitcase she used when she first moved in. Her hands trembled so violently she had to grip the handle twice before yanking it down. Clothes fell. Hangers clattered. A scarf
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