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CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM
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The Billionaire's Runaway Bride CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE: THE GIRL IN THE CORE
Ava couldn't breathe.She stared at the little girl standing inside the shattered Serpent core.Same face.Same eyes.Same lips.Same small scar beneath her left eyebrow.It was like looking at herself in a mirror from another lifetime.Except the girl was only about six years old.Barefoot.Pale.Wearing a simple white dress.And smiling.Not a frightened smile.A knowing one.Daniel moved in front of Ava.“Stay behind me.”The little girl tilted her head.“You always say that.”Daniel froze.Ava's heart pounded.The girl looked past Daniel directly at her.“You still let him protect you.”Ava whispered, “Who are you?”The girl smiled.“You know.”“No.”“You've forgotten.”“I don't know you.”The girl's smile disappeared.“That hurts.”Ava stepped forward.Daniel caught her wrist.“Ava, don't.”She looked at him.“She's a child.”Daniel's expression remained tense.“We don't know what she is.”The girl giggled.“You never did.”Daniel immediately raised his weapon.The girl didn't re
The Billionaire's Runaway Bride CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM
Darkness.Absolute darkness.Ava couldn't see anything.Couldn't hear anything.Couldn't feel the floor beneath her.For a moment, she wondered if she was dead.Then she heard a heartbeat.Thump.She opened her eyes.Nothing.Thump.Another heartbeat.Closer this time.Then another.And another.Ava slowly sat up.She was floating.Not standing.Not lying down.Floating in a vast black space filled with tiny points of silver light.Like stars.She looked down at her hands.They were transparent.“What…”Her voice echoed.“Where am I?”A voice answered.“Between.”Ava spun around.There was no one there.“Who are you?”“You already know.”The voice sounded like the Serpent.But different.Older.More tired.Ava swallowed.“The Serpent?”“Not exactly.”Ava looked around.“What does that mean?”“You broke the boundary.”Ava frowned.“What boundary?”“Between the living and the remembered.”A cold shiver moved through her.“The remembered?”The silver lights around her began moving.Image
The Billionaire's Runaway Bride CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE: THE CHILDREN OF THE SERPENT
“Mother.”The word echoed through the chamber.Again.And again.And again.Ava stood frozen.Seventeen children stared at her from seventeen opened chambers.Some were little.Some were teenagers.The oldest looked no more than seventeen.They all had the same black serpent mark.And every pair of eyes was fixed on her.Not Daniel.Not Noah.Not Elena.Her.Ava's heart pounded violently.“No…”Her voice came out as a whisper.The youngest child smiled.“You came back.”Ava stared at him.“Who are you?”The child tilted his head.“You don't remember?”Ava took a step backward.Daniel immediately moved beside her.“Stay behind me.”The children all turned toward him.Their expressions changed.For a moment, they looked afraid.Then every child spoke together.“Guardian.”Daniel froze.Ava looked at him.“How do they know you?”Daniel shook his head.“I don't know.”The oldest girl stepped out of her chamber.She was thin, pale, and barefoot.A black dress hung loosely around her body.
The Billionaire's Runaway Bride CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO: THE GUARDIAN'S BLOOD
The chamber went completely silent.Not the ordinary kind of silence.This was the kind that seemed to swallow sound itself.Ava stared at Daniel.The red light from the Serpent's core remained fixed on him.THE GUARDIAN BLOODLINE IS NOT THE PROTECTOR.A pause.Then another message appeared.THE GUARDIAN BLOODLINE IS THE SOURCE.Daniel's face had gone pale.“No.”His voice was barely audible.Ava slowly turned toward him.“Daniel…”He shook his head.“No. That's not possible.”His eyes remained fixed on the glowing words.“My family protected the Serpent. That's what we were told.”Gabriel laughed bitterly from across the chamber.Daniel's head snapped toward him.“You knew.”Gabriel didn't answer.Daniel took a step toward him.“You knew?”Gabriel wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.“I knew your family was important.”“That isn't what I asked.”Daniel's voice rose.“Did you know?”Gabriel looked at him.“Yes.”Daniel's jaw tightened.“How long?”Gabriel hesitated.“Long eno
The Billionaire's Runaway Bride CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE: THE OTHER DAUGHTER
The countdown continued.29:17.Ava stared at the woman standing across from her.For several seconds, neither of them moved.The woman looked almost like her.Not exactly.There were differences.Her eyes were darker.Her jaw was sharper.And there was something frighteningly familiar about the way she held herself—as though she had spent years learning how to survive in places where kindness was a weakness.But the resemblance was undeniable.Daniel stepped slightly in front of Ava.The woman smiled.“You don't need to protect her from me.”Daniel's jaw tightened.“I'll decide who she needs protection from.”The woman's eyes moved to him.“You're still doing that?”“Doing what?”“Standing between Ava and everything that wants to destroy her.”Daniel didn't answer.The woman laughed softly.“That's what your family has always done.”Daniel froze.Ava noticed.“You know his family?”The woman's gaze returned to Ava.“I know much more than that.”The Serpent's voice echoed through the
The Billionaire's Runaway Bride CHAPTER FIFTY: THE SON HE HID
Gabriel's laughter echoed through the chamber.Ava couldn't move.She stared at Noah.Then at her father.Then at the screen displaying the impossible birth record.AVA — 25 YEARS OLD.NOAH — 25 YEARS OLD.Yet their birth dates were twenty-five years apart.Her mind refused to accept it.“You said you were my father's son.”Noah nodded.Ava's voice trembled.“Then why does that record say you were born twenty-five years ago?”Noah looked at her.“Because that's when I was born.”Ava frowned.“But my father was already—”She stopped.A terrible thought entered her mind.She slowly turned toward her father.“Dad?”He wouldn't look at her.“Dad, look at me.”His eyes finally met hers.And Ava saw the truth in them.Not surprise.Not confusion.Fear.“You knew,” she whispered.He lowered his head.“I knew Noah was alive.”Ava's heart cracked.“You knew?”“Yes.”“And you never told me?”“I couldn't.”“You couldn't?”Her voice rose.“You lied to me about everything!”“Ava—”“You let me beli
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