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Chapter 24: Victor Hale
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2026-10-04 03:05:09
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The Billionaire's Secret Marriage To His Enemy CHAPTER 66: THE CHILD HE BROUGHT HOME
MAYA The message arrived while Maya was still studying the photograph from the courthouse. Her phone vibrated against the table. She glanced down, expecting another update about Daniel. Instead, an unknown number appeared on the screen. UNKNOWN: ASK YOUR FATHER WHICH CHILD HE BROUGHT HOME THAT NIGHT. THE REGISTER WON'T TELL YOU EVERYTHING. Maya read it twice. Her father. For a moment, she wondered whether the sender meant Adrian or the man whose name had been part of her life long before she married Julian. Whoever had sent the message knew enough about their investigation to understand exactly which words would unsettle her. She turned the phone toward Julian. He was standing near the window, one hand resting against the frame. His attention had been fixed on the street below, but the moment he read the message, his expression changed. "What does that mean?" Maya asked. Julian didn't answer immediately. He read the message again, then returned the phone to her. "There's
The Billionaire's Secret Marriage To His Enemy Chapter 65: The Child Who Came Home
The clock above the corridor doors showed 11:57 P.M. Three minutes. Maya stood outside Room 317 with Julian beside her. Elena's silver key rested between her fingers, its worn edges pressing into her palm. Behind the locked door was a woman she had already found once, lost again, and spent years trying to understand. Her mother. Evelyn had returned eighteen years after disappearing from Maya's life. Their reunion in the Voss estate had answered some questions, but it had opened others. Now, with Adrian standing nearby and Daniel's life hanging in the balance, Maya was beginning to understand that her mother's return had never been the end of the mystery. It had been the beginning of something much worse. Julian glanced at the clock. "We don't have time to argue with him." Adrian stood several feet away, his expression difficult to read. His gaze moved from the key in Maya's hand to the locked door. "Once you open it, there may be things you cannot undo," he said. Maya turned
The Billionaire's Secret Marriage To His Enemy Chapter 64: The Voice Behind the Door
The emergency lights went out. Maya heard Julian move before she felt his hand close around hers. Somewhere down the corridor, a door slammed. Footsteps followed, quick and heavy, coming from both ends of the hallway. “Stay close to me,” Julian whispered. Maya tightened her grip on his hand. The darkness made it difficult to see anything beyond the faint red glow of the emergency exit sign. She could still hear the person approaching from the far end, their shoes striking the tiled floor at an uneven pace. Then a voice came from behind the records-storage door. “Maya.” She froze. It was a woman's voice, weak but unmistakably familiar. Julian leaned closer. “Did you hear that?” Maya nodded. Her throat had tightened. “Someone is inside.” Before he could respond, the emergency lights flickered back on. The corridor returned in patches of dull yellow, revealing the old nurses' station, the abandoned examination rooms, and the metal door at the end of the passage. Elena stood bes
The Billionaire's Secret Marriage To His Enemy Chapter 63: The Hospital That Changed Their Names
11:34 P.M.The hospital identification card rested in Maya’s palm.The photograph showed a little boy with dark hair and solemn eyes. Beneath it were a few faded details, most of them blurred by age, but the number remained clear.317.Maya looked from the card to Julian.“Do you recognize him?”Julian studied the photograph. His expression tightened, but he shook his head.“No.”“Then why would someone leave this for us?”“Because they want us to ask the question.”“Which question?”He glanced at the message on her phone.ASK YOUR UNCLE ABOUT THE REGISTER. ASK ELENA WHY ONE CHILD LEFT THE HOSPITAL WITH THE WRONG FAMILY.Maya's fingers curled around the card.“Daniel knows something about this. So does Elena. And Adrian knows more than he's telling us.”“That's why we're going to St. Agnes.”Julian started the engine.Maya turned toward him. “Your father warned us not to go there.”“My father has spent years deciding which parts of my life I'm allowed to know.” Julian pulled away from
The Billionaire's Secret Marriage To His Enemy Chapter 62 Before Midnight
Maya read the message again, hoping the words might somehow change.YOU HAVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT TO FIND HIM.Daniel's photograph remained open on her phone. His hands were tied behind a metal chair, his head lowered, and blood darkened the collar of his shirt.She enlarged the image, searching for anything that might reveal where he was being held.“Let me see,” Julian said.He stood close enough to look over her shoulder. His expression hardened when he saw Daniel's bruised face.“Is he alive?”“I can't tell.”“Look at his chest.”Maya zoomed in. The photograph was slightly blurred, but she could make out the faint rise of Daniel's shirt.“He's breathing.”Relief came quickly, but it didn't last. Someone had taken her uncle, photographed him in captivity, and sent the image to her as though his life were a bargaining chip.She checked the time.11:08 P.M.“Fifty-two minutes,” she whispered.Julian looked at the screen. “Then we don't have time to waste.”Maya enlarged the background of t
The Billionaire's Secret Marriage To His Enemy Chapter 61 The Office Behind the Wall
The courthouse corridor was almost deserted by the time Maya and Julian reached the records department.Their footsteps echoed against the tiled floor. Somewhere beyond the closed offices, a printer hummed, then stopped. The building had not completely shut down for the night, but most of its staff had gone home, leaving the corridors under the watch of security cameras and tired fluorescent lights.Maya kept one hand inside her coat pocket, her fingers wrapped around the small key they had found earlier. The letter V was engraved on its head.Julian walked beside her, his attention moving between the doors and the empty stretch of corridor ahead.“You've been quiet,” he said.“I'm thinking.”“About the key?”“About why someone went to so much trouble to make sure we never found it.”Before he could answer, her phone vibrated.She pulled it out.An unknown number.YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT THE KEY.Maya read the message twice. Her stomach tightened.Julian looked over her shoulder. “They k
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