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THE HEIRESS BEHIND THE MADNESS
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To the world, Wren Ashford is a fallen golden girl.Once a brilliant corporate heiress destined to inherit one of Britain’s most powerful dynasties, she is now the unstable wife hidden away in her husband’s isolated Cotswolds estate. Julian Vance claims he is protecting her, while her younger sister, Lyra, plays the devoted sister. Together, they have convinced everyone that Wren has lost her mind.But Wren isn’t crazy.Six months ago, she discovered Julian had been secretly drugging her. Instead of confronting him, she switched her medication for harmless placebos and began pretending the drugs were still affecting her. While everyone watched the “mad heiress,” Wren quietly watched them back.Then Julian brings in Dr. Kaelen Thorne-Vane, a brilliant psychiatrist meant to keep Wren under control. Instead, Kael is the first person to realize her madness is an act. Rather than expose her, he secretly helps her regain access to the outside world.Their alliance soon becomes a dangerous attraction one Wren decides to use against Julian. As his jealousy grows, she exploits his mistakes to dismantle the empire he built by exploiting her.But Kael has secrets of his own. His father was destroyed by the Ashford family, and Kael came to Ashford Manor seeking revenge. Wren was never meant to be part of it.Then she discovers Julian and Lyra were never the real masterminds.Someone much closer has been pulling the strings all along.Now Wren must decide whether Kael is her greatest ally or simply another enemy wearing a beautiful disguise.
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THE HEIRESS BEHIND THE MADNESS Chapter 63: The Trap Closes
KaelI read my own name on that glowing screen and felt the floor go out from under me.Wren hadn't moved. She sat on the edge of the bed with her hair loose and her hands in her lap, looking at me the way you look at a door you've been told is locked. I'd seen that look once before, on the night she'd first asked me for the truth. I had given it to her then, and it had nearly cost me everything."Wren." My voice came out scraped raw. "That isn't mine.""I know.""I signed three blank pages. I told you—""I know what you told me." She stood. She crossed the carpet in her bare feet and stopped so close I could smell lavender and sleep. "Oswin says two doctors signed. Pryce and you. And I asked myself, in the ten seconds before you came through that door, whether I believed him or whether I believed the man who stood on a balcony for five minutes because he was afraid to climb over to me.""And?""And I'd rather be wrong about you, Kael. I told you that already. I meant it."I couldn't
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2026-10-29THE HEIRESS BEHIND THE MADNESS Chapter 62: The Secret Signal
WrenThe tea smelled wrong.Chamomile on top, sweet and ordinary. But underneath it, faint as a bruise, something chemical and bitter that crawled to the back of my tongue before I'd even lifted the cup. I knew that smell. I had spent six months teaching my body to recognise it."Drink up, darling," Lyra said.She sat on the edge of my bed with her ankles crossed, hands folded in her lap like a girl in a Sunday school photograph. The tray balanced on my knees. My phone, the cheap hidden one Kael had smuggled in, lay under the pillow, and it had been silent for four minutes. I'd sent my question and heard nothing back, and every second of that nothing pressed on my ribs.I rocked. I hummed. I let my eyes slide off her face and settle on the cup."You always drank first," I said, in the soft, wandering voice I'd built for her. "When we were small. You said if it was poisoned, you'd rather go first."Lyra's smile held. Barely. "Did I?""You were seven. You were so brave." I lifted the cu
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2026-10-29THE HEIRESS BEHIND THE MADNESS Chapter 61: Passing Beatrix's Trial
KaelI set the cup down very slowly, because if I didn't, it would have rattled.Beatrix watched me do it. She had the patience of a woman who'd spent sixty years waiting for other people to blink first. The clock ticked. A lily in the vase by the window dropped one white petal onto the polished wood."You're not going to deny it," she said."Would it change anything?""No.""Then no." I leaned back in my father's chair and made myself look bored. It was the hardest thing I have ever done. "Thorne-Vane is on my certificates. I assumed Julian's people had read them. I assumed you had, too.""I didn't hire you, Doctor. Julian did, because a bored fool signs what he's handed." Her mouth thinned. "I've spent the last month reading your life instead. Hampstead. The scholarship. The little flat above the chemist where your mother died of her grief. It took me longer than it should have, to put the eyes with the name."My mother's name hung in the room like smoke. I didn't let it touch my fa
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2026-10-29THE HEIRESS BEHIND THE MADNESS Chapter 60: Whispers of the Past
KaelBlue light slid across the ceiling, and I stepped in front of Wren before I'd decided to."Julian." I kept my voice level. "Whatever you think that photograph proves, it won't get a woman committed in this country. A section needs two doctors and a reason. I'm one doctor. I'm not signing.""Then Dr. Pryce will." Julian stood, smoothing his jacket with hands that wouldn't stay still. "He's in the lobby with two paramedics. He doesn't ask questions. That's why I pay him."Behind me, Wren rocked and hummed. I felt every note of it through my spine. If she broke the act now, we were finished. If she didn't, they'd carry her down eleven floors in a restraint sheet, and I would have to watch."Then he can explain to the tribunal why he certified a patient he's never examined," I said. "At two in the morning. On the strength of an anonymous photograph. I'll make sure they ask."Julian stared at me. For one second I saw the scared boy under all that polish, and I almost pitied him.His p
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