Library
Search
Home / Romance / The Stranger My Heart Belonged To / 42. Truce, Not Peace.

Share

42. Truce, Not Peace.

Author: Merra Gischan
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-26 09:54:19

SADIE POV

I didn’t say anything in the car.

Not because I didn’t want to. I just… couldn’t.

I was too weak. My body felt disconnected, like my limbs weren’t listening properly. The window beside me was fogged, the beach long behind us now, the sky dimming into that strange, colorless blue between daylight and night. Damon hadn’t said a word since we left.

And that was fine.

Better, maybe.

Because I couldn’t think about anything clearly. Not his kiss. Not the way I’d folded into it like a fool. Not how fast my body had turned against me afterward—dizzy, sick, shaking. And definitely not the sharp wave of nausea I’d barely made it to the restroom in time for.

I hadn’t gotten my period yet, but it wasn’t late. Not really. My cycle was always unpredictable—stress could throw it off. Or hormones. Or skipping meals. Or pretending I was fine when I wasn’t.

Still.

The thought had crossed my mind while I was bent over the sink, breathing through it.

And once it was in… I couldn’t shake it.

But
Continue to read this book for free
Scan code to download App
Locked Chapter
Previous Chapter Next Chapter

Latest chapter

  • The Stranger My Heart Belonged To   130. Epilogue~ Our Second Beginning.

    SADIE’S POVI still can’t believe how much time has passed. Two whole years since everything with Theo, Silas, Damon’s father, and Bella. Two years since the chaos, the fear, the heartbreak, and the choices that changed everything.And somehow… we ended up exactly where we were always meant to be.After it all ended, and Damon and I got re-married, Damon and I came back to the city where everything began. We didn’t return to the same houses or the same memories—we chose a new place, a new home, a fresh start. Our mansion sits on a quiet hill overlooking the city lights, but inside… inside it feels like peace. The kind of happily ever after I didn’t even know existed.I never imagined my life would feel this soft.Damon visits Theo and Silas occasionally. Even now, it stil

  • The Stranger My Heart Belonged To   129. A Family We Choose To Built.

    SADIE’S POV.I never thought the world could feel this quiet.The resort at Belmare looks different in daylight—softer, gentler. The last time we stayed here, Damon and I were strangers with matching last names and nothing else.Now… the air feels warmer, the sea calmer, as if it remembers us.The ceremony is small. Private. Exactly what I wanted but never dared to imagine I’d get.White chairs lined on the sand, soft floral arrangements drifting in the seaside breeze, and the ocean stretching out behind the reverend like a blessing I didn’t know I’d been waiting for.It’s perfect. Perfect for me.Daven looks adorable in his tiny tux, his hair combed neatly to one side even though he keeps trying to mess it up with his hands. M

  • The Stranger My Heart Belonged To   128. Love Before Memories.

    DAMON’S POVThe fluorescent lights hit me like knives the moment we step into the emergency wing—too bright, too clean, too calm for the hell we’ve just crawled out of.Nurses swarm us instantly, eyes widening at the blood soaking through my shirt—my blood—but I push past them long enough to get Sadie and Daven into seats.“Take care of them first,” I bark.“Sir, you need immediate—”“I said take care of them first.”The sound of my voice must register as a warning because they obey immediately, no questions.Sadie grabs my wrist.Her fingers tremble, but her grip is iron. “Damon, stop. Let them help you.”I look at her—her tear-s

  • The Stranger My Heart Belonged To   127. What Remains When Fear Ends.

    DAMON’S POVBOOM.Glass shattered. The skylight blew open in a rain of shards.I didn’t wait.I jumped.The officers shouted behind me, but the roar of air drowned everything out. For a second I was weightless—falling straight into hell.Theo’s scream reached me first. He spun, gun snapping upward.I hit the ground in a roll—hard, brutal, bone-rattling—and came up with my gun raised.“SADIE, GET DOWN!”Gunfire exploded through the hangar as the police stormed in from the breach above, rappelling with military precision.But I only saw one thing.Theo’s hand clamps around my son’s wrist—yanking

  • The Stranger My Heart Belonged To   126. The Edge Of Losing You

    DAMON’S POVThe moment the last man near Silas hit the floor and the gun smoke thinned into the air, my body buckled— just for a second.Just long enough to feel the heat of my own blood soaking through my shirt again. Just long enough to understand one brutal fact:I was running out of time.And then— Sadie’s scream hit me.Faint. Far. Choked.But it ripped through my skull like an explosive charge.Sadie. Daven. Taken.“Give up, Damon,”Silas’s voice slithered from somewhere behind the haze. “My men are closing in. You’re running out of bullets, blood, and luck. Tell you what—sign your part of the papers, and maybe I’ll let you go. Or at least

  • The Stranger My Heart Belonged To   125. All That's Left To Lose

    DAMON'SPOV The second the door slammed and Sadie disappeared behind it, something inside me snapped—clean, cold, lethal.One of Silas’s men lunged in, trying to force me down to my knees.Wrong move.I twisted, caught his wrist, and drove my shoulder into his throat. He choked, staggered—my fists already slamming into his ribs, his jaw—raw, bare-handed violence, because they’d stripped my gun the moment they dragged us out of the car in the basement.He collapsed, wheezing. And instantly every other barrel in the room lifted toward me.The click of safeties off was a chorus—sharp, metallic, deciding how close I was to death.Silas strolled forward like this was a theater show put on for his amusement. Then he dug the muzzle of his gu

More Chapters

You may also like

Explore and read good novels for free
Free access to a vast number of good novels on GoodNovel app. Download the books you like and read anywhere & anytime.
Read books for free on the app
SCAN CODE TO READ ON APP
DMCA.com Protection Status