LOGINCharlie, Serena’s fiancé, had burst into my bedroom, drunk and furious with blazing eyes. "She’s gone because of you," he had roared, his voice cracking with a pain that I had never seen before. He had grabbed my arm, his grip bruising my skin as he dragged me roughly toward the mirror. "Look at yourself, Evelyn. You have her face, her hair, her eyes. But you’re the one who ruined her. You’re the reason she can't walk, and now you’re the reason she’s vanished." "You are only in this house because you look like her," he hissed, his eyes boring coldly into mine. "You are a placeholder and that’s what you will always be. You stay here to suffer because that is the only value you have left. Your parents were right about you. You were always the mistake they couldn't fix." _____________ Evelyn was the family’s black sheep, while Serena, her sister, was the family’s salvation. She was forced to marry the man who hated her to pay for a crime she didn't commit. For years, Charlie made her life a living hell to avenge her sister's legs. But when the paralyzed sister returns walking and Charlie demands a divorce, Evelyn signs the papers and vanishes with a secret. Five years later, she’s back not as a victim, but as the CEO who owns his rival company. Charlie, realizing Serena is the true villain, wants a second chance but it’s too late.
View MoreFrankI was not going to lose Serena to this bloody war, not to Charlie, and certainly not to anyone else.I drove away from the house with her words still echoing in my mind. The way she had looked at me when she asked about the child. That particular look she wore whenever she already knew the answer and was simply waiting to see whether I would lie to her. I had lied anyway because what else was I supposed to do? Tell her the truth and watch everything unravel?I needed a drink.I pulled into the first bar I found, pushed through the door, dropped heavily onto a stool, and looked at the man behind the counter."The strongest thing you have."He poured the drink without asking a single question.I finished the first glass faster than I should have and pushed it forward for another. The man beside me glanced over briefly before looking away. I stared at the bottles lined up behind the counter and thought about Serena's face, Julian's dismissiveness, and the particular exhaustion of
SerenaI sat at the dining table with a cookie in my hand, thinking about how clean everything was about to become.Evelyn would be first. Then Charlie would have nowhere left to run.Julian and Frank would be long gone before anyone started asking questions, and I would walk back into my life as though none of this had ever happened.A quiet laugh escaped me as I took another bite of the cookie.Frank must really take me for a fool. If that child truly existed, if Charlie and Evelyn really had a child together, then that pathetic fool had hidden it from me all this time.Charlie would pay for it.And the child...The child would disappear too.The television had been my only company for days.Out of boredom, I switched it on and flipped through the channels until a familiar face stopped me cold.A journalist sat across from two women I recognized immediately.Old friends.The kind who attended charity galas, birthday parties, and apparently television interviews."Who do you think Mr
JulianI came out of Leo's room and saw Evelyn stepping away from the side table where I had left my phone, and my stomach dropped before she even turned around.She was calm, too calm.She looked up when she heard me and smiled, the kind of smile that gave nothing away.“Goodnight Julian.” She walked to her room quietly. I stood in the corridor and watched her door close and then crossed to the side table and picked up my phone.The text was still on the screen.“Everything is ready, we just need her there.”I looked at the preview and at the angle from which she had been standing and did the calculation and felt cold move through me."Damn it," I muttered.But she had said nothing, shown nothing, and I could not tell if that meant she had not seen it or if she had seen it and was doing exactly what I would do in her position, keeping it close and saying nothing and waiting.I did not sleep well.The next morning I came downstairs to find Evelyn already in the kitchen, her hair tied
CharlieI couldn't think straight. Every minute, my mind drifted back to her, wondering where she was, how she was doing, and hoping Julian hadn't laid a hand on her or my son.I lay in bed staring at the ceiling, telling myself to sleep. But sleep never came.Sometime around two in the morning, exhaustion finally pulled me under. The darkness carried me somewhere I never wanted to see again.A room I didn't recognize.Evelyn lay on the floor while Julian stood over her, his hands were wrapped around her throat.I ran toward them, but my legs refused to move.The distance never closed.I screamed her name, “Eveeeeeeeeey!” yet no sound came out.I bolted upright, the room was dark and silent.I dragged both hands over my face and remained there for a long moment."Madam Laura." My voice carried farther than I intended.Within minutes, my housekeeper appeared at the door, tying the belt of her robe."Sir?""Bring me the whiskey," I requested. "The bottle, not a glass."She studied me b
CharlieWhat in the world was wrong with Serena.I was reading her text for the third time when Frank caught up with me in the parking lot, slightly out of breath, his jacket was open and his keys were jangling in his hand."Bro, we have to talk," he called out, falling into step beside me."Not no
CharlieAfter crazy Serena had burned the papers, I was utterly convinced that I was not getting out of this marriage easily.I had sat in front of that fireplace for a long time after she went back to bed, staring at the ash, and the thing that kept circling my mind was not the inconvenience of re
CharlieIt took a lot of courage for me to say it, I kept taking deep breaths to calm myself down but my chest kept rising and falling.The drive home took twenty minutes longer than it should have because I missed my turn twice."Serena," I said to the windshield, keeping my voice level, "I think
EvelynI had woken up to see Julian sitting by Leo's side, his hand enclosed around Leo's own little hands, his other hand brushing slowly through his hair.I stayed in the doorway and watched him for a moment, this man who had driven back in the middle of everything just to sit beside my son, and






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