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Chapter 8: Touch
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2026-07-28 11:46:15
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The woman who inherited three husbands Chapter 53: Tentacles
Two weeks after Aria left, Salma had stopped expecting her phone to light up. Not completely, because there were still moments when her hand reached for it before she could stop herself, usually after a long meeting, but the habit had begun to lose its hold. She no longer spent hours staring at the screen, convincing herself that the silence was temporary or that the next notification might somehow change everything. She had work. Wellington Tower had continued without her. The company had not collapsed because its CEO needed time away, and Salma had never expected it to. Still, returning to it reminded her just how much of herself she had allowed to disappear into everything that had happened. By eight-thirty that morning, she was seated in the executive conference room with the chief financial officer, the heads of property, legal and communications, two senior advisers and several other department heads. Joyce sat farther down the table with her tablet open, quietly keeping t
The woman who inherited three husbands Chapter 52: Fucking dead man!
For the first few days after Aria left, Salma moved through the Wellington estate as though she were only half present. She woke, showered, changed, attended to whatever small matter Devon or the others placed in front of her, and then found herself staring at her phone again, waiting for a notification she knew might never come. She still caught herself thinking that maybe the silence was temporary. That hope was becoming harder to maintain and her pregnancy wasn't helping. The nausea that had begun as an unpleasant inconvenience had become increasingly unpredictable. Some mornings, Salma could manage tea and a little toast without much trouble. On others, the smell of food was enough to turn her stomach before she'd even left her bedroom. That morning was one of the bad ones. She had barely finished brushing her teeth when her stomach twisted violently. She dropped the toothbrush into the sink and hurried to the bathroom, where she wrenched the contents of her stomach into the
The woman who inherited three husbands chapter 51: When the Heart Breaks
ARIA POVAria left the estate in the house car. The moment the mansion disappeared behind her, she broke down. She cried so hard that her vision became blurry and her breathing turned uneven, and she finally called Sammy because she didn't trust herself to be alone. She wasn't even sure where she was going. She couldn't go back to Kenya, and she couldn't go to the airport either. She just knew she needed somewhere to go.Then Salma started calling.Her name appeared on the screen, and Aria stared at it until the call went to voicemail. She didn't reject it. She couldn't bring herself to. When the phone rang again a few minutes later, she watched it until another voicemail was dropped before finally switching it off and burying it inside her bag.That hurt more than she expected.A part of her desperately wanted to answer. She wanted Salma to somehow say the one thing that would make what she had seen at the estate impossible, something that would tell her she had misunderstood everyth
The woman who inherited three husbands Chapter 50: The Silence After
As the car disappeared down the driveway, silence settled over the estate. The shouting was over, but the tension it left behind remained. Salma sat on the bottom step of the staircase, completely still. Her breathing was still uneven, and every few seconds, her chest hitched as she stared at the empty space where Aria had stood only moments ago. The panic was slowly easing, but she felt drained and numb. Her fingers twitched against her skirt. Her first instinct, born from years of being the woman who always took control, was to get up. She needed to order security to find Aria, track her car, stop her before she reached the airport, and make her listen. But the moment she tried to stand, three figures moved toward her. “Don't, Salma,” Devon said softly. His hands rested lightly on her shoulders, guiding her back onto the step. He wasn't forcing her down, but his expression made it clear he wasn't going to let her run after Aria. “You can't go after her right now. Your body is
The woman who inherited three husbands Chapter 49: The Homecoming
Days later, after the family had settled back into its new routines and roles, the Wellington estate received an unexpected visitor. Salma had been sitting in the morning room signing documents Devon had brought her when one of the security officers approached her. “Mrs. Wellington, there's a visitor at the main gate. She says her name is Aria.” Salma froze. For a second, she simply stared at him as though the name itself had caught her off guard. “Aria?” “Yes, ma'am.” Her heart gave a sudden, almost painful leap. After everything that had happened, after the voice note Aria had left and the silence that had followed, Salma had never imagined she would hear her name spoken at the estate again so soon. She had spent the last several days telling herself that perhaps the silence was for the best, that Aria needed time, that eventually she would find the courage to explain everything properly. None of those explanations mattered now. Aria was here. Salma stood immediately.
The woman who inherited three husbands Chapter 48: Loose Ends
SHANE POV Shane closed the library door behind him and stood with his back against it for a moment, the phone still pressed against his ear as the noise from the rest of the estate faded behind the thick wooden doors. The interview had become impossible to contain. Every major news channel had picked it up, entertainment blogs were running different versions of the story, and his name had been attached to Cherry's in headlines that seemed to multiply every time he checked his phone. His publicist had called repeatedly, along with several people he barely remembered giving his number to. He had ignored all of them. Cherry was the only person who could give him answers, so he dialed her instead. “Why did you do it?” There was a brief silence on the other end before Cherry gave a quiet, almost disbelieving laugh. “That's how you're starting this?” “What did you expect me to say?” “Maybe an explanation!” Shane rubbed his forehead. “Cherry, you knew what that interview would do.” “
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