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Chapter Eighty Three.

作者: Lila
last update 最終更新日: 2025-08-15 19:29:21

Eva’s POV

The sky was overcast, heavy clouds swallowing the sun, but Eva didn’t mind. In fact, the dim light worked in her favor.

She parked her sleek white coupe two streets away from the Preston Group headquarters, shutting the door quietly. She didn’t belong here not officially and the last thing she wanted was anyone seeing her and connecting the dots too early.

Slipping on a pair of oversized sunglasses, she leaned against the corner of a small bakery, watching the discreet side entrance to the building. She’d been here twice before, always “coincidentally” when she knew Darren would be arriving. But today… Today felt different.

The hum of an approaching engine caught her ear. The black sedan rolled into view, polished enough to catch what little light there was.

James stepped out first, scanning the street with that calculating look of his. He moved like someone who didn’t just work for a man in power, he protected him.

Then, the rear door opened.

Eva’s breath hitched as her eye
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    The Preston offices had long since emptied, but Darren remained in his private suite, the heavy envelope spread across his desk like a loaded weapon. The words at the top of the page glared back at him in bold, unflinching letters:DNA RESULTS – MATCH CONFIRMED.His jaw tightened as he glanced across the room. Michael Harding sat opposite him, confusion etched across his face. The usually confident and composed representative looked as though the ground had shifted beneath him.“Brandon…” Michael used Darren’s real name quietly, his voice cracking. “What the hell is this supposed to mean? This—” he jabbed a finger at the papers “—this is some kind of joke, right?”Darren exhaled slowly, pushing the results closer to him. “It’s not a joke. It’s the truth, Michael. You… you’re Mia’s twin brother.”The words hung in the air like thunder. Michael froze, his eyes scanning the document over and over, as if willing the letters to rearrange into something else. “Twin…? No. That’s impossible.

  • Unexpected ties: Arranged Marriage.    Chapter ninety six.

    The clock ticked softly in Darren’s office, the sound slicing through the tense silence. Mia sat stiffly beside him, her fingers twisted together, her chest rising and falling too quickly. Across from them, the private investigator laid a thick brown folder on the desk with a quiet finality, his eyes heavy with the weight of what he was about to reveal.“This,” he said gravely, sliding the folder closer to Mia, “is everything I’ve uncovered about your past. The full truth. No more shadows.”Mia’s throat tightened. For weeks she had dreaded this moment, but now that it had come, she wasn’t sure she was ready to hear it. Darren reached under the table and pressed her hand gently, his warmth steadying her.“Go on,” Darren said, his voice low, commanding.The investigator opened the file and drew out several documents. “Mia… your biological parents were not ordinary people. They were shareholders in a powerful conglomerate. Their influence made them targets.” He paused, his gaze sympathet

  • Unexpected ties: Arranged Marriage.    Chapter Ninety Five.

    The office was silent long after Michael had dragged Eva and Harris away. Mia sat on the edge of Darren’s desk, her eyes fixed on the carpet, her chest heaving from the weight of Eva’s words. Darren stood by the window, his shoulders tense, his reflection a storm in the glass.When he finally turned, his gaze softened at the sight of her tear-stained face. He crossed the room, stopping just a breath away.“Mia,” he said quietly, his deep voice steady but raw, “I need you to listen to me.”She lifted her head, her eyes shimmering with fear. “Are you going to ask me if it’s true? If I swapped places with her?”He reached out, gently taking her hand. She almost flinched, but his warmth steadied her.“I don’t need to ask,” Darren said firmly. “Because I already suspected.”Mia’s lips parted, shock flooding her features.“From the beginning,” he continued, his thumb brushing over her trembling fingers, “I felt something was off. The girl I met, the one who became my wife, wasn’t the spoile

  • Unexpected ties: Arranged Marriage.    Chapter ninety Four.

    The silence after the boardroom adjourned lingered like smoke after a fire. Mia followed Darren into his private office, her legs weak, her chest so tight she thought she might choke. The door closed behind them with a soft click, but it felt like the lock on a cage.She whirled on him, her eyes glistening. “Who are you?” Her voice cracked, but the demand was clear. “Darren, Brandon, who are you really?”He didn’t flinch. He had prepared himself for this moment, but still, the raw hurt in her voice gutted him.“Mia…” he began softly, stepping closer. “I wanted to tell you everything. I wanted to wait until the right time—”“The right time?” She cut him off, anger piercing through her tears. “The right time to tell me that my husband isn’t just some poor man struggling to get by? That you’re the CEO of Preston Group? That you’ve been lying to me every single day of this marriage?”Her voice rose, echoing against the polished glass walls. She pressed a trembling hand to her chest as tho

  • Unexpected ties: Arranged Marriage.    Chapter Ninety Three.

    The storm did not end when Darren clasped Mia’s trembling hand, it only began.The boardroom was a battlefield of silence, every pair of eyes locked on the man they had underestimated and the woman they had almost condemned. Darren’s declaration still hung in the air, heavy and undeniable. His grip on Mia’s hand was steady, unyielding, as though he was anchoring her against the tide.Harris’s throat bobbed as he tried to speak, but the words died on his tongue. The once-cocky representative now looked like a child dragged before a firing squad. Beads of sweat trickled down his temples as Darren turned that icy glare back onto him.“You thought you could shame her,” Darren said, his voice low but venomous. “In my company. In my boardroom. In front of me.”He released Mia’s hand only to slam a stack of documents on the table with such force the glasses rattled. Every executive flinched.“Michael.” Darren’s voice sliced through the air.From the corner of the room, Michael Harding, Darre

  • Unexpected ties: Arranged Marriage.    Chapter Ninety Two.

    The boardroom was a tomb of silence, the kind that followed an earthquake when the world was still trying to understand what had just struck.Darren stood tall, his fingers still fisted in Harris’s collar, the man’s face flushed and dripping with sweat. Harris’s earlier smug confidence had evaporated like mist under a burning sun.“You dare fabricate evidence against my wife?” Darren’s voice rolled across the table, low but carrying the weight of thunder. His gaze was molten steel, each word slicing into the room like a blade. “Did you think no one would question it? Did you think I wouldn’t be here?”The executives shifted uncomfortably in their seats, their earlier jeers swallowed whole by the revelation of who exactly was standing before them. Brandon Preston. Darren Edwards. The ghost CEO they’d whispered about for years and he was married to Mia, the very woman they had just condemned.Mia sat frozen in her chair, her heart pounding so loudly she thought the entire room must hear

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