Semua Bab The Billionaire’s Contract Bride: Bab 61 - Bab 66

Valentine's Povlight from my laptop screen flickered across the dark room as I stared at the anonymous message again.“Sometimes the people you trust are the bedrock of your problems.”It looped in my head on repeat like a mantra laced with something acidic. I should have deleted it. I should have tossed it in the fire and moved on. But it clung to me like smoke and with my system, I tried to check the IP address of the sender.I didn’t want to believe it. But ever since the message, I couldn’t stop tracing the timeline. Her sudden distance, then her sudden warmth and the way she kept asking about Adrian. Too many questions. Too many moments that felt… off.I snapped the laptop shut and reached for my coat. I needed air, I needed clarity, but mostly, I needed to check on Ollie.The hospital was eerily quiet that night, the halls echoing with the soft beep of machines and the occasional shuffle of a nurse's footsteps. My heart sank the moment I stepped into my brother’s room. He was s

Where are we going?" I asked for what felt like the tenth time and just like the other times, Adrian said nothing. He simply looked at me and smiled that slow, infuriating smile that always made him look like he knew the world's best kept secret and he was relishing every second of not telling.I wriggled in my seat, gazing at the road ahead. We'd already passed the turn that would bring us home ans we kept going. In fact, the direction he'd taken appeared to be going deeper into the city center."This isn't the way home," I persisted, suspicion crawling up my spine… "Are you lost? Or have you suddenly forgotten how directions work?"“Just wait and see where my directions take me," he said again, that infuriating calmness still present in his voice. My heart sped up, concern brewing in my chest like a storm about to break loose. I hated not knowing thing, I hated being kept in the dark. It made all of my insecurities flare up. But Adrian… he was enjoying this too much. And that anno

Valentine's PovThe morning sun filtered gently through the silk curtains, bathing the room in a golden mist. At that moment between night and day, the world itself appeared to move more slowly, suspended in a gentle silence. Adrian's house, so often an exercise in power and glass and hard modern angles, was suspended now in light that softened all edges and made everything more human. The marble floors were pale gold, and the distant thrum of city traffic was hardly more than a breath.I turned over under the duvet, not ready to let go of the heat tied up around me. My face pressed into Adrian's chest, his racing heartbeat lulling me back to sleep. His arm was heavy and reminded me of safety as it laid over my waist and with every one of his breaths, my body floated upwards with his, as a wave rode on the tide.It would have been strange… that peacefulness,but it wasn't. It was frightfully familiar.For a fleeting moment, I permitted myself to release all. I wasn't a sister fighting