All Chapters of Twice His Bride : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

ZARIAI woke up to the sharp sting in my arm and a pounding headache that made it hard to breathe. My limbs were heavy, and my mouth tasted like metal. It took me a moment to realize I couldn’t see. Panic spiked in my chest as I reached up, only to feel a thick cloth tied tightly around my eyes. I was blindfolded. My breath hitched, and I froze.Voices echoed somewhere close, muffled by distance but still clear enough to pick up."She’s awake?"A deep male voice said, it was smooth but laced with cruelty."Not yet fully. The drug should wear off any minute now," A woman replied, she sounded calm and uninterested.I tried to sit up, but my arms were tied. A whimper escaped me before I could stop it and the voices grew louder."Her father's a bastard, you know that? Selling his own daughter like a piece of meat," the man said with a laugh."Arturo Mendez always did have a price. We just happened to pay it."My breath caught in my throat. Did I hear that right? My father? My father sold

ZARIA I used to think that falling in love with Roman Wolfe was the safest thing that could ever happen to me. Not because I loved him, but because being attached to a name like his meant I would never be touched. No one would dare and for a long time, that was enough.Roman was everything the world respected. Calm and powerful. The heir to a legacy that could make or break empires. And me? I was the daughter of a hero and a disgrace. My mother had died for justice. My father had traded me for a debt. But somehow, that didn’t matter when I was on Roman’s arm. His name silenced the whispers and his presence turned threats into silence.We played the part well. The perfect couple with shared smiles, elegant hand touches in public and matching designer outfits. People adored us. He wasn’t cruel, he never was to me. In private, he was gentle in a distant way. We weren’t lovers, but we were allies and there was a strange comfort in that. A scheduled wedding two weeks away, headlines rea