All Chapters of A LOVE TOO REAL TO FAKE: Chapter 11 - Chapter 15

Chapter 12: Rain pressed against the train window in quiet, rhythmic patterns as Eden stared out at the blur of the French countryside. Her reflection trembled in the glass like a ghost of herself she no longer recognized.She left Athens before sunrise. No note. No goodbye. Just silence.Her phone’s SIM card lay snapped in half on the marble countertop. She paid cash for the train ticket, leaving no digital trail.Because even the kind of love that burns bright can still become a cage—and she needed air. Not escape. Liberation. She didn’t cry. But her chest ached with a grief she couldn’t name. Paris welcomed her like a secret. She found a tiny studio in the 6th arrondissement above a sleepy bookstore with ivy crawling over the windows. The woman who ran it didn’t ask questions. Eden dyed her hair near-black, bought a long grey coat, and paid in euros.Each morning, she woke to the creak of the wooden floor, the scent of old books, and a kind of quiet that felt like a second ch

Chapter 14: The days that followed were a whirlwind of headlines, lawsuits, and whispered apologies. Eden's name trended globally—not as Cassian Wolfe's fiancée or a pawn in a corporate scandal, but as a woman who’d stood at the center of a storm and refused to break. Cassian watched the world shift from the shadows. He had never been one for spectacle. But Eden—Eden stood tall in it. Not as a product of his empire, but as a force in her own right. And that, he realized, was what scared the board the most. Verena resigned two days after Eden’s press statement went viral. She left behind a single note on Cassian’s desk: “I built an empire to survive. You burned it to be loved. Maybe you were braver than me.” Cassian folded it and placed it in his drawer beside Eden’s first letter—the one she left when she disappeared. The past, now stacked side by side. But Malik wasn’t gone. Not yet.He turned up in Dubai. A leaked email revealed he'd funneled millions from Wolfe Global’s i