Lahat ng Kabanata ng Arrange Marriage to a Heartless CEO: Kabanata 101 - Kabanata 104

AIDEN’S POVThe next morning came faster and felt heavier than most. I did not close my eyes all night. My thoughts refused to stop replaying last night, the sound of her voice, the look in her eyes, the impossible truth that Alana was alive.Alive.And I’d buried her years ago, or at least, I thought I had.I sat on the edge of the hotel bed, elbows on my knees, staring blankly at the wall. My phone buzzed on the nightstand. Charlotte’s name.I couldn’t bring myself to touch it. It wasn’t because I didn’t want to hear her voice. God, I did. I needed it. But how do you talk to the woman you love when your dead wife just walked out of a restaurant breathing and smirking?And to make it worse, I didn't even tell Charlotte that I had a wife before her?If she hears this she will hate me for life.I dragged my hand through my hair, jaw tightening. “What the hell is happening to me?” I muttered in the quiet room. The walls didn’t answer, only the low hum of the heater filled the silence.

CHARLOTTE'S POV“Why… why didn’t he tell me?” I whispered to the empty study, my voice trembling, cracking in the quiet of the morning. I clutched the edge of my desk, knuckles white, tears spilling down my cheeks. The pictures Dylan had sent me were enough to destroy the world I thought I had built with Aiden. Aiden… my Aiden, the man who had whispered love to me in the quiet of our nights, was kissing another woman.Alana Rondolf. His supposedly dead ex-wife is alive and in his arms.I fell back into my chair, my hands shaking, hot tears blurring the morning sunlight streaming through the window. “Why now?” I murmured, voice raw. “Why did she choose now, after everything? After all we’ve built? Why didn’t she show up when we weren’t… when we weren’t in love yet? Why only now?” My chest ached with every question. Every unanswered question felt like a stone pressing down my throat.Elsie’s soft footsteps reached me before her voice. “Ma’am… are you okay?”I didn’t look up. “Do I l