All Chapters of Married To My Best Friend; Her Blood, My Passion : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Hailey's POVSunlight burned through my eyelids.I groaned and rolled over, my body aching. For a second, I forgot where I was then I saw the unfamiliar room, the expensive furniture, and the wedding dress crumpled on the floor where I'd stepped out of it last night.Right. I was married now.My phone buzzed on the nightstand, I grabbed it and saw seventeen missed calls from my best friend Mabel and about forty texts.Mabel: GIRL WHERE ARE YOUMabel: Did you really marry Evans Wilson???Mabel: The pictures are all over social mediaMabel: CALL ME RIGHT NOWI groaned again, I'd forgotten about Mabel. She was supposed to fly in from London for the wedding, but her flight got delayed. She'd missed everything.Before I could call her back, someone knocked on my door."Come in," I said, expecting a maid.Evans walked in instead.I yanked the blanket up to my chest even though I was wearing a T-shirt and shorts. He was already dressed in a sharp grey suit, looking like he'd stepped out of a

Hailey's POVThings changed after that night.Not dramatically. But slowly, like ice melting.Evans started joining me for breakfast. He'd ask about my day, make jokes and even smile more.We even had dinner together a few times. Real dinners, not just awkward meals where we avoided eye contact.It was nice. Almost normal.But I couldn't shake the feeling that he was hiding something.Two weeks after our conversation, Mabel finally flew in from London.I picked her up from the airport, and she practically tackled me in the arrivals hall."Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!" She squeezed me so hard I couldn't breathe. "You're married! To Evans Wilson! I still can't believe it!""Believe it," I said, laughing.She pulled back and examined me. "You look good. Different. More... grown up.""That's what happens when you become someone's wife overnight.""I need details. All of them. Right now."We went to a café near her hotel. I told her everything, the wedding, Chloe, the arrangement, how

Hailey's POVUnknown number.I stared at the screen. It had to be Calix. He said he would call me. My heart was racing just thinking about what he might tell me. How did he know me? Why did he keep calling me Nana?I answered."Hello?"Nothing. Just silence. I could hear breathing on the other end, but no one was talking."Hello? Is anyone there?"Then the line went dead.I waited, thinking he would call back. But my phone stayed silent. I tried calling the number back, but it didn't work. The number didn't exist.I lay in bed for hours, staring at the ceiling. My mind kept replaying the moment Calix saved me, his hand healing itself, the way he looked at me like he knew me and the half-heart mark on my shoulder that appeared overnight.It didn't make sense. None of it made sense.Around three in the morning, I gave up trying to sleep. I got out of bed and went downstairs to get water from the kitchen.I found Evans there.He was sitting at the kitchen table in the dark, a cup of tea

Hailey's POVEvans found me in the garden the next morning.I was sitting on the stone bench near the fountain, nursing a cup of tea and trying not to think about Calix or his healing hand, or the way he looked at me like he knew me and the way Evans' face was when I mentioned Calix."Good morning," Evans said, sitting beside me. "Can we talk?""Of course." I turned to face him, surprised by the softness in his voice. "What's wrong?""Nothing is wrong." He took my hand gently. "Actually, I want to tell you something. Something that might make things between us better."My heart did a little flip. "Okay. Tell me.""I've been thinking about us. About our marriage and where we want it to go." He squeezed my hand. "And I realized that I want to do something to show you how serious I am about making this real.""What do you mean?""I want to renew our vows. Publicly. In front of everyone." He smiled, and it was genuine. "I want the whole world to know that I chose you. Not because of circu

Evans' POVThe morning of the vow renewal came quickly, I stood in my room and looked at myself in the mirror.I had been waiting for this day for so long.After today, everything would be different. After Hailey and I renewed our vows in front of everyone, it would be official, Real and undeniable.Calix would not be able to get close to her. No man would dare try to take her from me after I promised her forever in front of all these people.She was mine. And today, I was going to make sure the entire world knew it.I checked my phone one more time. Marcus had sent an update. Calix was not in the city. He had left Paris three days ago. Good. That meant he could not interrupt anything.The venue was beautiful. White flowers everywhere. Soft music playing. Hailey had chosen everything with care, and it showed.I watched from the side as guests arrived. My family, her family, business partners and friends.Everyone who mattered was here.Then I saw them.Valarie walked through the doors