All Chapters of Bound by Desire: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride : Chapter 1 - Chapter 7

CHAPTER ONE — THE NIGHT RETURNSLiana Elizabeth Rose woke like a woman dragged out of the grave.A choked gasp tore from her throat. Her back arched. Her nails clawed at the sheets. For a split second, she had no body just terror, cold metal, and the echo of her last breath inside a prison cell.Then the world snapped back into place.Silk sheets.Warm air.A bedroom unchanged by time.Her chest rose and fell in vicious, uneven heaves. She stared at the chandelier overhead its crystals scattering soft light over a space she had not seen in years. A space she should never see again.Because she died.She remembered dying.Her pulse stuttered. Her hand shook as she lifted it to her face. Smooth skin. No scars. No bruises. None of the ugly remnants of imprisonment or betrayal. It was the face she once carried like a curse—beautiful, delicate, too easy to shatter.“This…” Her voice cracked. “This is five years ago.”Her reflection in the wardrobe mirror confirmed the nightmare and the mir

CHAPTER THREE — THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT LET GOSt. Haven’s Emergency Ward buzzed with activity the moment she arrived nurses rushing past, gurneys squeaking, disinfectant stinging the air. The world here moved fast, frantic, full of panic.Liana stepped through it like she was walking through candle smoke.Detached.Clear.Untouched.In her first life, she had run into this very hallway trembling, breathless, nearly collapsing when she saw Adrian unconscious.Tonight, she simply adjusted her coat and walked to the nurses’ station.“Adrian Jin. Car accident.”Her voice was steady, warm enough to be human but cold enough to draw respect.The nurse, startled by her composure, quickly checked the chart. “Yes he’s in Trauma Room Three. He”A shout cut through the corridor.A deep, hoarse, violent sound.Then the sharp crash of metal hitting the floor.“Let go of me!”The nurse flinched. “That’s him. He woke up confused and started fighting the staff. He doesn’t recognize anyone. We sedated h

CHAPTER FIVE — THE WARNING IN HIS BONESDawn seeped into St. Haven’s like a reluctant confession pale, cold, and too honest.Liana stood by the window, watching the weak sunlight stain the clouds. She had barely slept. Not because of exhaustion, but because Adrian had slept too deeply.Too peacefully.Too trusting.Dangerous signs in a man who once had a heart made of locked doors.Behind her, he stirred.She didn’t turn.She didn’t move.She simply waited.The moment he wokethe exact second reality touched himshe heard it.The shift.A sharp inhale, sudden and panicked, like a man jolting awake from a nightmare.Then“Liana?”Her name cracked in the air like breaking glass.She still didn’t turn.His breathing hitched. She could hear the bedsheets rustle, hear the IV lines strain as he tried to sit up too fast.“Liana!”There it was.Full desperation.Full instinct.She turned her head slightly, just enough for him to see her profile.Instantly, his shoulders sagged.His entire bod

CHAPTER SEVEN — ADRIAN (POV)The man who lost a lifetime without knowing.Rain clung to the hospital windows like stubborn fingerprints, smearing the night into long streaks of silver. Nurses moved quietly through the corridor outside his room. Machines beeped in irritating, predictable rhythm.Adrian heard none of it.He was awake.Wide awake.And Liana was gone.The chair beside his bed—her chair—sat empty.Mocking him.Cold.Wrong.He stared at it as if it had betrayed him first.His fingers twitched under the blanket. Every nerve screamed that something vital had been pulled out of him. The panic rose fast, sharp, irrational—except it didn’t feel irrational. It felt familiar, like a nightmare he couldn't recall but still feared.He swung his legs over the bed.Pain flared across his ribs. The IV tugged at his skin. None of it mattered.He needed to find her.He needed—He didn’t know what he needed.Only that she was the only steady pulse in the chaos he didn’t understand.A hand