All Chapters of Shattered Vows: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

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CHAPTER 21 – BLOOD AND LEGACY

CHAPTER 21 – BLOOD AND LEGACYThe hospital air always felt cold. Sterile. Too clean. Too quiet in ways that made the skin itch. I sat in the corner of the waiting room, my elbows on my knees, fingers laced together so tightly I could feel my pulse throbbing against my palms.Althea was still with her mother. She’d barely spoken to me since the call earlier — and I hated how easily I’d felt her slipping away from me.Not physically.Emotionally.Quietly.Piece by piece.I had felt her withdrawal the way an addict feels the lack of a drug sharp, unexpected, destabilizing.I thought space would help.I thought time would fix whatever had shifted between us.And then…The letter.The damn letter.I still didn’t understand what Darius meant by it or why Althea had hidden it so carefully. But seeing her handwriting on the envelope, seeing his name on it, seeing her guilt…It had carved a paranoia into my bones.My throat tightened. I leaned back, staring at the ceiling as if answers were h

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CHAPTER 22 – THE PATRIARCH’S THREAT

CHAPTER 22 – THE PATRIARCH’S THREATAlthea’s POVI don’t hear Damian leave.He walks out of the living room in silence, the echo of his shoes fading into the deeper halls of the mansion, leaving me alone with the man whose eyes have haunted Damian and Darius their whole lives. A man who looks at people the way hunters look at prey calculating, patient, cruel in the quietest way.Lucas Aurelius.My father-in-law.The man who helped build the empire Damian now shoulders like a curse.The man who knows every skeleton, every secret, every hidden weapon behind the family’s name.And the man who knows mine.He looks at me the same way Damian did moments ago like I’m a question he already knows the answer to.“Sit,” he says.A command. Not a request.I force my legs to move, lowering myself into the armchair across from him. Damian didn’t even notice it he was too tense, too focused on his own

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CHAPTER 23 – THE SILENT PACT

CHAPTER 23 – THE SILENT PACTDarius’s POVI’ve spent my entire life trying not to become him.Lucas Aurelius.People call him a patriarch, a visionary, a titan—the kind of man whose footsteps echo long after he leaves the room. But to me, to Damian, he’s always been something else.A warning.A presence you survive by reading, anticipating, obeying just enough to avoid becoming the next casualty of his ambition.And now he’s back.Which means everything is about to rot from the inside.I walk down the hall after leaving Althea, but my body doesn’t follow my mind. My thoughts stay behind—with her. With the tremble in her voice. The way she tried to act composed when she was anything but. The way she lied to me with her eyes when she said she was fine.She’s not fine.And worse—my father knows she’s not. And Lucas never sees people in pain without wondering how he can use it.By the

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CHAPTER 24 – Samantha’s Schemes

CHAPTER 24 – Samantha’s SchemesAlthea’s POVBy the next morning, the house feels different.Not quieter. Not calmer. Just… charged. Like static clinging to the walls, waiting for the slightest touch to spark into something dangerous.I barely slept—my mind replaying every word, every look, every breath between Darius and me last night. The silent pact we made hangs heavy on my chest. Not a burden. Not a mistake. Just… heavy.Dangerously so.I push myself through the morning hush of the manor, trying to avoid running into Lucas or Damian. Only a few staff move around, whispering among themselves. Their eyes track me longer than usual.They know something is happening.Everyone does.But they don’t know what. Not yet.I head to the kitchen to grab coffee, hoping for a moment alone.That’s when I hear her.Samantha.Her voice slices through the air like a blade coated in honey.

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CHAPTER 25 — THE FAMILY DINNER

CHAPTER 25 — THE FAMILY DINNERAlthea’s POVI never realized how loud silence could be.The Vega dining room was a cathedral of expensive quiet — marble floors swallowing footsteps, crystal chandeliers suspended like judgment overhead, and one long table stretching forever, covered in immaculate white linen. It was the kind of space built for power, not comfort, and tonight that power felt like a hand around my throat.I was seated near the end, a polite distance from Damian, yet close enough to see the tension in his jaw. His suit jacket was still on, his tie still knotted, as if he came here straight from a battlefield and forgot to take his armor off. He hadn’t looked at me since we arrived.Across the table, Darius sat quietly, posture relaxed, but there was a warning in his eyes — a steady kind of alertness. He was studying the room, reading every breath, every glance. He always did that. He noticed everything.And at the head of the table, like a king staring down at his kingdom

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CHAPTER 26 – A Moment Alone

CHAPTER 26 – A Moment Alone(Althea’s POV)I don’t remember leaving the dining room.One moment, I was sitting at that long mahogany table with crystal glasses and polished silver, Damian’s father’s toast echoing in my ears like a threat sewn into formal language, and the next I was walking through the halls of the Navarro mansion like a ghost.I couldn’t breathe.There was too much noise in my head — clinking cutlery, small laughter, polite conversation — all of it layered over the silence of everything I didn’t say. All the secrets I was holding under my ribs like knives. I don’t know how I made it up the sweeping staircase or through the west hallway, only that my heels clicked faster and faster until I reached the first closed door that wasn’t locked.Inside, it was dark, except for thin strips of light coming through heavy curtains. I didn’t turn the light on. I just leaned against the door

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CHAPTER 27 – Whispers in the Dark

CHAPTER 27 – Whispers in the Dark(Darius Pov)I didn’t sleep.When I got home after walking Althea back to her room, I lay in bed staring at the ceiling, hearing one sound on repeat — the tiny broken inhale she made when she finally stopped crying. That sound dug under my skin and lodged itself there, refusing to let go.I kept replaying everything:Her fingers gripping my shirt.Her forehead against my shoulder.The way her voice cracked when she whispered, “I can’t keep doing this.”And then —Celine.The click of her heels in the hallway.The glint in her eyes when she saw us standing too close.The slow smile she tried to hide but didn’t.That was not a woman surprised.That was a woman taking notes.By morning, everything in the house felt different — quieter, charged, fragile in a way nothing should be. Father was still asleep after draining half a bott

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CHAPTER 28 – THE DISCOVERY

CHAPTER 28 – THE DISCOVERYAlthea’s POVI always believed the worst feeling in the world was guilt — the kind that clings to your ribs and makes every breath feel like a mistake.I was wrong.The worst feeling is knowing someone finally found the thing you’ve been trying so hard to hide.It happened on an ordinary Tuesday morning, if any day could still be called ordinary after everything. The office buzzed with post-dinner fallout energy — tension hung in air vents, whispers in hallways, too many long stares and fake smiles. After the disaster of that family dinner and Darius almost kissing me in the garden, everyone seemed… louder. Hungrier. Watching.Especially Samantha.I noticed it in the way she moved through Navarro Enterprises like she owned gravity, each heel clicking with an agenda.And still, I tried to breathe normally. Pretend normally. Work normally. Damian was in another m

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CHAPTER 29 – THE ULTIMATUM

CHAPTER 29 – THE ULTIMATUMAlthea’s POVI didn’t sleep that night.The marriage certificate sat on my kitchen table like a bomb with no ticking sound — silent but deadly, waiting for one careless breath to detonate everything.I tried eating. Couldn’t.Tried showering. Shaking too much.Tried convincing myself this was some cruel prank Samantha staged to make me break.But the truth sat right in front of me, signed and stamped. I stared at it until the words blurred.Damian Navarro&Althea Cruz-NavarroLegal Union — City Clerk’s OfficeI traced my name with a trembling finger.Samantha didn’t just find evidence.She found ownership.Morning came like punishment. Outside my window, the city looked alive and careless, unaware that my life was crashing spectacularly.At 8:35 a.m., my phone buzzed.Samantha:Room 502

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CHAPTER 30 – The Fight

CHAPTER 30 – The Fight(Darius’s POV)I don’t even remember walking from my office to the elevator.All I remember is the letter still open on my desk — Samantha’s handwriting, neat and venomous — and those words burning behind my eyes:> Resign, or I expose everything.— S.I shouldn’t even care. It’s Althea’s life, Althea’s secret.It shouldn’t be my business.But the thought of her sitting alone with her phone in her hands, terrified someone would rip apart the reputation she worked her whole life to build — it makes something feral rise in me.By the time I reach the 17th floor, Samantha’s floor, my pulse is a constant painful thud.I don’t knock.I push open her office door.She’s alone, sitting behind her desk, legs crossed, sipping her latte like she’s waiting for a meeting that she already won.“Darius,” she says, smiling slowly. “How nice

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