All Chapters of Falling for the Disgraced Heir: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

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Chapter 50: When the Rain Falls

Rain pattered against the windowpane, soft and steady—the same rhythm that had marked every turning point between them. The air was cool, perfumed with petrichor and the faint scent of instant coffee left forgotten on the counter. Julia stood at the window, watching the droplets slide down the glass like threads of time unraveling.“Funny,” she murmured, voice barely louder than the rain. “How every beginning feels like this.”Behind her, footsteps—slow, deliberate. The kind that made her heart remember before her mind did. Brandon stopped just close enough for his reflection to blur into hers, two outlines merging in the misted glass.“Then maybe this time,” he said softly, “it’s not the beginning.” His voice was low, roughened by sleepless nights an

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Chapter 51: The Visit She Can’t Avoid

The letter arrived folded twice, ink smudged from too much handling. Julia read it once, then again, hoping the words would soften.Come home before you embarrass the family further. — Mother.Her throat felt raw. No greeting, no warmth—just the same clipped authority she’d grown up under. Brandon was still asleep on the couch, one arm flung over his eyes. For a moment, she watched him breathe, his chest rising slow, steady. The quiet between them had been fragile lately, stitched together with forgiveness and fear. She couldn’t risk tearing it apart with this.When he stirred, she tucked the letter under a stack of invoices. “I need to go away for a few days,” she said lightly.

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Chapter 52: Arthur’s Smile, Her Mother’s Plan

Julia froze in the doorway, her pulse echoing in her ears. Arthur hadn’t changed at all. The same clean lines of his tailored suit, the same polished hair, the same careful smile that never reached his eyes. Time had only sharpened him into everything her mother admired—safe, successful, self-assured. Everything Julia was never meant to be.“Come in,” Mrs. Bailey said briskly, as if the air itself needed discipline. “Dinner’s getting cold.”Julia moved mechanically, the scent of roast chicken and lemon sauce mingling with the faint sting of old resentment. She sat across from Arthur, every polite smile she gave him feeling like a betrayal of the woman she’d fought to become.Arthur set down his napkin with a practiced grace. “Your mother tells me you’ve bee

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Chapter 53: Two Worlds Collide

Julia stepped outside before she could talk herself out of it. The cold night air wrapped around her, sharp enough to sting. Brandon stood beneath the lone streetlamp like he’d been carved out of shadow and stubbornness, rain dripping from the ends of his hair. His clothes were simple—dark jacket, worn boots—but on him, simplicity looked like defiance.“You came,” he said softly, as if the possibility he might lose her had weighed on every minute since she left.Julia swallowed hard, her voice stuck somewhere between longing and fear. Before she could answer, a faint scrape sounded behind her. She turned just in time to see the curtain in her mother’s bedroom window fall back into place. Watching. Judging. Measuring.Brandon followed her gaze and smiled faintly. “You didn&rs

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Chapter 54: Dinner for Three

The clatter of cutlery was too loud. Too sharp. Every sound felt like judgment thrown across the dining table. Julia sat between her mother’s rigid poise and Brandon’s calm, rain-dampened presence, aware that one wrong breath could shatter the fragile peace holding the room together. It wasn’t dinner—it was a verdict waiting to be delivered.Brandon sat straight-backed, hands steady on his lap. Mrs. Bailey watched him the way a hawk watched prey: unmoving, unblinking, already convinced of the outcome. Julia’s throat tightened with every passing second.Mrs. Bailey cut into her chicken with sharp, deliberate motions. “Tell me, Mr. Hughes,” she said, tone crisp enough to slice skin, “does your family approve of her?”Julia froze. Her fingers tightened around her fo

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Chapter 55: The Roof and the Rain

The first crack of thunder split the sky before Julia even stepped onto the porch. She froze at the sight above her—Brandon already on the ladder, hauling himself up onto the old, sagging roof as if the weather wasn’t threatening to break open any second. The clouds hung low and bruised, pregnant with rain. Her pulse raced.“Brandon!” she shouted. “You can’t start now—the storm’s coming!”He didn’t look down. “Perfect time to see how bad the leaks are,” he called back, steady as ever.Her mother stood at the foot of the yard, arms folded so tightly they might’ve been welded shut. “We’ll see if money can fix wood,” Mrs. Bailey said, her tone slicing the air sharper than any wind.

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Chapter 56: What Mothers See

Rain still clung to his hair when Julia dragged Brandon inside, the porch door slamming behind them. Her hands shook as she pressed the towel to his shoulders, as if she could erase the storm from his skin. His breath was uneven—too close, too warm, too charged. She tried to steady her fingers, but touching him felt like standing too close to the edge of something she wasn’t ready to name.“You could’ve died up there,” she whispered.“And you came after me anyway.” His eyes lifted, searching hers. “Why?”Julia swallowed. “Because—”The creak of floorboards cut her off.Mrs. Bailey stood in the doorway, her gaze sharp as a blade. She took in the scene: her

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Chapter 57: A House Divided

The moment they stepped into the house, the air tightened—thick, electric, ready to shatter. Julia barely set her coat down before her mother’s voice cut through the silence like a knife.“You embarrassed me at the cemetery.”Julia spun, eyes blazing. “Embarrassed you? For defending someone who’s been nothing but good to me?”Mrs. Bailey’s lips curled, cold and sharp. “Good? He’s a Hughes. That is all he’ll ever be.”The words hit Julia like a slap. “You don’t know him,” she said, her voice trembling. “You don’t see how hard he’s trying.”“I see perfectly,” her mother shot back. “You think you&rs

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Chapter 58: The Distance Between

The town felt too small and too wide all at once. Julia jogged down the narrow street, breath fogging in the cold morning air, heart pounding in a frantic rhythm that echoed his name. Brandon had vanished into the night without a phone, without a wallet—without a word—and the silence he left behind felt like a wound she couldn’t close.She checked the first bus stop, eyes scanning the benches, the shadows, the flickering streetlamp overhead. Nothing. She hurried to the old workshops where he once repaired doors and patched roofs, calling his name between the clatter of loose sheet metal. Still nothing. The pier was last, but she wasn’t ready to find him gone there too.Everywhere she looked, there was only absence.And absence hurt more than anger ever had.

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Chapter 59: Rumors That Burn

The storm hadn’t fully passed when morning broke—gray light seeped through thin curtains, casting the cramped room in a muted, uneasy glow. Julia woke to the sound of her phone vibrating nonstop on the nightstand. She groggily reached for it, expecting a message from Brandon, maybe even an apology or a quiet reassurance that last night hadn’t been a dream.Instead, her screen was flooded with notifications.Dozens. Then hundreds.Her breath caught as she opened the first headline.Hughes Heir Seen Rekindling Romance in Bailey Town — Small-Town Girl Clings to Fallen PrincePictures filled the screen—grainy, long-lens shots of her walking beside Brandon on the pier, their silhouet

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