All Chapters of The Line She Crossed: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

The soup splashed all over Alaric Sterling, and his skin reddened instantly.Seraphina Vale’s parents, Harold and Margaret Vale, froze in terror, so frightened they couldn’t utter a single word.Alaric was Seraphina Vale’s lifeline. If anyone so much as hurt a single hair on his head, she would lose her mind.Even I, her fiancé, had to step aside.Alaric braced himself against the table, his eyes bloodshot.“So what if you and your parents drank some toad eggs?” he said. “It’s not like it kills you.“Sera, am I going to be disfigured?”Seraphina roared at the other bodyguards.“Break his hand for me!”The bodyguards surged forward together, slammed me to the floor, grabbed a chair, and smashed one of my hands.They gave me no chance to react.Pain drained the color from my face, and my whole body trembled.Seraphina kicked me in the face, so furious she looked as if she wanted to tear me to pieces.“Let me tell you this,” she shouted. “Forget toad eggs—even if Alaric

Chapter 2

Seeing Alaric like that, Seraphina immediately flew into rage again.“This isn’t over, Cassian!“You enjoy ruining people, don’t you?” she asked before turning to the other bodyguards.“Scratch his face to pieces for me!”My parents rushed forward to intervene, their voices filled with terror.“We’ll apologize to him! Please, can you let Cassian go?”Seraphina remained unmoved.My eyes started to water at the sight of my pleading parents.Ever since I got engaged to Seraphina, I had lost count of how many times she had humiliated me for Alaric’s sake.Now, she was humiliating my parents, too.She hadn’t even considered becoming one family with me, had she?Alaric suddenly whined in distress.“Were the toad eggs really that awful?”Seraphina narrowed her eyes and addressed my parents.“I can let Cassian go, but you have to finish the rest of the toad eggs.”A bodyguard clamped my neck and pressed a knife close to my face.My parents hurriedly lifted their glasses.“No!

Chapter 3

Seraphina had secretly swapped the birthday gift I had prepared for my supervisor with a broken clock.She even sabotaged my research.Every time I suffered humiliation, Seraphina scolded me for being petty.She claimed making me and my parents drink toad eggs was for Alaric’s sake.But after I mocked Alaric, he dragged me, stripped me bare, and threw me into a giant iron vat filled with poisonous toads.By the time I was rushed to the hospital, my body was swollen from poisoning. I was unrecognizable.Yet Seraphina still defended him.“Alaric handled all those toads without a scratch—only you had a problem. How dramatic.“You can’t blame Alaric. “I’ve already told everyone it was your own fault for being so reckless.”In that instant, my disappointment in Seraphina reached its peak.After my parents finished their procedure, they were utterly weak. I insisted they go home and rest.But no sooner had they left than a video call came through.When I answered, my father

Chapter 4

“You really picked the worst possible moment to come back.“But you were discharged so quickly. Were you actually fine? Were you just exaggerating?”I grabbed the ashtray from the table and hurled it at Alaric’s head.Seraphina instinctively pulled his head into her arms and took the blow for him.“Is this ever going to end?“I already told you I’d marry you. Why do you keep picking on Alaric?”Once, when Seraphina and I were kidnapped, she had held me the same way, fearless, taking a knife for me.But now, the person she protected had become someone else, a man who didn’t even need her protection.I looked at the scar on her shoulder, already faded with time, and completely let go of my feelings for her.After all these years, it had been nothing but my one-sided devotion.“Alaric, you’ve protected me so many times. I finally get to protect you this once.”Their cloying intimacy made my stomach churn.“Get out of my house,” I said through clenched teeth.Alaric laughed an

Chapter 5

Seraphina’s eyes lit up.“What’s the special program? Did you hire my favorite celebrity to perform?”I smiled with meaning.“Even more special than that. You’ll see in three days.”Alaric gestured toward the villa.“You’re willing to let me and Sera have a ceremony before the wedding…” he began.“So arranging the villa as a bridal suite and spending the night with her in advance isn’t too much, is it?”His tone dripped with arrogance.“Stop joking!” Seraphina said, but the shy, coquettish expression in her eyes told the whole story.Who knew how many times they had slept together behind my back? Did this one night even matter?“As long as you’re happy,” I said coldly.Then I turned and left.Seraphina felt a vague, sinking sense that she was about to lose something important.“Alaric… maybe we should skip the ceremony. There will be so many guests…”Alaric’s eyes flickered, and he held Seraphina tightly.“I just want to have the ceremony. “After this, you’ll be some

Chapter 6

“Wishing you both… never to be parted.”Everyone could hear the mocking undertone in those words.Seraphina’s parents finally grasped the gravity of the situation. They stepped in front of us, forcing a weak smile.“Cassian, is this a joke? Isn’t today supposed to be your wedding with Sera?“Surely you’re just performing a little show for everyone?“And please, don’t ever do this again.”I smiled at them, gesturing toward the marriage certificate Alaric still held.“They already registered their marriage, so how is this a joke?“Sorry, gotta go. My wedding is starting too.”Harold and Margaret’s faces burned with humiliation.“Sera! Explain yourself! What is going on here?”Seraphina turned pale, unable to speak.So I spoke for her.“She said she once promised to give herself to Alaric, so she had to marry him first.“Before the wedding, they even shared the bridal chamber several times.“I’m a romantic. How could I break up true love? So I had to let them be together.

Chapter 7

My parents had actually always liked Isolde; it was just that, back then, my heart and eyes held only Seraphina.I had even stubbornly stayed behind in the country, determined to be with her.At the time, my parents had said I would regret it.Now, I truly did.I had to admit that my parents had always been frighteningly good judges of character.Seraphina’s parents were afraid I would expose what happened back then—after all, it involved a kidnapping—so they no longer dared to stop me.Instead, Seraphina rushed forward in a panic.“You can’t do this, Cassian!“Today is supposed to be our wedding. You’re not allowed to marry someone else!”It was as if I were the one who had done something wrong.Yet hadn’t she herself brought us to this point?What was more, she had already registered her marriage, so why was she still clinging to me?I looked at her coldly.“Did you want the best of both worlds?“Marry two men at once?“Bigamy is a crime, you know?”Seraphina had not

Chapter 8

“I told you to play! I didn’t tell you to be serious!” Margaret yelled back.Harold fumed fiercely and then slapped Margaret across the face.“You’ve spoiled her rotten! That’s why this mess happened!“Where does that leave my dignity?”Margaret grabbed my hand.“Cassian, listen to me. If you care about Sera being twice-married, we can sue Alaric.“Claim fraud, and annul the marriage. How about that?”Harold knew full well that if this wedding fell through, those patents would no longer be available for his company.Who knew? I might even take revenge.So, looking at Isolde he gritted his teeth and said, “Fine. You just need to marry Sera. You like this girl, you can keep her. “It doesn’t matter. We won’t object.”But Seraphina did not share his thoughts.“What right do you have to share a man with me?”I swung my still-healing arm and smashed Harold across the face.Forget respecting elders, I couldn’t care less.His words had insulted me, and Isolde.“Do you think I’

Chapter 9

“Who told you to be so stupid? I said a few nice words, and you actually believed me.“I was just a petty thug who didn’t know where the next meal was coming from. But thanks to you, I’ve not only got money—I’m now a wealthy son-in-law.“There’s no way I’m letting go.”Harold and Margaret slumped to the ground at Alaric’s admission.Who could have imagined that while scheming against others, they themselves were being schemed against?Margaret looked at me pleadingly.“For the sake of past feelings, can’t you help Sera?“She’ll be ruined by this scoundrel!”Seraphina was weeping with regret.“You heard it yourself, Cassian. It’s all Alaric’s fault!“He tricked me!“I don’t want to be married to him!”Did they really think I would help them? Not a chance.The look on my face broke Seraphina completely.She lunged toward Isolde.“You little bitch! If it weren’t for you, why would Cassian suddenly refuse to marry me?”I stepped in front of Isolde.“I warned you before,

Chapter 10

“But being able to marry you makes me very happy.”Only then did I realize that Isolde’s calm composure earlier had been an act.She had believed I had asked her to step in merely as a last‑minute rescue, not because I truly wanted to marry her.I pinched her nose lightly. “Don’t say something so silly. I already set an alarm. We’re going to register our marriage first thing tomorrow morning.”Isolde’s eyes lit up instantly. “Really?”I nodded. “Really.”She threw herself into my arms and held me tightly.She was so excited that she didn’t sleep at all that night. Early the next morning, she urged me out the door, and we went together to get our marriage certificate.Only when she held the certificate in her hands did she finally break into a radiant smile.I felt that I truly had wronged her.From then on, I resolved to treat her well and never betray her.My parents rarely stayed in the country anymore, and Isolde’s parents lived overseas, so we decided to move abroa

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