Semua Bab The Billionaire Who Ruined My Wedding : Bab 31 - Bab 40

The safe house had barely settled into uneasy quiet when the sound hit.A faint click, almost imperceptible under the storm outside, but enough to make my pulse spike.Alexander stiffened instantly, muscles coiling like a predator about to strike. His hand found mine, gripping firmly. “Stay close. Don’t make a sound,” he whispered.I nodded, heart hammering. Every fiber of me screamed to pull away, but I stayed, because in that grip was the only sense of safety I had left. Yet safety in Alexander’s arms came with a dangerous cost, I could feel the heat of him through the soaked fabric of our clothes, the unspoken promise in the near-brush of his fingers.“Whoever it is,” I said softly, voice barely above the rain, “they’re not getting past us.”Alexander didn’t respond immediately. Instead, he moved, silent as shadow, positioning himself between me and the unseen threat. His eyes, dark and unreadable, flicked toward the door. Then back at

The black car stopped only a few feet from us, rain sliding hard across its windshield.No one moved.Not even Alexander.His body remained slightly in front of mine, protective by instinct, but I noticed something else now—tension.Real tension.Not the kind Victor created.The kind born from recognition.The driver’s door opened slowly.A tall man stepped out, dressed in black, holding my father’s missing ring between two fingers like evidence he understood exactly what power he carried.Adrian ValeHis eyes settled on me first.Then Alexander.Then the burning remains of the safe house.“Well,” he said calmly, “Victor always did enjoy dramatic entrances.”Daniel frowned immediately.“You know him?”Adrian ignored him.Instead, he lifted the ring slightly.“This belonged to your father. Which means if Victor forced tonight, then he has already moved earlier than expected.”I stared at the ring.The ring my father never removed.“How do you have that?”Adrian answered without looking

The scream came from the maternity floor below us.Not sharp.Not brief.It was the kind of scream that made every person in the corridor move before thinking.Daniel ran first.Helena was already on the stairs before the second echo reached us.Selene shouted into her comms, calling security to lock the east wing.Alexander caught my wrist again, but this time his grip was different.Not force.Urgency.“Stay with me.”There were too many secrets around me now for that sentence to feel simple.Still, I followed.Because the truth I hated most tonight was this:even when I doubted him, my body still trusted his instincts before my mind did.We reached the maternity corridor in seconds.A nurse stood trembling near the reception desk, pointing toward Room 407.Inside, a woman cried while two doctors tried to calm her.Nothin

Vanessa’s whisper did not feel human.It felt like a crack opening under everything we thought we understood.“She’s not talking about me.”Daniel stared at her as though his own heartbeat had stopped.“What do you mean?”Her lips trembled.But before she answered, pain bent her body sharply and the nurse team Helena had called finally reached us from the elevator corridor.They moved her onto a stretcher while Daniel refused to leave her side.Alexander stood silent beside me, his jaw locked, eyes unreadable again.Too many truths had arrived too quickly.And now another one waited.Original bride.If not Vanessa,then who?The question followed us upstairs like a shadow.An hour later, the private hospital lounge had become our war room.Rain battered the glass walls.Helena reviewed security footage.Selene paced while s

Rain followed us all the way to the old estate.The drive felt longer because no one trusted silence anymore.Inside the vehicle, every breath seemed to carry unfinished questions.Selene sat opposite her mother, staring as though she still feared blinking might erase her again.Elena looked older under the passing streetlights, but not weak.There was steel in her posture, even with blood still drying along her sleeve.Daniel followed in the second vehicle with Helena.Vanessa remained under guarded care at the hospital.Alexander stayed beside me without speaking.His shoulder brushed mine whenever the car turned.Normally I would have shifted away.Tonight I did not.Because my thoughts were louder than distance.My father knew.That truth kept repeating inside me.Not only knew, but regretted too late.The estate gates opened slowly when