All Chapters of MY FORBIDDEN MATE: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

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The man at the threshold

Liora POV“I’m not here to take anything from her.”His voice is calm.The air outside the estate feels heavier than it should.Not dangerous.Just… charged.Like something long buried is finally breathing again.The man standing near the entrance watches me without moving forward.And somehow, that stillness is more unsettling than aggression.Darius immediately steps in front of me.Not in hostility.In instinct.Protective. Quiet. Certain.The man speak again.“I’m here because her mother asked me to make sure she survived long enough to choose her own path.”That sentence lands differently.I step slightly around Darius—not rejecting him, just needing to see.“Who are you?” I ask.The man bows his head slightly.“My name is Gideon Arkwright.”A ripple moves through the people behind me.Even Selene stiffens.Elder Rowan’s expression tightens with recognition.Cassian goes silent in a way I haven’t seen before.Gideon continues gently.“I was a strategist within the Blackwood inner

The bond that feels like memory

Liora POVThe words didn’t settle easily inside me.The man who knows why she left.Not mystery.Not threat.Truth.Darius stands beside me again, closer now—but still waiting for me to move first.Selene watches quietly.Even Cassian looks unusually still.Ethan’s expression has tightened slightly.And then—A presence arrives.Not loud.Just… undeniable.A man stands at the edge of the estate path.Older.Calm eyes.Like someone who has lived with silence for too long.His gaze finds me immediately.And something inside my chest reacts before my mind can.Not fear.Not confusion.Something deeper.Familiar.Like my body remembers him before I do.He takes a slow step forward.“I’m not here to disturb you,” he says gently.Only then does he look at me fully.“I’m here because your mother trusted me with the part of her story no one else was allowed to know.”My throat tightens slightly.“Who are you?”He exhales slowly.“My name is Gideon Arkwright.”He pause.“I was there when your

The one I was always meant to meet

Liora POVThe words do not leave the air easily.Someone has been waiting my entire life.My chest tightens slowly, not in fear—but in something heavier.Expectation.Darius shifts slightly behind me, as if preparing for whatever comes next, but still refusing to take control of my decision.Selene looks at me with concern.I turned to look at Ravenna.I observed that her expression has gone unreadable again.Like she is bracing herself for another revelation she cannot stop.I turned to look at Ethan Vale.He exhales slowly.Even he didn’t expect this direction.Gideon stands still at the edge of the path.And then.From behind him, a second presence appears.Not dramatic.Not loud.Just… steady.A man steps forward.Older than Gideon.Not fragile, but weathered in a way that suggests years of carrying secrets alone.His eyes meet mine instantly.And something inside me shifts.Not fear.Not confusion.Recognition again.But deeper this time.Like a memory I never lived.My breath ca

The memory that was never mine

Liora POVThe words still hang in the air long after Lucian stops speaking.“You met him once before—and your body never forgot him.”It should sound impossible.But the way my chest tightens… the way my breath becomes uneven…My body reacts before my thoughts can argue.Darius stands close beside me, not touching yet, but close enough that I can feel the tension in him like a held breath.Selene looks between us, confusion softening into concern.Ravenna doesn’t speak at all this time.Even she seems to understand this is no longer something she can control with words.Lucian watches me carefully.Not pressuring.Just waiting.Because nothing in my life has ever given me space to feel something without interruption.I swallow.“…That’s not possible,” I say quietly.But my voice doesn’t sound convinced.Darius finally speaks, low and careful.“Liora.”Just my name.But it steadies something inside me.I didn’t turn look at him yet.I keep my eyes on Lucian.“Where?” I ask.The word co

The night that was taken from us

Liora POVDarius’s words do not land like information.They land like impact.“I remember losing you.”Lucian doesn’t interrupt.Selene doesn’t speak.Even Ravenna seems to understand that whatever is happening now is no longer something outsiders can shape with explanation.It is becoming personal in a way no one can control.I stare at Darius.My voice comes out low.“…Losing me?”He doesn’t look away.And that’s what unsettles me most.Because there is no confusion in his eyes.Only something deeper.Something strained.Like a memory pressing against a locked door.“I don’t remember details,” he says quietly.“But I remember the feeling.”He pause.“Like something important was taken out of my hands.”My throat tightens slightly.Lucian watches us carefully.Then speaks softly.“That is consistent with what happened that night.”Ravenna immediately reacts.“What exactly are you all talking about? A hospital transfer is not some romantic tragedy.”Lucian turns slightly toward her.

The man who signed her away

Liora POV Corin Ashby still standing at the edge of the estate path.Unmoving.Nobody in the group dares to breathe.Then I finally forces the words out.“Say it again. Say it slowly so I know I actually heard you right the first time,”My voice unsteady but perfectly clear in the cold night air. “because I need to hear it twice before I can believe it.” Corin doesn’t flinch.He didn’t blink.He didn’t offer me the small mercy of hesitation before answering plainly. “I signed the transfer order myself.”Darius was standing right in front of me the entire time I did it.” “You’re lying to me right now.” “I’m not lying to you, Liora. I genuinely wish, more than you could possibly know.”He sighed.“I actually wasn’t lying about this.”Darius’s careful control finally cracks, for the first time after an enough restraint. He steps forward.“You let me believe she died that night. Do you have any idea what that single belief did to me for years afterward”His voice low and dangero

Two lines

Liora POV Days later, the household settles into an uneasy sort of quiet. everyone still privately processing Corin’s unexpected visit in their own separate ways. I haven’t told a single soul yet about the pregnancy test sitting unopened in the very back of my bathroom drawer.At breakfast one morning, Selene watches me quietly push scrambled eggs around her plate without actually eating a single bite of it. “You’ve eaten like an anxious little bird allweek now, Liora. Are you actually feeling alright.”As if trying to read my expression.“honestly, or is something else going onwith you?” I shrugs, deflecting the concern easily enough for now. “Just stress, mostly.”“This particular family doesn’t exactly ever run out of that lately, does it.” Selene laughs softly at that, shaking her head. “No, it really doesn’t, does it. Fair point, I suppose, given everything.”That same night, alone in my private bathroom, i finally sits down on the cold tile floor to take the. the ex

The Council’s patience

Liora POV“Liora Blackwood. We are here today, as previously agreed, for your final answer on this matter.”Elder Rowan returns formally to the estate grounds, flanked closely on either side by twosolemn Council members, seeking my long-overdue answer on the Alpha inheritance question that has remained deliberately open.The exact same room from before reassembles once more — Darius, Selene, Ravenna, Adrian, noticeably heavier now.with everything significant that has happened in the considerable time between then andthis current moment. Rowan wastes absolutely no time at all on empty pleasantries or small talk. “I need considerably more time than that,” I say plainly and firmly, before he can even fully finish laying out the original question again in detail. “I genuinely cannot possibly decide something of this enormous size while I am currently in the very middle of bringing an actual new person into this world.” A few of the assembled Council members exchangevisibly uneas

Two lines, twice

Liora POV Selene calls an emergency family dinner together just a few short days later.She is glowing in a way nobody in this family has genuinely seen from her since long before the entire scandal originally began unfolding around them. “I have some genuinely important news to sharewith everyone,” she announces, barely able to contain her own visible excitement as everyone slowly settles into their seats around the large dining table. “I’m pregnant too, as it turns out, just like Liora.” The entire table erupts immediately in response to the joyful announcement, chairs scraping, voices overlapping in delighted surprise.Chairs push back suddenly from the table, Adrian laughs outright with genuine delight written plainly across his face, and even Darius manages a real, fully unguarded smile for once in a long while. “Two separate Blackwood babies, both born inside the very same calendar year,” Adrian says, shaking his head slowly in complete amazement at the sheer timing of

The weight of being second

Liora POVSeveral weeks pass by quietly at the estate as the seasons shift outside. The entirehousehold visibly reorganizes itself around Selene’s ongoing pregnancy. doctors kept comfortably on retainer for her, professional planners scheduling elaborate baby showers on her behalf, a slow and steady public excitement building openly around her pregnancy while my own quiet pregnancy stays deliberately hidden, entirely at my own specificpersonal request made weeks earlier. The resulting emotional imbalance starts to show itself in small, cumulative, genuinely painful ways over the course of these long, passing weeks.A staff member congratulates Selene warmly one afternoon out in the main hallway, right in front of me standing nearby holding some files, without acknowledging my own presence there at all.. not out of any real, intentional cruelty on the woman’s part, just simple, thoughtless ignorance of a secret nobody had ever actually told her specifically to keep quiet about.

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