《MY FORBIDDEN MATE》全部章節：第 111 章 - 第 120 章

Liora POV The crash itself, sudden and completely disorienting in every way..,screeching metal tearing apart violently all around me, glass shattering outward in every single direction at once, the entire world tilting sideways in a single, endless-feeling second of pure chaos and noise. My hands are still locked tightly onto the steering wheel when the airbag finally deploys directly into her, and for one strange, suspended heartbeat I thinks, almost absurdly, of the half-finished cake tasting notes still sitting on the passengerseat right beside her. Then the entire world goes fully dark around me, swallowing everything whole before i can even manage to scream out loud in genuine fear andshock.Cut immediately to the busy estate. Darius doubles over suddenly mid-meeting without any warning at all to those around him, gripping the edge of the long conference table hard enough to turn his own knuckles completely white with the pressure, the mate bond screaming violently th

Ravenna POVthe previous night, i had driven out specifically to the area near the lake house in order tointercept Liora about the ledger.arriving just in time to overhear Darius saying, faintly through the thin porch screen door in the dark, “I want to be her father.” I freezes completely in place on the gravel path outside the house, listening intently to whatever comes next.I catches only that single brief fragment of the entire conversation between them,completely stripped of its actual surrounding context and meaning, and it lands wrongimmediately in a mind that was already primed hard for betrayal after everything that happened with Harlan all those years earlier in my own marriage. I did not hear the rest of the full sentence that followed right after it in that moment. In my own troubled head,standing there alone in the dark outside the house, I do not feel like i genuinelyneeds to hear anything more at all to fully understand what’s happening between them.The ol

Liora POVThe long-planned gender reveal party finally arrives at the estate. full Blackwood scale as always expected for such an event, two elaborate custom cakes carefully prepared in advance by the catering staff, family members and carefully vetted press personnel only allowed through the main door with proper credentials checked. Ravenna arrives already visibly distracted and on edge, the anonymous threat from the previous night’s phone call sitting like a heavy stone lodged permanently behind her own ribs throughout the entire afternoon leading up to the event. Darius notices her obvious tension fairly early on during the party but reads it simply asordinary nerves about the secret she genuinely believes only she currently knows aboutwithin the family. “You doing alright today, Ravenna?” he asks casually, passing by with a full tray of celebratory drinks for the assembled guests. “Fine,” Ravenna says a little too quickly,a little too brightly for the festive moment. “

Liora POV I arrive at Thorne’s office the next morning, bracing myself for the worst based on how tight his voice had sounded on the phone the night before, the memory of it kept me awake for most of the night. “Just tell me straight,” i said, sitting down before heeven gestures toward the chair across from his desk. “Is it her cancer, is it back, just say it,”I hesitated.“don’t soften it for me, Thorne, I can’t handle soft right now.” Thorne shakes his head quickly,alarmed by the sheer panic written plainly across my face. “No. God, no, Liora, it’s nothing like that at all, I should have led with that instead of letting you sit with dread all night.”He hesitated.“Her scans are clean. She’s still in full remission. I’m sorry, I should have said that the moment you called me back.”Relief flood through me so hard and so suddenly that I have to put a steadying hand flat on the edge of his desk just to stay upright in the chair. “Then why did you sound like that on the pho

Liora POV Few days after the visit with Selene, Ravenna asks to meet me privately and alone,somewhere entirely neutral rather than back at the familiar townhouse. We end up meeting at a quiet little café that i deliberately picks specifically because it hasabsolutely nothing to do with either of our shared, complicated history together. Ravenna arrives first at the small table and is already seated by the time i walks in, both her hands wrapped tightly around a cup of coffee she clearly isn’t actually drinking from at all.“I don’t want you to think for one second that this meeting is about currying favor now that things are finally softening a little with Selene,” Ravenna starts immediately, before I even fully settled into my own chair across the small table. “I should have said all of this properly a very long time ago, and I kept quiet finding reasons to delay having this exact conversation with you.” I sits down slowly, saying absolutely nothing yet, simply letting her co