Semua Bab My Twin and Fiancé Betrayed Me, So I married His Rival: Bab 21 - Bab 30

*Alexander's POV*I was already moving before I made the decision to move.That was the honest truth. My legs just went. Across the waiting room, past the reception desk, past everything....and straight toward her. Like she was a magnet and I was the most helpless piece of metal in the entire building.Elena.She was real. She was here. She was right in front of me and I had spent so many nights drowning in whiskey trying to blur her face and here it was ...sharp and clear and more beautiful than my memory had been doing it justice.She hadn't seen me yet.And then she did.I watched it happen. The exact moment her eyes found mine across the floor. Her step faltered just slightly, just one half-beat and her face did something complicated and fast that she shut down almost immediately. Her chin lifted. Her jaw set. Her eyes went careful.But for that one half-second before the wall went up, I saw it.And it cracked something open in my chest that I had been keeping nailed shut for mont

*Elena's POV*"Liam!"I was already moving down the stairs, one of my hand on the railing, my heart was somewhere in my throat because the look on Alexander's face when he shoved Liam was not the look of a man who was done. It was the look of a man who was just getting started. And Liam was calm, infuriating, immovable Liam was standing there like he had absolutely no intention of stepping back, which meant this was about to become something I could not let happen in a hospital corridor with my baby bump and my whole complicated life on full display.I got three steps from them.And then the security personnel appeared from everywhere at once ... six of them, maybe more, moving fast and professional, sliding between Liam and Alexander like a wall that had been there all along just waiting for its cue."Gentlemen." One of them put a firm hand on each man's chest. "We're going to need everyone to step back."Alexander stepped back. His jaw was tight, and his eyes still locked on Liam

*Andrea's POV*"It's nice to meet you, Alexander Steele."My palm was still extended. Patient. Confident. I had learned a long time ago that the hand you stretch out first is the hand that controls the room.He stared at me.I was used to being stared at, so I let him. I kept the smile exactly where it was and waited while he did the calculation — the one wealthy people always do when they encounter someone new. Running the numbers. Reading the clothes, the posture, the quality of the watch, the way a person holds themselves when they are not trying to impress anyone because they have nothing to prove.The rich always recognise the rich.It takes about four seconds.He reached out and shook my hand.I smiled like I had just won something. Because I had."You were with them," he said. His voice had gone careful. It was measured this time. He tilted his head slightly, studying me the way a man studies something he can't quite categorise yet. "The group. You were standing with Elena and.

*Eliza's POV*My hands were perfectly steady.That surprised me a little, honestly. I had expected them to shake, some small physical confession of what I was doing, what I had already decided to do. But they didn't. They were calm and sure as I tipped the contents of the small capsule into the glass, watched it dissolve completely, and set the glass down among the other drinks on the tray like it belonged there.Because it did.Everything on this table was intentional. The meal I had spent two hours preparing. My dress, pressed and pretty. My hair, which I had redone twice until it sat the way he used to look at it before he stopped looking at me altogether.Every detail. Every single one was complete and perfect!I stepped back and looked at the spread and nodded once to myself.Then I turned to the maids."You can all go to bed," I said. Warm and easy. The smile of a woman who had everything under control. "I'll take it from here tonight. Go and rest."They exchanged glances the wa

*Eliza's POV*---He kissed me like he had been waiting for me for ages.Like I was the only thing in the world.His hands moved slowly .... deliberately — like he was relearning something he had been trying to forget. Down my shoulders, across my collarbone, and then lower, and I stopped breathing entirely because Alexander Steele's hands had always been my undoing and nothing about tonight was going to be different.He pulled back just enough to look at me.His eyes were dark. Unguarded in a way I had not seen in months ....the walls he fully let down, the distance he always put between us was gone, just him looking at me like I was something he needed at that moment."Alexander..." His name came out soft and broken at the edges."Shh." He pressed his lips to my jaw. My neck. The curve of my shoulder. "Don't think."I wasn't thinking. I couldn't think. Every coherent thought I had dissolved the moment his hands found me and his mouth moved against my skin like he had all night and i