Semua Bab The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride : Bab 11 - Bab 15

By eleven thirty, the city had changed.The crowds had thinned. The noise had softened into distant traffic and restless wind. Along the waterfront, fog rolled slowly over the dark water like something alive, swallowing pieces of the harbor one layer at a time.Aria stood across the street from Pier 19, her hands buried deep inside the pockets of her coat.She should not have come.Every logical part of her knew that.Ethan’s warning still echoed in her head.You’re walking into something you can’t come back from.But logic had stopped mattering the moment her life became a secret everyone else seemed to understand better than she did.Her phone read 11:57 PM.Three minutes early.She scanned the area carefully.The pier looked almost abandoned. A few cargo lights glowed in the distance. Water knocked softly against the wooden posts beneath the dock. Somewhere nearby, metal chains rattled against steel in the wind.Everything felt too quiet.Aria crossed the street anyway.Each step o

The rain followed them all the way back.Neither of them spoke after leaving the pier. Ethan drove through the sleeping city with both hands tight on the wheel, his jaw locked, his focus fixed on the road ahead. Water streaked across the windshield in restless waves while the wipers fought to keep up.Aria sat beside him in silence, the photograph still folded inside her coat pocket like something dangerous.Every few minutes, she glanced toward him without meaning to.And every time, he looked exactly the same.Controlled.Unreadable.Like the last hour hadn’t ripped open years of buried history.But she knew better now.Victor Hale’s words had changed something.Not because she trusted Victor. She didn’t.But because Ethan never denied any of it.That was the part she couldn’t escape.You were the last person to see her alive.She turned toward the window again, watching blurred city lights smear across the glass.The silence between them no longer felt familiar. Before, it had been