Todos os capítulos de Unwanted Wife of Mr. Roswell: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 4

Morning arrived with a sterile, unsettling quiet.There were no birds chirping outside the window, no distant hum of city traffic to ground the senses. Only the heavy, oppressive silence of a house built to keep the world out.Elena woke slowly, her eyes tracing the unfamiliar patterns of the ceiling molding. For a fleeting second, she was back in her childhood bedroom then the weight of the previous day crashed down on her, anchoring her to the present.The wedding. The hollow vows. The cold, obsidian depth of Alexander’s eyes.“Only on paper.”The memory of his voice was like a phantom chill against her skin. Elena pushed herself up, the silk sheets rustling with a sound that seemed too loud in the stillness. The guest room, bathed in the pale light of morning, was undeniably beautiful, yet it felt like a museum exhibit perfect, expensive, and entirely devoid of life.Her gaze drifted to the nightstand where her wedding ring sat. She picked it up, the platinum band cold against her

The moment should have ended when the eye contact broke. It should have dissolved into the background noise of the gala, another fleeting friction in a night full of them.It didn’t.Even as Alexander looked away, Elena felt the residual weight of his gaze. It was a physical presence, a static charge that clung to her skin and made the silk of her dress feel suddenly constricting. Every breath she drew felt heavy, as if the oxygen in the room had been replaced by something thicker, more volatile.“You’re thinking too much.”Daniel’s voice, low and grounding, sliced through the fog of her thoughts. Elena blinked, pulling herself back from the edge of the abyss, and forced her focus onto the man in front of her.“Am I?”“Yes,” he said, a faint, sad smile playing on his lips. “You used to do that when something bothered you. Your eyebrows would knit together right in the middle.”Used to. The words echoed with the hollow sound of a door closing.“People change, Daniel,” she said, her voi