Todos los capítulos de The bride i never wanted: Capítulo 31 - Capítulo 40

I went to the bed alone.Alexander stayed on the couch all night. I could hear him shifting, sighing, but he never came to bed. I barely slept.Morning light came through the curtains. I got up, packed my small suitcase again, and headed for the door.Alexander stood up fast. “Emma, wait. Please don’t do this.”I stopped with my hand on the doorknob. “I need space, Alexander. Real space. Not just one night in a hotel room while you watch me from the couch.”He looked wrecked. Dark circles under his eyes. “I was wrong. I know I was. Don’t leave me over one mistake.”“One mistake?” I turned around. “You doubted me the second someone showed you papers. After everything we shared. After you said you loved me. That’s not one mistake. That’s a pattern.”He stepped closer. “I panicked. Kane is coming at us with everything he has. I saw those documents and my brain went back to every person who ever betrayed me. But I checked them. They’re fake. I believe you.”“Too late,” I said quietly. “Yo

We were running out of time.Alexander gripped the phone tighter. “What kind of evidence, Victoria?”“Emails,” she replied. “Between Sophia and Victor Kane. Dated months before the wedding. She was feeding him information about your merger plans. She wanted the marriage to fail so she could negotiate a better deal with Kane afterward.”I felt the blood drain from my face.Alexander looked at me. “Sophia was working with Kane?”“Yes,” Victoria said. “And it gets worse. She planned the runaway from the start. She wanted Emma to take her place so she could play the victim later and destroy the marriage from the outside. Kane has been using her all along.”The car went silent.Alexander ended the call and stared straight ahead. “She set you up. From the beginning.”I felt sick. “All this time… she wasn’t just running away. She was trying to ruin us both.”He reached over and took my hand. “I’m sorry I ever doubted you. Even for a second.”We drove straight to the office. The boardroom was

We had just found peace.And now the final battle was here.But that night, after Marcus’s call, Alexander turned off his phone and looked at me across the dinner table.“Not tonight,” he said. “Tonight is ours.”He stood up, took my hand, and led me to the bedroom. No rush. No fear. Just us.We undressed each other slowly, like we had all the time in the world. His fingers traced every inch of my skin like he was memorizing me.“I love you,” he whispered as he kissed my neck. “I love waking up next to you. I love coming home to your paint smell. I love how you fight me and then forgive me.”I smiled against his lips. “I love how you’re trying. How you finished my painting. How you chased me even when I ran.”He lifted me onto the bed and covered my body with his. This time when we made love, it was different. Deeper. Slower. Every touch felt like a promise.Afterward, we lay tangled together, my head on his chest.“Tell me something,” I said, tracing circles on his skin. “What made y

A threatening message at 3 AM about "one more surprise" involving Emma's family.I felt Alexander tense beside me as he read the message out loud.“‘Something even your precious wife doesn’t know about her own family,’” he repeated. “What the hell does that mean?”I sat up, heart racing. “I don’t know. But if Kane is coming after my dad again…”Alexander pulled me back down and wrapped his arms around me tightly. “We’re not waiting to find out. Tomorrow we fight back. Together. No more reacting. We go on the offensive.”I nodded against his chest. “What’s the plan?”He kissed the top of my head. “We walk into that boardroom as a united front. You and me. No more hiding behind me. You speak too. They need to see that this marriage isn’t a weakness. It’s our strength.”Morning came fast. We dressed like we were going to war. I wore a sharp black dress. Alexander looked powerful in his dark suit. Before we left the penthouse, he stopped me at the door.“Whatever Kane throws at us today,”

My heart dropped.Marcus stood in the doorway, still breathing hard. “Richard Harrington is at the office with Kane. He just confessed that he knew about the switch from the beginning. He pushed Emma to take Sophia’s place because he needed the merger money to cover gambling debts. Kane is using it to say the whole thing was fraud.”Alexander’s hand tightened around mine. “He sold you out?”I felt numb. “My own father…”We dressed quickly and rushed to the office. When we walked into the boardroom, my father sat at the table looking broken. Kane stood beside him like a vulture.“Emma,” Dad said, eyes pleading. “I did it for us. For the family. I had no choice.”“You had a choice,” I said, voice shaking. “You begged me to marry a stranger. You pressured me to stay married no matter what. And now you’re confessing everything to save yourself?”Kane smiled. “See? The Harringtons were never honest. This marriage is invalid. The merger should be dissolved.”Alexander stepped forward, pulli