All Chapters of He Divorced Me… But I Was Never His To Lose(regret & desire): Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

The Woman In The DoorwayThe gunshot ripped through the forest with such violence that the sound seemed to shake the cabin itself, and the fragile, impossible moment that had existed for a few seconds vanished instantly beneath a rush of movement and shouted warnings.Daniel reacted first.He lunged forward and grabbed the woman standing in the doorway just as she staggered, pulling her inside and slamming the door shut with enough force to rattle the windows.Damian's hand closed around Serena's wrist."Get down."The command came sharply, leaving no room for argument.He pulled her toward the floor as another gunshot cracked through the night, this one striking the outer wall of the cabin with a heavy thud that sent splinters flying across the room.The fire popped loudly.Evelyn cried out.Victor extinguished the lamp immediately.Darkness swallowed half the cabin.Only the glow from the fireplace remained, throwing long shadows against the walls and turning familiar faces into shif

The Price of Twenty YearsNobody moved.The words seemed to settle over the cabin like ash, covering everything else beneath their weight until even the wind outside sounded distant.She's already dying.Gregory's hand gripped the edge of the table.Daniel's face had gone completely still.Victor remained beside the window, his eyes fixed on the gathering headlights outside, yet Serena could tell he wasn't seeing the vehicles anymore.Everyone's thoughts had gone somewhere else.To Claire.Alive.Dying.The two ideas refused to fit together.Catherine was crying quietly now, her shoulders trembling as though she had been carrying this moment alone for too long.Daniel recovered first.His voice came out rough."What does he mean?"Nobody answered.The question wasn't directed at everyone.It was directed at Catherine.She slowly lowered her hands from her face."I thought I had more time."The sentence immediately irritated Daniel.He crossed the room."More time for what?"Catherine

The Phone That Shouldn't ExistThe ringing continued.Nobody moved.Nobody even seemed capable of moving.The sound was soft, almost delicate, yet inside the cabin, it might as well have been an alarm because every person in the room understood the same impossible thing at the same moment.Something hidden inside Claire's journal was receiving a call.Twenty years.The journal had been sitting in Evelyn's possession for twenty years.And now, tonight of all nights, something inside it had suddenly come alive.The fire crackled softly.The phone kept ringing.Evelyn was the first to react.She pulled the journal toward herself and lifted it carefully.A faint vibration continued beneath the leather cover.Her hands trembled."I never knew."The words emerged as little more than a whisper.Catherine looked equally stunned."I didn't either."Daniel crossed the room in two strides."Open it."Nobody argued.Evelyn turned the journal over.The back cover appeared ordinary at first glance.

The Name Hidden Inside Twenty YearsNobody moved.The snow continued falling around Claire and Elias, drifting lazily through the beams of the headlights while the forest stood silent behind them, dark and endless, and inside the cabin it felt as though every person had forgotten how to breathe because the impossible reunion they had just witnessed had been interrupted by something far more dangerous.Elias Vaughn looked entirely at ease.That was the part Serena found most unsettling.He had spent twenty years searching.Twenty years chasing ghosts, destroying lives, and digging through secrets buried beneath layers of lies and grief.Yet now that he finally stood face to face with Claire, he looked almost peaceful.Satisfied.Like a man who had just completed a journey he had always known would end this way.Claire slowly lowered her hand from her mouth.The tears remained in her eyes, but her expression had changed.The shock was gone.So was the emotion.What remained was a weary

The Niece He Never KnewThe word settled over the clearing with the force of an explosion.Niece.Snow continued to drift through the headlights, landing softly on coats and shoulders, yet nobody seemed aware of the cold anymore because the revelation had reached so deeply into the foundations of everything they thought they understood that even breathing suddenly felt like an effort.Serena simply stared at Elias.Her uncle.The man she had feared.The man who had hunted her.The man whose name had become synonymous with danger and loss.Her uncle.The thought refused to fit inside her mind.Outside, Elias remained motionless, his eyes fixed on her face with an expression that looked almost painfully vulnerable.Then he laughed.Not because anything was funny.Because the cruelty of it all seemed too absurd to comprehend.A man searched for twenty years for his brother.A woman spent twenty years protecting a secret.A child grew into adulthood believing herself alone.And all of the