All Chapters of Contract Bride to the Ruthless Ice King : Chapter 91

The air inside the hidden underground chamber felt suddenly heavy, as if the dust settling around us carried the weight of decades of buried secrets.​I stared at the black-and-white photograph resting in Alexander’s hand, my mind struggling to process the visual impossibility of what I was seeing. The young woman in the picture, laughing in the sea breeze, her sharp, piercing eyes unmistakably my mother, was standing arm-in-arm with a man who possessed the exact same stern jawline and stormy eyes as the man holding the frame.​Arthur Blackwood. Alexander’s grandfather.​"My grandfather..." Alexander murmured, his voice sounding hollow and distant in the enclosed stone room. He stared down at the image as though he were looking at a ghost. "He died long before I was born. He was a quiet, intensely private man who built this estate after the founders' generation. But he never spoke of Eleanor. None of the family records ever mentioned her."​"Neither did my mother," I whispered, my fi