All Chapters of The Wife He Couldn't Erase : Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

Lyara’s POV.The van screeched to a stop three seconds before the Phantom did. Doors flew open. Two guards in black suits moved fast, scanning the entrance, positioning themselves on either side of the glass doors.I didn’t tell them to move that fast. But I wasn’t about to stop them either.Heather opened my door. “Ready?”I smoothed the black silk over my thighs, adjusted the gold belt, and stepped out.The moment my heel hit the pavement, I squared my shoulders.This is it. No turning back now.The glass doors slid open with a soft hiss. I stepped onto the ground floor of Ashworth Heights.And the room changed. Conversations died mid-sentence. Phones lowered. Eyes lifted.Heads turned.“Who’s she?” “Look at Heather behind her. That’s Ethan’s PA.” “Then she’s got to be—”“Ethan’s fiancée,” I finished in my head.The whispers started the second my heels hit the marble. Low at first, then spreading fast.A girl near reception, barely twenty, leaned to her coworker. Emma. Her n

Lyara’s POV.The intercom buzzed twice before Heather’s voice came through, tight. “Adrian Cross is downstairs. No appointment. He’s asking to see you.”The red pen in my hand froze mid-stroke.Shock hit like ice water down my spine. For half a second my chest locked up and I forgot how to breathe. Adrian. Downstairs. Now. After five years, no calls, no warnings, just his name dropping into my office like a bomb.I didn’t look up from the contract. Couldn’t. If I moved, Heather would hear it in my voice. The ink bled into the paper where the pen stopped, a dark, ugly blot spreading across the clause I’d just been reading.“Adrian Cross,” Heather repeated, slower this time. Like I hadn’t heard. Like she knew I needed it said twice to make it real.I paused. My pulse was suddenly loud in my ears, thudding against my throat. The blot kept growing. I stared at it until it burned into my vision.Then I forced the pen to move again. Sharp, deliberate. I finished signing my name with a fl