All Chapters of His Bride on His Twin Brother's Bed : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

40 Chapters

Chapter 31: The Erased Name

Aurora's POVWe stumbled out of the passage into an old storage room deep under the estate. The air was stale. Cold. Both of us stood there breathing hard, listening for footsteps. Nobody spoke for a while.I unfolded the family tree again. My hands were still shaking a little.*ERASED*"How does a whole bloodline just disappear?" I asked."By making sure nobody remembers they existed in the first place," Aridian said. His voice was low and flat.Neither of us said anything after that. The silence felt heavier than the walls around us.I looked around the room properly for the first time. Old crates stacked against one wall. Broken furniture covered in sheets. A single spider web stretched across the corner of the ceiling, catching what little light we had."We can't stay here long," Aridian said. "If they're looking for us, this is exactly the kind of place they'd check.""Give me a minute."We spread the paper out on top of an old wooden crate. Most of the family tree was still read

Chapter 32: The Blackridge House

Aurora's POVWe stayed pressed into the hedges until the last guard's voice faded out completely. My legs were cramping from crouching so long, but I didn't dare move."Seal every entrance," one voice said, further off now."If anyone asks, the tunnels were condemned years ago."The flashlights disappeared one by one. When it was finally quiet again, I let out a breath I didn't know I'd been holding."Who are they really protecting?" I whispered.Aridian's answer came without hesitation. "Not the estate. Whatever's buried under it."Neither of us said it out loud, but we both knew the same thing. We were running out of time.Back in my room, I laid the old survey next to the map on my phone, side by side on my bed. I lined the edges up as close as I could.The missing section didn't match up with a house. It matched with an entire road. One that didn't exist anywhere on any map I could find, old or new.I zoomed in on the faded ink still clinging to the torn edge.*Blackridge Lane*I

Chapter 33: Silent Names

Aurora's POVWe stood in front of the iron gates of Blackridge House. Rust had eaten deep into the metal, flaking off in orange strips. Ivy climbed the stone walls in thick green ropes, swallowing the lower windows whole. Broken glass caught the light of the mist, glittering faintly like scattered teeth. The gardens had gone wild years ago nothing but thorns and dead roses now, tangled together in a mess nobody had cleared.The silence was strange. Too complete. Like the house itself was holding its breath, waiting to see what we'd do."Still want the truth?" Aridian asked quietly beside me.I kept my eyes on the dark front of the house. "Not knowing scares me more."Together we pushed the gates open. They groaned loud enough to make me flinch, the sound echoing off into the trees. We stepped through anyway.The entrance hall greeted us like a tomb. A dust-covered chandelier hung crooked above us, tilted like it had given up trying to hang straight years ago. The marble floor was crac

Chapter 34: The Erased Daughter

Aurora's POVI studied the photograph again under the weak beam of my flashlight. Vivian stood on the left, her face calm and steady. Beside her was a young woman I'd never seen before. At first she looked normal enough. Then I noticed the details. The same sharp cheekbones. The same dark eyes I'd seen in every Hawthorne portrait in that house. And stitched quietly into her dress, so small you'd miss it if you weren't looking, was the Hawthorne family crest.I flipped the photo over. Most of the writing on the back had faded away completely. Only two words were still readable.*Second branch.*Aridian took the photo from my hands. The second he looked at the woman's face, something changed in him."You know her," I said.He didn't answer right away."Aridian.""No," he said finally. Then, after a pause, "But I've seen that face before.""Where?"His voice dropped low. "In a photograph my grandfather kept locked away. One I wasn't supposed to find."So she wasn't connected to me at all

Chapter 35: The Declarations

Aurora's POVThe footsteps came again. Slow. Even. Moving somewhere beyond the shelves. I stepped closer to Aridian without even thinking about it. He raised one finger to his lips.We waited. The sound stopped.Silence pressed down on us, thick and heavy. Then a metallic scrape echoed through the chamber. Someone was moving boxes around, somewhere close."Stay behind me," Aridian whispered.I almost argued. Then I realized whoever it was wasn't coming toward us. They were searching. Looking for something. And from the sound of it, they hadn't found it yet.Aridian moved silently between the iron shelves, and I followed him even though he'd told me not to. At the far end of the chamber we found an open document box, its papers scattered across the stone floor like someone had gone through it in a hurry."They were just here," I whispered."Minutes ago, maybe."Under the scattered papers I found another leather-bound book, smaller than the family register. The cover read: *SUCCESSION R

Chapter 36: Shadows of Blackridge

Aurora's POVI turned toward the entrance. A man stood there in the dark, his shape barely visible. I couldn't make out his face. Aridian stepped in front of me right away, blocking most of my view.The man didn't move closer. He just said, "You were never supposed to find that document."I gripped the parchment tighter against my chest. "Who are you?"He shifted slightly, letting a bit of light catch his face. I recognized him then , one of the Hawthorne estate's senior security men. But something was wrong. He wasn't holding a weapon. He looked scared out of his mind."You have minutes," he said, his voice shaking a little. "Before others get here."Neither of us trusted him. Not for a second. His eyes dropped to the succession document in my hands."If they find that in your hands," he said, "they won't let either of you leave this house."Then he was gone, swallowed back into the dark before I could ask anything else.I looked at Aridian. "Was that a threat? Or a warning?""I hone

Chapter 37: Truth About Vivian

Aurora's POVI stared at Alexander. "What did you just say?"He said it again, slower this time. "The people who killed Vivian."Aridian stepped forward instantly. "Careful."Alexander didn't back down. "Vivian didn't disappear on her own. Her death was covered up. On purpose.""Prove it," I said."I don't have everything," he admitted. "But I have enough to know she was investigating something dangerous right before she vanished.""And you knew about it?" I asked.He hesitated. "I knew something was wrong.""That's not the same as knowing," Aridian said, his voice hard.Alexander looked at him. "No. It isn't."The tension between the two of them snapped right back into the air, thick as ever. I realized both of them had been sitting on pieces of the truth this whole time.Alexander told us what little he knew. In the weeks before Vivian disappeared, she'd become obsessed with the Hawthorne succession records. She kept going back to the family archives, requesting old legal documents,

Chapter 38: Vivian's voice

Aurora's POVI turned toward the doorway. A man stood there, half hidden in shadow. For one terrifying second I thought it was Alexander, but the light was wrong, and I couldn't make out his face. Aridian stepped in front of me instantly.The man didn't move. "You were warned," he said."Who are you?" Aridian demanded.No answer. Instead the man reached out and hit the light switch. The room dropped into darkness. I heard footsteps, fast, then a door slamming somewhere behind us. When Aridian got his flashlight up, the doorway was empty.He was gone.My heart was hammering. Aridian checked the corridor. Nothing there either. But something had been left behind on the floor.A black glove.I went back to the desk. A few drawers had already been pulled open and left messy. One was still locked. Aridian forced it, and it cracked open easily. Inside were old photographs, receipts, a small brass key, and a handful of handwritten notes.The most important thing was a list of dates. Each one

Chapter 39: Room Four

Aurora's POVThe mansion had gone unnaturally quiet. I gripped the brass key tight in my fist. *E-4.* I looked at Alexander."You're coming with us."He hesitated. Aridian noticed instantly. "Scared of a room?"Alexander gave him a cold look. "You have no idea what you're walking into."I wasn't staying behind either way. The three of us moved through the mansion, deeper into the abandoned east wing. The further we went, the older everything got. Dust. Portraits covered in white sheets. Locked doors. Broken chandeliers hanging crooked overhead. This part of the estate hadn't just been forgotten. It had been shut off, on purpose.At the end of the corridor, a dark wooden door waited. A small metal plate on the front read: *ROOM 4*.Alexander stopped walking."Why won't you go inside?" I asked."I wasn't allowed in the east wing as a kid," he said. "My mother lost it every time I even asked about it.""And you never wondered why?" Aridian's voice was sharp."I wondered plenty," Alexande

Chapter 40: The Original Declaration

Aurora's POVThe door shook again, harder this time. Wood cracking somewhere near the hinges.I pulled the document tight against my chest. Aridian stepped fully in front of me, blocking the doorway with his whole body. Alexander spun around, scanning the room for another way out. There wasn't one.The door cracked down the middle.Then it burst open.A masked man stepped through fast, reaching straight for me. Aridian moved before I could even react, slamming into him, and the two of them crashed into the bookshelf. Papers scattered everywhere. I stumbled back, keeping the document clutched to my chest with both arms.Alexander threw himself into the fight too. For one strange second, the two brothers stood side by side, matching each other move for move, fighting the same man together.The attacker realized fast he couldn't take both of them. He reached into his jacket and threw something down onto the floor.Smoke exploded outward, thick and choking. I coughed hard, my eyes burning

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