All Chapters of Married to My Enemy : Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Sienna couldn’t breathe.She stared at the woman standing at the end of the corridor.Silver hair.Sharp cheekbones.The same eyes she had seen in photographs of her father.Eyes that looked painfully familiar.Her grandmother.It couldn’t be.“My grandmother died before I was born.”The woman’s expression barely changed.“That’s what they wanted you to believe.”Sienna shook her head.“No.”Her voice cracked.“My father buried you.”“No.”Eleanor took one slow step forward.“Arthur buried an empty coffin.”Nathaniel moved slightly in front of Sienna.“How do we know you’re Eleanor Hartley?”The older woman looked at him.“Because your father once asked me the same question.”She reached into the pocket of her coat and removed a small silver pendant.Sienna’s eyes widened.She knew it immediately.It was the pendant that appeared in almost every photograph of her father as a child.Her grandmother had worn it around her neck.Eleanor held it toward Sienna.“Your father gave this to me

Sienna couldn’t hear anything except the pounding of her own heart.Cole stood beneath the dim candlelight, the document trembling slightly between his fingers.Nathaniel’s voice was dangerously calm.“What does that mean?”Cole looked at him.“It means exactly what you think.”Sienna shook her head.“No.”She stepped closer.“You helped them?”“Not willingly.”“Then explain it.”Cole swallowed.“Twenty-two years ago, I was approached by Julian Ashcroft.”Nathaniel’s expression hardened.“He told me he had discovered a financial conspiracy involving both families.”“I believed him.”Cole looked down at the document.“He showed me evidence.”“Bank transfers. Forged contracts. Secret accounts.”“I thought he was trying to expose it.”Sienna’s voice trembled.“And you weren’t?”“I was.”Cole looked at her.“Until I realized Julian wasn’t investigating the conspiracy.”“He was part of it.”The crypt seemed to grow colder.Nathaniel stepped closer.“Then why didn’t you expose him?”Cole’s

Sienna stared at the photograph.The young man’s face seemed to stare back at her with an unsettling familiarity.The same dark eyes.The same sharp jawline.The same slight crease between his brows that appeared whenever she was thinking.Her brother.Her father had another child.And someone had kept him hidden for more than twenty years.Nathaniel was still holding the black card.“Adrian Hartley,” he murmured.Sienna looked at him.“Do you think he’s alive?”Before Nathaniel could answer, Priscilla’s fingers moved.Sienna immediately leaned closer.“Priscilla?”Her eyes opened halfway.“Don’t…”Her voice was barely audible.“…let Nathaniel go alone.”Nathaniel looked at her.“I’m not going anywhere until you’re safe.”Priscilla shook her head weakly.“You don’t understand.”She struggled to breathe.“Celeste wants you to go.”“That’s exactly why I won’t.”Priscilla’s eyes found Sienna.“She knows you’ll follow him.”Sienna’s stomach tightened.“Who?”Priscilla’s lips trembled.“Th

Sienna knew that voice.Her heart dropped before the figure even stepped into the light.“Reginald.”Cole stood in the doorway.His face was calm.Too calm.Nathaniel moved in front of Sienna.Adrian stepped backward.“You.”Cole’s gaze settled on him.“Hello, Adrian.”Sienna stared between them.“You know him?”Cole’s expression didn’t change.“I’ve known him for a very long time.”Adrian laughed bitterly.“You knew where I was.”Cole said nothing.“You knew I was alive.”Still nothing.“And you never told her.”Sienna felt something inside her crack.“You knew?”Cole finally looked at her.“Yes.”Her voice came out barely above a whisper.“How long?”“Since the night your father died.”Nathaniel’s jaw tightened.“You lied to us.”“I protected you.”“By hiding my wife’s brother?”Cole’s eyes hardened.“By keeping her alive.”Adrian stepped forward.“Don’t make yourself a hero.”Cole looked at him.“You don’t know what I sacrificed.”“I know exactly what you sacrificed.”Adrian’s voic

Celeste stood in the doorway as though she owned the house.Sienna’s house.The house where she had learned to walk.The house where her father had held her when she cried.The house where Nathaniel had first kissed her.Now Celeste stood beneath its lights with a smile that made Sienna’s skin crawl.“It’s time you met your real family.”Nathaniel moved in front of Sienna.“You have five seconds to explain why you’re here.”Celeste laughed softly.“Still giving orders.”Her eyes shifted toward Adrian.“You look so much like your mother.”Adrian’s expression hardened.“Don’t call her that.”“Why?”“Because you abandoned her.”Celeste’s smile disappeared.“Your mother abandoned you.”“No.”Adrian stepped forward.“She was forced to.”Celeste’s gaze flickered.For the first time, Sienna saw something resembling fear.Then it vanished.“You’ve been talking to Eleanor.”“Yes.”“Then she has lied to you.”Sienna stepped around Nathaniel.“Enough.”Celeste looked at her.“Come inside.”“No.”