All Chapters of He Buried My Name,Then I Returned With His Heir.: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

The first thing Aurora heard was the sound of glass breaking.The second was Adrian's voice.“Turn the yacht around.”She froze.For a moment, she wondered if the champagne had gone to her head.She had spent the entire afternoon convincing herself that tonight would be different. Tonight, Adrian would finally explain why he had sent her divorce papers.Instead, she had arrived on his private yacht wearing the black dress he once told her made it impossible for him to look away.Now she stood outside the private lounge, one hand wrapped around the railing, listening to the man she had loved for six years give orders in a voice colder than the ocean beneath them.“I said turn it around.”Aurora's heart tightened.Why did he sound afraid?She pushed the door open.Adrian turned sharply.His eyes met hers.For one breath, neither of them spoke.He looked exactly as she remembered him—tall, broad-shouldered, devastatingly handsome in a black suit with his tie loosened at the throat.But s

Three days after the funeral, Adrian Kingsley still couldn't sleep.Every night, he woke at exactly 2:17 a.m.Every night, for one terrible second, he forgot.Then reality returned.Aurora was dead.His wife was dead.The woman he had spent six years loving, fighting with, hurting, and secretly hoping would forgive him was gone.And he had never told her the truth.Adrian stood alone in the dark study of Kingsley Manor, staring at the photograph on his desk.Aurora was smiling in it.She had been twenty-four when the photograph was taken, standing beside him at their wedding reception. Her white dress flowed around her like moonlight, and her hand rested on his chest.He remembered that night.She had whispered, “Promise me something.”He had smiled.“Anything.”“Even if we fight, don't ever let pride destroy us.”He had kissed her forehead.“I promise.”Adrian closed his eyes.He had broken that promise.Not once.Not twice.He had broken it every time he chose silence over trust.A