All Chapters of When I Stopped Loving You : Chapter 21 - Chapter 23

The interior of Adrian’s town car was deathly silent. He sat in the back seat, staring blankly at the dark tinted window as the Manhattan skyline rolled past. His chest heaving, his mind spinning so fast it felt like a physical centrifuge. *She had a baby.* The timeline slammed into his brain with the force of a freight train. Four years ago. The day she vanished. The day he had found her at the clinic... she hadn't just been there because she was unwell. She had been pregnant. *She was carrying his child while he was standing in the hallway with a pregnant Sophie.* A wave of nausea and blinding, suffocating rage washed over him. The absolute hell Aria must have endured in that moment—believing he had betrayed her, believing he had chosen Sophie—it made him want to rip his own heart out of his chest. She had fled into the rain, completely alone, carrying his daughter, while he was trapped in a web of Sophie's lies. "Adrian?" Marcus asked softly from the opposite seat, noticin

The Carlyle suite had begun to feel like a glass box.Aria stood at the window with the curtains only half-drawn, watching the park below without really seeing it. Every few minutes her eyes flicked to the reflection in the glass — checking the room behind her, the hallway door, the faint glow of the security panel. Maya sat on the rug, humming softly as she lined up her wooden animals. The sound should have been comforting. Instead it made the silence around it feel heavier.Clara entered from the second bedroom, tablet pressed against her chest.“The manager called again,” she said, keeping her voice low. “Additional private security has been posted on this floor. He said it’s for our comfort.”Aria didn’t turn. “How many?”“He wouldn’t say. But the men are new. And they’re not wearing hotel badges.”Aria’s fingers tightened on her elbows. Adrian wasn’t knocking. He wasn’t sending lawyers or storming the lobby. He was doing something worse.He was making the building his.The first