His Contract Wife's Secret Twins のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 71 - チャプター 80

Armando's POVI found her in her room. Sitting by the window with a cup of tea gone cold in her hands, staring out at the dark grounds the same way I had caught her doing more than once over these past weeks.She looked up when I entered, something immediately alert in her expression. As though she could sense the difference in how I carried myself before I had even said a single word."Armando?""I need to talk to you," I said. "Now, if you can."She set the cup down carefully. Rising to face me fully."What happened?"I closed the door behind me. Needing the privacy for what I was about to say, though I found standing there, that the careful words I had rehearsed on the walk over from Fiona's room had scattered entirely. Leaving only the plain, unguarded truth underneath them."I am not going to ask you the question anymore," I said. "I already know the answer, Zahara. I have known it for days now. Since the pond, if I am honest with myself. I only came to tell you that I am not wai

Armando's POVThe question sat between us, simple enough on its surface. And yet I understood watching her face, exactly how much weight she had carried behind it for five years. Imagining a hundred different answers. None of which she had ever let herself believe she could live with."Her name was Delphine," I said finally."She worked in acquisitions, at the time. She was the only true friend who I can let myself be with after my circumstances. We had dinner that night to close a deal that had been dragging on for months. Nothing more than that. I remember the evening ran longer, we were enjoying and cracking jokes when she touched my arm laughing at something I said. The way friends do sometimes without meaning anything by it.""That is what I saw," Zahara said quietly. "Her hand on your arm. You were laughing.""I remember laughing that night," I admitted. "Though I do not remember what at. I was distracted the entire dinner, if I am honest. I had gone back to that bar every night

Zahara's POVI answered before the second ring finished. My heart already hammering."Priya.""Zahara." Her voice came through. Thin and fast, panic bleeding into every word. "I need you to stay calm."I sat up instantly. Sleep gone completely. Every nerve in my body suddenly alert. "What happened?""Someone tried to get into Samantha's building tonight." Her breath was ragged, like she had been running or crying, or both."A man. He came to the back entrance, near the fire escape. And tried the door twice before Samantha's neighbor noticed and called out to him. He ran when she turned on the porch light."My hands went cold around the phone."Are they safe?""They are safe right now. Samantha has them in the front room with every light on and the door locked. But Zahara, this was not random. He knew exactly which door led to their room. He knew the building well enough to go straight for the one entrance without a working camera."I was already out of bed. Pulling on the first cloth

Armando's POVI read the message twice. My hand tightening around the phone as I glanced back at the twins asleep in the rear seat. Then at Zahara beside me, her face already pale with the same dread tightening my own chest."What is it?" she asked. Her voice low so as not to wake them."Perimeter breach," I said. "East gate. The camera has been offline for six minutes."Zahara's hand flew to her mouth. And I did not wait to explain further. I pulled the car forward through the gates quickly but carefully, unwilling to risk anything sudden enough to wake the children into a scene neither of them needed to see. And I radioed Griggs the moment we were inside."Report," I said. My voice tight and low."We already had two men moving on it before your alert came through, Mr. Ivas," Griggs said. His voice steady despite the tension audible beneath it."We caught someone attempting to cut through the east perimeter fence. He ran the moment our men approached. We did not catch him, but we hav

Susan's POV I read the article three times before the shock finally turned into something sharper. Armando Ivas has secretly fathered two children with his new wife. An anonymous source close to the household. My hands were shaking by the third read. Not from fear, but from fury. Someone had moved without me. Someone had let this truth reach the public before I even had the chance to use it myself. I called Armando twice. And both times his assistant told me he was unavailable. I called Arthur next, my voice sharper than I intended the moment he picked up. "Did you know about this?" I demanded. "The article. It is everywhere already." "I saw it," Arthur said. His voice carefully neutral. "This was not planned, Susan. Not by us." "Then who?" "I do not know yet. Voss is looking into it." He paused, heavier than I liked.