Todos los capítulos de IN LOVE WITH MY LOVER'S BEST FRIEND : Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 30

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONEMaya had never felt so helpless.She stood in the middle of Adrian's living room, staring at the phone in her hand. The call from the stranger had ended several minutes ago, but his words continued to echo inside her head.We know how important you are to him.She had always believed danger was something that happened somewhere else, to other people, in stories she watched on television or read about online.Now it had found her.And Adrian was paying the price.Maya walked toward the window and carefully moved the curtain aside.The street looked normal.A few cars passed.A woman walked her dog.Someone across the road was carrying groceries into a house.Everything looked ordinary.But she couldn't shake the feeling that someone was watching.She released the curtain.Her phone vibrated.Maya jumped.It was Daniel.She answered immediately."Daniel.""Are you alone?""Yes.""Lock the back door too.""I already did."There was something different about his voice.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREEMaya had never prayed as desperately as she did during the drive to the abandoned clinic.She sat beside Daniel, her hands clasped tightly in her lap, staring through the windshield as the city lights gradually disappeared behind them. Every passing minute felt like an hour, and every time Daniel glanced at his phone, she searched his expression for a sign that they were getting closer to Adrian.She had stopped crying, but the fear hadn't left her. It sat heavily in her chest, making it difficult to breathe whenever she imagined Adrian lying somewhere alone, injured and waiting for someone to find him.She had spent so much time fighting her feelings for him that she had never stopped to consider what life would be like without him.Now she couldn't bear the thought."How much longer?" she asked.Daniel glanced at the navigation screen. "About ten minutes.""Ten minutes," she repeated, almost to herself.He reached across and briefly squeezed her hand."We'll get

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Daniel stared at his phone, reading the message again. MARCUS ALFRED. For several seconds, he remained motionless in the hospital corridor, unable to reconcile the name on his screen with the man he had known for most of his life. Marcus was Adrian’s uncle, a member of the Alfred family, and someone Daniel had encountered at countless family dinners and business gatherings. He had always considered Marcus ambitious, occasionally arrogant, and far too interested in his nephew’s inheritance, but kidnapping Adrian? That was something else entirely. Daniel’s jaw tightened. He wanted to believe there had been a mistake. A phone number registered under Marcus’s name did not necessarily mean Marcus had ordered Adrian’s abduction. Someone could have stolen his information, used a burner phone registered through a false identity, or deliberately planted evidence to redirect the investigation. But Daniel knew enough about the situation to understand that the possibil

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVENMorning arrived without bringing peace.Maya had barely slept. She had spent most of the night in the chair beside Adrian’s hospital bed, waking whenever he shifted or the monitor changed its rhythm. Each time she opened her eyes, she checked that he was still there, that his chest was rising and falling, and that the nightmare of finding him in the abandoned clinic had not become her reality again.Adrian noticed.“You know,” he murmured when she reached for his hand for the third time that morning, “if you keep checking whether I’m alive, I’m going to start thinking you don’t trust me.”Maya looked at him sharply. “That isn’t funny.”“I wasn’t trying to be funny.”“Then stop making jokes about dying.”His expression softened.“All right.”She lowered her eyes to their joined hands, embarrassed by how easily fear had taken control of her. “I’m sorry. I just can’t stop thinking about what might have happened if Daniel and the police hadn’t found you.”“But they di

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Daniel had always believed there were certain things in life he could never lose. His friendship with Adrian was one of them. Maya was another. For seven years, he had held on to the thought of returning home, finding her waiting for him, and finally giving her the future he had promised. He had imagined her smile at the airport, the way she would run into his arms, and the tears she would shed when he slipped a ring onto her finger. He had imagined everything. Except this. Except walking into a hospital room and finding the woman he had loved for most of his adult life sitting beside his best friend, holding his hand as though that was where she belonged. Daniel stood outside Adrian's hospital room, staring through the narrow glass panel in the door. Maya was speaking softly. Adrian listened to her with an expression Daniel had never seen on his friend's face before. There was a tenderness in his eyes, an openness that made Daniel's chest tighten. Then A