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All Chapters of THE SCATTERED VOW: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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The mask of loyality

Chapter 11The mask of loyality Vivian POVThe morning air outside The Golden Bean was sharp and damp, holding tightly to my skin like a wet veil as I opened the heavy glass door. My chest felt empty, the weight of the photograph from Adrian’s briefcase pressing down on my ribs with the force of a lead weight. Saint Jude Memorial.a gushing body in the back of his car. The words had coiled in my mind on an endless, stunning track all night, leaving my eyes bloodshot and my hands trembling as I wrapped my fingers around the porcelain mug of black coffee sitting on the quaint oak table.Across from me,Vanessa looked like a wraith of effortless perfection.She wore a structured camel blazer over a cream silk blouse, her blonde bob catching the morning light filtering through the large storefront window.She moved a cube of sugar into her creamy coffee with slow,deliberate grace, her eyes fixed on me with an expression of profound, sisterly concern."You look like you haven't slept a

Last Updated : 2026-09-06

The Coerced Coldness

Chapter 12The Coerced ColdnessAdrian POVThe dashboard cast a cold blue glow across the leather interior, catching the beads of sweat gathering at my temples as my fingers tightened around the steering wheel. Beyond the windshield, rain lashed the glass in slanted torrents, turning the downtown skyline into a distorted haze of crimson and gold.My phone hummed in the passenger seat. Just a single vibration.I didn't need to look down to know what it said. The text had burned itself into my eyes over the last forty eight hours, a digital bound tightening around my throat.Twelve hours left Blake you push her away,or the flash drive goes to the district attorney's office or the flash drive goes to Or we will start the hit and run and you know what that footage will go viral let see how you are going to survive this your career your reputation.A dry, bitter sound ripped from my throat, half laugh, half sob.I hadn't even been behind the wheel when the delivery van slammed into the

Last Updated : 2026-09-06

The Encrypted Cipher

CHAPTER 13The Encrypted CipherAdrian POVThe blue glare of the monitor painted the walls of my study in a sickly, bruised shade, matching the dull,deep relentless pulse behind my temples. For three days, sleep had been nothing more than a whisper,i dont sleep at night anymore,a distant luxury traded away for the desperate hunt through lines of corrupted code and corrupted metadata. Every keystroke felt like walking across broken glass, the weight of a looming disaster pressing down on my chest until drawing a full breath became a conscious effort. I was hunting a ghost, a blackmailer who held my life, my reputation, and everything I had ever built in the palm of a ruthless hand. But ghosts, I had learned, always left footprints in the digital dirt if you knew where to look.My phone trembles against the mahogany desk, shattering the suffocating silence of the room. It was Marcus, the private digital security consultant I had retained through layers of protected proxies and offli

Last Updated : 2026-09-06

The unseen puppeteer

Chapter 14The unseen puppeteerVanessa POVThe concrete pillars of the subsurface parking bay swallowed the sound of my heels, turning every step into a hollow, echoing threat. My fingers dug so deep into the leather strap of my bag that my nails bit into my palm, a sharp, physical anchor against the rising panic in my chest. I had come here believing I was the one pulling the strings, that my carefully rehearsed web of lies around Adrian was impossible. But the text from the unknown number had been clear Sub level three. Pillar B.9 Come alone, or the truth about your past dies with your reputation.A sleek,onyx sedan sat resting in the shadows, its headlights dowsed. As I drew closer, the driver’s side door clicked open, and Matteo Romano stepped out.He didn’t look like a man who hid in the dark. He moved with the effortless,ruthless grace of someone who owned the light and everyone standing in it. The overhead fluorescent light trembled, casting harsh white light across the s

Last Updated : 2026-09-07

Broken signals

Chapter 15Broken signalsVivian POVThe tea in my cup had long since gone cold, a skin forming over the surface that mirrored the stagnant, suffocating stillness of the study. I had spent three hours staring at the grain of the mahogany desk, rehearsing sentences that felt like glass shards sliding up my throat. Every word of honesty I intended to offer Adrian felt both vital and fatal. We were drowning in a silent war of attrition, and if I didn't reach across the chasm tonight, there wouldn't even be ashes left to mourn.When the heavy oak door finally clicked open, the draft that swept into the room carried the scent of rain, cedar, and the familiar, unreachable distance that had grown between us over the last six months.Adrian didn’t look at me immediately. He shrugged off his charcoal overcoat, draping it over the back of the leather armchair with methodical, excruciating precision. His jaw was clenched, the muscle ticking in a way I had learned to recognize as the universal

Last Updated : 2026-09-07

The discovery of the key

CHAPTER 16Vivian’s POVI knew I shouldn't have opened the safe.Not because my husband had stopped me from touching it.He hadn't.That was what made it worse.He had simply trusted me enough to give me the combination and tell me to retrieve the documents his accountant needed for the tax filings. No warnings. No hesitation. Just that quiet, unreadable look of his before he left for the office.“Take what you need to take and please lock it once you're done.”simple words,i wish he had said more to me Because twenty minutes later, I was standing in the middle of his study with something in my hand that made those words feel like a lie.The house was so quiet that I could hear the ticking of the antique clock against the wall. Each sound somehow louder than the last. Outside, rain tapped softly against the tall windows, turning the afternoon into a gray blur.I should have been thinking about tax documents.Instead, I was staring at a red phone.A phone that had not been there whe

Last Updated : 2026-09-08

The Confrontation at the Penthouse

Chapter 17 Vivian POV The city lights below looked like leaked grease, smearing into long, blurred streaks of yellow and red through the floor to ceiling glass of the penthouse. It was past midnight, the hour where the hum of high rise airflow sounded less like machinery and more like a low, holding breath.I stood by the edge of the kitchen, the cold marble biting into the heels of my palms. My pulse was a live thing pinned beneath my ribs, beating too fast, too loud. On the counter sat the burner phone. It wasn’t hidden terribly well, just hidden beneath a stack of heavy financial files in Adrian’s private study where I went looking for a spare charger. But the moment my fingers brushed its cheap, matte plastic casing,something inside of me shiftedAdrian’s footsteps sounded in the hallway, the measured, expensive click of his leather soled shoes against the hardwood.He walked like a man who owned the word, entirely accustomed to the world bending around his gravity.Then

Last Updated : 2026-09-08

Shadow in the glass

Chapter 18Shadow in the glassAdrian POVAfter the argument with Vivian,I left for work. The heavy glass doors of the downtown office building felt cold against my palm as I pushed through them, desperate to lose myself in the endless spreadsheets and corporate fires that usually kept the dark thoughts out of my head. Last night’s argument with my wife was still burning a hole in my chest.Her reaction streaked face when she walked out onto the balcony haunted every step I took across the polished marble lobby. I needed control. I needed work.I threw my heavy wool coat over the leather couch in my corner office and dropped into my chair, staring at the glowing monitor without actually seeing a single word. My phone sat face down on the dark wood of my desk, dead silent. She hadn't called. She hadn't texted. The quiet between us was heavier than any yelling match.Reaching out, I picked up the landline receiver and dialed a private number from memory. It only rang once before a s

Last Updated : 2026-09-09

The midday trap

Chapter 19The midday trapVanessa POVThough I didn't actually care…i kept that perfect rhythm hammering into her then i turn knee down and unzip his trouser then ohhh……ohhh then i put my mouth to his dick and sucking him he scream come om fuck Ahhh…..Ahhhh…. Yes…… yes….. Come on, give it to me, he said.I was enjoying it wow he then he pushed my head deeper come on ride on that dick baby dont stop i had my eyes shut…..Then I pulled my mouth off his dick his penis was pointing straight at me. I was filled with lust, already feeling the urge.Impatiently Adrian dragged me down to his office desk. He positioned himself behind me,his massive length pressing against my skin pushing into my light ass that ripped a sharp cry off my throat Ouch……..i moaned he didn't slow,trusting deeper and deeper and i was enjoying it i can barely breathe.Fuck harder”,faster the sound of skin on skin, my soft cries,i low groans im close embarrasingly fast the tension coils tight belly.Adrian i’m gonna

Last Updated : 2026-09-09

The Pregnancy Announcement

Chapter 20The Pregnancy AnnouncementVivian POVThe plastic container had been heavy in my hand, carrying the warm food I had spent all morning preparing,but the moment it hit the carpet, it felt weightless. The muffled thud seemed to echo off the walls of the rich wood paneled room, breaking the suffocating silence that had just enveloped us.Adrian stood still, The color drained from his face so fast he looked like a ghost. His mouth opened slightly, but no words came out, only a slight,ragged breath.For a second, I didn't want to move. I wanted to close my eyes, count to ten, and pretend I was still walking down the quiet hallway outside.I wanted the heavy wooden door to be shut, keeping me safe in my ignorance. But the image of them tangled together burned into my retinas.Vanessa was the first to recover. Instead of crying or shrinking away in shame, she slowly stepped down from the edge of the mahogany desk. She smoothed out the wrinkled red fabric of her dress with madden

Last Updated : 2026-09-10

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