Todos los capítulos de The Cripple CEO's Soldier Wife: Touch My Husband And Die : Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 10

The New EngagementThe silence that followed Amber's question was heavy enough to suffocate the room.Cedric remained motionless in his wheelchair, his dark eyes fixed on her, while Victoria looked as though she wanted to speak but didn't know where to begin.Amber stood in the middle of the Sterling mansion with her hands clenched at her sides, struggling to comprehend what she was seeing. This was not the home she remembered. The Sterling mansion had once been filled with warmth, laughter, arguments, and the occasional chaos that came with two families who had known each other for generations, but now everything felt cold. Even the people standing around her seemed different. Then a woman's voice cut through the silence. "Well, this is certainly unexpected."Amber turned and saw an elderly woman sitting at the center of the living room, dressed in an elegant cream-colored suit, her silver hair perfectly styled. Margaret Sterling, Cedric's grandmother, looked exactly as Amber re

After Amber announced that they were getting married, she took out her phone and immediately started a FaceTime call. Cedric, Victoria, and Elena had barely settled into the car before the screen lit up with the face of a beautiful young woman. “AMBER!” the woman screamed the moment she answered. “YOU'RE BACK!”Amber screamed right back. “I'M BACK!” “YOU'RE ACTUALLY BACK, GIRL!”“I'M ACTUALLY BACK, GIRL!” The two women practically shouted at each other through the phone, laughing so loudly that Cedric instinctively looked at his mother, while Elena stared at Amber as though she had suddenly become a completely different person.Was this really the same woman who had seriously slapped people not so long ago? The woman they had been told was disciplined and terrifying? Because right now, she sounded like a teenage girl who had just reunited with her best friend after being separated for a lifetime.“You're still alive!” her friend cried dramatically.“Obviously! I'm still breathing

A few words later, Amber's uncle bid them goodbye. He only came there to welcome his niece back home.The moment General Victor Beaumont left the mansion, the fragile peace he had forced upon the Sterling family disappeared. Margaret was the first to speak, her expression hardening as she stared at Amber. "I said... This marriage is unacceptable!" Amber folded her arms across her chest and met the old woman's glare without the slightest hesitation. "Unfortunately for you, Grandma, it is also legal."Margaret's face darkened even further. "You deliberately went behind the family's back." Amber simply raised the marriage certificate in her hand. "No. I went to the marriage bureau." Elena nearly choked back a laugh, quickly lowering her head when Margaret's eyes swept toward her. At the same time, Victoria pressed her lips together and desperately tried to hide the smile threatening to appear on her face.Julian, however, was far from amused. His expression twisted with disbelief an

Amber sat quietly at the edge of Cedric's bed after taking her shower, staring at the unfamiliar darkness of his room.Five years ago, she had known everything about him, or at least, she had thought she did. She knew how he took his coffee, which side of the bed he preferred, how much he hated being woken up early, and how he would rather skip breakfast entirely than eat something he didn't like.She knew the boy who used to sneak out with her when they were teenagers, the young man who had once carried her home after she drank too much at a party, and the person who had always seemed so easy for her to understand.But the man sitting across from her now was different. He was older, quieter, more guarded, and carrying a kind of pain she hadn't been there to witness. There were five years of his life she knew nothing about, five years of memories she hadn't shared with him, and for the first time, Amber realized just how much of Cedric had changed while she was away.Cedric wheeled

The previous day in the mansion had been filled with arguments, accusations, and the shock of Amber and Cedric's sudden marriage, and by nightfall, everyone had been exhausted enough to retreat to their respective rooms. But even this morning, tension continued to fill the mansion. Victoria avoided Margaret's gaze, and especially in the way Elena had barely spoken since breakfast. Amber noticed all of it. She had been trained to read a room before entering it, to recognize discomfort before someone spoke, and to observe the smallest changes in posture and expression. After spending only a day in the Sterling household, she had already realized something that bothered her deeply. Victoria and Elena had learned how to disappear. They were physically present, but they made themselves as small as possible. They spoke softly, walked carefully, never interrupted anyone, never challenged Margaret, and whenever someone said something cruel, they swallowed it. Amber hated it!