Todos os capítulos de My Ex-Husband Begged After I Married His Enemy: Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 30

Chapter 22 — The Man Behind the FireThe door opened.Amelia screamed.“No!”The man standing in the doorway didn't raise his weapon.He didn't need to.He walked into the room as if he owned it, brushing a speck of dust from his dark suit.His hair was almost completely white, but his eyes were sharp and cold.Evelyn recognized him immediately.The man from the archive.The man whose voice had haunted her nightmares.The man who had stood near the burning car the night she disappeared.Lucian raised his gun.“Take one more step, and I'll shoot.”The man stopped.Then he smiled.“Still making promises you cannot keep, Lucian Blackwood?”Lucian's expression became murderous.“You should have stayed hidden.”“And miss this family reunion?”His gaze shifted toward Evelyn.“There she is.”Evelyn's stomach twisted.“Who are you?”The man tilted his head.“You really don't remember me?”“No.”“Your mother does.”Amelia stepped out from behind the sofa.“Get away from her.”The man's smile d

The Girl Who Wore My BraceletThe girl in the photograph had my eyes.And someone had taught her to hate me before she ever learned my name.I stared at the message until the words blurred, my fingers tightening around the phone.STOP LOOKING FOR YOUR SISTER, SERENA. SHE DOESN'T KNOW YOU EXIST. AND IF YOU FIND HER, SHE WILL BE THE FIRST PERSON TO TRY TO KILL YOU.“Give me the phone.”Lucian's voice cut through the silence.I turned the screen toward him. He studied the photograph, his expression becoming colder with every passing second.“Do you recognize her?” I asked.“No.”“You answered too quickly.”“Because I don't recognize her.” He looked at me. “But I recognize the bracelet.”The silver star around the girl's wrist had been mine. My father had given it to me when I was ten, and I remembered Isabella begging for one just like it.He had promised to buy her one on her next birthday.She had disappeared before that birthday came.“Someone has been keeping my things,” I whispered.

Chapter 26The Voice of a Dead Man“Come home, sweetheart.”My father's voice came from the elevator.For one impossible second, I was eight years old again, standing in a burning house and waiting for him to come back for me.Then the elevator doors began to close.“Wait!”I lunged forward.Lucian caught my wrist—not to hold me back, but to keep me from rushing into an elevator with an unknown person inside.The doors shut.I struck the button repeatedly.“Open it!”“Serena, stop.” Lucian stepped between me and the elevator. “We don't know who's inside.”“I heard him!”“I know.”“No, you don't!” My voice cracked. “That was my father's voice!”Julian moved toward the elevator controls. “Security can check which floor it went to.”Vanessa shook her head. “It won't matter. The voice wasn't coming from a person.”I turned on her.“What?”She pulled a small black device from her handbag. A red light blinked on its surface.“Someone installed a speaker system in the elevator. It was trigge

Chapter 28The Price of My MotherAt 12:16 p.m., I stole my husband's car keys.At 12:18, Lucian caught me trying to leave the hotel alone.At 12:19, he discovered that threatening me was a waste of his breath.“Give me the keys, Serena.”“No.”“You can't walk into an ambush.”“Then stop planning to walk into one without me.”His jaw tightened. “They demanded that I come alone.”“They demanded the Hart Trust. They didn't say anything about me.”“That's exactly why you shouldn't come.”I stepped closer.“Someone took my mother because they know you're connected to the night I disappeared. They know about Isabella, the school, and the original trust. They know enough to threaten you and me at the same time.”I held up the keys.“And you think leaving me here will make me safer?”Lucian stared at me for several seconds.Then he held out his hand.“Give me the keys.”I dropped them into his palm.He closed his fingers around them.“We're going to do this my way.”I raised an eyebrow.“You

Chapter 30The Call from the East WingThe telephone rang again.Once.Twice.Three times.No one moved.The sound came from behind the locked door at the end of the east corridor—the same door where the mysterious signal had sounded earlier.I looked at Lucian.“The key to the Hart Trust was hidden inside my bracelet?”“That is what I believe.”“And someone removed it before you could recover it?”“Yes.”“Who?”“I don't know.”I laughed bitterly.“I'm beginning to think those are the only three words you know.”His expression tightened, but he didn't defend himself.The telephone rang a fourth time.The man claiming to be my father stepped toward the corridor.“Don't answer it.”I blocked his path.“Why?”“Because the person on the other end is waiting to hear your voice.”“Then let them hear it.”“Serena, listen to me. They know you're here. They know about the bracelet. If you answer that phone, you'll confirm that you have the second seal.”I stared at him.“You said my mother has