All Chapters of He Chose His Mistress, I Chose My Empire : Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

The first thing I noticed when I opened my eyes was the smell.Antiseptic.Then came the pain.My head throbbed, my body felt heavy, and even moving my fingers took effort. I tried to sit up, but a sharp pain stopped me."Elena?"I turned toward the voice.Ethan sat beside my hospital bed. His hair was messy, and his eyes looked tired. The moment he saw me looking at him, he stood."You're awake."I stared at him, confused.The last thing I remembered was the railing giving way beneath my hand. Then the ground rushing toward me.I lifted my hands and signed, *What am I doing here?*Ethan pulled his chair closer."I found you lying lifeless on the floor. You weren't responding, Elena." His voice broke slightly. "For a moment, I thought I'd lost you."My hands trembled.I remembered the warehouse. The gun. Adrian standing between Victoria and me.*Victoria.*I swallowed hard and looked around the room.Then I signed, *Where is the nurse?*"One minute."Ethan hurried out.I lowered my ha

The sound of a car pulling into the driveway made Sienna turn toward the window.“He's back.”I stood beside the sofa, my fingers resting on the handle of my small suitcase.I had been home for less than twenty minutes.The house looked exactly as I remembered it. The crystal chandelier still hung above the staircase. The flowers on the center table were fresh. Even the wedding photograph on the wall remained untouched.Three years of my life were inside these walls.Three years of waiting for a man who never seemed to have time for me.Sienna moved closer.“Are you sure you want to do this today? You just got out of the hospital.”I nodded.I had spent enough time waiting for Adrian to care about what happened to me.I wasn't going to wait another day to leave him.The front door opened.Adrian walked in, dressed in a black suit, his phone pressed to his ear. He was saying something about a meeting when he stepped aside to let the woman behind him enter.Victoria.She wore a cream dr

“Why was my father afraid of Charles Whitmore?”Jonathan Reed didn't answer immediately.He stood beside his office window, looking down at the busy street below. Cars moved through the traffic while people hurried along the pavement, unaware that my entire life had just changed.When he finally turned around, his expression had grown serious.“Your father trusted very few people with his business affairs, Elena. Charles was one of them. They built Sterling Group together, but in the months before the accident, their relationship changed.”I leaned forward.“Changed how?”“Alexander began questioning certain payments. Money was leaving the company through accounts he couldn't explain. When he asked Charles about them, he was given answers that didn't satisfy him.”Jonathan opened a drawer and removed a thin folder.“These are copies of the records your father managed to keep. Unfortunately, some of the original documents disappeared after his death.”I took the folder from him.The fi