Novel & Cerita He Chose Her I Lost Everything

Three nights before my wedding, our families played a “lucky key” game. Each woman drew a key to one of the gift cases. Everyone said the assignments were random. My key opened an empty case. Inside was a single card. THANK YOU FOR PLAYING. My fiancé, Damian Valenti, touched my shoulder. “Your luck has always been terrible.” My childhood friend, Luca Ferraro, lowered his voice. “Smile. Don’t let everyone think you’re a sore loser.” My half sister, Sienna, drew the grand prize. Her case held a vintage Valenti brooch, the Mediterranean vacation I had spent months planning, and a card Luca had written himself. Whatever happens, we will always protect you. I smiled for the photographs and return

My daughter and my husband’s godson were diagnosed with acute leukemia at the same time. The doctors said a banked cord-blood unit could save a life. His foster sister, Rebecca Sloan, knelt in front of me with her son in her arms and begged until her voice gave out. “Claire, please, let Leo have the cord blood. His father died right after he was born and I never banked any of my own. Have some pity on the two of us. “Leo is the only child I have. I’m begging you. Save him.” I refused outright. I was not going to gamble with my daughter’s life. Then, on the morning of my daughter’s treatment, my husband, Ethan Hale hit me with his car and left me critically injured. The wheels went ove

At our joint engagement party, my best friend and I both left with rings on our fingers. Sabrina Vale was marrying Luca Marino, the boy I’d loved for ten years. I was marrying Adrian Calloway, the man every society columnist in New York swore was obsessed with me. When it was my turn to make a toast, Sabrina brought up an old bet and grinned at the crowd. “Let’s see whether our princess already has her fiancé on a leash.” The guests started chanting for Adrian to smear engagement cake across my face. His hand stalled. For one stupid second, I thought he’d put the plate down and stand beside me like he always promised he would. Then Luca asked if Adrian was whipped before the wedding had even

I surrendered nothing and offered everything, which I learned that night are opposite things, and somewhere in the dark, with my palm flat over the finished mark on his chest and his heart going hard and steady under it, I understood the whole distance I had crossed. From a girl thrown away because a code said she was worthless, to a queen who could lie down beside a man who wanted her more than his own life, and know, all the way down, that she was still entirely her own. I said the truest words of my life into his skin. I choose you. No one made me. I choose you. And he answered them the only way that mattered, which was to hold me like something precious and never once like something owne

She lowered her gaze for a moment. “After all, I’m Mrs. Elijah now, and it’s only proper that I join everyone for breakfast on my first day here.” Hearing that, Elijah gently sat down beside her, bringing himself level with her. He took her fingers in his hand and pressed a loving kiss to his wife’s forehead. “Everyone will understand if you’re still tired after our first night together,” Elijah whispered softly near her ear. Irina immediately smiled shyly, her cheeks warming with another blush. Deep down, she felt incredibly grateful to fate. In her previous life, even though she had loved Aaron with all her heart, she had never once given herself to him. And now, she had given everything t

She inhaled slowly, like she was steadying herself before stepping off something she couldn’t come back from. “It means choosing you is choosing a war,” she said. “I already chose that.” “It means Adrian won’t stop.” “I know.” “It means everything could fall apart.” “I know.” Her voice broke slightly on the last word. “And it means I could lose everything my father left me.” That one stayed in the air longer than the others. Because it mattered. Because it was real. I didn’t rush to answer. I let the silence settle. Then I said it anyway. “You won’t lose it by fighting for it.”

she licked her lips, hoping he would turn to her but he didn’t. She closed her eyes and sniffed, biting her lower lip, she looked at him once more and prayed silently that she won’t have to fight for him again, then placing the glass on the couch, she stood up and turned to leave. But before she could take a step, a strong hand grabbed hers, she turned to him sharply but his gaze was still on the whiskey bottle. “Don’t go,” he whispered, “I don’t want to look for you like I did nine years ago.” He looked at her then, his eyes appeared lost, “you are the only one who could make me live through this. Flower, I’m a nobody now,” he snorted, “I have lost everything, everything that has ever made

passed away the week before I gave birth. With him gone, I lost the only support I had. So, in Rachel's eyes, I had stolen her rightful place as Mrs. Soulman? "But you've already gotten everything you wanted. Why won't you leave me alone?"

He looked up at me with guilt written all over his face. "Lisa… I was wrong. I shouldn't have let her manipulate me. I shouldn't have ignored your feelings over and over again. I even humiliated you right to your face because of that woman. I swear, Lisa, if you give me one more chance, I will never let you down again. I'll work hard, I'll build a better life for you…" He choked up, and his eyes were red with emotion. Then as if to prove his sincerity, he dropped to his knees with a loud thud.

She chose to ask me to leave—to continue being the daughter who never gave her any trouble. My heart felt cold and numb, but the pain had disappeared. As I looked at her anxious face, I felt nothing but exhaustion and a sense of ridiculousness. "I'll leave." I ended up bumping into Dad right after I stepped through the door. "I bought your favorite cake for you, Mel! I had to visit three different stores before I managed to get my hands on this limited edition—" The smile on his face stiffened when he saw me, his gleeful expression morphing into a bewildered one.