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Chapter 1

Word Count: 1053    |    Released on: 04/07/2025

iage wa

ways knew it, but I nev

ise whispered over a grave. My fiancé, Ryan, the brilliant tec

her, Liam, stepp

known for late nights and a revolving d

for the first time I could remember. "To protect the family,

like a lifeline. I saw it as an act of selfl

marri

oted husband. He was attentive, kind, and loving. He' d bring me flowers for no reason

Chloe," he' d say. "I' ll

conceive, he was my rock. He held my hand through every doctor' s appointment, ever

Hope, I fell apart. Liam held the pieces together. He cr

k with emotion. "I don' t care if we ever have

hey were the one solid th

library of our mansion. The door was sli

ng with us for the past year, a supposedly strug

ice laced with a desperate urgency. "He' s the only heir to

d to beat in a slow, hea

reassuring. The same voice tha

rry, I' ll

stle of fabric, the

. You helped me and your brother, who faked his death, to be together. Now, you' re do

its axis. Faked hi

fying sense. The pieces of a puzzle I never knew existed slamme

th to stifle a gasp. I felt a wave of nausea so intense

eeded to confirm it, to hear it from someone else. I found Maria,

trembling. "Have you... have y

yes, her hands freezing over a silve

sweet to me, his hands so gentle, his words so comforting. I replayed the nights he h

an act. A p

, he leaned in to kiss me. I flinched. He pul

s wrong,

id, forcing a smi

off his jacket, I caught it. A faint scent of jasmine, the same expe

ys dismissed it. I told myself it was from her pass

ell of his lies, of their shared secrets. It

o to the guest room. I didn' t want to arouse suspicion. I lay beside h

on? Liam had married me to protect them, to create a smokescreen. My grief, m

t began to form in my mind, a thought so mons

aw a path forward, a narrow, dark path paved with my own

ait. I wo

nd then, I would burn their world to the ground. T

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