Chapter 356 At that moment, Lovi was still sitting at his desk in the dimly lit room, his fingers drumming an impatient and restless rhythm against the hard surface as he waited with barely contained agitation for Cora’s response to arrive in his inbox. His teeth were grinding together with
Chapter 355 At that moment, Cora fell into a heavy silence that stretched out for several long seconds as she sat there staring at the phone in her hands, her mind working furiously to weigh her options and truly consider whether she could just blindly go along with whatever Oliver
Chapter 714 Nala: “Come on, let me speak with her,” I insisted to Mathew, watching a plethora of emotions cross his face. I could tell he was exhausted. He had even agreed to go along with Ron’s plan. Now he was caught between doing the right thing and doing something
Chapter 713 Baxter: Many Years Ago: We were both running. At that moment, all I could hear was our giggling. As we ran, we knocked someone’s hat off with a careless touch, then grabbed a guard’s gun and tossed it far away. Laughing the entire time, we rushed out of
Chapter 149 Moonlit Reunion Estelle’s POV “Zayne?” I breathed his name, barely believing my eyes. He stood there in the moonlight, dressed in a perfectly tailored black suit that made his silver hair look almost ethereal. Those electric blue eyes found mine immediately, and my heart did a flip. “Good
Chapter 148 Familiar Shadows Third POV Asher’s eyes locked onto the elegant silhouette across the crowded ballroom. The woman wore an icy blue satin cocktail dress that hugged her curves perfectly. Diamonds sparkled at her throat and ears, catching the chandelier light with every subtle movement. Her dark hair was
Chapter 268 Author “There is this thing called a handshake,” Nancy said slowly. “Maybe you have heard of it p> She thought he had lost his mind. What kind of hand-holding was he talking about? So Yardley thought she was cheating on him? “Relax. I am not cheating on you.
Chapter 267 Author The next day, Yardley finished his meeting and didn’t go straight home. He told Louis to clock out. Then he got into his own car, a black Range Rover. Without really thinking about it, he found himself parked outside Nancy’s office building on Congress Avenue. He didn’t
Chapter 266 Author Several months later, Yardley saw Nancy again. She was working as a server at an upscale private club in downtown Austin. She didn’t recognize him. She was too busy trying to do her job right. The manager had warned her before the shift. The guys in the
Chapter 265 Author Yardley had noticed Nancy’s mood dipping lately. Even when she played with Orion, her mind was somewhere else. She would laugh a beat too late. Her eyes would drift to the window. She would go quiet in the middle of a sentence. “Mommy, you’re spacing out again!”
Chapter 264 Author “A few days later, Elara met the production team in the study of their apartment. She signed her name on eight different pages. When the first payment hit her account, she checked her phone and let out a low whistle. “Okay. I get it now. That’s real
Chapter 263 Elara Ever since I started cooking for myself, Dominic has been making me work from home. Full time. Like I’m going to go into labor if I walk to the kitchen. After dinner, I wandered out onto the balcony to get some air. The moon was rising over
Chapter 262 Author Elara meant what she said. But the second she stepped into the kitchen, everyone in the house started praying. Elizabeth rolled her wheelchair up to the kitchen island and watched her granddaughter like she was watching someone try to land a plane. “Elara, baby. You have never
Chapter 261 Elara When Dominic brought home the eleventh nanny, she made me the simplest bowl of chicken soup. Just broth, some shredded chicken, and a handful of tiny pasta shells. Nothing fancy. Nothing heavy. I sat at the kitchen counter staring at the bowl in front of me. Clear
Chapter 260 Author Two months in, and pregnancy hit Elara like a truck. She woke up one morning feeling fine. Normal. She even made it downstairs before the nausea kicked in. Linda had made her favorite breakfast: a big bowl of fish chowder, the kind Elara had been craving for
Chapter 259 Author Nancy asked for a day off from HR and drove straight to her aunt and uncle’s house. She’d just pulled into the parking garage when she spotted Frank walking toward his car. “Frank p> He turned. One look at her face and his expression shifted. “Jesus, Nancy.
Chapter 258 Author Walter only needed five days. Five days of digging through hospital archives, county records, and police reports that someone had tried very hard to bury. He made calls to people who didn’t want to talk. Called in markers that had been sitting untouched for years. Threatened to
Chapter 257 Author Alpha Dominic was worried. He could see it in the way Elara’s shoulders stayed tight after running into Nadia. The way her jaw stayed clenched even after they’d left the hospital. She kept rubbing her temple like she was trying to push back a headache. He wasn’t
Chapter 256 Author The weekend finally showed up. Blue sky. Cool breeze. The kind of Saturday that made you wanna grab an iced coffee and sit on someone’s porch doing absolutely nothing. Instead, Alpha Dominic drove Elara to a public hospital forty-five minutes outside pack territory. Elara watched the buildings
Chapter 255 Author The nightmares were getting worse. Nancy woke up at 3:17 AM again. She knew the exact time because there was a digital clock on the nightstand and she’d memorized every number that flashed across it during her sleepless hours. 1:42. 2:08. 2:53. 3:17. Her heart was pounding.