Chapter 30: One year later – final reckoning with their choices
One year after the wedding crash, we returned to Chicago. Not to stay. Just to visit. To close a chapter […]
Nora crashes her sister’s wedding to stop a mistake. But in the chaos, she ends up fake-engaged to her sister’s ex—CEO Elijah Cross—with a contract, cameras, and a ticking clock.
One year after the wedding crash, we returned to Chicago. Not to stay. Just to visit. To close a chapter […]
We found a house in Vermont. Small town. Population two thousand. Nobody knew who we were. “It’s perfect,” I said,
Briony was six weeks old when Mia struck again. I woke up to my phone exploding. Messages. Calls. Notifications non-stop.
At thirty-five weeks, I woke up to blood. Too much blood. “Leander!” Panic in my voice. “Something’s wrong!” He was
At twenty weeks pregnant, I woke to Leander pacing. Three am. Never good. “What’s wrong?” “CorkTech. Emergency board meeting called.
Three weeks before we were supposed to disappear, I missed my period. I didn’t tell Leander immediately. Told myself it
The interview took four hours. Helena Drake asked everything. Every uncomfortable question. Every detail we’d been avoiding. “Walk me through
I showed up at Paisley’s apartment at seven am. She opened the door looking guilty. Good. “Morgana—” “We’re going to
The press conference was scheduled for noon. By eleven-thirty, the conference room was packed. Every major outlet. Cameras everywhere. The
The honeymoon period lasted exactly twelve hours. I woke up married. Really married. To a man who’d confessed to orchestrating