Eldoria is a calm and serene metropolis, where a beautiful story unfolds-where power masks pain and love is a luxury few can afford. A billionaire's perfect life shatters when his wife's silence buries a secret, and the woman hired to carry their child rather carries away his heart instead. --- --- Eldoria, a gleaming ultra-modern city built atop old ruins is the jewel of the coast. Known for its breathtaking elite circles that not even its billionaires can fully control. Eldoria becomes more than just a city; it is a living paradox of shimmering wealth, shadowed silence and where love is bound by duty.
CHAPTER ONE
The Villa at the Edge of Silence
Mia Carter stepped out of the sleek black car and onto the gravel drive of the Voss estate, her boots crunching beneath her. The villa rose before her like something carved out of a dream-stone arches draped in ivy, windows like eyes watching her arrival. It was nothing like the tiny walk-up apartment she'd left behind that morning or the crowded café where she usually spent her afternoons sketching customers between lattes.
This world was quiet. Too quiet. A silence that hummed with expectation.
She clutched her worn leather bag, the one with her charcoal pencils and folded sketchbook inside, though she doubted she'd have time to use them. Not here. Not in this world.
The front door opened before she could knock. A woman with a tight bun and a tighter smile greeted her. "Miss Carter. Welcome to Villa Serena."
Mia didn't correct her. The villa's name suited it-beautiful and deceivingly peaceful.
Inside, the walls were cream and shadow, the floors polished marble that reflected Mia's hesitance. Paintings lined the corridors, all abstract, all cold. She felt more like an intruder than a guest.
"You'll be staying in the East Wing," the woman continued. "Everything has been arranged according to Dr. Shaw's recommendations. Mr. and Mrs. Voss will meet with you shortly."
Mia nodded. She had read the contract front to back, then again, just to be sure. No unnecessary contact. No emotional entanglements. Discretion, privacy, and obedience. But paper was one thing. Presence was another.
The room she was led to was larger than her entire apartment. Pale blue curtains danced with the breeze, and a four-poster bed stood like a throne. The window opened to a sea view so stunning Mia had to touch the sill to believe it was real.
She was still staring when she heard the knock.
Turning, she expected the housekeeper or Dr. Shaw.
Instead, Damian Voss entered.
Tall. Impossibly put-together. His charcoal-gray suit looked sharper than steel, and his eyes-cold, slate, unreadable-made her spine straighten.
"Miss Carter," he said, voice smooth but unwelcoming. "I trust your trip was comfortable."
"Yes," she said, forcing her voice not to shake. "Thank you."
His gaze scanned the room, then her, lingering not inappropriately, but with interest. Assessment.
"This arrangement," he said, folding his hands behind his back, "is more than a medical procedure. It's the last thread holding something... fragile together. I trust you understand the stakes."
Mia nodded. "I do."
Something flickered in his expression-approval or warning, she couldn't tell.
He stepped back. "Dinner is at eight. Elena would like to meet you. Until then, rest."
He left without another word.
Mia sank onto the edge of the bed.
This was real. This was happening.
And something in the villa's stillness told her that nothing would go as planned.
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Chapter 1 The Villa at the edge of silence
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Chapter 2 The Woman in the Mirror
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Chapter 3 Storms and Stillness
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Chapter 4 The woman in the Glass
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Chapter 5 Echoes in the Garden
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Chapter 6 The Quiet Before the Unraveling
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Chapter 7 The Hollowing Out
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Chapter 8 When Morning Comes
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Chapter 9 The Space Between
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Chapter 10 The House We Build
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Chapter 11 The Promise We Make
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Chapter 12 The Quiet After
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Chapter 13 The World We Make
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Chapter 14 The Quiet Before the Bloom
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Chapter 15 The Noise After the Bloom
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Chapter 16 The Names We Grow Into
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Chapter 17 The World We Bring Her Into
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Chapter 18 The Letter That Shouldn't Exist
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Chapter 19 The Visitir with No Ghost
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Chapter 20 The First Sentence
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Chapter 21 The First Draft and the First Fire
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Chapter 22 Where the Silence Begins to Speak
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Chapter 23 The Words We Can't Erase
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Chapter 24 What the Wind Brought Back
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Chapter 25 The Ghost We Choose to Keep
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Chapter 26 An Aftermath
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Chapter 27 The Shpae of What Comes After
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Chapter 28 The Woman in the Mirror
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Chapter 29 The Unexpected Love Letter
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Chapter 30 The Fire We Build
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Chapter 31 The Unwritten Rule
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Chapter 32 Ashes Don't Lie
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Chapter 33 The Woman at The Door
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Chapter 34 The Woman in the Photograph
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Chapter 35 What We Fight For
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Chapter 36 The Weight of Two Hearts
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Chapter 37 In The Eyes of The Law
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Chapter 38 The Weight of Her Name
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Chapter 39 What Love Doesn't
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Chapter 40 The Custody of Fire
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