The Heiress And Her Alpha's Secret Twins

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ntless drumbeat against my temples. The second was the unfamiliar

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kind with generic art bolted to the walls. Sunlight sliced through a

too smooth, too cold. A wave of nausea ro

hing in places it never had be

left me, was in a heap by the bed. It wasn't just disc

began to hammer against my r

A strong hand on my back, guiding me through a crowd. Then... nothing. A black hole where my memory should

face. I couldn't

embling body, and began a frantic search for my belongings. My purse was overturned on a

half-hidden under a

ations. Twenty-three missed calls from my fiancé, E

name. She answered on the first ring,

een? Ethan and I have been worried sick

voice felt like a l

hoarse whisper. "I... I drank too m

The question was to

ped, the lie tasting like ash

ely. I gathered my ruined dress, my shoes, my purse, and fled that hotel room lik

air thick with the sterile smell of antiseptic. The nausea hadn't gone away. It ha

ew, but I refused to le

l mixture of professionalism and pity. She held a

e gentle. "Your tests came back.

e word. I could feel it e

gna

c in the hotel room, seeped into my bones, chilling me from the ins

haking my head. "No,

e. And there it was. A tiny, flickering pulse on t

back streamed down my face. It w

lead weight in my gut. But then, a sliver of hope cut through the despair.

my hand, the flimsy paper my only shield, an

agr

dy there, sitting at a corne

gh his. She was smiling up at him, a picture of adorat

my stomach. Still, I pushed forward,

adier than I felt. "Can I tal

himself from Vivian and followed me t

d barely hold the envelope. "Ethan...

glanced at it, his brow furrowing in confusion, then

ifting from shock to a cold, clinical

ying in the quiet café. "Haven, do you real

ng in the air, th

? Of course, it's yours," I

the gala saw you disappear. You think I'm a fo

than, don't be so harsh," she said, her voice dripping with false s

s girl who couldn't even remember who she'd slept with. Whispers started

gged," I pleaded, my voice crack

of stone. "Excuses. I'm

t, he was pulling the diamond engagement ring fr

ringing with finality. "The Miller family will no

clattered against the wood, the sound

our future, now just a piece of cold metal. I looked up,

ern slipped. I saw it. A flash of tr

t memory loss. Vivian's fake concern. Her presence here with Etha

this to me. M

d her shoulders. They left me there, alone, the target of a doze