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A Face Like His

Chapter 3 Mrs. Cole

Word Count: 1018 | Released on: 20/10/2026

among people who smiled while their lives

made two cups of tea. Her hands were steady. She notic

-eyed and wearing her husband's face, sh

an I have

charity luncheon. Mr. Dray w

bird and did not look back until she was in the car. Then she ask

an to welcome. Beatrice sat at a table in the corner with a bound volume of ol

hotograph on pa

rinning and one scowling. The caption:

ade Sebastian's jaw tighten. She had never seen his face, becaus

aces with her finger-first one, then the other. They were iden

e questions about her father. The not

d study. The way Sebastian said my

ssion. The way he had stopped when she te

didn't notice. She was staring at the photograph, at the two identical faces, and she was thinking about

tive was unbearable; if she admitted what she suspected, she would have to do something about it, and she didn't know w

a Cole. And Coles, she was beginning t

he thought of her father, who had taught her to read a bill of lading before she could ride a bicycle. She thought of her mother, who had flown

m not going to c

t very still, and she b

Foundation gala filled the ballroom of the Meridian Hotel with six hundr

air. But where Sebastian carried himself like a man guarding a vault,

with ease, with warmth, with a kind of attention that seemed genuine. She watched the way h

and he saw her, an

it was the same look he had given her in the sunroom, the

he reached her, he took

ole. At

e from the sunroom floor. The voi

, and murmured so that only she could he

Sebastian had been

drop. She felt her

frozen, and he pulled back, and for a moment,t

" she w

't w

t pre

h, the whole of it, the terrible complicated thing that he ha

"I'm sorry you had t

think I w

d. "I hoped you would be happy

lt on a lie is

kno

y did yo

right, and for a moment she thought he might cry. But h

way. She walked away.

lt him wat

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A Face Like His

Sayra Jane Romance

“She signed her name. She sealed her fate. But she never agreed to be owned. Beatrice Hale had everything until the day her father's shipping empire collapsed under the weight of a forty-one-million-dollar debt. Now she has nothing but a contract: marry Sebastian Cole, the cold, possessive heir of the Cole dynasty, and her father's debts will be forgiven. She signs. She wears the ring. She plays the perfect wife at galas and dinners and charity luncheons. But behind the closed doors of Harrow Point, Sebastian gives her nothing but ice and possession. He calls her "my wife" the way people say "my car." He locks his study. He controls her calendar. He takes what he wants and gives nothing back. Then Sebastian leaves for Singapore. And a man with his face climbs into her bed. He is gentle where Sebastian is cruel. He listens where Sebastian dismisses. He asks permission. He remembers how she takes her tea. He calls her remarkable. He is Edward Cole, Sebastian's identical twin brother, his bitter rival, and the man who has been secretly in love with Beatrice since before her wedding. For three nights, while Sebastian is away, Edward wears his brother's face and gives Beatrice the tenderness she has been starving for. She doesn't know. When she discovers the truth, watching her husband on a live television broadcast from Singapore while a man with his face sleeps in her bed-her world collapses. Both brothers have lied. Both have used her. Both have treated her as a prize in their decades-long war. Now Beatrice must decide: stay in the gilded cage with one of them, or walk away with nothing but her name and a notebook full of memories. But there is a third player in this game: Harold Cole, the father, the architect of everything. He didn't just want a wife for his son. He wanted a weapon. And he believes Beatrice is the only person who can burn the Cole house down. A Face Like His Has Two Keys is a story of forbidden love, identity deception, and one woman's fight to reclaim her own name.”