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Tangled. love

Chapter 4 A Deal with the Devil.

Word Count: 1276    |    Released on: 26/05/2025

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ew had vanished lik

ur empire crumbled around us. The wealth, the prest

. Cars, paintings, heirlooms, all sold to strangers

cattered like shadows at dawn, offering no

moved into a cramped, peeling apartment on the outskirts of the

ree in Hospitality and Culinary Arts. Cooking became my thera

built to climb. Mum's health started declining fast. Her laughter faded, her eyes ho

dneys start

ns drained her life instead of saving it. The bills piled up like corpses on a battlefield, and

ord decent meals, le

with errands, sometimes covering medicine,

me. That memory still clawed at my soul, even after all

s bargaining with pharmacists and learning to live without sleep. There wasn't room in my

d was to sa

night that cha

our tiny room, tallying up the month's

hopelessness rose in my throat. Mum was

s a child, the way he used to call me his princess. Guilt tore into my h

ncle barged in, humming

," I said softly, ha

"There you are, Alessa!" he said, breathless. "Have you heard? The richest b

ine. I froze, lips parting slightly. No. It couldn't be t

nlop. You know her, beautiful voice, top charts, tours all over the world. They broke up three ye

ked, hoping, praying, it wasn

pictures. Besides, he went off-grid after the breakup. They say Natasha broke his heart so badly he

elt a stin

ped the real bomb. "I want you to marry h

d. "What?! Uncle,

even apply because they know he won't give them his heart. But you, you

m anger. "You want to sell me like cattle to

other is dying. She doesn't have months. A few years married t

m. To disappear. But his next words s

condition. And remember, it was your foolish cry

dition or reminded me of that awful incident. Mayb

ully and c

my sanity. "This is a golden chance. If anything

he door slamming

ts pounded my chest, as if trying to break through to the part

had to do whatever

arriage proposal" into the search bar. The results were overwhelming, hundreds

ingle raindrop

even wrote a personal message: I'm not here for love. I'm here because I have no other c

ed later t

ed to meet me,

or application

What kind of man creates a registration deadline for mar

im, just like Michael's humiliation broke me

uldn't fee

phone lit up wit

te date with Mr. Michael Astor. All necessary det

art s

slick with sweat. I was going to meet the man who'd

ed his hands and laughed like a

t

whether I was walking into salvat

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1 Chapter 1 The Day I Stopped Hiding.2 Chapter 2 When Reverie Shattered.3 Chapter 3 What Love Leaves Behind.4 Chapter 4 A Deal with the Devil.5 Chapter 5 A wife by deadline.6 Chapter 6 Love without Choice.7 Chapter 7 Contract of Thorns.8 Chapter 8 Raindrops and Regrets.9 Chapter 9 Perfect Lie.10 Chapter 10 Beginning of the end.11 Chapter 11 The Wedding Night War.12 Chapter 12 A Stranger in Silk13 Chapter 13 Eggshells and Echoes.14 Chapter 14 Coldest distance.15 Chapter 15 Return to the Unspoken.16 Chapter 16 Homecoming Shadows.17 Chapter 17 Underneath the surface.18 Chapter 18 Quiet Rebellion.19 Chapter 19 Countdown To Her Fall20 Chapter 20 The Price of Disappearing.21 Chapter 21 First Day Jitters.22 Chapter 22 The Plan Was to Break Her, Not Crown Her.23 Chapter 23 THE DAY SHE STOPPED WAITING.24 Chapter 24 UNFINISHED CONVERSATION.25 Chapter 25 UNEXPECTED STILLNESS.26 Chapter 26 Power in Silence27 Chapter 27 After the Slammed Door.28 Chapter 28 Rhythms of Grace and Thunder.29 Chapter 29 Weight of Her Silence.30 Chapter 30 The Sun Came Back.31 Chapter 31 Weight of an Unspoken Shift.32 Chapter 32 Beneath the Surface of Joy.33 Chapter 33 Price of Loyalty.34 Chapter 34 Exceeding Control.35 Chapter 35 Shattered Glass and Silent Truths.36 Chapter 36 Will Within The Walls.37 Chapter 37 Letters from the Past.38 Chapter 38 Uninvited.39 Chapter 39 A Close Call.40 Chapter 40 Triggered Shadows.41 Chapter 41 In A House That Forget.42 Chapter 42 When Joy Meets the Past.43 Chapter 43 Home, at Last.44 Chapter 44 The Day the Silence Screamed.45 Chapter 45 Ghost in December.46 Chapter 46 Things We Don't Say.47 Chapter 47 December Fifteenth.48 Chapter 48 Applause for a Lie.49 Chapter 49 The Illusion of Forgiveness.50 Chapter 50 CHRISTMAS EVE.51 Chapter 51 Warmth of Christmas Morning.52 Chapter 52 Stuck in December.53 Chapter 53 Truth Made Us Allies.54 Chapter 54 UNRAVELING THREADS.55 Chapter 55 When the Fog Breaks.56 Chapter 56 Dragged Back to the Scene.57 Chapter 57 Nothing Left to Cover.58 Chapter 58 Forgiveness in Mascara Smears.59 Chapter 59 What Remains After Sorry.60 Chapter 60 No More Blame.61 Chapter 61 Threads of Truth.62 Chapter 62 In the Smallest Touch.63 Chapter 63 Velvet and Smoke.