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Tangled. love

Chapter 5 A wife by deadline.

Word Count: 1039    |    Released on: 26/05/2025

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saying "the rich also cry." No one would've guessed, looking at my de

he had tor

ning, without reason. Just... vanished

nce knew, the same delicate features, the same nervous smile. The on

wrong. I ignored it. I

year. I'd never loved any woman before her. I h

attering a closed window. Her father was Judge Henry Dunlop,

st a year. I prop

later, sh

r booming business behind. I moved to New York hop

, I found myself more irritable, angry, withdrawn. I co

ary force, like each crumple could drown out the ache. The headli

her page, I looke

stood in

s. The silent exchange of glance

anted

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tant sign of respect. "Bodyguards, out," I said withou

sat close

ng my mother's hand like she was a n

again. Their aged love was beginning to

three years since Natasha. Don't you

" I finished bitt

clearly choosing her words. "

nap

back. 'Get married. Move on.' Do you think I wanted this pain?

for years. "You two pushed and pushed until she felt smothere

when Da

a gunshot, shaking the calm fr

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ered, reaching for my hands. "I know you love

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voice always had a calming effect, and his cheerfu

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lent nod and

decisions. I wasn't doing this for lo

just like Natasha made my heart feel when she left. Let

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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.