Chapter 47 – Candles and Absences
POV Aurora
I woke up long before the sun rose, as I have every May third for the past five years. Instinctively, I reached for the right side of the bed, which was always empty. Even though I knew I’d only find cold sheets, my body still longed for the warmth that was no longer there.
The first th...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1 – This Is Not My Story
2. Chapter 2 – A Wedding That Isn’t Mine
3. Chapter 3 – The Insignificant Wife.
4. Chapter 4 – The Shared Room
5. Chapter 5 – The Cursed Clause.
6. Chapter 6 – To Inherit or To Bear
7. Chapter 7 – A Place Where I’m Still Myself
8. Chapter 8 – Not Quite an Ogre… But Just as Annoying
9. Chapter 9 – An Executive by Choice, Not by Obligation
10. Chapter 10 – The Perfect Trap
11. Chapter 11 – Don’t Take Him Away From Me
12. Chapter 12 – The Silence That Burns
13. Chapter 13 – The Truth I Didn’t Want to Face
14. Chapter 14 – On the Verge
15. Chapter 15. UNITED
16. Chapter 16. MY WIFE
17. Chapter 17. I LOVE YOU.
18. Chapter 18. Attack.
19. Chapter 19. Son
20. Chapter 20. I LOVE MY HUSBAND
21. Chapter 21. LIES UNCOVERED
22. Chapter 22 – Shadow Among Lights
23. Chapter 23 – I Still Haven’t Forgiven You
24. Chapter 24 – Sand and Skin
25. Chapter 25 – Broken Painting
26. Chapter 26 – Light Among the Shadows
27. Chapter 27 – What the Silences Hide
28. Chapter 28 – What Goes Unsaid
29. Chapter 29 – Ruins and Heartbeats
30. Chapter 30 – A Faceless Enemy
31. Chapter 31 – Two Heartbeats, One Love
32. Chapter 32 – Interrupted Celebration
33. Chapter 33 – Roses with Thorns
34. Chapter 34 – Shadows of the Past
35. Chapter 35 – The Heartbeat That Almost Faded
36. Chapter 36 – The Buried Truth
37. Chapter 37 – The Cry That Surpassed Fear
38. Chapter 38 – The Letter
39. Chapter 39 – Stripped
40. Chapter 40 – Underground
41. Chapter 41 – The Face of the Past
42. Chapter 42 – The Truth Beneath the Ashes
43. Chapter 43 – Fire and Ashes
44. Chapter 44 – The Light That Returned, and the Shadow That Took Everything
45. Chapter 45 – Inheritance of Fire
46. Chapter 46 – Aurora’s Awakening
47. Chapter 47 – Candles and Absences
48. Chapter 48 – Don’t Ever Underestimate Me Again
49. CHAPTER 49 – The Past Returns
50. CHAPTER 50 – The Hunt
51. Chapter 51 –
52. Chapter 52 –
53. Chapter 53
54. Chapter 54
55. Chapter 55
56. Chapter 56
57. Chapter 57
58. Chapter 58
59. Chapter 59
60. Chapter 60
61. Chapter 61
62. Chapter 62
63. Chapter 63
64. Chapter 64
65. Chapter 65
66. Chapter 66
67. Chapter 67
68. Chapter 68
69. Chapter 69
70. Chapter 70
71. Chapter 71
72. Chapter 72
73. Chapter 73
74. Chapter 74
75. Chapter 75
76. Chapter 76
77. Chapter 77
78. Chapter 78
79. Chapter 79
80. Chapter 80
81. Chapter 81
82. Chapter 82
83. Chapter 83
84. Chapter 84
85. Chapter 85
86. Chapter 86
87. Chapter 87
88. Chapter 88
89. Final Chapter
90. Epilogue
91. Author’s Note
92. Extra Chapter 1 – The Return Flight
93. Extra Chapter 2 – The Heir
94. Extra Chapter 3 – The First Month
95. Extra Chapter 4 – The Unexpected Dinner
96. Extra Chapter 5 – Facades and Jealousy
97. Extra Chapter 6 – The Trip to the Village
98. Extra Chapter 7 – The Unexpected Night
99. Extra Chapter 8 – The Spark and the Pact
100. Extra Chapter 9 – The Collapse of Truth
101. Extra Chapter 10 – The Weight of a Truth
102. Extra Chapter 11 – The Truth on the Table
103. Final Chapter – True Love
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