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One night. No names. No promises. Nova Chen thought she'd never see those grey eyes again. She was wrong. When her twin sister Lyra panics days before her arranged marriage to Damien Cross — Halvenmoor's coldest, most powerful billionaire — Nova does what she has always done. She steps in. One ceremony. One signature. One week, then she disappears and nobody gets hurt. Except Lyra never comes back. Now Nova is trapped inside a mansion full of secrets, living under her sister's name, watching her lies multiply by the day. The staff notice everything. The mother-in-law suspects something. And Damien himself watches her across every dinner table with those pale grey eyes that see far more than he lets on. Those same eyes she last saw in a dark courtyard three months ago. Before she knew his name. Before she knew she was pregnant. Nova is carrying the child of the man she is deceiving — a man who does not forgive, does not bend, and is already circling closer to the truth. And somewhere in the city, her sister is hiding with a dangerous man whose agenda could destroy everything Nova is desperately trying to hold together. She came to buy Lyra one week. She stayed because leaving would cost her everything. And the billionaire who was never supposed to matter is becoming the one thing she cannot afford to lose. One wrong choice. One impossible secret. And a love built on borrowed time.
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Faking his wife, carrying his child. Chapter Forty-Two: Northern Coast
"How far behind us is he," Damien said.Valour was already on his phone. "The car left twenty minutes before we did. If he's returning directly, we have fifteen minutes at the property before he arrives. Possibly less.""He drives fast," Damien said.I sat in the passenger seat and watched the coastal road unwind in the headlights and thought about fifteen minutes.Fifteen minutes to get in, find Lyra, get out.Lyra who had been surviving in a stone building for weeks. Who had called me from the next room with Pax twenty feet away. Who had packed a bag and been ready for four days.She would be ready. That was what I held onto during the forty-three minutes of dark road. Not the plan. Not the timeline. Just the specific certainty that my sister, whatever else she was and whatever she had done, was not someone who waited without preparing.The property appeared at the end of a narrow coastal road — a converted farmhouse, old stone, set back from the cliff edge. Lights in two windows. O
Last Updated : 2026-07-15Faking his wife, carrying his child. Chapter Forty-One: The Search
"Alright," I had said.And then Damien had nodded and we had stood in his study with the weight of what came next sitting between us, and then he had said Valour was already moving and I should try to sleep, and I had gone back to my room and lain in the dark until four in the morning listening to the estate do the specific things it did when people were moving through it with purpose.At four the baby moved. Twice. Definite and unhurried, like someone reminding me they were there regardless of what else was happening in the house.I pressed my hand flat against my stomach and lay still and listened to the corridors and thought about Lyra in a stone building forty minutes north with a man in the next room.By morning, three things had happened that I wasn't told about directly but understood from the specific quality of the activity below my studio window.Dorn had been called back to the city to use his professional network — property records, business registration cross-references,
Last Updated : 2026-07-15Faking his wife, carrying his child. Chapter Forty: Lyra's Fear
"Lyra," I said. "Where are you."Not a greeting. The only thing that mattered in the first five seconds was location, because Pax's voice was in the background and she had called me anyway and both of those things together meant the window for this conversation was very small."I can't say." Her voice was low. Careful. The voice of someone speaking at a specific volume for a specific reason. "He's in the next room. I have maybe five minutes."Vesna looked at me from across the desk. I put the phone on speaker, low volume, and held it between us."Tell me what's happening," I said."I don't know where to start.""Start with what's wrong. Right now. Today."The pause of someone who has been holding something for weeks and is deciding how much they can say in five minutes with a man in the next room."I saw things," she said. "In his files. Paper ones, in a case he keeps locked. I found the key two months ago." She stopped. "Nova. The things I saw. They weren't about you or the arrangeme
Last Updated : 2026-07-09Faking his wife, carrying his child. Chapter Thirty-Nine: Lyra Was Never Safe
"Someone in this house already knew we were looking."Damien called Valour immediately. Two words and a number, standing in the middle of my studio with his phone already at his ear. Isolde closed her laptop, said she needed to go, and left with the quiet urgency of a woman who understood the next few hours required different tools than the ones she had brought.I sat in the studio after they left and looked at the timeline still spread across my table.The insider.Someone had run a search on Pax Rancour's name in the Cross Corporation internal system at six forty-five this morning. Before any of us had said his name. Before Isolde arrived with her records. Before this morning's session in this room had begun.Which meant one of two things.Either someone had been tipped off that we were investigating Pax specifically — which required access to our conversations, or to Dorn's research, or to Valour's overnight database pull.Or they had been watching the system independently, had alr
Last Updated : 2026-07-03Faking his wife, carrying his child. CHAPTER SIX: THREE MONTHS AND COUNTING
I put the photograph back exactly where I found it.Slid it between the same pages. Pushed the book back into its gap on the shelf. Stood back and made sure nothing looked disturbed.Then I sat in one of the chairs by the window and pressed both hands flat against my stomach and did the arithmetic
Faking his wife, carrying his child. Chapter Five: The Attorney Who Sees Too Much
"Shall we?"Isolde didn't wait for my answer.She turned and walked and I followed because standing in that dining room with Damien's last sentence still hanging in the air behind me was not something I could do for another second. The scar comment. The wrist. The way he'd said it without looking u
Faking his wife, carrying his child. Chapter Four: Breakfast With a Man Who Counts Everything
He was already at the table.I stopped in the dining room doorway and took that in for a second. Damien Cross, the morning after his own wedding, sitting at the head of a table built for twenty, with a newspaper open and a cup of black coffee beside him like this was any other Tuesday. No celebrati
Faking his wife, carrying his child. Chapter Three: The House That Watches You Back
"Mrs. Cross."I turned.A woman stood at the end of the entrance hall, hands folded, spine straight, wearing a grey dress that matched the stone walls behind her so well she might have been part of the house itself. Mid-fifties. Silver hair pulled back without a single strand out of place. A face t
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