Semua Bab After I Discovered My Child Wasn't Mine, I Was Reborn: Bab 1 - Bab 9

Vera’s POVRobert heard me come in and stepped out of the kitchen, spatula in hand.I knew this scene well.In my previous life, after Bellis left for overseas, Robert stopped coming home. He buried himself in work. The stress, the skipped meals, the endless coffee — his stomach eventually gave out.I was worried about him, so I learned to cook. Every day I brought food to his office and stood there watching until he finished every bite before I'd leave.One time, I knocked over the pot while making soup. Boiling liquid splashed across the back of my hand, raising blisters instantly.Robert didn't say anything when he found out. He just sat in the living room in silence for a whole night.After that, he wouldn't let me near the kitchen. No matter how busy he was, he came home and cooked dinner every single night.Looking back now — God, he was the most dedicated performer I'd ever seen.I shook myself loose from the memory, pretended I hadn't noticed him, and made for the stairs."Vera

Vera’s POVI was thinking clearly again in an instant. I shoved him back, my voice flat and cold in a way I'd never quite managed before. "It's late. Go sleep in your own room."Robert stood there for a moment, blinking himself sober. He rubbed a hand down his face, looking faintly disgusted with himself.He didn't move closer or leave. He just stood there.I didn't say anything. I just watched him.After a long stretch of silence, he finally sighed. "Come back to the bedroom tomorrow. I've already asked Bellis to move out. We're mates — it's not right to keep sleeping in separate rooms."He hesitated, lowering his voice slightly, like it cost him something. "My parents were also asking when we're planning to have kids."That word — kids — went straight into the deepest wound I carried. My voice came out shaking, barely controlled: "It's really late. Can we talk about this tomorrow?"God knows it took everything I had — every last scrap of self-control — not to hit him right then and t

Vera’s POVThe plane climbed steadily. I watched the city lights shrink below me and finally let myself breathe.Robert's reach was still limited. He'd have no way to trace me.And it would be fifteen years before he became the werewolf king with the world at his feet. By then, he probably wouldn't even remember my name.Time passed the way it does when you're working hard — fast and clean. Five years went by.On an ordinary evening, I came back to the temporary bunker we'd set up near the survey site to find a familiar silhouette standing by my door.He smiled — a slow, narrow smile — and his eyes held something I couldn't read."Long time no see, my Luna."Robert. How had he found me?Every muscle in my body went rigid. The hair on my arms stood up.Five years. There was no reason to be afraid of him. And yet something about the way he was looking at me — the way he was talking — made my skin crawl.Like a wounded animal still wearing a harmless face. Dangerous. You just knew.Then i

Vera’s POV"Lots of people are scared of the dark," Robert said, offhand.I pushed him back. Fixed him with a stare. "You lied to me again."In my previous life, I had jumped off a cliff to lead away the assassins hunting Robert. Both eyes were destroyed in the fall.For a long stretch of time I had lived in total darkness.The sight came back eventually. The fear never fully left.From that point on, Robert never turned off a light while I slept. He never let me go anywhere dark alone.He knew — in the bone — how afraid I was.But that had come years into our previous life, long after we were together. There was no way the Robert of this life could know any of it.And yet the moment the lights went out, he had reached for me.He must have remembered the previous life, yet he chose to keep it hidden from me.He could see it now — his own instinctive reaction had given him away, and his breathing went unsteady.Then Julian's voice cut through the darkness: "The classified files are gone