All Chapters of THE CEO’s HIDDEN TWIN HEIRS: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

The pen lay on the glass table between them like a loaded weapon, and Evangeline could not stop staring at it.She had read the heading twice. Petition for Dissolution of Marriage. The words refused to arrange themselves into anything that made sense, because they could not possibly mean what they appeared to mean. Not after three years. Not from the man she had given everything to."Say it isn't what I think it is, Dominic." Her voice came out steadier than her hands. "Tell me I'm reading it wrong."Dominic Voss did not look up from his phone. "You're the law student. You tell me." There was no heat in his voice, no cruelty she could grab hold of and fight. Only boredom, which was infinitely worse. He spoke to her the way a man speaks to a stranger who has wandered into the wrong office.That indifference was what broke the dam."I am not stupid, and I won't let you make me feel that way." She set both palms flat on the table to keep them from shaking. "I know how to read a petition.

Camille did not answer. She turned her face into Dominic's shoulder and let out a thin, frightened sob."Make her stop, Dom. Please. She's scaring me.""Enough, Evangeline." Dominic's arm tightened around the trembling woman. "You've signed the papers. There's nothing left here for you. What more do you want?"Evangeline laughed.It was a terrible sound — not amusement, but the noise grief makes when it has nowhere left to go — and it stopped as suddenly as it began. In the silence that followed she moved faster than any of them expected.The slap landed across Camille's cheek with a crack that rang off the high ceilings.The room erupted in gasps. Camille's hand flew to her face and she stared up at Evangeline, so genuinely shocked that she forgot, for a moment, to keep crying."Evangeline!" Dominic was on his feet, towering, his fists clenched white at his sides, fighting visibly to keep himself from doing something he couldn't take back.She did not give him the chance to find his

Five years later, the arrivals hall of the city's largest airport churned with travelers, and through the noise of it walked a woman who turned heads without trying.She wore a charcoal coat cut sharp at the shoulders, dark sunglasses pushed up into chestnut hair, a leather case rolling smoothly behind her. But it wasn't the clothes. It was the way she moved — unhurried, certain, like the floor belonged to her.Almost no one would have recognized her as the trembling girl who'd fled this same country in the rain. Evangeline Hart had gone away broken and come back forged. Five years abroad had made her one of the most feared attorneys to ever walk into a courtroom. The softness hadn't left her; it had simply learned to wear armor.A hand tugged at her coat."Mommy, is this really where we live now?"She looked down at her daughter and felt the familiar pull behind her sternum. Two children walked at her sides, and they were the whole of her heart.Theo, older by a handful of minutes, h