Defiant Love 2
Chapter 2: A Mysterious Marriage Charlotte’s POV: I’m starting to doubt Richard’s eyesight. Watching my plan fail, I observed my parents and Richard. My parents’ expressions were grave, while Richard…
Chapter 2: A Mysterious Marriage Charlotte’s POV: I’m starting to doubt Richard’s eyesight. Watching my plan fail, I observed my parents and Richard. My parents’ expressions were grave, while Richard…
Chapter 1: The Unexpected Marriage Charlotte Cole’s POV: The July sun beat down mercilessly on Palo Alto. I had barely stepped through my front door, not even having time to…
Chapter30 She bounces her blossoms to approach me, eager to take the cup from my hands. Her eyes fixated on Xavier all this time. As soon as she holds the…
Chapter29 The next few days were rather tiring but thriving. Every morning I got up for training. Trained till 8 and then continued to do my maid duties, as soon…
Chapter28 Mate… Dom’s mate. I thought he never met her but it seems that isn’t the case. He has lost her somehow. “I am sorry..I…” ” ‘It’s not your fault…
15% My movements grew faster, more frenzied, my breathing rasping like a bellows. I searched the villa three times over, overturning every corner in desperation. Only when I finally collapsed to the floor in exhaustion did I accept the truth–Freya wasn’t dead. The realization brought an uncontrollable rush of relief. I had never truly believed she would die here, but that one–in–a–million possibility had gnawed at me relentlessly. Only after seeing it with my own eyes could I finally let go of the fear. My body went slack, and I sank to the floor, utterly spent. It wasn’t until the following day that I saw the butler and the household staff returning. 1 lunged forward, seizing the butler by the collar. My voice erupted in a roar. “Why is the villa like this? Where’s my wife? I told you to watch over her at home! How could you let this happen? Why didn anyone tell me the villa caught fire?” The thought of a fire had never even crossed my mind. But right now, the only thing that mattered was confirming Freya’s safety. I waved my hand impatiently. “Forget it, forget it. Just tell me where is she?““> The butler’s face turned ghostly pale. His voice trembled as he stammered, “S–Sir, we don’t know where Ma’am Freya went. Yesterday, she gave us all the day off. When we came back this morning… the villa was already like this.“” I had been bracing myself to hear her whereabouts from the butler, even if it meant she was injured. As long as she was alive, it was enough.” But I hadn’t expected–even the butler had no idea where she’d gone!!! And worse still–according to his account, there was a good chance it had been Freya herself who set the fire that destroyed our home.[ The thought made me shake my head in disbelief.” “No… how could that be? There’s no way it turned out like this. It’s impossible. This fire must have been set by someone else! It couldn’t have been her!” Without another word, I pulled out my phone and called my assistant.” On the other end, Saige’s voice cracked with emotion, almost on the verge of tears.”…
Chapter27 Biting my lip, I knock on his door. Looking here and there in the hallway, making sure no one sees me. The door pulls open and my anxious eyes…
14 I burst out of the press conference as if jolted awake from a nightmare.” I didn’t care about my assistant calling after me, nor about Harper–now the target of a storm of public outrage inside the hall. All I wanted was to rush home. I sprinted into the parking lot, yanked open the car door, and slammed my foot on the accelerator, the tires screeching as I shot toward home.” I couldn’t even tell what exactly was running through my mind. There was only one thought–get back to Freya as fast as possible and tell her that what happened between me and Harper was nothing but an accident.” The truth was, the woman I loved… had long since become Freya.” I had to get there quickly–faster than fast–and explain everything to her.” As for the past, I no longer blamed her.N From now on, I would send Harper and her child far, far away.” After all, the children Freya had carried with Macsen were already gone. I could let go of all the bitterness and the grudges. All I needed… was for Freya to stay and live out her life with me. The thought alone made a smile creep onto my face.” Yes, that was it. That was exactly what I wanted. With that, I sped through ten red lights before finally reaching the villa. The moment I stepped out of the car, my phone began to ring again. It had been buzzing non stop while I was driving. At first, I thought it must be Freya calling. But when I glanced at the screen, I saw Harper’s name instead. Not just hers–the company’s secretaries and managers had also been calling me over and over. I knew that if today’s scandal wasn’t handled well, L. Corp.’s public standing would take a serious hit.” But right now, I didn’t care about any of that.” arriage was col As long as Freya came forward to testify that our marriage was solid, everything would be fine….
Chapter26 Adjusting the cap on my head, I stare at my reflection in the mirror. The moustache and beard were itching my skin, covering almost half of my face. The…
13 ED I glared at the reporters below the stage, my voice sharp and shrill with hysteria.} “Stop filming! None of you are allowed to film!” I shouted.” “Security? Where’s security?” I whipped my head toward the edges of the room. “Block them! Don’t let a single one of them leave!” My eyes narrowed, sharp and venomous, as I scanned the crowd of journ “Today, none of you are leaving. Delete every single video and photo from your cameras! Otherwise, I won’t let you off!” I had invited so many members of the press here to witness my moment of happiness, to show off–and to rub it in Freya’s face. But now, the carefully staged scene I had planned had turned into a poisoned arrow aimed straight at my heart!” The thought alone twisted my expression into something almost grotesque. What I didn’t realize at first was that the media had already taken serious offense at my outburst./ The Laurents and the press had always had a mutually beneficial relationship. Maybe in the past, the reporters had feared offending them. But with a scandal of this magnitude unfolding before them, all hesitation was swept away, replaced by the thrill of the chase. After all, Rodney had called this press conference in the first place to clear the online rumors about him. Yet now, not only had those rumors been confirmed as true, but the reality was even uglier. I could already picture the frenzy that would erupt once the photos and videos went public. Their hearts were pounding, their breathing quickened in excitement. This was the kind of explosive scoop that could skyrocket their readership. ‘There was no way they would willingly hand over their footage.” Unfortunately for them, the situation was not in their favor–security had already surrounded them.” Even if they…