Chapter 71 Vulnerability Over Safety
Mara POV
I pour wine in the kitchen—generous glasses of Bordeaux that I know is quite expensive, my hands steadier than they should be. I carry bottle and glass to the living room and wait, curling into the corner of the sofa with my legs tucked beneath me.
Lucien’s in his study. I can see ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Price of Desperation
2. Chapter 2 The signing
3. Chapter 3 Walking Down the Aisle
4. Chapter 4 Separate Kingdoms
5. Chapter 5 The morning After nothing
6. Chapter 6 The Silence that Followed 
7. Chapter 7 The First Battle
8. Chapter 8 Drawing lines in Marble
9. Chapter 9 Performance Act
10. Chapter 10 Sunday Sanctuary
11. Chapter 11 The Cracks Show
12. Chapter 12 Armor and Weapons
13. Chapter 13 The Serpent’s invitation
14. Chapter 14 The art of pretending
15. Chapter 15 Gold Digger
16. Chapter 16 Convincing
17. Chapter 17 The woman in the doorway
18. Chapter 18 The Inspection
19. Chapter 19 The war of roses and ruins
20. Chapter 20 The Price of Saving
21. Chapter 21 When He stayed
22. Chapter 22 The Longest Night
23. Chapter 23 The weight of sleeping trust
24. Chapter 24 Locked Doors and Revelations
25. Chapter 25 First kiss
26. Chapter 26 Back to Battle
27. Chapter 27 The Worthington Ball
28. Chapter 28 Who gets to touch you
29. Chapter 29 When power stepped
30. Chapter 30 Mandatory Appearance
31. Chapter 31 One week. One Bed. No Escape
32. Chapter 32 In Sync with the Enemy
33. Chapter 33 Spa Day Initiation
34. Chapter 34 Lessons in survival
35. Chapter 35 Cracks in the Mask
36. Chapter 36 The Beach Bonfire
37. Chapter 37 Possessive Fury
38. Chapter 38 The Morning After The Storm
39. Chapter 39 Unspoken Truces
40. Chapter 40 The Final Day
41. Chapter 41 Instinct Over Logic
42. Chapter 42 The Flight Home
43. Chapter 43 Between Fantasy and Reality
44. Chapter 44 Falling For A Lie
45. Chapter 45 Exposed
46. Chapter 46 Betrayed
47. Chapter 47 Rehearsal
48. Chapter 48 Photoshoot
49. Chapter 49 The Interview
50. Chapter 50 After The Performance
51. Chapter 51 The Touch That Changed Everything
52. Chapter 52 The Study Fight
53. Chapter 53 The Kiss That Wasn’t Fake
54. Chapter 54 Intimacy He Called Stress Relief
55. Chapter 55 Cold Sheets
56. Chapter 56 Retreat and Regroup
57. Chapter 57 Between Contracts and Confessions
58. Chapter 58 A Mistake I Ran From
59. Chapter 59 Fear, Disguised As Logic
60. Chapter 60 Right Before Everything Changed
61. Chapter 61 Love Said Out Loud
62. Chapter 62 A Thousand Small Ways
63. Chapter 63 Making Him Earn It
64. Chapter 64 One Bed In The Lion’s Den
65. Chapter 65 Proof Not Promises
66. Chapter 66 Helena’s Truth
67. Chapter 67 Dinner From Hell
68. Chapter 68 Measured And Found Wanting
69. Chapter 69 Just Close Enough To Hope
70. Chapter 70 The Question I Could Not Answer
71. Chapter 71 Vulnerability Over Safety
72. Chapter 72 A Study In Humiliation
73. Chapter 73 Forty-Eight Hours to Disappear
74. Chapter 74 Impossible Choices
75. Chapter 75 The Weight Of Secrets
76. Chapter 76 Family Truths
77. Chapter 77 What Adrian Found
78. Chapter 78 Come Home
79. Chapter 79 Meeting With Her
80. Chapter 80 Negotiating The Heart
81. Chapter 81 What We Decide
82. Chapter 82 3AM Statement
83. Chapter 83 When The Lie Collaps
84. Chapter 84 The Cost of Forcing Something Real
85. Chapter 85 Evelyn’s Last Move
86. Chapter 86 What Comes After
87. Chapter 87 Our Wedding Night
88. Chapter 88 Wedding Night Activities
89. Chapter 89 Ungoverned
90. Chapter 90 Eliana
91. Chapter 91 The Release
92. Chapter 92 The Kidnap
93. Chapter 93 The Longest Hour
94. Chapter 94 Craine Street
95. Chapter 95 What Evelyn Wanted
96. Chapter 96 The Letter
97. Chapter 97 Thomas Walks
98. Chapter 98 The Gala
99. Chapter 99 Diana’s Day
100. Chapter 100 What Gregory Left Behind
101. Chapter 101 Sunday Dinners
102. Chapter 102 Home
103. Chapter 103 Ever After
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