Chapter 12 THE VEIL OF FORGOTTEN ECHOES

Three years of marriage. One contract. Zero kisses. Lira Hart, rising actress and media sweetheart, has been married to cold, enigmatic billionaire Damian Blackwood for three long, loveless years. Their union was forged not from love, but from a contract signed by their powerful families. While the world envied her last name, Lira knew the truth: he never wanted her. Never touched her. Never looked at her like she mattered. Until the night she asked for a divorce. Suddenly, the man who never cared is showing up on her film sets, making headlines with unexpected kisses, and whispering things that sound dangerously like regret. But Lira's heart isn't something she's willing to gamble anymore, not after three years of being invisible in his world. Can a man who locked his heart away learn how to love the woman who's already slipping through his fingers? Or is this billionaire three years too late?

I was supposed to be his fated mate. Instead, I became the wife he never wanted. For six months, I watched my Alpha husband fall for my twin sister while I played the perfect, invisible Luna. Then he handed me divorce papers and expected me to disappear quietly. But I'm done being the good girl. I'm done being second choice. He wants his freedom? He'll have to earn it. And by the time our three months are up, he's going to regret ever thinking he could just throw me away.

She was the orphaned prodigy who ruled the operating room. He was the proud soldier who swore never to forgive her. Regina Coles, a gifted neurosurgeon, has no idea she is the hidden granddaughter of Morgan University Hospital's powerful Chairman or that her bloodline ties her to a thousand years old prophecy. She returns to Vanceney City as a resident doctor and is determined to prove herself. But the day she spills coffee on Captain Ryan's ceremonial uniform, she earns his hatred. And when she performs a daring surgery no one else would attempt, she becomes a target. Her cousin turns into her rival. The hospital CEO wants her gone. And Ryan will never let her off the hook for touching his father. He locks her up and swears she will pay, yet the strength in her calm defiance stirs something in him he cannot ignore, something that will one day save him. But Regina's greatest threat is not of this world. The nightmares that haunted her childhood are not dreams but memories. The demon with blue and yellow eyes is real. And when Ryan becomes brain dead, Regina is dragged by the enemies into the mystical forest where the truth awakens. She is not just a surgeon. She is the goddess rebirth. And the war for Vanceney has just begun.

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In 'MY UNDOING VS. MY MIRACLE,' Hazel's life is a high-stakes balancing act. In love, she's caught between two men: one who ignites her passion and another who offers stability. But which one is her miracle, and which one is her undoing? As she navigates this heart-wrenching dilemma, Hazel's ruthless pursuit of wealth and success threatens to consume her. Will her drive for financial freedom be her salvation or her downfall? Can she find the perfect harmony between love and ambition, or will her desires ultimately tear her apart?

The day Ava Smith discovered she was pregnant, her husband handed her divorce papers. Cold, cruel, and heartless, Logan Smith claimed he never loved her and that their marriage was nothing but a deal forced by his grandparents. His true love, Arabella, had returned... and Ava was no longer needed. Heartbroken and cast out, determined to change everything. Ava thought she had lost everything, until fate led her back into the arms of the powerful brothers she thought were gone forever. When they learned the truth, they vowed to destroy the man who broke her. The forgotten had come back with more than a broken heart. She came back with a child and a legacy. Now, Logan wants her back, claiming to repay for the past years. He fell on his knees saying, "You can't marry him, I still love you. I am sorry."