Romance

My nemesis had "lost his memory" in a car accident. He saw me. His brow creased. The blank look was measured to the inch. "Who... are you?" I turned to go. A voice blew open in my head. *Baby, don't go. I'm begging you. I'll drop the act. The System won't let me.* He said, "You should go. I don't need you looking after me." In his head: *Bullshit. The tomato braised beef my baby makes. I've wanted it for thirteen years.* He said, "I don't remember you." *I actually got that out of my mouth?! Junior year she wrote some other guy a love letter and I took it. She chased me down three hallways with a broom. And I said I don't remember?!* I didn't change my face. I placed the call right in front of him. "Mr. Adler? That date you mentioned. I'm in." He shot upright. His pupils blew. *?!?!* Out loud: "...Who did you call?" I smiled. "You're the one with no memory. What, jealous?"

Five years ago I dumped the Xiao heir and ran with his kid. Five years later, he blocked the kindergarten gate in a Rolls-Royce, dropped to one knee in front of hundreds of parents, and wiped the scrape on my knee. The whole internet called it devotion. Said he was winning his wife back. Only I knew the truth—he came to take our son.

She came back to capture the CEO. The wedding was only the trap. Eden Cross put on a white dress for the Pierce heir and looked at the front row. Adrian Knox sat there in a perfect suit, applauding. Calm. Five years since he watched her board a plane to London. Five years since the apology she was too weak to hear. He still wouldn't move. So she pulled the ring off, walked it up to his face, and made him choose. He chose. He stole the bride in front of a church full of people who sign headlines. He drove her to City Hall and told her she was his for this life and every life after. They never made it out of the car. Now the company has a name for her. His adoptive father wants him back behind a desk. She's pregnant, and Adrian still will not say he loves her. Eden isn't worried. The engagement was fake. The altar was bait. Capturing the CEO was the plan. She doesn't want a rescue. She wants him to walk over on his own and say the rest out loud.