❝ What you seek is seeking you.❞
❝ What you seek is seeking you.❞
❝ What you seek is seeking you.❞
Ruby took his words casually - very casually - and that marked the beginning of a lifetime experience.
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Joseph Holden has no time for love, sympathy, and shit. Over the last thirteen years, his vision is focused on finding a girl, whom he can present as Mrs. Warner's long-lost daughter. His patience pays off well when he happens to meet Ruby; a twentysomething, disgruntled singer, who survives on a pittance.
Blinded by the urge to net thousands of dollars and desperate to break free from the clutches of Madame Tao, Ruby believes that this chance encounter will change her life completely.
Danger. Danger. Danger.
What happens when she enters the mansion and meets the most cryptic ensemble in the world; her handsome brother who couldn't stop side-eyeing her? Or, her best friend with blue eyes and golden hair who has no qualms about facing hatred-ridden refusals? For how long will the self-serious Joseph hide his outgrown feelings in the name of a master plan? More importantly, there is another story building up side by side, to which Ruby is unbeknownst and which will surely cost her dearly.
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I left him.
I never thought in a million years I would be the one to walk, but I was. I left the man I was madly in love with, I had no idea where I was even going to go, but I couldn't care less.
I walked out and left him, left him standing there looking like I had slapped him across the face.
I couldn't stay, only to then have him leave me, only have him stay with me for the baby's sake.
Our child.
Alex and Blake's relationship came to an end, she could see it coming but didn't want to believe it.
How will she cope when she has to watch the man she's desperately in love with marry another woman, can she do it? Or will she finally give up and leave him for good?
Can Blake put everything on the line and leave the trapped marriage for good? Especially when he realises just how much he's about to lose with Alex.
Will he leave the woman who's made his life nothing but miserable? Who has wrecked all his chances of ever having another shot with Alex, the woman who's carrying his child?
Can they ever be together again? Free and able to finally be a family?
But as we all know, secrets eventually come out and the heartache comes back.
Only this time it's worse than ever.