To escape the wedding of her backstabbing cousin and ex-boyfriend, Hazel Vance seeks oblivion at a masquerade ball. A passionate, anonymous encounter leaves her with a son, the only clue to his father a pair of striking, violet-blue eyes. Three years later, she becomes the executive assistant to Liam Sterling, an influential and notoriously difficult CEO whose gaze feels hauntingly familiar. But Liam wants nothing to do with his new assistant; he is obsessed with finding a woman who vanished into the night, the one ghost he can’t forget.

Chapter 212 - Hospital Recovery and Family Peace


I sat motionless beside his hospital bed, my fingers interlaced with Liam's still hand. Thirty-six hours had crawled by since the surgeons wheeled him out of that operating room, and the silence was suffocating me. The steady beep of monitors provided the only soundtrack to my vigil, punctuated by hushed conversations from the nurses' station just outside the ICU.


The doctor's words echoed in my mind on repeat. Stable condition. All we can do is wait. But waiting felt like drowning in slow motion.


Then I felt it. The slightest pressure against my palm. My heart lurched as I snapped my head up, searching his face desperately. Those violet eyes I'd fallen in love with years ago flickered open, bringing light back into my shattered world.


Chapter 212 - Chapter 212 - Hospital Recovery and Family Peace