A Love That Waited In Silence

Once a legendary healer capable of miracles, she sacrificed her hands to save the man she loved. Now, as her mother lay dying, that same man offered a cruel bargain-marry him and raise another woman's child in exchange for the medicine. With trembling fingers, she typed one final line of code, getting in touch with that mysterious man. In the darkness, he watched her with restrained longing and asked, "Are you ready for this?" Unknown to everyone, her mother's rare medicine came from a project he had secretly begun the day she was injured-and he had been waiting for her ever since.

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The airbags burst open, and the force of the crash threw Evelyn forward.

Something warm ran from her temple and clouded her sight.

Pain spread through her.

Yet it was nothing compared to the pain in her heart right now.

"My mom is still waiting for me..."

Evelyn sucked in a shaky breath, shoved the warped car door aside, and lurched toward the hospital.

Blood and tears ran together down her face, yet she seemed not to feel them at all.

"Evie!"

The moment Nicola saw Evelyn, covered in blood, she rushed forward and caught her. "You're bleeding!"

"How... how is my mother?" Evelyn asked in a trembling voice.

Nicola bit her lip as tears slid down her face. "The doctors just managed to bring her back from danger, but her condition is still not good. Her vital signs keep dropping. Evie, the Ward family is really killing her."

Evelyn's knees went weak, and she nearly fell to the floor.

She staggered to the bedside and reached out to clasp her mother's cold fingers.

Her hands would not stop shaking.

Once, these hands had brought countless people back from the edge of death.

Now, they struggled with anything slightly complex, let alone hold a scalpel again.

Evelyn's vision blurred with tears.

She had never despised herself more than she did right now.

Her whole body shook with sobs.

"Mom, I'm sorry. This happened because of me. If I had known it would come to this, I never would have hurt the nerves in my hands just to save Carsten. I used to be the miracle doctor who saved so many people. But now, I can't even save you... I gave up the ability to save you because of that jerk. I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..."

Nicola wrapped her arms around Evelyn and said, "Evie, don't say that. There has to be a solution for this..."

A solution?

What could she do?

Carsten had already shut every door.

Evelyn knew he wanted to push her to the edge, to break her spirit and force her to give in.

Just then, she lifted her head, her face covered with blood and tears.

Drops of blood and tears fell onto the floor.

She suddenly raised her hand and slapped herself again and again.

"I was so stupid before. I couldn't see the truth... Because of a man like that, I lost the power to save my own mother..."

Nicola quickly grabbed her wrist to stop her and shouted, "Evie, Stop! This isn't your fault!"

"It is..." Evelyn's eyes were empty. "It's all because of me..."

Nicola held her tightly. "Evie, your mom still needs you. There must be something we can do... Wait, I remember something!"

Her voice suddenly grew louder. "NS1209. The medicine your mom needs wasn't developed by the Ward Group!"

Evelyn's empty eyes shifted slightly. "What are you talking about?"

"The nerve repair drug they used on your mother, NS1209. I thought it came from the Ward Group's research department. But last month, I saw an internal transfer document. It stated that NS1209 was actually developed by DeepBlue Biotech under the Martin Group. If the Ward family won't give it to you, you can go to the Martin Group and find Elias Martin."

Elias Martin.

In the business world of Sreles, that name alone made people uneasy.

He was known as a ruthless man at the top of the corporate world. He was also the founder of DeepBlue Biotech.

"Where can I find him?" A faint light appeared in Evelyn's eyes.

"I don't know. He moves like a ghost. And he's dangerous. He publicly said that NS1209 will only be supplied to the Ward family's hospital and will never be sold anywhere else—"

"Laptop," Evelyn suddenly interjected.

"What?"

"Bring me a laptop."

Understanding her, Nicola quickly brought her one.

Evelyn drew in a slow breath and set her shaking hands over the keyboard.

Her fingers, smeared with blood, began flying over the keys with startling speed.

A black command box opened on the screen. Strings of intricate code soon flooded across the display.

The dim light from the monitor washed over the blood across her face.

Watching this, Nicola held her breath.

She had almost forgotten.

Evelyn was not only brilliant in medicine.

She had another identity.

Seven years ago, she had been the hacker called Eve, the one who made cybersecurity agencies around the world uneasy.

The sound of typing grew faster.

Sweat gathered along Evelyn's brow while the cut on her head kept bleeding.

The map on the monitor changed as she slipped through layer after layer of firewalls.

Then, she struck the last Enter key.

A surveillance video appeared.

A luxurious building stood beneath golden lights. High-end cars were parked outside. Elegant guests walked in and out of the lobby.

Bright neon letters spelled out a name across the front.

Nocturne, the most exclusive private club in the city.

Nicola drew in a sharp breath. "Last month, Elias' bodyguard shot three people there simply because they stood too close to him. That's his domain. Without an invitation, no one is allowed inside. Anyone who ever tried to force their way through the doors never came back out unscathed. And tonight..." Her voice shook. "Tonight is the time no one is allowed to disturb him. Every Wednesday, he shuts down the entire top floor of Nocturne. No outsiders are permitted there. No one knows what he does behind those doors. Anyone who interrupted him vanished."

Evelyn shut the laptop and rose to her feet.

She brushed the blood and tears from her face and looked at her mother, whose monitor showed her life slowly fading.

"Nicola, lend me some clothes." Evelyn spoke with an eerie calm. "I need to wash up first."

"Evie, are you really going there? Elias is—"

"If saving my mom means facing him." Evelyn cut her off, fierce resolve burning in her eyes. "I'll do it, no matter the cost."

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In the chilling silence of a modern city morgue, a seasoned forensic pathologist uncovers a series of unsettling discrepancies during a routine autopsy. What begins as a standard investigation quickly spirals into a terrifying nightmare of professional betrayal and hidden horrors. As the evidence points toward a conspiracy within his own department, he must navigate a web of deception to expose the truth before he becomes the next body on the table.

Horror Modern Mystery

7.1

Divorced And Reborn: The Masked Doctor's Return

7.1

I was eight months pregnant, waiting on the sofa for my billionaire husband to come home. But when the heavy oak doors opened, Cayden threw a fake DNA test on the glass table, showing a zero percent probability of paternity. He accused me of carrying another man's bastard. I cried and begged, swearing I was framed by his childhood friend, Carmella. He didn't listen. Instead, he ordered his massive bodyguards to pin me down while a private doctor forced an abortion pill down my throat. "The Merritt family does not raise bastards. Get rid of it." He forced me to sign divorce papers and ordered his men to throw me out into the freezing storm. Before I was dragged away, I desperately told him the truth: I was the anonymous donor who gave him a kidney to save his life three years ago. He just sneered, saying Carmella had the surgical scar to prove she was the donor, and kicked me out to die. Lying in the freezing rain, vomiting up the half-dissolved poison to save my baby, I didn't understand how the man I loved could be so completely blind. How could he let that woman steal my kidney, my marriage, and murder his own flesh and blood? Five years later, I returned to New York not as his pathetic discarded wife, but as a top-tier medical fixer for the global elite. And my genius five-year-old son has already infiltrated his mansion, ready to tear his empire apart from the inside.

Fantasy Modern Romance

9.2

Divorcing the Heiress? Bad Idea.

9.2

After three years of a hollow marriage, Silas Thorne decides to divorce his wife, Clara, unaware that she is the sole heiress to the massive Sterling empire. He views her as a plain social climber, but the moment the papers are signed, Clara sheds her humble persona and reclaims her status as a powerful billionaire. As Silas watches her thrive in the elite world he once looked down upon, he realizes his mistake and tries to win her back.

Billionaire Modern Romance

7.6

Done Being A Shadow: The Wife's Escape

7.6

On the day I finally pried open the locked drawer in Marcus’s study, I didn't find a surprise anniversary gift. I found a shrine to my father's business partner, Izzy. Photos of a woman who looked exactly like me stared back. That was when I realized my marriage was nothing more than an expensive lie. I wasn't his wife; I was a customized substitute for the woman he couldn't have. The nightmare worsened when scalding soup was spilled at a restaurant. Marcus didn't hesitate. He threw his body over Izzy to shield her, leaving me to take the full force of the burns. Later, while I lay in the hospital bandaged and in agony, he didn't come to comfort me. He came to demand I donate a kidney to save Izzy. "If we both needed a kidney, who would you choose?" I asked him, desperate for a lie. "Izzy," he said instantly. "She has so much more to do." He didn't know I was pregnant. He didn't know that while he was begging me to save his mistress, the stress was killing his unborn child. I wiped my tears and laughed. "Okay," I said. I signed the divorce papers and left them on his desk. On top of them, I placed a medical report dated that morning: *Spontaneous Abortion.* Then, I boarded a one-way flight to Montana and vanished, leaving him to wake up to a world where he had saved his mistress but killed his family.

Adventure Modern Romance

8.1

He Called Off Our Forever

8.1

Tonight, my boyfriend of seven years, Benjamin Kane, was supposed to propose. Our future was a perfect picture, planned down to the last detail. But a single phone call shattered it all. A mysterious voice convinced him I was a gold digger who would ruin him, and that another woman, Jenna Christian, was his true soulmate. He called off our engagement on the spot. That was only the beginning of my nightmare. I was stalked by a man obsessed with Jenna, a confrontation that ended with me falling from a rooftop and shattering my arm. Then, I was kidnapped by a shady agency, trapped by a contract Jenna had signed in my name. I was living the horrific fate that was meant for her. Benjamin, the man who promised me forever, abandoned me to suffer while defending the very woman who orchestrated my torment. Lying in a hospital bed, I received an acceptance letter for a design scholarship in Paris. It was my only escape. I took it, leaving behind the man who broke me and the life he destroyed.

Action Modern Romance

9.1

He Thought I Would Silently Endure

9.1

On our fifth anniversary, I found my husband's secret USB drive. The password wasn't our wedding date or my birthday. It was his first love's. Inside was a digital shrine to another woman, a meticulous archive of a life he'd lived before me. I searched for my name. Zero results. In five years of marriage, I was just a placeholder. Then he brought her back. He hired her at our firm and gave her my passion project, the one I'd poured my soul into for two years. At the company gala, he publicly announced her as the new lead. When she staged an accident and he instantly rushed to her side, snarling at me, I finally saw the truth. He didn't just neglect me; he expected me to silently endure his public devotion to another woman. He thought I would break. He was wrong. I picked up my untouched glass of champagne, walked right up to him in front of all his colleagues, and emptied it over his head.

Modern Mystery Romance

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