Until the moment he died, Adrian Hawthorne was still demanding to know where my sister was.
In a rare show of kindness, I let him lean closer.
“She’s still alive,” I whispered. “She’s…”
A satisfied little laugh escaped me, and then I took my last breath.
My consciousness drifted in the air above my body as I watched him fly into a rage.
“Claire Bennett, you’re something else,” he seethed. “Playing games with me even on your deathbed.”
I watched him bury me on the outskirts of Boston. I watched him spend more than a decade searching for my sister, day after relentless day.
Just before he died, he came to my grave one last time to taunt me.
“You crashed into my life, stole the place that should have belonged to your sister, and got her killed in that fire.
“And you still wouldn’t tell me where she was buried…
“If there’s a next life, stay the hell away from me.”
But when my life began again, and Adrian seized my wrist to threaten me, warning me not to marry him, all I felt was a strange sense of amusement.
Who would want to marry him now?
I had been reborn a full year before he was.
I was already married.
He Was Reborn To Claim Me But I’m Already Married Chapter 34 Nor should you make another person spend a lifetime guessing. Daniel took our daughter from me and asked, “What are you thinking about?” “That I really was foolish before.” “Who says so?” He lowered his head and touched his forehead lightly to mine.
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He Was Reborn To Claim Me But I’m Already Married Chapter 33 Three years later, the spring flower festival in Back Bay was held as usual. Flowers bloomed all along the Charles River. Young men in flower crowns wandered about, blushing as they offered them to girls they liked. My daughter sat on Daniel’s shoulders,
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He Was Reborn To Claim Me But I’m Already Married Chapter 32 Then he bent down and held me tightly. “Thank you.” I was too exhausted to speak, so I only lifted a hand and touched his hair. Mother and Grandmother came in one after the other. Both of them were crying. Grandmother took Mother’s
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He Was Reborn To Claim Me But I’m Already Married Chapter 31 My daughter was born on a snowy morning. The night before, Mother had still been teaching Grandmother how to use a new coffee machine. The two of them argued for ages over whether to add the water or the coffee first. I laughed
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He Was Reborn To Claim Me But I’m Already Married Chapter 30 The baby moved gently inside me, as if sensing my fear. I laid a hand over my stomach. “No.” Adrian’s head jerked up. Perhaps only then did he truly realize that there had been another life in that car. For the first time,
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He Was Reborn To Claim Me But I’m Already Married Chapter 29 Adrian paused. “She wasn’t like this before.” “Which ‘before’? After she got married, or after you climbed over the wall into her mother’s yard?” “Our previous life!” his voice suddenly rose. “In our previous life, no matter how angry she got, she always
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He Was Reborn To Claim Me But I’m Already Married Chapter 28 By the time Adrian’s trial began, I was seven months pregnant. Daniel had wanted me to stay home. But I went anyway. Not for Adrian. But because I refused to let someone else tell my story for me. The assistant had already pleaded
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He Was Reborn To Claim Me But I’m Already Married Chapter 27 Grandmother didn’t step forward. Only when Mother turned and embraced her did she slowly lift a hand and pat her back. I stood at the foot of the stairs, my nose stinging. At some point, Daniel had come up behind me and steadied
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He Was Reborn To Claim Me But I’m Already Married Chapter 26 The day Grandmother arrived from Newport, Mother was waiting in the sitting room before the sun was fully up. Though she still said, “I’m only doing this for Claire. It has nothing to do with her.” Evelyn and I exchanged a look but
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He Was Reborn To Claim Me But I’m Already Married Chapter 25 Margaret’s expression stiffened. “After he forced his way out of the house, you knew he was unstable.” “So why, when you came to my wedding, did you not say a single word of warning?” “I thought he only wanted to see Claire one
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