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Chapter 010: Unexpected
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2025-01-10 02:00:03
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Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 011: The Masquerade
Maximilian I glance at the time on my watch and ignore the urge I have to groan in frustration. The party has only just started and I’m bored beyond belief. I hate such events, and the worst part is that the announcement of my succession will only be made in three hours. Rebecca and Edmund are having the time of their lives. They love these kinds of events; they thrive in this kind of environment. I, on the other hand, have never been the social butterfly. If anything, I’m on the antisocial side.I feel a tap on my shoulder and then hear Kelly’s voice before I see her face. “Max! You look so handsome! Did you miss me?”“Not really,” I joke before I take her hand in mine. Kelly is holding her mask on her left hand along with her clutch. I go ahead and remove the stupid shit from my face, too. “How was Paris?” I ask.“Oh, just great!” she exclaims. “I have to say that our fashion show went incredibly well, though I really wish you’d made it to my debut.”“Couldn’t,” I say simply. “W
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-12Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 012: Curiosity…
AdaThe sight of Rebecca Loxley-Manney waving me over makes me look away from her brother, and I approach the group, but not without feeling my stomach turning from my nerves. A party like this is way out of my comfort zone, but of course, I couldn't say no to their invitation or chicken out, especially when they were kind enough to send me this dress. It’s absolutely stunning, and I don’t think I’ve ever owned a prettier dress. It suits my dark features so well, too, and I love this shade of purple. I walk toward them steadily in my high heels, and am pleased to see that Maximilian Loxley has finally looked away. He can’t hide his disdain for a second. I don’t even know how he managed to recognize me with my mask on. I skip it over my head when I get closer to them, and Rebecca looks me up and down appreciatively. “Wow. This dress is so beautiful!”“Thank you,” I say sheepishly, wondering if I should say something now about her being kind enough to get it for me or if I should wa
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-13Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 013: Eavesdropping
Ada The doors are still swinging when I approach them, and I hold the left one and slip inside the room through the gap of the doors. I was right when I assumed that it was a storage room. I see a whole bunch of crates filled with wine and champagne bottles as well as different liquors. What could Sheila possibly be doing here? That's what I want to know. And I find out soon enough. I hear voices and immediately duck behind a stack of crates. They're speaking in low voices, but I recognize Sheila's whiny, high-pitched voice. She's talking to a man, and when I peer over the crates, I'm not surprised to see Edmund talking to her. I wish I could get closer to hear what they're saying, but soon, they stop talking altogether and start kissing instead. My face reddens, and I cover my mouth with my hand. I shouldn't be surprised; I'd low-key deduced what was happening when she warned me off the men in the family. Her possessive manner made me realize that she must have had an affair wit
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-15Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 014: Sickening Offer
Ada“I gotta go,” I tell Damson quickly before hanging up and shoving the phone in my clutch. Edmund approaches me, his eyes following all my movements. “There you are. I’ve been wondering where you’ve been hiding. Is everything okay?”“Yes,” I lie. “I just thought I’d get some fresh air.”“Yes, it’s quite stuffy inside, isn’t it?” he asks before reaching into his blazer to retrieve a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. “Mind if I smoke?”“No.”He lights the cigarette, then stands smoking it. I notice that near his neck, there’s a lipstick stain. Won’t his wife notice? Isn’t he afraid?“You look lovely tonight,” he comments. “Did you like the dress?”Ah, the matter that I’ve been meaning to clarify. “I thought that your wife gifted it to me, so I guess her confusion left me…confused, too.”“About that,” he begins as he turns his body so he’s facing me directly. “Rebecca doesn’t know about the dress. She didn’t mention it or even think about it, I guess because of what happened with Sam
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-15Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 015: The Date
Maximilian Edmund faces me with a broad smile tugging at the corners of his lips, which would suggest that nothing is wrong. But the maid? Her face is ashen, and she looks like she’s a few breaths away from crying. Her eyes are downcast now, and she shifts her weight from one foot to the other, looking uncomfortable. What the hell is going on here?“Max,” Ed exclaims. I notice that he’s being a little too loud, in an exaggerated way, almost, and when he moves closer to me, I see a wave of panic cross his eyes before it disappears. Guilt. I detect guilt. And why would that be?“Something wrong?” I ask him, unfazed by the friendliness he’s showing me. Ed frowns. “Why would there be something wrong?”I wait for a beat to pass, then say, “I don’t know. You tell me.”He waves his hand dismissively and says, “I was just talking to Naomi here about Sammy, and I guess that put us both in a mood. Isn’t that right?”She raises her eyes to look at him, and I see that flash of defiance that
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-15Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 016: Distraction
AdaI can’t believe that this man is handling me like this. It’s ridiculous!The only reason why I’ve stopped fighting him is because people are starting to look, and I’m not going to embarrass myself more than he’s already doing it. We reach a larger area with people gathered all over, and they all turn to look at Maximilian Loxley. Some people eye me and at the way his hand is closed around my wrist like a vice. I can’t believe he let that woman believe I’m his date, all because he wants to know what his brother-in-law said to me. And how can I tell him when it might directly impact me?I’m not an idiot. I know he isn’t asking because he cares about me. He just wants to know if Edmund is sneaking around, perhaps for his sister’s sake. How would this impact me? I’d rather try my luck with Edmund than with him, who’s hated me from the moment he set eyes on me, because at least there’ll be a possibility of me keeping the job and having more time to find the evidence I need against R
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-16Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 017: Needing A Miracle
Ada “Ada, darling,” my mother says as she opens the door. She embraces me tightly before placing a kiss on my cheek. “It’s so good to see you. Come in, come in. It’s chilly and you don’t have a sweater.”Upon entering the living room, I spot Harry standing in the living room. I’m surprised that he’s here at this time of the night, but at the same time, he and my mother have always been close. He also mentioned before that he gets lonely in what he calls his ‘old age’, and that it’s only gotten worse since Damson left the nest.“Ada,” he says in greeting before he limps toward me. “We weren’t expecting you here. Change of plans? How was the…a masquerade, you said?”“Yeah,” I confirm. “It was…interesting.”“How so?” my mother asks. I’m always hesitant to give them information about what’s going on in that family, and now it’s worse because this matter is tricky and I know what they would say. They worry about me. I don’t blame them, but their concern does get in the way of getting thi
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-17Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 018: Patience Is A Virtue
Maximilian As I leave the bar, I can’t help but heave a sigh of relief. Fuck me. If Grayson Piovani wasn’t part of the Piovani family that has been in business with ours for years, I would have cut him out of my life a long time ago. Not only is he exhausting to be around, but he’s also the worst person I’ve had the displeasure to meet. I don’t know how we were ever friends. My father and his were very close. As a result, we grew up practically together. We went to the same schools. We were in the same class. Every weekend, we’d spend in each other’s houses. I will admit that even back then, there were aspects of him that didn’t sit well with me. He was unnecessarily rude and spoiled, and although the same could be said about me, I was never like him. Not to his extent. But the partnership brought about by our fathers can’t be undone without some serious damage being done, so we’re stuck together. I’m not stupid enough to think that he doesn’t feel the same way about me as I do
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-18
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Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 141: Seven Years
Maximilian “It’s been a long time since we last spoke, haven’t we?” Damson says in my ear. His voice still has that crazy quality to it. He doesn’t sound like a sane person. And the worst part is that this man is by my daughter’s side, somewhere out there. We don’t even know if he left the state or even the country. We know nothing. I clench my jaw so tightly that I hear a molar crack. I remind myself that this time, things have to be different. I need to stay calm and hope that this time, he’s going to tell me what he wants so we can get our daughter back. Everything is depending on me. “You always had so much to say, and now you’re saying nothing. You’re silent. I wonder…does that mean you declare defeat?”“Yes,” I say, the word scratching the sides of my throat and making my mouth so bitter that I nearly gag. I’ll say whatever I can to please this man. I’d do absolutely everything.“Yes? Good,” he claims. “Ada has received a similar call from me and she has also declared defe
Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 140: Disconnected
Maximilian Today proves to be a pretty eventful day. I’ve gone so many years without a single thing happening outside of the normal and now, Rebecca has come to pay me the second visit of the day. And this time, she refuses to not be let inside. “I’ll stay here all night if I have to, Max. You’re not going to get any sleep! I need to talk to you and it’s urgent! Open up!”I rub my eyes as I stare at the door and think about what to do. It briefly occurs to me that I could call the police but then I decide that it’s not worth the trouble—I’d rather just find out what she wants and then hope she’ll leave. So, for the first time in seven years, we come face to face. I look into my sisters’s eyes and notice the changes. How the corner of her eyes are more crinkled. How her face is thinner. Rebecca narrows her eyes at me before barging in. “You were going to leave me out there all night, weren’t you? I bet you were even going to call the police.”“What do you want?” I ask, getting str
Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 139: Catching Up
Ada After spending an entire day hunting for jobs and coming up with nothing, that’s when I start to feel the pressure. There’s nothing so far. Not a single job. I don’t want to feel desperate but this has all come from out of nowhere and it makes me wonder if the world is conspiring against me. I spend the whole day worrying and fretting, and I’m in a terrible mood. That’s until I’m visited by a face I haven’t seen in a long time. Rebecca.I must admit that her knocking on my door gives me this surreal feeling—I can’t even explain it. I have so many questions for her as I open the door. “Rebecca,” I say, pressing my hand to my mouth. Her eyes immediately start to tear up. Then again, she’s always been extremely dramatic. We embrace, not saying a word to each other. I’m still busy wrapping my head around this whole thing. She’s here. That’s insane and amazing at the same time. “How did you find me?” I ask right away. “I…this can’t be real.”The last time we saw each other was
Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 138: Giving Up
Maximilian I hang up the phone and find myself staring at the wall.For seven years, I’ve been tormented by this guy. Tormented. He would call me and sometimes I’d hear the sound of my daughter’s voice in the background but it didn’t matter how much I screamed—she would never hear me. Today was no different. All I could do was hear as he talked to her. She was grown now—her voice wasn’t that of a baby’s. For some time now, her voice was that of a smart little young girl, and I wouldn’t hear her say all these things that ranged from things she saw outside to things she learned in school. And then she would call him Daddy. That lunatic.He’d hang up afterward. Less than a minute felt like an eternity. I’ve tried everything. Tracking the number. Involving the police. Nothing amounted to anything. I don’t know where that man is hiding her but he hasn’t been found since.I was the last person to have seen him. Before, I used to walk around the city, hoping k would spot him randomly a
Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 137: Fast Forward
Ada Seven Years Later…“Ada, could you come here for a second?”I abandon my spot in front of the coffee machine and head to the back to meet with the manager of the café where I work. She’s seated behind her desk as she usually is and only briefly glances at me. She and I don’t get along. Never have. For five years, she’s made sure to make my life an absolute nightmare but because I got used to the place and the tips are good, I chose to stay. “We have to cut back on costs. I’m sorry, Ada, you’ve been an excellent employer for five years but now, we’re going to have to let you go.”I stare at her face, dumbfounded. When she sees that I haven’t said a word or reacted yet, she finally looks up and looks as annoyed as ever. “You heard what I said didn’t you?”“Yes, I did,” I claim. “I just don’t understand why me. There is an employee in there that only got the job two days ago. Nobody does this better than me.”“I’m sorry but rules are rules. You have until the end of the day. I’m so
Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 136: Switch
Ada My baby is back in my arms and I couldn’t be happier. We’ve left the hospital behind us and have been moved to a private clinic. Max believes it’s safer. It seems the perpetrator is still on the move. I don’t care much for the investigation now that my baby is safely in my arms. She’s been in the intensive care unit just to ensure that everything is in order and the new doctor claimed that she’s perfectly fine. I haven’t seen much of Max. He’s been up and down with the investigators, so I’ve been alone for most of the time. I’m anxious to receive news about my baby. I just want to be able to get out of here and go back home. But it seems they still have to run some tests and all I can do is be patient. Rebecca comes and goes. She’s doing this to avoid coming across Max. I’m glad she’s putting in the effort to see us. I haven’t spoken to Max about her yet but maybe now that our baby has been found, he’ll feel more forgiving toward his sister. There’s a knock on the door and
Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 135: Dangerous Calls
Maximilian “I know you know who it is. Come alone or you’ll regret it.”That was what the unknown caller said to me when I answered the call, and oddly enough, I knew exactly who it was. An address was sent to me in a different phone number and I knew I would go, and I’d obey the orders because my daughter’s life depended on it. I didn’t say a word to anyone. Not the private investigator who was still looking for this guy. Not Ada. How would I tell her that Damson called me and told me to meet him when she still didn’t know that he’d escaped from the institution? I knew I was right—I knew he had something to do with the kidnapping. Call it a father’s instinct. I’m on the way to him now and my hands are shaking as they grip the steering wheel. I don’t even know how I’m going to control my anger enough to face this man. I can’t do anything stupid that would put my daughter’s life at risk. I wonder what he wants since he didn’t ask to see Ada. What’s his plan? He just be truly crazy
Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 134: Healing Visit
Ada I haven’t been doing well at all. Not since my baby was taken. Every second of every day, she’s all I think about. What hurts me the most is that she didn’t even have a name, so in my head, she’s just ‘her’.She’s so young. So tiny. And this situation keeps getting worse and worse. Apparently, the same man was spotted in a hospital on the other side of the city, and he also killed two nurses to steal a baby. Two babies gone missing in the same day. Both girls. One can only imagine what kind of malicious intentions he has. Why go through so much trouble to kidnap two newborns? What’s the matter with him?Max seems distracted. I don’t know what’s wrong with him but every time I look at him, I can tell that he’s keeping something from me. There’s something he isn’t telling me about all this. I could be wrong, of course. Maybe he’s just not taking this news very well, the same way I’m not. But the truth is what I can’t have him being this distant. He’s always on the phone. He
Bound by Revenge, Saved by Love Chapter 133: Wounded
Maximilian “Do you recognize this man, Mr. Loxley?”I stare at his face hard, my heart beating fast. It’s a blur and way too pixelated anyway for me to be able to recognize him. I shake my head, despair taking a hold of me. “No,” I finally say. “I don’t.”I keep a firm arm around Ada because I know she needs that right now. She needs me and my support. She’s not taking this well at all and it honestly breaks my heart. I’m heartbroken about all of this, too. I don’t feel emotional because it hasn’t kicked in yet. In my mind, there’s nothing that can be fixed. The detective says she’ll be found so that’s what I believe. He said it won’t take too long, and I’m counting on that. Ada is distraught, though. Deep down, I have this fear that the man involved is that fucking lunatic who escaped the institution, the one that’s haunted Ada for so long. I never even told her that he got out. Maybe I should. Maybe I should even mention it to the detective so he’ll at least have a lead. I don
