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Running Away To My Erased Heir  Novel Cover

Running Away To My Erased Heir

The night I ran, I left everything behind. My dead fiancé's ghost. His brother's cold hands reaching for me. A father who won't meet my eyes because he's already sold me to the highest bidder. I thought I was escaping. Then a stranger pulled me from the darkness, and I learned what real danger looks like. Damon moves like he owns the world. Talks like every word matters. Looks at me like I'm the only woman who ever made him feel something. He says he's the son the Kings family erased, the bastard they tried to bury. He says Evan loved me-really loved me-and that's why I should trust him. He wants me to sign a contract. One year as his wife. One year to help him destroy the family that destroyed us both. One year pretending to belong to a man who makes my heart race and my skin burn every time he's close. But the closer we get, the more I feel him keeping secrets. He touches me like I'm fragile. Looks away when I ask about Evan. Holds the truth behind his teeth like it might cut us both. And the whole time, I'm falling. Falling into his warmth. His danger. His impossible kindness that feels too real to be fake. But if I've learned anything from the Kings, it's this: the men who save you are always the ones who need you most. And the ones who need you? They're the ones who hurt you in the end. Evan knew something the night he died. Something about my father. Something about the deal that would make the Kings the most powerful people in the country. Damon knows too. And the only way he'll tell me? Is if I say yes. Say yes to the contract. Say yes to the marriage. Say yes to the fire building between us that feels less like pretending every single day. But when I finally learn the truth-about Evan, about my father, about the empire that wants us both dead- Will the man holding me survive what comes next? And more terrifying: Will I survive loving him?
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Chapter 7

Gina POV:

He stopped for a second at the drop of the sentence from my mouth.

His gaze narrowed straightly into mine. As if searching for the truth.

"I'm for real here." I said and grabbed the pen with me. I rushed down the document and signed it. "You don't need to doubt me anymore."

He still couldn't say anything. "I already signed it, Damon." I said and nudged him.

"You did." he said slowly like something had just broken in him. His voice shaking-like it's vibrating.

"Then what's the problem?" I started growing tense too. "You've wanted this all along."

"I'm a bit shocked." He sat on the bench behind us. "Even though all odds suggested you'll do it, I still can't imagine you actually did."

I was a bit confused. He sounded like he was my only hope just some hours ago, now he's talking like I'm his savior.

"Anyways." he chuckled slightly. "We should hurry the wedding."

"Why?"

"So Jax will know he is already losing to me." he clapped, smiled and stood up again.

"Let's go meet father." Damon said simply. But the name, father. His father. It was quite terrifying to hear. But I trusted Damon anyway.

~~~

The car stopped before the high-raisbuilding, one of the tallest in New York.

"Let's put a good act, okay?" Damon said and held my hand tightly.

"Sure." I sighed hugely.

The driver opened the door for me, another security guard opened mine.

I stepped out of the limo slowly, and it was driven away behind me, probably to the parking lot.

Damon walked toward me and held my hand softly.

"Let's go now." he whispered. And I followed him as he stepped forward into the building.

Damon was not known in the company so his walk was free. But me?

I was the latest rumor.

Everyone went silent as I appeared. They bowed slightly as I passed them and murmurs follow.

I maintained my pace silently and chose not to fall apart. And I maintained it for a while.

We were about reaching the elevator, when a voice spoke from behind.

"That's the runaway bride."

It was not a shout but the silent reception area was hungry for any sound, even a falling ant would echo upon reaching the ground.

It seemed like he was telling someone-then his mouth was quickly covered. His voice was muffled.

I stopped. And turned back slowly, I fixed my gaze at him sternly and he quickly buried his face to the ground. None of them could look at my face. I was really angry and my eyes were turning red already.

Damon gripped me more tightly and pulled me forward. "Let's go, please." he said calmly.

And I followed him, we stepped into the elevator.

As the elevator closed slowly. A noise erupted from the reception-but we were already gone.

Silence thickened again. Just me and Damon. It was annoying and I was sick of it.

He noticed it and broke the silence.

"Just calm down already, Gina."

"Yah!"

He held my hand. "Whatever happened in there. Just stay close. And say little-calculate your responses before saying it. He is really good at wordplays."

I sighed. "Even if he's cruel?" I raised my eyebrows.

"Especially then." he said. The elevator door slides opened slowly.

We stepped out into the hallway. It was a private area, but the securities recognized me.

"Him?" a huge man said, gesturing at Damon.

"He came with me." I said simply and walked away without explaining further. I know he should ask questions about him but I cut that off.

"That little..." he smirked and returned back to his position again.

We walked down the hallway. In silence.

We reached a dead end; a gigantic door.

The chairman's chamber.

I was about to push open the door, when it opened from within.

Jules, Jax's right hand man. The man everyone found hilarious and yet fearful at the same time. Even Jax was somehow afraid of him. Deadly and humorous.

I swallowed hard, I hated even hearing about him let alone sighting him. And he was coming out of the chairman's chamber. Maybe the chairman already assigned him to bring me in.

"Wow!"he clapped and leaned against the wall. "The ghost returned." He clearly knew Damon. The man clearly knows too much secret.

"Now with interesting company." he added.

My jaw tightened as my stomach clenched. Terrified and furious simultaneously, but Damon ignored him and held me as he walked past him.

We left him there, and he shouted from behind.

"Good luck. You surely need it over there." He said and the door slammed behind him.

I looked back and I sighed.

We got to the big black door.

I stopped.

"Just brazen yourself up." he patted me to calm me down-even though he was scared too. "It will be well."

"Sure." I nodded.

Damon knocked on the door and there was no response. Just silence.

He knocked again. And a voice muffled from behind the door. "Come in."

It was the chairman's voice.

I froze. He held me and pushed open the door.

The office was vast. A huge red carpet stretched across the whole room. Plain but luxurious.

The chairman sat behind a huge desk-black, wooden. No computers, just artifacts and papers.

His face was glued to a photo. He doesn't even look up.

Then I looked around and-

I froze.

Jax.

He was sitting on a sofa placed against the far wall.

Things are going to be really complicated in here. I held Damon more tightly.

"It's okay." he whispered.

"Wooooow!" Jax clapped, and readjusted on the sofa.

"Father, look who we have here." He stood.

"Who?" the chairman looked up, his eyes locking on me.

I froze.

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