Story By Josiah Esther
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Josiah Esther

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Claimed By Shadows
Updated at Dec 31, 2025, 04:37
Nothing prepares you for the moment your hard work turns into a crime you didn’t commit. One day, she had a career she believed in. The next, she was being watched, silenced, and pushed out of a system determined to erase her. Eloise fled to a new country with nothing but a suitcase, a short-term contract under a false identity, and one rule: survive quietly! Desperate to escape a web of corporate evil plots that nearly destroyed her, leaving her country wasn’t a choice, it was the only way to hide a part of herself and protect her broken heart.Theodore, the billionaire hospitality expert commanding presence in every room makes her question how strong the wall she has built around her heart is. The closer they gets together, the harder it is for her to keep living with her false identity and for the first time in years, she begins to wonder if love could still be possible.Situations from Eloise past refuses to stay where she needs them to be as she later finds out that the contract which brought her here is tied to the very same man connected to the problem she escaped from. Secrets, jealousy and unspoken truths gradually begin to reveal themselves. Every glance, touch, and choice could bring freedom or ruins.Now caught in a conflict of desire, power and the truth, Eloise must decide how much of herself she is willing to reveal. How much love is worth risking when the truth could destroy everything she has rebuilt? Will she trust the man whose possessive attitude scares and makes her stable at the same time? And when loyalty, desire, and buried crimes all meet, will she walk away again or stand her ground and fight for the life she deserves?
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