Even in Darkness She Chose to Rise (Tatiana and Jasper) novel Chapter 372

Chapter 372 The Idol and the Echo

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Tatiana listened with rapt attention, her face flushed with heat as she occasionally chimed in to ask for specific details about their “shared past.”

Gradually, fatigue took over. She leaned against his shoulder and drifted into a deep sleep.

Jasper listened to the steady rhythm of her breathing. He looked down at the face so close to his own, feeling her breath against his skin. The usually still waters of his heart were stirred into a restless ripple that refused to settle.

After a long silence, he spoke in a whisper, a solitary confession to the dark.

“When you remember… you will likely hate me for being so despicable.”

He knew it was a low move, yet greed won out, and he continued the charade. He reached out, holding her gently as he finally closed his eyes.

While they slept in each other’s arms, Steele Island was descending into absolute chaos.

Captain Hanson had personally handpicked a crew. They boarded a vessel and set sail for the Murican port under the cover of night, radiating a murderous aura.

“Daring to steal my person? He’s looking for a grave!”

The next morning.

Tatiana woke up to find the spot beside her empty. Jasper was gone.

She scrambled out of bed and searched the room, eventually finding a note left on the desk. It contained a single line in his elegant script:

Working. I’ll be back as soon as I can. Stay home and be good. You can call me anytime.

She clutched the note to her chest, a sweet, giddy smile spreading across her lips. Happily, she hopped out of bed to get ready for the day.

But her joy was short–lived. In her excitement, she tripped on the edge of the rug. As she fell forward, her forehead slammed into the corner of the desk with a sickening thud. She let out a sharp gasp of pain.

Suddenly, a flood of images surged into her mind.

Each frame felt like a scene from a horror movie. A dim room filled with gleaming surgical instruments… a doctor in a sterile white coat… hulking orderlies… and her, strapped down to a cold iron frame…

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She froze, paralyzed. She tried to force herself to remember more of what had just flashed by, but the images vanished as quickly as they had appeared.

Her hands and feet went numb, as if she had been dropped into a pit of ice. Those memories… they were terrifying.

Fake! It has to be fake!

She patted her cheeks firmly, desperately trying to suppress the creeping sensation of dread.

She changed her clothes and headed downstairs, where a maid had already prepared breakfast. “Good morning, Madam. Your breakfast is ready.”

Even though she knew her supposed identity now, being called “Madam” still sent a thrill of sweetness through her heart. She was officially Mrs. Jackson now.

“Thank you,” she replied brightly.

She sat down to eat, pulling out her phone to browse the news. The phone was a gift from Jasper–the latest model, with only one contact saved in the address book: his.

She quietly changed his contact name to Husband.

The moment she hit save, her cheeks burned, and a honey–sweet warmth filled her chest. She wondered when he would finally take her to see their children. He kept saying they were busy with school and that he’d bring them home once their break started. He asked for her patience.

She was willing to wait. Honestly, she didn’t even know how to be a mother yet; she had spent the last two days devouring parenting books.

As she ate, the horrific images from earlier flickered in the back of her mind again. A chill ran down her spine. She shook her head violently, trying to discard the visions.

They’re fake, all of them. How could I have ever experienced something so gruesome? Just a hallucination!

After successfully convincing herself, she happened upon a news headline, and her eyes suddenly lit up.

“I’m going out!”

The maid nearly jumped out of her skin. “Where are you going, Madam?”

“Here!”

She turned the phone around to show the screen. It was an advertisement for a superstar’s concert, held at the local stadium. “I want to see his concert!”

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“That… you’ll need to ask the Master first.”

Without a second thought, she dialed Jasper’s number, her voice bubbling with excitement as she made her request.

On the other end, Jasper paused. It suddenly occurred to him that the seventeen–year–old Tatiana had been quite the fangirl.

“I really want to go! Please?”

Her voice was like spun sugar. His heart softened instantly, and he

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“Fine. I’ll have someone get the tickets for you. But you have to promise me: stay within sight of the bodyguards, don’t wander off, and don’t talk to strangers.”

She nodded vigorously at the first few conditions, but the last one made her let out a mix of a huff and a giggle. “I’m not even allowed to talk to people?”

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