The Untouchable Golden Canary — Novel

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In the elite circles of Altheris, love is a game played with high stakes, and Taylor Ashley finds herself a pawn in a heart-wrenching drama she never signed up for. After three years of clandestine romance with Michael, the dashing Crown Prince, she discovers a devastating truth: she’s been living a lie, hidden away as Michael prepares to marry someone else. As the fireworks burst overhead, marking his grand proposal, Taylor's world shatters, leaving her to grapple with the bitter realization that she was never meant to be more than a secret.

But the story doesn’t end there. With her heart in tatters and her dignity stripped away, Taylor is faced with a choice: retreat back into the shadows or reclaim her life. When an unexpected call from Michael's fiancée shakes her world further, Taylor is thrust into a whirlwind of betrayal, jealousy, and self-discovery. Can she rise from the ashes of this broken romance? Will she find the strength to confront the man who once adored her in private but has now cast her aside?

In a world where appearances are everything, will Taylor uncover her true worth, or will she remain the untouchable golden canary, forever trapped in a gilded cage?

The Untouchable Golden CanaryChapter 1

On Valentine’s Day, Michael didn’t have time to accompany me.

Instead, he spent lavishly to propose to someone else under a grand fireworks display that the whole city knew about.

We had been together for three years and I had done everything a wife would for him.

Yet he never once agreed to make our relationship public.

I once jokingly asked him if he was being so cautious because he was afraid of breaking another woman’s heart.

It wasn’t until the enormous diamond ring slipped onto her finger and others congratulated him on his seven-year long-distance relationship finally reaching its happy ending, that I realized I was the “other woman” all along.

For three years, I had been with the Crown Prince of Altheris’s elite circle, hiding my identity as the Princess of Zeroth City, indulging him in a whirlwind of role-playing games in our so-called passionate love.

Yet, he never once agreed to make our relationship public.

One night, when he didn’t come home again, my best friend joked, asking if he had another woman outside.

He didn’t answer and I refused to believe it.