Entangled Affair
He's the city's most sought-after bachelor, a billionaire CEO with a cold heart. She’s an artist facing challenges, extremely self-reliant and allergic to commitment. Their lives intersect when a shocking rumor connects them, compelling Damien Sterling and Ava Rossi into a false engagement to protect their reputations. Damien must convey an impression of stability to obtain an important business deal. Ava requires the financial stability that Damien's proposal offers, enabling her to concentrate on her art without the looming risk of eviction.
Their agreement is simple: fake it until the deal is done. Nevertheless, the lines separating fiction from reality blur as their deception becomes evident. The simmering desire they tried to ignore bursts into an intense romance, endangering their carefully constructed fronts. Nonetheless, Damien carries a concealed truth, a past trauma that makes him wary of love.
Ava's past carries a hurtful secret that may ruin their delicate bond. As a merciless competitor endangers Damien's business and Ava's past resurfaces, their pretend engagement turns into a perilous situation. They have to determine if their love is genuine enough to endure the deceptions, the treacheries, and the high-stakes world they inhabit. Entangled Affair tells a tale of unforeseen romance, concealed motives, and the bravery to gamble everything for a shot at eternity.
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Chapter: EPILOGUE: THE ART OF BEGINNING AGAINThe early sunlight softly enveloped the Sterling estate, casting a warm, golden hue across the garden. Laughter drifted through the atmosphere like a comforting tune, familiar and calming. The roses Ava planted months earlier were now in full bloom, framing the twisting path to a new glass-walled studio situated next to a serene, shimmering pond. Inside, Ava was barefoot, the cool floor against her feet, sunlight casting a golden hue on her skin. In one arm, she held their son. In the other, a paintbrush hovered just above a blank canvas. Leo. Three months old, and already carrying the quiet fire of both his parents. His piercing, curious eyes fixed on hers with a stare so powerful, so steady, it nearly took her breath away. The identical look Damien repeatedly gave her, as though she were a rare gem in a world too quick to acknowledge beauty She rocked Leo gently as her brush moved across the canvas, each stroke slow and full of intention. The colors were bold, uncertain, somethi
Last Updated: 2025-05-24
Chapter: CHAPTER 52: A NEW DAWNMonths LaterAva remained quiet by the window, one hand softly resting on her growing belly, while the other hand traced slow circles on her dress’s fabric. The months that went by were tumultuous, disordered, painful, healing, yet this morning, wrapped in soft sunlight and tranquility, she felt an emotion she hadn't felt in agesPeace.Damien slipped into the room softly, so as not to interrupt the silence. As soon as he spotted her, his pace hesitated. His eyes rested on her, filled with amazement and another feeling—something raw. “How do you feel?” he inquired, his voice hardly reaching a whisper. Ava glanced back, her mouth forming a slight smile. "Somewhat nervous... yet prepared." He approached her and grasped her hand with his, firm and comforting. "We have made significant progress." I simply want you to understand that I’m not leaving. I am present. "For you, and for our child." Her throat constricted. Tears bubbled up but didn’t spill as she offered a slight nod. "That si
Last Updated: 2025-05-24
Chapter: CHAPTER 51: THE UNVEILINGEdward Sterling was seated by himself in his study, his hands remained still on the armrests while his gaze remained focused on the gentle illumination of the fireplace. There was a period when he gained solace from that fire,when everything seemed assured. But now? Now, the man who had built his life on control and certainty was unraveling, thread by thread.He didn’t hear the footsteps, only the soft knock.His assistant stepped in, tentative, holding a manila envelope marked with a red “URGENT” stamp.“This just came in, sir.”Edward nodded, saying nothing as he reached for it. His fingers brushed the edge of the envelope and trembled. Just barely, but enough to betray what he didn’t want anyone to see.He peeled it open.Photographs. Documents. The sharp truth laid bare in ink and pixels.Claire.In places she shouldn't have been. Whispers across linen-covered tables. Envelopes passed under the hush of candlelight. Meetings behind closed doors. Records of deals done in secret, dir
Last Updated: 2025-05-24
Chapter: CHAPTER 50: HER CHOICE, HIS FIGHT The city hummed beyond the windows, alive with laughter and movement, but inside Ava’s studio, there was only stillness. A stillness that pulsed with emotion.Unfinished canvases leaned against the walls like unsent letters, their thick brushstrokes raw with feeling. Her pencil moved across the page with halting strokes, more searching than certain. Outside, the Seine murmured as tourists chattered and lovers strolled but in here, there was only the soft hitch of Ava’s breath and the whisper of graphite against paper.It had been a month since she arrived.The pressure had been closing in like a storm, tabloids clawing at whispers of the "disappeared Sterling wife," gallery curators pushing for appearances, and worst of all, the quiet terror inside her. Her body was changing daily, the pregnancy no longer a secret she could tuck away. It was real. It was undeniable.And she was scared.But she was also sure.She wasn’t doing this to prove a point. She wasn’t here to play martyr or he
Last Updated: 2025-05-24
Chapter: CHAPTER 49: THE BREAKING POINTShadows sprawled over the majestic front of the estate Damien used to refer to as home. It remained as magnificent as always—spotless columns, flawless landscaping, the aroma of wealth from the past wafting in the atmosphere. However, as he remained on the marble floor just outside his father's study, the area seemed like a prison, rather than a recollection.He used to run through these halls, barefoot and laughing, before he knew what it meant to be a Sterling. Before he learned that love here was conditional, and legacy came with shackles.In that moment, his hands curled into tight fists at his sides, his entire body tense, wound tight like a coiled spring. The deep rooted yearning for his father's approval, a weight he had carried for so long—had finally begun to fade. He was no longer that boy. Not the person who anticipated a gesture, a phrase, or anything at all. He was now a man, occupying the silence his father once brought, opting for himself instead. He was a man seeking t
Last Updated: 2025-05-24
Chapter: CHAPTER 48: THE CRACKS THAT LET LIGHT INThe seasons were shifting in the quiet coastal town. Mornings came with a crisp edge now, the ocean breeze a little less playful, a little more brisk. The wildflowers that once swayed confidently in open fields were starting to lower their heads, sinking into the ground like a breath. Ava stood without shoes on the porch of her rented cabin, holding a cozy mug of ginger tea. Steam rose into the atmosphere as her other hand softly glided over her flat stomach, an instinctive movement, gentle and careful.Inside, her calendar sat on the counter, one date circled in soft red ink:First Ultrasound – 10:30 AM.She hadn’t told Damien.Not because she didn’t want him there.But because she wasn’t sure she could bear to see hope in his eyes when she still wasn’t sure what she felt herself.As the wind lifted her curls and the tea warmed her hands, a voice echoed in her mind, from a letter written weeks ago:Can you be that man?He hadn’t replied. Not with words, anyway.But something had shif
Last Updated: 2025-05-22
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