THE CEO's REVENGE BRIDE
When event planner Sophia Martinez crashes billionaire Ethan Cross's exclusive charity gala, she's just trying to steal enough food to feed her dying mother. She never expects to catch the attention of New York's most ruthless CEO or to accept his shocking proposal.
Ethan offers Sophia five million dollars for six months of her life: pose as his devoted fiancée to make his ex jealous and secure the biggest business deal of his career. The rules are simple no real feelings, no physical contact, just perfect public performances as the ideal couple.
But Sophia harbors a devastating secret. She's the daughter of the man who destroyed Ethan's family empire five years ago, and she's been living with the guilt ever since. As she falls deeper into the charade, the lines between pretense and reality blur. Every stolen glance, every fake smile, every staged kiss pulls her further from her mission and closer to the man she's supposed to hate.
Ethan finds himself breaking his own rules. The woman he hired to heal his wounded pride is awakening feelings he thought were dead. But when business rival Marcus Reid begins circling like a vulture, threatening to expose their arrangement, Ethan realizes the game has become far more dangerous than either of them anticipated.
As corporate espionage collides with family secrets, Sophia must choose between protecting the man she loves and saving herself from a past that refuses to stay buried. When Ethan discovers her true identity, their contract becomes worthless but their hearts have already signed a deal that could destroy them both.
In a world where billion-dollar empires rise and fall on trust, can love survive the ultimate betrayal? Or will the truth shatter more than just their fake engagement?
Basahin
Chapter: Chapter 39 Twenty-five years after the first community meeting that had launched her organizing career, Sophia stood in the same Washington neighborhood where it had all begun. The community center had been renovated twice since then, but Doña Isabel still held court in the main meeting room every Tuesday evening, now training her granddaughter Carmen in the same organizing skills that had transformed the neighborhood. "Dr. Sophia!" Carmen called out as Sophia entered the room. "Abuela told me you were coming tonight." At twenty three, Carmen possessed the same fierce intelligence that had made her grandmother such an effective organizer, but she also brought skills that previous generations had never needed: expertise in countering artificial intelligence manipulation, experience with international solidarity networks, and an intuitive understanding of how to build organizing strategies that became stronger under pressure. "I wanted Carmen to meet you before I retire from the organizing com
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Chapter: Chapter 38 Ten years after the first disclosure that had launched her journey from organizational leader to global educator, Sophia stood before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, preparing to deliver testimony about what had become known as the "Right to Authentic Organizing." The invitation had come through Dr. Okafor, who now served as the UN Special Rapporteur on Community Empowerment and Democratic Participation a position that had been created in response to growing international recognition that systematic suppression of community organizing represented a fundamental threat to human rights. "Distinguished delegates," Sophia began, "I appear before you today not as an advocate for any particular political position, but as someone who has spent fifteen years documenting how communities around the world are being systematically prevented from organizing for their own empowerment." She outlined the evolution of opposition to community organizing: from crude attacks on indi
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Chapter: Chapter 37 The breakthrough came from an unexpected source: a sixteen year old student named Zara Kim, who was part of Sophia's new undergraduate seminar on "Digital Democracy and Community Power." Zara had been analyzing social media data from artificial organizing movements for her final project when she discovered something that had escaped the attention of researchers around the world. "Professor Martinez," Zara said after class one Tuesday in October, "I think I found something important about those fake movements we've been studying." "What did you find?" "They're not just mimicking real organizing. They're learning from real organizing. Like, actively learning and adapting based on what authentic movements do." Sophia set down her bag and gave Zara her full attention. "What do you mean?" "I've been tracking communication patterns in the artificial movements Dr. Okafor identified in Nigeria. Every time authentic organizing groups develop a new strategy or tactic, the artificial movem
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Chapter: Chapter 36 The call came on a Friday evening in late spring, five years after Sophia had begun teaching at Berkeley. She was grading final papers for her "Advanced Organizing Strategy" seminar when her phone rang with an international number she didn't recognize. "Dr. Martinez? This is Dr. Amara Okafor calling from Lagos. I hope I'm not disturbing you." "Not at all. How can I help you?" "I'm calling on behalf of a coalition of community organizations across West Africa. We've been following the work of the Democratic Organizing Defense Network, and we have a situation that we believe requires international coordination." Sophia set down the paper she had been reading. Something in Dr. Okafor's tone suggested this wasn't a routine request for training or resources. "What kind of situation?" "We have evidence that the coordination networks you exposed in 2022 have expanded their operations to include systematic suppression of organizing activities across Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and Mali. B
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Chapter: Chapter 35 Two years after the Democratic Organizing Defense Project launched, Sophia stood in a classroom at UC Berkeley, preparing to teach her first semester as a Visiting Professor of Community Organizing and Democratic Innovation. The course, officially titled "Power, Resistance, and Collective Action in the Digital Age," had drawn students from around the world who wanted to understand how communities could build power under conditions of systematic opposition. Her teaching appointment was part of a broader institutionalization of the lessons learned from the defense project. Universities in eight countries had created similar programs, community organizations had established permanent training networks, and several foundations had shifted their funding strategies to support defensive organizing capacity. "Before we begin," Sophia told the thirty students gathered in the seminar room, "I want to be clear about what this course is and isn't. This isn't a class about theory, though we'll
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Chapter: Chapter 34 The Democratic Organizing Defense Project launched at 6 AM GMT on October 15th with synchronized press conferences in twelve cities across four continents. Sophia stood at a podium in San Francisco's Mission District, flanked by community organizers from six countries who had traveled to participate in the disclosure. "We are here today to expose a systematic, international effort to eliminate community organizing as a force for democratic change," she began, looking out at an audience of journalists, community members, and organizers from across the Bay Area. Behind her, a large screen displayed a world map showing the countries where evidence of coordination had been documented: the United States, Brazil, the Philippines, Kenya, the United Kingdom, Germany, India, South Africa, Mexico, Colombia, Australia, and Poland. "This is not about partisan politics or ideological differences. This is about the right of communities to organize for their own empowerment, and the systematic e
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