A night stand with my ex's uncle
Rora Grayson’s life collapses on the night that was meant to secure her future. At her engagement party to Liam Walker, she is publicly humiliated and discarded when Liam chooses her adopted sister, Malice, revealing the Grayson family’s bankruptcy and crushing debt of one billion naira. Orphaned by tragedy and betrayal, Rora is pushed to the edge of despair only to fall into a night she barely remembers, one that will change her fate forever.
The next day, desperate to survive and repay her family’s debt, Rora seeks employment, only to be humiliated again by Liam and Malice. Just when she breaks, help arrives from an unexpected source Ethan Walker, Liam’s powerful and feared uncle, the most influential man in the Walker family. What shocks Rora most is the truth she cannot escape: Ethan is the mysterious man from that night.
Ethan offers Rora a job as his personal secretary, shielding her from further abuse and giving her a chance to reclaim her dignity. As Rora proves her intelligence, resilience, and quiet strength in the corporate world, Ethan finds himself drawn to her far beyond reason or control. Beneath his cold authority lies a man determined to protect the woman fate placed in his path.
When Rora collapses under the weight of humiliation and stress, the truth emerges—she is pregnant. Faced with scandal, power struggles, and enemies determined to destroy her, Ethan makes a decision that shakes both their worlds: he will take responsibility and asks her to marry him.
Bound by circumstance but driven by undeniable chemistry, Rora and Ethan must navigate betrayal, revenge, hidden secrets, and a dangerous love that grows where neither expected it while Malice and Liam lurk in the shadows, plotting their downfall.
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Chapter: Chapter 16Rora's POVThe quiet after the storm is not an empty one. It is a space slowly being filled with new routines. The house begins to feel less like a museum of my grief and more like a home. Our home.Ethan still leaves for work, but now he often asks, "Will you be at the Foundation office today, or working from here?" before he goes. It's a small question, but it acknowledges a shared life. Our dinners are no longer strategic briefings. Sometimes we talk about my plans for the orphanage outreach program vetting partners, establishing safeguards no one had thought of for children like Malice. Sometimes he tells me about a difficult merger, his frustration quiet and focused. We are learning the landscape of each other's minds.Now he remembers I prefer my tea with a specific drop of honey from a local farm, and has Mrs. Davies stock it.I notice the tension in his shoulders after a long day, and, one evening, without overthinking, I walk behind his chair in the study and press my
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Chapter: Chapter 15Rora's POVThe police sirens wail in the distance, climbing the city’s throat toward the penthouse. The sound pulls Liam back from the edge. He stares at the glass in his hand, then at Malice cowering against the window, and a violent shudder wracks his whole body. He drops the shard as if it’s burned him and stumbles backward, shaking his head, a low moan escaping him.He can’t do it. Even with his freedom offered on a plate of violence, he’s still too weak.Malice sees it the failure of his nerve and a sliver of her poisonous confidence returns. She straightens, smoothing her hair, though her eyes still dart to the door.Ethan lets out a soft, disappointed breath. He releases my hand. “Mark,” he says into his phone, “send them up.”The next minutes are a blur of blue uniforms, sharp questions, and the cold click of handcuffs. Liam is taken away, sobbing incoherently about coercion and abuse. Malice goes silently, her head held high, but the pallor of her skin and the tightness aro
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Chapter: Chapter 14Rora's POVPhase Two begins not with a bang, but with a whisper a digital whisper that screams through the financial world.By 6 AM, two major business publications break simultaneous stories. One details a complex web of forged import licenses tied to Walker Consolidated's new European "investment." The other exposes a series of suspicious, multi-million dollar transfers from Malice's known shell companies to the private accounts of foreign officials.By 9 AM, the stock surge from the previous day is not just erased; it's in a death spiral, plummeting past its original low. Trading is halted.By noon, Liam's publicist releases a vague statement about "unfounded allegations" and "full cooperation with authorities," but the panic is already a living thing, buzzing on news tickers and social media feeds.Ethan watches it all from his command center a room in the house I've never seen, walls lined with monitors streaming news, financial data, and secure communications. He hasn't slept.
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Chapter: Chapter 13Rora's POVThe fallout from Malice’s little performance begins immediately. By morning, the business news sites are buzzing with a sudden, shocking announcement: Walker Consolidated, Liam’s family company, has secured a massive, last-minute investment from an anonymous European consortium. Their stock, which had been plummeting, surges by 18% in pre-market trading.“Anonymous consortium,” Ethan scoffs, throwing the financial tablet onto the sofa in his study. He hasn’t slept. Dark shadows underline his eyes, but they burn with a cold, relentless light. “It’s Malice. She’s been moving money through shell companies for years. She’s using her stolen cache to prop him up.”“She’s saving him?” I ask, confused. The dynamic from the security footage partnership, not menace clashes with everything I know.“She’s owning him,” Ethan corrects, pouring himself a black coffee. “This isn't a rescue. It’s a collar. She’s just demonstrated she can sink him or save him with a phone call. Now he’s u
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Chapter: Chapter 12Rora's POVThree days. That’s how long we have before the plan unravels.The flash drive sits between Ethan and me on his study desk like a sleeping serpent. We’ve copied everything, every transaction, every journal entry, every damning photo. Liam believes he’s handed us the keys to Malice’s cage, and in return, we’ve agreed to his terms: a quiet, legal takedown, a public trial, and no financial retaliation against him.He thinks he’s won.So do we.Or rather, we did.Ethan leans back in his chair, his fingers steepled. “We need to move faster than Liam expects. We’ll hand everything to my contacts in the financial crimes unit and the DA’s office. With Ryan’s testimony, an arrest within the week is possible. Once she’s in custody, Liam’s leverage disappears, and we can pivot.”I nod, staring at a photo on the screen Malice, smiling brightly at a charity gala, the same night one of her “fake charity” transfers was made. The duality is chilling. “We need to make sure Ryan doesn’t v
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Chapter: Chapter 11Rora's POVThree days pass without a word from Liam. The silence feels heavier than a refusal. Ethan watches me during our quiet dinners, his gaze analytical."He's thinking," he says finally, on the third night. "A man like Liam doesn't know how to be a pawn. He's trying to find a way to be the player again."I push my food around my plate. "You think he'll double-cross us?""I think he'll try to triple-cross everyone," Ethan says, a cold amusement in his eyes. "Himself included."The text comes at 2:17 AM. My phone buzzes on the nightstand, the screen glowing in the dark room.Unknown Number: Yes. Tomorrow. 8 PM. Warehouse district. Address to follow. Come alone, Rora.I sit up, my heart pounding. I forward it to Ethan immediately. His response comes within seconds.Ethan: He's already plotting. The warehouse district is his territory - his father owns several properties there. He wants you on his ground.Me: What do we do?Ethan: We play. But we change the rules. Reply: "I'll be
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