The Night My Best-Friend Ruined Me
Aria Vale was raised to be invisible in a powerful family that never wanted her. At her elite university, she survives on scholarship and intelligence, quietly nursing a lifelong crush on Adrian Blackwood—her childhood best friend and the campus golden boy she has loved from afar for years. On graduation night, Aria finally gives herself to him, believing her feelings are returned and that’s love. That single night ruins her life.
Aria walks in on her stepsister in bed with the man she trusted most. Adrian turns his back on her, she is left pregnant, and her family casts her out in shame. With nowhere to go, Aria disappears and survives with the help of Julian Cross, a kind doctor who protects her and helps her rebuild her life.
Five years later, a global medical crisis erupts, and the only person who can stop it is Dr. Aria Vale, now a respected scientist. Adrian, now a powerful CEO, must work with the woman he once destroyed, unaware that the child she is raising is his. Julian stands firmly at Aria’s side—not just as her protector, but as the man who helped raise her son and heal her wounds. As the crisis stabilizes, the real battle begins, not for power or control, but for Aria’s heart. Caught between the man who abandoned her and the man who stayed, Aria must choose between a love that shattered her and a life that finally kept her safe.
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Chapter: Chapter 5ARIA’S POVFIVE YEARS LATERIt’s funny how time can feel like a slow crawl when you’re starving with a crying newborn, and then suddenly feel like a blur once you finally have your feet under you.I wasn't the scared girl with a backpack and a few hundred dollars anymore. I was Dr. Aria Vale, lead researcher at Thorne-Bio.I had spent every waking hour of the last half-decade making sure I was indispensable."Dr. Vale? The board is ready for you," my assistant, Sarah, said, poking her head into my office.I stood up, smoothing out my tailored charcoal blazer. I caught my reflection in the glass window.I looked expensive. I looked powerful. I looked like someone who could never be locked in a room again."Tell them I’ll be there in two minutes," I said, my voice steady. "And did the daycare call back about Leo’s field trip?""All set. He’s excited about the aquarium," she smiled.Leo. My five-year-old son with dark, curly hair and eyes that looked exactly like a man I had spent five y
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Chapter: Chapter 4ARIA'S POVThe walk back to the Vale mansion felt like a death march. My life as a nineteen-year-old student was officially over.I stood at our front door, my hand shaking too hard to fit the key into the lock. I knew Dr. Sterling had already called my stepmother, and of course my father would hear it from her as well.I pushed the door open and was immediately hit by the suffocating silence of the grand foyer. It didn’t last long."In the study. Now."My father’s voice was like a whip crack. He didn't even look at me as he walked past the staircase.I followed him silently, my stomach churning. Veronica and Lydia were already there, sitting on the velvet armchairs like they were waiting for a show.How did Lydia even get here so fast….?"Sit," my father commanded.I sat on the edge of a hard wooden chair, my bag clutched to my chest."I just got off the phone with Dr. Sterling," he began lowly. "She told me a very interesting story about her most recent patient. A patient who happen
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Chapter: Chapter 3ARIA'S POVSix weeks. Forty-two days of staring at a phone that refused to buzz, of waking up in a room that felt more like a prison cell than a home, and of mourning a best friend who had essentially ghosted my entire existence.According to the rumors Lydia made sure I overheard, Adrian had been on some high-society tour of Europe, a month-long trip meant to prepare him for his "real" life—a life that apparently didn't include me.I’d actually gone to his house a few days after that morning at the hotel. I was desperate, my pride in tatters, just needing to hear from a maid or a guard that he was okay.But I was just met with a cold wall.They told me he traveled and wouldn't be back for a while, and the way they looked at me made it clear I wasn't welcome on the Blackwood property anymore.But this morning, the world shifted again. I’d created a burner Instagram account…..call me desperate, but I needed the false sense of closeness.And there he was. A tagged photo at his private p
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Chapter: Chapter 2ARIA'S POVI reached out blindly, my fingers searching for the warmth of his skin, but all I found was cold, expensive linen.My eyes snapped open, and for a second, I just stared at the ceiling of the hotel room, waiting for the reality of last night to settle back into my bones.It felt like a dream, the kind you try to hold onto while you’re waking up, but the soreness between my thighs told me it was real.We actually did it. Adrian Blackwood, the guy I’ve basically worshipped since we were kids, finally made me his."Adrian?" I called out, my voice sounding small and raspy in the quiet room.No answer.I sat up, clutching the duvet to my chest, looking around the suite.His clothes were gone. His watch, his phone, even the half-empty water bottle that had been on the nightstand—all gone.It was like he’d never even been here.I tried to tell myself he just went down to get us breakfast or maybe he had an early meeting with his dad. Being the heir to the Blackwood empire didn't co
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Chapter: Chapter 1:The Forbidden PeakARIA'S POVThe door closed behind us, and i knew there was no going back.I stood with my back against the door, still trapped in my black graduation gown, my heart hammering against my ribs.I want all of you tonight," he said.Adrian didn’t waste a second. He was already out of his jacket, his tie hanging loose, sleeves rolled up to reveal the powerful forearms I’d spent three years staring at in secret.He crossed the space between us in three quick steps."You sure?" he asked, his voice a low, gravelly vibration that made my thighs ache and my pussy clench with need.I didn't speak; I just nodded. My hands were trembling so badly I couldn't even find the zipper of my dress. He didn't let me struggle for long though l. He caught my wrists, his touch felt like it was burning me, and gently moved my hands away."Let me," he whispered.The sound of the zipper sliding down was deafening in the silence of the room. The heavy fabric pooled at my feet, leaving me in nothing but the pla
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