Chapter: Chapter Thirty-Nine: ChaseElena"He's speeding up," Damian said.I turned. Headlights closing in, too fast for a street like this."Faster," Sophia said."Working on it."We hit the main road at sixty. The SUV stayed on us, close enough now I could make out a shape behind the wheel. No face."Who is it.""Doesn't matter right now."It pulled into the other lane. Came level with us."Damian.""I see it."It swerved. Damian cut the wheel and we clipped the curb, tires screaming, the whole frame shaking under us."Hold on."The light ahead turned red. He didn't slow down. We shot through, a truck laying on its horn as it swerved around us, and the SUV had to brake hard or take the hit itself.That bought us maybe ten seconds."Left," Sophia said, pointing.He cut the wheel. The back end fishtailed, caught, straightened. Narrower street now. Houses dark on both sides."Still behind us," I said, checking the mirror."I know."Another turn. Then another. Streets I didn't know the names of. The SUV falling back but n
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty-Eight: AloneElenaI read the message again.Come home tonight. Alone. Or I burn everything you have left before morning."No," Damian said, before I even looked up. "Not happening.""I have to go.""You don't. Show this to the police.""And say what. My husband sent a text. That's nothing to them and you know it.""Elena.""If I don't go, he does something anyway. At least this way I know where he is."Sophia grabbed my arm. "That's the whole point. He wants you somewhere nobody else can see.""I know.""Then don't.""He said alone or he burns everything. Everything, Sophia. The board's still deciding. If he wipes what's left before they finish, tonight was for nothing."Damian paced the little waiting room, phone still in his hand."Fine," he said finally. "You go. We're close behind. I'll sit in the lot across the street. Sophia keeps the line open the whole time so we hear it.""He'll search me for a phone.""Not this." Damian pulled a small earpiece out of his jacket. "Was for something else
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty-Seven:
His AnswerElenaI read the message three times before I set the phone down.You have no idea what you just did."What does that mean?" Sophia said, reading it over my shoulder."Don't know."Damian took the phone from me, read it, set it back down without a word.Another notification appeared. An email this time.A press release. Not from us. Blackwood Group communications, sent six minutes ago.I opened it.My name is in the third line. Fabricated documents. A pattern connected to my medical condition. An affair. The word desperate, twice, in four paragraphs."He got ahead of it," I said. "Knew we were sending something before we sent it.""How," Sophia said."Doesn't matter how. He had this ready before we even finished building our case."Damian pulled up a news site on his laptop. Then another.Wife of Blackwood CEO Accused of Fabricating Evidence Amid Personal Crisis.I read the headline twice."This isn't him reacting," I said. "This is him already prepared for whatever we sent, whenever
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty-Six: What We HaveElenaRuth's porch light was still on when Damian's phone buzzed on the dashboard."The neighbor found her twenty minutes ago," he said. "Sitting on the steps. Nobody hurt her."I didn't say anything. Just closed my eyes and let the car hum under me for a second."He kept his word," Sophia said from the back seat."Cost him nothing to." I looked out the window instead of at her. "Don't call that decency."She went quiet. Kept turning her phone over in her lap, over and over, like the motion could fix something."What did he mean," I said finally. "The notebook. What else you've been keeping from me.""I can't answer that right now.""That's not an answer.""I know it isn't." She looked out her own window. "I'll tell you. Not tonight. Not with all of this sitting on top of us."I let it go. Didn't have the room to push, not with Marcus still moving pieces somewhere out there in the dark.Damian drove us to his place. Small kitchen, mismatched chairs, nothing like the house I'd spent fi
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty-Five:
No Way OutElenaMarcus stood in the doorway. Hands in his pockets. Not moving."You should have listened to him," he said. "He told you to stop."Sophia's hand tightened on my arm."How did you find us," I said."Ruth's address has been in a file for thirty years, Elena. Did you think you were the only one who could read old paperwork?"I stood up slowly. My ankles hurt so badly."Where is she?," I said. "Where's Ruth?""Safe. For now." He stepped inside. Closed the door behind him. "That depends entirely on you.""Depends on what?.""The bag." He nodded at it, still on my shoulder. "Give it to me and this ends tonight. Nobody else gets hurt. Ruth goes home. You go home. We forget this ever happened.""You're lying.""Probably." He almost smiled. "But you don't have a lot of options right now, do you."Sophia stood up beside me. "You knew about the archive. You knew we'd be there tonight.""Of course I knew you were up to something." His mouth curved into the faintest hint of a smile. "Do you r
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty-Four:
Ruth HouseElena"Elena." Damian was still on the line. His voice was sharper now.Couldn't. Not yet. Sophia's eyes on mine. Mine on hers. The same thought running through both our heads, unspoken.Me. Sophia. Damian. Ruth."Someone talked," I said."I know." A beat. "Leave the road. If they know your plans, they might know your route."Sophia's eyes kept looking through the mirror. Every set of headlights behind us made her flinch a little."Where?”"Somewhere with people. A dinner. Gas station. Anywhere." His voice had lost all the warmth from an hour ago. Just orders now. "Get rid of that car soon. If they tagged it once, they'll find it twice."We pulled into a pharmacy lot two exits down. The lights flickered above the empty parking spaces. A camera sat over the entrance, its red indicator blinking. Not safe. Just safer than where we were.I called Ruth the second I hung up. My hands were not cooperating.Voicemail.Called again.Same."Maybe she's asleep," Sophia said. Her own voice was no
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Too Late Mr Blackwood
Too late, Mr. Blackwood. You should have believed her when she told you.
On their third anniversary, Ava Wilson waited with candles, a home cooked dinner, and a secret she was ready to share. Her husband came home with divorce papers and called her a thief in front of the whole world. She left that same night, carrying a positive pregnancy test he never knew existed.
Five years later, Ava has rebuilt everything from nothing, a new name, a successful business, and two children who have never heard the Blackwood name. Then she is hired to organize a high profile event and walks straight into her ex-husband's engagement party.
When their son crashes into Damien Blackwood mid-event, the resemblance is impossible to miss. The secret Ava buried for five years is about to explode across every headline in the city. And the enemies who destroyed her marriage the first time are still watching, still hiding, and closer than either of them ever imagined.
Damien wants her back. Someone else wants her gone. And the truth about who really stole eight million dollars is about to change everything.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 9: SO THIS IS WHAT YOU GUYS ARE UP TONathaniel: POV I was scared to enter Damien's office. I didn't know why he had asked me to come. Had my assistant told him what she saw?I opened the door and walked in. My assistant was already sitting there, and my heart started beating fast. I moved slowly toward them, each step feeling heavier than the last.When I reached Damien's desk, my eyes went straight to her face, hoping she would give me some kind of sign. She wouldn't look at me. She kept her eyes down, and that made my fear even worse.What was she doing here? God, this idiot must have told Damien what she saw. Why couldn't this girl keep her mouth shut? How was I going to defend myself? Damien was going to find out I'd been sleeping with his woman."Nathaniel, sit down." Damien's voice was firm, leaving no room for delay. "There is a problem at hand, and we need to solve it now."I slowly pulled out the chair and sat down. My eyes went back to my assistant, but she still wouldn't look at me. I was beginning to think t
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Chapter: CHAPTER 8: A SECRET CAUGHTNathaniel: POV. I just couldn't stop staring at the blank screen with the cursor blinking. Today marks it three days with no word from Ava.. The knock came before I could sink any deeper into the frustration. Vanessa stepped inside and closed the door behind her. She looked at my face and walked across the room. "Still chasing ghosts?" she said, sitting on the edge of my desk. I didn't deny it. Vanessa reached out and ran her thumb over the line between my brows. Her touch was warm. Familiar. "Let me bring you back." She leaned in. The first kiss was soft. The second wasn’t. I grabbed her hair and kissed her hard. She made a low, hungry sound and climbed onto my lap, her knees pressed against my hips. The chair creaked under us. I kissed her harder, my tongue pushing deeper, trying to fuck the thoughts out of my head. Her mouth was open and eager, tasting of mint. She rolled her hips against the hard length of my cock. For a few seconds, the noise about Ava went quiet. Th
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Chapter: CHAPTER 7: LOOKING FOR A GHOSTNathanial : Pov. It was almost midnight, and I was still in my office.The entire floor had gone quiet. Everyone had gone home hours ago, but I was still sitting there, staring at my phone like it owed me something.I never wanted things to end up this way, Ava. But you left me no choice. How could you choose Damien over me? I loved you first. I was there before he ever knew you existed. I was the one who knew you, protected you, stood beside you. But you still chose him. You went ahead and married a man who never deserved you.And because of that, I made a choice I can never take back.Her number was still saved in my contacts. I had never deleted it. No matter how many times I told myself to, I couldn't bring myself to erase her name.My thumb hovered over the call button.I pressed it anyway.Nothing. Not even a ring. Just silence, then the automated voice cutting straight in.The number you have dialed is not reachable.I lowered the phone slowly.I wanted to hear her voice. I wa
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Chapter: CHAPTER 6: THE WOMAN BEHIND THE NAME Victoria : Pov.I knew this day would come.Everything I had been avoiding for years was finally happening. For three weeks, the news had been filled with the same story. Eight million dollars had disappeared from the Blackwood company, and somehow my son was now at the center of the scandal. I sat alone in the living room, watching his press conference replay on the television for the third time that morning.I watched my son standing in front of the cameras, trying to answer questions he could barely control. He looked tired, angry, and lost. My heart hurt seeing him like that, but I couldn't ignore the anger growing inside me. I had warned him about Ava. I told him not to marry her, but he thought he knew better. Now he was standing there, facing the consequences of a decision I had begged him not to make.I reached for the remote and turned off the television. A heavy silence filled the room. I stared at the blank screen and shook my head."A stubborn fly follows the corpse to th
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Chapter: CHAPTER 5: THE BEGINNING OF THE ENDDamian : POV "Look at what you've brought upon yourself." My mother's voice hit me before I could even sit up properly."Mum, it's too early for this." I rubbed my face and looked at her standing in the middle of my living room like she owned it."Will you shut up?" She stepped closer. "I warned you, Damien. I told you that girl was nothing but a gold digger, but you didn't listen. You were stupidly in love. Have you seen where your love has landed you? Have you?""How was I supposed to know she was a thief?" I pushed myself off the couch."How were you not supposed to know?" She threw the question back at me like it was obvious. "Your father would be so disappointed if he were here to see this. Look at your company. Look at your name. Look at the mess you've created."She stood up straighter."Can you stop?" I held up a hand. "I have enough to deal with already."She threw her phone onto the table. "Your stock is dropping, the news is everywhere, the board is demanding answers, and
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Chapter: CHAPTER 4: THE TWO OF THEMAva : POV.I sat at the edge of the couch, staring at the seventh rejection email glowing on my laptop. Another job had turned me down. The money I had with me was running out, my stomach was beginning to show, and I still hadn't started antenatal care. I couldn't continue using the Wilson name. I needed to change my name, but I wondered how long that would last.I opened another job application and stared at the name section. My fingers hovered over the keyboard. I couldn't keep using Wilson. If someone from Damien's world was looking for me, that name would lead them straight to me. I took a deep breath and typed the only name I could think of.Ava Reyes.I stared at it for a moment. It didn't feel like my name, but maybe that was the point. I needed to disappear, at least until I figured out what to do next.I closed the application and looked at the small amount of money I had left in my wallet. It wasn't enough to last another week. I placed my hand on my stomach and took a slow
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