Chapter: An Art friend Chapter 5 Leilani’s pov I watched as his jaw tightened. I know that by now he must have seen my present, I’d moved him down to the 7th floor. “It looks like it,” he forced out a smile, his eyes traveled to Nicholas and he held back a snarl that was pulling by the corner of his lips. “Sorry about your office,” I let go Nicholas and pulled a very convincing apologetic gaze. “I know it’s hard, when I purchased the shares it was already on the market. I don’t mean any harm or malice towards you. I hope we will be able to work and commute together.” My voice was soft like velvet, and I made sure to maintain an eye level stare as well as ease. It was easier than I’d anticipated. The confidence came off easy the moment I allowed myself to slip into Daphne. The cool and soft side of me. “Just a moment,” Nicholas kissed me by the cheeks as he strutted away. When I turned back to Cormac he was glaring at him. “Mr. Bass.” I called his attention and he reverted his eyes back to me. Unexp
Last Updated: 2025-05-21
Chapter: She made him look like failure.Chapter 4: She made him look like failure.Cormac’s povI watched her stop, but not completely. She was hesitant by a step before she continued down the hallway, her acquaintance with him.“Sir,” my assistant, Luke, rushed to my side. “You have another appointment.”It was hard to tear my eyes from Leil…no, Daphne. I didn’t spend my life with her to mistake her for someone else because of three years apart. It was her.I was so sure of that, but as I stared down at her as she made her way to her car, a black Lamborghini truck, I could almost swear that it was a different person. Her grace, elegance and even aura was so different. Loss of memory wouldn’t alter that, would it?Daphne was more poise, graceful, like she was raised from birth to be an administrator, like she was brought up with money. Which was a stark contrast to the Leilani that I knew. Leilani was impulsive, little aura, but I loved her anyways, she was reckless and a people’s pleaser , a hard mix. It was why we’d plan
Last Updated: 2025-05-18
Chapter: He never made it to the wedding Chapter 3: 3 years laterLeilani’s POV “You got this, Leilani.” I shook my head, trying to veer off the anxiety that came with being back.It’s been three years since I stepped foot into New York City. The city where my heart and life was shattered beyond repair. However, now that I have returned I would take my rightful place and claim that which was mine. In tears and blood I would.My ride for the night sparkled before me and my brother who saved my ass three years ago stepped out from the black Porsche car and waved at me. “Welcome back, sister.” Coleus grinned at me.He opened the car door for me like a gentleman. “How does it feel to be back in the fucking best city in the world!” He hyped.Rolling my eyes I guided my three year old daughter into the car. “It is not the best city.” I corrected him. New York was beautiful, no doubt, filled with high life and parties but it wasn’t the best.“Yeah well, it’s in the list of the best cities.” He answered as he slipped into the dri
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Chapter: Pregnant for the man that left me on the altar Chapter 2:Leilani’s POV The first thing I heard was the beeping of a sound. It continued repeatedly in a horizontal pattern that I was forced to peel my eyes open to snap the machine shut.Blinking, I was initially blinded by the brightness of the light. Was I in heaven? I thought. Was this what heaven looked like? That means the scriptures were correct. The beeping sound continued causing me to snap my neck to my side, I regretted the action almost immediately as pain shot throughout my body.As my eyes slowly adjusted to the room, the first thing I spotted was the white roof, the drips connected in my veins, the oxygen mask and a monitor beside me beeping.Where was I? I strained my eyes. Here definitely didn't look like the heaven I had heard of.The sound of the door creaking open made me widen my eyes as my neck could not move.A man I suspected to be the doctor walked in, “hello there,” he smiled, coming up to where I lay immobile on the small bed. I wanted to move but it wa
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Chapter: Cheated on on the altarChapter 1: cheated on on the AltarLeilani’s POV I grinned as the door came open and I walked down the aisle with my eyes pinned to the ground. My joy knew no bounds. “I was getting married to the man of my———-I lifted my head and just in that instant my breath got knocked out of me. Stopping, my gaze filtered the room, my veil draped over my face as I saw my husband-to-be standing on the altar with a bride that wasn't me.What’s happening? I thought as I craned my neck to take a look around.My knees buckled. My eyes dashed around the ... .small crowd of people present, gawking at me and whispering in indistinct mumble. They were no friends from work, my teammates were nowhere to be found.Everything was out of place. It wasn’t at all what we had planned. The hall was spinning and I held the arm of a chair for support. I watched as Cormac smiled and lifted the veil over her head and this time I felt the oxygen sucked out of me. Air hitched in my throat and my chest tightened as
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Marrying Mr. Greyson
“You are under arrest, Sienna Hopper for the murder of Jace Wright!”
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“You said you were angry and went to his house with a bat, did you not? You trashed his apartment. Everything but him? And from the picture we received, his nose was broken. Now you said you didn’t touch him but you broke his nose. Do you mind explaining that to us?” My interrogator quirked a brow at me, the all-knowing look on his face and it said one word, culprit.
Fuck that looked bad. It was bad. “I want a lawyer,” I instantly said.
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Sienna is a rash and impulsive girl but beneath the tough girl act is a heartbroken and abused girl. When her mother gets ill with cancer, with a bill worth a lifetime. With the heat of everything, her ass-cheating ex calls her once again and there, and then she snaps, storms over to his house, destroys everything, and lands a punch squarely on his face. When she retires home, an old wound opens and she ends up at the bar, just to drink away her sorrow but then she ends up in bed with the city’s most powerful, cold-hearted lawyer, Greyson. Just a one-night stand, she tells herself. Nothing more.
Until the next morning, when she’s arrested for her ex’s murder. And the only person willing to take her case? The same man she just slept with.
She can’t afford his fees, but he has a proposition: marry him, have his child, and he’ll defend her in court. Two things Sienna has vowed in life never to be, a wife and a mother.
But desperate time calls for desperate measures, isn’t that right, it’s just a marriage, and a child.
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Chapter: I'm bleeding Chapter 10Greyson’s povThe moment Martha informed me that she went out to shop for new clothes I took my car out and immediately tried to locate her.I used the tracker in her phone to find her because I knew how people from that part of the city behaved. Just as I’d arrived, I saw her walking into the boutique but then they’d stop her. Why? Because she didn’t look like she belonged there.“Greyson,” she called, her eyes sparkled like hidden evidence to discard all charges.“Sir.” The staff and officers bowed. “We didn’t know she was with you.”I ignored their apology and held my hand out to Sienna who took it with a smile. “Show us in,” I instructed the staff.“Yes sir.”Sienna tapped my shoulder and I stared at her. “Thank you,” she mouthed.Nodding, we followed the staff in silence. When they stopped before the clothing section I said to Sienna, “Take anything you want.”Sienna grinned and disappeared into the rows of clothes while I sat on a white couch waiting for her. A few mi
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Chapter: Shhh, don't you have dignity?Chapter 9Sienna's povHow dare he? Who the hell did he think he was to spew rubbish about me? Oh, wait because I told him my life story, he believed he knew me. Just how—I shut my eyes when a hot tear slid down my cheeks. I wiped it away with the thumb of my hand while plastering a smile. “I’m not nonchalant about my feelings Greyson, and I am neither hiding. Now I would like you to respect our boundaries. This is purely communal. Nothing serious. Thank you.”With that I ran up the stairs to my room then I shut it behind me with a bang. Fucking attorney. Always sniffing around with their damn inspections.I wasn’t nonchalant about my feelings. I just chose not to feel it to not get hurt. Treat it as nothing and you’ll not faze when the pain comes.I stepped into the bathroom and had a relaxing bath. This was the highlight of the day. I closed my eyes and imagined what Jace would say if he saw me here.‘Oh baby, you’re just as fancy as whatever this is.’ The guy was short on vocabul
Last Updated: 2025-07-30
Chapter: If you are hurting say itChapter 8Sienna’s povWe were driving down to the hospital immediately after hearing the news of the body being found. I closed my eyes imagining what he looked like. When one was dead their lips were usually pale. How pale would he be? And how cold. Suddenly I was assaulted with a memory of when we first met, in the bar. Rugged hair, dyed by the tip, a piercing by his brow, and one on his lips.‘Hey beautiful,’ he’d called and I’d ignored him, serving drinks. Jace had chuckled and stood up from his chair and his friends. He followed me around while I served drinks, calling my name. Then he’d asked what he could do to get my time. With my apron and bum-short I’d lifted a brow at him sarcastically then suddenly he took the tray of drinks from me.I couldn’t fight him for it because it would have led to more disaster so he went on and said. “I tell you what, I'll help you serve the drink, and when your shift is over we can talk.” When I attempted to take the tray from him he moved out
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Chapter: They found the bodyChapter 7.Sienna’s povAfter the warning note, Greyson had gone full investigator mode. He and his team had been digging for evidence that proved I wasn’t guilty. That came out harder than I thought and today was the first day of trial.“What are we going to do?” asked Courtney, one of his firm’s associates. “Without the body found. We can't make a strong case.”Greyson wore a grey suite that clung to his frame perfectly. Molding and accentuating his broad shoulder, and body. His eyes, those sharp, controlled greys eyes remained focused. Determined.“We’ll do what they are doing. Place facts as we know them. We have no body. They have no body. It so depends on who tells the story better. That’s the secret of most trials.”I looked away from Courtney, remembering Jace. Blonde hair, blue eyes with piercings and tattoos. I hated him and I knew I said I was grateful he was dead, but I truly wish he wasn’t dead.Our relationship wasn’t the best. It was toxic, smoking, lots of drinking, an
Last Updated: 2025-07-18
Chapter: The Envelope Chapter 6:Sienna’s pov“Goodbye, I love each and every one of you. Even you, Amy,” I said hugging Beth. Amy, of course, wouldn’t give me a hug, we weren’t that close and both of us were always at loggerheads with each other.I hadn’t told them I would be standing trial. And just like I’d known, none of them knew where I was. I couldn’t blame them though. It was a normal thing for someone who did what I did. Strip dancing. What I told Beth was that I was moving in with a good friend of mine. It just felt weird explaining all the details of my relationship with Greyson, and more than that there was no way in hell I would introduce him as my husband-to-be just yet or anything in between. If it were possible I would love to leave this part of my life a secret till it was over. I didn’t want to get their hopes high for nothingWith my duffel bag of clothes, I slipped into the car waving one last goodbye to my siblings.“Ready?” he asked from the driver’s seat.I turned to him with a forc
Last Updated: 2025-07-17
Chapter: The CourtroomChapter 5: Greyson’s povI handed her the paper for her to sign. She stared at it, still contemplating, her eyes flickering from one line to the other as she bit her lips.“If you do not——““I’ll sign it. Pen,” she said, beckoning to me and when I arched a brow at her, she went for my bag. But I held up my hand and offered her the pen.“I’ll do it, this place is shit hell.” The pen scribbled across the paper, two places where her signature was needed. She lifted her head, “any other thing?”“Yes.” I retrieved the paper from my bag. “It gives me the right to be your attorney.”She tentatively peeked at the marriage contract form then the legal paper, then with a sigh she muttered, “well, you gotta get what you get, hmm?” Then signed as well.“So what now?”“I’ll motion for an emergency bail hearing.”“I don’t know what that is,” she mumbled.“You’ll know in due time. Give me a moment.” I said, already dialing my secretary’s number as I stepped. If we were to get in touch with a judge
Last Updated: 2025-07-17
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