Chapter: 45Celeste I don't remember walking back to the hotel or packing my bag. I don't even remember calling the Uber it was like my body was just moving, but my mind was somewhere else. One part of me was screaming and run back to Jared to tell him I didn't want to love him. That I had tried so hard not to. That loving him was destroying me. That I wished I could cut it out of my chest like a tumor.Another part of me was whispering to to find Lisa and fall at her feet and make her understand. To tell her I never wanted his money, I never wanted his name or his status or his world. I wanted him. Just him. The man who looked at me like I was the only woman in the world, the man who held me like I was something precious. The man who made me feel like I wasn't alone.But I couldn't do either I couldn't face Jared. What would I even say? I love you but you're marrying someone else in three days so goodbye? That was pathetic.That was begging. I had some pride left not much, but some.
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Chapter: 44Celeste I ran after her the sand was soft and made my feet sink It was hard to move fast. Lisa was ahead of me, her figure getting smaller.She was heading toward the back of the beach house where there were less people."Lisa Please!" I screamed again my voice was raw.She didn't stop but she didn't run toward the water instead she veered left toward the rocky area behind the house. I followed my lungs were burning and my heart was breaking into a million pieces with every step.When I got there behind the big rocks, hidden from the beach lisa had stopped. She was standing with her back to me her shoulders shaking. "Lisa," I said my voice breathless and broken. I stopped a few feet away from her. I didn't dare get closer I know I’ve lost that right. "Please Lis, let me explain."She spun around her face was red and wet with tears."Explain?" she screamed the word echoed off the rocks. "Explain what Celeste? Explain how you've been sneaking around behind my back with my father? Ex
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Chapter: 43CelesteThe last week had been the longest of my life. Seven days of avoiding Jared, of keeping my head down my eyes away from his and keeping my distance.Thanks to Genevieve it had been easier than it should have been, she never left his side not for a second. She was always there, clinging to his arm, touching his chest, whispering in his ear. It was like she knew. Like she could smell my fear and my want and she was determined to stamp it out by keeping him locked away from me.And it worked. I barely saw him and when I did, he was surrounded by her… by wedding planners and by people who belonged in his world. I was just a ghost floating through the edges.I missed him. God I missed him so much it hurt. The way he looked at me, how his voice dropped when he talked to me alone. The way his hand felt on my skin It was all I thought about even though I knew it was bad. Even though I knew it was wrong.It was three days until the wedding… three fucking days until he said vows
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Chapter: 42Lisa I had just showered and I wrapped a towel around me tight. My hair was wet dripping a little on the floor I needed to get the blow dried from the top of the drawer.“Come on… come on” I stretched a little higher and then my towel mistakenly slipped Just like that It fell down to my feet leaving me naked. My skin prickled in the cool air. I gasped, bending to grab it quick but the door burst open and Ethan walked in “Celeste? You—“He stopped dead as his eyes widened big, staring at me. I froze with my towel half up covering my chest but not much else."Ethan! Get out!" I yelled my voice shaky.His eyelids got dark like shadows fell over them. He didn't try moving back Instead his feet carried him forward closing the door behind him with a click."What the hell Ethan?" I said trying to pull the towel up higher with my heart pounded but his intense stare for a minute had my core soaking.Fuck!He stepped closer. "Lisa... fuck.""Don't look," I whispered but I couldn't cover e
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Chapter: 41Celeste I stired up from sleep, I was still tired from the flight yesterday, from the tension on the jet, from everything. I just wanted to stay in my hotel room if possible throughout the wedding but my eyes move to Lisa that was standing at the foot of my bed already dressed her hands on her hips."Get up, sleepyhead. We have dress fittings in an hour."I groaned pulling the blanket over my head. "Lisa please I don't need to be there. It's your stepmom's dress fitting, not mine. I'll just be in the way, I don’t want that, I’ll just stay at home instead”"But we need to pick out dresses we’ll put too," Lisa said yanking the blanket down. "So you need to be fitted too. Plus Genevieve would need moral support. You think I can handle a day of dress shopping with alone? I'll lose my mind."She made a good point. Facing Genevieve alone was a nightmare and facing her with Lisa was slightly less terrible."Fine," I sighed dragging myself out of bed. "But I'm not wearing anything pink."
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Chapter: 40CelesteI got up needing to take the bathroom no one paid much attention but Jared of course caue I could feel his stare on my back as I walked out. I slipped down the aisle to the back of the plane. The bathroom door clicked shut behind me. I leaned on the sink and looked at my face.Red eyes. Tired. What was I doing? Falling for him like this, he was going to marry her in two weeks and there was nothing I could do to stop it.. yet I still sneak around, letting him touch me, fuck me, like it meant something.Tears came fast as I covered my mouth, but sobs broke through. Hard ugly ones.I hated myself, hated how I wanted him and how I let him pull me into his office, his bed, his life. He was engaged. While I was the other woman, the home wrecker.“Why?” I whispered to my reflection. “Why can’t you stop?”The sobs got louder as I bit my lip but it didn’t help. My chest hurt. I was disgusting. A homewrecker. He’d never love me.I was just a fuckThe door rattled and I fro
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The Heiress’ Revenge
Ariana Melendez, a hidden heiress, thought she had the perfect life until her husband Angelo and best friend Bella betrayed her in the worst way. After losing everything, including her unborn child, she returns to her powerful family, burning with revenge. To punish her, her father arranges a marriage with Dante Russo, the ruthless son of a business rival.
Dante Russo, the cold, calculating heir of their greatest enemy and Angelo’s Uncle one that could destroy her ex-husband with a single word.
Now, Ariana is trapped in a dangerous game.
On one side her vow to ruin Angelo and Bella to make them suffer as she did.
On the other her forced marriage to Dante, a man as ruthless as he is intoxicating, whose loyalty is as uncertain as her own heart.
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Chapter: EPILOGUEA R I A N A One year later…The sun was warm on my face as the garden was full of noise, the good kind. The kind made by laughter and running feet and the happy shrieks of little kids.I watched my boys and girls roam about.Asher and Leo and the twins, were chasing a bright blue ball. The twins were celebrating their 5 birthday.A little further away Isabella was trying to teach Sofia how to play hopscotch on the patio stones she’d drawn with chalk. Sofia at five was taking it very seriously her tiny tongue poking out in concentration.My hand rested on the round hard swell of my stomach. The bump was getting big now another boy…. We’d found out last week. And I can’t believe it’s been a year, a whole year since the storm ended.My father that had escaped from prison, had been the key. He’d been caught trying to flee the country when he was cornered and after police took him to questioning, he started talking. He talked about a deal. With Angelina and how they’ve been involved
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Chapter: 120Ariana’s POVMy phone buzzed on the nightstand in Marcus’s guest room the screen lit up the dark making my brows furrow, wondering who it was.I moved to it my eyes falling on th caller Id, my heart did a crazy painful flip part of me wanted to throw the phone against the wall. Another part wanted to grab it and never let go.I picked it up. My finger hovered over the answer button as I took a deep shaky breath, I slid it to answer not say anything.“Ariana?” His voice came through. It wasn’t the cold flat voice from my office.It was his voice, my Dante’s voice cracked and rough and full of pain.“What do you want?” I asked my own voice sounded small and cold.“I… I need to talk to you please, Marcus told me… he told me you know.”“Know what?” I snapped the anger flooding back hot and fast. “Know that you lied to me for weeks? Know that you have a whole other family living in our house? Or know that you and your sick nephew and your ex-wife are playing some sick, twisted game and
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Chapter: 119Dante’s POVI’ve been seated at my desk trying to work for hours but nothing seems to be working.I’ve just been staring, at the wall, at nothing my mind was a white, empty noise. If I let myself think I would break. So I didn’t think. I just sat.The door to my office flew open crashing against the wall.I looked up my eyes meeting Marcus’s, he stood his eyes in irritation and disasapointment He just walked right up to my desk and slammed both hands down on it.“How dare you,” he growled. His voice was low and shaking. “How dare you do that to her.”I knew who he meant. Ariana. My heart which felt like a cold stone in my chest gave a painful throb but I shoved the feeling down.I leaned back in my chair trying not to make a blank face“I don’t know what you’re talking about Marcus and this is not a good time.”“Don’t you lie to me!” he shouted. “Don’t you sit there and act cool with me! I saw her, i just spent the whole night with her and she is wrecked! broken into a millio
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Chapter: 118A R I A N A"Sit. I'll get you some water. Or tea? Something stronger?""Water please " I whispered my throat was raw from crying.As promised marcus picked me up and brought me to his place. He came back with a glass and sat in the chair opposite me, leaning forward, his elbows on his knees. "Now start from the beginning. Tell me everything."I did, I told him about Melissa arriving. The argument in the garden, how Dante took her side. The crushing loneliness. Then, Angelo revealing the truth that Melissa was Dante's ex-wife, that Leo was his son. "I went to Angelo's I was desperate… I had no where to go after the incident in Dante’s office. I thought I could stay there for the night before o figure things out and he could maybe help." I took a gulp of water. "But he wasn't alone in his house, she was there, Melissa."Marcus's eyes widened. "At Angelo's?""Yes and I heard them talking. I heard everything." I repeated their conversation word for word as I remembered it the plan and
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Chapter: 117A R I A N AMy legs moved on their own one step back then another as I tried to log me breath so they don’t hear me.I had come to Angelo’s apartment to seek comfort just like I did the other time when we had a fight.After what happened in the office, I didn’t have anywhere to go soI came here. Seeing them both together made my heart crunch in pain, it made my blood went cold. It couldn’t be.Angelo’s voice was smooth and approving.This was all part of their plan… how stupid could I be?“I told you I could handle him. Dante and I… we have a history.”Melissa’s voice.I had listened to every single word. The plan. The lies. The manipulation. The divorce papersa “masterstroke.” The children—a cruelty she decided on because she didn’t care. She wanted Dante miserable. I stumbled back and back into my hip hit a small side table a vase wobbled but I was quick to grab it, my fingers fumbling, and it settled with a soft clink.Had they heard?Panic, pure and electric, shot through
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Chapter: 116M E L I S S AI smiled as the door clicked open, I didn’t bother to turn I knew who it was, Angelo came up behind meHe looked… pleased. He set his hands on my shoulders.“You did a great job,” he said his voice a low hum in the quiet room. “Truly. I have to admit, I didn’t think you could make it all seem so… possible in a very short time.”I allowed myself a small tight smile in the reflection. “I told you I could handle him. Dante and I… we have a history and you know that… I know him better than anyone. I know what makes him feel guilty. What makes him panic. What makes him shut down.” I turned around to face him leaning back against the cool window. “I know every single one of his buttons All I had to do was push them in the right order.”Angelo’s eyes were bright admiring as he reached out and took the wine glass from my hand, taking a sip himself. “The divorce papers were a masterstroke. Handing them to her like that so cold and clinical. I almost believed it myself watching.”
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Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENTY TWOAlyssa I haven’t stepped out of the house since the incident at the company the bumiliation from the board meeting was a constant, screaming noise in my mind. I couldn't sit still.I couldn't think. I just paced.I ended up in the kitchen of my penthouse. I needed water. My throat was so dry I grabbed a glass and filled it from the tap. My hands were shaking as I lifted the glass to my lips and started gulping the cold water down trying to drown out the thoughts.The sound of the front door opening and closing made me jump. I choked as water went down the wrong way. I started coughing hard. My eyes watered. I bent over putting the glass down hacking into my hand.I heard his footsteps fast he was coming towards me but I refuse to look at him.A hand landed on my back. It was big and warm. He started to rub slow circles trying to help me breathe.As soon as I felt his touch a new kind of panic shot through me. I straightened up fast, pulling away from him so violently I al
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Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENTY ONEAresArthur White stood by the fireplace, his back to me, his shoulders rigid.“It’s the only way,” I said my voice cutting through the silence. “You heard what happened in the boardroom. Martin used Article 12 and the’ve voted, she’s out. She’s not the CEO anymore.”He didn’t turn around. “And your solution to this is to marry her?”“Yes.”Finally, he turned. His face was a mask of fury. “Have you lost your mind? You want to marry my daughter? As a solution?”“It’s not a real marriage,” I said, forcing the words out. They tasted like ash. “It’s a contract, a business arrangement. We get married. She meets the company’s requirement and gets her position back. Martin loses his power. It’s simple.”“Simple?” Arthur roared, slamming his glass down on the mantle. “You think marrying my daughter is simple? Do you have any idea what you’re asking?”“I know exactly what I’m asking,” I said, my own temper rising. I had to make him see. “I’m asking for the legal right to stand beside her to b
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Chapter: CHAPTER SEVENTYAlyssa It has been four days since we came back from Italy and Four long, quiet days I had not seen Ares. Not once. He was just… gone.Marcus told me yesterday that he came into my office, his face looking serious.“Ares dropped this off for you,” Marcus said as he placed a single envelope on my desk.I looked at it.My heart felt like a stone in my chest I did not need to open it. I knew what it was.“A resignation letter,” I said my voice flat.Marcus nodded. “Yes… he said he is sorry and said it is for the best.”I just pushed the envelope away not wanting to touch it. “Fine…. Hire a new head of security.”That was it. He was gone Just like that, after everything. He just left.I felt numb as I threw myself into work. It was the only thing I could do.This morning I got a message. It was from my uncle Martin. His message said: ‘Emergency board meeting. My office 10 AM.’I was so annoyed and not ready for what ever drama was he putting on this timeWhat stupid thing did he w
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Chapter: CHAPTER SIXTY NINEAlyssaThe car ride was quiet at first, I just stared out the window watching the beautiful old buildings of Italy blur past. Ares didn't talk either which I’m very thankful for cause right now the last thing I want to do is talk.We soon arrived out our destination and we got out and walked. It wasn't a tour, not really but rather we just walked. We went to a small café and he ordered coffee for us then we sat at a tiny table outside. Ares has been doing most of the talking and I’m very sure he’s beginning to notice too. My lips quivered as I struggle to back bite the words, but it was starting to become too hard as my heart began to escalate.All the confusion, all the fear, it was still there but in that quiet moment, it was overshadowed by one simple terrifying truth.I took a deep breath as I looked at him.He was looking out at the water, his profile strong and serious.“Ares,” I said my voice was soft.He turned to look at me. His dark eyes were calm. “Yes?”I swallow
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Chapter: CHAPTER SIXTY EIGHTAresMy phone buzzed in my hand it was Arthur White.I answered it. "Yes.""Update," his voice was a low growl. "I have my man keeping tabs on Martian," I said keeping my voice down. I was standing outside the hotel. "His every move, he has been meeting with Mr. Johnson."There was a silence on the other end. A dangerous silence."Johnson?" Arthur finally said. "What is my brother doing with that old fool again?”"I do not know yet," I said. "But it is can’t be good and Marcus... he convinced Alyssa to bring Damon on this trip. It was his idea."Another silence then a curse. "Marcus too? Are you sure?""Yes," I said. "They are all connected that we know and they’re trying to lure Alyssa into their plan. I do not know the plan yet but I will find out.""You make sure she is safe Ares," Arthur said. His voice was hard. "You keep her away from them. I do not care what you have to do. You keep my daughter safe.""I will make sure she is safe," I said. "I promise."Just then a voice b
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Chapter: CHAPTER SIXTY SEVENAlyssaWe were currently in the boardroom having a meeting with the investors."Thank you all for having us," I said my voice was clear it filled the room. "We can now begin."The men from the Italian company Moretti Enterprises started their presentation. One of them began, he talked about numbers, profit, growth as he showed charts on a big screen."Your company White Enterprise is very strong in America," Giovanni said. "Our company is strong here in Europe we can control the market."I listened as I watched the charts. "Your numbers for the last quarter are impressive," I said. "But I see a problem here." I pointed to the screen. "Your costs in shipping. They went up twenty percent. Why?"Giovanni looked a little nervous. "Ah yes, the fuel prices. It was a difficult season.""I understand fuel prices," I said. My voice was cool. "But your competitors did not have a twenty percent increase they had twelve please explain the difference."He shifted in his chair. "We use a differ
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