LOGINShe did not leave because she stopped loving Damien Knight. She left because that is what she did for three years in a mansion with Damien Knight. Their marriage looked perfect from every angle except the one Aria Bennett lived in. She gave everything to Damien Knight: her ambitions, her patience, her silence. Damien Knight gave Aria Bennett a life that most women only dream of, and the feeling of loneliness that comes with it. On the night that everything ended, Aria Bennett held a photograph in her hand that she had no intention of questioning. Damien Knight swallows his pride. Neither Aria Bennett nor Damien Knight lets go. What Aria Bennett does not know when she walks away: the photographs were staged. Doubt was sown. The collapse of Aria Bennett's marriage was engineered. The person who built it was someone Damien Knight trusted far more than he trusted Aria Bennett. When Damien Knight signed the papers, Aria Bennett did not know that she was already pregnant with their child. What none of them know the worst is yet to come. Two years later, Damien Knight finds Aria Bennett thriving, self-made, and completely out of reach. Aria Bennett is standing beside a boy with Damien Knight's eyes. Damien Knight ruined the marriage Aria Bennett recovered. Now someone wants to finish what they started. The question is not whether Damien Knight can earn Aria Bennett back. The question is whether any of them will live long enough to find out who has been pulling the strings all along.
View MoreAria's POVWho's she?I turned around before I could stop myself from doing so, some weird instinct pulling my eyes towards the direction the voice was coming from.The restaurant was actually fully booked and the guests looked very important and polished. However, despite the low flow of important conversations happening at every table, different servers moving with trays well balanced like it weighed nothing, a table of businessmen near the window clearly in the middle of a negotiation.It took me only a second to actually find him in all of it, but then I did.At the table near the far end of the VIP floor, Damien was there, dressed the way he did when the occasion was a really important one— dark suit, no tie, the top button of his shirt was left undone in that specific way that had made me feel like the only person in a room sometime ago but now, it made my chest go right for an entirely different reason.I felt my heart sink, he wasn't alone.The woman sitting across from him h
Aria's POVFriday came a lot faster than I admit and a lot slower than necessary too.Marcus had suggested that Friday was the perfect day since we both had less things to do at work. Compared to other days, Friday was way calmer with paper work.I had spent most of the week thinking about this particular day even when it wasn't really necessary, catching myself mid-thought.I dropped Elias at Mara's place straight from his daycare. Handling his overnight bag that I had stuffed with his favorite pajamas, two extra changes of clothes because he was going through a funny stage of always spilling things on himself and his favorite Elephant he didn't sleep without.“Have fun tonight, bug,” I said, crouching down to give him a kiss on the top of his head, then I ruffled his hair slightly. “Be good for Aunt Mara, Don't throw food, okay?.”“Bye, Mommy.” He waved, already distracted by the toy bin Mara kept for him for these types of visits, barely giving me a glance. I shook my head, some
Aria's POVDo You Still Love Him?Elias sat at his own side of the dining table, a small chair and table suitable for his size, with a clean sheet of paper and a fistful of crayons, his tongue poking out slightly in concentration, working on whatever masterpiece his daycare had assigned that week. Denise had said something about family when I went to pick him up, something about drawing the people you love.Mara and I moved around the kitchen, chopping vegetables for dinner, the radio playing faintly in the background.“Are you sure you're okay?” She asked for what felt like the tenth time. “You've sighed like four times in the last ten minutes,” she said, her eyes fixed on the onions she was dicing. “Either that garlic’s really offending you, or something is actually going on.”She said, referring to the garlic I was peeling.“It's not the garlic.” I groaned.“ I thought so.” She set the knife down and turned to face me properly. “Okay start spilling.”I glanced at where Elias was,
Aria's POVHave dinner with me.Monday mornings had a pattern of their own I have learned to like.I dropped Elias off at the daycare, the office was a bit quiet apart from the sound of movement across the road, before Priya arrived. I hadn't heard from Naomi in almost two weeks. I convinced myself that it was totally normal and nothing unusual.She had a life of her own outside of Edward Hart and everything connected to him. She had a job, friends and whatever looks normal for a woman who had spent twenty years carrying her sister's story alone.I made a mental note to text her late just to check in on her.Edward on the other hand hasn't made any move and by now I had stopped checking my phone every few minutes for updates from Damien's security teams, though I still noticed that somewhere in the back of my mind with every day that passed without incident. It was starting to feel more like relief than me holding my breath and that was a good thing.I tried to push the thoughts asi












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