LOGIN“Happy married life Liora,” my stepsister, Camille, chuckled, mockery dripping from her voice. She leaned closer to me, her lips brushing against my ear as her voice dropped down to a whisper, “Though your husband already started it with another woman.” **** Sold off in a marriage of convenience to save her dying father and his crumbling company, Liora Bennett thought she was prepared for any sacrifice. But nothing could prepare her for Sebastian Carvers. The ruthless billionaire who is just as cold as he is handsome, and he makes it devastatingly clear that she is just an unwanted burden in his life. But Liora is about to discover that she didn’t just walk into a miserable marriage- she walked straight into his trap and she would never be able to resist a man like him. Now, with her father’s legacy and her own future on the line, her only choice is to outmaneuver the most powerful and cunning man she’s ever met. Can she beat him at his own game before he destroys everything she has left?
View MoreLiora’s POVI couldn’t sleep that night. After minutes of lying on the floor in the dark, crying my eyes out, I willed myself to stop and find a way out. My first instinct was to call Sebastian and tell him I was in trouble, but the doubt that he would help me was overwhelming. Still I tried. I brought out my phone and tried to call him, but the call couldn’t go through. Then I realized why: there was no signal in this place. Of course Camille wouldn’t be so dumb to leave me alone with my phone is there wasn’t any signal. I just needed to find a way out. It was a house; there had to be a way out. Turning on my phone’s flashlight, I went found a table close by that had candles; as least one thing Camille hadn’t lied about.A wave of regret threatened to swarm over me again but I pushed it aside. Regrets could come later; I just needed to find a way out. I lit the candles and with the poor illumination, I scanned the place.There was nothing much here, and I scoured the nooks and cr
Liora’s POVBy the time night fell, I still had nowhere to go.I thought of calling Sebastian, wail and apologize and beg for his help. But something in me had already snapped the moment I left his house. Now that my father had died and alongside the charges the divorce was based on, Sebastian would now have full reins of the company.But I had already made up my mind; I wasn’t going back. So where would I go?Feeling tired, I sat on the bare ground by gate, raising my knees up to rest my head. Cars passed, people passed, but none of them paused to spare me a glance. It was almost as if I was invisible. And I liked it that way; the plethora of attention I had gotten these past days have been tiring for me.But I knew I couldn’t stay any longer here anymore. It would risk another embarrassing scenario from Helena. So I struggled to my feet and began walking. I didn’t have a destination yet, but I began heading to a diner that was not far from the house. Dad always took me and Camille
Liora’s POVThe last time I saw him, he was sitting in that cursed wheelchair, staring at me with blank eyes that I wasn’t even sure he could recognize me somewhere in his mind.I had said goodbye, shedding tears on his stiff but alive body.Now I looked at my father, his eyes closed, not a single life within. Or without. Everything was gone; my father’s company, my father, my entire life as it seemed. I had let them take it all from me, without lifting a finger to stop them.I watched as the nurses performed post-mortem care for him, covering him up with the sheets; my stepmother’s voice wailed at the other side of the room.‘He was a good man, he was a good man,’ she cried out, the tears pouring from her eyes.But I knew those tears and I didn’t budge; they were fake, just like the times she had cried when she accused me of stealing from her or trying to murder her daughter in her sleep.Camille sat beside her, offering support to her mother, but her face spoke volumes that she wou
Sebastian’s POV‘He’s dead.’I looked up at my father. ‘Who?’ ‘George,’ my father replied with a nonchalance that was in full contrast to the news. ‘Doctor just called me. The surgery had complications; he just went into a coma.’My thoughts went immediately to Liora. Did she know already? She must be devastated. ‘So it’s confirmed he’s dead or…?’‘Not confirmed, but death is inevitable.’I went back to working on my computer. Dad had come to see me and, as it seems, deliver this news. ‘Do you know what this means?’ He asked me, leaning forward across the table.I glanced at him long enough to shake my head and return my focus to the computer. I wasn’t doing anything serious on it. I just couldn’t bring myself to look at him for long, especially now that he has that look on his face.‘Our plan is going perfectly as planned,’ he chuckled. ‘With the father almost out of the way, we’d finally have the company to ourselves. Of course, that deal with the daughter ended, but on the legal
Liora’s POVSebastian was brought home after spending two days in the hospital.I was there to receive the doctor’s instructions, then take him home. He looked so pale, and barely uttered a word to me.Not that I could blame him. ‘Babe!’ Vivienne ran into him with open arms.The impact made him hi
Liora’s POVIt was all a lie, and I had fallen for it.Everything went by in a blur, as documents were signed and congratulations from the board members flew around.I didn’t react; I couldn’t react.Soon the congratulations settled down, and the business discussions began. I was about to take the
Sebastian’s POV.I think I underestimated Liora Bennett.Not in a billion years would I have imagined that she would be bold enough to tell my father to his face that she wanted to run her father’s company knowing very well the kind of situation they were in.I was seated next to her in the back se
Liora’s POV.I cried throughout the night and the next morning, my eyes were swollen and red, my entire body sore but the maid insisted I come down for breakfast.After last night, I assumed I would be eating alone but he was seated at the head of the long table when I walked into the dining room.






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