LOGINWhen Ava Harrison hide behind the wooden drink cart, she never expects to hear her world unravel word by word. Married for three years to Marcus Moretti, the cold but captivating heir to an international luxury conglomerate, Ava has sacrificed everything, her dreams, her dignity, even her health—to love and support him. But the man she trusted has been lying. And worse? He's been doing it with her sister, Sophia. With a positive pregnancy test clutched in one hand and her dignity in the other, Ava walks away from the man who never truly saw her. But the world won't let her go easily. Not when she's carrying the Moretti twins heir. Ava disappears, not just from Marcus's world but from everything she's known. She changes her identity, finds unlikely allies—including a mysterious masked man with a dark past—and begins a quiet life in Canada. But Marcus refuses to let her go. As he unravels the truth—that Ava was the one who saved his life years ago, not Sophia—he spirals into guilt and obsession. But Ava is no longer the naïve girl who cried in silence. She's determined to protect her unborn children at all costs. And when fate forces her to cross paths with Marcus again, both are pulled into a storm of regret, revenge, and revelations that will tear their world apart. Love, betrayal, and the strength to rebuild— This is a rollercoaster of emotions, laced with secrets, seduction, and the quiet resilience of a woman who finally chooses herself.
View MoreHope went into labor on a Tuesday morning, three weeks early, while sitting beside her mother's bed.She'd been reading aloud from the memoir—the one Ava had told her to publish with all the doubts and failures included. The manuscript was nearly complete, eighty years of choosing love compiled into words that future generations could learn from."And that's when you decided to create the Ordinary Survivors Initiative," Hope read. "Not because Elena deserved redemption, but because she needed it. Because need matters more than deserve. Because—"The contraction hit hard enough to make her gasp.Ava's eyes, which had been unfocused as always, suddenly shifted. Not focused exactly, but aware. Present in a way she hadn't been in months."Baby," Ava whispered. Her first word in five months."Mom?" Hope breathed through the contraction. "Can you hear me?""Your baby. Coming. I want... to meet..."Another contraction. Hope fumbled for her phone, texting Elias and the family. But she didn't
The debate continued for three more hours. The family remained split.Isabella argued that Before the Break violated legal principles even if it didn't violate specific laws. Kai worried about the foundation's reputation if the surveillance became public. Solana refused to continue working as a sensitive if the methods didn't change. Aurora questioned the entire premise of predicting human behavior.But Marcus Jr. kept returning to the same point: "847 families didn't experience trauma. How can that be wrong?"Finally, Hope made her decision."Before the Break is suspended. Effective immediately.""Hope—" Marcus Jr. started."I'm not shutting it down permanently. But we're pausing it while we redesign the approach. No more algorithm scanning. No more data aggregation without consent. No more psychic profiling.""Then how do we identify at-risk families?""We don't. We offer services to everyone. We advertise parenting support. We provide free counseling. We create economic assistance
The next morning, Marcus Jr. presented Before the Break to the entire family. He'd prepared meticulously—slides showing the algorithm's design, testimonials from families they'd helped, statistics proving the program's effectiveness."We're not violating privacy," he explained. "Everything we access is already collected by government agencies, hospitals, schools. We're just the first ones to analyze it collectively. To see patterns that individual agencies miss.""That's exactly the problem," Isabella said. She was a lawyer now, having passed the bar two years earlier. "Just because data exists doesn't mean you have the right to aggregate it without consent. Each piece might be public, but the combination creates a profile no one agreed to.""But it saves lives," Marcus Jr. countered. "847 situations that didn't become trauma. 847 families that didn't break. Isn't that worth some discomfort about data analysis?""Discomfort?" Solana's voice was sharp. "Try violation. I've been on the
Marcus Jr. burst into Hope's office without knocking, his laptop open, eyes wild with excitement."It's working. Hope, it's actually working."Hope looked up from the funding reports she'd been reviewing. At seven months pregnant, everything exhausted her, including her cousin's intensity. "What's working?""Before the Break. My prevention initiative. Look at these numbers."He slammed the laptop on her desk. Spreadsheets filled the screen, data she could barely parse in her exhausted state."In the first year, we've identified 847 families at high risk for abuse or violence. We intervened before anything happened. Before the break. Before the trauma. We stopped it, Hope. We actually prevented it."Hope felt her breath catch. "847 families?""847 situations. Some were domestic violence about to escalate. Some were parents on the edge of hurting their kids. Some were abuse that hadn't started yet but was about to. We saw the patterns. We reached out. We got them help. And nothing happe












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