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Chapter 84: Actually Yours
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MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 164: Isabella at Thirteen
Isabella at thirteen is navigating the specific difficulty of being thirteen with the same focused efficiency she brings to everything.She's thirteen in the way that means she's caught between childhood and adulthood. She's got opinions about everything and the confidence to express them. She's got emotions that shift rapidly and the self-awareness to recognize when she's being irrational. She's got a social life that matters and the ability to prioritize her own needs within it. She's formidable in a new way now.She finds my book on the shelf one afternoon. Doesn't ask permission to read it. Just takes it to her room and I don't see her for three days except for meals.On the fourth day, she comes and finds me in my study at home."I read your book," she says."I know. You've been reading it for days.""I needed to understand it. All of it. Not just the parts you've told me. Not just the parts that are about you and Dad. The whole thing."I set down the work I've been doing. Give h
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 163: The Anniversary Ritual
Every year on the anniversary of the park, we go somewhere new. It started without formal discussion, the way important things sometimes do. After the trial. After the worst of it was over. Dominic came to me and said: "I want to take back that date. I want to stop letting it own us. I want to make it ours instead of his." So we do. Every year on that date, we leave. Just the two of us. We leave the children with Lisette and Raffael. We leave the foundation and the work and the life we've built. And we go somewhere neither of us has been. Year one was Vermont. A cabin in the mountains. We hiked and talked and existed in the specific quiet that comes from being alone together in nature. We didn't talk about the park. We didn't talk about what happened. We just let the date be about us moving forward instead of about what we're moving forward from. Year two was New Orleans. We walked the streets and ate food that was unfamiliar and watched live music and let the city distract us wit
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 162: The Therapy Graduation
Dr. Voss brings it up on a Tuesday afternoon in her office that has become as familiar to me as my own home. More familiar, in some ways. This is the space where I learned how to survive. Where I learned how to feel things without being destroyed by them. Where I learned how to love Dominic without abandoning myself."I think we've arrived at a place," she says carefully, "where scheduled sessions are no longer clinically indicated."I know what she means before she says the rest of it. We've done the work. We've moved through the trauma. We've built the structure that holds us. We don't need her anymore. Or rather, we don't need her every other week anymore. We can reach out when we need to. We can access help if something comes up. But the crisis has passed. The healing has happened. We've graduated."Are you saying we're done?" I ask."I'm saying you're ready to be done with scheduled sessions. You've done the work. Both of you. You've moved through what happened and built somethin
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 161: Isabella's First Heartbreak
Isabella comes home at four o'clock on a Thursday and I know immediately that something is wrong.She's eleven. She's usually home by four fifteen, usually talking about something that happened at school or something she wants to do. But today she's early and she's quiet and her eyes are red in a way that means she's been crying on the subway or in the bathroom at school or somewhere private where nobody had to watch her fall apart."Hey," I say from the kitchen where I'm making a snack for when Alexander gets home. "You okay?"She doesn't answer. She just comes over and sits in my lap, which she hasn't done in probably a year. At eleven, she's usually too big for laps. Too grown. Too aware that sitting in your mother's lap is something smaller children do. But today she just sits and lets me hold her and doesn't say anything.I don't ask questions. I just hold her. That's what I've learned to do when someone needs to cry. Just be there. Just let them know they're not alone in whateve
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 160: Long Distance Tuesdays
When I'm in Washington, my phone becomes my lifeline.I'm in meetings all day. Policy discussions. Committee briefings. Conversations that are shaping how survivors will be protected and supported across the country. It's important work. It's the kind of work that makes me understand why I survived. But when I'm not in meetings, I'm thinking about home. I'm thinking about Isabella and Alexander and Dominic managing everything without me there to manage it.Every night I call home.Dominic answers on the second ring like he's been waiting for it. Like he clears his schedule at a specific time every night just to be available for me. We talk about nothing significant. Isabella's day. Alexander's homework. What he made for dinner. Whether the weather was good. The specific small things that make up a life.But more than the calls, there are the voice messages.He starts sending them during the day. Not texts. Voice messages. I'll open my phone in between meetings and there will be three
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 159: The Offer
The call comes on a Tuesday morning while I'm at the foundation. A woman from the Department of Justice. She has a professional voice and a specific proposal. They're building a task force focused on survivor policy. National level. They want me to serve as an advisor. Four days a month in Washington. Meetings with senators. Testimony before committees. Direct input on policy that will affect survivors across the country. Four days a month. That's manageable. That's not the kind of time commitment that requires me to choose between my work and my family. That's the kind of time commitment that shows up as priority but not as abandonment. I tell her I need to think about it. But I don't really need to think about it. I already know my answer. I already know that this is the right next step. That my voice matters in rooms I haven't been in yet. That there are survivors who don't have someone advocating for them in those rooms. That I can be that person. I call Dominic from the car o
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 19: Claimed in Silk
**Nadia** Dominic took my hand and pulled me into a luxury boutique without saying a single word. My heart already raced faster than it should. After the mess with Priya’s post, he had decided I needed a reward. Now I stood in the middle of soft lighting and expensive racks while his eyes stayed
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 21: Little Dove's Awakening
I stood frozen in the hallway outside Dominic's study, my heart hammering against my ribs. The door was cracked just enough for his voice to slip through, low and sharp like a blade. I had only come to ask if he wanted coffee. Now I wished I had stayed in the bedroom. "...Garrett showed up at the
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 28: I Need You
**Nadia**"Don't."He said it the moment he walked through the door, before I had said a word, before I had done anything except look up from the couch where I had been reading for the last hour.Just that. One word. Low and tight and carrying the specific weight of a man who had spent the day hold
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 39: Reclaiming
I stood in the bedroom doorway, heart still racing from our charged conversation. Dominic watched me from the center of the room, his eyes dark with need and something deeper. The air felt thick between us. This time, I was not going to let him take control. I stepped inside and closed the door beh
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