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027: Nowhere Safe
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2026-03-17 06:07:05
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Married To The Devil Who Bought My Revenge 045: Victor's Price
~Ava's POV~I was still holding the phone for twenty minutes after Victor hung up.The office door was still half open. I could hear Dominic's voice, low and measured, walking someone through something legal and complicated. The voice of someone who trusted the person sitting across from him in the war room.I thought about the deleted text. The meeting at The Meridian I hadn't told him about. Every time I'd made a unilateral call because I told myself I needed to understand something before I handed it to someone else.Every time it had cost us something.Victor's mask was the same shape as all of those. Small. Arguably justified. For a bigger gain. I could construct the argument for doing it in about thirty seconds, and the argument would even be reasonable. The originals would close the case. Three days instead of three weeks. Dominic's acquisitions were protected.Reasonable.But I knew what Dominic's face looked like when I'd told him about the deleted text. I knew what it had c
Married To The Devil Who Bought My Revenge 044: The Trap Snaps Shut
~Ava's POV~I stared at the SEC alert on my screen and made myself look at it clearly.Not with panic, not with the kind of rage that made you reactive and stupid. Just clearly.And it was well-constructed. That was the part that kept snagging on me.Reed had offered immunity. He'd packaged it beautifully, with the affidavit and the careful legal language and the timing that made it feel like we were the ones who'd cornered him. He'd made us feel like we were winning, so we'd leaned in. Moved forward with confidence. Shown more of our hand than we'd intended because we thought the game was almost over.And while we were doing that, he was standing at a filing desk submitting a false SEC complaint that was now formally open.Classic misdirection. Give your opponent something that looks like the finish line so they break into a run exactly when they should be watching their feet."He's been running this play from the beginning," I said."Yes." Dominic's voice was very controlled. "He kn
Married To The Devil Who Bought My Revenge 043: Before They're Ready
~Ava's POV~I stood in the middle of the war room. Letting myself feel the range for exactly thirty seconds.Not because I didn't have more rage than that. But because thirty seconds was all I could get. After that I needed to think, and thinking clearly while furious was something I'd gotten very good at over the past several weeks.I breathed out."He wants the narrative," I said. "That's what all this is. If he breaks the pregnancy story, it becomes a scandal. Unwed mother. Rushed engagement. Impulsive decisions made by a woman who was publicly humiliated and latched onto the first powerful man who offered her a lifeline." I looked at Dominic. "He reframes everything I've done as desperation. Everything you've done is predatory. The whole picture changes.""So we don't let him break it," Dominic said."We announce tonight."He looked at me, not jumping to it, not redirecting. Just looking."Are you ready for that?" I thought about it for a second. The pregnancy I'd kept to myself
Married To The Devil Who Bought My Revenge 042: What He Won't Say
~Ava's POV~I couldn't look away.The silence stretched long enough to mean something.I let it go within saying anything. I'd learned with Dominic silence usually meant he was thinking, not avoiding. He didn't talk till he knew what he wanted to say, and pushing him never got you anything real.But this silence had gone past processing. This one was a wall."Dominic.""You don't owe me an explanation about your past," he finally said something. His voice was precise, each word were placed carefully. "Or your choices. That's not what this arrangement…”"Stop quoting the contract at me."He went quiet."That's not what I'm asking," I said. "I'm asking what's going on in your head right now. Not the arrangement. Not the terms. Right now, in this room. What is it?"He turned away not looking at me. And then he walked straight to the window."I chose this," he said, to the glass. "The arrangement. The terms. I don't have the right to…""I just told you to stop." I crossed the room and ste
Married To The Devil Who Bought My Revenge 041: The Past Resurfaces
~Ava's POV~He needs to know everything.Marcus Webb.I stared at the name in Colt's file. Something settled wrong in my chest. Not the baby. Not guilt either, because I had nothing to feel guilty about. Something older and more complicated than that.Marcus had been twenty-two when I met him. I'd been twenty-one. It was before Damien, before Hale Industries had fully consumed my identity, before I'd learned to be careful about everything including who I let see me. He was the one person in that whole chapter of my life who had looked at me without an agenda. Who had chosen me without needing me to be useful first.And then my father found out.Silas had decided Marcus wasn't the right kind of person. Not the right family, not the right connections, not the right anything. He'd told me to end it. And I had, because I was twenty-one and still believing that keeping the peace with my father was the same thing as being smart.The breakup hadn't been mutual. Marcus hadn't understood and I
Married To The Devil Who Bought My Revenge 040: Direct Threat
~Ava's POV~He'd threatened me directly.Silas Hale communicated in implication. Always had. He never said ‘ Iwill destroy you.’ He said things like ‘I'd hate for this to become complicated’ and *You know how these situations tend to resolve themselves.* The threat lived in the space between the words, deniable, elegant, the way everything he did was deniable and elegant.He had just put the threat in plain language.Which meant something had scared him badly enough to drop the performance.I played the call back for Dominic immediately. He stood with his arms crossed and listened to the whole thing. His expression the flat, careful kind that meant he was absorbing and processing simultaneously.When it ended he was quiet."He knows about Reed's offer," Dominic was looking at me."How?""Walsh. Walsh is still talking to someone, or he never stopped." He moved to the table. "Or Reed's office has a leak. Someone on his legal team.""Or my mother told him herself, as a defensive move. To
Married To The Devil Who Bought My Revenge 022: Gasoline
~Ava's POV~"Gold Digger or Mastermind? The Calculated Rise of Ava Hale."I read it twice. Then I put my phone face down on the counter and sat very still for a second.Not because it hurt. That was weird. A month ago, stuff like that would've destroyed me. Now I felt something different, cold, cle
Last Updated : 2026-04-02Married To The Devil Who Bought My Revenge 021: Under a Microscope
~Ava's POV~"He already moved."That was Sasha's text. But before I could even think about it, I had to process the fact that Damien had been watching us sleep.*****I didn't say anything for a long moment after Dominic handed me the phone.I just sat there with Colt's message on the screen, readi
Last Updated : 2026-04-01Married To The Devil Who Bought My Revenge 020: Trust Issues
~Ava's POV~"He's had eyes on the penthouse for weeks."That happened at midnight. But before it did, Dominic and I had to survive being around each other.*****"Say it," I told him. "Don't just look at me like that.""Like what?""Like I disappointed you."He didn't reply straight away. He took t
Last Updated : 2026-03-31Married To The Devil Who Bought My Revenge 019: Blood on Paper
~Ava's POV~“You really need to be careful Ava.” My mother's name was typed at the bottom of the page.I stared at it for ages. Margaret Hale. Typed out neat on a line like it was no big deal. Like she was signing some boring paperwork, not a nasty document meant to trash the guy I lived with.Six
Last Updated : 2026-03-30
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