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Chapter 61: The Burnout Season
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2025-07-14 15:00:00Three weeks later, Ava realized she’d forgotten what weekends felt like.
She could name the days Saturday, Sunday but blur was her closest memory of them. Her life had become a rhythm of morning Zooms, afternoon strategy calls, and late night revision memos. The boundaries between work and home were paper thin and constantly crumpling in her pocket. So when, at 8 pm on a Thursday, Luisa walked into her office eyes red rimmed, voice hesitant Ava didn’t even flinch. “Ava… we need a plan,” she said, sinking gently onto the couch where they once tossed ideas back and forth like frisbees. Ava looked up, tension in her chest coiling tighter. “I know,” she said quietly. Luisa exhaled, voice raw. “We’re burning out. Volunteers are dropping after their third project. Staff are quitting. And I God, Ava I even dreamt last night that someone was pulling a file from our database.” Ava’s heart lurched. Paran
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Married to my Arrogant Sponsor Chapter 61: The Burnout Season
Three weeks later, Ava realized she’d forgotten what weekends felt like. She could name the days Saturday, Sunday but blur was her closest memory of them. Her life had become a rhythm of morning Zooms, afternoon strategy calls, and late night revision memos. The boundaries between work and home were paper thin and constantly crumpling in her pocket. So when, at 8 pm on a Thursday, Luisa walked into her office eyes red rimmed, voice hesitant Ava didn’t even flinch. “Ava… we need a plan,” she said, sinking gently onto the couch where they once tossed ideas back and forth like frisbees. Ava looked up, tension in her chest coiling tighter. “I know,” she said quietly. Luisa exhaled, voice raw. “We’re burning out. Volunteers are dropping after their third project. Staff are quitting. And I God, Ava I even dreamt last night that someone was pulling a file from our database.” Ava’s heart lurched. Paran
Married to my Arrogant Sponsor Chapter 60: The Door With Her Name On It
Ava stood before the glass door, heart pounding in a way she hadn’t felt in years. Sunlight filtered through the building’s windows, illuminating the sleek signage in bright relief: Ava Sinclair‑Wolfe CEO, Advocacy & Ethics Division Her name. Not just a badge of ownership, but a promise on glass. Memories pressed forward the day she signed away her voice with that contract, the nights she wondered who she’d become, the moment she realized silence had cost her everything. And now the full weight of her journey stood before her. She closed her eyes for a moment, breath deepening. Five years ago, she’d been terrified of committing in ink. Tonight, she was about to commit in presence. There was vulnerability here, but also something powerful: belonging by choice even when it terrified her. Ava opened the door and stepped inside. Hardwood floors re
Married to my Arrogant Sponsor Chapter 59: Wolfe, Rewritten
It started with a conversation over breakfast.No agenda. No boardroom. No staff taking notes. Just scrambled eggs, mismatched mugs, and a quiet calm Ava still wasn’t used to.Grayson looked up from the newspaper and said, “I’ve been thinking about closing Wolfe International.”Ava blinked. “What?”He set the paper down. “Or at least, dissolving what’s left. Rebuilding it from the ground up. No NDAs. No image first policies. No silencing clauses hidden in fine print.”Ava stared at him. “You’d really let it go?”Grayson nodded. “What’s the point of building an empire if it’s built on buried truths?”She let that sink in.Then said, “So what would you build instead?”Grayson smiled softly. “Something better. Something honest.”They filed the paperwork a week later. Not with any dramatic press conference or sweeping headlines. Just a quiet announcement that Wolfe International would restructure a
Married to my Arrogant Sponsor Chapter 58: A Letter, Not a Ring
It had been weeks since the podcast.The world hadn’t quieted. The press still called. Headlines still spun. People still argued over whether Ava was a savior or a traitor, a woman speaking up or a woman speaking too much.But inside the townhouse, life had taken on a softer rhythm.No more staff. No formal dinners. No staged photo ops. Just quiet evenings. Shared silences. Sideways glances that held more honesty than entire conversations used to.Ava had grown used to waiting for the other shoe to drop. Her whole life had been structured around it expecting the unraveling, the disappointment, the apology that came too late or not at all.So when she walked into the sunroom and saw the white envelope resting on the table beside a steaming cup of her favorite tea, she braced herself.Grayson wasn’t in the room.Just the letter. Folded once. Heavy, somehow, even in its stillness.Her name was written across the fr
Married to my Arrogant Sponsor Chapter 57: The Apology
The podcast wasn’t Ava’s idea. It wasn’t even Grayson’s at first.It came from a former employee, now a host of a well respected business ethics podcast called Damage Undone. The invitation had been sitting in Grayson’s inbox for over two weeks, buried between meeting requests and silent departures.He didn’t respond.Not until he saw the look on Ava’s face the morning after her essay went viral equal parts peace and exhaustion. Like a woman who had set down a weight, only to realize she’d been carrying two.That evening, Grayson sent one reply:“I’ll speak. One episode. Live. No edits.”The recording was scheduled for a Tuesday. No press, no fanfare. Just a quiet, dimly lit studio on the fourth floor of a downtown building. No handlers. No script.Ava didn’t come with him.He asked. She said no.“This isn’t my moment,” she said gently. “This is yours.”And so, alone, Grayson Wolfe sat down in
Married to my Arrogant Sponsor Chapter 56: A scandal and a choice
They were back in the city for less than forty-eight hours when the next storm hit. It started with a headline. Just one. Small. On a gossip blog most people only clicked out of boredom. “Ava Sinclair Wasn’t Always This Noble Her Past Revealed.” Luisa found it first. She brought Ava the tablet like it was a wound wrapped in glass. “It’s starting again,” she whispered. Ava sat at the kitchen island, heart sinking as she scrolled. The article accused her of being a social climber, of orchestrating the scandal for fame, of being “emotionally unstable” in college. It even included a blurry photo from her first waitressing job, claiming it was proof of a “secret past.” Then came the source: an “anonymous insider close to the Wolfe household.” Grayson saw it next. He said nothing at first, just stood across from her in the living room with his jaw clenched
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