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ASHVINI knew Evelyn was furious with me the moment I walked out of that building with her glare burning against my back, but I couldn’t give a shit.I’d failed her, and I was going to do everything in my power to protect her and little Luna. Though my suspicion about who her father was only grew. When I watched the videos again, I paid attention to dates and noticed that it wasn’t long after she left and her antenatal scans timed very well to around the time she left me, so unless she met a man who looks so much like me a few days after leaving me… then… then that meant…….I couldn’t even finish that thought. But it couldn’t leave me either. I needed to check and I planned on getting a sample. Evelyn was smart and with her watching me like a hawke, it wasn’t going to be possible to easily get the sample so I needed to strategize. That was why, first thing in the morning, I drove to the mall and got Luna everything I could that had to do with ballet. Which was another reason why I nee
EVELYN“You’re kidding!” Sophie gasped as she pulled me away from Luna’s room so we wouldn’t wake her.“I wish I was.” I sighed as I walked away from her and threw my exhausted body onto the couch. Luna was finally doing so much better, and Dr. Wilson said she could go back to school, but I wanted to put that on hold till I found out what really happened back then for her to faint, with her teacher knowing she couldn’t do such a tough dance. Luckily, she was checked on time and was able to quickly recover. After the encounter with Ashvin, I called Leo, telling him what to put in the contract and not to make any mistake of leaving any loophole. I knew Ashvin well enough to know one missed term or condition was enough for him to swallow you whole and turn the tide in his favour. I’d watched him do it for five years, and I had no intention of becoming his victim. When we got discharged, I was ready to see a pile of bills or for them to tell me my insurance couldn’t cover it and my car
EVELYN I promised myself years ago that Ashvin Blackwood would never see me break again. I survived the day he destroyed me without giving him the satisfaction of watching me fall apart, and yet here I was, standing in front of him with tears running down my face because apparently six years was not enough to erase the damage he had done."You thought I took the money?" My voice cracked."Evelyn, that's not what I-"“Oh, please spare me the bullshit. You pulled me in here, kissed me without my permission, and now you want to make a mockery of me. Is it fun for you? To poke at my wounds, does it make your blood rush? Wasn’t it enough to make Amanda humiliate me?”“I never asked Amanda to humiliate you.”“You’re full of shit. Ashvin, do you know that?” I raised my hand and slapped him hard across the face. His head snapped to the side from shock, but I didn't care.My heart was burning, and every part of my body was on fire. I don’t know if it was the pressure from the board or the str
EVELYNHis familiar scent surrounded me.The warmth of his body pressed against mine, and suddenly I was twenty-five again, lying awake beside the man I loved in secret, listening to his breathing while pretending that morning would never come.He kissed me on my most sensitive spot on the side of my neck, making me moan.The sound escaped before I could stop it, and Ashvin seemed to take it as encouragement. His lips traveled slowly along the side of my neck, lingering beneath my ear before returning to the spot that always made it difficult for me to think clearly. I felt his hand tighten around my waist as though he, too, was struggling to contain the intensity of what was happening between us. His other hand moved into my hair, and tilted my head to give himself better access, I closed my eyes and let out another helpless breath and just then, his mouth returned to mine, and this time the kiss was deeper, more demanding, as though the brief distance between us had become unbeara
EVELYNFor a moment, the words seemed to hang in the air between us, too absurd to belong in the same room where I spent years making decisions that turned Luna & Co. into the company they were now threatening to take away from me.I leaned back in my chair, studying each face around the table. They clearly came prepared for this conversation. There were no signs of hesitation, no uncomfortable shifting, no uncertainty about what they wanted. They had numbers spread across the table, documents stacked neatly in front of them, and the kind of confidence people carried when they believed they would have their way no matter what.But if they thought I would let them walk over me and take away what I built with my own hands, then they had another thing coming!So what if I was divided for a while?This was my daughter’s life we were talking about and I had no regrets.Yes we had a problem right now but that would soon be fixed! What we needed was to find the way forward out of this limbo,
EVELYNThe moment I stepped out of the elevator, I knew something was wrong.I could not explain what changed, and there was nothing visibly different about the corridor leading to the boardroom, yet the familiar space suddenly felt strangely hostile. The polished floors reflected the cold white lights above me, the walls were lined with framed photographs of Luna & Co.’s biggest milestones, and the glass doors ahead carried the company logo I always looked at with nothing but pride. Today, every familiar detail seemed to carry a warning I could not quite understand.Leo’s call was what woke me up this morning, and I found nothing odd about it except that he was panicking and telling me the company was about to declare bankruptcy and had demanded an emergency meeting. A month had passed since I was in the hospital with Luna, and now she was much better and back to school. I asked them to investigate the matter and find out what happened, but somehow, the teacher was missing from that







