MasukA scarred wife. A hidden legacy. A love too costly to deny. To the world, Adrian Voss is untouchable—cold, ruthless, and devastatingly powerful. The billionaire CEO of Voss Enterprises has everything… except the one thing he hides behind locked doors. His wife. Scarred and scorned, Ava Voss lives in the shadows of her marriage. To society, she doesn’t exist. To Adrian’s glamorous mistress, Selene Monroe, she’s nothing but an obstacle waiting to be erased. And to Adrian’s cruel family, she’s a curse. But Ava carries two secrets no one expects— One that ties Adrian’s fragile empire to her name. And another growing inside her that will change everything. When betrayal rips her from Adrian’s house, Ava vanishes into silence—until the night she returns. Stronger. Radiant. Revealed as the hidden heiress of Sinclair Global, the very empire Adrian is desperate to claim. Now the man who once denied her will have to fight for her. For her heart. For their child. And for the love he was too proud to show. She was meant to be his shame. Instead, she will be his reckoning.
Lihat lebih banyakAVA’S POVThe tone wiped the smile right off my face. “What’s wrong?”“Where. Are. You?”“The museum. I just picked the boys up from school—”“Get out of there.”“What? Why?”“Take the kids and go home. No—actually, don’t go home. Just—” He cursed under his breath. “Don’t go anywhere crowded.”“What?”He exhaled sharply, the sound full of nerves. “Okay, listen to me. I need you to stay calm, alright?”That only made my pulse quicken. “You’re scaring me.”“I know,” he said, voice soft but firm. “And I’m sorry, baby sis, but you need to leave there. Right now.”“What? Why?”“Something’s happened — Just, take the boys and leave. I don’t want the boys or you anywhere near a crowd.”I froze, my heart thudding. “What do you mean? What’s happening? Talk to me.”He hesitated, then sighed. “Just… don’t turn on the news, Ava. Please.”“Ethan—”“Please,” he said again, quietly this time, like he was begging.My curiosity and stubbornness got the best of me. He knew better than to tell me not to
AVA’S POVThe phone call came barely two hours after I dropped the boys off at school.At first, I thought it was one of those little things — maybe Aaron had forgotten his lunch again, or Aiden had drawn on the classroom walls like he sometimes did when his imagination got the better of him.But when the headmistress’s voice came through the line — calm but clipped, too measured to be casual — my stomach dropped.“Mrs. Sinclair,” she said, “I’m afraid there’s been… an incident involving your sons.”“An incident?” My grip on the phone tightened. “Are they hurt?”“No,” she replied quickly. “They’re fine. But I’d appreciate it if you could come in as soon as possible.”I was out the door before she even ended the call.****When I arrived, both boys were sitting side by side outside the headmistress’s office — legs swinging, uniforms rumpled, faces defiant. There were faint traces of dirt on their sleeves. A dark bruise was blooming on Aaron’s knuckle, and there was a faint scratch unde
ADRIAN’S POVThe non-stop buzzing sound of my phone woke me up. It kept buzzing, stopping, then starting again — a relentless vibration against the nightstand.I groaned, dragging a hand across my face. My head throbbed — the kind of ache from a night of drinks and bad thoughts.The penthouse curtains were drawn, but faint daylight bled through, throwing long stripes of white across the room. I squinted at the clock. 7:04 a.m.Who the hell was calling this early?I reached for the phone, but before I could swipe, there was a sharp, frantic knock on the door before it flew open.“Mr. Voss?” Claire’s voice flowed through the silence — breathless. “Sir, you need to wake up!”I sat up slowly. “Claire? What the hell are you doing here?”She didn’t wait for permission and barged into my room.What the hell?Her face was pale, hair a mess, tablet clutched tight in both hands like a weapon.“Sir—” she gasped, “We-we’ve got a situation. You need to see this right now.”My patience was a whispe
ADRIAN’S POVFrom the driver’s seat, I watched as Warren descended the marble steps, unhurried, talking to someone just inside the doorway. The corners of his mouth curved — that arrogant half-smile of his that made boardrooms feel smaller.And then she appeared.Not fully — just a silhouette behind frosted glass. The way she stood, the quiet poise in her outline — deliberate, graceful. Familiarity tugged at me. I couldn’t see her face, but there was something about the way she lifted her chin, the stillness that radiated authority without needing to speak.Miss A.Even the name irritated me.I wasn’t sure what angered me more — that she’d made me wait over an hour to see a representative, or that the mere sound of her title had started to follow me everywhere like a ghost I couldn’t shake.My jaw tightened as I watched him descend the steps, adjusting his cufflinks as if he’d just secured a victory. His car — a sleek black Jaguar, because of course it was — waited at the curb.He cau
AVA’S POVI woke the next morning to an empty bed. The sheets beside me were cold, already smoothed out from hours of absence. For a moment, I thought Adrian was in the shower, or maybe in the kitchen grabbing coffee before work. But the house was silent.Too silent.I glanced at the nightstand. No
ADRIAN’S POVI should have known the day would unravel the moment she walked into my lobby.Ava.Her hair was loose around her shoulders, her beautiful wide eyes fixed on me as though she had every right to stand there, every right to be here.I felt the whispers before I heard them—the rustle of e
AVA’S POVBy the time Ethan dropped me off at the Voss family estate, my tears had dried into a dull ache behind my eyes. I promised him again that I’d be fine, that there was no need to tell Father. Adrian didn’t mean what he’d said. Ethan didn’t believe me. I could see it in the way his jaw clenc
AVA’S POVThe doors slammed behind me with a cruel finality, the echo rattling through my chest. I stumbled onto the cold stone steps outside Voss Tower, the guards releasing me like trash tossed to the curb.My knees buckled, and I clutched my bag to me, the paper with its life-altering words crum












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