LOGINI was in love with Ethan Black, a brilliant man with big dreams. I gave him my twenties, my body, my loyalty. I worked three jobs while he chased his startup dreams. And when he finally made it, he became a stranger. Then I found out he got another woman pregnant, the same woman who dumped him in college when his family lost everything. That nearly destroyed me. But I stayed. I told myself love was worth it. But nothing could prepare me for the day he left our four-year-old daughter home alone… to go see her. And our little girl died. I buried my child and with her, the woman I used to be. Now, I live for one thing only: Revenge. He took everything from me. Now I’ll take everything from him. He doesn’t know it yet… but I’m not the same woman he left behind. And by the time I’m done, he’ll wish he never met me.
View MoreELIZABETH’S POV“You had one simple task, how could you not get it right, fucking Americans,” I snapped, feeling the anger still rising in my chest like something alive. My voice cut through the café loud enough for a few heads to turn, but I didn’t care. The stupidity in front of me needed to be addressed.I could still feel the sting in my palm from when I slapped him the first time, and honestly, I didn’t think I had hit him hard enough. Maybe I should have poured the other drink on his worthless uniform too. It would’ve matched nicely with the first splash ruining my dress. The embarrassment still burned, and every second I looked at his trembling face made my irritation spike even higher.“Elizabeth, enough. He said he was sorry. Let it go.” Lauren’s voice came from beside me, low but sharp. She subtly tilted her head toward the other customers.Only then did I notice the phones, so many of them pointed in our direction, people already filming like they were watching some reality
LAUREN'S POV“Hold on, you just said we were in an orphanage?” I asked, my voice slow, like my mind was still trying to catch up with what she had just mentioned so casually.“Yes,” Elizabeth replied, nodding once, her face as calm as if she had repeated this story a hundred times already.“That means our biological parents, they’re…”“They’re dead. According to my parents, the orphanage said they died in an accident. We were the only ones who survived.” Elizabeth cut me off before I could even finish the sentence.I blinked as her words settled inside me, heavy and cold. My shoulders dropped slightly as I sank a bit into my chair, feeling the weight of that reality land on me. My gaze drifted down to the floor, not really focusing on anything in particular, just trying to absorb the information.I didn’t know what I had been expecting. Maybe I had been hoping for too much. Maybe somewhere in the back of my mind I thought they’d be alive. Maybe they’d come searching one day, or maybe
LAUREN'S POVWhile looking at what Roman was staring at, I finally understood why he said that particular phrase — you have to be kidding me. The disbelief in his voice made sense the second my eyes landed on the woman sitting at the table ahead of us.“Well, she wasn’t hard to find,” Roman said, sarcasm dripping from every syllable.For a moment, I couldn’t say anything. My tongue felt stuck to the roof of my mouth. There were absolutely no words for what I was staring at. My brows pulled together so tightly that I could feel the small ache forming between them.Elizabeth.Up close, in real life, I saw why Roman froze. She looked exactly like me — exactly. And somehow seeing it in person hit way harder than the photos she sent earlier. The photos were shocking, yes, but seeing her move, blink, breathe? It sent something strange twisting inside me.She finally noticed us as we approached. Her eyes widened slightly, the same way mine probably did when I first saw her. And the expressio
LAUREN'S POV“Alright then, if this lady is who she claims to be and wants me to meet up with her, then I guess I don’t mind. I might have some questions that I’d like to ask her too,” I said, even though my stomach tightened slightly at the thought.“Good, but I’ll be coming with you,” Roman said immediately, like he had already made up his mind before I even opened my mouth.“Is there any reason?” I asked, even though I already had an idea of what he was about to say.“No matter who this person says she is, she’s still a stranger that we don’t know yet. So until we confirm it with our own eyes, I can’t just let you go and see someone alone.” Roman’s voice held that protective firmness he always used whenever he thought I might be walking straight into danger.“Ok,” I agreed, “but no bodyguards or police. Just the two of us.”“Ok then,” he said, nodding. “But let her know we’ll be picking the meet-up location. Just in case.”That part didn’t surprise me. Roman liked having control ev






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