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Once my Wife

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Sinopsis

Action

Contemporary

CEO

Brave

Second Chance

Runaway with a Baby

Divorce

She was once his wife. Now she’s his biggest secret and maybe his only chance at redemption. Five years ago, Bella Quinn walked away from a toxic marriage and a powerful man, broken but resolute. She found solace in Boston, raising their daughter alone, shielding her from the world and the painful truths of the past. But when fate, in the guise of an anonymous commission, throws her back into Jason Reed’s orbit, the carefully constructed walls around her heart begin to crumble. Buried secrets erupt, and the unfinished love that once burned so brightly smolders hotter than ever. Jason, a cold and formidable CEO, unknowingly haunted by the love he lost, now wants answers, a closure he never received. Bella, fierce and independent, desperately wants to protect her secret and finally lay the past to rest. But the past has teeth, a venomous history of lies and betrayals and someone far more dangerous is out to destroy them both. As their lives irrevocably intertwine again, amidst corporate scandals, hidden agendas, and shocking revelations, can a love scarred by deceit survive the truth that will change everything they thought they knew?

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Chapter 1: The Ghost in the Glass Tower

New York City buzzed in the distance as Bella Quinn stepped out of the taxi. The sound, once so loud and close, now felt far away like a memory she didn’t want to wake up.

It had been five years. Five long years since she ran from this city, from the pain it brought. Now, she stood in front of a tall glass building Reed International. The name alone made her stomach twist.

She held her portfolio tight. It felt solid in her hands, like proof that she had built a new life. A stronger one. One that didn’t depend on anyone but herself.

“Ms. Quinn? Isabella Quinn?”

The voice snapped her back to the present. A young woman walked up to her, holding a tablet and wearing a perfect smile. “Welcome to Reed International. Mr. Reed is expecting you.”

Bella’s heart skipped a beat. Mr. Reed. Of course. He was the mystery client. She hadn’t known his name until now.

Her hands shook slightly as she followed the assistant through the shiny, quiet lobby. Everything looked expensive and cold. The walls, the lights, the people all so polished. All so familiar.

This was his world.

The elevator felt too slow. Each second stretched forever. She tried to calm herself. She was no longer that girl from five years ago. She was Bella Quinn now. A successful architect. A strong single mother. Not Isabella Reed, the broken woman who had once been married to a man who didn’t see her pain.

The doors opened.

The assistant led her into a large office with tall windows and a view of the city. He was standing there, facing the glass, his back to her.

Jason Reed.

He hadn’t turned yet, but she could feel his presence tall, powerful, and distant. He seemed even colder now.

Then, he turned.

Bella stopped breathing.

His eyes were the same icy blue. His face was older, more serious, but still sharp. Still him. His gaze landed on her and for a second, she thought she saw surprise. But it quickly faded into something harder.

He stared at her like she was a stranger. Or a ghost.

The silence between them was loud. Bella’s heart pounded. This wasn’t just the past showing up again it was crashing right into her.

Jason’s eyes narrowed. His face grew cold. He didn’t speak at first. He just studied her like she was a puzzle he couldn’t quite solve.

Finally, his deep voice broke the silence.

“You’re late, Ms. Quinn. I’m Jason Reed. You’ll be working with me directly.”

His tone was sharp, almost rude.

Bella felt her jaw tighten.

She saw it in his eyes. He was already suspicious. He didn’t know the truth, not yet. But he could feel something was off.

And in that moment, she knew.

This wasn’t going to be just another job.

This was the start of something she had tried to leave behind. Something full of secrets, tension and danger.

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Chapter 1: The Ghost in the Glass Tower
New York City buzzed in the distance as Bella Quinn stepped out of the taxi. The sound, once so loud and close, now felt far away like a memory she didn’t want to wake up.It had been five years. Five long years since she ran from this city, from the pain it brought. Now, she stood in front of a tall glass building Reed International. The name alone made her stomach twist.She held her portfolio tight. It felt solid in her hands, like proof that she had built a new life. A stronger one. One that didn’t depend on anyone but herself.“Ms. Quinn? Isabella Quinn?”The voice snapped her back to the present. A young woman walked up to her, holding a tablet and wearing a perfect smile. “Welcome to Reed International. Mr. Reed is expecting you.”Bella’s heart skipped a beat. Mr. Reed. Of course. He was the mystery client. She hadn’t known his name until now.Her hands shook slightly as she followed the assistant through the shiny, quiet lobby. Everything looked expensive and cold. The walls,
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Chapter 2: The Unspoken Question
The next few days passed in a blur. Bella kept her head down and worked hard. Her new office was just down the hall from Jason’s, and she stayed busy with the redesign project. Work became her escape. Every blueprint, every color sample, every detail she worked on helped her focus and forget how close Jason always seemed to be.Jason didn’t keep his distance. In fact, he made sure she was around him often. They had meeting after meeting, sometimes working late into the night. He studied her work with sharp eyes, asking questions that cut deep. It didn’t feel like he was only judging her work it felt like he was trying to figure her out too.Sometimes, she would glance up and catch him watching her. Not just a normal glance. A long look. Like he was searching for something. His expression would quickly shift back to cold and unreadable. But for a second, she always saw something there curiosity, maybe... or something else. Maybe something that used to be love.Bella stayed calm on the
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Chapter 3: The Unveiling of Suspicion
The encounter with Lila had torn a jagged hole through the wall Bella had spent years constructing. Her silence, her carefully measured distance, the professional armor she wore like second skin all of it had crumbled in the space of one breathless moment.After Jason’s stunned question, the silence had been thunderous.Bella had barely managed to gather Lila into her arms, murmuring a rushed excuse about a mix-up with childcare, and fled the office with her heart pounding like a war drum. Behind her, Jason stood frozen, blueprints forgotten, his expression carved from stone and disbelief.The next morning, Reed International was a different world.The air crackled with something unspoken. Whispers died down when Bella entered the hallway. Eyes flickered curiously, nervously, then away. Word had clearly not spread but something had shifted. She felt it in her bones. And she didn’t have to wait long.Jason called her in the moment she arrived.His voice over the intercom was clipped. C
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Chapter 4: The Game of Proximity
The days melted into a delicate routine, forced proximity, stolen glances, and conversations that always tiptoed around the truth. Jason had become relentless, making sure Bella stayed close, under the guise of professional necessity. Every blueprint, every late-night revision session in the glass-walled executive suite was a battlefield one where neither swords nor shields were visible, but wounds ran deep.Bella buried herself in work, refusing to give Jason the satisfaction of seeing her flinch. She cloaked herself in professionalism, her clipped replies and cool tone a barrier she hoped he couldn’t breach. But he was watching. Always watching. As if trying to read between her movements, decode her silences, and uncover the story behind her eyes.Then, one late evening, Jason slid a report across the table without a word. Bella glanced at the highlighted numbers.“Security enhancements?” she asked, raising an eyebrow.“Supposedly,” Jason replied, voice calm but tight. “But the cost
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Chapter 5: The Unspoken Threat
The air in Reed International had shifted no longer just charged with ambition and whispered alliances, but something far darker. A storm of secrets brewed in every corner, and Bella felt it pressing in from all sides. Conversations stopped when she entered a room. Veronica’s gaze clung to her like a shadow, cold and calculating. Jason’s questions cut deeper, no longer curious but almost accusatory. The facade of professionalism was cracking, revealing a battlefield beneath.It wasn’t just corporate sabotage anymore. It was personal.One morning, Bella arrived early to her office to find a plain manila envelope resting innocuously on her desk. No label. No sender. Just her name typed neatly across the front. Her heart stuttered as she peeled it open.Inside was a single photograph. A grainy image. Lila, unmistakable in her favorite yellow jacket, captured mid-laugh at a Boston park. Taken from a distance. Stalked.Bella’s breath caught in her throat. Her fingers trembled. This wasn’t
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Chapter 6: The Unraveling Threads
The atmosphere at Reed International had shifted no longer taut with veiled warnings, but electrified with suspicion and dread. Conversations were clipped. Smiles never reached eyes. Bella could feel it in the way people paused when she entered a room, in the way Jason barely met her gaze unless absolutely necessary. And when he did, it was as if he were looking for a ghost a version of her from the past he didn’t understand anymore.Jason had grown quieter, more intense. She often caught glimpses of him through his office windows, hunched over documents, consulting Ryan Cole in hushed voices. Something was unraveling behind those closed doors, something Bella couldn't quite reach but whatever it was, she knew it had everything to do with her.Jason had always been methodical, but now he was consumed. The betrayal he believed she’d orchestrated, the unexplained existence of Lila it drove him to exhume every corner of the past. And Ryan, usually calm and collected, now wore a const
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Chapter 7: The Unsettling Alliance
The revelations from the flash drive burned in Bella's mind like wildfire. Jason hadn’t betrayed her. He had been a victim drugged, framed. The memory of that night, once seared into her as a wound, now played differently in her mind, with a sinister clarity. Veronica hadn’t just manipulated a moment she had engineered an illusion that stole five years of love, trust, and family.By morning, Bella felt changed. Not lighter, but sharpened. No longer a woman paralyzed by fear or heartbreak she was a mother, a fighter, and she needed answers. She needed justice.She walked into Reed International with purpose, bypassing the suspicious glances and underhand whispers that had followed her for weeks. When she reached Jason's office, she didn’t pause. She knocked once firm and clear.Jason’s voice came from inside, clipped and wary. “Come in.”He was seated behind his desk, reading over a thick file, but looked up as she entered. The guarded tension in his eyes hadn’t eased since their last
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Chapter 8: The Shadow of George Reed
The alliance between Bella and Jason, though born of necessity, was a fragile spark in the middle of a storm: volatile, intimate, and haunted. Each late-night meeting and whispered theory began to pull them closer, but this wasn’t about rekindled love. Not yet. It was about survival.They dug through spreadsheets and financial audits like archaeologists unearthing a corrupted empire. Bella’s sharp instincts and Jason’s determination to right his past wrongs created a synergy neither had expected. But beneath the growing teamwork, a darker force was stirring one more dangerous than Veronica: George Reed.Jason’s trusted CFO, Ryan Cole, joined their inner circle. After reviewing the video footage of Veronica’s deception, Ryan’s reaction was visceral. “This isn’t just corporate sabotage,” he said grimly. “It’s personal. And calculated.”With Ryan’s help, they began connecting dots that stretched further back than Veronica’s time with Reed International. Bella found something Jason had mi
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Chapter 9: The Ghost of Memory
The corporate offices of Reed International had turned into a silent battleground. What was once a pristine fortress of luxury and power now buzzed with paranoia, quiet urgency, and the ghosts of unraveling truths. Jason Reed, unshaven and haggard from sleepless nights, was no longer just CEO, he was a man possessed, digging through the past to uncover the rot at the core of his legacy.Beside him, Bella Quinn moved with a quiet, efficient fire. She no longer felt like an outsider in the gilded halls she once walked away from—she was a woman on a mission. The betrayal that had broken her was no longer a wound; it was a weapon. With Ryan Cole acting as a strategic linchpin, the three of them sifted through decades of records, unraveling not only Veronica's elaborate embezzlement web but also the deeply entrenched manipulations of George Reed.The nights were long, and the air between Jason and Bella thick with unspoken history. What had begun as forced proximity had begun to shift into
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Chapter 10: The Unveiled Truth
The morning air inside Reed International was unnaturally still, as if the walls themselves were holding their breath. Tension clung to the corridors, thick with unsaid words and veiled threats. Every glance, every hushed whisper carried a weight. Bella Blake walked through the executive floor with a brittle calm, her fingers tightening around the coffee she barely sipped. Veronica’s cryptic words from the night before looped in her head—About Bella. About her past… and certain other secrets. There was no mistaking the threat, no dismissing the gleam in Veronica’s eyes.She knew.Bella wasn’t just worried about herself anymore. She was terrified for Lila.In his office, Jason was pacing like a man on the edge. His mind wasn’t on Veronica. Not entirely. His thoughts kept returning to the files Ryan had brought him the night before. Offshore accounts. Obscure payments. Shell companies. Threads leading somewhere dark and disturbingly close to home.Ryan stepped in quietly, carrying anoth
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