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The Girl We Buried in Silence
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One Night, One Baby, One Billionaire Mess The Cost of Keeping Her
"How much of us are we going to give up in order to keep her?"Damian's words just sat there in the silence of the bedroom, suspended like a bullet.Ava didn't answer.She couldn't.Because she already knew, on a deep level.The Crosse family wasn't just requesting marriage.They were requesting blood.****Earlier That MorningThe text still remained on Damian's phone screen as Ava walked into the room, towel-drying her hair.She froze in mid-step upon seeing his face."What happened?"He did not answer immediately.He extended the phone.She read it once. Twice. You think a ring will stop us? You'll have nothing before the seventh day ends. Watch her bleed. —LHer knees buckled ever so slightly.Damian caught her."It's Landon," he said. "Or Luciana. Or both. They're not bluffing anymore.""They're threatening Eliana," Ava breathed."They're cornering us."AVAI'd always believed that when the time came, we'd save Eliana with the truth.That love would overcome.But I was wrong.Th
One Night, One Baby, One Billionaire Mess What Love Is Worth
"You don't lie to me, Ava."Damian's voice wasn't angry. That was the worst part.He was in the middle of our bedroom, sleeves rolled up to his elbows, tie loose, hair disheveled like he'd run his hands through it too many times. He was tired—but worse, he was hurt.And I wasn't even certain anymore whether I was lying to defend him … or myself."I'm not lying," I breathed.But my voice cracked.And we both knew it.***Twelve Hours EarlierThe day began like a dream too fragile to handle.Liam had gone with Vale to the academy. The house was quiet. The kind of quiet that comes after a storm or before the next one.Damian brewed coffee, his back to me in the kitchen. He was wearing a navy shirt I loved—smooth and crisp and powerful. The sleeves hugged his arms, and I caught myself staring only a second too long.He turned. "You're staring."I smiled. "Just memorizing.""Memorizing what?""In case things fall apart again."He paused.Then set down the cup and came over, wrapping his ar
One Night, One Baby, One Billionaire Mess What the Silence Couldn't Hide
AVALying to the man you love is a bit like holding your breath underwater—silent, tight, and impossibly alone.Damian stood in the bedroom doorway, his shirt half-buttoned, his hair a halo in the morning light. He looked at me with nothing but hope in his eyes."Did she smile when she saw you?"I froze.The truth rang like church bells in my chest, but I gave him the answer that I knew he needed."She did."He smiled. And it broke my heart a little more.He walked across the room, holding my face gently."I keep dreaming about her. In my dreams. The version of her I imagined when I first found out… Before all of this."I nodded, scared that if I spoke, my voice would tremble.I want her home, Ava. With us. Where she belongs."He kissed my forehead. Gentle. Trusting."I'm making calls today," he continued. "Lawyers, press consultants, even my old political fixer. I want a full media strategy in place by next week.""For what?" I asked softly.His eyes gleamed."For the world to meet
One Night, One Baby, One Billionaire Mess What Love Doesn't Survive
"Don't tell him."Ava's voice sliced through the silence like a knife.Ava was in the isolated garden at the rear of the Crosse estate, fists clenched around the velvet portrait of Eliana. She didn't turn. She didn't need to."I wasn't going to," she sneered icily.Rachel edged closer, heels crunching gently on stone."I know how much you desire the truth," she told Ava. "But some truths… ruin the people you love."Ava finally turned.Her eyes did not blink."Then let him be ruined."Ten Hours EarlierThe plane touched down in Geneva under a sky without clouds. The air was thin. Clean. Chilly enough to sear Ava's cheeks as she descended the stairs alone.No security.No one from the estate.Only a car idling with a folded nameplate:Ms. Reynolds.She didn't speak to the driver. Didn't ask where they were going.She just sat in the back of the car, clutching the birth bracelet and the photograph as if they might hold the answers to the thousand questions screaming inside of her.The Cr
One Night, One Baby, One Billionaire Mess The Girl We Buried in Silence
Ava froze, her own hand hovering inches above the photo Rachel had placed on the granite bench in the graveyard, as though stuck in a state of temporal suspension. Rachel's voice was whispery and barely audible, yet there was a tinge of sympathy. "She has your eyes, Ava," Rachel spoke softly once more.Ava's eyes didn't waver, her gaze set on the photograph. "What. what are you implying?" she stuttered, her words laced with a mixture of confusion and terror.Luciana Crosse approached her, an envelope clutched in her fist. "You already know," she said, her tone even.Ava's gaze dropped to the photograph, her own pounding like a trapped wild animal in her chest. The photo was of a tiny girl, not more than seven, dressed in a navy coat with pearl buttons, standing in front of the hedge maze at Landon's Montauk compound. The child's face was solemn, but the eyes were unmistakably Ava's. DAMIANI stepped in beside Ava, putting a reassuring hand at the small of her back. She didn't shift,
One Night, One Baby, One Billionaire Mess The Will of the Living
AVAI mentally prepared myself for the possibility of ghosts, for the echoes of the past that might haunt me. But nothing, it seemed, could have truly prepared me for the living, for the raw, unbridled power of human presence. Landon Elias Crosse emerged between the headstones with a quiet confidence, as though he'd never truly left the world behind. He looked remarkably untouched by the passage of time his hair had grayed slightly at the temples, but his spine remained straight, his jaw firm, and his eyes still carried that disarming chill I remembered from old photographs and whispered conversations.He wore a tailored black coat, gloves, and a faint, enigmatic smile, giving the impression that this cemetery was, in fact, his estate. Behind him, Rachel stood stiffly, her expression unreadable, while Luciana stood beside her, holding a folder in her hand like it was a symbol of power, a crown. Liam's hand instinctively tightened around mine, a subtle gesture that spoke volumes about
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