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The perfect version

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last update 최신 업데이트: 2025-05-26 04:00:02

AVA

I have experienced betrayal. Kidnapping. Gas chambers. Death threats. Nothing chilled me more than seeing my own face blink on a screen, flawless, soulless, and spreading. "She is not real," I kept repeating. But the world did not care about reality. It cared about persuading. Julian stated that the avatar had already emerged on two ancient security camera networks in Berlin and Moscow, depicting shadow images of me roaming streets I had never visited. Genesis was not only replacing me physically. He was reinventing my past.

DAMIAN

"She is leaving a footprint," I told Julian. "No," he corrected, typing quickly. "He is creating evidence." Genesis was creating a trail. A digital life for a clone that did not yet exist, but would soon. And when he let her go... Ava would be rewritten. Not killed. Not erased. Replaced. "You must destroy the pod," Julian stated. "Before it awakes.""How long?" He paused. Thirty-six hours. Tops."

AVA

I stood on the balcony
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  • One Night, One Baby, One Billionaire Mess   The Friend With the Sharpest Knife

    Ava didn't turn to face Rachel right away. She didn't need to. Her body was already translating betrayal, a scream that words could never match. Her fingers clenched around the forged power of attorney papers, shaking over her own name in a handwriting that was not her own.Rachel stood behind her, still. Not defensive. Not angry. Just. quiet."You forged my signature," Ava spoke. The words, low as they were, their thickness heavy with the weight of a heart that had given too many second chances."I can explain.""You can try."She walked cautiously into the office and shut the door. She did not step inside, as if some residual sense within her still knew the line she had crossed."I didn't take it to steal from you," she spoke.Ava whirled."Why then?" She spoke torn. "Why now?"Rachel held her gaze. "Because she vowed I'd uphold my vow to shield her.""Elena?" Ava gasped.Rachel nodded. "I signed a second agreement before Luciana died. Secret. Personal. It was tied to Elena's confid

  • One Night, One Baby, One Billionaire Mess   The Girl Who Didn't Flinch

    They landed in New York just before sunrise.Eliana ran down the private runway toward her mother the moment Ava stepped out of the jet, but she stopped in her tracks when she saw the girl beside her.Elena clutched Ava's hand but didn't budge.They were identical, but Eliana's face was open, joyful—Elena's was stoic."She looks like me," Eliana whispered."She is you," Liam said beside her, quietly. "Sort of."Ava knelt, taking both girls' hands together. Her voice cracked."Eliana, this is your sister. Elena. She's your twin."Eliana stared. "But… you said…""I didn't know," Ava whispered. "Luciana—she took her. Hid her. I never had the chance to say goodbye."Eliana looked at Elena again, slowly reaching out to take her hand.Elena didn't flinch. Didn't smile.Just let her.It was enough—for the moment.Inside the estate, everything was still. Rachel had doubled the security for the evening, and Julian had swept access codes across all the systems. Ava couldn't sleep, however. Neit

  • One Night, One Baby, One Billionaire Mess   The Daughter in the Glass Room

    Rome did not feel very much like Italy that morning. It felt like judgment.Grey clouds hung over the city as Ava stepped out of her car and looked up at the marble mansion among the hills. This was not the villa of the Crosse family. Not even listed in any public documentation. This was Vara's. A gift—if you could call it that—by Luciana before she disappeared. A fortress of restrained, designed wealth. Not flashy. Not cold. Just intentional. Just lethal.Ava's heels clicked down the private corridor as a butler escorted her in silence to the west wing. Then, the door swung open—and she was there.Vara.Hair smoothed back, silk blouse untousled by breeze or emotion. She did not rise from the table where she was pouring tea like they were having brunch."I told you to come alone," she said. "You did. That's growth.""I came for Elena," Ava said flatly.Vara smiled. "You always think you're the only one who came for something."Ava followed Vara down a quiet corridor, every painting on

  • One Night, One Baby, One Billionaire Mess   The Power She Never Wanted

    "You're not like Luciana," Julian breathed. "You're better. And that's what terrifies them."Ava stood tall at the head of the long marble table, her spine straight, her tone resolute. Before her were the same board members who had voted to erase, to part with her daughter, to suffocate her under legacy and power.They sat in silence now.Damian stood just behind her, his presence unwavering. His hand occasionally brushed the small of her back—reassuring, grounding. She hadn’t needed a speech. She didn’t come with prepared statements or legal threats. She came with fire and truth.“I’m not here to rule like Luciana,” Ava said. “I’m here to clean up her mess.”Twenty-four hours earlier, Vance Merrow had been escorted out in handcuffs. No one had expected that. But his betrayal had created gaping voids in the defenses of the board. He'd been their steady one, their quiet accountant, their loyal steward. To find him Luciana's ultimate puppet—secretly operating to keep Ava incapacitated—s

  • One Night, One Baby, One Billionaire Mess   Ashes and Allegiances

    "She burned the will?"Damian's voice was steel as he looked at the burnt-out husk of the east wing vault. Julian stood beside him, face pale with smoke and shock."No," Julian breathed. "She didn't burn it. She rebuilt it."Ava held the only surviving piece of paper—Luciana's cryptic note—in her gloved hand. The handwriting was unmistakably hers, but that wasn't what shattered her."L" "You thought this was about power. It never was. It was about who you'd become without it." —L"Ava's eyes slowly lifted."She wanted to make us choose."Eliana colored at the window in their suite, creating a rainbow family of people without faces.Liam wandered over, reading, but he couldn't resist catching glimpses of her. Ava stood just outside the door, listening in."She doesn't sleep," Liam at last exhaled as Ava entered. "She waits. Like someone might take her."Ava sat beside Eliana."Sweetheart… you're safe now."But Eliana didn't react.She simply held up the photo.It was Ava, Damian, Liam—

  • One Night, One Baby, One Billionaire Mess   The Bloodless Betrayal

    "She signed this before she disappeared."Vara's voice was a velvet knife. Her manicured fingers slid the paper across the shiny desk that stood between her and Ava, the disinheritance papers like the final nail in a coffin.Ava didn't move.Didn't blink.Just stared at Vara with the quiet fury of a woman who'd endured far worse than legal threats."This paper doesn't scare me."Vara smiled. "It should. Your name, Liam's, and Damian's—all cut from the Crosse fortune. From the board. From Eliana.""You think paper is stronger than blood?""I think silence is."THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CLAUSEDamian burst into the room minutes later, Julian right behind him."Don't sign anything," he commanded.Ava didn't stir."I wasn't going to."Damian marched to the desk, snatching the document and flipping it open to the last page.His eyes narrowed. "Where's the witness seal?"Vara stiffened. "What?""This isn't valid," Julian said, pulling out a magnifier. "Luciana's signature is here, yes—but no le

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