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last update publish date: 2026-09-03 06:03:58

TIFFANY

The headline appeared less than three hours later, I stared at my phone. “ASHFORD HEIR DAMIAN ASHFORD TO MARRY TIFFANY BENNETT” I read it again, then again.

“This can’t be real.” Molly leaned over my shoulder. Her eyes widened. “Excuse me?”

I quickly locked my phone. “It’s nothing.”

She stared at me. “You’re terrible at lying.”

“Molly.”

“You’re engaged?”

I sighed. “Yes.”

She screamed, actually screamed, several employees turned toward us. I covered my face.

“Please don’t do th
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  • Signed, Sealed, Seduced?   The Screen

    TIFFANYI stared at the screen. The image was blurry, but I knew that silhouette. I knew the way she stood. I knew the way she held herself. And the moment Ethan enhanced the image again, there was no room left for doubt.“Ashley.”The name barely left my lips.Damian looked at me.“You’re sure?”I nodded slowly.“I know her.”Ethan zoomed in further. The woman’s face became clearer.It was Ashley.She was sitting in the corner of the hotel room, partially hidden behind the glass partition. Watching. Listening. Waiting.My stomach twisted.“But she left the country with Victor,” I whispered.“This footage was recorded months ago,” Ethan reminded me.I stared at the screen.“So she was there before Damian signed the document.”“Yes.”“And Richard knew.”“Apparently.”I looked at Damian.He hadn’t said a word. His eyes remained fixed on the screen.“Damian.”He finally looked at me.“I don’t remember her being there.”I swallowed.“But she was.”“I know.”“You said you didn’t know Ashle

  • Signed, Sealed, Seduced?   No!

    TIFFANY“No.”The word left my mouth before I could stop it.The video was frozen on Damian. His hand was holding a pen. The document lay in front of him. Richard sat across from him. Victor was beside them.I turned toward Damian.“You signed it.”His eyes remained fixed on the screen.“I don’t remember.”“How can you not remember signing something?”“I don’t know.”“You were there.”“I know.”“You heard them talking about me.”“I know.”“You knew the marriage would activate the agreement.”“No.”His voice was immediate.“I didn’t know.”“But you signed something.”“Yes.”“What?”“I don’t know.”I stepped away from him. My chest hurt.“Then what did you sign?”“I don’t know.”“Damian!”“I don’t know!”His voice echoed through the room. He looked as shaken as I felt.“I remember meeting them,” he said. “I remember Richard giving me a document. I remember signing something because he told me it was a corporate authorization.”My eyes burned.“And you didn’t read it?”“I did.”“Then how

  • Signed, Sealed, Seduced?   Look Away

    TIFFANYI could not look away from the page.My signature.On a document I had never seen.On an agreement I had never signed.And a message asking me to find out where Damian had been three months before our wedding.Slowly, I lifted my eyes.Damian was staring at the same page.His face had gone completely still.“Where were you?” I asked.He didn’t answer immediately.“Three months before our wedding,” I repeated.“Tiffany.”“Where were you?”His jaw tightened.“I don’t remember.”I laughed once.It wasn’t funny.“You don’t remember?”“It was months ago.”“You remember everything.”His eyes met mine.“You remember business meetings from years ago. You remember contracts, dates, numbers, people’s names.”I pointed at the document.“And now you don’t remember where you were when someone forged my signature?”“I said I don’t remember.”The words hit harder than they should have.I stepped back.“Did you know about this?”“No.”“Did you know Bennett Interiors was being transferred?”“N

  • Signed, Sealed, Seduced?   Spoke My

    TIFFANYNobody spoke.My name.On the file.Not Bennett Interiors.Not Ashford Group.Not the merger.Me.I stared at Ethan.“Why would an agreement involving a company be filed under my name?”“I don’t know.”Damian took a step forward.“Where is it?”“Richard’s private archive.”“Take me there.”Ethan hesitated.“It’s secured.”Damian’s expression hardened.“Then open it.”“Damian—”“Now.”Ethan nodded.I followed them.The archive was in a private section of the penthouse I had never seen before.A hidden door opened behind one of the bookshelves.I stopped.“You have a secret archive?”Damian glanced at me.“My grandfather does.”“That’s worse.”He almost smiled.Almost.But the tension in the room swallowed it.We walked inside.There were rows of locked cabinets, folders, boxes and documents.Ethan moved toward one of the cabinets.“Here.”He pulled out a thick file.The label was simple.TIFFANY BENNETT.My stomach turned.Damian reached for it.I grabbed his wrist.“Wait.”He

  • Signed, Sealed, Seduced?   Several Seconds

    TIFFANYFor several seconds, I couldn’t move. I stared at the message on my phone until the words blurred.Your father didn’t sell Bennett Interiors to Victor.He sold it to Ashley.My fingers tightened around the phone.Ashley.The woman who had spent weeks trying to destroy my marriage.The woman who had attacked Bennett Interiors.The woman who had somehow known things about my family that even I hadn’t known.The woman who had been watching me.The woman who had appeared beside my father.I looked at Damian. He was standing a few feet away, his expression unreadable as he stared at the photograph Ethan had pulled up on the computer.My father.Victor Hale.Richard.Ashley.All standing together.Six months before my wedding.Six months before Richard ever approached me with the marriage proposal.My stomach twisted.“How could Ashley own any part of Bennett Interiors?” I whispered.Ethan looked at me.“We don’t know that she does.”“But someone just told me she does.”“That doesn’

  • Signed, Sealed, Seduced?   Stop Staring

    TIFFANYI couldn’t stop staring at the photograph.“Who is that?”Damian zoomed in.“I don’t know.”“Ethan might.”He immediately called him.“Who is the man in the photograph?”There was a pause.Damian’s expression changed.“You’re sure?”Another pause.“Send me everything you have.”He ended the call.“Who is he?”Damian looked at me.“His name is Victor Hale.”My stomach tightened.“The same Victor Hale from the earlier photograph?”“Yes.”The man who had been connected to Ashford Group.The man whose photograph had appeared during the first scandal.“What does he have to do with Bennett Interiors?”“We’re about to find out.”We drove back to Bennett Interiors.This time, I barely noticed the journey.My mind was stuck on Richard’s letter.Six months before the marriage.A third party.Victor Hale.Ashley.My father.There was something connecting all of them.Something I’d never known about.When we arrived, Ethan was already waiting outside.He approached Damian immediately.“I

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