LOGIN“I loved you with everything I had... yet you chose my own stepsister?" Vionne Wallace's voice trembled with heartbreak. Her husband's response was a cold laugh. "Sign the divorce papers. Nora is the woman I love. You couldn't even give me a child." In one devastating day, Vionne loses everything. Her husband chooses her stepsister. Her father disowns her. The family she sacrificed everything for casts her aside like she never mattered. Heartbroken and humiliated, Vionne drowns her pain in alcohol... and wakes up in the arms of a dangerously handsome billionaire after one reckless night she can barely remember. She never expects to see him again. Until he walks into her father's mansion. Powerful. Untouchable. The one man her father has never been able to control. His best friend. Darien Callahan. When the people who destroyed Vionne try to humiliate her once more, Darien does the unthinkable. He claims her as his. What begins as a partnership fueled by revenge soon becomes something far more dangerous. Beneath Darien's cold exterior is a man willing to protect Vionne at any cost, while beneath Vionne's broken heart is a woman determined to rise stronger than the people who betrayed her. But revenge has a price. As buried secrets come to light and old enemies strike back, Vionne discovers that the man she's falling for has been hiding a devastating truth of his own. Will their love survive the lies between them? Or will her cheating ex-husband realize too late that the woman he threw away has become the one he'll spend the rest of his life begging to get back? Sometimes karma doesn't knock. Sometimes... it marries your dad's best friend.
View MoreVIONNE’S POVOh well.I came downstairs, and Darien Callahan seemed to be having a perfect time with his baby mama.Stunned, I stood watching their nonsense, like it was a K-drama.I hope you clearly understood? I said stunned, not jealous. Not angry.However, each moment got more interesting, varying from adjusting his collar to smoothing his shirt to a deep French kiss.Soraya, or Raya, as he would call her, actually thought all that would make me jealous or angry?Oh, come on. Get down there, witch.Witch is just a nickname I gave her. I swear we’re cool.Anyways, Darien should get ready to be stunned by me. Soon.Me, jealous?Not a woman like me, who was discarded by her father, divorced by the husband she loved so much, and left to start love all over again.However, I won’t deny the fact that I was floored by whatever I’d seen and astonished by how Darien seemed to be rich in character with their display.When she left, I was pretending to be on my phone, like I was unbothered,
DARIEN’S POVI walked out of her room when I was done with her.Bad thing, my body couldn’t stop reacting. It could no longer understand the concept of maintaining boundaries.Bad thing, it was deviating from the plan. Back there, I’d wanted to throw her on the bed and fuck the life out of her. Until breathing became dangerous for her.I didn’t want Vionne to see me as a man who couldn’t resist. As a man who was in love.Because she was gonna fucking use it against me. That’s what women do. Those other women did. I’m not making those mistakes anymore.The elevator beeped, disturbing my thoughts. I stepped out, walking into a small hallway, the white lights from the chandelier casting their glow on me and the marble tiles, too. I passed the hallway leading to the sitting room.Halfway into the sitting room, I heard a familiar, faint voice talking on the phone or probably to one of the workers.I halted. The voice was muffled.“…You’ve got to move fast with whatever details you have. We
VIONNE’S POVHe smiled. Actual smile. And was still smiling, even when I could see something in his eyes.This had been him in the past few weeks, always smiling, always checking up on me. Did I mention he’d actually gifted me three times? I still had the gifts. Hadn’t unboxed them yet.I wasn’t saying he hadn’t been nice to me. The care and love he’d shown me were massive, and you know what the scary and suspicious part was?I once said Zayn had dual characteristics. I think it’s a family thing. Darien can be good and bad to you at the same time.Honestly, his kindness these past few weeks was one of the reasons I was agreeing to what was happening today.Anyways, I was thrown into critical thinking immediately. Busy trying to understand. Busy trying to connect things, including Soraya’s display. Or what she was about to say.Was I gonna run or stay?No. I wouldn’t.If not for anything else, then for the thoughts I’d had yesterday. They made my hunger for revenge intense. You won’t w
VIONNE’S POVOh well, I haven’t turned yet. I haven’t panicked yet. Haven’t bothered yet.Because I know she wasn’t here to offer genuine congratulations.I remained as cold as ice and let her sway her beautiful waist as if she belonged here while she walked into my room, her eyes glaring murderously at me.I could see her through the large mirror.She halted a few steps away from me, taking me in.“I’m sure you’re supposed to be done with your little practice by now, isn’t that correct?” She scoffed, stepping closer, her face slightly scrunched up in disgust. “You can do better. Right, pretty?” she finished smugly.Good. She knows I’m pretty.However, a little introduction. Here comes the old witch. As mighty as the old serpent. As jealous as snow. As old as rock.Soraya.I was going to yell. I was going to demand to know which normal person barged into someone’s room and went straight to mocking them.But… I didn’t. I just let out a dry, amused laugh, adjusted my expensive red desig
Vionne’s Pov. I stood at the edge of our bedroom, my arms crossed tightly over my chest as I watched him. My heart was pounding, but not the way it used to when I looked at him. Not with love or warmth or hope. This pounding felt heavy. Cold. Like every beat was trying to push the pain out of me.
Vionne 's Pov. One month. That’s how long it had been since Harrison walked out and I signed those divorce papers. A whole month of trying to breathe normally again. I tried to pick myself up every morning and act like I was okay. I told myself I didn’t need him. I told myself he wasn’t worth my
Vionne 's Pov. The elevator ride to his hotel room was quiet, filled with the kind of tension that pressed into my chest and made my heart beat faster. I could feel his eyes on me as we rose floor after floor. He didn’t touch me, but his presence filled the small space like smoke. Heavy. Warm. Dan
Vionne 's Pov. After signing those papers. I thought there would be some kind of relief, some kind of freedom in finally letting go of Harrison. But instead, I felt nothing. Just this numb weight sitting on my chest, pressing into my lungs, making it hard to breathe. It was past eight when I f
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