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She’s Alive.

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The Sterling living room had never felt so small.

Damien stood just inside the doorway with his weight on the crutches and his casted leg angled carefully out, and he felt every pair of eyes in the room land on him at once. Mrs. Sterling's wet, searching gaze. Lauren's expression tightening the moment she saw the crutches. April, who had been half-off the couch and went very still. And Mr. Sterling, who had turned his wheelchair toward the door and was looking at Damien with the slow, careful a
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  • The Scorned Wife’s Revenge: Claimed By His Ruthless Uncle   Still in Denial.

    Jonathan Cole had not raised his voice in eleven years. He had found, over the course of a long career, that a quiet tone with the right weight behind it was more effective than volume in almost every situation. Volume was for people who hadn't yet learned that they were already the most powerful person in the room so he sat at the head of the dining table in the Cole mansion, still in the suit jacket he'd worn to the meeting, and he said nothing for long enough that the silence did all the preliminary work for him.Albert sat at his left, arms folded, watching Amber with the particular expression of a husband who knows his wife and is not proud of what he knows right now.Marie stood across the table, her back straight and chin elevated. She had the posture of a woman who had decided before she walked in that she wasn't going to apologize for anything.Amber stood beside her, weight on one hip, and her arms crossed obviously bored but trying hard not to let it show. "You guys made h

  • The Scorned Wife’s Revenge: Claimed By His Ruthless Uncle   She’s Alive.

    The Sterling living room had never felt so small.Damien stood just inside the doorway with his weight on the crutches and his casted leg angled carefully out, and he felt every pair of eyes in the room land on him at once. Mrs. Sterling's wet, searching gaze. Lauren's expression tightening the moment she saw the crutches. April, who had been half-off the couch and went very still. And Mr. Sterling, who had turned his wheelchair toward the door and was looking at Damien with the slow, careful attention of a man who knew something was wrong and was waiting for someone to stop pretending otherwise.The silence stretched. Two seconds. Three.Mr. Sterling was the first to speak, "Where's Ava?"Nobody answered. Lauren opened her mouth but she couldn't say anything. April looked at the floor. Mrs. Sterling's hand tightened around the glass she was still holding.Mr. Sterling's eyes moved around the room and came back to Damien. "And whose body got burnt?" He said it quieter this time. More

  • The Scorned Wife’s Revenge: Claimed By His Ruthless Uncle   Adrian’s Location.

    Ava had admired it too. She'd told him once that Clara was the most honest person in any room because she didn't know how to perform feelings she wasn't having. He had thought at the time that it was a generous description of someone who yelled across the studio floor but he thought about it differently now.He thought about the first time Ava had walked into this studio, years before any of this, before Adrian, before Damien, before all of it. She had been nervous, holding it together so tightly you could see the effort if you knew what to look for. He had seen it. He had hired her anyway, or perhaps because of it.He had never told her that. He wished now, with the particular sharpness of wishes that come too late, that he had.He let himself sit in the quiet a little longer…with the photograph…with what was.He put his hand on the door handle and stopped there for one more second, collecting himself. He thought about the first time Ava had walked into a room he was already in and r

  • The Scorned Wife’s Revenge: Claimed By His Ruthless Uncle   Burned.

    Victor sat across from Lauren on the smaller couch, elbows on his knees, watching the family he'd just driven home fall into a silence too heavy to break with words. Mrs. Sterling's scraped palms were wrapped now, tended to quickly in the kitchen before any of them could think too hard about how she'd gotten the scrapes in the first place. April hadn't moved from her spot on the couch in twenty minutes, knees still drawn to her chest, eyes fixed on nothing.Above them, somewhere on the second floor, Mr. Sterling's medical equipment hummed its same steady rhythm, undisturbed. His night nurse had checked in once, quietly, and Lauren had practically begged her with her eyes to keep whatever she'd overheard from spreading any further than the hallway. The woman had nodded once and disappeared back upstairs, and Lauren had allowed herself exactly three seconds of relief before the next wave of dread set back in.Nobody had eaten…nobody had even suggested it. The idea of food felt obscen

  • The Scorned Wife’s Revenge: Claimed By His Ruthless Uncle   The Headline

    The headline filled the screen in stark block letters: STERLING FAMILY TURNED AWAY FROM COLE ESTATE AMID GRIEF…SECURITY THREATENS TO REMOVE GRIEVING MOTHER. Beneath it, a grainy photo of April pressed against the gate, mouth open mid-scream, her knuckles white around the bars."Dude, what the hell?" Lucas's frown deepened as he scrolled further, finding a second article, then a third, the story already metastasizing across every outlet that could get a camera within a mile of the estate.Damien didn't answer. He was already moving, throwing the blanket aside, his casted leg swinging off the bed before Lucas could so much as set the phone down."Damien…""Tell the doctors to get me crutches." His voice came out rough, urgent, nothing like the careful, controlled tone he usually used in every room he ever walked into. "You've got to take me to the Sterling house. Please, Lucas."Damien pleaded "Your leg just got reset two days ago. You can't put weight on it, the doctor was very clear…"

  • The Scorned Wife’s Revenge: Claimed By His Ruthless Uncle   Aged Overnight

    Victor was out of his car before it had fully stopped, his jacket flying open as he ran toward them, leaving the driver's door hanging wide behind him."Are you alright?" His eyes found Lauren first, scanning her for damage before sweeping to Mrs. Sterling who was still trembling against her, knees scraped and eyes hollow."I'm fine." Lauren's voice cracked on the word, the first sign all night that she wasn't, not really, not even close, "We need to get Mom home…now, before April does something that gets her arrested."Victor didn't ask questions, he simply nodded and moved to help Mrs. Sterling into his car with a gentleness that made something in Lauren's chest ache even through the panic. She turned to April and pulled her away from the gate without a backward glance at the cameras still rolling, still hungry for one more shot of someone else's worst night. Victor drove off and Lauren was left with April who had gone quiet in a way that frightened her. “But Ava…”April muttered

  • The Scorned Wife’s Revenge: Claimed By His Ruthless Uncle   Empty House.

    Livia swayed lightly to the rhythm of soft music that played in the background, a glass of champagne held delicately between her fingers as she moved across her living room.The lights were dim, casting a warm golden glow that reflected off the polished surfaces around her, everything felt… perfect

  • The Scorned Wife’s Revenge: Claimed By His Ruthless Uncle   Cautious.

    The weather gave signs of impending rain but people still went about their daily business like it was just a bluff till the rain started without warning. It wasn’t gentle, not the kind that whispered against glass like a lullaby. It came down hard, loud, unapologetic, drenching the city in seconds.

  • The Scorned Wife’s Revenge: Claimed By His Ruthless Uncle   Meet Up.

    Livia sat on the edge of her bed, she looked pale and still, too still. Her phone rested loosely in her hand, but her mind wasn’t there. It was stuck, looping and repeating the hurtful words Adrian threw at her during Damien’s birthday party. Days have passed but she still couldn't get over it.“…I

  • The Scorned Wife’s Revenge: Claimed By His Ruthless Uncle   Involvement.

    Adrian had just ended a meeting when his phone buzzed again. He glanced at the screen briefly before tossing it back on the table, irritation flickering across his face because it was an unknown number.It buzzed again.And again.“Mr. Cole?” one of the board members called cautiously, noticing his

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