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The Widow's Game

The Widow's Game

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last updateLast Updated : 2026-05-31
By:  Lola RaeOngoing
Language: English
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Dark Romance

Sister-in-law

Intelligent

Forbidden Love

Hate to Love

At her husband's funeral, Evangeline Thorn should be grieving. Instead, she's plotting murder. Daniel Harrow died in a building collapse that killed seventeen workers—a collapse Evangeline believes was caused by his older brother's criminal negligence. Nathaniel Harrow is everything Daniel wasn't: ruthless, powerful, and dangerously magnetic. He built a billion-dollar empire on corruption, and Evangeline is certain he killed his own brother to secure control of the family fortune. She should hate him. She does hate him. So why does she show up at his penthouse the night of the funeral? What begins as a violent seduction becomes a twisted game of psychological warfare. Evangeline will gather evidence, destroy Nathaniel's empire, and make him pay for every life he's taken. But Nathaniel has been obsessed with her since the day she married his brother—and he's been waiting for her to make the first move. As they circle each other like predators, secrets unravel: the surveillance he's kept on her for years, the pregnancy that could belong to either brother, the betrayals that run deeper than murder. In this deadly game of revenge and obsession, the only question is: who will destroy whom first? Or will they destroy each other?

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86 Chapters
Chapter 1: The Perfect Widow
Evangeline's Pov"She was holding up remarkably well.""Poor thing. So young to be a widow.""I heard she got his shares now."The whispers followed me like flies, and I let them because that’s what widows did. We floated through rooms in black dresses and let people say whatever they needed to say to make themselves feel better about death.I stood beside the casket with my hands folded and my head bowed. I counted the board members as they filed past, twelve of them showed up. Three were missing, I memorized who looked guilty, who looked scared, and who already seemed to be calculating how this changed the power structure at Harrow Industries.Daniel was in that box, and all they could think about was money and shares and who controlled what now. I should have been disgusted, but I was doing the same math, so maybe I didn’t get to judge."Mrs Harrow."The voice cut through the room like a knife, and everyone went quiet, not the respectful funeral quiet, but the prey-animal quiet whe
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Chapter 2: The Night I Should've Stayed Away
Evangeline's PovI stood outside his penthouse door, my hand shaking on the buzzer, but I pressed it anyway, and the sound cut through the quiet hallway like a scream. The door opened fast, and there he was, Nathaniel, still in his black suit from the funeral, his tie loose, and his eyes hard. He looked at me and didn’t say a word at first, just stepped aside so I could come in, and I did, my heels clicking on the marble floor.“You shouldn’t be here,” he said and closed the door behind me, the click sounding final.“I know,” I said and turned to face him, my voice didn’t shake even if my hands wanted to. “But I’m here anyway.”He stared at me, his eyes going from my face down to my black dress and back up again, and I saw something flicker there, something dark. “What do you want, Evangeline?”“I want answers,” I said and stepped closer, and he didn’t move back. “I want to know what happened to Daniel.”“You think I’ll give them to you?” he asked, his mouth twisting a little, not qui
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Chapter 3: Thirty Percent Widow
Evangeline's Pov“Mrs Harrow, if you’ll sign here.”The lawyer slid some papers across his fancy mahogany desk, and I stared at them like they might bite me. His office smelled like old books and expensive leather and coffee that had been sitting too long. My head was pounding from not sleeping and thinking way too much about last night and things I shouldn’t have done.I slept with my husband’s brother six hours after his funeral. Now, I was sitting in a lawyer’s office pretending I was a respectable widow who made respectable choices.“What exactly am I signing?” My voice sounded hollow even to me.“The transfer documents. Daniel’s shares in Harrow Industries are now legally yours. Thirty percent, like his will says.” The lawyer was old and gray and looked like he’d seen everything twice. “There’s one condition, though.”Of course there was. Nothing in this family came without strings.“What kind of condition?”“If you remarry within three years of Daniel’s death, the shares go auto
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Chapter 4: Sleeping With the Enemy
Evangeline’s PovI got an invite on my phone while I was still in bed, and the text just said, “Company dinner tonight, eight sharp, wear black.” I knew it wasn’t a real dinner because Nathaniel never asked, he only told.I put on a simple black dress and no jewelry and drove myself to the tower. The valet took my keys, and I walked inside. The elevator went straight to the top floor where the boardroom was.Nathaniel stood at the head of the table, and the board members were already there. They all turned when I came in. He smiled like he owned the room and me.“Evangeline, this is your seat,” he said and pulled out the chair right next to him. I sat down and felt every eye on me.“Thank you,” I said. I looked around and smiled small and sweet like the widow they expected.The older man across from me cleared his throat and said, “Our condolences again, Mrs Harrow.” I nodded and said, “Thank you, it means a lot.” But inside, I wanted to scream.Nathaniel leaned close, and his breath
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Chapter 5: The Warning
Evangeline's PovI stared at the note for the fifth time, my hands wanted to shake, but I would not let them because that would mean whoever sent this had won already, and I was not going to let that happen.The paper was thick and expensive. The kind you could only get from office supply closets in places like Harrow Industries, and the handwriting was careful and neat except for three words where the pen had pressed down harder, like whoever wrote this was angry or scared or both.But that was not what made my stomach feel like ice. My brain starts working overtime because anyone could have written those word, anyone could have been angry about a widow asking questions. But the details were what mattered and the details were very specific.The note mentioned the south site and Daniel's shares. It mentioned safety reports, those three things together meant only one thing which was that whoever sent this knew exactly what I was looking for. That meant they were inside the company, and
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Chapter 6: Predator’s Guilt
Nathaniel's PovI sat in my office on the forty second floor and watched the surveillance footage for the third time. Every time I watched it, I liked what I saw more because Evangeline was not acting like a grieving widow anymore, she was acting like someone who had a plan.The footage showed her walking through the lobby at two fifteen yesterday afternoon and she had worn sunglasses even though it was cloudy and she had kept her head down like she did not want to be recognized and that was smart but not smart enough because I had cameras everywhere and I saw everything that happened in my building.She walked out the glass doors and onto the street and then she met a man I did not recognize and they talked for maybe ninety seconds before walking away together toward the coffee shop on Fifth and Market.I paused the video and zoomed in on the man's face and studied it because faces told you things if you knew how to look.Asian, probably forty or forty five, wearing a suit that was c
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Chapter 7: Coffee with Stranger
Evangeline's PovMarcus Chen did not look like a private investigator and that was probably why he was good at his job because if he looked like what he was then nobody would ever tell him anything.He looked like someone's uncle who worked at an insurance company and went home every night to watch television, drink beer and complain about his back. That was exactly the kind of person nobody paid attention to which meant he could ask questions and nobody noticed.We sat in the back corner of a coffee shop six blocks from Harrow Tower and I had picked a table where I could see both exits because Marcus had told me to always know how to leave a room and I was starting to understand why."You were careful getting here?" he asked, his voice was quiet even though there was no
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Chapter 8: The First Test
Nathaniel's PovI sat in my office and watched the access logs update in real time. It was better than any surveillance camera because it told me exactly what Evangeline was thinking just by showing me what files she opened and how long she spent reading them.She had logged into the company system at nine thirty this morning and for the past forty minutes she had been clicking through files with the kind of careful deliberate movement that told me she knew someone was watching.Smart.Most people would have gone straight for the obvious targets like the procurement records or the safety inspection failures but she was moving through the system like someone who understood that the first test was always about whether you were stupid enough to show your hand immediately.
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Chapter 9: Daniel's Laptop
Evangeline's PovI sat at Daniel's desk for the third night in a row and stared at his laptop like it was going to bite me, maybe it would because every time I opened it I found something else that made me hate him a little more.The first layer of encryption had been easy to crack because Daniel was predictable, he used passwords that meant something to him like his mother's birthday or the address of the house he grew up in or the name of his first dog.I had tried all of those and the one that worked was his mother's maiden name plus the year he graduated college and when the screen unlocked I felt a sick sort of satisfaction because even in death Daniel was exactly who I thought he was.Weak and predictable and so desperate to be the good son that he got himself kill
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Chapter 10: Dinner with Wolves
Evangeline's Pov The text came at six pm when I was already dressed for Nathaniel's penthouse, it said change of plans and an address I did not recognize and nothing else.I stared at my phone and thought about ignoring it but that would mean letting Nathaniel win whatever game he was playing so I changed into something more formal and called a cab.The address was a private club in midtown that had no sign on the door and required a membership that cost more than most people made in a year and when I walked in the host looked at me like I had made a mistake."I am here with Nathaniel Harrow," I said.His expression changed immediately and he smiled the way people smile when they realize you have money.
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