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Chapter 33: The Dinner
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Ava~~~Breathe, Ava.I rush into my room, stuffing anything I can into my duffel bag with Evie hot on my trail.“This is… how did… Oliver,” Evelyn stutters, and I can hear the warble in her voice from fear.I still feel this overwhelming sensation of being watched, but I push it aside and file it away as paranoia. Besides, there are bigger things to worry about.Like Oliver. Shot.Oliver. Was. Shot.“Ava!” Evelyn screams, and I jolt out of my reverie, zipping up my duffel bag before staring at her. Tears streak her angular face, reddening her beautiful blue eyes.“Is he going to live? Is— is Oliver going to live?!”I feel words clump in my throat. “I— I— Yes.”Evie points a shaky finger at me. “You stuttered! You don’t think so.”“I can’t know, Evelyn. Not until we get there. I can’t—”“Why him!” she yells suddenly, her hands knitting in her strawberry-blonde hair. “What has he ever done? I don’t—”I rush to her, placing both hands on her shoulders. We’ve never been like this—me the
These Reckless Vows: The Billionaire's Bride Chapter 35: The Argument
Ava ~~~ “Nicco Moretti,” Leonel murmurs for the sixth time, spiking irritation through me as we sort out the guest list for the soirée next week. We’re in the art room only because Leonel insisted we sort through our guests in the office, and I felt like rebelling. All his bemoaning about Nicco made me want to push back against him, so I said I’d only do it in the art room. Instead of fighting me, however, he came here with Evie and Oliver. And he did not stop complaining. “Of course my parents would make me co-host with damn Nicco Moretti,” he grumbles.Oliver turns to him. “They’re doing it because he’s popular, not because they know you hate him.” “I don’t hate him,” Leonel says far too quickly. I almost let out a chuckle, but then I remembered sourly that this has been his constant since his parents came three days ago. We even did a photoshoot the day after his parents left, and still, all Leonel could talk about was Nicco. “You sound like you hate him,” I murmur, crossi
These Reckless Vows: The Billionaire's Bride Chapter 34: The Goodbyes
Ava~~~The dinner goes on in tense silence. The only sound that reverberates around the room is Leonel’s mother’s voice, trying to compel her son and husband to talk to one another.Each time she tries with Leonel, he answers her softly, but her husband seems nearly ready to kill her each time she calls his attention, and a terrible instinct I have says there are very many instances in which he nearly has.I look down at my meal through it all, especially when Alexander tries hard to rope me into conversation, only seeming glad to talk to me for some odd reason. Each time he does, I swear Leonel’s jaw gets tighter, and his hand around mine squeezes more firmly.But none of that matters right now. What plays in my head is a name—Nicco’s name.Nicco Moretti and I are going to plan the Soirée together.I remember our last correspondence—the message he sent me that I never replied to—telling me he’d see me whenever he was in America.Well, looks like he’s going to be in America.I try to
These Reckless Vows: The Billionaire's Bride Chapter 33: The Dinner
Leonel~~~I should have never asked her to change.Not if I knew my fucking father would look at her like she was a piece of fine meat. Not if I knew he would stand to pull a seat for her beside him. Not if I knew my mother—my soft-spoken, gentle mother—would shoot daggers at Ava, her grip tight on the champagne glass full of her third helping of wine.“Ava,” I grit out, right before she hesitantly sits in the chair my father pulled for her. They all look up at me, but it’s Ava’s confused green eyes I capture with mine.“Sit with me,” I command, leaving no room for argument. I see the urge to fight flash in her eyes, but whatever she sees in my grey ones stops her from throwing words at me.She smiles at my father politely, and in return, he bares a grin I know others will construe as charming, but I find deadly.“Sorry, Mr. Sinclair,” she says to my father gently, and my squeezed heart relaxes as she walks to me, my father looking like I slapped him.As Ava takes the seat beside me,
These Reckless Vows: The Billionaire's Bride Chapter 32: The Parents
Leonel ~~~ “Leo, darling,” my mother coos in her soft, subdued tone as she steps out of the limo, which drives to another side of the estate. I don’t waste time pulling her in for a tight hug. The smell of her rose perfume wafts into my nose, reminding me of my childhood. “Are you okay?” I whisper in her ear, careful not to let my father hear us. Her grip on me slackens and then falls away completely, and to my dismay, she pulls away from me, that smile she has perfected etched on her face. “I’m peachy, darling!” she chirps loudly. Too loudly. I grimace, knowing she’s doing it for that bastard’s benefit. “Why wouldn’t I be?” And then I see him. A wave of revulsion goes through me. He has my grey eyes and dark hair, but older, and, dare I say, more stone-cold. “Hello, Father,” I drone out. He doesn’t respond. Instead, he wraps an arm around my mother, who I watch flinch slightly, though she masks it by smiling up at him in a way that doesn’t reach her eyes. Her smiles never do.
These Reckless Vows: The Billionaire's Bride Chapter 31: The outfit
Ava ~~~ Am I being watched?I pull up the pantyhose Evelyn suggested I wear to meet Sinclair’s parents and tighten my red hair into an unnaturally stiff bun. When I look in the mirror, I grimace.I don’t look bad, per se; I just don’t look like myself either. I think this pink suit and skirt with the pantyhose beneath it makes me look like an out-of-touch rich woman, the sort of woman mum would laugh at. My heart squeezes at the thought of her, and I fiddle with the green necklace I have to keep in my pocket ’cause I don’t think it’d go with the outfit.Still, all this is at the back of my mind because I could swear I’m being watched right now.“It’s just a paranoid feeling, Ava,” I tell myself. “How would anyone be watching you?”I hear a soft knock on my door that slices through my overthinking.“Who is it?” I yell in the direction of the knock.“Mi Valienta, are you ready?” the voice answers.Despite how anxious I feel, a smile finds its way to my face. Ever since Sinclair and I
These Reckless Vows: The Billionaire's Bride HIM
HIM ~~~ If you want to get someone as complicated as Jade back, you have to rely on a complicated strategy. Thanks to that fool Brian Riggs, I was able to obtain the address of the bastard holding my sweet Jade hostage. I can’t believe she’s with none other than that Axion Tech billionaire. At first, that pissed me off because it made things a little more complicated. One millionaire isn’t so bad. One billionaire is a bit tougher. But Leonel Sinclair is notorious for being the billionaire of all billionaires, and I’d be a fool not to take that into consideration. But then again, I know a thing or two about Leonel Sinclair that might be enough to tear my Jade away from him. A secret that’ll make her realize how monstrous he truly is. But I’ll leave that for now. First, I need her back. Once you have an address, the next step is to infiltrate the house, but I’ve seen the new security Sinclair hired, and there’s no getting past them. Not unless you have a man on the inside.
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Ava PRESENT ~~~ My mouth hangs wide open by the time Leonel finishes his story. I can tell it was not one he was proud to tell; his head of dark hair hung low, using the documents in front of him as a convenient distraction. “The lies she told about me only got worse by the time she left the mansion,” he said, his voice devoid of emotion. “Suddenly, I had people calling me a drunk, even though I only drank on special occasions, and sometimes they painted this picture that made me seem violent—” “But you’re not!” I finally cut in. I’d let him talk for hours uninterrupted, but the itch to defend him finally broke through my silence. “You’ve only ever been violent when necessary. That’s bullshit!” He looked up at me finally, as if he was seeing me clearly for the first time. “You believe me?” This was an important question. There was the very real possibility Leonel Sinclair was lying to me, and had fabricated this whole story to get me on his side. But that’s the thing—S
These Reckless Vows: The Billionaire's Bride Chapter 29: The Cheater
Leonel 4 YEARS AGO. ~~~ Nothing good can ever come from Oliver Carter holding a brown envelope. Even though he just finished law school, his big brain precedes him, meaning he’s been good at fishing out the truth long before he got his diploma. And whatever is sitting in that envelope is the truth. “What are you doing in my room, man?” I ask, chuckling to avoid the sense of impending doom that has settled in my gut as I watch him sit in his pristine suit, looking at me like he’s about to tell me my wife died. “Leonel, boss, maybe you should sit down for this?” he urges gently. There’s no familiar playfulness in his tone or characteristic Carter humour in his face, and that only worries me more. I loosen my tie a bit to get some air, then mentally berate myself for doing so—my darling Madison hates when I look unkempt. “Look, man, maybe we should do this after the Sinclair Soirée?” I tell him, and as if on cue, cheers from the living room where it’s happening shake the
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