INICIAR SESIÓNIvan's pov.I stared at Lila in disbelief, before letting out a short, humorless laugh. “Repeat that.”Lila looked at me from head to toe in very fast eye movements, before turning back to her friend. “You're in support of the decision I made, right?”“Chill mama,” Ava said, but it sounded so sexy in my voice. “We can't just do that out of the blue, do you think we have not considered it?”“The more reason why should open up to someone or maybe family at least.” Lila stood firm on the decision she had made.I leaned back and watched them talk, it was safer not to get involved in this.“Have you thought about what would happen if they do find out?” Ava asked. “I'll tell you for free, they're all going to freak the hell out.”“How are you two going to work this out if it stays between the both of you?” Lila asked, then turned to me.”I'm certain this was all you idea, so burst my brain.”“What did I do now?” I asked, with a raised voice.“You did nothing and that's the reason why it's so
Ava's pov.“What does that mean, Ms. Lila?” I asked, trying to act like I did not understand what she meant.“You're getting very good at acting, girl!!” She came over to where I sat, leaving Ivan alone. “There are certain things you just can't hide from me.”“Ava, I think you should caution your friend. She is being a little too close for comfort.” I told Ivan, but he looked fed up.Ivan gave me a look that said he was fed up with the whole drama. “I bet she knows, so just tell her already.”If Lila knows she might blow this whole thing up, so I decided to pull this on for a while. “What are you talking about, babe?”Lila stiffened a laugh, like she was watching some stand up comedy.“Look at her, Ava.” Ivan pointed at my crazy friend rolling with laughter on the floor. “She freaking knows!”“Okay, hold on guys.” Lila tried to keep a secret face on. “I don't know anything, what are you going on about bestie?”She tried to touch Ivan's hair, but he smacked her hand before she could g
Ava's pov.Ivan waited until we were in the car, before asking but I could tell he was concerned.What do you mean by tampered?” He whispered, when I was still on call with Elena.He sat forward, straining to hear Elena's voice through the phone, but due to how delicate the matter was I had dropped it out of loudspeaker mode.“Put it on speaker.”he mouthed to me, as I shit him a look but complied, tapping the screen. Elena's voice filled the car, she was trying to sound professional but I could still feel the panic in her voice.“Sir, there's an additional clause in section twelve that wasn't there this morning. It changes the equity split in the merger by nearly four percent, in favor of the other party.”“That's not possible.” I said. “The file was locked after signing, you told me that.”“Yes sir, that's what worries me. Someone with backend access modified it after the signing.”“Could it be my Uncle Victor? He was just here, throwing around plenty of insider information he shoul
Ava's pov.Ivan looked at me with my face, like I was telling him a joke. “There's no way you did that, I mean you literally had no time to—”“Yeah, about time, I kinda just asked Elena to go on with it, she's a sweetheart.” I said in one breath.“There were reasons, good reasons why I did not approve that. Why would you do something like this behind my back and leave me in the dark until now? The people at the company are going to start thinking, I can't stick with a decision and I'm being biased—”“That's too much for me to follow, I stopped at reason.” I said with a smirk. “What did you say after that?”“Ava!!” “Keep it down, your mother might be listening in on us. Can we go to your room?”His hands instinctively crossed on his body. “What are you thinking about?”“Nothing Princess, I just want to rest and we should spend that in your room, which is now mine,” I stood up, yawning. “I feel like sleeping in for the rest of the day.”“It's afternoon, that's too early.”“I'm talking
Ivan's pov.“We don't want any visitors,” I said the second Gerald mentioned it was Olivia. “Tell her to leave.”“I tried, Ma'am. She says she won't, not until she speaks with the both of you.”Ava turned to me, with an expression that made it clear she had questions I did not have the patience to answer. “Who is Olivia? You never gave me the full story, just the two year old mistake summary.”“It's not relevant right now.”“It's relevant, considering she's standing at your gate demanding an audience.”I sighed, pinching the bridge of my nose. “She's someone I dated for a short time before everything with our families got arranged. It ended in a bad way and she has a habit of resurfacing at inconvenient moments ever since.”“Don't play with my nose like that!!” Ava whispered. “Moments like weddings, huh?”“Yes.” I admitted.“Gerald,” Ava said, leaning toward the intercom. “Let her in, we'll handle it in the front room.”“Ava?”“We can't just leave her standing at the gate making a sce
Ava's pov.“What does that even mean? Does he know?”“He doesn't know,” Ivan said, though the tightness he showed in my voice made it seem otherwise. “It's something he likes doing, especially when he's unsure. If we make any mistakes, he’ll use it.”“Well, congratulations, I'm definitely going to make a mistake soon.”“Stop joking around, Ava,” he looked at me with a worried expression. “We should stay calm and use our brain, in times like this ““Easy for you to say, your uncle isn't circling you like a shark.” I dropped my phone on the table in anger. “It's almost like I'm carrying the entire burden alone.”Ivan sighed, before talking. “He’s doing the same thing with both of us, I don't understand why you think it's just with you.”I sank back into the couch, closing my eyes and trying to imagine how life would have been if I ended up with Chris. Somewhere along the silly thoughts, I snapped back to the reality I was facing. “What do we do about the signature?” I asked.“Nothing,
“I'm here.” Ivan called out in the darkness.I tried moving in the direction of his voice but just then, the backup generator kicked in and light flooded the penthouse again.Everything looked normal apart from the weird pounding in my head, and the slight pain my leg was feeling.“Great!” Ivan rub
Ava’s pov.“Absolutely not!” I slammed the champagne flute I was holding on the marble counter, the sound was hard enough to make the silence in the penthouse crack.My fiance Ivan Cross, did not even blink at that, which made me even angrier. He stood across the room staring at me, as his hands lo
“She just wanted to know if I was getting cold feet about the wedding.” I told him bluntly. “Ignore her.” “I already did.” I studied his face for a while and saw how worried he made my face look. “You'll go through a lot with the makeup and everything, do you think you can handle it?” “How
The first thing I did, once I stopped screaming was sit down on the floor.It was the only alternative I had now, because there was every possibility that I could faint and get a concussion.I sat on the cold marble of the master bedroom floor in Ivan Cross's body and stared at the wall and breathe







