Being his wife for three years, she receives nothing but insult and maltreat. No one treats her as the hostess of the family. Instead, she needs to take all the housework to satisty everyone. Even so, they still believe that she doesn't deserve her husband. But so what? She doesn't care how others see her. She would be more than satisfied and happy as long as he is with her. But does everything happen as her wish? The answer is no! Until a divorce paper is thrown on her face, she realizes that he never loves her during their marriage. Not a slice of love! All hope smashed, she takes off the docile mask which she thinks he might like and returns to her families. When she shows up at the ball, her glamour and confidence attract all the attention. Everyone wonders why she is permitted to attend. Yet her true identity makes their jaws drop. The poor girl from countryside turns out to be the daughter of the richest and the most mysterious family! Who could believe that?! Her former mother-in-law begs her to come back. Those who taunted her try to get her forgiveness. And her ex-husband wants her back and requests for a second chance.
View MoreChapter 48The morning was clear, the sky polished and blue as if it had been scrubbed clean overnight.But inside Avery, everything remained murky.The words from her father’s letter echoed in her chest like a soft war drum. Let yourself feel something real… Even if it breaks you. She had read those lines again before dressing, folding the paper back into its wooden box as carefully as if it might tear from too much handling.It didn’t feel like a letter.It felt like a permission slip she hadn’t asked for.Now, walking through the glass halls of Star Technologies, her heels clicking with quiet authority, Avery kept her expression unreadable. Staff nodded to her as she passed. Assistants stepped aside. Even the CEO’s suite—once her father’s, now hers—felt different this morning.As if it were holding its breath.Inside her office, Justin was already waiting. He looked up from his tablet, studying her with the same measured calm he always used when something deeper stirred beneath her
Chapter 47The morning was hushed.No clatter from the kitchen. No footsteps across the marble floors. Even the wind outside seemed to move more gently, brushing against the windows like a whisper rather than a knock.Avery sat at the small writing desk in her father’s old study—the one he’d rarely used in recent years, but had insisted on keeping untouched. The air still held the faint scent of cedar and old ink, a fragrance that had once clung to the folds of his suits and the pages of the books he never loaned out.She hadn’t intended to be here. But after a restless night and an early rise, her feet had carried her to the room like muscle memory. Like the quiet ache of a daughter reaching for something she could no longer hold.The sun was only beginning to peek through the clouds, casting long shadows across the floor. A tea tray sat at her elbow, untouched. Steam curled softly into the still air.On the desk in front of her lay a box.Small. Wooden. Locked with a simple brass cl
Chapter 46 The message came just before midnight.Three words. No punctuation. No flourish.Come to dinner.Tamer stared at the screen of his phone, the glow of it pale against the dark of his apartment. He was still dressed from the evening—tie undone, shirt sleeves rolled up, a half-finished glass of whiskey warming on the edge of the coffee table.He read the message again.Then a third time.No explanation. No date or time or place. But he understood. He didn’t need details. He knew where she meant.Rodrigo Manor.He leaned back in his armchair, exhaling slowly as the gravity of it settled around him. It wasn’t just a dinner. It was a test. An invitation into a world she’d kept sealed even after she said yes to his proposal.This wasn’t about business.It wasn’t even about strategy.This was personal.And it rattled him.He had played the long game with Avery Rodrigo, never once expecting it would be easy—but always assuming he held the upper hand. He was the one pretending. He w
Chapter 45The Rodrigo estate had always been grand—crafted with cold stone, heavy wooden doors, and stained glass windows that filtered light like confessionals. But today, as Avery stepped out of her car and walked toward the front entrance, the house felt quieter.Less like an empire.More like a farewell.The nurses had wheeled Richard Rodrigo through those same double doors just hours earlier. Against the advice of every doctor, every specialist, every desperate voice pleading for a few more days of monitored care, he had signed his own discharge.He wanted to die at home.Not in a bed surrounded by machines.Avery stepped into the foyer with careful footsteps. There was no music. No bustle of staff. Just the soft echo of her heels against marble and the weight of time pressing in from every corner.Justin was already waiting near the staircase. He gave her a quiet nod.“He’s in the garden,” he said. “With Shane.”She handed him her coat and walked without speaking.Outside, the
Chapter 45The Rodrigo estate had always been grand—crafted with cold stone, heavy wooden doors, and stained glass windows that filtered light like confessionals. But today, as Avery stepped out of her car and walked toward the front entrance, the house felt quieter.Less like an empire.More like a farewell.The nurses had wheeled Richard Rodrigo through those same double doors just hours earlier. Against the advice of every doctor, every specialist, every desperate voice pleading for a few more days of monitored care, he had signed his own discharge.He wanted to die at home.Not in a bed surrounded by machines.Avery stepped into the foyer with careful footsteps. There was no music. No bustle of staff. Just the soft echo of her heels against marble and the weight of time pressing in from every corner.Justin was already waiting near the staircase. He gave her a quiet nod.“He’s in the garden,” he said. “With Shane.”She handed him her coat and walked without speaking.Outside, the
The next morning broke behind a thick curtain of clouds.Rain pressed lightly against the windows of the Rodrigo estate, a steady rhythm that muted the world outside into soft gray silence. Avery sat alone in the breakfast lounge, the long table set for a dozen but touched only by her presence.She hadn’t slept.Not truly.Even hours after she’d left Elise’s glittering world of laughter, velvet, and champagne, the image of the kiss refused to leave her mind. Not just the kiss itself, but the moment afterward—the one that twisted deeper.When she looked at Tamer and felt something she hadn’t expected to feel.Possession. Resentment. Vulnerability.It had slithered into her like smoke and wrapped around the very core of her. And she hated how it lingered.The soft clink of porcelain interrupted her thoughts. Justin entered the room, carrying a folder in one hand and her preferred tea in the other.“I assumed you’d be up early,” he said.“I never slept,” she murmured.Justin placed the f
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