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Ava’s POVI didn’t sleep that night.Liam lay beside me, his chest rising and falling in a steady rhythm, but my eyes stayed open in the dark, fixed on the ceiling that seemed too heavy, too close. Every time I shut them, I saw Morgan’s bruised face on that frozen video feed. His warning. His loyalty. His pain.The choice Liam carried wasn’t his alone it was mine too. Because if King tore Morgan apart to punish Liam, then the blood was also on my hands.Morning came like a dull blade dragging across skin slow, relentless, impossible to avoid. By the time the sun bled through the curtains, Liam was already moving, cold water splashing in the sink, his shirt buttoned wrong because his mind wasn’t here.I watched him. Not the perfect CEO everyone else knew, not the ruthless wolf the world feared but the man who had carried me, who had burned for me, who now bore too much weight for one body to hold.And here’s the truth: I loved him more in that moment than I ever had before. Not because
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Liam’s POVThe war was no longer creeping at the edges it was inside the walls, tearing at everything I’d built.Morgan was gone. King had him. The message had arrived like a blade to the chest: a grainy video of Morgan bound to a chair, his face bloodied but his chin still lifted with defiance. King’s voice echoed in the background, smug and calculated.“You want him alive, Carter? Bring me Ava. One life for the other. You can’t keep both.”The screen went black, but the echo of it remained.For hours I paced the suite, unable to think, unable to sit. My father’s death, Jessica’s betrayal, and Victoria’s schemes were one thing. But Morgan? He was my brother in everything but blood. He’d been there since the beginning, standing beside me when no one else did.And Ava. Ava who’d walked through fire for me. Ava whose touch had become the only thing keeping me from falling apart.The choice was simple on the surface. Save Morgan, or protect Ava. But the truth was cruel: either way, King
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Ava’s POVThe video played on the massive screen in front of us, and the room fell into a silence that weighed more than the smoke still hanging in the ruins of Carter West.Jessica’s face filled the screen. Her hair was perfect, her voice steady, her lies smooth as silk.“I worked for Liam Carter long enough to know how far he’ll go to protect his empire. What happened at Carter West wasn’t Edward King it was Liam. He staged it. He burned his own company to win sympathy. He’s dangerous. He’s unhinged. And now, he’s hiding from the truth.”My stomach turned, but I kept my face blank. I’d learned the hard way that masks kept you alive.When the video ended, the board members shifted uneasily in their seats. Investors would see this by morning. Public opinion would tilt, not because it was true, but because it was easy to believe. Jessica had always been good at slipping knives into people’s backs without them noticing until they bled.Beside me, Liam didn’t flinch. He leaned back in h
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Liam’s POVThe smoke hadn’t cleared by morning, and neither had the chaos.Carter West headquarters was scarred, its glass skeleton cracked and burned, but it wasn’t the only thing left bleeding. By sunrise, the war wasn’t just ours anymore it belonged to the public. News vans crowded the streets, their cameras turning every ruined corner of the building into a spectacle. Helicopters hovered above, catching aerial shots of destruction. Headlines were already spreading like wildfire.Attack on Carter West.Edward King strikes back.Billionaire war goes public.And then came the board.They arrived in black cars, one after another, their polished shoes stepping carefully around broken glass. Some looked shaken, others furious, but all of them looked at me the same way as if I was no longer a shield for the company, but the bullet tearing it apart.In the conference room that hadn’t been destroyed, they surrounded me.“Enough,” one of them snapped. “You’ve turned Carter West into a
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Liam’s POVThe night sky was burning.I watched from the rooftop as Carter West headquarters turned into a battlefield. The glass towers that once symbolized power and control now shook under the sound of gunfire and exploding charges. Men shouted from below, their voices swallowed by the smoke that rose in dark plumes across the skyline.They had followed us. King’s men. He had let us escape, and like fools, we had run straight into his trap.Inside the building, the alarms wailed. Red lights flickered against walls that had once been polished with marble pride. Now, they were cracked, stained with ash. My people—my employees, my security team, the staff who had believed Carter West was untouchable—were running, hiding, screaming.And through it all, Ava stood like fire in human form.She held a weapon in her hand, her hair wild from the chaos, her eyes alive with a determination that scared me and saved me all at once. She wasn’t the woman who had been a prisoner in Edward King’s ca
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Liam’s POVThe first shot rang out before we even hit the gates.My men fanned out, black-clad shadows under the floodlights, cutting through King’s guards with cold efficiency. But all I could hear was the pounding of my own heartbeat. It was a drum inside my chest, wild and broken, pushing me forward harder than the bullets flying past my ears.Ava.That name was the only thing keeping me upright. The only thing that had carried me through the weeks of rage, the nights of doubt, the days I’d stared at the empty space in my bed and wondered if she’d ever breathe again.And then Morgan cracked the lead. A whisper, a trail, a location buried under too many layers of lies. It had brought me here, and if it was another trap, I didn’t care. I’d burn this place down brick by brick until I had her in my arms again.“Second wing cleared!” one of the men barked through comms.“Third wing moving!” another cut in.I ignored them. My eyes were locked on the main hall, its glass doors glowing fai
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