Lahat ng Kabanata ng under his control : Kabanata 41 - Kabanata 46

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

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

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