All Chapters of Abandoned by my ex, Reclaimed by his boss: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

Chapter Two:LianaI stood frozen at the kitchen counter, my fingers clenching around the chipped mug of lukewarm coffee in my hands. The faint steam curled upward like the last remnants of something I couldn’t quite grasp. The mug felt heavy—too heavy, almost like it was full of everything I couldn’t carry anymore. My heart pounded in my chest, the weight of exhaustion and fear pressing down on me from all sides.The last few weeks had drained me more than I ever thought possible, but it was the kind of fatigue that ran deeper than mere physical wear. It was the kind of tiredness that settled into your bones, making it feel like every breath was a fight. I barely had time to catch my breath, much less deal with everything else. But tonight, I knew there was no escaping it.Emma was asleep in her room, a small, fragile figure under the thin, secondhand blanket I could barely afford. She deserved so much more than this—more than this crumbling apartment, more than the uncertainty that

Chapter Four ETHAN, I leaned back in my chair, a slow, amused smile tugging at the corners of my mouth as I watched the woman storm out. She was a wildfire—untamed, furious, unapologetically alive. The summons she had thrown onto my desk still sat there, a crumpled insult against the polished mahogany surface, but I didn’t mind. No, I admired it. In my world, women usually wilted under pressure. They simpered, they fawned, they plotted carefully behind plastic smiles, all calculated sweetness and veiled ambition. But this one? She burned. She confronted, she challenged, and she did it without the safety net of knowing who she was speaking to. That alone stirred something primitive and deeply territorial within me. A woman who didn’t shrink or scheme. A woman who dared to look me in the eye—before realizing her mistake, of course. I had caught the flicker in her gaze, the quick stiffening of her shoulders once the gravity of the situation hit her. Most people crumbled after tha

Chapter Six LIANA, The days since Ethan’s unexpected offer had blurred into one another, each moment stretching into a tangled mess of confusion and doubt. I hadn’t been able to sleep, to eat, to think clearly. Ethan’s words echoed in my mind, over and over again, like a constant reminder of the impossible decision hanging over me. Marry me. I’ll protect you. I’ll stop Damien from taking everything. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at the absurdity of it all. The man who had once been nothing more than a shadow in the background of my life was now offering me a way out of this nightmare. A way to stop Damien from destroying me, from taking my daughter away. But the cost... the cost of marrying Ethan was something I couldn’t shake. I didn’t know him. He was a stranger, a man with ties to the very people who had hurt me, a man who had spent years pulling strings in the background. The thought of tying myself to him, of becoming his in some twisted game of convenience, was rep

Chapter EightLIANAI stared at the ceiling of my tiny bedroom, where the paint peeled in thin, curling strips—like a silent warning that things don’t last forever. The fan above creaked with every rotation, an old companion to my sleepless nights, but tonight the sound grated against me. It was a ticking clock. A countdown to the moment my life would change forever.Marriage.To Ethan Wolfe.I pressed my hand against my chest, trying to calm the frantic rhythm of my heart. But it was no use. The anxiety was alive, a wild thing thrashing in my ribs. I was about to walk into a union with a man I barely knew, one I didn’t love—a man whose world was polished, powerful, and dangerous in ways I couldn’t yet name. I should’ve felt relief. Ethan had offered me a lifeline. Emma’s hospital bills would be paid. We'd finally have a roof that didn’t leak and food without counting coins. Stability. Security. A future.But instead, I felt like I was trading one prison for another—this one just had