All Chapters of Once my Wife: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The next few days passed in a blur. Bella kept her head down and worked hard. Her new office was just down the hall from Jason’s, and she stayed busy with the redesign project. Work became her escape. Every blueprint, every color sample, every detail she worked on helped her focus and forget how close Jason always seemed to be.Jason didn’t keep his distance. In fact, he made sure she was around him often. They had meeting after meeting, sometimes working late into the night. He studied her work with sharp eyes, asking questions that cut deep. It didn’t feel like he was only judging her work it felt like he was trying to figure her out too.Sometimes, she would glance up and catch him watching her. Not just a normal glance. A long look. Like he was searching for something. His expression would quickly shift back to cold and unreadable. But for a second, she always saw something there curiosity, maybe... or something else. Maybe something that used to be love.Bella stayed calm on the

The days melted into a delicate routine, forced proximity, stolen glances, and conversations that always tiptoed around the truth. Jason had become relentless, making sure Bella stayed close, under the guise of professional necessity. Every blueprint, every late-night revision session in the glass-walled executive suite was a battlefield one where neither swords nor shields were visible, but wounds ran deep.Bella buried herself in work, refusing to give Jason the satisfaction of seeing her flinch. She cloaked herself in professionalism, her clipped replies and cool tone a barrier she hoped he couldn’t breach. But he was watching. Always watching. As if trying to read between her movements, decode her silences, and uncover the story behind her eyes.Then, one late evening, Jason slid a report across the table without a word. Bella glanced at the highlighted numbers.“Security enhancements?” she asked, raising an eyebrow.“Supposedly,” Jason replied, voice calm but tight. “But the cost

The atmosphere at Reed International had shifted no longer taut with veiled warnings, but electrified with suspicion and dread. Conversations were clipped. Smiles never reached eyes. Bella could feel it in the way people paused when she entered a room, in the way Jason barely met her gaze unless absolutely necessary. And when he did, it was as if he were looking for a ghost a version of her from the past he didn’t understand anymore.Jason had grown quieter, more intense. She often caught glimpses of him through his office windows, hunched over documents, consulting Ryan Cole in hushed voices. Something was unraveling behind those closed doors, something Bella couldn't quite reach but whatever it was, she knew it had everything to do with her.Jason had always been methodical, but now he was consumed. The betrayal he believed she’d orchestrated, the unexplained existence of Lila it drove him to exhume every corner of the past. And Ryan, usually calm and collected, now wore a const

The alliance between Bella and Jason, though born of necessity, was a fragile spark in the middle of a storm: volatile, intimate, and haunted. Each late-night meeting and whispered theory began to pull them closer, but this wasn’t about rekindled love. Not yet. It was about survival.They dug through spreadsheets and financial audits like archaeologists unearthing a corrupted empire. Bella’s sharp instincts and Jason’s determination to right his past wrongs created a synergy neither had expected. But beneath the growing teamwork, a darker force was stirring one more dangerous than Veronica: George Reed.Jason’s trusted CFO, Ryan Cole, joined their inner circle. After reviewing the video footage of Veronica’s deception, Ryan’s reaction was visceral. “This isn’t just corporate sabotage,” he said grimly. “It’s personal. And calculated.”With Ryan’s help, they began connecting dots that stretched further back than Veronica’s time with Reed International. Bella found something Jason had mi

The morning air inside Reed International was unnaturally still, as if the walls themselves were holding their breath. Tension clung to the corridors, thick with unsaid words and veiled threats. Every glance, every hushed whisper carried a weight. Bella Blake walked through the executive floor with a brittle calm, her fingers tightening around the coffee she barely sipped. Veronica’s cryptic words from the night before looped in her head—About Bella. About her past… and certain other secrets. There was no mistaking the threat, no dismissing the gleam in Veronica’s eyes.She knew.Bella wasn’t just worried about herself anymore. She was terrified for Lila.In his office, Jason was pacing like a man on the edge. His mind wasn’t on Veronica. Not entirely. His thoughts kept returning to the files Ryan had brought him the night before. Offshore accounts. Obscure payments. Shell companies. Threads leading somewhere dark and disturbingly close to home.Ryan stepped in quietly, carrying anoth