Chapter 1

LISA’S POV I stared at the document, my fingers twitching as if the paper might bite. Three minutes. Maybe more. I’d lost track. The pen hovered above the line that would change everything. “Sign it, baby,” Dominic murmured, his breath warm against my neck, sending an involuntary shiver down my spine. “Just one signature, and you’ll make me the happiest man alive.” He looked perfect this morning, hair brushed back, jaw freshly shaved, smile soft enough to make me forget how dangerous it could be. It’s just another one of his business deals, I told myself. He’s been trying. He deserves this chance. But my hand didn’t move. Not with the memory of every “big idea” that had burned my money to ash. “Dominic…” My voice was quieter than I intended. “I said I wasn’t signing anything else.” He leaned closer, cupping my face like he was cradling something fragile. “You don’t trust me?” His words weren’t sharp. They didn’t need to be. They sank, heavy, into my bones. I wanted to say no.

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Chapter 2

LISA’S POV“Lisa, please, just listen to me.”That voice again.It filtered through the room like the noise from the television screen I’d been staring blankly at. “He’s not a man you can marry, please. This isn’t the man you want to spend the rest of your life with.”Those voices... they haunt me every night. They’ve been haunting me for the past five years relentlessly, echoing louder lately, refusing to be silenced.It was my mother’s voice.She’d warned me, warned me with a trembling voice and weary eyes that marrying Dominic would be the dumbest decision I’d ever make. But I didn’t listen. I never did. I was blind. Stupidly, hopelessly blind.I stared at Dominic’s smile on TV and remembered the first time he smiled at me that way, in the school courtyard, when I thought it meant something real. Back then, I believed red flags were just fireworks. He was handsome, no, he was devastating. I told myself it was a crush. That it would pass. But it didn’t.What started as casually stal

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Chapter 3

LISA’S POV A sharp, piercing sound split through my skull, metal grinding against bone. I tried to open my eyes. Bad idea. Pain slammed me back into darkness, throbbing harder with each attempt, like my brain was punishing me for daring to wake up. Something wasn’t right. I couldn’t name it, but my chest tightened like my body already knew what my mind couldn’t remember. Beep. Beep. Beep. The sound grew clearer, syncing with the biting scent of antiseptic and the scratch of stiff sheets beneath my fingers. Not heaven. Not even close. “Lisa!” The voice cut through the fog—urgent, familiar in a way that sent another jolt of confusion through me. I didn’t move. Couldn’t. My eyelids fluttered, but the light burned. The voice came again, closer this time, softer but no less desperate. “It’s okay. You’re safe.” Safe. Somehow, that word felt wrong. Slowly, I pried my eyes open. Faces swam into view—my mom, my dad, a man in a white coat, and also a guy, tall and handsome, worry et

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Chapter 4

JACE’S POV TWO WEEKS LATER LIGHT, CAMERA, WAR. She’s not the same and neither am I. Her recovery was quick. They said, once a man stands on the path between life and death, when they return, they lose one thing that made them weak. Lisa refused to spend more days in the hospital, no matter how hard we all tried to beg, her mind had been made up. “You should talk to her, she will listen,” her mother said, her eyes gleaming with tears as we watched Lisa explain to the doctors why she needed to be discharged. “I wish I could, but her mind is made up,” I muttered. That wasn’t the only thing on my mind; her words echoed through my nerves like a chord struck on repeat. She was out for blood, ready to ruin the man who had destroyed her. “Jace, take me home,” she pleaded. And like a foot soldier, I nodded, agreeing to anything she said, if this was the only way that I would be with her, I didn’t mind it. I had lost her once, I won’t make the mistake of losing her again. She didn’t

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All Chapters of QUEEN OF ASHES: RISE OF THE SCORNFUL EX-WIFE!: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4