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Chapter One

Thora's POVIt ends nowI squeezed hard on the clothes, holding Quentin’s shirt like an exhibit for a crime scene.“Hmmm. Cherry Kiss.” I observed the lip gloss very well. This wasn't mine.“Not even trying to hide it anymore, right?”Interesting then.I tossed the shirt over on the bed, still examining it like a doctor on his patient.This is the third time in two months.Damn!My darling husband, Quentin has been cheating on me ever since with a woman I don't care to know her name. I knew all these while, I was just waiting for the right time, or perhaps, hoping he'd change.But since he's a bitch, it's better I treat him like one.With a beautiful smile and mild but angered heart, I opened the drawer and pulled a folder, that's my wonderful master piece; Our divorce papers.I looked at his face, those mischievous ears glowing still on the portrait.“Three days ago, Quentin, I've been ready.” I wish he could hear these words in that gala, it would help him a lot. He needs to be prep

Chapter Two

Thora's POVI'm not coming backQuentin must be a dick to think I'm going to come back because of his sweet and will I say, emotional threat?My eyes scanned through the annoying headlines on my tablet as I sat on the kitchen table.The headline was beautiful; Quentin's Ex-wife: Gold digger or just cold?Hmm. I scoffed.Predictable. You guys should have added hot. I'm not so cold after all.Quentin, you may think you have the public in your favor, but you don't. I can flip that switch anytime I like and you've crossed a boundary.“Mommy. I'm ready for school. I don't want to be late.” My little angel cried.“Oh come here, baby. Mommy just needs to do one last thing.” I kissed her forehead and turned on my laptop thereafter.I logged in to my blog account and smiled as I revealed the moment of truth.I uploaded screenshots of his affair with multiple women and his celebrity dancer alongside messages too.Now let's see how you handle the truth baby boo.“Alright cupcake. Let's go. You d

Chapter Three

Thora's POVIf only I knewI was scrolling through my phone in the dimly lit room as the midnight clock ticked by.A new DM popped up from the same unknown account that has been messaging and disturbing me all these while, Luke.“You’re more than your headlines, Thora. Let’s meet. Face to face.”Hmm. What does he really want with me? He should better know that if he's trying to make advances, I see him and I'm not interested.However, I'll give him a chance. I'd like to hear about this business… of his.“Friday night.” I replied.Quentin on the other hand was not resting. He endlessly tormented my life with annoying messages and endless threats.I just ignored it, but it was getting out of hand. However, the long awaited Friday night came.I appeared stunning, not too much, just enough for a business discussion.When I spotted someone coming, I knew it was him. Tall, dazzling eyes, well dressed.But to be honest, he looks nothing like the cold billionaire I imagined.He approached wit

Chapter Four

Thora's POVScandalI was at the kitchen counter, the drizzling of the water from the tap sending chills down my spine.The DNA results were out. The doctor had called me to come pick it up. I still hate the fact that I'm doing this.I hope it's not what I'm thinking.“Avis? Honey? Time to go…”She didn't answer, very unusual.Hmm.“Avis?! Where are you baby?”What's going on?“Avis!”I headed to the living room and still couldn't find her.My head turned haywire.“Avis!! Avis!!!”No, come out. This is a joke. I can't lose my baby girl. No, I can't.Wait, just calm down. She's playing hide and seek with you. Nothing's happened. Calm down.I took a deep breath and called her softly.“Avis? Where are you?”My voice grew sharper and louder in frustration.“Avis!!!!”I flung the front door open and froze.No, it can't be. No, my baby. Avis, please, don't do this to me.Comeback to momma…I couldn't find her.No!!!I burst into tears when I found a letter laying on the doormat.Immediately

Chapter Five

Thora's POVIt all gets messyI sat still in the cold hospital chair, my heart pounding heavily as I watched the unconscious Luke struggling to breathe through the oxygen mask.Watching his chest rising weekly sent chills down my spine.“Why did you do that, you idiot?” I whispered softly, squeezing his hands softly.I brushed his hair softly, my red eyes screaming sleep and exhaustion.You didn’t have to take that bullet. You didn’t have to make this real.The nurse came in and checked his vitals. I went cold. The fear wouldn't allow me to flinch.I was supposed to protect him, now I dragged him into this madness.I told him to send a guard and not come by himself and play superhero. Damn…“You look awful.”His eyes blinked warmly. I leaned forward, frozen.He's alive. Thank God. I want to kiss him now, like, damn!“You got shot and you’re cracking jokes?” I managed to force a smile through the tears.“I couldn’t let you die. That wasn’t in the contract.” He chuckled. “And besides, y

Chapter Six

Thora’s POVI slammed the hospital door so hard as I walked down the hall, my heart beating so loud and fast, I couldn’t stop thinking about everything Luke had said.“You weren’t a pawn. You were the weapon.”Weapon?How could he say that, Quentin had already broken me….. and now this?I stood against the wall as I tried catching my breath, but the anger within me burned like fire.I had been foolish—again.Quentin destroyed me with lies. Luke destroyed me with truths. They both broke me."This cannot happen again," I said, holding back my tears. Neither of them can see me cry-not again.At home, I poured a glass of wine, though I knew I shouldn’t with the baby kicking inside me. The irony made me laugh bitterly. Everything in my life is messed. I was supposed to be strong, but take look at myself, I'm broken, drunk and feeling completely hopeless.Avis sat at the dining table. She looked up at me, her face looking worried.“Mommy, why are you sad again?”I swallowed hard. “I’m not s

Chapter Seven

Thora’s POVI didn’t sleep that night.It sounded in my head like a curse, what Quentin said. Ask him about five years ago.Five years ago, I was married to Quentin, trying to survive in his cold mansion, playing the role of the perfect wife while secretly suffocating. What could Luke possibly have been doing back then that linked him to me… or to Quentin?I turned those words over and over until morning light seeped through the curtains.But I couldn’t ask him. Not yet. I couldn’t give either of them that power over me again.By noon, I was at Vexler, burying myself in work, Faking I was not a woman who had a child whose very existence bound me to two men I hated.In the elevator doors I saw a perfect image of myself, red lipstick, tight dress, the cold grace of a woman who is in charge.The whispers started the moment I stepped into the open floor.“She’s the one from the papers, right?”“Both Palmer brothers? Messy.”“Still gorgeous, though.”I ignored them, walking like a queen th

Chapter Eight

Thora’s POVBy the time I got home that evening, my face was plastered across every gossip site in the city.“Billionaire Brothers at War Over One Woman.”“Thora Greenwood Pregnant Again? Mystery Child Revealed.”“Palmer Family Secrets Uncovered.”I couldn’t breathe. Every headline was like a knife.I slammed my laptop shut, tossed it across the couch, and dragged both hands down my face.How did my life get here? How did I become a circus show for strangers to laugh at?Avis peeked from the hallway, clutching her teddy bear. Her eyes were wide, curious.“Mommy… why were you on TV again?”My heart cracked. I forced a smile, crouching down to her level. “Don’t worry about that, baby. People just like making stories out of nothing.”“Are you in trouble?” she whispered.God. Out of the mouths of children.I shook my head quickly, hugging her. “No, angel. Mommy’s fine.”She didn’t believe me. I could feel it in the way her little arms clung to me tighter than usual.The next morning at Ve

Chapter Nine

Thora’s POVI swore I wouldn’t do it. I swore I’d never step foot anywhere near him again.But here I was.Standing before the gates of the prison, with my arms crossed close across my chest, and attempting to make my heart not to crawl out of my throat.The air was rusty and sweaty. The walls were like monsters, and wanted me to get back. A younger me would have. The new me? She pushed her sunglasses higher on her nose and told her knees not to shake.I had to see him. Not for love. Not for closure. For Avis.He wasn’t going to take my baby. Over my dead body.The guard took me along a corridor which reverberated with each step. Here my heels did not rhyme like forces, they rhymed like threats.And then he appeared.Quentin Palmer.My ex-husband. My nightmare in a tailored suit — except now the suit was gone, replaced with a plain orange uniform.He still looked dangerous. Maybe more dangerous than ever.He looked bright the moment he saw me, as though he had been expecting this.Tho

Chapter Ten

Thora’s POVI couldn’t get Quentin’s words out of my head.Five years ago.Luke’s plan.Timing that didn’t make sense.He wanted me paranoid. He wanted me questioning. And damn it, it was working.By midnight I was sitting at my kitchen table with a pile of documents scattered everywhere. Birth records. Hospital bills. Old emails I swore I’d deleted.The clock sounded not very quietly, one stretch after another seemed to me to be a whole hour. I ought to have slept, I must have needed that sleep, but my body refused. My hands trembled and I could find nothing, nothing, in them to take Luke nearer to me, to this life before he was in any way a part of my story.And then I found it.A receipt.Not much, just a folded slip of paper from a private clinic. The date stamped bold across the top: Five years ago.Paid in full by Palmer Industries.But not Quentin’s account.Luke’s.My hands went cold.I stared at that receipt until the numbers blurred. My chest felt heavy, like someone was sit

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