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Chapter 51

ABIGAIL'S POVI sat across from Georgina in the private lounge of the Rosalind Country Club, legs crossed, fingers curled around the stem of my glass. The soft gold chandelier light made everything seem warmer than it really was. Behind us, laughter floated from the dining hall and glasses chimed like windbells. Yet the air between Georgina and me was sharpened metal. This was the second time she had asked to see me.She smiled at me in that brittle, glitter-diamond way wealthy women did when they wanted something.I returned the smile.“Tell me more,” she said, leaning forward. “About this circle your PA mentioned yesterday. You called it… what?”“An exclusive wives’ club,” I answered softly, letting the phrase linger in the air like perfume. “Though ‘club’ is too small a word. It’s a world.”Her pupils dilated. Hook.I pretended nonchalance, brushing imaginary lint off my pale silk dress. “It’s not public. Not advertised. You can only get in through invitation only. And membership

Chapter 52

ABIGAIL'S POVI slipped my earrings off, dropping them onto the table. My voice echoed softly into the empty room.“What are you becoming, Abigail?”The question hung.I walked toward the mirror.Ivory stared back with flawless makeup, the expression of a woman without a conscience. A woman who could topple dynasties with a whisper. A woman who could destroy another woman’s soul with a smile.But the reflection wasn’t Abigail.It wasn’t the girl Alexander had made feel like nothing, the naive girl who thought the world was full of the same love she had to give, who believed love was enough, who wanted safety more than power.Ivory was all mask.I closed my eyes.Is this revenge? Or is this monstrosity?I turned away too fast, needing the thought to scatter.The apartment smelled like jasmine oil and expensive candles Racheal insisted I buy so I “fit the role.” My feet ached; the silk neckline of my gown suddenly felt suffocating.I unzipped the back of the dress, dragging the fabric o

Chapter 53

ABIGAIL'S POVThe first thing I noticed wasn’t what Georgina said.It was what she stopped saying.She used to fill every silence with admiration, questions spilling out of her like a dam cracked open. She leaned forward when I spoke, nodded too eagerly, laughed half a second too late. Desperate people do that. Now she watched.Her smile still existed, still warm and practiced, but it no longer reached her eyes. Those eyes had sharpened and they were quite. They followed me the way hunters follow prey.I noticed it the moment I walked into the restaurant and felt the air shift.Georgina rose from her seat when she saw me, her posture impeccable, her beige silk dress hugging her frame like it was tailored to project innocence.“Ivory,” she said, kissing the air near my cheek. “You’re glowing.”I smiled easily. “You flatter me.”She pulled back slowly, her gaze flicking across my face, not lingering long enough to be obvious, but long enough to unsettle.We sat.The waiter poured wine.

Chapter 54

GEORGINA'S POV.Ivory did not enter my life like an accident.That was the first truth I allowed myself to admit.People had always appeared suddenly. I knew how those stories went. They arrived hungry, hopeful, reckless. They talked too much. They revealed themselves quickly.Ivory had done none of that.She was too polished. Too measured. Too intentional.At first, her presence had felt flattering, refreshing, even. A woman who didn’t bow, didn’t fawn, didn’t scramble for my attention like it was oxygen. She listened. She observed. She spoke only when she had something worth saying.That alone should have warned me.People like us do not stumble into one another by coincidence.I stood in front of the mirror that morning longer than necessary, studying my own reflection like it might answer me.“Who are you entertaining, Georgina?” I asked softly.My reflection stared back, composed, elegant, controlled. A woman the world believed had already won.Ivory’s face flickered through my m

Chapter 55

ABIGAIL'S POV.Pressure did not always arrive loudly.Sometimes it crept in quietly, politely, the way an empty chair at a table screamed louder than an insult ever could.I noticed it first in the silence.For weeks, my calendar had been full without me trying, I had attended luncheons, private teas, gallery openings, discreet dinners hosted by women who were so desperate. Most of them came through Georgina. Then, suddenly, nothing.No invitations.No “thinking of you.”No idle check-ins disguised as politeness.When messages did come, they were clipped. Efficient. Cold.Busy week.We’ll reschedule.Another time.This was not good for the plan. Georgina was coming along real quick and all of a sudden that dumb bitch decided to be wise? What the actual fuck? I didn't have time for all of this. Soon she was definitely going to recognize me and that will be game over.I stared at my phone one evening, thumb hovering over the screen, and felt the truth settle into my bones.I was no lon

Chapter 56

ALEXANDER'S POVI sensed the shift before Abigail said a word to me.Georgina had stopped behaving like a woman chasing power and started behaving like a woman protecting it. She's my stepmother and I know her so well.That was far more dangerous.I stood by the window of my study long after midnight, watching the lights along the driveway flicker as another patrol car completed its circuit. I hadn’t told Abigail about the additional security. I already knew how that conversation would go, anger first, defiance second, that stubborn insistence that she didn’t need protection.She was so damn stubborn and I can't afford that right now.Protection wasn’t a question anymore, she was pregnant with my child.I turned away from the glass and picked up my phone, scrolling through live feeds from the estate cameras. Two men at the north gate. Three rotating on the west side. Armed, vetted, loyal. I had doubled the perimeter in less than twenty-four hours, rerouted patrol schedules, and added

Chapter 57

GEORGINA'S POVIt's been one whole weeks and yet no tangible information on Ivory. Frankly I'd just have to kill her without a reason because at this point she made me so unease and I do not like it. The irony of it all is the fact that everything kept leading back to that witch called Abigail! For Christ sake why wouldn't she just die and stay dead. Every since I took her out of the way she had managed to resurface every damn opportunity she gets. First she came back as Richardson's wife, only for Richardson's wife to going missing and here is another Ivory. Such tragedy.I knew time was no longer on my side.It wasn’t panic that told me that. It was pattern. Things had started moving in ways I didn’t plan. People were asking questions they shouldn’t be asking about my charity organizations. Names of people I had long killed were resurfacing. Files that should’ve stayed buried were being pulled up again and soon everyone will know if what I've done in the past. Ivory was at the cen

Chapter 58

Abigail’s POVThe news alert came through while I was tying my hair.My phone buzzed once on the counter, the sharp vibration cutting through the quiet of the bathroom. I glanced at it without thinking, expecting an email or another useless notification.Instead, I saw Alexander’s name.I froze.The headline stared back at me like a slap.ASSISTANT FOUND DEAD — SOURCES LINK BUSINESS TYCOON ALEXANDER RICHARDSON TO INVESTIGATIONMy chest tightened so fast it felt like someone had wrapped a wire around my ribs and pulled.“No,” I whispered, even before I opened it.I read every word. Slowly. Twice. Then again, because my brain refused to accept what my eyes were seeing.Daniel. Dead. Time of death estimated late last night. Evidence pointing toward Alexander. An unnamed source claiming motive.The room started spinning. I gripped the sink so hard my fingers went numb.This was never part of the plan. Not that I cared so much about Alexander at this point but I wanted my revenge to be don

Chapter 59

RICHARDSON'S POVThe news was playing in the background when I first heard Daniel’s name.I wasn’t watching it. I rarely did that anymore since I know the news these days are just things the politicians wanted us to know. The television stayed on in my office mostly for noise, something to fill the silence when my men came and went. But the moment the anchor said murder investigation and then followed it with Alexander, my hand stilled on the glass of whiskey.I turned slowly.They showed Alexander’s picture next. “—assistant found dead in an underground parking structure,” the anchor continued. “Sources claim the evidence points to Alexander—”I muted the sound.For a long moment, I just stared at the screen. This was definitely staged out to confuse people form the real chaos.I’d seen this kind of thing before. I've been in the game too long to know what was going to play out. Different cities. Different names. Same pattern. Kill someone expendable. Then line up the evidence just

Chapter 60

ABIGAIL'S POV The message came through encrypted, but I knew it was bad before I even opened it. These days I've never gotten any good messages.My phone buzzed once on the kitchen counter. Just once and I was already eager to take it. I’d been standing there staring at my half-packed suitcase, convincing myself I had time, that I was being paranoid like always.I picked up the phone.She knows.That was all the message said.No explanation of any kind but I understand what it meant. Just three words that made my stomach drop so hard I had to grip the counter to stay upright.My spy never dramatized. If he sent something that short, it meant panic.I typed back with shaking fingers. How?The reply came almost immediately.She connected Ivory to you. She’s moving quietly to take you out. You need to leave. Now.The room suddenly felt too small. Too tight. Like the walls had inched closer while I wasn’t looking.“Shit,” I whispered.I didn’t sit down. Sitting meant I have to start l thi

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