All Chapters of Till Bodies Do Us Part : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Ava’s pov.“Absolutely not!” I slammed the champagne flute I was holding on the marble counter, the sound was hard enough to make the silence in the penthouse crack.My fiance Ivan Cross, did not even blink at that, which made me even angrier. He stood across the room staring at me, as his hands loosened the cufflinks on his beige suit, which probably cost more than some people's rent.I hated everything about this alliance in the form of our wedding and yet, here we were with his cold, calculating and obnoxious personality, adding to my problems.“What made you think you can just cancel the housing project?” I demanded as I walked closer to him.“I postponed it.” He placed the cufflinks on the table, with an expression that I could not read on his face.“Oh please, you fired half of the volunteers.” “Ava, they were incompetent.”“Those people were unpaid, Mr. Know it all.”“Does that make them useful?”I stared at him, caught somewhere in-between anger and pure disbelief. “Are you b

The first thing I did, once I stopped screaming was sit down on the floor.It was the only alternative I had now, because there was every possibility that I could faint and get a concussion.I sat on the cold marble of the master bedroom floor in Ivan Cross's body and stared at the wall and breathed, in through his nose and then out through his mouth.It was something my old therapist had taught me just before I stopped going for therapy, all because my future husband's schedule which was now mine could not accommodate it.I pressed Ivan's large hands against the floor and spoke to myself, even if the voice was nowhere close to mine. “You are a capable and intelligent woman, Ava. If you can handle those hostile press, your mom and charity gala's, how hard can this be? Stay calm girl.”I picked up his phone, which was lying on the floor near the bed. The important thing was to call him right away. I tapped on his phone and the screen lit up.“Who uses a logo as a screensaver in this y