All Chapters of He Cheats, And I Cheated Right Back : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

POV: AvaI wanted it so badly it frightened me. His mouth on mine, his hands at my waist, every part of me had wanted to lean into that kiss and let it go exactly where it was heading. But somewhere underneath the wine and the wanting, a colder, steadier part of me was already doing the maths, and the maths told me exactly why I had to pull away.People already believed I was sleeping with my boss. I’d seen it in every whispered conversation that cut off the second I walked into a room, in the way Sharon and Shelley had already gone on camera together painting me as some kind of home-wrecking opportunist who’d slept her way into a contract. Being caught with him again, days after that leaked video, days after the two of them had already tried her hardest to brand me a whore in front of the whole city, would look exactly like confirmation. Like acceptance of the label they’d already stapled to my name.And there was something else, something I hadn’t even let myself think all the way t

POV: AvaWhen the blindfold finally came off, I blinked hard against the sudden light and looked around.My stomach dropped straight through the floor.We were inside an underground facility.It was huge, cold, and brightly lit with the same clinical white lights you would expect to see in a hospital. But instead of beds, there were rows of workstations. Hackers sat hunched over multiple monitors, their fingers moving quickly across their keyboards. Scientists in lab coats moved from one station to another with the kind of quiet urgency you only saw when the work actually mattered to whoever was paying for it.It looked like something straight out of a movie.Except the danger in the room felt real enough to taste.Nobody looked up as I was led through the facility.That alone told me a lot.People who could stay so focused and calm while a blindfolded, handcuffed woman was being dragged past their desks were people who had stopped asking questions a long time ago.Dillan led me towar

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHTPOV: AvaAfter Dominic left for his coffee break, I got straight to work, because I already knew what was coming, and I knew exactly how to stop it. I wasn't going to let Dillan, or whoever he was working for, get their hands on Dominic's company.I didn't fully understand yet what they were planning, but I understood enough to know I had to protect Dominic, and this company, from whatever they had in mind.I started reinforcing every layer of security Dominic had, at the office, at his house, everything I could reach remotely. I locked down protocols so tight not even the best hacker in that underground facility could breach them.The prototype could act as a Trojan horse, pulling sensitive documents straight off a company's servers undetected. It could authorise fund transfers, move money invisibly, commit crimes under a completely false digital trail. And I'd just discovered something new buried in the design, something even worse. It could plant fabricated evi

CHAPTER THIRTYPOV: Ava"Ava, come on. It doesn't take that long to try a dress on," Dominic laughed.I was in his guest room, trying on the dresses he'd brought. I'm not going to lie, the man has good taste. I loved every single one of them, though the one I currently had on, while I loved it, was a little tight, a little too short for a gala. It was more the kind of dress you'd wear clubbing, not something you'd wear to a formal fundraiser."No. It's too tight for a gala, Dominic. This is more of a clubbing dress," I called out."Ava, don't make me come in there," he said.I groaned, rolled my eyes, and eventually stepped out of the bedroom into the living room, where he was waiting. The second I was in front of him, I caught his eyes trailing over me. The dress showed off my legs, hugged the curve of my hips, made my ass look good, I'm not going to pretend otherwise. The way he was looking at me made me anxious. When his eyes finally met mine, his face had gone slightly flushed, hi

POV: Dominic"Come on, you know it's true. I'm way hotter than him," I laughed as the film wrapped up."You are not," Ava giggled.I pouted, folding my arms and turning away in mock offence. She laughed harder at me."Aw, you sulking now, boss?" she asked."Yes," I said, still facing away.I knew my childish routine was entertaining her. It felt good, honestly, spending an evening this easy with a woman, nothing complicated hanging over it for a change. I couldn't stop laughing and smiling the whole time she'd been here.I caught her watching me a moment before I turned back, something quiet and thoughtful in her expression that vanished the second she realised I'd noticed. I wondered, not for the first time that night, exactly what was going on behind those eyes. She'd been like that a lot lately, present one second and somewhere else entirely the next, some heavy thought pulling her away mid-conversation before she caught herself and pulled it back down.My good mood took a hit the