Gloria
Five years ago, Aria Vance was the quiet, devoted wife standing in the shadows of her cold billionaire husband, Julian. But on the night he publicly gave away her life's work to his ex-girlfriend, Aria reached her breaking point. Holding a positive pregnancy test and a heart full of betrayal, she staged her own death, plunging her car off the Blackwood River bridge and leaving behind only her wedding ring and a signed divorce decree.
Now, Aria has returned to the city as "Nyx" an internationally acclaimed, independent artist who owes nothing to the Vance empire. She isn't the fragile girl Julian once dismissed; she is a powerful mother protecting her four-year-old twins, Leo and Maya.
When a chance encounter at an art gallery brings Julian face to face with the wife he spent five agonizing years mourning, his world shatters. The sight of two children carrying his exact gray-blue eyes sends the ruthlessly powerful CEO into a spiral of desperate regret and dangerous obsession. But Aria isn't looking for an apology, she's here to take back her life, piece by piece.
Can Julian earn the forgiveness of the woman he destroyed, or will Aria’s newfound independence ruin him forever?
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