I Left Him When He Was Broke, Now He Controls My Fate
Six years earlier, Avery Walters relentlessly pursued the law school heartthrob, Lucien Holmes.
After three months of dating, she brushed him off with a careless line—“I got bored of sleeping with you”—and ended things without a shred of hesitation.
Six years after the breakup, the two met again.
The once-privileged heiress and the penniless man she once knew had completely traded places in life.
He rose to the top as a powerhouse at an elite law firm, while she was burdened with debt, raising a daughter, and trapped in an abusive marriage.
Lucien appeared as her divorce attorney, his gaze toward her filled with open mockery.
“This is all your own doing.”
Avery knew that Lucien hated her to the bone.
She deliberately avoided any further entanglement with Lucien.
On the day she left, she smiled and wished him a happy marriage.
Yet this man crossed mountains and long roads just to find her.
At a small-town inn, he cornered her in a dimly lit room, his eyes red as he pulled her into a tight embrace. “Do you really have the heart to abandon me again?”