Shining With My Ex-husband's Enemy Novels & Stories

I said with my head raised high. He looked at me once and then nodded. “Sure, see you inside Romano” Stefano nodded as we both watched the man leave. “What the fuck were you doing speaking to Moretti?!” “Moretti?” That was freaking Moretti Cassino. I had sex with Moretti? My husband’s enemy?! Fuck me.

"I am officially introducing her to the world as my legitimate daughter." The humor instantly died on my face. My grip tightened around my glass as my gray eyes locked onto his, flashing with a sudden, dangerous intensity. "You want to parade my wife in front of high-society sharks right now? When our enemies are looking for any excuse to put a target on her back?"

"I think we really need to talk." "Hi, Mom." "Alexander St. James." She said his name like it was evidence of something. "Damien's rival, his enemy." "I know who he is." "Your husband is not even... the divorce is not even finalized... Elena, what are you doing?" "I am building a life," I said quietly. "That is what I am doing." "He is using you," she said. "Whatever he has told you, whatever he has promised you, men like that do not do anything without a reason."

This was Killian Blackwood’s heir, growing inside me while I lived under Julian’s roof. I collapsed onto the floor, my hand pressing against my still-flat stomach. I was carrying the child of my husband’s greatest enemy. If Julian found out, he wouldn't just be angry—he would be lethal. He would see this baby not as a life, but as the ultimate evidence of his humiliation. I had to run. But where? I looked at the phone on the vanity. I remembered the note Killian had left me. *You don't owe a ghost anything.* I didn't owe Julian my loyalty anymore. But did I dare run to the monster who had started this fire? Or was I just trading one cage for another?

And in that moment— Seraphina Vale realized the most terrifying part of everything wasn’t that she had married her enemy. It was that she might not be the enemy at all. Just the battlefield.

The chandelier light suddenly felt colder. Sienna looked up at her husband, a man she’d married to save a company, a man she was no longer entirely sure she understood as simply an enemy, and felt, for the first time, real fear about what they might be uncovering together.