Bound by Revenge, Torn by Love

Bound by Revenge, Torn by Love

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They are from different worlds but have one thing in common. The same enemy. The Gilberts. He wants them down to pay for the assassination of his father. She wants them down to regret messing with a lowlife when her lover was given away in an arranged marriage in place of her. Together, Amelia and Andrey must crush the most influential family in the city while fighting the feelings that grow between them after having sworn never to fall in love again.

Chapter 1 Wedding bells

Amelia

I kept gushing over the photos my sister, Trisha was sending to me from Instagram as ideas for my upcoming wedding. It wasn't just any kind of wedding. This was a wedding that would be on the tabloid and get people talking for weeks.

"Oh, Amy, I wish I was in your shoes!" Trisha gushed as we drooled over some couple of wedding gowns I would have to choose from.

Like she really does wish. Being middle class and dating a man from the upper class is a hot seat to be on.

"I love the gown with the diamond stones at the neck."

She huffed, "white wedding gowns are so overrated, Amelia. Is the world going to fall if you wear black for your wedding?"

I cracked into laughter. "People do wear other colours but black is a no no."

"And why's that?" She asked, her face squeezing into a frown from the screen.

"It's bad luck!" I said in an obvious tone.

"Then I would be the one to break it. It's high time for the rules of a century to get broken.

"Good luck with that." I yawned and stretched my legs out on the couch before dropping my body into a sleeping position.

"You're tired?"

"Of course I am."

Even though there's a wedding planner making lots of arrangements, it's still draining to be in the spotlight. A middle class entrepreneur, getting married to one of the most eligible billionaire bachelors in the city. It was just too much. One second, we were hiding our relationship and dating in secret and the next second, our secret was blown over after Dave proposed to me. I turned from being a miss nobody to being famous overnight. And the fun part of it all, the sales in my beauty store have skyrocketed in the past few months. Who doesn't want to shop at Dave Anderson's girlfriend's store?

"Alright billionaire bride, I'm going to leave you to rest now." Trisha said and ended our facetime.

I yawned again and rolled to the other side of my large couch.

As a kid, I fantasized about the Cinderella stories, the knight in shiny armour coming to save the damsel in distress, the prince getting married to the middle class girl and it's absurd or rather a twist of fate that it's all happening now.

Sometimes, I pinch myself so hard to check if it's a dream but it's not. While my childhood fantasy came true, it didn't come without its own baggage of getting swapped into a billionaire's world.

Dave and I met in Harvard. While he got in through his family's connection, I read for fifty hours a week to get a scholarship into the Ivy league school. We never spoke to each other and I tried myself to stay away from the super rich folks in class till we got paired up in a class project. Things blossomed from there till we began seeing each other secretly.

He was the best thing that had ever happened to me till he proposed and I was introduced to his parents. The hate and, "you're not our class" game began. I had put up with his mother's attitude for a long time and I can't believe we are now going to get married. It didn't mean it was the end of my battles but it showed I had scored more points though.

A small smile lingered on my lips as I slowly drifted to sleep thinking of walking down the aisle while Dave stood at the...

The loud blaring of my phone ringtone brought me out of my reverie. I groaned and grabbed it without checking the caller.

"Amy, there's trouble in paradise."

Trisha's voice came on the line and every trace of sleep disappeared from my eyes.

"What's wrong?" I asked as I sat up.

"I don't know how to tell you this, Amelia. I'm also trying to get over the shock. Promise you won't have a panic attack." She spoke so fast and I had trouble with hearing all she was saying.

"Calm down, Trish." I tried, even when my heartbeat had begun to skyrocket.

"Okay, I can't tell you directly but I want you to pick up your phone..."

"Okay?"

"Is it in your hands?" I frowned, then picked up my phone that was lying carelessly on the couch beside me.

"Go to 'New York Bells' page on Instagram..."

My hands fiddled with my phone, heart in my mouth as I opened the most popular social media page on popular wedding updates. What in God's name is going on?

"Are... you... there?" Her voice was already shaking, making me feel worse.

I opened the page and a picture on their story caught my eyes. A man that looked very much like my groom was kissing...

"Trisha?"

"You've seen it?"

She could detect from the way my voice wavered.

"What's going... on?" I asked slowly as my eyes got teary. I looked again carefully and sure enough, Dave was in a suit, kissing a woman in a white dress who was not me. Our wedding is next week and not today.

"I'm so sorry, Sis. What this looks like is that Dave has gotten wedded to another woman."

Tears fell freely from my eyes and my heart ached. It was as though someone was poking a knife into my heart.

No, no, no, no, NO! This can't be. Dave can't do that to me.

"This better be a joke, Trisha." I said as I wiped my eyes clean.

I went through other posts on their page and as I suspected, their wedding was all over. This was the most anticipated wedding in the city and it was supposed to be with me, not a blonde fake Barbie.

Dave Gilbert jilts his poor Cinderella bride, Amelia Blake, for an actress and daughter of a business mogul.

What in God's name did I just read? I checked all over, and most posts had similar headlines.

I sucked in a breath and put down my phone. How did all of this happen? I even spoke to Dave last night. Wait, there was a way he sounded but I dismissed it as wedding jitters.

Trisha kept yelling my name from her end so I picked up my phone again then wiped some angry tears away.

"What?"

"Come on, you'll be fine. I'm coming over right away and we will figure this all out."

"No, I don't want to see you. I'm going to storm that wedding."

"Amelia, don't think of doing anything stu..."

I ended the call and went to the bedroom in search of what to wear.

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Bound by Revenge, Torn by Love
1

Chapter 1 Wedding bells

13/04/2025

2

Chapter 2 Shattered hearts

13/04/2025

3

Chapter 3 Twist of fate

13/04/2025

4

Chapter 4 Wacko Bride

13/04/2025

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Chapter 5 We've got eyes on you

13/04/2025

6

Chapter 6 Mr. Green eyes

13/04/2025

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Chapter 7 And trouble begins...

13/04/2025

8

Chapter 8 Marry me

13/04/2025

9

Chapter 9 A Plan in motion

13/04/2025

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Chapter 10 Now married

13/04/2025

11

Chapter 11 Darkness of the pasts

01/06/2025

12

Chapter 12 How it all began

01/06/2025

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Chapter 13 Party preps

02/06/2025

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Chapter 14 Slutty-Jaw dropping dress

02/06/2025

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Chapter 15 Not the grand entrance I expected

03/06/2025

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Chapter 16 Cleaning up the mess

03/06/2025

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Chapter 17 Bloodsucking couples

04/06/2025

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Chapter 18 Happy Silver anniversary

04/06/2025

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Chapter 19 Crying ugly

05/06/2025

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Chapter 20 Sleep walking

06/06/2025

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Chapter 21 Andrey's mansion

06/06/2025

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Chapter 22 Kill the enemy

08/06/2025

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Chapter 23 Stay away from Andrey

08/06/2025

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Chapter 24 Wipe the slate clean, Son

08/06/2025

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Chapter 25 Lying to the whole world 1

09/06/2025

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Chapter 26 Lying to the whole world 2

11/06/2025

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Chapter 27 Stubbornness is a trait we have in common

12/06/2025

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Chapter 28 They are buying the story

13/06/2025

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Chapter 29 Bed mates

20/06/2025

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Chapter 30 Someone is following my car

20/06/2025

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Chapter 31 Trisha, kidnapped

21/06/2025

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Chapter 32 We are up to no good

21/06/2025

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Chapter 33 Meeting Sandra again

21/06/2025

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Chapter 34 Muguua Empire

23/06/2025

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Chapter 35 Muguua Empire 2

23/06/2025

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Chapter 36 Goodbye, Andrey

23/06/2025

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Chapter 37 Fighting off memories

23/06/2025

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Chapter 38 We are busted

24/06/2025

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Chapter 39 Cold and so unwelcoming

27/06/2025

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Chapter 40 Hello, Jasmine

27/06/2025