Reborn in Havenwood: A Preserver's Revenge

Reborn in Havenwood: A Preserver's Revenge

Gavin

5.0
Comment(s)
366
View
11
Chapters

The scent of woodsmoke and damp earth was the first sensation I knew. Then, memory, sharp and cruel, flooded back: Sadie' s smile, Beau' s laugh, and my wagon, piled with preserves, tipping violently. I sat bolt upright in my Havenwood bed, not the ravine, bathed in spring sunlight. My nightmare first life was over; I was reborn. My childhood friend, Sadie, had always eyed my jam-making skill with dark envy. I simply created art from local flora using family recipes. Sadie desperately coveted the Harvest Festival Championship, town admiration, and shallow Beau Sterling. I innocently revealed the legend that the champion marries Beau, which Sadie ruthlessly exploited. Sadie, manipulative and ambitious, conspired with Beau to sabotage my wagon, staging an "accident." They left me for dead, shattering my dreams and existence for hollow prestige and a fleeting title. The betrayal, from my best friend and the admired man, was a venomous sting, worse than any physical pain. How could they be so cruel, so consumed by ambition, just to destroy my life? Now, breathing crisp Vermont air, I was alive and remembered everything. My former kindness was gone, replaced by cunning forged in betrayal's fire. This time, I would protect myself and Havenwood from such insidious people. My first move was clear: Sadie.

Introduction

The scent of woodsmoke and damp earth was the first sensation I knew.

Then, memory, sharp and cruel, flooded back: Sadie' s smile, Beau' s laugh, and my wagon, piled with preserves, tipping violently.

I sat bolt upright in my Havenwood bed, not the ravine, bathed in spring sunlight.

My nightmare first life was over; I was reborn.

My childhood friend, Sadie, had always eyed my jam-making skill with dark envy.

I simply created art from local flora using family recipes.

Sadie desperately coveted the Harvest Festival Championship, town admiration, and shallow Beau Sterling.

I innocently revealed the legend that the champion marries Beau, which Sadie ruthlessly exploited.

Sadie, manipulative and ambitious, conspired with Beau to sabotage my wagon, staging an "accident."

They left me for dead, shattering my dreams and existence for hollow prestige and a fleeting title.

The betrayal, from my best friend and the admired man, was a venomous sting, worse than any physical pain.

How could they be so cruel, so consumed by ambition, just to destroy my life?

Now, breathing crisp Vermont air, I was alive and remembered everything.

My former kindness was gone, replaced by cunning forged in betrayal's fire.

This time, I would protect myself and Havenwood from such insidious people.

My first move was clear: Sadie.

Continue Reading

Other books by Gavin

More
Contract With The Devil: Love In Shackles

Contract With The Devil: Love In Shackles

Mafia

4.5

I watched my husband sign the papers that would end our marriage while he was busy texting the woman he actually loved. He didn't even glance at the header. He just scribbled the sharp, jagged signature that had signed death warrants for half of New York, tossed the file onto the passenger seat, and tapped his screen again. "Done," he said, his voice devoid of emotion. That was Dante Moretti. The Underboss. A man who could smell a lie from a mile away but couldn't see that his wife had just handed him an annulment decree disguised beneath a stack of mundane logistics reports. For three years, I scrubbed his blood out of his shirts. I saved his family's alliance when his ex, Sofia, ran off with a civilian. In return, he treated me like furniture. He left me in the rain to save Sofia from a broken nail. He left me alone on my birthday to drink champagne on a yacht with her. He even handed me a glass of whiskey—her favorite drink—forgetting that I despised the taste. I was merely a placeholder. A ghost in my own home. So, I stopped waiting. I burned our wedding portrait in the fireplace, left my platinum ring in the ashes, and boarded a one-way flight to San Francisco. I thought I was finally free. I thought I had escaped the cage. But I underestimated Dante. When he finally opened that file weeks later and realized he had signed away his wife without looking, the Reaper didn't accept defeat. He burned down the world to find me, obsessed with reclaiming the woman he had already thrown away.

You'll also like

Chapters
Read Now
Download Book