Betrayed By Ambition: Ava's Revenge

Betrayed By Ambition: Ava's Revenge

Gavin

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My husband, Mark Thompson, the tech visionary, greeted me with his usual confident smile, but it didn't reach his eyes. Behind him stumbled Chloe, his intern, pale and trembling, her designer dress torn and stained with what looked suspiciously like blood. "Ava," Mark' s voice was low, laced with anger and concern. "Something terrible has happened." Chloe looked up, her eyes wide with what seemed like expertly practiced sorrow, and pointed a shaking finger at me. "It was your fault," she whispered, her voice cracking. "He said... he said he saw my picture with you, at that charity event." Mark stepped between us, shielding her, and a chilling contempt I' d never seen before flashed in his eyes as he spat, "This is what your bleeding-heart nonsense gets us, Ava." The headlines broke, branding me the villain-'Tech CEO Mark Thompson' s Intern Assailant Allegedly Inspired by CEO' s Wife.' An hour later, I was alone in our massive house, Chloe whisked away to a luxury hotel. "You' ve become a liability, Ava," Mark stated, his words cold, calculated. "You are a problem that I have to solve." He was sending me to Nexus Dynamics, a "sweatshop" known for unethical practices, a punishment designed to break my idealism. Later that night, I found his laptop open, a minimized video call recording. Mark' s smug face appeared on screen. "-the Chloe plan is working perfectly. Ava' s obsession with ethics is the perfect weapon to use against her." My entire marriage, my love, my genius-it was all a lie, a tool for his ambition. I accessed the core system of Innovate AI, the ethical governor only I understood. I initiated a hidden command: a gradual decay protocol. Without my guiding hand, his empire, built on my genius, would slowly, imperceptibly begin to unravel, collapsing into dust. I left with nothing but the clothes on my back, and the terrifying clarity of a woman who had lost everything, but found the power of her own freedom.

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My husband, Mark Thompson, the tech visionary, greeted me with his usual confident smile, but it didn't reach his eyes.

Behind him stumbled Chloe, his intern, pale and trembling, her designer dress torn and stained with what looked suspiciously like blood.

"Ava," Mark' s voice was low, laced with anger and concern. "Something terrible has happened."

Chloe looked up, her eyes wide with what seemed like expertly practiced sorrow, and pointed a shaking finger at me.

"It was your fault," she whispered, her voice cracking. "He said... he said he saw my picture with you, at that charity event."

Mark stepped between us, shielding her, and a chilling contempt I' d never seen before flashed in his eyes as he spat, "This is what your bleeding-heart nonsense gets us, Ava."

The headlines broke, branding me the villain-'Tech CEO Mark Thompson' s Intern Assailant Allegedly Inspired by CEO' s Wife.'

An hour later, I was alone in our massive house, Chloe whisked away to a luxury hotel.

"You' ve become a liability, Ava," Mark stated, his words cold, calculated. "You are a problem that I have to solve."

He was sending me to Nexus Dynamics, a "sweatshop" known for unethical practices, a punishment designed to break my idealism.

Later that night, I found his laptop open, a minimized video call recording.

Mark' s smug face appeared on screen. "-the Chloe plan is working perfectly. Ava' s obsession with ethics is the perfect weapon to use against her."

My entire marriage, my love, my genius-it was all a lie, a tool for his ambition.

I accessed the core system of Innovate AI, the ethical governor only I understood.

I initiated a hidden command: a gradual decay protocol.

Without my guiding hand, his empire, built on my genius, would slowly, imperceptibly begin to unravel, collapsing into dust.

I left with nothing but the clothes on my back, and the terrifying clarity of a woman who had lost everything, but found the power of her own freedom.

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