Betrayed By Love, Reborn In Vengeance

Betrayed By Love, Reborn In Vengeance

Gavin

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The biting cold was the last thing I felt, a numbing seeping into my bones as I lay dying in our remote mountain cabin. My husband, Mark, had left me here to freeze and starve, locking the door and cutting the phone line, his eyes devoid of any love. He did it for my groundbreaking eco-city designs, which he planned to steal and present as his own, aided by my own sister, Chloe. I had confronted them, screaming and crying, showing them the printed evidence of their betrayal, but Mark merely looked at me with terrifying calmness. "You can't prove anything, Ava," he' d said, "It's your word against mine. And Chloe's." Then, like a fool clinging to the last sliver of hope, I had agreed to his suggestion of a trip to the cabin to "talk things out." The same cabin where he' d previously dismissed our miscarriage as "bad timing," letting our baby die for his ambition and covering his tracks with Chloe's scent. Now, shivering under a flimsy blanket, my fingers numb, all I could think of was the hidden hard drive containing irrefutable proof of their treachery. But what good was it? I was about to be just another tragic story, while they would have everything. Then, a sudden, violent jolt. My eyes snapped open. I wasn't in the cabin. The air was warm, stuffy, and smelled of stale coffee. I was at my desk at the firm. It was two weeks before the confrontation, before the blizzard, before my death. Impossible. A dream? A hallucination? Yet, it was undeniably real. A miracle. I was back. And this time, there would be no foolish hope. No direct confrontation. A slow, cold smile spread across my face. Mark and Chloe thought they could destroy me. They were about to find out how wrong they were. This time, I' d be setting the trap. This was for revenge.

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The biting cold was the last thing I felt, a numbing seeping into my bones as I lay dying in our remote mountain cabin.

My husband, Mark, had left me here to freeze and starve, locking the door and cutting the phone line, his eyes devoid of any love.

He did it for my groundbreaking eco-city designs, which he planned to steal and present as his own, aided by my own sister, Chloe.

I had confronted them, screaming and crying, showing them the printed evidence of their betrayal, but Mark merely looked at me with terrifying calmness.

"You can't prove anything, Ava," he' d said, "It's your word against mine. And Chloe's."

Then, like a fool clinging to the last sliver of hope, I had agreed to his suggestion of a trip to the cabin to "talk things out."

The same cabin where he' d previously dismissed our miscarriage as "bad timing," letting our baby die for his ambition and covering his tracks with Chloe's scent.

Now, shivering under a flimsy blanket, my fingers numb, all I could think of was the hidden hard drive containing irrefutable proof of their treachery.

But what good was it? I was about to be just another tragic story, while they would have everything.

Then, a sudden, violent jolt. My eyes snapped open. I wasn't in the cabin. The air was warm, stuffy, and smelled of stale coffee.

I was at my desk at the firm. It was two weeks before the confrontation, before the blizzard, before my death.

Impossible. A dream? A hallucination? Yet, it was undeniably real.

A miracle. I was back. And this time, there would be no foolish hope. No direct confrontation.

A slow, cold smile spread across my face. Mark and Chloe thought they could destroy me.

They were about to find out how wrong they were. This time, I' d be setting the trap. This was for revenge.

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