One Night, One Baby, One Billionaire Mess

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econd I stepped into that gala, something inside me shifted-like an unseen force had changed the air

nod or polite smirk. This was routine. These events meant nothing. A place where egos clashed,

of wealth and vanity,

tense-too tense. She was stunning, but it wasn't her beauty that caught me. It was something

. My breath caught, my pulse kicked up a notch, and for a brief

chest rising sharply like she had been sucker-punched. She knew me, and that much was clear, but I had no i

se enough to notice the way her breath hitched. I sho

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't polite. It was sharp. A warning. A challenge.

had been made for her alone. There was something hauntingly familiar about the way sh

her?" I asked, keep

left her lips, and she tilted her head slightly, eyes

rmured, "must have been

rget people. My mind was too sharp for that. Names, faces, v

couldn't

I said carefu

She didn't let me fini

fore she took a sip. I didn't know why, but that small detail bothered me. I studied

I needed

ghts, James, one of my business ass

hing, to feel like any other name I had heard a thou

second-a flicker of something. A w

ould notice. Ava turned to James, her lips curling into somethin

earlier, hadn't we

se." He

least introduce her to me or something, but I got nothi

as fierce as

ng in the devil's den, I see." She said sm

unbothered. "I wouldn't exp

s I felt like it should mean something, a

to her. "Have

ing flicker in her gaze

uld say

o leave, her dress brushing against my leg as she passed. I didn't think. I reached out,

y chest, like something was trying to bre

hand away. "D

, but my min

and went, conversations were had, business deals whi

ed to shove it into the back of my mind and move on. But the moment I

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on our wedding day. Her in white, smiling. Me looking at her like

d then, it was gone like my mind refused to hold onto it

and I didn't

king me from the past. The past that ha

ore importantly, why did it feel lik