Betrayal on the Wedding Day

te floors that echoed with every step I took. It had been a week since I left the ma

lized. But she hadn't been there. My lawyer informed me she was staying with her parents. The ho

met with my doctors to schedule the aggressive treatment I would need to undergo abroad. The genetic illness that

high above the city. As I stepped out of the private elevator that opened directly into the living

. Slender arms wrapped around my waist, and a

oman's voice whispered, fu

smile and kind eyes. Ava Green. I had met her a few days ago at a charity gala I was forced to atten

doing here?" I as

ening. "To welcome you to your new home." She leane

d to react. Then, something inside me, a deep, starved part of me that had been n

Olivia's icy rejection. Ava's hands slid under my shirt, her fingers tracing patterns on my

rt that couldn't bear the thought of being touched, of being vulnerable again. But an

n our wedding night. It was the conversation I'd had with her months before,

polite smile had vanished, replac

dripping with contempt. "What use are you to me, then? The Hayes f

. I had spent months trying to erase them, foolishly believing that marry

ffering me the affection I so desperately craved, Oliv

drowning man to a raft. I pulled her closer, my desperation raw an

t pull away. Instead, she met my desperat

her voice thick with a desire that felt overwhelming

They were everything I had wanted to hear

, to let myself get lost in her, my phone b

avily. Ava looked at me, he

ith a name I never

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