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Chapter 5 A Deal

Word Count: 1119    |    Released on: 10/08/2025

t was a high-profile business gathering for investors, CEOs, and power brokers from across the

scanning her like she was a mispl

nds and exchanged smiles, but his fingers digging into

erating. It was pounding against her ribs, not just from nerve

d blonde hair approached them. Her lips curled into a smirk

's gaze sweep over

en said fla

a mocking smile. "Clarisse Hale.

hand lightly.

were engaged, once upon a time. I g

Damien, but his expression didn't ch

she added with a sly tone, "It's sweet, though,

s burned. "

a's ear so low only she could hear.

d but stayed. She swallowed the lump in her throat,

group of older men near the bar. One of them was tall

s been thinking of pulling his funding. Why do

inked.

rs. "Yes. Charm him. Convince

for this. She was a secretary, not a corporate hostess,

egan softly, "I heard you have been investing in green technologies lately. It

eased. "Well, someone has to care,

ersation. She spoke about charity projects, about how Thorne Enterprises could lead new innovations. She didn't know if it wa

n," Mr. O'Connell said with a grin.

,but Damien didn't thank her. He just gave her a cold, a

tant set up a meeting." Then to Ava, with a force

made the word darlin

ered water for herself and wine for Dami

leaning casually against the

he said smoothly

are you here? What d

her face, his eyes softening. "You're not built for his world,

care?" she

replied. "And I know what happens when people stay too lo

wrong, that Damien wasn't as cruel as he seemed. Bu

mien appeared behind her, hi

e like a blade. "Find someone

"Always so protective, Da

nched. "Stay out

s that what this is? Or is she

fr

htened on her arm

e table, his grip bruising. She could feel his anger radiating off him like fire

him, Ava. Do y

did

u unde

t tighten

he near him again, I'll make sur

caught. "Yo

mile said

he window while Damien scrolled through his phone, completely unaffected

, Damien stopped at the doorway of

said softly. "Don't

g her alone with her racing thoughts and

her phone. There was another

Damien, meet me alone tom

r thumb hovered over

destroy her, but if she didn't

room suddenly opened without warning. Damien

g?" he asked in a l

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Contents

Chapter 1 The Price of his Signature Chapter 2 The kiss that broke her Chapter 3 Dinner with the Devil Chapter 4 A Cold Warning Chapter 5 A Deal Chapter 6 Playing the Perfect Wife Chapter 7 Secrets in the Shadows. Chapter 8 Tangled Hearts Chapter 9 Bound by the Night. Chapter 10 The Bombshell Chapter 11 The Breaking Point
Chapter 12 A War of Wills
Chapter 13 Shattered Pleas
Chapter 14 Severence
Chapter 15 Vanishing Point
Chapter 16 Fractured Bonds
Chapter 17 Rising Embers
Chapter 18 The First Step
Chapter 19 Lines in the Sand
Chapter 20 A Dangerous Shift
Chapter 21 Web of Power
Chapter 22 Threads Tightens
Chapter 23 The Formal Ties
Chapter 24 The Storm Breaks
Chapter 25 Cara's Secret Reveal II
Chapter 26 Shattered Vows
Chapter 27 Cara's Arrival
Chapter 28 The Calm Before the Storm
Chapter 29 The Day
Chapter 30 The Day of Reckoning
Chapter 31 Unfinished Business
Chapter 32 A New Beginning
Chapter 33 Six Months Later
Chapter 34 Threads of the Past
Chapter 35 Ava's & Cara's World
Chapter 36 The Weight of Time
Chapter 37 Behind the Doors
Chapter 38 Shadows Beneath the Glow
Chapter 39 Bloody Secrets
Chapter 40 The Stage of Truth
Chapter 41 After the Reveal
Chapter 42 Tangled Fates
Chapter 43 The Breaking Point
Chapter 44 The End of BW
Chapter 45 A New Name, A New Game
Chapter 46 Storms in Italy
Chapter 47 The Devil Sees a Ghost
Chapter 48 Ghosts Wears Velvet
Chapter 49 Masks and Mirror
Chapter 50 The Price of Power
Chapter 51 Bargaining with the Devil
Chapter 52 Tides of Desire
Chapter 53 Sparks of the Past
Chapter 54 Shadows Before Dawn
Chapter 55 The Choice He Never Wanted
Chapter 56 The Shadows of His Father
Chapter 57 The Big Announcement
Chapter 58 Grey's Engagement
Chapter 59 The First Love
Chapter 60 The Promise
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