Never Truly Mine
READING AGE 18+
Ava Hart never thought love would cost her everything.When her father is diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, she is pushed into a corner where survival has a price she cannot afford. Desperate and running out of options, she accepts an offer she should never have taken.A marriage contract with billionaire CEO Damien Knight.Twelve months. No love. No emotions. No real marriage.To Damien, it is business. A strategic arrangement to secure his company’s future and silence the board questioning his stability. He doesn’t believe in love anymore. Not after betrayal destroyed the only relationship he once trusted.But Ava is not just a wife under contract.Unknown to Damien, she is also bound to his greatest enemy.Victor Kane offers her a deal she cannot refuse: save her father’s life in exchange for feeding him information about Damien Knight after the marriage.So Ava agrees to both lies.She becomes Damien’s wife by contract… while secretly betraying him from inside his home.What she doesn’t expect is Damien Knight himself.Cold. Controlled. Dangerous in a way she cannot understand. Yet the more time she spends with him, the harder it becomes to remember why she ever agreed to betray him in the first place.Because Damien doesn’t just demand obedience.He slowly begins to own her thoughts.And Ava realizes too late that falling for him was never part of the contract.When the truth finally comes out, love turns into something far more destructive.And Damien Knight is not the kind of man who forgives betrayal.Not even from the woman he once called his wife.
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The door to the forbidden east wing clicked open. I stepped through. Pulled the wood frame closed behind me. My bare feet made no sound on the floorboards. I did not turn on a light.
* Victor Kane’s countdown timer flashed on my phone screen. I had ninety seconds before the security bypass script expired.
I moved down t……
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