ManyWriters

I sold my body to my husband, Cade Sterling.
One hundred thousand dollars. That was his price for a night with me. The only thing keeping our son, Leo, alive.
My stepmother whispered lies in his ear, and he believed them. He forced another woman into our bed while I was forced onto an operating table.
"You're pregnant," the nurse said, her voice a sterile blade. "Mr. Sterling has requested a termination."
Then, I was forced to watch my son Leo, my only reason for living, leap from a cliff to save me from further torment.
He was gone.
My husband had murdered our first child, and now our second. There was nothing left to live for.
In the cold, scarlet water of the bathtub, I finally let go.
But as darkness claimed me, I didn't know the truth was a far more cruel and twisted thing than I could have ever imagined.
And that Cade Sterling, my tormentor, was about to pay a price far greater than money could ever cover.

His Ruinous Price

“Aria, everyone told me you were dead, but I refused to believe it,” he choked out, “I knew you would never leave me… Aria, my precious girl…”


“Let her go, Cade. she is not Aria!”


Julian forcefully separated them, pulling Aria back into the protective circle of his own arms and declaring, “She is Coralie Vance, your future sister-in-law.”


“That’s impossible,” Cade snarled, refusing to accept Julian’s words. This was Aria, his Aria, a truth he felt in the very marrow of his bones.


Countless women in New York had tried to capture his attention since Aria’s "death," some even undergoing surgery to mimic her features, but a person’s gaze, the soul in their eyes, was impossible to replicate, and he could recognize hers in a single, heart-stopping glance.


He knew Aria’s eyes, and he was absolutely certain that the woman standing before him was her, even though the scars on her face had miraculously vanished.


Chapter 28