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2025-03-24 06:44:07ELEANOR
The world tilted beneath my feet, and I held on to the chair, so I didn’t fall from the sway that rocked me.
The whispers around me grew but none of it mattered. At that moment, I didn’t care about the whispers, the horrified and disgusted expressions, the accusing eyes.
None of them mattered. The only thing that mattered was him.
“Theon, please” I choked out, forcing my legs to move as I ran after him.
Theon didn’t stop. He didn’t even glance back when my leg made contact with a chair, and I winced out in pain.
I managed to grab his sleeve, desperate for him to listen to me first. “Theon, listen to me. At least let me explain” I voiced desperately “These emails, the photos, they are fake. I don’t know who did this and why, but I swear to you, I would never betray you”
My world stilled as he stopped. I waited for him patiently but desperately as he turned to me but the man who turned to me wasn’t the same one, I had planned to marry.
“Theon” I whispered, my voice laced with fear as my heart thumped painfully in my chest.
The man before had a cruel expression I had only heard of from people I had claimed knew nothing about him. He was standing in front of me, but he was distant.
His cold blue eyes pierced into me like shards of ice and his lips curled into a sneer filled with so much disdain I was forced to stumble back a few steps from surprise.
My heart twisted painfully as Theon looked at me with an expression I had never imagined he would ever gaze at me with.
“Enough,” he told me, his voice harder than his glare and the words sliced through me, more painful than any remark I had heard tonight.
“Theon, please” I beg, trying to get to him. Hoping and desperate to reach the little love I knew or hoped he had for me. “You know me, you know I would never...”
“Do I know you really?”
His question pulled the rug under my feet, and I sucked in a harsh breath. I stare at him with disbelief, unable to process the words that had just left his lips.
Theon took a slow step towards me, and I stepped back, hating the way he shook his head as he glared at me like I was something vile and disgusting he couldn’t stand.
“Theon, why are you looking at me like that?” I cried, my heart breaking and the feeling was so painful.
“I was a fool to think you were different but, in the end, you are just like all the others”
“The others?” my voice trembled.
Theon let out a dark chuckle, completely devoid of any humour “The gold diggers. Liars. Women who get close to me with a motive. Women who want to use me for my name and my money”
His gaze swept over me “I should have known you were the same. I don’t know why I ever bothered to give you the benefit of the doubt when you would end up like the others”
My stomach churned and I felt sick. A gold digger? A liar? Was that all he thought of me?
I shook my head violently “That’s not true. You know that’s not true”
His eyes flashed with anger “Do I?” His words felt like a slap across my face.
“I won’t waste another second on a woman who sells my company secrets to my rivals and cheats on me” He announced coldly “I want nothing to do with you anymore, Eleanor”
“Wait...”
“Whatever this is...” he motioned between us “...It’s over”
I staggered back as though he physically struck me. Over?
“You are calling off the wedding? Just like that?”
His expression didn’t waver “Yes, Eleanor. There will be no wedding” He cocked his head to the side, his eyes filled with disgust “I don’t marry traitors or cheaters”
“I didn’t cheat on you or betray you. You have to believe me...”
“I don’t” He cut me coldly “I trusted you. I let you into my life, my company and my family but this is how you betray me”
“I’ve said it multiple times. I didn’t do it” I protested, frustration bleeding into my voice as I raised it.
“Oh” He cocked his head to the side “Then explain this. Explain the pictures and the emails. This damning proof”
I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. How was I supposed to explain something I couldn’t even understand?
All I knew was that someone had set me but who and why?
“I don’t know” My voice wavered “But I swear it wasn’t me. I would never do this”
“Never?” He scoffed “That’s an interesting choice of words considering the evidence in these messages”
My throat tightened “You can’t just throw everything away over some lies”
“I didn’t throw anything away, Eleanor. You did”
I couldn’t breathe. My heart hammered violently as a tremor rippled through me.
I looked at Theon and couldn’t help but wonder if he had been waiting for a moment to discard me. Had I envisioned the love I thought he had for me in my head?
He had turned his back on me so easily, that he believed some stranger without hesitation over me.
My thoughts dragged me back to the timeline of our relationship. From the moment we met on the blind date, to the kisses and even the time we had sex, it had always been me initiating any form of intimacy.
I had poured my heart into our relationship and didn’t even mind or think twice anytime he didn’t meet me halfway. I told myself that he wasn’t the emotional type. I forced myself to accept the reality that he wasn’t used to it and did everything by myself.
I ignored that his secretary was the one to deliver his gifts and made excuses that he was busy but took the time to make sure his secretary got me something.
Did I orchestrate his love for me in my head? Did he never love me at all?
"You never cared, right?”
His jaw tightened “Don’t twist this...”
“No” I cut him off, my pain morphing into something that resembled anger “If you really loved me, you wouldn’t believe this so easily. You would stand up for me and you would not doubt me”
A harsh, strangled cough cut through the silence, and I had barely turned when I saw my father sway on his feet with his face drained out of all its colour.
“Dad!” I cried out as I ran towards him.
His hand clutched his chest, and his breaths were coming out in shallow gasps. Before I knew it, he collapsed and fell to the floor.
“Someone call an ambulance” I screamed, and the room erupted in chaos.
I fell to my knees beside him, my mother panicking beside me. “Dad, stay with me. Help is on the way”
The guests moved around us, calling for help and panicking as well. When I turned my head towards Theon, he was still standing there, watching us with a blank expression.
And that’s when he hit me...maybe he truly never cared.
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ELEANOR “I bet you are going to steal the attention at the show,” Sophie gushed as she slid the zipper of the dress down and took a step back to admire me. Like all the others I had worn in the last few months since I'd been back, the dress was body-fitted but I barely felt it. It wasn’t because it wasn’t tight, but because my mind was elsewhere, scheming. I knew tonight was going to be tough. Everywhere with Theon was like that. Filled with people underestimating me and what I could do while trying to bully me. They never learn. Theon wouldn’t give me details of the function, so I had no idea who was going to be present there and Jeremy was busy with a school project, so I didn’t want to have him hacking into Theon’s secretary to find details. And I didn't trust any other person enough to let them do the work as well. “You don’t have to worry that you are going in blind today. One thing I’m certain of is that regardless of who would be present, every woman in that room wi
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ELEANOR The wedding was finally over, and I couldn’t be more relieved. I had spent hours greeting and thanking the guests who had taken time out of their precious busy schedules to attend a wedding they literally salivated over. Currently, my attention was on Victoria as she conversed with the first lady, smiling as though she had won the lottery. “Elle darling, come here and greet the first lady” I blinked twice to check if it was indeed Victoria who was talking to me. Her smile was so wide, it was almost creepy and the pride on her face as she gestured me over had got the be the fakest genuine expression she had seen. I needed her to sign me up for her acting class. All A-list actors and actresses on the big screen must have had the acting coach who taught her as their teacher. I searched for Theon, and he was busy with the president himself, so I had no choice. Sophie had taken Jeremy back home on my orders. I didn’t want him to stay long enough for people to start asking
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ELEANOR Today was the wedding. It was my first wedding, but I felt nothing as I stood in front of the mirror. The wedding was everything I had ever dreamt of what my wedding would be. The wedding gown Theon had gotten for me on his insistence was even better than the first one I was supposed to wear five years ago. My eyes were cold as I met them in the mirror. I felt no trace of joy, flutters of excitement or anticipation that I would have if I were Eleanor. Because this wasn’t a fairytale. This was war, and I was about to step onto the battlefield. I reminded myself silently. “At least try to smile. You look like you’re being held hostage,” Jeremy muttered behind me, and I looked through the mirror at him. I wanted to keep Jeremy hidden, but he had insisted on giving me away today. When I told him that Theon was suspicious of my identity, he suggested that showing him as my brother would squash Theon’s suspicions, since Eleanor was an only child. “I can’t. It’s not like it's
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AUTHOR’S POVThe next morning, the world woke up to the announcement of the engagement between Elle Davenport and Theon Blackwell. Every major news outlet, social media blogs, and gossip pages had the news on their front page. They were all going into a frenzy. Comments sections were flooded with the same set of questions.Who was Elle Davenport?Where did she come from?How did she appear from nowhere and get engaged to Theon in less than a month?Nobody knew anything about her. Even the influencers who were popular for knowing everything about elites had no idea about her past or where she came from. Victoria Blackwell threw her tablet across the room. The object hit the wall with a loud clash and hit the floor. The screen turned black immediately but it did nothing to soothe the rage she felt. “That snake” she hissed with barely concealed fury “She managed to get her way after all. How dare Theon not listen to me?”Her assistant, Lara stood stiffly with wide eyes and tremblin
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ELEANORAfter dinner, the maids cleared the table but the atmosphere was still tense but I didn’t mind. I loved tense places. I thrived better in them.“Theon, there is something I have to discuss with you. It has to do with those new deals” Julian spoke up.“Let’s go to my office then,” Theon answered, getting up.He turned to me “Excuse us” He said and left with Julian. I pondered if I should just go home or wait for him since I didn’t have anything else to do or say to anyone. Victoria had gotten a feel of her opponent and she had been quiet since. I didn’t believe she was done, I just knew she was cooking something in that sly head of hers but maybe it was for later. However, as soon as I heard a door opened and closed in the distance suggesting that Theon and Julian had entered his office, the atmosphere changed again as Victoria cleared her throat.She took her glass of wine and sipped it slowly and I could feel her gaze at the side of my head so I turned to meet her gaze.Ma
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ELEANOR The car drove into the Blackwell’s estate, and I sighed. I hadn’t even gotten married to Theon yet, but I was already tired of the amount of people who were demanding to see me. The Blackwell Estate stood like a fortress in the night. The large, iron gates were intimidating under the moonlight, and the massive Blackwell crest even made it more fearsome. Memories of how I would dream of the day when I finally moved in here with Theon to start our future together haunted me as the car made its way inside the compound and towards the main house. This time was different, I wasn’t here because I loved Theon and wanted to spend the rest of my life looking at him with lovesick eyes. Victoria Blackwell had invited me for dinner. I was so overseeing the Blackwells every single day. It wasn’t even a week yet and I’d already met Reginald and now, Victoria. They were not willing to give me a break. I wasn’t stupid enough to think Victoria invited me out of courtesy so she
