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Unforgiven

Author: Sarah Ovvens
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-15 00:25:03

Xavier leaned heavily against the bathroom counter, the steam from the hot water still thick in the air. His reflection stared back at him through the foggy mirror, his damp hair sticking to his forehead in wet strands. He didn’t even bother wiping it away.

His mind was clouded with a whirlwind of thoughts he couldn’t seem to shake. He had just taken a long, hot bath, trying desperately to clear his head, but the weight of everything that had happened today had only made it worse.

The proposal with Bella Abram—it wasn’t just a simple business deal. It was a proposal that would change his entire life. And not in a way he had ever imagined for himself. It was a necessary contract, one that would bind them together under the guise of a marriage, but one that was far from real.

He had agreed to it, of course, but it wasn’t without hesitation. He knew that this was how things worked in his world—everything was about contracts, alliances, and deals—but what if things got complicated? What i
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