Valkyrie Rising: Ruining My Ex-Husband
"I told you once, Dominic: I don't need your charity. I'm going to take everything you ever loved."
Once, Seraphina Sinclair gave her heart, her dreams, and even her child to a man who valued nothing but his empire. Dominic divorced her, leaving her to rebuild alone, unaware that the man she loved had his own secrets, his own mission, and his own reasons.
Six years later, the "nobody" has returned-not for love, not for reunion-but for revenge. A shadow in the city, a goddess of industry, a mother with a child who carries her ex-husband's blood. She is the Valkyrie, and she's coming for the man who broke her.
Dominic wants a second chance. He wants his family. But Seraphina's plan isn't about forgiveness-it's about showing him that the woman he once underestimated now holds the power to ruin everything he ever loved. And she will, if he doesn't finally earn her trust.
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Chapter 11
The morning sun over Regent’s Park was deceptively bright, casting long, golden shadows across the manicured grass. For Serafina, this was the only hour of the day she felt she could drop the heavy armor of a CEO. Here, she wasn't the woman who had systematically dismantled the Sinclair legacy; she was just a mother watching her son.
She sat on a weathered park bench, a laptop balanced on her knees. The screen displayed a chaotic mess of stock dips and legal filings, but her eyes were locked on Leo. He didn't play like other five-year-olds. While the other children were a blur of screaming and chasing pigeons, Leo sat at the top of the jungle gym, his legs crossed, sketching geometric patterns into a notebook with an eerie, quiet stillness.
"He has your focus."
The voice was low, a sandpaper rasp that vibrated through the wood of the bench and directly into Serafina’s spine. The air around her shifted instantly, growing heavy with the scent of cedar and the unmistakable weight of Dominic Sinclair.
Serafina’s fingers tightened on the edge of her laptop until the plastic groaned, but she didn't look up. She kept her gaze on her son, her heart performing a slow, heavy thud in her chest that she refused to acknowledge.
"The term is 'stalking,' Dominic," she said, her voice a flat, clinical line. "Even for a man who lost everything before the day was over."
Dominic didn't answer immediately. He sat down on the far end of the bench, leaving a wide, cold gap between them. He wasn't wearing a suit today. In a dark charcoal sweater and worn jeans, he looked younger, more approachable—and because of that, infinitely more dangerous. He wasn’t broken.That would have been easier to face.
His jaw was set in a hard, jagged line as he watched Leo.
She didn’t tell him to leave.
Not because she couldn’t—but because she wanted to see what he would do next.
"I didn't come to fight, Sera," he whispered. His gaze lingered on the boy, sharp with a quiet intensity, like he was trying to understand something he had ignored for years. "I just... I couldn't sleep. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw that look he gave me at the hotel. Like I was a stranger. Like I was a bug under a microscope."
"He’s a smart boy," Serafina said. A flicker rose in her chest.
She crushed it before it could take shape. "He sees through masks. He’s spent five years learning how to read the silence in a room because you weren't there to fill it."
Dominic turned to her, his blue eyes searching hers with a raw, restrained pain. There were no tears, only a deep, bleeding frustration. "How do you explain it to him, Serafina? When he asks about his father, what version of the truth do you feed him?"
Serafina closed her laptop with a sharp, final click. "I don't lie to him. I tell him his father was a man who wasn't ready for the weight of a family. A man who had other priorities. It’s the only truth he deserves to hear right now."
At that moment, Leo looked down from the slide. His eyes—Dominic’s eyes—locked onto the man on the bench. For a heartbeat, the playground went silent. Then, with a deliberate, uncanny grace, Leo tucked his notebook into his backpack and slid down.
He walked toward the bench, his small boots crunching on the woodchips. He stopped three feet away, staring at Dominic with an intensity that felt like a physical weight.
"You're back," Leo said. It wasn't a question; it was an observation of a fact he hadn't yet decided was good or bad.
Dominic leaned forward, his elbows resting on his knees. His hand lifted—just an inch—as if to reach out, before he forced it back down, his knuckles white with the effort of restraint. "I am. I'm sorry if I was loud yesterday, Leo."
Leo tilted his head, analyzing the man. "You weren't just loud. You were afraid. My Mommy says people only get that loud when they think they're losing."
Dominic flinched as if he’d been struck, a dry, pained chuckle escaping his throat. "Your Mommy is rarely wrong."
"I know," Leo said. He climbed onto the bench between them, a tiny bridge between two warring empires. He looked at Dominic. "Are you the man from the skyscraper? The one who used to own the office Mommy has now?"
"I am," Dominic said, his voice thick but steady.
"Mommy said you were a 'placeholder' in her life," Leo said, his innocent voice carrying the weight of a death sentence. "What does that mean? Does it mean you’re like a bookmark in a book she’s already finished reading?"
The silence that followed was agonizing. Serafina watched Dominic’s face. He didn't collapse, but she saw the way the light in his eyes fractured. He looked like a man who had finally walked through the ruins of his own home and realized he was the one who had set the fire.
"It means," Dominic said, looking at Serafina over the boy's head, "that I was a fool who didn't realize I was holding a masterpiece until I let it slip through my fingers. A bookmark is for things you plan to come back to, Leo. I... I never should have left the page."
Leo hummed, seemingly satisfied. He pulled out his notebook and slid it onto Dominic’s lap. "Can you do calculus? I’m stuck on a derivative. The teacher says I’m too young, but the numbers don't agree."
Dominic stared at the notebook. He took the pencil, his fingers brushing Leo's for a split second—the brief contact landed harder than it should have, twisting something deep in Serafina’s chest.
"Yeah, Leo," Dominic whispered, his focus narrowing onto the page. "I can help you with that. I can help you with anything."
Serafina watched them—the father and the son—and felt the cold resolve she had built the night before starting to crack. She hated that he looked so natural there. She hated that Leo was looking at him with curiosity instead of hate.
She gripped her laptop, the metal cold against her palms, and forced herself to remember the divorce papers. She remembered the nights she had spent crying while he was out 'building his empire.'
She looked away, her eyes turning back to the cold steel of her screen. Taking his company had been a business transaction. But watching him become the man she had once prayed for—now that she was committed to his destruction—this was the real war.
Not against Dominic Sinclair—
but against the part of herself that still remembered how to love him.
And that was the part she intended to destroy.
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I tossed a blood-stained ledger of Kirkland's deepest secrets onto his desk.
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"Take your hands off her, Warren."
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7.6
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9.7
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She stared into the mirror. Her face was flawless, completely devoid of the jagged scar that had marred her cheek for the last five years.
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The only person who tried to save her was Brion, his blood-soaked body shielding hers from the blast.
She even realized too late that the strawberry cream cakes she always made for him were full of dairy.
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7.5
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8.0
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