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Vows Under Fire

She survived war.She was betrayed at home.She married the most dangerous man alive. When former Army Captain Ava Blackwood discovers that the man she loved-and secretly built an empire for-has been sleeping with her stepsister, she does not beg, confront, or break down. She walks away. Bound by a ruthless inheritance clause that demands marriage before her twenty-eighth birthday, Ava enters a flash marriage with Lucien Drake-the billionaire CEO she once saved on a classified battlefield mission. What the world doesn't know is that Lucien is not just a businessman. He is the King of the Underworld. As enemies close in and blood debts resurface, Ava returns to the only life she ever trusted-war. But this time, the battlefield is made of boardrooms, crime syndicates, and vows signed in fire.
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Chapter 2

Ava didn't cry.

She hadn't cried when her father remarried less than a year after her mother's funeral.

She hadn't cried when Margaret Blackwood slowly erased her from her own home.

She hadn't cried when Lily learned to smile sweetly while stealing everything Ava once called hers.

And she would not cry now.

She drove straight to the military-grade safe embedded beneath her apartment floor. Inside were documents, weapons, passports, and a single black folder marked BLACKWOOD ESTATE.

The inheritance clause was clear.

Married by twenty-eight, or forfeit everything.

Eleanor had written it.

Her father had signed it.

Ava had ten weeks.

She closed the folder and reached for her phone.

There was only one man in the world who could solve this problem without asking questions.

Only one man whose life she had pulled back from the edge of death.

Lucien Drake.

She sent a single message.

I'm calling in the debt.

Three seconds later, her phone rang.

"I was wondering when you'd come," Lucien said, his voice calm, lethal, and familiar.

Ava's lips curved into something that wasn't quite a smile.

"I need a husband," she replied.

There was silence.

Then, quietly-

"Good," Lucien said. "I need a wife."

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