**Gavin’s POV**
"Are you really willing to throw me out... for a woman you can't even remember?"
Ava’s words hung in the suffocating space between us, heavy with poison. She stood there with a triumphant, cruel smirk playing on her lips, watching me closely, waiting for the seed of doubt to take root and destroy me from the inside out.
My jaw tightened until my teeth ached. A wave of suffocating silence settled over the room as Clara and Marie stood frozen by the hallway archway, their eyes wide with fear, terrified to move.
I looked straight into Ava’s cold, calculating eyes, refusing to let her see a single crack in my composure. Deep down, a quiet, furious resolve surged through my veins.
*I don't care.*
I said it to myself over and over, letting the thought burn away the lingerin
