MINE TO UNMAKE

COME HOME, VANESSA

VANESSA'S POV

Her name is Vanessa Sterling. Age: 27. She had just returned from Milan, where she was hiding from the sins of her past.

Net worth: $1.2 billion inherited from her step father and her fashion line- Sterling Noir.

She was the only girl who has seen the purest proof that Jayden blackwoods was capable of softness. They were childhood sweet heart. But she had left the country abruptly when the violence of their families rivalry became too much.

THE FLIGHT ✈️

Her private jet touched down at the Veridia international airport, the country proof of her return was everywhere. She hadn't stepped in this country for nine years. She had stayed in Milan building her own empire, trying to forget the cold man she had left behind - the only man she had ever truly loved.

But her father, Lucius Sterling had called for an erasure.

“ come home, Vanessa,” he had commanded over a strict encrypted line.

“ the blackwoods are growing too powerful. They are pillars that need to be toppled.

You are the only Trojan horse I had left.

Marry Jayden, get into his vault core, and we will burn their empire to cinders together.

She didn't care about her father's sabotage. “ she only cared about her own desires.“

She wanted Jayden back. She wanted the man who used to look at her like she was an apotheosis, not the assassin the world now fear.

LUCUIS STERLINGS POV

He is driven by a strict inferiority complex. For thirty years, his company, Sterling global, as been beneath the blackwoods empires feet. He didn't see people, he sees assets. He doesn't love venessa, she was his late wife's child and a tool for his hostile takeover.

He has spent millions on ' dark web ' hackers to find a glitch in the blackwoods shipping account. He wants to frame Jayden for international violence so he can move in and claim the sovereign throne of Veridia.

THE STERLINGS MANSION

Lucuis private study - a cold site filled with stolen artifacts and expensive cognac. Lucuis paced the floor is eyes like acid rain. Vanessa stood by the window, her silhouette a dirge of sadness. “You look pathetic,” lucuis barked. “ I didn't spend millions on your European education for you to come home and provide pining like a refugee. You are the Sterlings only hope, you will walk into that Mansion, you will sleep in his bed, and you will find the encrypted key to breach his offshore core vault.

“He doesn't love me anymore,” venessa whispered, her heart rate visible.

“Love is a fatal exception!“ Lucius slammed his glass down, the violence of the sound echoing.

“ the blackwoods adopted a stray dog and turned him into a king. It's time we put that dog down. If you don't get me those files, I will delete your fashion line and leave you with nothing. “ do you understand?“.