REBORN AS THE CEO’s DIVA

Mia’s last card.

Zoey hadn’t left Ethan’s penthouse. She was enjoying every bit of the moment like she had been waiting all her life for this.

Clause 12b was real. No work, no phone, just them, their bed, the shower, then repeat.

She was sore as hell but at least she was happy she was his.

NEW YORK WELCOME: Mia Williams Exclusive Gist, 8pm tonight. “The truth about Zoey Walker.”

Mia was good as done for. She had gone broke and her career had had a wrong turn.

It was 8pm and the whole of New York was waiting for her to go live. Ethan Cole and Zoey were also waiting.

Ethan paused the movie and handed Zoey a wine glass.

“You ready?”

“No.” Zoey opened the New York welcome live. “But let’s finally end her.”

Mia came on screen with a face full of makeup and fake tears.

“Hi everyone,” Mia sniffed. “I guess it’s finally time to tell everyone the truth about Zoey Walker, who claims to be my best friend, Sophia Taylor. I’m here to reveal all the lies she had told.”

The comments exploded instantly.

“OMG! It’s her!”

“Lmaooo, clout chaser! We can never believe you!”

“Tell us!”

“It’s no news that my best friend, Sophia died,” Mia cried. “But what no one truly knows is that, Zoey isn’t Sophia! She stole all Sophia’s identity, including her face. Zoey is a fraud!”

Zoey laughed. “She’s saying I’m not me? What a joker.”

“Wait.” Ethan said with his eyes fixed on the screen.

“And I have proof with me,” Mia said while holding up a paper. “Sophia Taylor was pregnant when Adrian…, when he hit her that very night. She was carrying Adrian’s baby, but she lost the baby when she died.”

The comments went wild once again.

“WHAT?!”

“ADRIAN GOT HER PREGNANT, OMG!!”

“IS ZOEY LYING?”

Zoey went completely numb and the wine glass she had in her hand fell and spilled, because Mia was telling the truth.

Sophia was 6 weeks pregnant. She told only Mia because she believed she was her best friend, even Adrian didn’t know.

She had planned to tell Adrian that very night, but she was murdered instead.

“How does she…” Zoey looked at Ethan and his face was stone cold.

“I told her Ethan, I did,” Zoey whispered. “Five years ago when we were friends before she stole my life.”

Ethan took her phone and ended the live.

“No,” Zoey grabbed it back. “I have to…”

“You don’t owe New York any attention, explanation or rather anything.” His voice was ice. “Not your body, not your baby, not your pain, Nothing Zee.”

“But they think I lied, Ethan…”

“Let them.” He knelt in front of her and held her face. “Sophia lost a baby but Zoey is alive and that’s the only truth that matters.”

Zoey’s vision blurred as tears welled up in her eyes. She didn’t cry at the Golden Globes, she didn’t even cry for Adrian.

But she cried now. For the baby no one knew about, for Sophia who had died alone and pregnant. All the emotions she had been suppressing finally burst out, she couldn’t hold it in at that moment.

Ethan held her and said nothing, he just held her because his presence was already enough comfort.

After ten minutes, she wiped her tears, picked up her phone and opened her own Live.

She wore no makeup. Just Ethan’s shirt with messy hair and red eyes.

“Hi,” Zoey said. It was as if the whole of New York had been waiting to hear her side of the story. In 30 seconds, she instantly had 400k views.

“My name is Zoey Walker. 5 years ago, I was Sophia Taylor and I was murdered in cold blood.

She breathed out.

“And yes, I was pregnant. I was 6 weeks pregnant for Adrian, but he didn’t know. He killed me before I could tell him we were going to be parents. I lost my baby the very night I lost my life.”

The comments exploded in a split second.

“WE’RE SORRY, ADRIAN DESERVES TO BE KILLED, WTH!!”

“PROTECT HER OMDS!”

“I didn’t announce it because it wasn’t your business to know,” Zoey said. “It was my mine, my pain, my baby, my ghost.”

She looked straight at the camera. At Mia, wherever she was watching.

“But you, Mia, you want to use my baby for views? You want to use my body to get famous?” Zoey’s voice went rock hard. “Then listen good, Mia Williams.” She leaned close to the camera.

“You stole my whole life, my boyfriend, my roles and you helped in killing me.” She was fuming with rage. “But now? You can’t steal my grief, my crown, my roles. And him? She grabbed Ethan’s hand and pulled him into the camera. You can never steal him.” She continued. “This man stepped in front of a bullet for me. What have you ever done for me except to destroy?”

Ethan did not say anything, he just kept staring at the camera with cold eyes.

Zoey ended the live, and minutes later hashtags started flying around.

#WeStandWithZoey.

#MiaWilliamsShouldBeCanceled.

Mia’s page was reported by so many angry people, her page was gone in few minutes after Zoey’s Live.

Zoey put her phone down and looked at Ethan.

“Clause 12b,” she said. “Still on right?”

Ethan picked up lightly. “Until you beg me to stop.”

She smiled for real this time. “Then, it’s never stopping.”

But in her head, something still baffled her.

New York 2019. What did Mia mean? And why didn’t Ethan ask about the baby?