Reclaimed Fortune

Reclaimed Fortune

Toria Davies

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Zara Knight has one goal: destroy the people who murdered her father and stole her family's billion-dollar empire. For eighteen months, she's transformed herself from grieving heiress into a weapon, learning to hack, fight, and infiltrate the criminal network called Project Fortune. Her plan is perfect-until she discovers her new boss, Malachi Sterling, is hunting the same conspiracy. Malachi built Sterling Security Solutions on control and discipline. He trusts no one, especially not the brilliant analyst with the too-perfect resume who's clearly hiding something. When a client's assassination forces them into an uneasy alliance, he realizes Zara isn't just hiding her identity-she's on a revenge mission that could get them both killed. To infiltrate Project Fortune's exclusive summit, they pose as an engaged couple. The fake relationship requires proximity neither wants. Malachi's ice-cold control starts cracking around Zara's fire. Zara's revenge-focused heart betrays her with feelings she can't afford. Their chemistry is undeniable, their mutual distrust absolute. Then Zara discovers the conspiracy's mastermind: Nathaniel Cross, her beloved godfather who murdered her father for revolutionary encryption patents worth billions. Worse-Malachi's own uncle has been the mole inside Sterling Security, forced to betray them to keep Malachi alive. At the Fortune Summit, with Nathaniel holding his own daughter hostage and federal agents closing in, Zara faces an impossible choice. She came for revenge. She found something far more dangerous: a man who sees past her armour to the woman underneath, who challenges her to choose building over destroying. But trust is the ultimate vulnerability. And in a world where everyone she loved has betrayed her, trusting Malachi might be the most reckless thing she's ever done. Reclaimed Fortune: A high-stakes thriller romance where revenge meets redemption, corporate espionage collides with genuine connection, and two damaged people discover that the fortune worth reclaiming isn't money-it's the courage to trust again.

Reclaimed Fortune Chapter 1 The Venom in the Glass

I stared at the glowing screen of Vanessa's phone. She had left it face-up on the sticky mahogany bar table when she walked away to the restroom. A new message flashed across the glass, illuminating the dark corner of the VIP lounge.

Preston: Is she drugged yet? The photographer is waiting by the side exit. We need those pictures tonight.

My blood turned to absolute ice. Preston. My ex-fiancé. The man who abandoned me exactly fourteen days ago when my father was falsely indicted for corporate fraud. Why was he texting my best friend?

I looked down at the half-empty martini glass resting in my trembling hand. A strange, bitter metallic taste lingered on the back of my tongue. The room tilted dangerously. The heavy crystal chandeliers above me smeared into violent streaks of blinding yellow light.

Vanessa returned, her designer heels clicking sharply on the marble floor. Her mask of kindness was flawless, a practiced expression of deep sympathy that made my stomach heave.

"Drink up, Zara," she smiled, sliding into the leather booth next to me. "You need to forget the scandal. You deserve one night of absolute peace. Let me take care of you."

She was not trying to give me peace. She was serving me up for a final, fatal public execution. My father's tech company was already destroyed, and my mother was currently fighting for her life in a hospital bed due to the stress. If a photographer caught the disgraced Zara Knight stumbling out of a luxury hotel completely intoxicated, it would ruin any chance I had of securing a job to pay for my mother's medical bills. Vanessa wanted to ensure I never climbed out of the ashes.

I stood up abruptly. My legs felt like wet sand. "I need to go to the bathroom," I slurred.

"No, babe, let us get you upstairs," Vanessa insisted. Her manicured fingers dug into my bare arm like brutal talons. "I booked a penthouse suite for you. I put the keycard in your purse. You can sleep it off."

I ripped my arm out of her punishing grip. Pure adrenaline fought a desperate war against the heavy sedatives flooding my veins. "Get your hands off me."

I did not wait for her reaction. I shoved past the heavy oak chairs and bolted toward the main lobby elevators. The hotel warped and twisted around me. The ambient jazz music sounded like a demonic, underwater drone.

I mashed the call button for the penthouse level. The polished steel doors closed just as Vanessa broke through the crowd in the lobby, her beautiful face twisted in ugly, frantic panic. I was trapped in a metal box, fighting a losing battle for my consciousness. I dug into my designer purse-the last expensive thing I owned-and pulled out the cold plastic keycard she had planted.

The elevator chimed. I stumbled out into a silent, dimly lit hallway. The numbers on the brass plaques swam before my heavy eyes. 4215. That was the room she booked. I needed to lock myself inside, engage the deadbolt, and hide until the drug wore off.

My vision doubled. The hallway stretched into infinity. I shoved the card into the slot of the nearest door. The security light flashed green.

I practically fell into the pitch-black room, slamming the heavy mahogany door shut behind me. I threw the deadbolt and collapsed against the cool wood, gasping for air. I was safe. They could not reach me here.

"Who the hell are you?"

The voice was deep, lethal, and completely unexpected.

A bedside lamp flicked on, casting a harsh, golden glow across the massive suite. My breath hitched in my burning throat.

A man stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, looking out over the city skyline. He turned around, and he looked like a predator poured into a bespoke charcoal suit. Broad shoulders, a sharp, chiselled jawline, and thick dark hair. But it was his eyes that paralyzed me. They were a piercing, unforgiving steel-grey. They were cold, calculating, and they stripped me down to my soul in a single glance.

"I" My tongue felt impossibly thick. The drug was pulling me under faster now. "I am in the wrong room."

He took a slow, deliberate step toward me. He radiated raw, terrifying power. "You bypassed a biometric security elevator and breached my private suite. You are not in the wrong room. You are exactly where you intended to be."

"No," I whispered, clutching the wall to keep from collapsing. "My friend, she gave me a keycard. She booked a room."

"A highly convenient story," he interrupted. His lips curled into a sneer of absolute disgust. His gaze raked over my flushed skin and my trembling hands. "Did Victoria send you? Or are you another corporate spy trying to compromise my firm? Actually, do not answer. I do not care what your hourly rate is. Get out."

My mind raced, trying to connect the fragments of my shattering reality. Victoria. The name sounded familiar. And then it hit me.

Malachi Sterling. He was the ruthless billionaire CEO of Sterling Architecture. The man infamous for destroying rival firms without a second thought. A man who hated socialites and despised fortune hunters.

"I am not a call girl," I choked out. My pride flared in my chest, a final, desperate spark in the suffocating darkness. "I did not come here for you. I am hiding from the people who want to destroy me."

"Hiding?" He let out a dark, humourless laugh. He closed the distance between us in three long strides, towering over me. The intoxicating scent of cedar and expensive cologne enveloped me. "Women like you do not hide. You hunt. Now, I will give you exactly three seconds to walk out that door before I call security and have you thrown into the street."

I tried to reach for the brass doorknob, to obey his command and escape his suffocating presence. I wanted to run, but the venom in my blood finally won the war.

My knees buckled. The room spun into a violent, sickening vortex.

I did not hit the floor. Strong, iron-hard arms caught my waist in a punishing, secure grip.

"What kind of game is this?" he demanded. His voice vibrated against my cheek, furious and impatient.

I looked up into his stormy grey eyes. The coldness in them faltered for a fraction of a second, replaced by a flash of genuine shock. His large hands gripped my waist, and I knew he could feel the erratic, terrifyingly slow rhythm of my failing pulse. He noticed my dilated pupils and the cold sweat beading on my forehead. He realized I was not acting.

"They poisoned me," I gasped. My fingers curled weakly into the lapels of his crisp white shirt. "Please. If you throw me out, they will finish the job."

The darkness swallowed me whole, dragging me down into a nightmare where the only anchor left in the world was the furious, thundering heartbeat of the man holding me.

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“Zara Knight has one goal: destroy the people who murdered her father and stole her family's billion-dollar empire. For eighteen months, she's transformed herself from grieving heiress into a weapon, learning to hack, fight, and infiltrate the criminal network called Project Fortune. Her plan is perfect-until she discovers her new boss, Malachi Sterling, is hunting the same conspiracy. Malachi built Sterling Security Solutions on control and discipline. He trusts no one, especially not the brilliant analyst with the too-perfect resume who's clearly hiding something. When a client's assassination forces them into an uneasy alliance, he realizes Zara isn't just hiding her identity-she's on a revenge mission that could get them both killed. To infiltrate Project Fortune's exclusive summit, they pose as an engaged couple. The fake relationship requires proximity neither wants. Malachi's ice-cold control starts cracking around Zara's fire. Zara's revenge-focused heart betrays her with feelings she can't afford. Their chemistry is undeniable, their mutual distrust absolute. Then Zara discovers the conspiracy's mastermind: Nathaniel Cross, her beloved godfather who murdered her father for revolutionary encryption patents worth billions. Worse-Malachi's own uncle has been the mole inside Sterling Security, forced to betray them to keep Malachi alive. At the Fortune Summit, with Nathaniel holding his own daughter hostage and federal agents closing in, Zara faces an impossible choice. She came for revenge. She found something far more dangerous: a man who sees past her armour to the woman underneath, who challenges her to choose building over destroying. But trust is the ultimate vulnerability. And in a world where everyone she loved has betrayed her, trusting Malachi might be the most reckless thing she's ever done. Reclaimed Fortune: A high-stakes thriller romance where revenge meets redemption, corporate espionage collides with genuine connection, and two damaged people discover that the fortune worth reclaiming isn't money-it's the courage to trust again.”
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Chapter 1 The Venom in the Glass

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Chapter 2 The Price of a Ruined Night

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Chapter 3 Entering the Lion's Den

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Chapter 4 The Devil's Ultimatum

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Chapter 5 The Ghost of My Past

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Chapter 6 A Target on My Back

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Chapter 7 The Architecture of Sabotage start here

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Chapter 8 The Anatomy of a Breakdown

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Chapter 9 The Coward's Return

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Chapter 10 The Crimson Gala

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Chapter 11 The Guillotine Drops

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Chapter 12 The Devil's Ultimatum

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Chapter 13 The Lie That Saved Everything

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Chapter 14 The Ghost Who Sends Text Messages

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