Annabel, the last child of the St. Claires' discovers that she is the price her father paid for a favour. In a glitzy realm of relentless ambition and insatiable desires Anabell is trapped in the cold embrace of an arranged marriage but fate has a wicked sense of humour, for the billionaire tycoon she is forced to wed is Ethan Cresswell, the very man who shattered her world years ago. As their lives are entangled in a load of complex misdirection, lust, and treachery; revenge dances on a tightrope, threatening to consume them both. Each step taken to exact revenge brings them closer, whispers of an ancient curse echoing through their shared desires. Hidden agendas are unveiled and devastating secrets are exposed, the stakes skyrocket to a level unimaginable. Can love survive the wild storm of forbidden desires and shattered illusions? Or will the ruthless pursuit of revenge eliminate their chances for redemption?
Chapter 1 Plot
CHARACTERIZATION
Protagonist
Annabel, Twenty-Four years old.
Backstory: She's the last child of a millionaire.
Initial Desire: To turn her father's company into an international conglomerate. She sees Ethan as an opportunity to achieve this feat.
Antagonist: Ethan Cresswell. 25 years old.
Backstory: The first son and heir of a billionaire.
Initial Desire: To acquire more companies and to own the richest company in the world. He intends to continue living life recklessly irrespective of his marriage to Anabelle. Therefore he embarks on a shameless show of extramarital affairs all in an effort to shame his wife.
START: Annabel and her father are having dinner with Ethan Cresswell and his parents. Her father explains to her that she is to marry Mr. Cresswell's son as a fulfillment of a deal made in the past. Annabel is furious but she chooses to marry Ethan Cresswell nonetheless because she knows nothing is going to change that. She schemes to use Ethan's wealth to start her business and expand her father's business. Her ultimate goal is to destroy Ethan Cresswell financially as revenge for a deep-rooted grudge.
SUBPLOT: When Annabel was a child, her father (St. Claire's) signed a contract with Ethan's father at a bar. His business was falling apart when fate brought the two men together. Drunkenly, he rants about his business failures to another man who happens to be a billionaire and in their drunken stupor they sign a contract that mandates St. Claire to one day marry his daughter to his son (Ethan). Ethan's father backs St. Claire financially and even allows his daughter (Anabelle) to attend his private school on a full-ride scholarship.
In high school, she has a huge crush on Ethan Cresswell and tries everything to make him like her but he remains cold and instead takes advantage of her feelings. During a truth and dare game, Ethan is dared to strip Anabelle. He complies by tearing her shirt in the hallway while other students take pictures of her. From that day onward, she swears to take revenge on Ethan Cresswell.
DEVELOPMENT: Annabel and Ethan got married. She's extremely nice to Ethan and ignores his harem of mistresses. She gives him business ideas that build his company and help him make more money than he has ever had. She also seduces him constantly and tries to get him drunk so he can reveal the weakness of his business empire to her. Ethan finds it suspicious that Anabelle is helping him grow his business especially since he is aware that Anabelle should hate him. He hires a private investigator to find out if Anabel still holds any sour feelings towards him.
CLIMAX: The private investigator finds out that Annabel had secretly bought Ethan's rival company and she's now the CEO. Ethan wonders at the reason she would do such a thing and plans to confront her but before he was able to confront her, a scandal about him is on the internet. Due to the scandal, his stock prices plummeted drastically while that of the rival company Annabel secretly owns increased.
POST CLIMAX DEVELOPMENT: Annabel kept pretending to be a supportive wife to Ethan unaware that he has found out her secret. One drunken night, they slept together. When Ethan woke up the next morning and finds himself next to her, he hurriedly left the house to avoid being confronted about their night together. Annabel became pregnant, she is devasted and decided to abort the pregnancy without telling Ethan. She continues her revenge mission and when she got to the abortion center, she discovers the P.I Ethan hired to monitor her. She confronted the P.I and handed him some money to stop stalking her. Annabel, who is aware of the private investigator's greed knows that he would continue feeding Ethan with information about her every move. Therefore, she misleads him.
Ethan finds out about his wife's pregnancy and although he is angry that she owns his rival company and has been deceiving him he cannot help falling in love with her. He convinces her to keep the pregnancy. The P.I. continues to feed him wrong information and after this, there are two more scandals attached to his name. After this scandal, Ethan's father dies, followed by her father.
CONCLUSION: Ethan finds out that his wife is behind the scandals that threaten his business empire. He is furious beyond measure and takes action to divorce her. When he drops the divorce papers, Annabel starts bleeding and he rushes her to the hospital. The baby is born prematurely and there are severe complications that hospitalize Annabel and the baby dies. While she's in the hospital, Ethan begins to do everything to ruin her business but all his plans keep falling through. He is not aware that although hospitalized, she has put plans in place to keep her business running smoothly.
Ethan then decides to team up with her older brother who inherits her father's company to destroy Annabel's business. When she's out of the hospital, she finds out their plans and uses them against them. Both businesses begin to crumble to the ground. Frustrated that his efforts have come to nought, Ethan decides to solicit help from a company just as successful as Annabel's. The COO of that company gives him criteria he is to meet within a specified deadline. If he fails to meet this deadline, his company will be owned by them.
Ethan meets more troubles and is unable to meet up with the deadlines. He begs the COO that he would like to speak to the CEO (actual owner of the company) to ask for an extension of the deadline. The COO tells him that he is lucky she's in the office. Ethan is surprised that the CEO of such a company is a woman but when he sees that the CEO is Annabel, he is angry.
They have an intense fight in the office but somehow, they end up having sex on the table in the office. Then the COO walks in on them thinking they are still fighting. He has plans to take Ethan out of the office. When he sees them making love and they don't notice him, he walks out quietly.
Days after this they continue the divorce process and she moves out of the house. She finds out she is pregnant and decides to travel out of the country to have her baby without Ethan's knowledge. Ethan finds out about this and begs her to allow him to be a part of the child's life. Both exhausted from their petty revenge and silly fights decide to bury the hatchet for the sake of their child. Ethan makes amend for his past wrongs and confesses his love to her. They later go on to live a happy life.
Chapter 1 Plot
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Chapter 2 The Contract Marriage Talk
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Chapter 3 A Game of Seduction
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Chapter 4 Playing The Paparazzi
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Chapter 5 A Honeymoon Scandal pt. 1
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Chapter 6 A Honeymoon Scandal, pt. 2
10/10/2023
Chapter 7 Hidden Agendas
13/11/2023
Chapter 8 Honeymoon Invasion
13/11/2023
Chapter 9 A Million Dollar Idea
13/11/2023
Chapter 10 Accidental Abuse
13/11/2023
Chapter 11 Leaked Photos
02/01/2024
Chapter 12 Strip Tease
02/01/2024
Chapter 13 Truth Or Dare
02/01/2024
Chapter 14 A New Nickname
02/01/2024
Chapter 15 Distractions & Feelings
04/01/2024
Chapter 16 A Kiss and Humiliation
04/01/2024
Chapter 17 A Talk
05/01/2024
Chapter 18 Pretense
05/01/2024
Chapter 19 Torture
06/01/2024
Chapter 20 Endurance
06/01/2024
Chapter 21 New Wheels of Revenge in Motion
07/01/2024
Chapter 22 Little Acts of Frustration
07/01/2024
Chapter 23 An Idea in an Elevator
08/01/2024
Chapter 24 Drunken Night and a Woman's Name
08/01/2024
Chapter 25 A Threat
09/01/2024
Chapter 26 The Hacker
09/01/2024
Chapter 27 Everyone is a pawn
10/01/2024
Chapter 28 An Office Parade
10/01/2024
Chapter 29 An interruption
11/01/2024
Chapter 30 A Family Dinner
11/01/2024
Chapter 31 An Old Friend
12/01/2024
Chapter 32 Threat
12/01/2024
Chapter 33 Mixed Feelings
13/01/2024
Chapter 34 Pregnancy News!
13/01/2024
Chapter 35 Strange Concern
14/01/2024
Chapter 36 An Outing
14/01/2024
Chapter 37 The Hotel and The Attendant
14/01/2024
Chapter 38 The Breakup
15/01/2024
Chapter 39 Annabel's Scent
15/01/2024
Chapter 40 Coincidences
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