SCORNED EX WIFE Queen Of Ashes (Camille and Stefan)

Chapter 126

"Where are we going?" Camille asked as Alexander's car turned onto an unexpected street. They had left Kane Industries after a long day of final preparations for the Phoenix Grid launch. Alexander smiled, eyes on the road. "A small detour. Something I want

to show you."

They rounded a corner, and Boston Memorial Hospital came into view, its glass façade gleaming in the late afternoon sun.

"The hospital?" Camille's brow furrowed. "Why here?"

"This place matters to us," Alexander said simply, parking the car. "Where everything began."

He

turned to face her, his expression unusually nervous. "I wanted to bring you back here

for a reason."

Without further explanation, he reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out

a small black velvet box. Camille's heart stuttered in her chest.

"Alexander," she breathed.

"I've been carrying this

for weeks." He opened the box, revealing a stunning ring, a brilliant diamond set in a platinum phoenix, its wings

curving to cradle the stone, tiny rubies forming the eyes.

"I had it designed to represent who you are, not who you were when we first met, but who you became. A woman who rose from the ashes, stronger and more beautiful than before."

Camille stared at the ring, emotion making it hard to speak. After everything, Stefan's betrayal, Rose's attempted murder, rebuilding her life, this moment felt almost unreal. Someone seeing her, truly seeing her, choosing her.

"I didn't plan to do this in a parked car," Alexander continued

small smile. "But once I decided to bring you here, to close the circle of our beginning...

wait any longer."

its velvet nest. "Camille,

hospital staff moved about, unaware of the

she had come, the pain she had endured, the strength

her voice steady despite the emotion threatening

he slipped the ring onto her finger. It fit perfectly, the phoenix's wings catching the light as she

she continued, "I want

Grid launch. Until we've dealt with Rose and Herod

"The Grid launches next week. We

Camille

forward, cupping her face in

between them, how different both their lives might

Kane hadn't discovered

Camille asked, suddenly uncertain. Victoria had never criticized her relationship with Alexander, had even encouraged it when Rose tried to use it against them. But marriage was different, permanent, binding, a potential distraction

Alexander said

worthy of you, no one could be that, but because Victoria Kane values strength above

then, sealing their promise.

her skin,

separated, Camille looked

ring, its diamond catching the fading sunlight. "I never expected this, she admitted. "After

now?" Alexander asked, his

between them, "....this is real. Built on truth, on seeing each other completely." As they pulled away from the hospital, Camille Successfully unlocked!ists

and

in circumstances neither

to now?" Alexander asked.

on her finger, still getting used to its weight, its significance. "Actually, I'd like to tell Victoria tonight,

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Alexander nodded, changing

Victoria's penthouse. "Do you