SCORNED EX WIFE Queen Of Ashes (Camille and Stefan)

Chapter 184

Chapter 183

Chapter 183

The evening glow bathed Victoria Kane's sprawling estate in golden light as lanterns illuminated the gardens for the rehearsal dinner. Three months had passed since the trial, and life had settled into a new rhythm for Camille. Tomorrow, she would marry Alexander Pierce and truly begin the next chapter of

her story.

From the edge of the stone terrace, Camille watched the unlikely gathering with quiet wonder, her birth parents chatting with Victoria, Kane Industries executives mingling with Pierce Enterprises innovators. The worlds that had once been separate now blended because of the love between her and Alexander.

"Penny for your thoughts?" Alexander's voice was warm against her ear as his arms encircled her waist.

Camille leaned back against his chest, savoring his strength. "Just taking it all in. Two years ago, I was plotting revenge in Victoria's study. Now..."

"Now you're running Kane Industries and about to become Mrs. Pierce." He kissed her temple, his lips lingering against her skin. "How quickly life changes."

She turned to face him, searching his eyes. "Any second thoughts about tomorrow?"

"About marrying you? Never." His smile reached his eyes, though something flickered behind them, a shadow so brief Camille didn't register its meaning.

Victoria approached them, moving with more strength than she'd shown in weeks. The experimental cancer treatment was working, her latest scans showed another reduction in tumor size. "There you two are. The photographer wants pictures by the fountain before we lose the light."

Camille squeezed Alexander's hand. "We'll be right there."

As Victoria walked away, Alexander's phone buzzed. He pulled it from his pocket, glancing at the screen. A muscle in his jaw tightened, almost imperceptibly.

"Everything okay?" Camille asked casually.

at Pierce Enterprises. Nothing that

him check his phone discreetly. Each time, a

hand, his eyes never leaving her face as Victoria's voice carried across the garden. "When I found Camille, I thought I was saving her. In truth, she saved me." Victoria raised her

danced under the stars, Alexander excused himself. "I need

returned twenty minutes later, she noticed nothing unusual beyond a certain tension in his shoulders that she attributed to wedding

handled?" she asked as

her cheek. "Nothing

dessert and dancing. If Alexander seemed occasionally

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walked through the moonlit gardens. Victoria had insisted they spend the night before their wedding in separate

something, Camille." His voice had a serious edge that made her look up. "No matter what happens, no matter what we learn about each other or

his intensity. "Where is

past year has taught me that family, whether born or chosen comes with

"Alexander..."

finger to her lips. "Tomorrow we begin

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that night, long after he'd kissed Camille goodnight and retired to the guest wing, Alexander slipped out of the house. The drive to Red Hook took forty minutes, giving him time to wrestle with the anonymous message that had arrived during dinner: *The woman who will be your mother-in-law tomorrow destroyed your true

attached to the message, left in his jacket pocket somehow, a calculated attempt to derail his happiness on

Financial statements. Photographs. News clippings. All bearing

newspaper headline screamed: MEDITERIAN ENTERPRISES

MEDITERIAN Enterprises because of her ruthless business practices. How his uncle, who had taken him in when his parents disowned him, had lost everything because

written in black and white across countless documents. The woman who had become Camille's mother, his

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