My Ex-Girlfriend Wants Me Back

Three years ago, Isabella Lopez looked me in the eyes in front of the entire world and denied ever loving me.

Five years together. Countless promises. A future we had planned in whispers behind locked doors.

And when everything fell apart, she chose her family, her reputation, and her precious empire over me.

I lost my home. My career. My father's name was dragged through the mud, and the woman I would have burned the world for stood beside the people who destroyed my life.

So I disappeared.

I rebuilt myself from nothing, learned how to smile without meaning it, and became the one woman the Lopez family could no longer afford to underestimate.

Now I'm back, and I'm ready to take everything from them.

Including Isabella's empire.

I expected her to fight me. To threaten me. To look down on me the way she did when I had nothing left.

I never expected to find her on her knees, begging me for five minutes.

"Nina, please. Your father didn't do what they said he did."

Three years too late. Three years of lies, and suddenly she wants me to believe she was trying to protect me?

The worst part isn't that I still remember how she kissed me, how she held me when the world felt cruel, or how she used to whisper my name like it was the only one that mattered.

It's that a part of me still wants to believe her.

But Isabella is hiding something. Something connected to my father's death, a missing accountant, and a secret powerful enough to make people disappear.

And the closer I get to the truth, the more I begin to wonder whether my ex-girlfriend betrayed me because she never loved me enough...

Or because she loved me and chose herself anyway.

Now she wants me back.

She wants forgiveness. She wants another chance. She wants the woman who once would have given her everything.

But that woman is gone.

And if Isabella wants my heart again, she'll have to survive the revenge of the woman she helped destroy.

Because this time, I'm the one who gets to decide how badly she hurts.

And I'm not sure I'll be able to stop once I begin.