IF I MUST BE THE VILLAIN
On the night of her engagement, Aria Vale’s world burned.
In front of hundreds of guests, her adoptive sister rises with a trembling hand over her stomach and a smile sharp as a blade.
She’s pregnant.
She was molested.
And Aria paid the man.
Before Aria can even breathe, bank records flash across the screen proof that she transferred company funds to silence her “crime.” Her fiancé watches in horror. Her parents look at her like she’s a stranger. Her best friend stands silently at her sister’s side.
By the end of the night, Aria Vale is disowned, disgraced, and thrown out like trash.
And no one believes her.
Except him.
The man she has secretly loved for years steps forward and says the words she’s desperate to hear: I believe you.
So she builds her shattered life around that promise.
For eight years, Aria helps him raise his son. For eight years, she hides in the shadows as his secret wife, convinced her ruined reputation would only drag him down. For eight years, she loves a man she thinks chose her when the world did not.
Until the night his ex returns.
And in a drunken confession, in front of his friends and the woman he never stopped loving, Aria learns the truth.
He never loved her.
She was convenient. Safe. A nanny with benefits. A placeholder.
His ex was always the one he wanted.
And the little boy she raised from childhood?
He chooses “Mommy” over her without hesitation.
But betrayal isn’t done with her yet.
Stage four cancer. Six months to live.
Aria Vale has nothing left to lose.
If the world insists on calling her a villain
Then she’ll become one.
And this time, she won’t beg to be believed.
She’ll make them regret ever doubting her.
Even if it costs her everything.
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