The-Wrong-Bride-Ares--Raven’s-story-(Maura,-Catharina)_bibis

Chapter Sixty-Six
RAVEN
I’m absentminded as I take a bite of the breakfast Alanna made for me. I tried not to, but I ended up
scrolling through my social media feeds all night, and I found nothing but hatred directed at me.
Despite Ares’s best attempts, screenshots of deleted content are making their rounds across all
channels. We’ve made it into every single gossip magazine, and they’re all scrambling to create
timelines of Ares and Hannah’s relationship.
It came to no surprise to me when The Herald reported on Hannah’s pregnancy, which only
villainized me further. Now I’m not just the woman standing in between two childhood sweethearts,
I’m also the evil stepmother-to-be.
Watching my love for Ares being turned into a spectacle for everyone to witness is one of the
hardest things I’ve ever had to do. Photos I can’t recall taking are being posted online, showcasing
how we used to look at each other when Hannah and Ares were still dating. The media have everyone
convinced that I’ve been seducing him for years, trying to break up Hannah and him. Everything about
this reeks of her. She’s always done this to me. Every single thing she’s ever done to me, she’s made
me take the blame for, twisting our story until I’m the villain. This is what she’ll do to me for the rest
of our lives.
What will it be like once the baby is born? Will she somehow manage to use her own child
against me too? I have no idea how long it’ll take her to make Ares turn his back on me, but I suspect
she eventually will.
I take a sip of my coffee, trying to take my mind off the videos of people destroying my designs,
some of which were hand sown by me, all of them citing that they won’t support a two-faced home
wrecker. Then there’s the death threats from Hannah’s fans, and the loss of my own fanbase. I’ve had
countless modeling contracts canceled without anyone so much as asking me for an explanation. She’s
destroying me, step by step, and it won’t stop until she gets what she wants.
Silas chuckles and glances at me. “Windsor bought The Herald and several other gossip
magazines. He banned them from reporting on you.”
My heart skips a beat at the thought of Ares. I truly thought we could get through anything together,
but eventually, he’ll tire of this battle too. He can’t save me when it’s my own sister that’s executing
my fall from grace.