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One Night With Ex's Alpha Boss: Relationships at the Start

Two Trusted People Betray Fiona Before a Stranger Intervenes

Meet them in the first five chapters See the ebook edition

This opening note focuses on the first paragraphs of chapter 1. The free reading sample contains five complete chapters.

Relationships in the opening

Two Trusted People Betray Fiona Before a Stranger Intervenes

Fiona remembers Jessica's support after her mother's death, which makes discovering her with Jack a failure of family trust as well as marriage. Later, a stranger at the bar acts on Fiona's request to be released when the bartender ignores it. This contrast is limited but concrete: remembered loyalty proves unreliable, while a person she does not yet know offers an observable intervention rather than merely reassuring words.

How does the stranger's response to Fiona's stated boundary differ from the responses she receives from people she knows?

Read the scene in chapter 1