Divorced, Then Wed the Billionaire

Averie Peters once had everything. Her family owned real estate, jewelry, and art collections until the Peters family collapsed. Her father took his own life, her mother died, and Averie fell from wealth into nothing. Jorge Hardy found her at her lowest, gave her a place to stay, and made her a fireworks designer at the Hardy Group. She believed he was her salvation. For three years, she was his invisible wife, treated like a housekeeper while he promised a real wedding next month.

On their third anniversary, Jorge asks for a divorce. He says Rebecca's stepmother is forcing her to marry a seventy-year-old man, and only the Hardy name can protect her. Rebecca once saved his life, so he owes her this. He wants Averie to wait two years, then remarry him. Averie looks at him and says, "I wasted three years of my life on you." She signs the papers instead and takes the five hundred million she earned from her designs. She walks away owing him nothing.

On the roadside, a car nearly hits her. Bryan Flinn pulls her out of the way. He is her childhood sweetheart, and he proposes on the spot. Five days later, they marry at the county courthouse. Averie enters the fireworks competition that same day. Rebecca tries to humiliate her, but Bryan stands beside her and warns the organizers that anyone who forces Averie out will answer to the Flinn Group.

Averie presents her design, Celestial Clouds, and wins first prize. Rebecca's entry, Blue Enchantress, is Averie's old graduation project. The plagiarism is exposed in front of everyone. Jorge watches from the crowd. He had defended Rebecca, claiming Averie was never that talented. Now he sees what he threw away.

Jorge's grandmother summons Averie and forces Jorge to kneel and apologize. He does it, but Averie tells him one sorry doesn't fix what's broken. She has a new life with Bryan, a studio she is building with her friend Laney, and no intention of looking back. Jorge keeps pushing, even suggesting she might be pregnant. Rebecca and her sister decide Averie has to be ruined for good. They send men to drag her reputation through the mud.