Bestie's Tape Was Budget Content

When Cecilia Vick sends a video of her affair with Luther Boyd, she expects to break his wife's heart. Instead, the betrayed protagonist monetizes the betrayal by posting the footage online for twenty dollars before disappearing for fieldwork. Returning from the mountains a week later, she finds her phone flooded with notifications. Her act of revenge has turned into a public scandal, leaving a desperate Cecilia begging for the content's removal as her life falls apart.

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Chapter 1

My best friend, Cecilia Vick, "loved" me so much she hooked up with my husband, Luther Boyd, in the pajamas I bought her.

Then sent me the video.

[Did you enjoy it?]

I left her on read.

After watching that trash-fire masterpiece, I posted it online for twenty bucks.

Sharing is caring, right?

Then I put my phone on airplane mode and headed into the mountains with my team for fieldwork.

A week later, I turned my signal back on.

Boom.

999+ messages.

Then Cecilia called.

She was full-on spiraling.

"I'm begging you! Delete the video. Now!"

Cecilia's voice blasted through the phone, raw and ragged.

"Jolene, please! Delete the video!"

I lounged back in a chair at the lodge, tracing the rim of my coffee mug.

"Why would I do that? Honestly, the video's not bad. Good lighting. Good angles. Seems like a waste to delete it. Besides, you sent it to me. I don't keep things that aren't worth something."

Silence.

Two seconds later, she lost it.

"Do you even know that's illegal? Jolene Johnston, what the hell is wrong with you? Luther and I are in love, and you still tried to destroy us! I was so stupid to be your best friend for seven years!"

I laughed.

Best friend?

On my third wedding anniversary, she'd climbed into bed with my husband wearing the silk pajamas I'd bought her for her birthday.

In my bed.

Then she'd recorded it and sent me the video.

[Did you enjoy it?]

Yeah. Real best-friend behavior.

She stabbed me in the back, then somehow turned herself into the victim.

"Jolene? Did you hear me? Say something!"

I held the phone to my ear.

"Then wasn't it illegal for you to send me a private video of my husband just to piss me off? Want me to call the cops and ask whether that counts as distributing obscene content or violating someone's privacy?"

Dead silence.

Then the call disconnected.

Cecilia had hung up.

I lowered my phone and looked out at the mountains rolling across the horizon.

The breeze carried the scent of grass and trees.

It didn't help.

Nothing could.

But that was fine.

This was just the start.

My screen barely went dark before it lit up again.

Luther.

I answered.

"Jolene, you've gone too far."

His voice sounded exhausted, but the anger underneath was obvious.

"Do you have any idea how much damage that video caused?"

"How much?" I leaned back. "Be specific. Did your company's stock tank? Is the board getting ready to kick you out?"

Bullseye.

The line went quiet.

When he spoke again, his voice had gone cold.

"I'm giving you one last chance. Take the video down. Then make a public statement saying it was an AI fake. Tell everyone you're mentally unstable and spread false rumors on purpose. Do that, and I'll consider forgiving you.

"I might even let you keep your position as Mrs. Boyd."

Forgive me?

Let me keep my position?

I laughed. "Lucky me."

My voice dripped with sarcasm.

"Don't bother. Let's get divorced."

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On her wedding day, Sarah is left at the altar by her fiancé. Humiliated and abandoned, she finds an unlikely savior in her ex-groom's most bitter business rival. He steps in with a shocking proposal: marry him instead. Seizing the chance to reclaim her dignity and get revenge, Sarah accepts. Now, she must navigate a high-stakes marriage of convenience with a powerful billionaire who has his own mysterious reasons for keeping her close.

Billionaire Modern Romance

9.8

Betrayed Heiress: Marrying The Wall Street Devil

9.8

Ina Holman, heiress to a failing real estate empire, was forced to attend a high-stakes matchmaking meeting to secure a financial lifeline for her family. But the drink she was handed was secretly spiked. Desperate to avoid a public scandal that would ruin her father, she fled into a VIP elevator, only to fall directly into the arms of Buren Warner—the most ruthless billionaire predator on Wall Street. After a blurred, chaotic night, the nightmare truly began. A fabricated scandal of her hotel rendezvous hit the front pages. Her father slapped her across the face, using the disgrace as an excuse to freeze her accounts and kick her out onto the streets, legally severing her from the family trust before declaring bankruptcy. Even worse, her twin sister was killed in a sudden estate explosion. And the final, crushing blow? Ina discovered that her ex-boyfriend, Faron, the man supposed to save her family, was secretly gay. He and her best friend had orchestrated the drugging to destroy Ina's reputation, allowing Faron to break their alliance and keep his inheritance without suspicion. Stripped of her home, her family, and her dignity, Ina screamed in agony on the freezing streets. Her own father had murdered her sister for a fifty-million-dollar insurance payout and sacrificed Ina to hide his assets. The people she trusted most had conspired to ruin her life just for their own selfish greed. Driven into a corner with absolutely nothing left to lose, Ina stared at the cold, calculating billionaire who had tracked her down to an abandoned cliffside estate. "Marry me, and I will give you the power to destroy them all." To avenge her sister and crush the people who betrayed her, Ina signed her soul to the devil.

Billionaire LGBT+Modern Romance

9.0

Billing My Ex: The Queen's Glorious Return

9.0

For seven years, Eva sacrificed everything for Dante Morretti—bribing cops, funding underground doctors, and securing his reign as the Don of New York. But on their anniversary, Dante publicly crowned a Capo's daughter as his queen, dismissing Eva as merely his legal wife. His family, whose lives she saved, told her to manage the household and stop complaining. Then she learned he had used her emergency extraction funds to buy his new queen a penthouse. After taking a bullet for his mother the same night he was photographed with Serena, Eva calmly handed Dante an itemized bill for $367,420, dropped her safe house keys on the table, and walked away without a single tear. Now she plans to build her own empire.

Action Mafia Modern Romance

7.6

Just A Substitute: The Wife He Failed

7.6

At the family dinner, the waiter stumbled, sending a tray of boiling onion soup flying toward the table. My husband, Marcus, moved instantly. But not for me. He threw his body over my cousin Chloe, shielding her completely in his arms. I was left exposed. The scalding liquid hit my chest and arm, burning my skin instantly. While I screamed in agony on the floor, Marcus was frantically checking Chloe for scratches, whispering, "Thank God it missed you. You are more important than her. Always." In the hospital, he handed me a check for fifty thousand dollars. "It was an instinct," he said, avoiding my eyes. "Don't make a scene." He didn't notice my hollow expression. He didn't ask why the doctors were looking at him with pity. And he certainly didn't know that the shock and trauma had caused me to miscarry our six-week-old baby. For four years, I had been his perfect doll. I dressed like Chloe, painted like Chloe, and waited for him to love me. I thought I was his wife. I didn't realize I was just a placeholder until he sacrificed our child to save his true love from a splash of soup. When he left to comfort Chloe again, I pulled the IV from my arm. I placed the signed divorce papers on the bedside table. Underneath them, I left the medical report confirming the miscarriage of his child. Then, I vanished.

Mafia Modern Romance

8.4

My Alpha Betrayed Me for His Fated Mistress

8.4

At 10:14 on a Tuesday, the mating bond snapped—but Lily never felt it. While she toiled over treaties in the dim pack house, her coffee growing cold, she was the silent backbone holding Ironveil together for Elias. Then a creak in the hallway brought a new scent: his fated mistress. Years of devotion unravel in one devastating moment, and Lily faces a betrayal that could destroy everything she sacrificed everything to protect.

Modern Romance Werewolf Young Adult

9.1

Reborn To Ruin My Cheating Fiancé

9.1

Isabella thought she had the perfect life as the wealthy Conrad family heiress, complete with a loving childhood sweetheart. Until she woke up drugged in a hotel bed, blinded by paparazzi flashes, as her fiancé pointed a shaking finger at her, screaming that she had drugged and seduced him. "She threatened to ruin Kaylie if I didn't sleep with her!" he yelled to the cameras. Kaylie, the newly discovered biological daughter, stood in the doorway weeping perfectly. Within hours, Isabella's adoptive father publicly severed all ties, froze her assets, and kicked her out into a violent thunderstorm. Fleeing the city, her car's brakes suddenly failed. As Isabella lay dying in the crushed metal of her Porsche, Kaylie strolled up with a pristine umbrella and a genuine smile. "The mechanic was quite expensive, but cutting the brake lines was worth every penny," Kaylie laughed. Isabella coughed up blood, her heart turning to ice. Her twenty years of family, love, and loyalty had been nothing but a cruel joke, destroyed by a calculated frame-up. She died suffocating on absolute betrayal and unadulterated hatred. Then, she gasped for air. She wasn't dead. She was sitting in the driver's seat of her car, staring at her flawless reflection in the rearview mirror. It was exactly four years ago—the day the real heiress first arrived. A chilling smirk curled the corner of Isabella's mouth. This time, she was going to rip their lives apart from the inside out.

Billionaire Modern Romance

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