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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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"What did you say?" Luther snapped. "Don't push your luck. Without me, you're nothing."

"That's not for you to decide."

I hung up.

The second I set my phone down, the team chat blew up.

The usually dead chat was suddenly alive.

Someone cautiously tagged me.

[Jolene, is everything okay? We saw what's been going around online and got worried.]

My DMs blew up too. Some wanted the tea. Others were faking sympathy.

I skimmed through them and dropped two words into the team chat.

[I'm fine.]

Then I packed my bags, checked out of the lodge, and headed back to the city.

The scenery blurred past outside the window.

I rested my head against the glass and smiled.

How could I not be fine?

I was about to tear every one of those hypocrites apart.

I'd be better than fine.

***

I didn't go back to that so-called home.

Instead, I checked into a hotel and spent a day recovering.

After a shower and a full night's sleep, I stood in front of the mirror.

My eyes were bloodshot. But there wasn't a trace of defeat in them.

The next morning, I grabbed the divorce papers I'd prepared long ago and headed straight for Everluxe Ventures.

The receptionist froze when she saw me.

She looked like she wanted to stop me.

I walked right past her.

All across the office, people stopped what they were doing to stare.

Some looked curious.

Some looked smug.

Some looked sympathetic.

Others looked entertained.

Whispers followed me down the hall.

"That's Mr. Boyd's wife, right? I heard she sold the video online. Brutal."

"Seriously. And Ms. Vick was her best friend. That's rough."

"Mr. Boyd really screwed up this time. Guy had a wife and still cheated. Guess it finally caught up to him."

I ignored them.

My heels clicked across the floor as I headed for Luther's office.

Knock.

"Come in."

His voice was already irritated.

I pushed open the door.

Luther wasn't alone.

Cecilia was there.

She wore a white dress, her eyes red and watery like she'd been crying for hours.

Curled up against Luther's side, she sniffled softly.

The second she saw me, she stiffened.

Then she lowered her head and wiped away a tear.

The perfect victim.

Luther's face darkened immediately.

"Jolene, what are you doing here? Haven't you embarrassed me enough?"

I walked to his desk and dropped the divorce papers in front of him.

Slap.

The sound cut through the room.

"Divorce."

I looked him straight in the eye.

"And you're leaving with nothing."

Luther laughed. Like I'd just told the funniest joke he'd ever heard.

He shot to his feet and planted both hands on the desk.

"You want me to leave with nothing? Have you lost your mind? You think you can do that? Based on what?"

I didn't blink. "Because the startup money for this company came from me.

"Because every major crisis this company survived over the last three years was solved through my connections and resources.

"And because you cheated on me with my best friend during our marriage."

I held his stare.

"Need more reasons?"

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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