Betrayed By Ex, Married To The Tycoon
Elva used a spare key card to quietly enter the hotel penthouse, only to find her boyfriend of two years panting heavily on the king-sized bed with her own cousin.
Instead of showing remorse, her cousin shamelessly mocked her background, while her ex aggressively lunged at her to destroy the photographic evidence she had just captured.
"You think you can just walk away? Warren already made the deal. By next week, you're being shipped off to marry that fifty-two-year-old crippled freak from the Ramirez family!"
Her ex spat the words to threaten her, and the nightmare only escalated when Elva returned to her uncle's estate, where Warren confirmed he was indeed selling her off for a business connection.
Her family eagerly joined the abuse, threatening to permanently freeze her late mother's trust fund and even plotting to secretly drug her morning milk so she couldn't fight back when the groom's family arrived.
They looked at her like a pathetic, orphaned burden they could bleed dry, fully expecting her to drop to her knees, cry, and accept her miserable fate without a single word of defiance.
But they had no idea that just hours ago, Elva had already signed a marriage certificate with Bronson Ramirez, the undisputed billionaire king of the dynasty, and she was stepping into the living room ready to watch their greedy world burn.
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Chapter 4
Half an hour later, Elva and Bronson walked side-by-side down the wide, white marble steps of the New York City Hall.
Elva held a freshly printed piece of paper in her hand. The ink was still warm.
She stared at the marriage certificate, her eyes tracing over the name written next to hers: Bronson Ramirez. The reality of what she had just done felt bizarre, yet incredibly grounding.
She glanced sideways at the towering man beside her. "Are you actually related to the Ramirez family? The billionaires?"
Bronson's expression didn't change. He adjusted his cuffs, his tone dismissive. "A distant branch. Barely worth mentioning at their dinner table."
The explanation was smooth, but Elva's internal alarms only rang louder. She didn't believe him for a second. A man with this level of suffocating presence and a custom-armored Maybach wasn't just some forgotten relative. He was dangerous. He was hiding something massive. But right now, she needed a shield to block Warren's fatal blow, and this mysterious predator was offering her the perfect weapon. She would play his game for now, keeping her guard raised to the absolute maximum.
They slid back into the waiting Maybach.
"Fifth Avenue. Cartier," Bronson ordered the driver.
Elva frowned, turning to him. "That's not necessary. The whole point of a contract marriage is to keep it low-profile."
Bronson leaned back against the plush leather seat, his presence dominating the back of the car. "If we are doing this, we do it right."
He turned his head, his dark eyes locking onto hers. "If you walk back into the Schmitt estate without a rock on your finger, your uncle won't believe a word of it. We need a prop."
The Maybach glided to a halt in front of the flagship Cartier store.
The store manager and three senior associates were already lined up at the glass doors, bowing slightly as Bronson stepped onto the pavement.
Elva followed him into the hushed, heavily guarded VIP room. Velvet trays lined with blinding, multi-million-dollar diamonds were immediately brought out.
She didn't want to owe him more than necessary. She pointed to a simple, unadorned platinum band in the corner of the tray. "That one is fine."
Bronson completely ignored her finger.
He reached past her and picked up a breathtaking, three-carat flawless pink diamond ring.
Before Elva could protest, Bronson dropped to one knee right there on the thick carpet. He reached out and wrapped his large, warm hand around her left wrist.
Elva's fingers twitched. A jolt of electricity shot up her arm. She instinctively tried to yank her hand back, but his grip was like iron-gentle, but entirely immovable.
He slid the heavy pink diamond onto her ring finger. It slid over her knuckle and settled perfectly into place, as if it had been custom-made for her.
He looked up, his dark eyes burning into hers. "This is the standard for Mrs. Ramirez."
Elva's muscles instantly tensed, every survival instinct she possessed screaming at her to step back. A 'distant branch' relative casually dropping millions on a flawless pink diamond without blinking? He was either testing her greed, or he was so unimaginably powerful that he didn't care about exposing his lie. The sheer, terrifying weight of his true identity pressed against her mind. She quickly looked away, swallowing hard to mask the cold, sharp calculation racing through her brain.
Suddenly, her phone started vibrating violently in her pocket.
She pulled her hand free and dug out the phone. The screen flashed with Warren's name.
The warmth in Elva's eyes instantly froze over. She hit answer and pressed the phone to her ear.
"Where the hell are you? !" Warren's enraged roar blasted through the speaker. "Get your ass back to the estate right now!"
Erick had clearly gone crying to the family.
Elva's voice dropped to a lethal, icy calm. "I'm coming back. But not to listen to your barking. I'm coming to take what belongs to me."
She ended the call and tossed the phone into her purse.
Bronson had already signed the exorbitant bill and slipped a simple platinum band onto his own finger. He watched the murderous intent settling over Elva's features.
"I can go with you," Bronson offered, his voice low and steady. "As your husband, it's my right."
Elva shook her head, her eyes hard. "No. This is my mess. I'm going to clean it up myself."
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But her billionaire husband, Derick, never showed up. At the exact moment Cece's heart monitor flatlined, the hospital TV broadcasted Derick affectionately holding the hand of his mistress and he has booked a clearance of the entire Disneyland to celebrate mistress's daughter's birthday!.
When Elinor confronted Derick with their daughter's ashes, he sneered and accused her of hiding the child just to get his attention. Elinor's heart was torn to shreds. How could a father be so blind and ruthless? Did Kamryn use his power to steal the very kidney that belonged to Cece? Why did her innocent baby have to die for their sick affair?
The suffocating grief inside Elinor finally crystallized into a sharp blade. She wiped the blood from her lips, canceled the simple divorce, and began her ruthless revenge.
9.0
Colette stepped out of the federal prison, finally breathing the air of freedom after two agonizing years.
But instead of a bus home, a black armored SUV blocked her path. Ferris Vance's men kidnapped her right at the gates. He forced her to sign a marriage certificate, threatening to completely destroy her father's legacy if she refused.
The nightmare had only just begun. She soon learned her father had been driven to suicide anyway. Dragged into the Vance estate, Colette was beaten bloody by the family of Ellie, the girl she supposedly wronged. Ferris paraded her in a pure white gown for the cameras, playing the fiercely devoted husband. But the second the lenses turned away, he forced her into a coarse maid's uniform, making her scrub the freezing marble floors on her hands and knees.
"Your life isn't even worth the dirt on my shoes."
Ferris whispered those words as he threw his muddy boots at her bruised face. She was nothing but a piece of bleeding bait, a prop meant to lure his missing lover out of hiding. She was tortured and humiliated for a crime she had absolutely nothing to do with. The sheer injustice of paying the price for another woman's disappearance tore her soul apart.
When he cornered her in the bathroom, the last thread of Colette's sanity snapped. She hurled a bucket of filthy water right into his face, broke out of his grip, and threw herself out a window into a freezing storm. This time, she chose to escape, even if it meant death.
7.1
I was the top commander of a black-ops military program. After slaughtering my way through a hellish mission, I reached the extraction helicopter, trusting my second-in-command to watch my back.
But the moment our hands locked, he didn't pull me up. Instead, he plunged a syringe of lethal neurotoxin directly into my neck.
He aimed his gun at my chest, coldly stating that I was too dangerous to live. My lungs stopped, and I died in a pool of my own blood. But the endless blackness suddenly shattered. My consciousness violently forced its way into a new, broken shell. I woke up in a freezing alley, soaked in muddy rain.
This body belonged to seventeen-year-old Eliza Wyatt. A massive wave of foreign memories crashed into my brain. Her own younger sister had just stood at the top of the stairs with a mocking smile, watching street thugs beat Eliza to death.
"Take good care of the Wyatt family's eldest daughter. Tonight is the night she finally disappears."
The endless humiliation, the cold stares of her family, and the brutal betrayal by her own blood flashed before my eyes. Why was this fragile girl treated like garbage and pushed to her death by the very people who should have protected her?
I looked down at my pale, trembling hands. The top commander was dead, but in this bleeding shell, Eliza Wyatt was very much alive. I picked up a switchblade from the bloody puddle and stood up in the storm. It was time to hunt.
7.2
Elmore Thomas rushed into the emergency room, clutching his feverish seven-year-old son, Buddy, tightly to his chest.
When the privacy curtain was pulled back, the air in Elmore's lungs vanished. The attending physician standing under the harsh lights was his wife, Kendal—the woman everyone believed had burned to death eight years ago.
But there was no tearful reunion. Kendal looked at him, and her eyes froze into impenetrable ice. She treated him like a biohazard, strictly referring to him as the family member.
Worse, she didn't recognize Buddy. She comforted their crying son with the same gentle warmth she used to reserve for Elmore, completely unaware she was soothing the baby she thought had died.
Days later, Elmore watched from the shadows as she picked up another boy outside a prep school, her left hand flashing a massive diamond engagement ring.
When his butler accidentally recognized her, Kendal shielded her new stepson with pure disgust in her eyes.
"Tell that psychopath to sign the divorce papers immediately. I have a new family now."
The words 'new family' echoed in Elmore's skull, tearing him apart. For eight years, he had lived in a hell of guilt and madness, raising their son in the shadow of her ghost. How could she just erase their past? How could she give her tender smiles to a stranger and look at him with absolute revulsion?
Standing in a luxury ballroom, Elmore squeezed his hand until his crystal champagne flute shattered, thick blood dripping onto the rug. The murderous obsession in his dark eyes returned as he called his lawyer.
"Freeze her divorce application. Use every dirty trick in the book. She isn't leaving."
8.1
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8.1
Maddy worked at an exclusive underground club, always hidden behind a sleek black mask. One night, a wealthy client approached her with a filthy fantasy , he didn't want to just fuck her. He wanted to be her complete slave.
He took her to his luxury penthouse, while she shoved her soaked pussy onto his face and rode his tongue until she came, then mounted his cock and used him mercilessly, slapping and choking him while denying his orgasm until he begged like a broken whore. Even after she quit the club and started a new corporate job, she kept hooking up with him. One day, she walked into the CEO's office... and froze. Her new boss was the same man.
By day, in his luxurious office, he is the dominant, commanding CEO , barking orders, running the company with iron authority, and no one suspects a thing. By night, he becomes her secret pathetic slave: crawling, getting pegged over his own desk, licking her cum off his floor, and having his cock locked in chastity while she laughs at how easily she owns him.
Pretty Devil is a raw, extremely explicit erotic novel packed with intense femdom, heavy BDSM, humiliation, orgasm denial, pegging, face-sitting, and twisted power exchanges that blur the dangerous line between boss and secret slave.
This book is unapologetically nasty and graphic. Reader discretion is strongly advised.
7.6
"One signature. One life-long debt. One night to change everything."
Elara Vance thought she could escape her family's dark past, until the ruthless tech-mogul Silas Vane corners her with a contract she can't refuse. Her father didn't just owe Silas money-he owed him a blood-oath.
The deal is simple: Marry Silas for 365 days, endure his cold touch, and play the perfect doll for the media. In return, her family's sins are erased. But Silas isn't just looking for a wife; he's looking for the woman who shattered his heart ten years ago.
Elara is wearing a dead woman's face, and Silas is a man who never forgets a betrayal. As the line between hate and heat blurs, Elara realizes the debt isn't money... it's her heart. And Silas Vane is coming to collect.