Cheated On Me? I Married a Tycoon
I spent three years building my husband, Axel Farrell, into Silicon Valley's ultimate "family man." As his lead PR strategist, I carefully managed his public image, making sure the world saw him as a perfect, devoted husband while I worked in the shadows of our estate.
The illusion shattered when he came home one night smelling of sandalwood and roses, with three deep fingernail scratches carved into his back. When I tried to check his phone, the passcode we had used for years-our wedding anniversary-had been changed.
The betrayal got worse the next morning when his mother called me a "defective product" and tried to force me into a fertility clinic. Axel didn't defend me; instead, he shoved me against a marble bar at a public gala to protect his mistress in front of the world's elite. By the time I tried to leave, Axel had frozen my bank accounts and filed a forged legal petition to have me declared mentally incompetent.
He planned to have me legally kidnapped and locked in a private psychiatric ward just to stop me from filing for divorce. He even blocked every major law firm in the city from taking my case, leaving me with no money, no identity, and no one to turn to.
I couldn't understand how the man who "saved" me from the mud years ago could be the same monster now trying to legally erase my existence. Was our entire marriage just a grooming process to exploit my genius for his billion-dollar empire?
As the deadline for my forced commitment approached, I stopped crying and opened my laptop. I leaked the video of his affair to every tech journalist in the country, watching his stock price crash in real-time.
"Axel thinks starving me out will make me crawl back to him," I whispered as I walked into the headquarters of his biggest rival.
"But he forgot that the most valuable part of his company is in my head."
I was no longer the abandoned wife; I was the one who was going to take his throne and burn it to the ground.
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Chapter 4
Ayla walked straight to the main marble bar.
She tapped her fingernails against the cold stone and ordered a bone-dry martini.
Ten minutes later, Axel strolled back into the ballroom from the staff entrance, adjusting his cuffs. He looked perfectly composed, immediately rejoining the circle of investors.
A minute after that, Kristal walked in through a different set of doors. Her lipstick was freshly applied, her hips swaying as she scanned the room.
Kristal's eyes locked onto Ayla standing alone at the bar.
A smug, victorious smirk spread across Kristal's face. She grabbed a glass of wine and walked directly toward Ayla.
Kristal stopped right next to her. She dramatically flipped her hair over her shoulder.
A heavy wave of sandalwood and crushed roses hit Ayla's face.
Ayla's eyes turned to ice, but her posture remained perfectly relaxed.
"These Silicon Valley dinners must be so incredibly boring for you," Kristal said, her voice loud enough to carry.
Kristal took a sip of her wine. "I mean, a woman who only knows how to shop couldn't possibly understand the AI infrastructure architecture Axel was just discussing."
Several wealthy wives and tech executives standing nearby stopped talking. They turned their heads, their eyes gleaming with morbid curiosity.
Ayla took a slow sip of her martini. The gin burned her throat.
"As the Director of Overseas Operations, did you skip the training on basic social etiquette?" Ayla asked, her voice flat and bored.
Kristal's smile twitched. Her face flushed with irritation. She took a step closer, invading Ayla's personal space.
Kristal leaned in and dropped her voice to a venomous whisper. "Axel loves a woman who can fight alongside him in the boardroom. Not a fake heiress who got thrown out by her own family like garbage."
To make sure she got a reaction, Kristal deliberately shifted her weight.
She slammed the heel of her stiletto down hard onto the delicate train of Ayla's custom black gown.
The sickening sound of expensive fabric ripping echoed near their feet.
Kristal let out a loud, theatrical gasp and threw her hands up, pretending to lose her balance and fall toward Ayla.
Ayla didn't flinch. She didn't step back to catch her.
Instead, Ayla's eyes narrowed into slits. Her wrist snapped forward with lethal precision.
She threw the entire glass of ice-cold martini directly into Kristal's perfectly contoured face.
The alcohol hit Kristal's eyes.
Kristal let out a blood-curdling, ear-piercing scream.
The entire ballroom went dead silent. The music seemed to stop. Hundreds of heads snapped toward the bar.
Kristal stumbled backward, clutching her face. The sticky alcohol dripped down her chin, staining the front of her red dress.
"You crazy bitch!" Kristal shrieked, pointing a shaking finger at Ayla.
The crowd parted violently as Axel shoved his way to the front, his face purple with rage.
He saw Kristal crying and shivering. A flash of genuine panic and heartbreak crossed his eyes.
Axel lunged forward and shoved Ayla hard in the chest.
Ayla stumbled backward, her lower back slamming brutally into the sharp edge of the marble bar. Pain exploded up her spine, but she didn't make a sound.
Axel ripped off his tuxedo jacket and wrapped it tenderly around Kristal's shoulders.
Then, he spun around to face Ayla.
"Are you out of your fucking mind?!" Axel roared, his voice booming across the silent ballroom. "Assaulting a company executive in public?!"
Axel pointed at the floor. "Apologize to her right now, or get the hell out of this venue."
Whispers broke out across the room. The elite crowd was openly mocking the disgraced, hysterical wife.
Ayla looked at Axel. She looked at the man who was willing to destroy his wife's dignity in front of the entire world just to protect his mistress.
The last invisible chain holding her to him shattered.
Ayla lifted her empty martini glass and slammed it down onto the marble counter.
The glass shattered into a dozen pieces. The sharp crack made several people jump.
Ayla stood up straight. She ignored the throbbing pain in her back. She looked around the room of staring faces, and then locked eyes with Axel.
"You two make me sick," Ayla said. Her voice wasn't loud, but it cut through the silence like a scalpel.
She didn't wait for his reaction. She turned around, gathered the ripped fabric of her dress in one hand, and walked out of the ballroom with her head held high.
The cold San Francisco wind hit her face as she pushed through the exit doors.
Ayla pulled out her phone. She blocked Axel's number, hailed a yellow cab, and disappeared into the night.
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7.6
I spent three years as the hidden mistress of Wall Street tyrant Damon Vaughn. Our no-strings arrangement meant I was his to command, a secret he kept locked away in the dark.
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I ended it that night, leaving his black card on his nightstand and blocking his number for good. But a man like Damon doesn't accept being told no. He retaliated by buying the entire building my tech startup was in. He cornered me on the street, slamming his fist into my car's hood, his face a mask of terrifying rage.
He was a possessive monster, planning his perfect marriage while refusing to release me from my cage. The humiliation of being his disposable secret burned hotter than my anger.
To finally break him, I lied about having a blind date. But the lie became a terrifying reality when my mother forced me into that exact date. Now, Damon has kidnapped me, and as he shoves me out of his car in front of the restaurant, his voice is a low, dangerous whisper meant only for me.
"Remember who you belong to."
7.8
I was Grayson Warren’s "broken doll," a disgraced socialite kept on a short leash to pay off my family’s debts. To the world, I was a fragile liability; to Grayson, I was a pet he could humiliate for sport, forcing me to play the role of a mentally unstable girl while I secretly gathered evidence against his empire.
The cruelty peaked when Grayson forced me to break three years of sobriety in front of his investors, mocking my struggle before making me kneel on a golf course to scrub his shoes. He treated my life like a game, literally betting my sanity against a corporate board seat while he soft-launched a new relationship with a high-profile PR queen.
When the pressure triggered a massive panic attack, Grayson abandoned me in a private clinic just so he wouldn't miss a dinner reservation. Even my own mother turned against me, threatening to leak my psychiatric records and brand me a "violent delusional" if I didn't beg for Grayson’s forgiveness. I was trapped between a man who owned my debt and a mother who valued her estate over my daughter’s life.
I realized then that they would never let me go; they would only break me until there was nothing left. They thought they had erased my soul, but they forgot I was the only witness to the night my true love, Felix, was murdered. I was done being the victim.
I faked a suicide jump off the Queensboro Bridge to go off the grid, then crashed Grayson’s elite gala in a dress that signaled his downfall. Just as Grayson tried to physically crush me one last time, the room went silent. Felix Law, the man the world thought was dead for three years, walked out of the shadows with a federal warrant in his hand.
"Take your hands off her, Warren."
The game didn't just change; it ended. Felix was back from the dead, and this time, we were burning the empire to the ground together.
7.2
For three years, I was imprisoned by Anderson Hopper, the monster who forced me to watch my fiancé, Kendall, plummet into a freezing river.
But when I saw the morning news, I realized Kendall wasn't dead. He had returned as Eben Gill, a ruthless tech billionaire.
I risked my life to escape and find him, only to be met with eyes full of absolute hatred.
He publicly humiliated me, dragged me to the exact bridge where he "died," and sneered at the C-section scar on my stomach.
"Anderson Hopper's bastard," he spat, completely unaware that the baby was actually his—the very child Anderson had murdered in the operating room to break me.
To make matters worse, Anderson used Kendall's dying mother as a hostage to force me back into my cage.
I knelt on the freezing asphalt, begging the man I loved to just visit his mother, while he coldly ordered his driver to run me over.
I had lost my baby, my freedom, and my dignity, all to protect him from Anderson's blackmail. Why was I the one being tortured and treated like a traitor?
"Don't think your little kneeling stunt earned you my forgiveness."
He whispered those cruel words before walking away without looking back.
Staring at his cold, retreating figure, the last shred of my love finally turned to ash.
That night, under the cover of a torrential storm, I bypassed the estate's laser grids and walked out into the dark.
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."