Claimed By The Arrogant Billionaire
Eva Brooks, a 25-year-old woman, was set up by her best friend. Her fiancé broke up with her and demanded compensation for allegedly cheating on him.
Eva had a one-night stand with the richest CEO in Dominic City, Ethan Owen. He was arrogant and offered her a job as his secretary.
As his secretary, Ethan couldn't shake his fondness for Eva. He became obsessed with her, worrying that she was cheating on him.
He broke up with his fiancée to become engaged to Eva, but will his fiancée let him go? Will Eva accept a relationship with her boss?
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Chapter 8
(Eva's POV)
"I am being honest with you, Maddison. Ethan doesn't like his secretary coming late to work or fumbling at business meetings. You know that Owen's Group has many businesses, so he is very busy. Also, he hates when his secretary gawks at him. His rules are much like I heard, but it's good for me. He hasn't cheated since we started dating. It was our families who set up our engagement. So I consider myself lucky to have a man like him," Freya said happily, and I nearly coughed out my lungs hearing that Ethan hadn't cheated on Freya. Wasn't he the same man who plastered me with hickeys all over my body? Well, I thought I was the one who rushed to meet him, so maybe he might not have cheated on Freya truly.
"Hmm. That sounds nice. But my husband's sister is a hooker. She broke up with her ex-boyfriend to sleep with a rich man for money. So I will advise you to keep your man in check, before she snatches him," Maddison said, her voice stern as she glared at me.
Freya laughed it off. "Forget about how beautiful your Sisters-in-law is or if she is a hooker or not. Ethan will not cheat on me with her. She's wasting her time. Moreover, Ethan and I will be getting married next month. So why bother about the secretary who will soon get fired for failing at her job?" Freya said, and I felt sad in my heart to hear that Ethan was in a serious relationship with her, and yet he was offering me a high-paying job and also asking me to be his woman.
"Alright. I just decided to give you a heads up. You know you're my best friend, and I want the best for you," Maddison said, and Freya laughed.
"I know, Maddi. Once my wedding invitation comes out, you will be my number one guest. Also, Ethan's sister, Angelina, is hosting a birthday party at Owen's Hotel next weekend. Has she invited you?" Freya asked, her voice bubbling with excitement, and Maddison smiled, "Of course. I saw Angelina two days ago at the tech gathering. She is a genius. I will be there at her party."
"Sure. Take care, Maddi, and don't bother worrying about your husband's sister. She is not a problem at all," Freya stated, her tone confident, and Maddison smirked at me.
"Alright, girlfriend. Take care," Maddie replied and put her phone back in her pocket.
"Do you hear that, slut? Ethan is in a serious relationship with my best friend, so if you are going to work for him, be ready to lose your job. He won't spare you a glance at all in his office. Coupled with your scandal at his hotel and your breakup with your fiancé, I am sure Ethan will fire you upon arrival." Maddison smirked, and I couldn't find words to refute her claims. I was still shaken by the fact that Ethan had a fiancée and yet he agreed and slept with me. His words rang in my mind: "If I hadn't slept with you, who knows what the drug would have done to damage your body. So you owe me compensation."
"Eva, Eva!" Cruz called my name after his wife had carried their chubby son and walked away.
"Eva, are you alright?" Cruz asked me softly, and I nodded and wiped off the tears that had slipped down my cheeks. I didn't know I was crying. I didn't even cry when Jacob Stone, my boyfriend of five years, broke up with me. But here I was, crying to hear that Ethan was already in a relationship. Maybe I felt guilty that I had been with another woman's fiancé. I didn't envision myself as a woman who would sleep with another person's fiancé. It was all Layla's fault for making me break up with Jacob. If I had known that Layla was jealous of me, I wouldn't have attended her twenty-fourth birthday party at Owen's five-star hotel. Now, I lost my chastity and also my fiancé caught me red-handed with another man.
Even after using the back of my palm to wipe off my tears, more tears flowed down my cheeks, and I couldn't stop the guilt I was feeling.
"Eva, don't let Maddison's words get to you. If you are truly employed by Ethan Owen, I think it's best that you focus on your job there and not try to lust after him or break his rules, alright?" Cruz gave me hope as he saw my sad look.
"It's fine. Thank you," I replied, but the sound of police sirens arriving at his home caught my attention.
"What's going on?" I asked, looking up at my brother's face, and his brows furrowed.
"Let me find out," he replied, and I was nervous about why the police had arrived at his house. Were they here to arrest me? I paced about the corridor but couldn't sate my curiosity. I walked out of the house to see Jacob Stone standing there in a black shirt, trousers and shoes. His expression was frosty as he arrived with the two police officers.
"Officer, that's the woman who cheated on me and made away with my money," Jacob said, his voice firm, and I gasped, "What? Which money? Officer, this is all a misunderstanding."
"Madam, you have every right to remain silent and follow us to the police station for questioning. Anything you say or do shall be used against you in the court of law. Now, come with us," the policeman in black uniform ordered me.
Cruz tried to speak to Jacob, as he knew him. They were once university friends.
"Jacob, you cannot have my sister arrested. Please, Eva didn't mean to cheat on you. You are taking this too far," Cruz tried to speak up for me as the policemen handcuffed me like I was a criminal.
Jacob turned to face my older brother, his expression cold. "Cruz, you don't expect me to let your sister go just like that. She cheated on me after everything I did for her. I need my compensation, unless she will rot in jail. She never let me touch her, and yet she slept with another man. Forgetting that she is mine!" Jacob looked furious as the policemen led me into the black car, and I was taken away.
"Jacob, you're making a mistake. You should arrest Layla. She set Eva up. You cannot do this to my sister!" Cruz cried, chasing after us, and I saw his wife standing there on the porch, recording us.
"That's not my business. Your sister will compensate me for wasting my time with her," Jacob insisted, while the police car drove out of the house.
I heard Maddison screaming, "Babe, don't waste your time on Eva. Let her pay the price for her crime."
The rest of her words cut off as the police car drove off and headed for the police station. I sat with unease, wondering if this was how I would rot in jail.
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9.7
For three years, I endured being treated like a walking ATM and a maid by my husband's family, biting my tongue to keep the peace.
Then, my husband's buddy suddenly dropped off a nine-year-old boy at my front door.
The crumpled note from my husband casually explained it was his illegitimate son, blaming me for being barren and demanding I raise the kid as our own.
My mother-in-law was absolutely thrilled, parading the boy around as the true heir at the dinner table.
"Some trees just don't bear fruit, no matter how much water you give them," she sneered.
My brother-in-law cheered, and my drunk father-in-law demanded I cook a feast to celebrate.
They actually expected me to continue paying the mortgage, buying the groceries, and cleaning up their endless messes, all while raising the living proof of my husband's betrayal.
I looked at the parasites who had drained me dry for years, acting like they were doing me a favor by letting me stay in a house that my money paid for.
I didn't scream, and I didn't cry.
I simply called my lawyer to file for an immediate divorce, froze every single bank account and credit card they relied on, and drove off to my grandmother's secluded cabin in the woods.
Let them see how long they survive without my money.
8.7
Five years ago, I was the invisible scholarship charity case at an elite Manhattan prep school, trying to survive in a sea of trust-fund babies.
Arlo Hammond, the untouchable billionaire heir, made sure to completely dismantle my soul.
When his wealthy friends asked if he noticed me, his mocking laughter echoed down the hallway.
"Are you out of your mind? You seriously think I'd be interested in a boring little nerd like her?"
But the moment we were alone, he would corner me in dark alleys, pinning my wrists against brick walls with terrifying, possessive jealousy if my phone even buzzed. He played his twisted games until I was left standing in the rain with my shattered dignity.
Now, I am an Assistant District Attorney. I spent years burying those memories under mountains of legal files.
But tonight, he returned.
When we crossed paths at an exclusive club, he looked at me with the cool detachment he'd give a piece of furniture. In front of a crowd of elites, he coldly declared:
"We have absolutely nothing to do with each other anymore."
Then he walked away to pick up a supermodel, leaving me trembling from the sheer humiliation.
I didn't understand. If I was so worthless to him, why did he still have my birthday tattooed in dark ink on his wrist? Why did he look at me with such raw, painful vulnerability in the shadows?
I stared at my pale reflection in the mirror and made a silent vow.
I am not that pathetic seventeen-year-old anymore, and I will prove to him that I am completely, entirely over him.
9.7
Emaline Finley was drowning in massive debt to keep her dying father alive, even enduring a humiliating blind date with an arrogant man just to find a financial lifeline.
But the fatal blow came from her former best friend, Kitty. Kitty, who was already engaged to Emaline's ex-boyfriend, deliberately told Emaline's father that his expensive treatments were bleeding his daughter dry.
Out of extreme guilt, her father threw away his life-saving medication and checked himself out of the hospital to die at home. When Emaline found him, he was coughing up pools of bright red blood, his lungs rapidly collapsing. As the paramedics rushed him away, Kitty called to gloat, mocking Emaline's poverty and telling her to go watch her father die.
Emaline was completely shattered, suffocating under the sheer injustice of it all. She had been betrayed, stripped of her dignity, and was now forced to watch her only parent slip away because of a cruel, spiteful lie.
Just as her world went dark, a wildly wealthy stranger stepped in. Cullen Preston, the mysterious man who had witnessed her humiliating date, paid the astronomical medical bills and brought in the city's top surgeon to pull her father back from death. But his salvation wasn't charity.
"Consider it a dowry."
He bought her father's life, and in exchange, he demanded Emaline as his wife.
8.4
Everly spent four years playing the perfect, accommodating wife to Carson Moss, swallowing every grievance just to secure medical treatments for their sick daughter.
But at a high-society banquet she exhausted herself organizing, Carson's pregnant mistress crashed the party.
The woman shoved an ultrasound of Carson's "real heir" directly into Everly's frail grandfather's face.
The shock triggered a massive heart attack.
Carson refused to use his private helicopter to save the dying old man, choosing to protect his mistress and his company's IPO instead. Her grandfather died on the hospital table.
Instead of remorse, her mother-in-law demanded Everly publicly cover up the murder.
"You will do exactly as I say, or I will freeze every single cent of the medical trust fund paying for your crippled daughter's treatments."
When a battered Everly returned to the estate, she discovered her three-year-old daughter covered in dark bruises and pinch marks. Her in-laws were deliberately torturing her disabled child.
Everly couldn't comprehend how a family could be so utterly heartless. Her only family was murdered, her child was abused, and her husband threw a five-million-dollar check at her face as hush money.
They thought she would just break and quietly disappear.
But when a terrifyingly powerful billionaire unexpectedly blocked Carson's security team from locking her up, Everly finally saw her window.
She grabbed her sleeping daughter and ran out into the freezing storm, making a blood-bound vow to make the entire Moss family bleed.
8.2
Justine abandoned her career as a top trauma surgeon to marry Congressman Carl McConnell. She did it to fulfill her dying sister's last wish: to protect her son, Leo, from this ruthless political family.
But the seven-year-old boy she swore to protect shoved her into a freezing koi pond, then cried to his father that Justine tried to drown him.
Carl didn't even check the security cameras. He hugged his precious heir and looked at his freezing wife with pure disgust.
"Are you out of your mind? Trying to hurt the heir to the McConnell family!"
He locked Justine in a 55-degree wine cellar while she was burning with a 102-degree fever. When she finally told him the truth, Carl flew into a rage and hurled a heavy brass-cornered book at her face, slicing her cheekbone wide open.
His mother even ordered the staff to starve her for seven days to reflect on her sins.
Justine stood in the dark, blood dripping down her face, her heart completely dead. She had sacrificed her brilliant future and her pride for this family, only to be tortured and discarded like garbage. How could they be so utterly devoid of humanity?
She pulled out her old medical kit and stitched up her own face.
Then, she signed the legal documents to permanently relinquish her stepparent rights, threw them at the housekeeper, and calmly looked at her abusive husband.
"I am divorcing you, Carl."
9.0
Carli followed an anonymous text to a dark garage, only to find her fiancé of seven years tangled with another woman in his Porsche.
She smashed his window, threw her engagement ring at his face, and walked away.
But the betrayal didn't stop there. Her own family sided with the cheater. Her father slapped her across the face so hard she bled, demanding she hand over her late aunt's trust fund.
"If you don't do exactly as you're told tonight, I will freeze every credit card in your name," her father roared.
Forced to attend the exclusive Gutierrez family gala, Carli watched her ex-fiancé parade his cheap mistress to humiliate her, while her stepsister tried to publicly ruin her.
Suddenly, a violent screech echoed as the massive crystal chandelier above them snapped from the ceiling.
In a split second of pure instinct, Vaughn shoved his mistress to safety and threw himself to the ground, completely abandoning Carli to be crushed.
Staring up at the plummeting glass, Carli felt the crushing reality that her entire life had been surrounded by monsters.
But the fatal impact never came.
A massive force yanked her into a hard chest, shielding her body entirely from the explosive shrapnel.
Carli opened her eyes to find Fletcher Gutierrez—the ruthless billionaire king of Wall Street and the masked stranger from her reckless one-night stand—bleeding heavily over her.
Feeling his warm blood on her hands, Carli knew the game had just changed.