Claimed By The Ruthless Missing Heir
My father was marrying a gold-digger, the mother of my cheating ex-boyfriend.
To end the charade, I crashed their luxury wedding with a ten-foot funeral wreath.
In front of hundreds of elites, my father slapped me across the face, calling me a vicious bitch while his new wife smiled in victory.
I triggered the estate's fire system to ruin them, but a terrifying stranger in the VIP section bypassed my military-grade hack in seconds.
He was Kavon Velasquez, a dangerous billionaire heir who had been missing for twelve years.
Instead of exposing me, he shielded me from my father's second blow.
When my pathetic ex tried to drag me away, I grabbed Kavon and kissed him to humiliate my ex.
I shoved a $500,000 check into Kavon's pocket as hush money and left.
I thought that was the end of it.
But why did this apex predator move into the penthouse right next to mine at 2 AM?
Why did he violently crush my ex's face the next morning just for grabbing my arm?
"She is my woman. If you ever come within ten feet of her again, I will bury you."
I didn't understand why a man with lethal skills was suddenly hunting me.
Then I found out he had just blackmailed my father with undeniable proof of corporate money laundering.
His demand wasn't money. It was me.
He ordered my father to announce our engagement by tomorrow sunset, and this dangerous game officially began.
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Chapter 5
A sleek, bulletproof Maybach glided silently down the garage ramp, stopping exactly two feet behind Kavon.
The driver's door opened. Silas Finch, Kavon's executive assistant, stepped out. He moved with the quiet efficiency of a ghost. He bowed his head slightly as he approached.
Silas's eyes flicked up and caught the smear of blood on Kavon's lower lip. Silas's body tensed instantly. His hand moved toward the inside of his jacket, reaching for his concealed weapon.
Kavon raised his hand. Between his index and middle finger, he held the $500,000 check.
He stopped Silas's movement without a word.
The corner of Kavon's mouth lifted into a smile that didn't reach his eyes. "Cash this, Silas," he ordered softly. "Make sure every single cent clears."
Silas took the check with both hands. He glanced at the name printed on the top left corner. Charlize Chen. A flicker of profound shock crossed Silas's stoic face, but he quickly masked it.
Kavon turned and slid into the spacious back seat of the Maybach. He reached up and loosened his silk tie, pulling it free.
"I want a full background check on the Chen family estate," Kavon commanded, his voice turning to ice. "Every debt, every secret, every vulnerability. I want it in my hands before sunrise."
"Yes, sir," Silas said. He closed the door, got behind the wheel, and the Maybach vanished into the Los Angeles night.
Across the city, in a luxury penthouse overlooking the glowing skyline, Charlize kicked off her stilettos.
She walked barefoot across the thick Persian rug, heading straight for the marble wet bar. She grabbed a crystal glass and poured three fingers of neat whiskey.
She threw her head back and swallowed the burning liquid in one gulp.
The alcohol burned down her throat, but it didn't wash away the ghost of the kiss. She reached up, her fingers lightly touching her swollen lower lip. The aggressive, cedar-scented heat of that man was still clinging to her skin.
Charlize slammed the glass down on the marble counter.
She was not a woman who left things to chance. A man with that kind of physical presence and technical skill didn't just casually attend a Beverly Hills wedding. He was dangerous.
She walked down the hallway and stopped in front of a heavy oak door. She unlocked it and stepped into her private study.
She walked to the massive mahogany desk, pressed a hidden button under the rim, and a secret compartment slid open. Inside rested a matte-black laptop with no brand logos.
She opened it. The screen flared to life, scanning her retina and requiring a complex fingerprint sequence.
Once logged into the deep-web intelligence network she had built from the ground up, she pulled up the global search interface.
Her fingers flew across the keyboard. She typed: Kavon Velasquez.
She hit Enter.
The progress bar flashed across the screen. Three seconds later, the screen went completely black. A massive red warning box popped up in the center.
TARGET DOSSIER ENCRYPTION LEVEL: SSS. ACCESS DENIED. INSUFFICIENT CLEARANCE.
Charlize's eyes narrowed. Her heart gave a hard thump. Her clearance level was at the absolute top of the civilian and corporate intelligence ladder.
She grabbed the encrypted satellite phone off her desk and hit speed dial.
"Kaylynn," Charlize said the second the line connected.
"Boss," Kaylynn Mercer's sharp voice came through. "What do you need?"
"I need you to use Kestrel Dynamics' core network. Break through the firewall on a man named Kavon Velasquez. Dig up everything."
There was a pause on the other end. The sound of rapid typing echoed through the phone. Five minutes passed in heavy silence.
"Boss," Kaylynn finally said, her voice tight with rare anxiety. "I can't. The firewall protecting his data is military-grade. If I push any harder, I'll trigger the highest-level international security agency's alert protocol."
Charlize gripped the phone tighter. "What can you see?"
"Only the public cover," Kaylynn replied. "He's the second son of the Velasquez family. He went missing twelve years ago. He just returned to the country this week. That's it. The last twelve years are a complete black hole."
Charlize hung up the phone. She leaned back in her leather chair, staring at the red warning box on her screen.
Twelve years missing. Military-grade protection.
She remembered the way he had looked at her in the smoke. The way his eyes had locked onto her mole.
A cold chill crawled up her spine. He wasn't just an arrogant billionaire. He was a predator. And for some reason, he was hunting her.
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8.4
For twenty years, I lived as the adopted daughter of the wealthy Hill family.
But today, they forced me to sign a severance agreement and kicked me out so their precious biological daughter, Malia, could marry my fiancé.
To ruin me completely, they framed me for stealing Malia's engagement bracelet, threatening me with prison.
I calmly exposed the "sapphire" as cheap glass, then rolled up my sleeves to show the reporters my scarred, punctured arms.
For two decades, I wasn't a daughter. I was Malia's living blood and bone marrow bank.
They drained my health to keep her alive, even ordering doctors to ignore my failing organs just so she could attend a gala.
"Take this million dollars and shut your mouth," my adoptive father sneered, throwing a check at my feet.
My ex-fiancé looked at me with disgust, and Malia screamed that I was a crazy, vindictive liar.
They had stolen my life and my health, yet they still looked down on me like I was garbage.
I ripped the check into pieces and threw it in their faces.
Just as they ordered the butler to drag me out, a group of men in black suits shattered the chaos.
The heir of the untouchable Montgomery dynasty stepped through the door, ignoring the Hills' fawning, and handed me a DNA report.
I wasn't a disposable blood bag. I was the long-lost true heiress of old New York money.
And now, I was going to take back everything they stole from me.
9.5
Blaire's mother gave her a ruthless ultimatum: find a husband today, or never call her mother again.
Desperate to escape the suffocating control and disastrous blind dates, Blaire agreed to a fake marriage with a stranger she met through an old woman.
She thought she was marrying a dirt-poor salesman drowning in mortgage debt.
They lived in a rundown Queens apartment and split the living expenses fifty-fifty.
He drove a sputtering Toyota Camry, established extreme territorial rules, and treated her like a gold-digging biohazard.
When she accidentally tripped and spilled hot soup on him, he didn't help her up, instead accusing her of using pathetic tricks to seduce him.
Her own mother even crashed their apartment, ruthlessly mocking his pathetic financial state and calling him a total loser.
Blaire endured his coldness and extreme germaphobia, genuinely pitying him for his stressful, low-paying job.
She refunded his money and defended his dignity, refusing to take advantage of a struggling man.
But she couldn't understand why this supposedly broke guy possessed such a lethal, commanding aura, or why an incredibly expensive cashmere blanket mysteriously appeared on her when she was freezing on the couch.
Until her brother called with a shocking warning.
"Blaire, the name on your marriage certificate belongs to the notoriously secretive billionaire CEO of New York's top financial syndicate!"
Blaire laughed out loud, completely unaware that behind the bedroom door, her "broke" husband was frantically ordering his PR team to bury his true identity.
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.
8.0
My wedding was tomorrow. I was a crisis counselor who had finally found peace with my loving fiancé, Dexter, and my best friend, Barbara.
A late-night call about a forced marriage led me to a hotel penthouse, where I found them naked in bed together.
It was all a cruel, three-year "savior game." They were bored heirs, and I was their project. They destroyed my career, caused me to lose our baby, and put my mother in the hospital.
They forced me to be a bridesmaid at their wedding-the one that should have been mine.
In front of hundreds of guests, they exposed my traumatic past and then tried to marry me off to a drunken stranger as a joke.
As I stood there, broken, a text from Barbara arrived.
"Your mother saw the livestream. She had a heart attack. She's not going to make it."
With nothing left, I ran to the 20th-floor window and jumped. They thought they had erased me. But my death was just the beginning.
9.3
To escape my abusive adoptive mother selling me to a loan shark for $50,000, I rushed to City Hall to marry a blind date.
In a blind panic, I grabbed the wrong man.
He was Julian Cardenas IV, a billionaire CEO who desperately needed a fake wife to dodge a corporate arranged marriage. We signed the papers on the spot.
He became my legal shield. He moved me into his pristine penthouse and secretly protected me from my family's violent threats. When I broke down crying in the freezing cold, he quietly left me hot cocoa. For the first time in my life, I felt safe.
But then, Julian overheard me complaining to my sister about my constantly breaking-down car, groaning that I had to "get rid of this baby four times."
He thought I meant abortions.
The man who was slowly melting my frozen heart instantly turned to ice. He threw away the dinner he had specially bought for me, his eyes filled with absolute disgust and blinding rage.
I was left entirely confused and terrified. Why did my savior suddenly look at me like I was the most repulsive thing in the world? What had I done to deserve this sudden cruelty?
I thought this fake marriage was my ticket out of hell. I didn't realize I had just locked myself in a cage with a furious, ruthless CEO who now wanted to destroy me.
9.3
Charlene was locked in a Swiss asylum by the wealthy Gay family, force-fed antipsychotics until her hands shook violently.
Her adoptive brother, Columbus, dragged her out of the psych ward merely to parade her as a prop for the paparazzi.
He had locked her up to get a psychiatric evaluation, ensuring she was declared legally insane and unable to claim her massive trust fund.
The moment she returned to the estate, the torment worsened.
Her other brother, Antwan, kicked her to the ground and shattered her wrist on the gravel.
"You lost your legal rights, you stupid bitch," he sneered, while the staff blindly ignored her agony.
Her childhood bedroom was completely gutted and given to a distant cousin.
Worse, she discovered Columbus was secretly sleeping with Isabela—the fake heiress who had framed Charlene in the first place.
Every trace of her existence in the family was being violently scrubbed away.
She had lost her dignity, her health, and the baby the doctors claimed had died in the delivery room.
She couldn't understand why the family she loved hated her so viciously, stripping away everything she had.
That was until she saw a little boy in the hospital hallway, a perfect, miniature replica of her own face.
Clutching the gold-crested cufflink he dropped, she realized the asylum's doctor had stolen him.
Her baby was alive.
With her heart turned to stone, Charlene made a silent vow to crawl out of hell and burn the Gay family to the ground.