He Found My Secret Revenge
Faith Neal had vanished, burying her powerful past under layers of anonymity as an ER doctor. She was secretly dismantling the empire of the man she'd left behind, brick by costly brick, from the shadows. Until he walked into her trauma room, bleeding from a bullet wound, shattering her carefully built world with a single, dangerous glance.
Her heart hammered: Earl Hampton, the ruthless CEO she abandoned, was on the gurney, demanding only "Faith."
His presence shattered her new life. He accused her of running, his touch a possessive reminder. Soon after, old rivals Chad Miller and Tiffany Vance ambushed her, humiliating her, sparking a fight.
Panic and anger flared as Chad mocked her, calling her a "bitch." Shame burned, but a deeper fear gripped her – the architect of her revenge was bleeding in her ER, and he knew.
Before Chad could inflict more harm, Earl reappeared, violently intervening.
"I'm the man who's going to reclaim his assets," he rumbled. "I found you. I'm not losing you again."
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Chapter 4
The bell above the door of Lou's Diner jingled cheerfully, a stark contrast to the heavy silence that had filled the SUV cab.
Earl held the door open for her. The diner was warm, smelling of frying bacon and old coffee. It was late, so the place was mostly empty, save for a trucker dozing in the corner and a waitress wiping down the counter.
Earl guided her to a booth in the back. Red vinyl seats, cracked in the corners. Formica table. It was the kind of place where billion-dollar deals were made in whispers to avoid wiretaps.
Faith slid in. She felt exposed without her white coat. Just Faith. Just a tired woman in a hoodie trying to hide a secret that could topple an empire.
The waitress, a woman in her fifties with hair dyed a shocking shade of purple, wandered over with a pot of coffee.
"What can I get you folks?"
Earl didn't look at the menu. "Black coffee for me. And a hot chocolate for her. Extra whipped cream. Shaved chocolate on top if you have it."
Faith froze. Her mouth opened slightly.
The waitress winked. "You got it, hon." She walked away.
Faith stared at Earl. "How did you know?"
Earl took off his coat, revealing a black dress shirt that clung to his chest. He folded his hands on the table. "The dossier. Page 4, subsection 'Preferences'. You drink it when you're analyzing market trends."
Faith felt the blush start at her toes and rocket up to her hairline. She looked down at the table, tracing the scratches in the laminate. "I was... younger then."
"You have a sweet tooth when you're stressed," Earl corrected. "I noticed."
"You noticed a lot for someone who was supposedly focused solely on the merger."
"I notice everything about my investments, Faith."
The drinks arrived. Faith wrapped her hands around the thick ceramic mug. The heat seeped into her frozen palms. She took a sip. It was sweet, rich, and comforting.
Earl watched her drink. He didn't touch his coffee.
"Why are you doing this?" she asked, putting the mug down. "The rescue. The ride. The hot chocolate. What do you want, Earl?"
Earl reached into the inside pocket of his jacket. He pulled out a thick, manila envelope.
He slid it across the table.
"Open it."
Faith hesitated. "What is it? A lawsuit? A subpoena?"
"Just open it."
She undid the clasp. She pulled out the papers.
It wasn't a lawsuit.
It was a stack of documents.
Top sheet: A copy of a Trust Fund establishment. Beneficiary: unnamed minor.
Second sheet: A private investigator's report. Photos of a small house in the suburbs. Photos of a swing set.
Third sheet: A new Non-Disclosure Agreement. Far stricter than the first.
Fourth sheet: A bank statement. A transfer of five million dollars into an escrow account.
Faith looked up, her blood turning to ice. "You know."
"I know there is a child, Faith." Earl said. "I know you've been hiding him."
"He's not..."
"Don't lie to me. Not about this."
He leaned forward.
"I know you're scared," he said softly. "I saw it in your eyes at the hospital. You think everyone leaves. Or you think everyone wants something from you. You think I'll use him as leverage."
Faith shoved the papers back into the envelope. Her hands were shaking again.
"You don't know me, Earl. You don't know my life. You don't know what the Board will do if they find out there's an heir. They'll tear him apart."
"Then tell me."
"My life is a mess!" Her voice cracked. "My identity is compromised. The Board has hired private contractors to find 'The Leak'. If they connect me to the Oracle sabotage, and then connect me to the boy..."
She pushed the envelope back to him.
"You're a businessman, Earl. You calculate risk. He is a liability. You deserve someone... uncomplicated. Someone who doesn't come with baggage that will drag you down."
Earl didn't take the envelope. He reached across the table and covered her hand with his.
"I don't want uncomplicated," he said. "I spent ten years building a monopoly, Faith. Peace bores me. I like a challenge."
"I'm not a challenge. I'm a disaster."
"You're a survivor," he said fiercely. "And as for your baggage..." He shrugged. "I can carry heavy things. And I protect what is mine."
Faith stared at him. She wanted to believe him. God, she wanted to believe him. But she knew the corporate world. She knew the reality of her world. It corrupted everything it touched.
"I can't," she whispered. "I can't let you get hurt. Or him."
She stood up. "Thank you for the drink. And the ride. But... please. Just let me go."
She didn't wait for an answer. She turned and walked out of the diner, the bell jingling mournfully behind her.
Earl didn't follow. He sat there, sipping his black coffee, watching her go. He checked his watch. 3, 2, 1.
Faith stepped out onto the sidewalk. The wind hit her face, drying the tears that were threatening to fall.
Stupid, she told herself. Stupid, stupid girl. You just walked away from the best protection you could ever afford.
But I had to. To protect my son.
She turned up her collar and started walking toward the bus stop.
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My heart burned with hatred as I clutched the knife behind me. "Of course, Alpha Loic. I was wondering... If you were to choose between a quick death and a slow one, which would you choose?"
I smiled brightly. He was taken aback for a moment. Then his face twisted in anger. "Have you forgotten your place so soon, Omega? Go down on your fucking knees."
"Omega? Aww. Adele would be so hurt. Tonight, I'll pronounce your death. The Alpha of the Vanguard pack, killed by fire. Touchè." I snapped my hands, and fire sprang up from all corners, encircling the room, with us in it.
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After being struck dead by the Alpha of her most hated race, Ophelie returns in the body of a wolf-less girl with only one mission in mind. To kill her murderer.
But sometimes, things never go as planned. When love is thrown in the mix, Ophelie finds herself and her previous plans swaying.
Refusing to kill Loic is to lose herself and her powers. What would she choose?
7.7
Not only was I drugged, blinded and assaulted. I was deceived into carrying a baby by a stranger I never knew. Then he appeared and took my child away.
I was sent to a militia by the father of my child. I thought I was rescued but I was recruited to be a weapon for killing. Who was manipulating me, I didn't know. The answers were far from what I knew.
Forced to blend into the world that I could never believe I would be to, a place where brutality reigned, kill or be killed was the only language. I have survived but he has to pay for everything he did to me, because I believed every phase of my life was set by him and him alone. Have I really survived?
Who would have thought, he existed twice in the same world? Do I really know who I should take revenge on? Him or the person I would sacrifice everything for?
Was my mother the one who orchestrated everything? What kind of pawn am I?
7.7
I was suffocating in a borrowed Valentino gown at the Met Gala, but it wasn't the corset that was killing me. It was the debt collector, Vargo, stalking me through the crowd like a wolf.
Desperate to hide, I ducked into a private lounge and threw myself at the silhouette of a man sitting in the shadows, pressing my lips to his in a frantic plea for cover. When I pulled back, the air turned to ice; I was staring into the ocean-blue eyes of Kingsley Osborn, the billionaire who believed I’d sold his company secrets six years ago.
Kingsley didn’t save me; he trapped me. The next morning, he slid a "Marriage Service Agreement" across his desk, revealing he knew everything about my father’s illegal Ponzi scheme and the quarter-million dollars I owed to loan sharks. He offered to pay my debts and protect my father, but only if I signed over two years of my life to be his trophy wife.
"I don't want your money, Cassidy. I want your life."
The marriage was a cold, calculated war. He forced me into his glass fortress, banned me from contacting my friends, and treated me with a distilled hatred that felt like a physical weight. When I accidentally broke his grandfather’s vintage watch during a nightmare, he didn't see an accident—he saw a crime, threatening to destroy my father if I didn't "charm" his board of directors into submission.
I was a prisoner in a three-piece suit, until I found a mislabeled file buried in his company’s server. It contained evidence of a massive, illegal hostile takeover that would ruin Kingsley if the Feds ever saw it.
I held the gun that could destroy the man who had cornered me. But as I looked at the champagne roses he’d secretly kept from my "peace offering," I realized I didn't want to pull the trigger. I wanted to see how far he’d go to keep me from leaving.
8.1
Iverson played the role of a rebellious, useless loser to survive in his mother's new wealthy family. He deliberately tanked his grades and hid his genius so his perfect stepbrother wouldn't feel threatened.
But when a violent gang extorted Brenda, the only woman who actually acted like a real mother to him, Iverson dropped the act. He brutally dismantled four armed thugs with a broken aluminum pole to save her life.
At the police station, he faked being a terrified victim to avoid jail. But when his biological mother arrived, she didn't even ask if he was hurt. Instead, she glared at him with pure disgust.
"How much more humiliation are you going to put me through?"
She threw a tutoring folder at his chest, praising his stepbrother's Ivy League prospects while threatening to cut off Iverson's trust fund for fighting over slum trash.
Iverson clenched his fists in silence. He had deliberately played the idiot and ruined his own reputation just to keep her safe in that toxic mansion. Yet, she looked at him like he was absolute garbage. She truly believed he was just a brainless thug holding her back.
Back in his room, Iverson locked the heavy oak door and booted up his highly encrypted laptop. The screen loaded into the world's most elite underground academic network.
"Welcome back, Rank 1."
He stared at the glowing screen with a cold, dangerous smile. He was done playing the fool.
8.6
The Maybach glided through rain, Dante's cold cedar cologne a familiar comfort. Seven years, my life revolved around him, my fingers on his suit cuff, a silent promise. But tonight, our normal shattered with a single phone call.
He answered, speaking rapid Italian – a language he thought I didn't understand. Every word: a death knell. Confirming his engagement to Sofia Moretti, dismissing me as a 'consolation prize.'
Seven years of loyalty vanished. His loving mask back, he left for his fiancée. I stumbled into freezing rain, recalling my foster past. My numb fingers dialed his mother, Isabella, demanding fifty million for my silence. Her insults didn't sting.
The true gut punch: Sofia's Instagram, a prenup on Dante's desk, proudly showing *my* watch, captioned: 'Fourteen days left.' This wasn't their celebration; it was my death sentence.
I wouldn't stay another day in this gilded cage. My old duffel bag, packed, waited. The Australia brochure, a childhood dream, in my pocket. This time, I would live for myself, and they would all pay.
8.7
I died in a mangled wreck of metal and fire, abandoned by the man I thought was my soulmate. But instead of the void, I woke up pinned against a cold marble wall, staring into the turbulent, storm-gray eyes of Damian Vincent.
This was the night I destroyed my life. In my past world, I spat in Damian's face and ran into the arms of Eddie, a parasitic loser who was secretly plotting with my cousin Jill to strip me of my inheritance.
My "escape" turned into a slow-motion suicide. My brother Donavan died in a horrific car crash while racing to save me from another one of my messes. Damian, consumed by a toxic mix of grief and vengeance, crushed the Nelson family empire until my father was a broken man. I spent years as a drugged-up social pariah, finally dying alone while the people I trusted laughed at my funeral.
The most bitter realization didn't hit me until the end. The "controlling monster" I spent years fighting was the only person who ever truly protected me. I had traded a man who would burn the world for me for a man who would burn me for the world.
Opening my eyes three years in the past, I find myself back at the airport, the rain lashing against the windows. My brother is pleading with me to run, and Damian is standing there, braced for the slap he thinks is coming.
But I don't strike him. I press my palm to his burning cheek and give him the only piece of my soul he couldn't buy.
"I'm not going anywhere, Dami. Keep this as my collateral."
The game has changed. This time, I'm not the victim-I'm the one holding the match.