His Unwanted Wife: The Genius Perfumer
For three years, Breanna gave up her brilliant career as a top-tier perfumer to be the perfect housewife for her billionaire husband, Hartwell.
But when he finally returned from a three-month business trip to Paris, he didn't even glance at the dinner she had carefully prepared. Instead, he threw a divorce agreement on the table.
He gave her thirty days to move out and offered a ridiculously low settlement. When she cried and asked if there was someone else, he looked at her with absolute disgust.
"You used to smell like ambition and possibility. Now you smell like cooking oil and the desperation of a woman who has nothing outside her husband. You're a trap."
He threatened to bury her in legal fees if she didn't sign. Heartbroken and confused, Breanna forced his assistant to reveal what really happened in Paris. The truth was humiliating. Hartwell had been spending all his time with a twenty-six-year-old genius perfumer—a girl who was the exact mirror image of who Breanna used to be before she sacrificed everything for him.
He didn't just want a new woman. He wanted a younger, untainted replacement of her past self.
Wiping away her tears, Breanna's grief instantly hardened into cold, calculated rage. She tore up his insulting settlement and prepared to fight back, completely unaware that her cruel husband was currently hiding in a hotel room, coughing up blood, deliberately playing the villain to force her to survive his impending death.
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Chapter 7
They agreed to meet at the café.
Pushing open the door, Breanna saw that Colton had already arrived.
"Mrs. Rogers."
No pleasantries. Breanna asked directly, "Paris. Three months. What did he do?"
Colton's smile was professional. "Mr. Rogers was conducting business."
"Don't lie to me." She leaned forward, hands flat on the table. "What I want to know is what happened in Paris that turned my husband into a stranger."
Colton's mouth opened, then closed. His surprise was genuine, she realized. Hartwell hadn't told him.
"He..." Colton recovered, poorly. "He was working. Intensely. Four hours of sleep, sometimes less. I don't think he-"
"Had time for an affair?" Breanna pressed her advantage, watching him flinch. "Is that what you're trying not to say? That he was too busy to cheat?"
"No! I mean-" Colton's hands rose, defensive. "There was no one. No women. No men. Nothing. He worked, he ate room service, he-" He stopped, caught himself, but too late.
"What?"
"Nothing. I shouldn't-"
"Colton." She made her voice low, dangerous. "I will find out. With your help or without it. But if you make me dig, I'll make sure Hartwell knows you obstructed me. How long do you think you'll keep your job then?"
His throat worked. He reached for his coffee, drank, set it down with a hand that shook slightly.
"He watched videos," Colton said. "Every night. In his suite at the Bristol. I'd bring him files, and he'd be sitting there with his laptop, and-" He met her eyes, miserable. "Security footage. From the old studio. The one on Twenty-Third Street. Before you... before you stopped working."
Breanna's breath stopped. "What footage?"
"You. Working. From three years ago." Colton's voice dropped to a whisper, conscious of the public space, the impossibility of his betrayal. "He'd watch you mixing compounds, testing samples, the way you used to... He'd watch for hours. Sometimes all night. And his face-" Colton shook his head. "I've never seen him like that. Like he was mourning something."
The information didn't fit. It refused to integrate with the man who'd called her boring, who'd threatened her with bankruptcy, who'd-
"Why?"
"I don't know. I swear I don't. He never explained." Colton's phone buzzed on the table. The screen lit up.
Hartwell Rogers.
Colton's hand shot out, silencing the device.
She looked at the flashing name, at the assistant who knew too much and understood nothing, at the pieces of a puzzle that refused to form a picture.
"Who else?" she asked. "In Paris. Who did he see?"
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7.3
Sign the papers and disappear. You were never one of us."
Those were the last words Seraphina Cole heard before the Ashford dynasty erased her existence.
They took her marriage.
They stole her unborn child with lies and cruelty.
They branded her unstable, unworthy, disposable, then dumped her into the shadows with nothing but grief and shame.
The Ashfords thought she broke.
They never bothered to check if she survived.
Three years later, Seraphina returns under a new name Rina Vale, silent partner of the Vale Consortium, a trillion-naira global empire that controls shipping lanes, tech patents, and political favors. Cold. Calculated. Untouchable.
This time, she isn't asking for love.
She's collecting debts.
Her ex-husband wants forgiveness when he realizes who she is? She'll bankrupt his legacy.
Her former mother-in-law prays for mercy? Rina will expose the secrets buried beneath her charity foundations.
The family that murdered her child with negligence and lies? She'll tear them apart boardroom by boardroom.
And standing beside her is Lucien Drake, a dangerous, brilliant billionaire with his own vendetta against the elite. He doesn't want to save her.
He wants to help her burn them all.
She didn't come back to heal.
She came back to conquer.
8.6
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As nights grow longer and the moon rises higher, Ava begins to uncover the truth behind Adrian's mysterious life. She must decide whether love is worth the risk when desire and danger blur.
Experience romance, mystery, and supernatural thrills in Moonlit Billionaire: Alpha Secrets.
9.6
A billionaire art collector purchases a mysterious 19th-century portrait and begins having vivid dreams about the woman in it. After a near-fatal accident, he realizes the portrait is connected to a tragic past that mirrors his present life. As he grows close to a woman who looks exactly like the one in the painting, he must uncover the truth behind the portrait before history repeats itself.
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7.1
I sat in the emergency room corridor, pressing a soaked bandage against my heavily bleeding arm. I had texted my husband of three years, billionaire Efford Thornton, begging him to come.
He did come, but he walked right past me as if I were a piece of furniture. When the doctor finally brought the last bag of O-negative blood in the city to save my life, Efford's assistant intercepted it.
Efford coldly ordered the blood to be sent to the VIP wing for Aletha Chase.
"Mrs. Chase is pregnant with the Thornton heir," he declared flatly. "The priority is non-negotiable."
As I watched my life-saving blood being carried away, he handed me a divorce agreement and an NDA. If I dared to expose his affair, he would immediately cut off the funding for my grandmother's dementia care, leaving her to rot in a public ward. He then turned his back, leaving me to bleed out in the hallway.
For three years, I had given up my career and my identity to be his perfect, compliant wife. I couldn't understand how the man who once looked at me like I was his whole world could now literally watch me die just to protect his mistress.
But he forgot one thing. The submissive wife he married was just a ghost. I wiped the blood from my hands, dug out the leather half-mask I had hidden away years ago, and made a call.
It was time for the legendary runway model "Phoenix" to rise from the ashes and burn his empire to the ground.
7.3
What happens when you fall for the wrong brother?
Nicole's safe relationship with Liam begins to shatter after a forbidden encounter with his dangerous brother, Adrian, the same man who stole Liam's CEO position and became his sworn enemy. What starts as guilt turns into haunting desire as Adrian becomes obsessed with her, refusing to let her go. Caught between loyalty and temptation, Nicole is pulled into a ruthless game of power, betrayal, and forbidden passion where loving either of the brothers could destroy them all.
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