Left At The Altar, She Became The Bride Of His Arch-Nemesis
Since returning to her family, Evelyn had never truly been accepted or treated as their own daughter.
On her wedding day, her parents chose her adopted sister over her, and the man she was supposed to marry abandoned her on the highway for his true love without even looking back once.
Heartbroken but resolute, she tore off her veil and stood before his rival. "I dare you to steal the bride."
Shane met her gaze. "Why wouldn't I?"
Their impulsive marriage shocked everyone. Her ex later begged, "Give me another chance."
Shane pulled her close, his voice cold. "Too late. She's my wife now."
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Chapter 7
One of Cole's friends stepped forward at once, his tone filled with anger. "Cole's been the one handling the Sterling Reach project from the start. Everyone knows he and Shane don't get along, so what you're doing right now is humiliating him!"
With reddened eyes, Kendra spoke softly, as if trying to smooth things over. "Ms. Fowler, I understand why you're upset about today. If you need someone to blame, then put it on me. Please don't take it out on Cole. He only left because he was worried about me."
A crease formed on Cole's forehead as his grip on Evelyn's hand tightened. "You're just acting out right now, so I'll ignore it this time. Besides, the contract is already secured. Bring it over tomorrow, and apologize to my mother."
Even at this point, he still believed she was only making a scene and that the Sterling Reach contract would eventually land in his hands.
Evelyn looked at him, and a hint of mockery flickered in her eyes. "Don't worry. I'll be visiting your family tomorrow."
And she would make sure everything changed.
With a sharp motion, she pulled her hand free and spoke without emotion. "I have something else to deal with."
Without sparing them another glance, she walked past them and left.
The following day, as Evelyn followed the butler into the Bennett family's living room, Sharon's voice reached her ears before she even stepped fully inside.
"You've spoiled her too much! She actually ran off on her wedding day. She's turned our family into a joke!"
Cole remained seated on the sofa, saying nothing.
Seated beside Sharon, Olivia Bennett, Cole's young sister, let out a mocking laugh. "If you ask me, Cole should've chosen Kendra from the start. With someone like Evelyn as my soon-to-be sister-in-law, I can't even hold my head up in Slomery."
She added, "Let's be honest, if Kendra didn't have heart disease and could have children, Evelyn would never have had a chance at becoming Cole's wife."
Turning sharply toward her son, Sharon didn't hold back. "And you're no better! If you had gotten Evelyn pregnant earlier, would she even dare act like this now?"
A shadow passed over Cole's face, yet he said nothing in return.
Outside the doorway, Evelyn let out a quiet, cold laugh. In all the time she had spent with him, even something as simple as an embrace had barely happened.
After everything she had seen, she understood one thing clearly. His restraint had never been about her. It had always been for Kendra.
Without paying attention to the butler's uneasy look, Evelyn stepped inside.
The moment Cole saw her, he rose to his feet. "Evie, you made it."
"Looks like I arrived at the wrong moment." Evelyn's gaze swept across the room before settling on him. "I interrupted your discussion about me."
For a brief second, Cole's expression faltered, but he quickly moved closer. "You've got it wrong. We've been waiting for you."
While speaking, he extended his hand toward her. "Where's the contract? My father is upstairs. I'll bring it to him, and once everything checks out, the wedding will proceed."
"The wedding will proceed? That's not gonna happen!" A harsh sound rang out as Sharon slammed her cup onto the table. Her eyes locked onto Evelyn, filled with open hostility. "She's dragged our family's name through the mud! Everyone in Slomery is laughing at us now! If she still wants to marry you, that's fine!"
Her gaze dropped lower, lingering with clear intent. "But forget any ceremony. She already embarrassed us at the wedding yesterday. If she wants to be part of this family, then wait until she's carrying your child. Only then will we consider making it official. Otherwise, she can give up that idea entirely!"
A quiet laugh slipped from Olivia as she covered her mouth. "Mom, she's still a Fowler. Do you really think she'd agree to have my brother's child without a proper marriage?"
Disdain showed plainly on Sharon's face. "A Fowler? Don't make me laugh. She's nothing more than a woman from the countryside. Letting her step into this house was already more than she deserved."
Cole shifted slightly, unease flashing across his face, though his focus stayed elsewhere. "Mom, can we stop this already?"
All he cared about was getting the contract in hand. Everything else could be handled later.
With that in mind, he turned toward Evelyn, his tone softening. "Evie, don't take what my mother said seriously."
"It doesn't matter," she responded, and a faint smile curved on her lips as she cut in. Her eyes held a calm certainty as she continued. "To be honest, I never intended to marry you from the beginning."
For a second, Cole froze, caught off guard. He had always believed she wouldn't walk away from him, that she would even accept his mother's conditions without hesitation. Relief crept into his voice. "Evie, don't worry. Once we have a child, I'll make sure we get married right away."
Evelyn said nothing at first and simply watched them, the hint of a cold smile slowly forming.
"I won't be marrying you. Because..." With deliberate movement, she reached into her handbag and pulled out a document.
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He tore up the divorce papers I offered, threatening to use his power to take my baby. Kaleigh showed up at my door, taunting me, calling me a "convenient placeholder."
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I realized I wasn't just a wife. I was a surrogate. A fertile womb he married because his true love was barren. Our entire marriage was a grotesque lie designed to produce an heir for them.
Then, an anonymous email landed in my inbox. It contained a recording of my husband calling me his "incubator."
That's when I knew I couldn't just leave. I had to die.
9.5
Gina was locked in Blackwood Asylum for five years, framed as a violent lunatic by her own wealthy family.
Her brother suddenly dragged her out, but not to save her. He forced her into an arranged marriage with Kerr Brooks, the billionaire emperor of New York, just to save the Rollins family's failing company.
Back at the estate, her parents treated her like a biohazard. They showered her adopted sister, Hailie, with love and luxury, while forcing Gina into a freezing servant's room. They threw a brutal prenuptial agreement at her face and threatened to leak a deepfake scandal video to the press if she didn't play the perfect bride. To ensure Gina's absolute ruin, Hailie even ordered a maid to spike her dinner with a massive dose of LSD. They were ruthlessly sacrificing her to a man who was secretly in a deep, unresponsive coma.
"She is just a tool, Hailie. Do not waste your pity on a broken thing."
Her mother's cold words echoed in the foyer. They looked at Gina's faded jumpsuit and vacant eyes, fully believing she was a heavily sedated pawn they could easily manipulate and discard.
But they didn't know Gina was a master hacker, a lethal underground surgeon, and the secret owner of the world's top luxury brand. She neutralized the poison in seconds and slipped into her comatose fiancé's heavily guarded ICU. Disabling the secret neuro-suppressants keeping him asleep, Gina smiled in the dark. If they wanted her to marry a corpse, she would use his empire to bury them all alive.
8.3
⚠️ Warning: This book contains explicit scenes, strong language, mature content, sexual kinks and dark themes that may not be suitable for some readers. Read at your own risk.
Trevor Matai had already made himself an enemy of half the school just by being the smartest person in the class. So when he won the student body presidency, they just found newer and louder reasons to come for him.
What he was not prepared for was jerking awake from a nightmare in the middle of class, calling out Sean Pierre's name in front of everyone, and having a very visible and undeniable 'boner' to go along with it. Does that mean he got 'bricked up' for Sean.
That was quite unbelievable because Sean Pierre, who is a star quarterback and the school's golden boy, happens to be the most aggressively straight guy Trevor had ever been forced to share oxygen with. So, Sean was the absolute last person his subconscious should have chosen.
And now the whole school knew.
What followed was supposed to be punishment as a result of the two clashing over school activity funds. Instead, something neither of them planned for started building because the closer Sean kept him, the harder it became to pretend that none of it meant anything.
But Sean was the star quarterback and there were rules that came with that title. And wanting Trevor wasn't something the world around them was going to quietly allow.
Two boys with two different dreams that couldn't both survive this situation, which seemed like a rivalry that had already drawn blood and a romantic feeling between them that refused to take note of that.
Society had already written the rules, but they were about to break those rules and rewrite them.
Because when someone is willing to burn everything down for you... the only question left is whether you are brave enough to let them and decide what you are willing to risk for love.
7.1
After the one-night stand with a man who refused to tell her his name, Charlotte would figure out on TV that the man she had s*x with the previous night was the heir to a billionaire empire.
At the same time, Jace Norman-the infamous playboy heir-faces a public scandal that threatens his inheritance. To protect the family empire, his ruthless father forces him into an immediate contract marriage.
And just like that Charlotte would get married to the spoiled, reckless son of the most powerful billionaire in the city.
That One night, Room 55 and Five thousand dollars she desperately needed would change her life forever.
Weeks later, Charlotte discovers she's pregnant.
But before she can process the truth, her manipulative boyfriend claims the child is his and begins blackmailing her.
As their fake marriage becomes dangerously possessive, secrets begin to spiral. An ex-boyfriend demanding money. Jace's jealous college lover is determined to destroy Charlotte. Charlotte's sister is hiding betrayal behind sweet smiles. And a billionaire father who will eliminate anyone to protect the Norman name.
When a forged DNA test claims the baby isn't Jace's, the empire turns on Charlotte.
But the truth is far darker than any of them realize.
Because someone has been orchestrating every lie from the beginning.
And when Jace finally discovers the baby is his...
He will have to choose between his father's empire-
Or the woman carrying his heir.
8.0
Eloise Ferguson was the legitimate daughter of a powerful Senator, yet she was treated like a hysterical burden by her own family.
In her past life, her parents forced her to marry a sadistic billionaire for political funding.
When she resisted, they locked her in a psychiatric facility, drugged her, and left her to die in restraints while her "fragile" cousin Jaylene stole her life.
She never understood why her mother hated her so fiercely.
Why did her mother treat her brother Cortez and her cousin Jaylene like absolute royalty, while throwing her own flesh and blood to the wolves?
Opening her eyes again, Eloise found herself back at age twenty-two, trapped in a restroom at a charity gala.
Escaping her abuser, she used her awakened mystic abilities to look at her family's life forces.
What she saw made her blood run cold.
Thick, red biological cords connected her mother directly to both Cortez and Jaylene, intertwining in a perfect symbiotic bond.
They weren't cousins. They were illegitimate twins born from her mother's secret affair.
Eloise was the only true outsider in her own home.
The realization hit her like a physical blow. Her entire life of abuse was just a cover-up for a nest of parasites stealing her father's name and her inheritance.
But this time, she refused to be their victim.
Armed with an unchallengeable executive order she blackmailed out of the United States President, Eloise crushed the hidden microphone in her bedroom.
"Game on, Mother."
9.0
Ellen had spent ten years cleaning her husband's home, a quiet devotion to the man who demanded her constant labor. But while vacuuming under their bed, her world shattered with a single, horrifying discovery. Hidden away was a secret phone, revealing a life her husband had built with another woman and child for the past eight years.
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