My Cruel Ex-Husband Demands A Remarriage
I spun the dial on the hidden wall safe, expecting to find the Glock 19 Aiden insisted I keep.
Instead, I found a ledger proving my husband, the Mafia's most feared Enforcer, was funding a secret family with my dead father's money.
For seven years, I had been his obedient doll. I cleaned the blood off his knuckles and justified his violence.
But the ledger showed he had siphoned my entire inheritance into a trust for a child he had with his brother's wife.
When I tried to leave, his mistress framed me as a spy.
Aiden didn't ask for proof. He didn't hesitate.
He dragged me to a damp warehouse, hooded me, and beat me until my ribs cracked.
He left me to rot in the dark, ignoring the diamond bracelet on my wrist—the very one he had gifted me the day before as a symbol of his "ownership."
He thought he had broken me. He thought I would die in that basement, a silent collateral of his rage.
But he made a fatal mistake. He left me alive.
I escaped through a ventilation grate and ran straight to the one man Aiden feared most: his sworn enemy, Jensen Levy.
"Make me a weapon," I told him.
Two years later, I walked back into Aiden's office.
Not as his battered wife, but as the CEO of the corporation that had just bought his empire's debt.
He looked at me with horror, realizing the ghost he created had come back to burn him down.
"Hello, Aiden," I said, pressing a high-voltage tactical pen against his chest.
"You're trespassing."
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Chapter 5
Charlotte POV
The door to my bedroom drifted open without so much as a knock.
Haven sauntered in.
She wasn't crying now. The tears had vanished the moment she left Aiden's sight.
She looked like a cat that had just eaten the canary and was already prowling for dessert.
She closed the door behind her and locked it with a deliberate click.
"Sign the papers," she said.
She pointed to the divorce decree sitting on my desk.
I hadn't even shown them to Aiden yet.
"You went through my bag," I said, my voice hollow.
"I go through everything in this house," Haven said, running a finger along my vanity, claiming my space as her own. "I need to know what kind of mess I'm cleaning up."
"You want him that bad?" I asked. "He's a monster, Haven."
"He's a King," she corrected, her eyes gleaming. "And I'm going to be his Queen."
She leaned against the wall, crossing her arms.
"You think you're special because you married him? I saved him, Charlotte. Seven years ago."
I froze.
Seven years ago.
"He was dying," Haven said, smiling. "Kidney failure. From the drugs. No one in the family was a match."
My hand flew to the scar on my side.
"I donated a kidney," I whispered, the memory of the pain rushing back. "To you. You said you were sick."
Haven laughed. It was a cruel, tinkling sound, devoid of any warmth.
"I wasn't sick, sweetie. Aiden was. But the Don couldn't let the world know his Enforcer was weak. So we used you."
The room spun.
They had cut me open.
They had taken a part of me.
And they had put it in him.
"I gave him life," I said, my voice trembling.
"No." Haven stepped closer, her perfume suffocating me. "You gave him a spare part. I gave him a son."
She glanced at the clock.
"He'll be here in a minute. To check on you."
"Get out," I said.
"I want it all, Charlotte," she hissed, dropping the facade entirely. "The house. The money. The name. And I want him to hate you. I want him to throw you out like garbage."
She heard heavy footsteps in the hall.
She smiled.
Then, without hesitation, she threw herself backward.
She hit the floor with a heavy thud and started screaming.
"No! Charlotte, stop! My baby!"
The door burst open.
Aiden stood there, filling the frame with his dark presence.
He saw Haven on the floor, clutching her stomach.
He saw me standing over her.
"She pushed me!" Haven screamed, tears instantly flooding her face. "She tried to kill the baby!"
Aiden looked at me.
His eyes turned black.
"I didn't touch her," I said, my voice steady despite my fear. "Check the cameras, Aiden."
He didn't move toward the security monitor.
He moved toward me.
"You attacked a pregnant woman?" he roared.
"She's lying!" I shouted. "She just told me-"
"Shut up!" Aiden grabbed my arm. His grip was bruising, tight enough to snap bone.
"You're jealous. You're sick."
"Check the cameras!" I begged.
"I don't need cameras to see what you are," he spat. "You're bitter. You're barren. And you're cruel."
He shoved me away.
I stumbled back, hitting the desk hard.
He knelt beside Haven. "Are you okay?"
"It hurts," Haven sobbed, burying her face in his chest. "Take me to the doctor."
Aiden scooped her up in his arms.
He looked at me one last time over his shoulder.
There was no love in his eyes.
Only disgust.
"Stay here," he ordered. "If you leave this room, I'll chain you to the bed."
He carried her out.
I listened to his footsteps fade away down the hall.
I looked at the cameras mounted in the corner of the room.
The red light was off.
She had disabled them.
I started to laugh.
It began as a dry chuckle and turned into a sob.
He didn't check the cameras because he didn't want to know the truth.
He wanted her to be the victim.
Because if she was the victim, he was the hero.
And if I was the villain, he didn't have to feel guilty about destroying me.
I wiped my eyes.
The tears were gone.
I picked up the divorce papers.
I signed them.
Then I picked up the pen and set it down with finality.
I didn't pack a bag.
I didn't take clothes.
I walked to the window.
We were on the second floor. There was a trellis covered in ivy clinging to the brick.
I had climbed it once, years ago, to sneak out and paint the sunrise.
I opened the window.
The night air was cold.
It felt like freedom.
I climbed out.
I left the diamond bracelet on the sill.
I left the repaired music box on the desk.
I left Charlotte Herrera in that room.
The woman who hit the ground running was someone else entirely.
And she was never looking back.
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8.2
I hovered in the corner of the damp Runt Quarters, powerless as a ghost, watching my five-year-old daughter take her last breath.
She died of a fever that a simple medicine could have cured.
But my husband, Alpha Elroy, refused to pay for it. He was too busy dining with his mistress to waste resources on a "runt."
When he finally arrived, there were no tears.
He picked up my daughter’s small body like a bag of trash and tossed her into the incineration pit meant for criminals.
"Stop hiding, Annis!" he roared at the empty woods, thinking I was alive and watching. "Your trick didn't work. The runt is dead."
I screamed at him, clawing at his suit, but my hands passed right through him.
Days later, his mistress gave birth to a son. But the baby was born with a fractured soul, dying.
The doctor said only a bone marrow graft from the White Wolf bloodline could save him.
Elroy didn't hesitate. He looked toward the incineration pit.
"Retrieve the girl's body," he commanded his warriors. "Her bones will save the future Alpha."
He intended to butcher our daughter's corpse to save his illegitimate child.
Enraged, he hunted down the Rogue who had secretly stolen Emma's body before it could burn.
"Give me the body!" Elroy demanded. "And tell Annis to stop spoofing her credit cards in Europe and show her face!"
The Rogue looked at him with cold pity and threw a coroner's report at his chest.
"Annis isn't in Europe, Elroy."
"She has been rotting in a shallow grave for six months. Your mistress paid for the bullet."
8.6
Amara's life has always been predictable-until the shadows start watching her. Footsteps follow her on empty streets, strange chills scrape down her spine, and something ancient tracks her every move from the dark.
Everything changes the night a terrifying wolf-like creature lunges out of the darkness and leaves her fighting for her life. Just when all hope slips away, a mysterious man steps in-sleek, powerful, and gone before she can speak his name.
Haunted by the memory of his golden eyes, Amara begins to unravel a truth she never imagined. A creature in the night. A man in the shadows. A bond that defies logic. Her search for answers leads her to a hidden library and a forgotten article that exposes a world she was never meant to discover, one of magic, danger, and beings who walk between realms.
From the veil of the other world, Kael watches her. Her guardian. Her burden. The one fate bound to her long before she was born. And every day, the pull between them grows stronger... and harder for him to fight.
As enemies gather in both realms, Amara must face the darkness hunting her and the bond tying her to Kael. Because when shadow meets destiny, survival demands trust, courage,
and a heart willing to walk into the dark.
8.8
My husband thought I was just a docile wife, easily controlled. He didn't know I'd spent five years meticulously dismantling his life. Tonight, his world would finally crumble into dust.
For five years, I endured Jackson's entitled demands and his family's greed, silently funding their lavish life in our Beverly Hills mansion.
My illusion shattered finding his mistress Amber's lingerie in his suitcase. My attorney just severed all financial ties, making Jackson's arrogant demands hollow.
I tossed my diamond ring into the trash, summoning an industrial compactor. Jackson, his mother, and mistress watched in horror as their designer luggage, bought with my money, was crushed, turning their lavish trip into garbage.
A cold, dead smile marked my cathartic release from five years of betrayal. How could they be so blind to the woman they dismissed?
Stepping into an armored Maybach, I left them in chaos. My iPad confirmed Jackson's credit cards freezing. This wasn't just divorce; it was a calculated demolition, making their pampered lives very real.
9.0
Elena Hart survived the crash.
Her memories didn't.
When she wakes in a pristine suburban home with a diamond on her finger and a man gripping her hand like she might disappear, she's told a simple truth:
He's her husband.
They've been married for two years.
They're deeply in love.
Caleb knows everything about her-how she takes her coffee, the scar on her thigh, the way she hums when she's anxious. The photos lining the walls prove their life together. The neighbours confirm it. Her doctor insists memory loss after trauma is common.
So why does her body recoil when he kisses her?
And why, every night, does another man visit her in dreams-bleeding, desperate, whispering:
You promised you'd run.
The dreams aren't romantic. They're frantic. Urgent. As if time is running out.
Then Elena finds something she was never meant to see.
A locked drawer in Caleb's office.
A second wedding ring.
A newspaper clipping about her accident-dated three weeks before the crash she remembers.
The more she questions, the more Caleb tightens his grip. His patience becomes surveillance. His affection becomes control. Doors begin locking. Her phone disappears. The neighbours stop meeting her eyes.
And the dreams start happening while she's awake.
A reflection in a window that isn't hers.
Footsteps behind her when no one is there.
A voice that says, He changed it. He changed everything.
What if she wasn't supposed to survive that crash?
What if the accident wasn't an accident?
As fractured memories return in violent flashes-running through rain, screaming in a dark parking lot, a different man's blood on her hands-Elena is forced to confront a horrifying possibility:
She wasn't stolen.
She was rewritten.
And the man who calls himself her husband didn't just save her life.
He erased it.
Now she must decide who the real ghost is-
The man haunting her dreams...
Or the one sleeping beside her.
Because this time, if she remembers the truth...
One of them won't let her live to tell it.
8.5
After surviving years in the Alpha King's brutal prisons, I returned to my pack only to be stripped of my family home and exiled to a rotting cabin.
I accepted the humiliation in silence, until I found a dying baby girl abandoned in a trash-filled alley.
Taking her in awoke the terrifying, protective beast I had kept chained in my mind. The pack, fueled by rumors and a jealous woman's bruised ego, viewed us as abominations. They trespassed on my land to uncover my "dirty secrets," forcing me to build a massive stone fortress with my bare hands just to keep my daughter safe from their cruelty.
We lived in isolated peace for years, until the day I took her outside the walls to visit my parents' graves.
A convoy of royal Alphas arrived, and their Luna fell to her knees at my mother's cousin's grave, weeping and calling her "sister."
I didn't understand. Why was my forgotten family connected to the royals? And why did Cassian Vargan, the most powerful Alpha in the world, freeze in absolute shock the moment he realized who I was?
"You... are you Gideon Stone's son?"
The bloody past I had buried under a mountain of stone had finally found me.
I didn't answer him. I just pulled my daughter behind me and tightly gripped my knife, ready to slaughter a king if he took one more step.
7.5
I thought my best friend Mila and my lover Preston were my only salvation from Essex Langley, the ruthless billionaire who kept me caged in his estate.
I trusted them blindly when they planned my grand escape.
But it was all a cruel setup.
Mila deliberately leaked the plan to Essex's guards to win his favor, and Preston only wanted my family's shares to pay off his massive debts.
When we were caught in the rose garden, Preston shoved me toward the guards and ran for his life.
"You're insane if you think I actually loved a freak like you!"
I was dragged back into the manor, my ribs cracking under heavy boots.
I bled out on the freezing marble floor, staring into Essex’s unhinged, mad eyes as I took my last agonizing breath.
Until the moment I died, I couldn't accept it.
I had ruined my own life, adopting a hideous punk look with fake tattoos and piercings just to make Essex hate me, all for two people who saw me as nothing but a sacrificial lamb.
Why was my blind rebellion rewarded with such a brutal betrayal?
Opening my eyes again, the white-hot pain was gone.
I was back in the freezing bedroom on my eighteenth birthday, the very night Mila would come to orchestrate my ruin.
I looked at the rebellious, smudged stranger in the mirror.
This time, I calmly washed off the black makeup, took out my lip ring, and put on a pristine white dress.
If fighting the devil got me killed, then in this life, I would tame him and make them all pay.