My Fiancé Married Me To His Brother
To the world, I was Delia Fitzgerald, the spoiled, vacuous daughter of the South's wealthiest family. But behind the practiced pout and expensive stilettos, I was a sleeper agent, a shadow trained for war.
The mask cracked the night my fiancé, Ansel Gibson, dumped me in the rain. He didn't just break the engagement; he recoiled in physical disgust, claiming that the very sight of me made him physically ill.
When I returned home, I expected my father to be furious about the failed business merger. Instead, I found him paralyzed by a primal terror I had never seen. It wasn't about the money; it was about a "blood debt" and a mysterious parchment that held our family's lives in the balance.
"You will go to the Gibsons and beg for forgiveness," my father rasped, his hands shaking uncontrollably. "If this contract is broken, there will be blood."
My own brothers, men who usually ruled the city, could only watch in grim silence. I realized then that I wasn't a daughter to them-I was currency, a lamb being led to the slaughter to pay for a secret I didn't even know existed.
I didn't understand why the Gibsons were so obsessed with me, or why Killian Gibson-the family's true monster-was suddenly tracking my every move with a predatory smile. He traced the callouses on my hands, marks from thousands of rounds of gunfire that no debutante should have, and whispered that he wanted me where he could see me.
If they wanted a pawn, they picked the wrong girl. I decided to stop running and walked straight into the lion's den, accepting a job as Killian's "Chief Special Assistant."
I was going to find that parchment and tear their world apart from the inside. The game had officially begun, and this time, the "Baby Girl" was the one holding the knife.
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Chapter 3
Delia burst out of the club's heavy double doors and sucked in a lungful of humid air. The rain had slowed to a drizzle.
She dropped the shoulders. She let the 'confused girl' mask slide off her face. Her eyes went cold.
Her phone vibrated in her clutch. The screen flashed: Sterling.
She answered.
"Delia?" Her brother's voice was tight.
She pinched the bridge of her nose, then pitched her voice up an octave. "Sterling..." She let a wobble enter the word. "Ansel... he was so mean."
"What did that bastard do?" Sterling roared. As the second brother and the family's resident artist, Sterling's temperament was as volatile as his abstract paintings. He lacked Preston's cold logic or Foster's quiet menace, reacting instead with raw, protective emotion. "Where are you? I'm coming to get you."
"No," she sniffled. "I'm taking a cab. He... he said I made him sick. He called off the wedding."
"I'm going to kill him," Sterling growled.
"Just... let me come home," she whispered and hung up.
She stared at the phone. No tears. Just calculation.
She hailed a taxi. As she slid into the backseat, she pulled a slim black device from the lining of her purse. She connected it to her phone.
Her fingers flew across the screen.
Target: The Zenith Club Security Mainframe.
Status: Bypassing Firewall... Success.
She accessed the camera logs. She found the file labeled Garden_Cam_04. She watched herself slipping behind the statue. She watched the execution.
She hit Delete.
Data Scrubbing... 100%.
She leaned back against the worn seat of the taxi, exhaling. She knew this left a digital footprint-a void where data should be-but leaving the footage of her witnessing a murder was a death sentence. A glitch was safer than a confession.
High above the city, in the penthouse office of The Zenith Club, Killian Gibson sat on a leather sofa.
Ansel was pacing the room, still ranting about Delia's audacity. Killian wasn't listening. He was holding a tablet.
"Boss," his assistant, Dirk, said, stepping forward. "We have a problem with the security logs."
Killian didn't look up. "Let me guess. The footage from the garden is gone."
Dirk blinked. "Yes. Someone hacked the system. It was a remote wipe. Very clean. We can't trace the IP."
Ansel stopped pacing. "What? Someone hacked us?"
Killian smiled. It wasn't a nice smile. It was the smile of a man who had found a puzzle piece he didn't know was missing.
"She tried to erase it," Killian said. "She thinks she's safe."
"Who?" Ansel asked.
"Delia Fitzgerald." Killian tapped the screen. "She's not just a spoiled brat, Ansel. She's a professional."
"A professional what? Shopper?" Ansel scoffed.
Killian stood up, walking to the floor-to-ceiling window. He looked down at the street, watching the yellow taxi disappear into the traffic.
He took a drag from his cigarette.
Killian narrowed his eyes. "A cat that knows how to sheathe its claws is far more intriguing than a lion."
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8.9
This is my story of how to lose a mob boss in ten days.
I have a
I've been arranged to marry a monster.
Run away? Good idea. Tried that. Didn't work.
Because in my family, my father makes the rules.
And he says this wedding is happening .
But he still has a soft spot for me, his last remaining daughter.
So he offers me a deal.
Take ten days.
Get to know Sasha.
See if you change your mind.
Yeah, right.
Sasha Ozerov is a beast in Brioni.
He's ruthless, flawless, utterly unconcerned with mortals like me.
All he wants is what our marriage would bring
My family's power and the city in the palm of his hand.
But maybe, if I can make him back out of the deal...
I'll keep my freedom.
So I set out to do everything I can to drive him crazy.
I have ten days to make my husband hate me.
What happens if I start to love him instead?
9.7
Darcie Miller survives elite St. Jude's Academy on sarcasm and invisibility, steering clear of golden quarterback Charles Sterling-her most ruthless tormentor. But when her father's bankruptcy hands everything to the Sterling family, Darcie faces a humiliating ultimatum: move into Charles's mansion as his live-in "academic handler" to keep him eligible for graduation.
Now the girl who despises him holds his future in her hands, and the boy who shattered her reputation might be the only one who truly sees her. In a world of cold marble and buried secrets, hate is about to catch fire-and obsession could burn them both.
7.1
A year ago, Jonathan walked away from Mia without an explanation, leaving her heart shattered. Now, she is forced into an arranged marriage with the same man who once loved her, only this time, neither of them knows the full truth behind the union.
To Jonathan, the marriage is a strategic move for business purposes. To the mafia, it is a transaction, and to Mia, it is a trap designed by the father who never loved her. Raised and mistreated by her stepmother and discarded by her own family, Mia is sent back into Jonathan's life as an entirely different person, hiding her true identity as the daughter of a powerful mafia lord.
But Mia is not as powerless as they believe. She is intelligent and already entangled in a dangerous secret-Collins, her hidden lover and a loyal mafia enforcer who will stop at nothing to keep her for himself. As old feelings resurface and buried betrayals come to light, love turns into a battlefield.
Caught between two men, two worlds, and a past that refuses to stay buried, Mia must decide whether love is worth risking her life, or if breaking free will cost her everything.
9.7
He watched her with the new man. Then he taught them both how she really needs to be f*cked. Aria fled her obsessive ex's endless claiming-boardroom stares, public ruin, body-breaking nights. Now she's safe with sweet Ethan. Until Damien walks in... And refuses to leave. One command changes everything. Forever.
8.6
Elena who grew up in the countryside was brought back to the city only to be used and abandoned by her very own family. Used in replacement for her sister and finding out the truth from years ago, will Elena seek revenge? What happens when she turns out to be different from what was expected?
Adrian Laurent, crippled and treated like a commodity by his family. Adrian swore to get revenge for everything done to him and his mother in the past. What happens when his new wife finds/finds out he is not crippled?
Will she trust him?
"Don't touch me! You lied to me, I trusted you." Elena remarked tears streaming down from her face, she had been able to handle all forms of betrayers but she would never be able to handle this.
"I didn't mean to lie Elena, you never asked me if it was a lie. I'm sorry Elena, I should have told you sooner, please forgive me.." Adrian drawled...
Elena slowly backed away from there and ran, only to be cornered by her husband once again. She forgot, he could walk now...
8.2
"Little Siren: I miss your hands on me."
That message lit up the screen of a burner phone I found in my fiancé's jacket pocket while he was in the shower.
Franco Moretti, the rising star of the Vitiello crime family, treated me like a fragile glass doll. He claimed he was "saving himself" for our wedding night out of respect.
But the phone told a different story.
I unlocked it and found three years of betrayal.
It wasn't just a fling. It was Camilla, a girl from high school I had befriended out of pity.
I watched their history unfold. He complained that I was cold. He called me a statue.
Then I saw the invoice.
He had bought two identical pink diamond engagement rings. One for me, and one for her.
Worse, he had stolen my grandmother' s heirloom jade bracelet-a piece of history meant for his bride-and given it to his mistress.
"I need her name to get the chair," he texted her. "You are my true Queen."
I didn't cry. I didn't scream. I realized I wasn't a person to him; I was a ladder.
Leaving him would be too easy. Leaving is what victims do.
I walked to my laptop and opened a new document. I wasn't just going to cancel the wedding. I was going to broadcast his ruin to the entire underworld, and our wedding would be my stage.
Then, I picked up the phone and dialed the one number my father forbade me to call.
"I accept," I told the deep voice on the other end.
"You understand what you are agreeing to, Gianna?" Enzo Falcone asked.
"I understand," I said, looking at the New York skyline.
"You want an alliance. I want a weapon."