Rejecting My Ruthless Billionaire Fiancé
For ten years, Aurora was abandoned by her wealthy family to rot in the countryside.
When she finally returned, there was no warm welcome. The Lott family only brought her back to replace her adopted sister in an arranged marriage with Damian Yates, a notoriously violent, crippled billionaire, just to save their bankrupt company.
Her grandmother mocked her as uneducated trash. Her fake sister feigned disgust at her very presence.
When her biological father desperately tried to stop them from sending his daughter to her death, the family turned on him.
Her grandmother struck her father across the face, kicked the three of them out of the manor into the freezing rain, and arrogantly declared they would starve on the streets by nightfall.
They thought Aurora was just a helpless, pathetic hillbilly who would quietly accept being sold as livestock.
They had no idea that over the past decade, she had survived the darkest corners of the world, becoming a lethal operative with unimaginable power.
Standing in the cold rain, Aurora didn't shed a single tear.
She calmly pulled out her encrypted phone, personally canceled the billionaire's marriage contract, and ordered her hacker to completely freeze the Lott family's accounts.
"Total financial annihilation. Burn them to the ground."
But as she watched her abusers' legacy crumble, a classified file arrived on her phone, revealing that the very billionaire she just rejected was tied to her mother's unsolved murder.
The real hunt was just beginning.
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Chapter 6
Aurora stepped out onto the rotting wooden balcony of the guest house. She wore an oversized grey hoodie, her wet dark hair clinging to her neck. The morning breeze carried the sharp scent of pine. She leaned her hip against the railing and unlocked her encrypted phone.
She pulled up the dialer and punched in the string of numbers K. Stone had provided. Before hitting send, her thumb swiped down the screen, activating the built-in micro-voice changer. It lowered the pitch of her voice, adding a slight synthetic rasp to mask her identity.
In the Seattle VIP suite, Damian was shrugging into a custom-tailored black suit jacket.
His private phone, tucked into the inner breast pocket, began to vibrate.
Damian froze. Only five people in the world had that number.
He pulled the phone out. The screen displayed an untraceable, scrambled IP address. His brow furrowed deeply. He held up a hand, signaling Finn to stay completely silent.
Damian pressed the phone to his ear. "Who is this?" His voice was absolute zero.
Aurora listened to the deep, resonant bass coming through the speaker. Her heart rate didn't even spike.
"Damian Yates?" she asked, her altered voice cool and flat. "I'm Aurora Lott."
The moment the name registered, Damian's face twisted in profound disgust. How the hell did this country trash get her hands on his private line?
Damian let out a dark, mocking chuckle. "The Lott family's tactics are getting more pathetic by the day."
Aurora ignored the insult. She looked out at the estate grounds. "Mr. Yates, I'm calling to inform you of a decision."
"If you are calling to beg me to honor that piece of paper," Damian cut her off, his tone vicious, "I suggest you save your breath and accept reality."
Aurora shifted her weight, leaning her elbows on the balcony railing. A genuine laugh escaped her lips. "That's funny. I was about to say the exact same thing."
Damian stopped buttoning his jacket. He went perfectly still. He hadn't expected that response.
Aurora's words came out fast and sharp, like broken glass. "Our engagement is over. You stay in your lane, and I'll stay in mine."
Damian narrowed his eyes. He assumed this was a cheap psychological trick. "Do you have any idea what breaking a contract with my family means?"
"It means I don't have to spend the rest of my life wiping drool off a crippled tyrant in a wheelchair," Aurora fired back without missing a beat. "I'd say that's a massive win."
Damian's jaw clenched so hard his teeth ground together. He was actually furious, but the end result was exactly what he wanted. He wasn't going to waste his breath arguing with an idiot.
"Fine," Damian snapped. "Remember what you said today, Miss Lott. If I ever see your face, I'll destroy you."
"Right back at you," Aurora said coldly.
She pulled the phone away from her ear and hit the red button.
Damian stood in the hospital room, listening to the dial tone. He stared at the screen. She hung up on him. No one had ever hung up on him in his entire life.
He tossed the phone onto the sofa. He looked at Finn, his eyes burning with irritation. "Contact the Lott family right now. Send the official cancellation fax. I want it done in five minutes."
Finn nodded rapidly, already pulling out his tablet, silently praying for the Lott girl's soul.
Back on the balcony, Aurora slipped the phone into her hoodie pocket. She took a deep breath. The suffocating weight of the marriage contract was gone.
She walked back into the living room. Kevin and Audra were sitting rigidly on the sofa, their hands clasped together in pure anxiety.
Aurora flashed them an 'OK' sign with her fingers. "It's done. Damian agreed to cancel the marriage."
Kevin's eyes widened in sheer disbelief. "Just... just like that? He didn't scream? He didn't threaten us?"
Aurora shrugged casually. "I guess he didn't want to marry a hillbilly either."
A massive wave of relief washed over the room. Kevin let out a breathless laugh, and Audra wiped a tear from her eye.
But Aurora knew the peace was temporary. The real storm was just forming.
In the main mansion, the head butler was practically sprinting down the hallway. His face was completely drained of blood. In his shaking hand, he clutched a freshly printed fax from the Yates family.
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9.5
My boyfriend, Jefferson, convinced me to give up my Yale scholarship for him. He was my secret, my escape from the shame of my mother's past, and I threw away my future for our love.
Then, at a gala, he publicly announced his engagement to Aubrey Carroll-the girl who made my high school years a living hell.
He trapped me in his mansion, forcing me to become her personal servant. She tortured me daily, culminating in her brutally killing our dog, Charlie, with a garden trowel.
When her friends arrived, they joined in, stripping me half-naked and live-streaming my panic attack for the world to see.
The man who once promised to protect me watched as they destroyed me.
But as I lay bleeding out on the floor, it wasn't an ambulance that arrived. It was the private security of Alexzander Stevens-my estranged, billionaire grandfather.
He revealed I was his sole heiress, and now, we were going to make them pay for every last tear.
8.3
I was the long-lost Donovan heiress, finally brought home after a childhood in foster care. My parents adored me, my husband cherished me, and the woman who tried to ruin my life, Kiera Reese, was locked away in a mental facility. I was safe. I was loved.
On my birthday, I decided to surprise my husband, Ivan, at his office. But he wasn't there.
I found him at a private art gallery across town. He was with Kiera.
She wasn't in a facility. She was radiant, laughing as she stood beside my husband and their five-year-old son. I watched through the glass as Ivan kissed her, a familiar, loving gesture he’d used with me just that morning.
I crept closer and overheard them. My birthday wish to go to the amusement park had been denied because he’d already promised the entire park to their son—whose birthday was the same day as mine.
"She’s so grateful to have a family, she’d believe anything we tell her," Ivan said, his voice laced with a cruelty that stole my breath. "It's almost sad."
My entire reality—my loving parents who funded this secret life, my devoted husband—was a five-year lie. I was just the fool they kept on stage.
My phone buzzed. It was a text from Ivan, sent while he stood with his real family.
"Just got out of the meeting. So exhausting. I miss you."
The casual lie was the final blow. They thought I was a pathetic, grateful orphan they could control.
They were about to find out just how wrong they were.
9.7
For three years, I believed I had the perfect, flawlessly submissive wife.
But right as I was about to sign a fifty-million-dollar divorce settlement to make her go away quietly, I suddenly heard a sharp, ecstatic voice echoing inside my skull.
"Freedom! Long live freedom! I finally shook off this absolute bastard!"
I snapped my head up, only to see Iris sitting across the table, her delicate shoulders trembling as she sobbed into her hands, looking like a shattered woman losing her entire world.
It wasn't a hallucination; I could actually hear her inner thoughts. The realization hit me like a physical blow. My fragile, heartbroken wife was a calculating hypocrite who mentally cursed me out while physically begging me to stay. When I later dragged her out of a nightclub where she was partying half-naked, I heard her true thoughts about our intimacy—she considered our nights together a mere "complimentary clause" in our business contract. Even the loving, home-cooked French dinners I cherished were exposed through her mind to be microwaved Michelin-star takeout.
For three years, I had prided myself on being a dominant, attentive husband, yet I was played for an absolute fool. How could she fake every single tear, every single touch, with such terrifying perfection while viewing me as nothing more than an ATM?
Looking at her cowering on my penthouse floor, clutching an anniversary Birkin bag she secretly planned to sell for a Porsche, a dark rush of power blinded me.
I wasn't just going to let her walk away with my millions anymore; I was going to use my new ability to rip off her mask and utterly destroy her.
9.4
Aria Mcgee was the unwanted second daughter of a decaying Long Island family.
To save their bankrupt corporation, her father and older sister drugged her. They shoved her into a town car and delivered her to a ruthless Wall Street billionaire's bed like a piece of meat.
They expected her to be the perfect sacrifice. The original Aria had no access to her own trust fund and was forced to live in a windowless broom closet. Even worse, a cold, synthetic System voice echoed in her skull, demanding she play the tragic, helpless female lead. It ordered her to endure her family's abuse and suffer the billionaire's humiliation to force a pathetic romance plotline.
"Host must follow the tragic trajectory and achieve the ultimate painful romance."
But the soul that woke up in that bed wasn't a weak, frightened girl. She was a dead Hollywood Oscar-winning actress. Why would a top-tier professional ever agree to play the weeping victim in such a garbage, B-list script?
Instead of trembling in fear as the System commanded, Aria looked at the billionaire and smiled. Using her flawless acting skills, she shattered his ego, extracted a hundred thousand dollars, and walked right out the door. Now, she was heading back to the Mcgee estate, ready to rip her money from her father's greedy hands and burn her sister's life to the ground.
8.1
Allison was hiding in a dusty small-town garage, working as a mechanic to suppress the lethal, experimental serum freezing her veins.
But a call from her estranged, wealthy father shattered her peace.
He threatened to permanently freeze her dead mother's trust fund if she didn't return to the family estate immediately.
That trust fund held the only key to the truth behind her past and her survival.
When she stepped into the sprawling mansion in her faded hoodie, her family treated her like a stray dog.
Her stepmother mocked her cheap clothes, and her half-brother called her a piece of trash.
Her father tossed a vocational school enrollment form at her, telling her to learn to sew so they could marry her off to anyone desperate enough.
Her perfect, porcelain-doll stepsister Gwyneth even deliberately smashed a glass of boiling milk against her own leg.
"Why did you push me?!" Gwyneth screamed, crying tears of fake terror to frame Allison.
"You vicious bitch! You're just as sick as your mother!" her father roared, raising his hand to strike her.
They looked at her with absolute disgust, thinking she was just a stupid, uncultured hick they could easily manipulate and destroy.
They had no idea that the girl standing before them was a lethal operative who already possessed all their offshore tax ledgers and darkest secrets.
Allison easily caught her father's wrist mid-air, her grip like a steel vice.
"I'm not going to a trade school," she whispered coldly, ripping the form into pieces. "I am going to Crestwood Academy."
It was time to take back everything that belonged to her, with interest.
8.4
To save my toxic family's bankrupt company, I was sold for fifty million dollars to marry Arch Rush III, a notoriously ruthless and paralyzed billionaire.
Because of my severe face blindness, I couldn't even recognize my new husband. I was just a cheap, replaceable pawn. Yet, while my own parents physically abused me and treated me like livestock, my terrifying new husband actually protected me.
But entering the Rush family estate was like stepping into a snake pit. His aristocratic relatives mocked my cheap clothes and even tried to disfigure me with boiling tea.
To further humiliate me in front of a world-renowned neurologist, his grandmother pointed a bony finger at me.
"Go massage his muscles, this is your daily duty now."
Arch glared at me with a lethal warning, but I had no choice. Trembling, I pressed my hands into his thigh.
My heart instantly dropped. Beneath his expensive suit, there was no soft, withered flesh. The muscle contours were tight, dense, and incredibly firm.
How could a man completely paralyzed from the waist down have the legs of an athlete?
Before I could process the terrifying truth, my strong fingers dug into a nerve cluster. Under my touch, his "dead" muscle violently twitched.
The doctor dropped his pen in absolute shock, and I realized I had just accidentally exposed the ruthless billionaire's deadliest secret.