Swapping Lives With My Cold Ex-Husband
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For three years, Dara endured endless humiliation to be the perfect wife to billionaire Donavon Monroe.
But on their third anniversary, which was also her birthday, Donavon coldly threw divorce papers on the dining table.
He wanted her gone for his returning childhood sweetheart, completely ignoring the blistering burn on Dara's hand—a cruel injury intentionally caused by his brother just hours ago.
When Dara tearfully reminded him how she had bled and almost died to save his life three years ago, Donavon looked at her with pure disgust.
"I have zero interest in looking at the ugly scars you picked up in whatever slum you crawled out of."
He accused her of fabricating a savior complex just to secure a ring, perfectly content to let his mother and brother treat her like a glorified maid.
Dara's heart completely shattered.
She had sacrificed her life and dignity for a ruthless capitalist who viewed her as nothing but disposable trash.
With her last shred of pride, she signed the papers, ready to leave this suffocating nightmare forever.
But that night, a freak lightning storm struck the estate.
When Dara opened her eyes the next morning, she felt incredibly heavy and her center of gravity was completely wrong.
She looked in the mirror and saw Donavon's cold, chiseled face staring back at her in absolute terror.
They had swapped bodies.
Now, she held the absolute power of the Monroe empire, and Donavon was finally going to experience his family's vicious abuse firsthand.
Swapping Lives With My Cold Ex-Husband Chapter 1
Dara stood in front of the marble kitchen island, carefully stirring the French seafood soup in the heavy cast-iron pot.
The rich scent of saffron and simmering broth filled the air, but her stomach remained tied in tight, anxious knots.
She glanced at the vintage clock on the wall. Ten minutes until Donavon promised he would be home.
The low, aggressive growl of a sports car engine vibrated through the floorboards.
Dara's heart seized violently, a habitual sliver of expectation tangling with the familiar, suffocating tension that always gripped her. She untied her apron, tossing it onto the counter, and hurried toward the entryway.
The heavy oak door swung open.
It wasn't Donavon.
Keven Monroe stumbled into the foyer, reeking of expensive bourbon and stale cigar smoke. His custom-tailored suit jacket hung off his shoulder.
He didn't bother wiping his shoes. His mud-caked leather loafers stepped directly onto the priceless Persian rug.
"Keven, please take off your shoes," Dara said, her voice tight.
Keven let out a harsh, wet laugh. He looked her up and down with bloodshot eyes.
"You're a glorified maid with a prenup, Dara. You don't get to tell me what to do in my family's house."
He pushed past her, his shoulder intentionally clipping hers, and walked straight into the kitchen.
"I'm starving," Keven slurred, eyeing the stove. "Let's see what the help cooked up."
"Stop," Dara stepped in front of him. "That dinner is for Donavon."
Keven's eyes darkened. A vicious, ugly gleam flashed in his pupils.
He reached out and grabbed the handle of the boiling cast-iron pot.
"Don't touch that, it's hot!" Dara gasped, lunging forward to steady the heavy pot before he tipped it over.
Keven looked right into her eyes. He let go of the handle.
And then, with a subtle flick of his wrist, he pushed it.
The heavy pot tilted off the burner. Boiling, thick seafood soup cascaded over the edge, splashing directly onto the back of Dara's right hand and forearm.
"Ah!" Dara sucked in a sharp, ragged breath.
Her lungs seized. The pain was instantaneous and blinding, a searing heat that melted into her nerve endings. Her skin turned an angry, blistering red within seconds.
Keven shrugged, his hands raised in mock surrender. "Oops. My hand slipped."
The sharp, rhythmic clicking of stiletto heels echoed against the marble floor.
Jacquelin Hammond walked into the kitchen, freezing as she took in the mess.
"My Italian cabinets!" Jacquelin shrieked, her face twisting in horror.
Dara clutched her burning arm against her chest, her breathing shallow. "Jacquelin, Keven pushed the-"
"Shut up!" Jacquelin snapped, cutting her off. "You can't even hold a pot of soup without making a disaster. You are an embarrassment to this family."
Jacquelin marched up to Dara, jabbing a manicured finger hard into Dara's uninjured shoulder.
"Read that prenup again, Dara. If you can't even serve my stepson a proper meal, I will have you thrown out of this estate with nothing but the clothes on your back."
Dara bit the inside of her cheek so hard she tasted copper.
She lowered her eyes, staring at the puddle of soup on the floor. She forced her muscles to relax, swallowing the bile and rage rising in her throat.
"I'm sorry," Dara whispered. "I'll clean it up immediately."
Jacquelin let out a satisfied, cold huff. She turned on her heel, grabbing Keven by the arm, and dragged him out of the kitchen.
The moment their footsteps faded, the submissive slump in Dara's shoulders vanished.
Her eyes turned dead and calculating.
She walked quickly to the sink and turned on the cold water, shoving her blistering arm under the freezing stream.
Gritting her teeth against the blinding agony, she forced herself to endure the searing heat without making another sound. She pulled a roll of gauze from the first-aid drawer. Her hands shook violently, but her resolve was absolute. She bit one end of the white gauze with her teeth and used her trembling left hand to clumsily, yet tightly, wrap the fabric around the blistering red skin. She pulled it taut, tying a crude but secure knot to seal the wound away from prying eyes. It wasn't elegant, but it was born of a desperate need to survive this house.
She yanked the sleeve of her silk blouse down, completely hiding the bandage.
Dropping to her knees, she grabbed a towel and began wiping the greasy broth off the floor, perfectly resuming the role of the pathetic, clumsy housewife.
Outside, the distinct, purring engine of an Aston Martin pulled up the driveway.
Dara's hand stopped moving.
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Swapping Lives With My Cold Ex-Husband of Contents
Chapter 1 Ch. 1Chapter 2 Ch. 2Chapter 3 Ch. 3Chapter 4 Ch. 4Chapter 5 Ch. 5Chapter 6 Ch. 6Chapter 7 Ch. 7Chapter 8 Ch. 8Chapter 9 Ch. 9
Chapter 10 Ch. 10
Chapter 11 Ch. 11
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8.2
Ten years as childhood friends and three as husband and wife ended in her husband's betrayal, and her brothers' indifference. Diagnosed with mid-stage stomach cancer, Roselyn saw the truth of her life.
She walked away from everything, rising from an overlooked office worker to a leading figure in the tech world.
She outplayed her husband into signing divorce papers. When they met again, he begged, "I was wrong... take me back. I'd give you my stomach if I could."
Her once arrogant brothers pleaded too, but she felt nothing. After all, love that arrived too late meant nothing to her now-she simply didn't care anymore.
As they stood desperate, a man stepped forward and wrapped her in his arms. "Why waste time on them? Look at me instead."
9.1
Waking up with a cold, scaly hand wrapped around my throat wasn't the worst part.
The worst part was realizing I'd transmigrated into the body of Terra Mason—the most despised woman in the entire Enclave. She drugged high-level beast-men and forced them into life-binding bio-contracts. She locked an aquatic warrior in a dry basement until his organs failed. She treated the most lethal males in the city like broken toys.
Zev, the Level 6 serpent who's currently choking me, would rather blow up his own heart than spend another day as my slave. His affection metric? Negative ninety. His trust? Zero.
Then my system activates: the Kore AI. It gives me exactly 500 credits, a medical nano-gel, and a recipe for neutralizing the radioactive poison in mutant meat. Real food. In this world, that's worth more than gold.
I save Rhys, the dying aquatic male everyone left for dead. I season a slab of purple mutant steak until Sam, a battle-scarred grizzly shifter, groans at the taste—and his trust points finally tick above zero. When my backstabbing ex-best friend tries to steal my males and destroy me, I don't scream or throw a tantrum like the old Terra. I dismantle her with the truth.
But earning their trust means more than grilling meat. A scorpion swarm ambushes us at midnight. Sam throws himself between me and a stinger the size of my arm. As he stands over the corpse, fur receding from his claws, he stares at me and whispers, "You were testing me."
Yes. I was. Because in this world, the weak don't survive. And I refuse to be weak again.
Four beast-men. Four contracts. One system. And a whole lot of steak. Let this dystopian wasteland know—I'm not the monster they remember. I'm worse. I'm the one who's going to feed them until they'd kill for me.
8.4
I worked three double shifts at the garage just to buy a velvet-boxed cake for my wealthy girlfriend, Arleen.
But when I pushed open the VIP room door, I saw her lover kissing her bare leg.
She didn't push him away. Instead, she laughed and swirled her martini.
"I only forgot Finn because I knew he would stay. He is a poor boy from Queens who follows me around like a loyal dog."
Later that night, her lover intentionally crashed a Porsche to scare me, sending a piece of jagged metal into my skull.
Lying in a growing pool of my own blood, I watched Arleen crawl out of the wreckage.
She didn't even look at me. She threw herself at her uninjured lover, screaming for a medic.
"He just got scraped by a piece of plastic. He is faking it. Deal with Jaquez first!"
When I woke up, I wasn't free. Arleen had locked me in a private hospital wing with 24-hour security, planning to isolate me and keep me as her broken, captive toy forever.
My blind, pathetic devotion finally froze into absolute disgust.
I looked at the heart monitor next to my bed and grabbed an IV needle.
I severed the sensor wire to trigger a flatline, slipped out the fire stairs while the nurses panicked, and burned my identity to ashes.
This time, I was going to disappear to London, build my own empire, and watch hers burn.
7.5
To save my family's dying company, I was forced to marry a billionaire I hadn't seen in fourteen years.
But right outside the City Clerk's office, he tossed our marriage certificate at me like a cheap receipt and shoved a four-year-old boy into my arms.
"Your new life has begun. You're on babysitting duty now."
He sneered and left me stranded on the sidewalk. I realized with absolute horror that my new husband was Ellsworth Marshall, the sickly boy I had relentlessly bullied in middle school.
He didn't spend five billion dollars to save the Bradford family. He bought me to execute a slow, suffocating revenge.
He used his orphaned nephew as a pawn, explicitly threatening my father that if I failed to play the perfect, compliant nanny, he would instantly destroy our family's legacy.
He even had his guards lock me out of his Long Island estate on my first night, forcing me to stand in the cold dark just to prove he owned me.
I was trapped in a gilded cage, suffocated by the guilt of my past and the terror of my present.
Why did he involve an innocent child in his twisted vendetta? How much humiliation was enough to pay for my childhood cruelty?
Looking at the terrified little boy clinging to my skirt, I tightened my grip on my suitcase.
If he wanted to destroy my will piece by piece, I had to find a way to survive the monster I created.
8.6
I woke up choking on rotting air in an alien jungle, surrounded by giant bioluminescent ferns and a three-eyed, armor-plated beast charging straight at me.
Before the monster could tear me apart, I was saved by a squad of men with metallic wings and laser rifles, but my nightmare was just beginning.
When they brought me back to their high-tech military base, every soldier we passed stopped dead, staring at me with a feverish, starving hunger that made my skin crawl.
In the medical wing, a manic doctor bypassed all protocol, pulling out a wicked silver needle to forcibly extract my blood, looking at me not as a patient, but as a winning lottery ticket.
Even their highest-ranking commander, a giant, scarred Admiral, immediately tried to claim me, demanding I be moved into his personal bedroom for "protection."
I didn't understand why I was being treated like a caged miracle, nor why a simple, accidental touch of my hand could bring my winged protector to his knees and silence his feral instincts.
"In the Aethel Empire, there are no females," my protector whispered, his icy blue eyes filled with raw desperation. "You are the only one."
The portal that brought me here was fading, trapping me in a universe of eighty billion shapeshifting Alpha males. Looking at the terrifying devotion in his eyes, I realized my life as an ordinary human was over, and to survive this, I had to tame the beasts.
8.2
When our family empire crumbled, my sister and I were sold off as collateral to the Chicago Outfit.
My fierce sister Frankie was forced to marry Damien Moretti, the terrifying Don. I was shackled to his brother Leo, a notorious, degenerate playboy.
I thought my life was over, but the real nightmare began on our wedding night. A terrified maid handed me the wrong room key. Exhausted and numb, I crawled into a dark honeymoon suite, praying my new husband would be too drunk to find me.
Instead, the heavy door opened, and a man fueled by a drug-laced drink stepped in. He was ruthless, punishing, and entirely stripped away my dignity in the pitch black.
When the morning light finally broke, I turned my head, expecting to see Leo's boyish face. Instead, I saw a profile carved from ice.
Damien Moretti. The Don. My sister's husband.
The very man who had previously called me a "liability" and ruined my life. When he realized who I was, his eyes filled with absolute, chilling disgust. He dragged me out of the ruined sheets, threw me onto the floor of a freezing shower, and demanded to know why I had sneaked into his suite.
"You ruined me. How am I supposed to look at Frankie? You should have just killed me. Kill me now, Damien. It would be a mercy compared to this."
I sobbed, the freezing water mingling with my tears. He just stared down at me with cold, unreadable intent. I was now trapped in a house of monsters, carrying the Don's darkest secret, and I had to figure out how to survive without destroying my sister.
