The Billionaire's Debt.
She saved a dying boy and forgot his face. He survived and memorized hers.
For a decade, Rob Stark was a shadow. He was the anonymous donor at her mother's funeral. He was the silent investor who saved her career. He was the reason every man she ever dated disappeared without a trace.
Chloe Bishop thought it was fate. But fate doesn't break into your house and leave a marriage license on your pillow.
"You tried to escape me three times, Chloe. There won't be a fourth."
The man she saved didn't grow up to be a hero. He grew up to be her captor.
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Chapter 2
The Stark Group
In the heart of New York’s ultra-expensive financial district, the thirty-three-story headquarters of the Stark Group stood like a titan. The magnificent skyscraper lived up to its name, radiating an aura of prestige and power from every polished window.
Every graduation season, countless elite students fought tooth and nail just to set foot in this building, hoping to secure a high-paying, high-status career. Even now, outside of graduation season, the lobby was a blur of activity. Everyone was in a race against time, working with a frantic energy as if trying to squeeze two minutes out of every one.
On the top floor, in the CEO’s office.
Rob Stark, the President of the Stark Group—a man usually far busier than any of his employees—was currently experiencing a strange moment of stillness.
On his expensive desk sat a document. It wasn't a billion-dollar contract from a partner, nor was it an urgent file from a department head. In fact, it wasn't anything that would typically be considered worth his professional time. Yet, since the moment he opened it, his gaze hadn't wavered. He read it line by line, focusing on every single word with intense concentration.
Across from him, Chloe Bishop sat with her back ramrod straight. The oversized executive chair made her look especially frail and thin. Her hands were clasped over her knees, their slight trembling betraying her nerves despite her best efforts to remain composed.
Mr. Stark was a tall man. Even sitting down, his presence was imposing enough to overwhelm her. The afternoon sun cast his shadow directly over Chloe, enveloping her like a massive mountain that made it hard to breathe.
Chloe thought to herself that she hadn't seen Rob Stark in fifteen years, and he had grown into someone far more intimidating than the boy she once knew. He was also much more handsome. She stole occasional glances at him—his rugged features, sharp jawline, and cold silhouette all radiated a "do not approach" vibe. Even his long eyelashes, which should have looked soft, seemed hardened by the indifference in his eyes.
He truly was a man whose looks were out of this world. If he were just a little bit warmer, Chloe figured she would probably be one of his many fangirls.
"You want to get engaged to me?"
While Chloe was lost in thought, the man opposite her finally finished reading the document she had brought. It was a formal engagement agreement, a thick stack of papers that she had asked Jake Tully to draft in advance.
"Yes." Chloe met his indifferent gaze, lifting her head and summoning every ounce of courage to look him in the eye. Her expression was one of absolute determination.
"And it's... a fake one?" Rob Stark’s voice rang out again. There was a hint of genuine surprise hidden in his tone.
"Yes," Chloe answered, even more firmly this time.
Snap!
Rob Stark closed the agreement and tossed it onto the desk. He uttered a single word: "Reason?"
He was genuinely perplexed. If he remembered correctly, he hadn't seen the woman in front of him for fifteen years. After he had accompanied his mother to her mother's funeral when she was ten, they had had no contact at all. If it weren't for the jade pendant, he wouldn't even have recognized her.
"Didn't you say that if I ever brought this pendant to you, you would repay me for saving your life?" Chloe steadied her nerves and pointed to the jade pendant resting on the desk near his hand.
Rob Stark nodded. He admitted he had made that promise, but he never expected her to cash in that favor in such a way.
A fake engagement?
For the first time in forever, Rob's curiosity was piqued. His thin lips pressed together briefly. "I need to know the reason behind this decision before I consider agreeing."
"The truth?" Chloe asked.
Rob Stark nodded.
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But when love begins to bloom in the most unexpected place, Ava must decide,will she continue fighting for revenge, or risk everything for a second chance at love?
In a story filled with scandal, heartbreak, and justice, one woman's pain becomes her greatest strength... and her ultimate weapon.
8.4
Carissa's son was dying in the ICU, and the bone marrow match had just failed.
The billionaire father, Guilford Gates, cornered her with a cruel ultimatum: naturally conceive a "savior sibling" to save their son. But what shocked Carissa more was his family's sudden accusation that she had heartlessly sold her baby to them three years ago.
"You sold your own flesh and blood to us for five million dollars, so your body belongs to the Gates family."
She was dragged into their gilded estate, treated like a filthy, rented womb. Guilford's new fiancée mocked her, the matriarch humiliated her, and Guilford looked at her with pure disgust. When she desperately tried to feed her sick son and accidentally made him vomit, Guilford violently shoved her away and banned her from the room.
Carissa was devastated and entirely confused. She had never seen a single cent of that five million. Driven by a desperate need for the truth, she investigated and uncovered a horrifying reality: her own father and stepmother had secretly trafficked her baby to the billionaire behind her back, leaving her to bear the ultimate blame.
Looking at the bank transfer record bought with her son's life, the last shred of Carissa's vulnerability died.
She signed the conception contract without asking for a single penny. She was going to use the Gates family's immense power to destroy the blood relatives who sold her, and she would survive this hell to take back her son.
9.7
For three years, I played the role of a devoted, naive wife to billionaire Conrad Whitney. I hid my true identity and foolishly believed in our fairy tale.
Then he handed me a harsh divorce agreement, ordering me to sign and walk away with absolutely nothing. He was leaving me to marry Cindy, the fragile woman he claimed had saved him from a fire.
He expected me to cry and beg. Instead, he watched coldly as Cindy and her family illegally transferred my father's trust fund. When I confronted them at the hospital, Conrad shielded her, calling me a greedy, toxic viper. He mocked me, completely blind to the fact that Cindy was a fraud. He truly believed I was just a pathetic, useless housewife who would be utterly destroyed without his money and status.
I looked at the man I had actually dragged out of that burning debris with my own soot-covered hands. My trauma, my sacrifices, and my love had all been reduced to a joke by his sheer arrogance and a few fake tears from a manipulative liar.
I didn't shed a single tear. I calmly signed the papers, drugged his wine, and left a crumpled one-dollar bill on his unconscious chest with a sticky note mocking his terrible service.
Then, I picked up my encrypted phone. It was time for the world's top surgeon, Dr. Hades, to return, and for Conrad to finally see the god he had just thrown away.
8.7
I was pregnant with the future heir of the Blackwood Pack, but my fated mate, Alpha Gavin, was nowhere to be found when sharp, tearing agony ripped through my swollen belly.
Instead of rushing to my side, he was in a luxury penthouse with his mistress, Piper.
When I desperately called his human number for help, it was Piper who answered the phone.
"I'm Piper. His future Luna."
Minutes later, I received a leaked audio file of Gavin promising to formally reject me the moment our pup was born.
Before the heartbreak could even set in, my armored SUV was violently rammed off the road by a massive truck.
It wasn't an accident. It was a targeted hit paid for by Piper's pack.
I woke up in the clinic with an empty womb. My pup was dead.
Gavin didn't even show up. He just mind-linked the butler to say he was "too busy" to deal with my loss.
He let his mistress murder our child and treated me like disposable trash, assuming my grief would make me a weak, compliant victim.
He thought he could just bury my trauma and move on with his perfect new life.
He was wrong.
I faked my own death in a fiery crash, leaving him with nothing but my signed rejection papers and the bloody receipt proving his mistress hired the killers.
Now, armed with a new identity and untraceable wealth, I am stepping out of the shadows.
I am going to bankrupt their packs from the inside out and make my former Alpha watch his empire burn.
7.6
For three years, I played the perfect, docile wife to Brendon Jimenez, desperate for the real family I never had as an orphan.
But during a high-society gala, I peeked through a cracked door and caught him sleeping with my best friend.
When I packed my cheap canvas bag to leave the penthouse, my mother-in-law blocked the door.
She dumped my clothes on the marble floor, called me a stray dog, and slapped me so hard my mouth bled.
Brendon just stood there, watching his mother humiliate me.
To keep me trapped as his perfect public prop, he even faked his mother's heart attack in a VIP hospital suite.
"Get on your knees. Kneel down right now and beg my mother for forgiveness until she decides to accept it."
I gave them my youth and unconditional loyalty, only to realize this prestigious old-money family was nothing but a rotting corpse built on dirty secrets.
I didn't cry, and I certainly didn't drop to my knees.
Instead, I pulled out my phone right in front of him and called my lawyer.
"File for an at-fault divorce. I have proof of his infidelity with Kaelynn Hudson. I want him ruined."
Then, I touched the matte black card hidden deep in my clutch.
It belonged to Kile Barrett, the ruthless billionaire shark my husband feared most, and I was going to use him to tear the Jimenez family apart.
9.3
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.