The Billionaire's Ex-Wife Is A Queen
Holly handed her billionaire husband, Crawford, a divorce agreement after three years of a freezing, loveless marriage.
He signed it arrogantly, but then immediately suspended the proceedings, forcing her to act as his loving wife just to stimulate his fragile, wheelchair-bound ex-lover, Delphine.
When his mother humiliated Holly for failing to produce an heir, Holly discovered Crawford was secretly reviewing Delphine's fertility reports.
Seeking refuge, Holly returned to her hidden identity as the star stage dancer "Nyx," but Crawford tracked her down and destroyed her only dream.
"If you ever step on a stage again, I will make sure your dance partner never finds work in America."
Driven by insane possessiveness, he forced her to sign a suffocating NDA and threw a million-dollar trust fund at her abusive adoptive mother just to buy Holly's total submission.
Crushed under his absolute wealth and control, Holly felt a chilling realization.
Why was Crawford so obsessed with trapping her while clearly loving another woman?
Why did her greedy adoptive mother sell her to the Morris family in the first place?
Sitting in the sports car he just threw at her as compensation, Holly pulled out a hidden burner phone.
"Start digging into Barbra's financial history from twenty years ago. I need a thread to pull."
She was going to uncover the truth and fight back.
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Chapter 7
The sharp sound of the slap forced Crawford's head to the side. A red mark rapidly bloomed across his cheek.
The nurse kept knocking on the door outside. She called out that Miss Delphine needed him.
Crawford pushed his tongue against the inside of his bruised cheek. He stared at Holly with dark, dangerous eyes, but he held his temper.
He turned around. He adjusted his tie, took a deep breath, and opened the lounge door to step out.
Holly leaned against the back of the door. She waited for her breathing to slow down. She pulled a compact from her purse and fixed her ruined lipstick.
She pushed the door open and walked into the hallway. She saw Crawford just about to walk into Delphine's room.
The hospital room door was cracked open. Delphine was sitting up in bed, staring intensely through the gap at the hallway.
Holly caught Delphine's gaze instantly. At the exact same moment, the corner of her eye caught the wide-angle security camera mounted on the ceiling.
A dark idea flashed through Holly's mind. She walked fast toward Crawford, her heels clicking sharply on the floor.
Just as Crawford pushed the door to enter, Holly grabbed the lapel of his suit jacket from behind.
Crawford turned around in shock. Before his brain could process what was happening, Holly stood on her toes and pressed her lips against his.
It was a highly deceptive, heated kiss. Holly's hand deliberately slid up to stroke the back of his neck in a deeply intimate gesture.
Crawford's body went completely rigid. Then, pure instinct took over. His arms wrapped around her waist, trying to pull her closer and deepen the kiss.
Inside the room, Delphine watched the entire thing clearly. The glass water cup in her hand slipped. It hit the floor and shattered into pieces.
The sound of breaking glass reached the hallway. Holly's goal was achieved. She shoved Crawford away with all her strength, like touching a live wire.
Crawford stumbled back a step. His eyes were still clouded with a heavy, confused heat.
Holly wiped her lips with the back of her hand in absolute disgust. Right to his face, she delivered a cold review.
She looked dead into his eyes. She told him his kissing skills were garbage and the experience was terrible.
Crawford's face turned ash white. His male ego took a catastrophic hit.
He ground his teeth together. He demanded to know what the hell was wrong with her. She was the one who initiated it.
Holly smiled thinly. She used her chin to point at the half-open door and the camera on the ceiling.
She mocked him. She told him she was just doing her job, playing the loving wife for the cameras, and giving the audience a little free show.
Crawford followed her gaze. He saw the shattered glass on the floor and Delphine's pale, devastated face.
The realization hit him like a truck. Holly had used him as a cheap tool to torture his ex-lover. His blood boiled.
He pointed a shaking finger at Holly. He was so furious he couldn't form a single word. His chest heaved violently.
Holly ignored his rage. She turned gracefully and walked toward the elevators, her heels clicking in a steady rhythm.
She waved a hand over her shoulder. She reminded him not to forget to wire her PR fee for the day.
The elevator doors opened. Holly stepped inside. She looked at Crawford's furious face one last time and hit the close button.
The second the doors shut, Holly dropped the act. She leaned against the metal wall. A hollow sense of revenge mixed with exhaustion washed over her.
Crawford stood frozen in the hallway. He stared at the closed elevator doors. He suddenly kicked the heavy metal trash can next to him, sending it crashing against the wall.
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8.6
Four years ago, I melted my skin into the asphalt to pull Julian Moretti from a burning wreckage. I spent years in the shadows, nursing him back to health, hiding my scars while he reclaimed his title as the Underboss of New York.
But on the way to our wedding, everything shattered.
Estelle Russo, the woman who caused the crash that ruined me, complained of a stomach ache in the limousine. Julian didn't hesitate.
He ordered the driver to stop on the shoulder of the highway.
"Get out," he barked at me, his eyes cold.
He forced me out of the car in my wedding gown, leaving me stranded in the dust and exhaust fumes just so Estelle could lie down on the seat.
"Take a cab to the church," he sneered before speeding away.
He didn't just leave me on the road; he abandoned me at the altar to hold the hand of the woman who had once tried to kill him. He called our relationship a "debt" he was tired of paying.
I stood there, the lace of my dress heavy with humiliation, realizing I was never his Queen—I was just his collateral damage.
I didn't call a taxi. Instead, I pulled a burner phone from my bodice and dialed the one number that would end his reign.
"The deal is live," I whispered. "He chose her."
I stripped off the wedding dress, climbed over the guardrail, and stepped into the black sedan waiting to take me to his greatest enemy.
8.3
I was married to the most powerful man in the city.
Yet in three years, he never learned my heart.
When I divorced him, I did it quietly.
No confrontation. No tears. No warning.
He signed the papers without reading them.
Everyone still called me the CEO's wife-
until the day I returned, no longer his woman,
but someone he could no longer touch.
Now he's chasing me.
Regretting me.
Begging for a second chance.
But the woman who once waited for him is gone.
And this time, if he wants me back,
the CEO will have to kneel.
7.8
She woke up in a billionaire's arms in a penthouse with a view of the Seine. She was wearing a ring she didn't remember saying yes i do to
When Lana Cruz wakes up after a terrible accident, the only person there is Adrian Black, the powerful CEO who says she is his wife. His touch is familiar, and his voice is strong but all of my memories of him are gone.
They look like the perfect couple to everyone but this is the revenge Adrian has been waiting years for. Lana broke his heart once, and now he plans to make her fall in love with him again, only to break her heart when she is most vulnerable.
But Paris is a city full of life and danger. Rooftop parties under the sparkling Eiffel Tower, moonlit walks along the Seine, and sparkling galleries set the stage for love, lies, and secrets that could ruin both of them.
As they fall in love, the line between revenge and desire gets blurry. Lana and Adrian must choose between letting the past take over their lives or giving in to a love that is strong enough to heal even the worst wounds.
A storm of passion, betrayal, and redemption in the middle of modern Paris.
8.9
Ava Kidd just wanted to escape her abusive stepmother when she got drunk at a high-end club and stumbled into the wrong hotel room.
She woke up the next morning in a luxury penthouse, lying naked next to a terrifyingly handsome man covered in her scratch marks.
Recalling rumors of the hotel's secret underground concierge, she immediately assumed she had accidentally slept with an elite male escort.
Desperate to settle the bill, she offered him her only debit card with a pathetic $1,800.
But the man, who was actually Garrison Terry, the ruthless billionaire CEO, was deeply insulted by the cheap plastic.
He trapped her against the bed, coldly demanding a half-million-dollar service fee.
When Ava frantically offered her dead mother's tarnished locket as collateral, he cruelly dismissed it as worthless junk.
Ava was humiliated, her heart pounding with absolute terror.
She didn't understand why this arrogant gigolo was acting like a deranged extortionist, demanding a fortune from a broke girl who had clearly made a mistake.
Furious and refusing to cower, she sneaked out, put on his oversized designer shirt, and aggressively ate his $800 truffle breakfast.
Having no money left, she grabbed her cheap red lipstick, wrote a defiant IOU on his expensive linen napkin, and fled the hotel.
She thought she had escaped a criminal, but upstairs, the billionaire traced her lipstick-stained name with a predatory smile.
"Ava Kidd, I will absolutely find you."
9.5
For twenty years, Krista lived as the perfect daughter of the wealthy Cain family.
But a single DNA report shattered her entire world. Her adoptive parents coldly declared she was just a mistake and immediately replaced her with the true bloodline.
Desperate, she ran through the freezing rain to find her fiancé, only to hear him laughing with his friends.
"Marry a fake? I don't collect the Cain family's second-hand trash."
She slapped him, threw her diamond ring at his chest, and stumbled into a jazz lounge to drown her pain.
Drunk and heartbroken, she accidentally crashed into a stranger, clinging to him like a lifeline, which ended in a wild night in a luxury penthouse.
When she woke up, she realized the man she had ravaged was Jasper Stone, the most ruthless, cold-blooded billionaire on Wall Street.
At the same time, her phone lit up with notifications. Her bank accounts were frozen, and the Cain family had just released a brutal public statement permanently cutting her off.
She was completely abandoned, stripped of her home, her family, and her dignity in a single night. Why was twenty years of loyalty erased so easily?
But instead of kicking her out, Jasper tossed a prenuptial agreement onto the bed.
"Pay off your debt with marriage. Stay, and you are the untouchable Mrs. Stone."
Looking at the contract, Krista wiped her tears, put on bold red lipstick, and signed her name.
8.2
My son Leo had just died, and the silence in our cramped apartment felt like a physical weight crushing my chest.
Before I could even process the grief, my husband, Preston, kicked the door open and threw divorce papers onto the table.
Behind him stood Gloria, wearing a pristine cashmere coat and the diamond pendant Preston swore he had pawned to pay for Leo's hospital bills.
"Sign it," Preston said coldly. "You get nothing."
Gloria smirked, mocking me for failing to keep my sick child alive. When I tore up the papers in a blinding rage, Preston slapped me to the floor.
Then, my biological mother, Jerilyn, walked in. Instead of helping me, she pulled a serrated kitchen knife from her bag and plunged it deep into my stomach.
As I lay dying in a pool of my own blood, Jerilyn leaned in and whispered the devastating truth.
"I swapped you in the nursery. Gloria is my blood, and you belong in a Manhattan mansion. I can't let you ruin her life."
Until my lungs stopped working, I was consumed by a roaring, violent hatred. My own mother had traded my life of privilege for poverty, let my son die, and then murdered me to protect the fake.
Opening my eyes again, the dingy ceiling and the agonizing pain were gone.
I was sitting at a wooden desk, surrounded by the chatter of teenagers.
I was back in high school. And this time, I was going to make them pay.