The Disguised Heiress And Her Obsessive Tycoon
I joined a brutal wilderness survival reality show, playing the perfect role of a pathetic, uneducated girl from a trailer park.
I needed the five million dollar prize to fund my revenge against the wealthy family that drove my father to his death.
I played everyone flawlessly. I outsmarted the arrogant contestants, ruined a corrupt restaurant owner, and secured enough food to guarantee my absolute victory.
But just as I was dominating the game, a massive black helicopter landed in our camp.
The show's new billionaire sponsor had arrived, and he immediately ordered his tactical guards to confiscate every ounce of food I had earned.
My hard-won advantage was wiped out in seconds. The other contestants cheered, pointing at my empty hands.
"Take that, you greedy bitch!"
But the real nightmare wasn't the stolen food or the sudden rule change. It was the man who stepped out of the chopper.
Glenn Ryan. The ruthless CEO from my past life as an elite heiress.
He took off his sunglasses, his dark eyes locking onto my muddy shoes and frayed flannel shirt with a terrifying, obsessive smirk.
Why was he here? Why did he instantly target me the moment I started winning?
He didn't just know my true identity.
He had bought this entire game just to hunt me down.
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Chapter 7
The plastic card felt like a block of ice in Anabelle's hand.
She held it out. Alex snatched it from her fingers, his smirk widening into a full grin. He strutted over to the point-of-sale system, swiped the card, and pounded the keys. The machine beeped—once, twice—then flashed an error: INSUFFICIENT FUNDS.
Alex's face twitched. He glanced nervously at Gus, then back at the machine. He swiped again, this time jamming his thumb over the "force approval" override code that small businesses sometimes used for regular customers. The transaction went through.
He strutted back and tossed the printed receipt and the card onto the table. It landed in a puddle of condensation.
"Have a nice day. Get out," Alex sneered, waving his hand as if shooing away a stray dog.
Anabelle didn't move. She picked up the receipt. Her eyes scanned the ink. She checked the merchant tax ID number at the top. She checked the time stamp. She checked the specific wording of the fees—and the forced override code printed at the bottom, proving they had processed a transaction on a zero-balance emergency card.
It was a perfect, legally binding confession of fraud.
She folded the receipt into a tiny, precise square and tucked it safely into her front pocket.
She pushed her chair back. The wooden legs scraped loudly against the floor. She stood up, but she didn't walk toward the door.
She walked directly to the dead center of the dining room.
She reached into her backpack—and from a hidden inner seam, she pulled out the thick, shattered flip phone she had palmed during the initial security check, slipping it into her waistband before the cameras could catch it.
She flipped it open, punched in a number, and hit the speakerphone button. She cranked the volume to maximum.
The loud, rhythmic ringing echoed off the crystal chandeliers.
Every diner in the restaurant stopped eating. Forks hovered in the air. Gus Schmidt pushed off the bar, his brow furrowing in confusion.
The call connected. A crisp, automated voice filled the room.
"You have reached the Better Business Bureau fraud reporting hotline. This call is being recorded."
Alex's face drained of all color. He took a step back.
Anabelle spoke clearly, her voice cutting through the silence like a scalpel.
"I am reporting Schmidt's Bistro. Merchant Tax ID 44-892-110," Anabelle recited from memory. "For pulling a bait-and-switch scam with hidden junk fees and forced gratuity. Additionally, they knowingly processed a fraudulent transaction using a forced override on a zero-balance emergency medical card, which constitutes identity theft and credit card fraud. They are violating consumer protection laws and running a blatant business fraud."
The live chat exploded. The server crashed for three seconds before rebooting with a flood of millions of comments.
Gus Schmidt panicked. He sprinted across the dining room, reaching out to grab the phone from her hand.
"Give me that!" Gus yelled.
Anabelle pivoted sharply on her heel, dodging his grasping hands. She held the phone higher, angling it perfectly so the cameraman could capture both the phone and Gus's sweating, desperate face.
A live agent came on the line. "How can I help you today?"
"I have physical and video evidence of unadvertised, mandatory junk fees, forced gratuity, and a fraudulent forced override on a zero-balance emergency card," Anabelle stated, her eyes locked onto Gus. "This constitutes multiple counts of consumer fraud and identity theft."
Gus spun around and pointed at the massive security guard standing by the door. "Throw her out! Now!"
The guard took two heavy steps forward.
Anabelle didn't even look at him. She just raised her free hand, pointing a single finger at the guard's chest.
"If you lay a hand on me while I am actively reporting a crime to a federal agency, I will add felony assault and battery to the civil lawsuit," Anabelle said, her voice dropping to a terrifying, dead calm.
The guard froze. He looked at Gus, then at the camera, and slowly backed away, raising his hands in surrender.
Anabelle hung up the phone. She immediately dialed a second number.
"Office of the State Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division."
Gus's knees buckled slightly.
Within minutes, the internet mobilized. The hashtag #SchmidtBistroScam was trending globally.
Gus's phone in his pocket started vibrating violently. Then the restaurant's landline rang. Then Alex's phone rang.
Yelp locked the restaurant's page after it received ten thousand one-star reviews in less than four minutes.
Gus realized he was watching his entire life's work burn to the ground on live television.
His anger vanished, replaced by sheer, suffocating terror.
He walked up to Anabelle. His shoulders slumped. He rubbed his sweaty palms on his expensive trousers.
"Miss," Gus whispered, his voice trembling. "Please. It was a glitch in the POS system. I will refund your thirteen dollars right now. Just... please hang up the phone."
Anabelle ended the call. She slowly lowered the phone. She looked down at Gus, her eyes devoid of any mercy.
"A glitch," she repeated softly.
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8.8
The only thing more dangerous than the game is the man guarding the crease.
Lyon Navarro has spent his entire career tearing down the San Diego Stormbreakers. As the city's most ruthless journalist, he's made an art form out of exposing the Alphas' volatile tempers and their scandalous lives off the rink. He's the man they love to hate-until a desperate management team offers him the biggest paycheck of his life to fix their image.
The assignment? Tame the six most notorious werewolves in the league.
But Lyon isn't just dealing with professional athletes; he's stepping into a den of apex predators who have been waiting for him to cross their territory. And they have no intention of playing nice.
Rafael Stone, the team's intense, iron-willed captain, has made one thing clear: if Lyon wants to manage the pack, he's going to have to survive them. But between the locker room tension, the high-stakes pressure of the season, and the way the pack's gazes feel like a physical brand on his skin, Lyon realizes he's no longer just reporting the story-he's the one being hunted.
In a world of adrenaline, cold ice, and raw, lupine desire, Lyon is about to discover that the line between enemy and lover is thinner than a skate blade.
Six Alphas. One PR strategist. And a season that's about to get very, very hot.
Beyond the Ice is a high-stakes, slow-burn MM hockey werewolf romance. Expect intense power dynamics, sizzling tension, and a pack that doesn't just want to win the cup-they want to claim their man.
9.3
Born into privilege, Eleanor never imagined her life could shatter in a single night. Then her father disappeared with his mistress, her mother fell from a building and slipped into a coma, and everything she once owned turned to dust.
Determined not to ruin Jonathan's future with her family's disgrace, she ended their relationship and became the bride of a man trapped in a vegetative state.
She believed that was the last time their paths would cross. But two years later, Jonathan pinned her in the dark and whispered, "Long time no see, my sister-in-law."
7.3
Naelis Haldrith is many things, daughter to the South's most strategic Alpha, an Omega with Alpha genes, and an unapologetic misfit. During summer break, she decides to journey to Frostpine and spend her heat cycle with her boyfriend, the golden pea of the Thalric pod.
But during a collared moment, a secret of his is revealed, and Naelis realizes that their relationship was more complex than it seemed. Choosing to return to her pack, she steps outside under a storm, and it is at that moment she crosses paths with a man she had never seen before.
Zoran Vyer Thalric. Uncle to her ex. Member of the Elder's Council. The otherworldly primordial with red-ringed eyes and a wolf barely chained beneath his skin. Desire sparks instantly, and her sights are immediately set on him, but... he is a devotee of the Citadel, celibate, untouched, and unwilling to be the calm to her fury.
She is fire, wild and untamed. He is steel, honed and contained. And for the first time, Naelis is the hunter after her prey, and the line of resistance slowly blurs as he finds his years of enforced self-control and suppression unraveling at the tint of her touches.
And with a maniac on their radar, this summer break will demand blood, sacrifice, and passion that howls to the moon.
7.4
Clara Davis was trained to seduce, deceive, and destroy.
Her mission is simple: infiltrate billionaire Jeffery Rothwell's life, gain his trust, and help seize his empire in exchange for the freedom she has always craved.
But the deeper she slips into his dangerous world, the more the lines between mission and desire begin to blur. Falling for him was never part of the plan and neither was discovering that the man she was sent to manipulate may not be the real Jeffery at all.
Now trapped in a deadly web of obsession, power, and hidden identities. Clara is caught between the organization that owns her, the monster who remade her, and a love that has turned into vengeance. Clara must survive a man who sees everything, controls everything, and may be far more dangerous than the organization that created her.
Because in this game of seduction and revenge, love might be the deadliest trap of all.
9.2
When Alma's father stood in front of the bulldozers to protest, the energy company's thugs beat him half to death in the mud.
Instead of arresting the attackers, the police handcuffed her bleeding father and threw him into a cruiser.
"Stay back, kid," the officer barked, shoving Alma away.
Her father was denied bail and framed for assaulting an officer. The corrupt mayor just smiled and told her not to cause a scene. Meanwhile, the company mailed her weeping mother a severance check that barely covered a month of groceries.
Alma was forced to watch her family be completely destroyed by men with money and power.
Kneeling in the cold dirt where her father's blood had spilled, she didn't shed a single tear. The panic in her chest died, replaced by a cold, absolute hatred.
She realized that crying wouldn't do anything. In this world, justice didn't exist for the weak.
Years later, Alma stepped onto a prestigious Ivy League campus, her cheap backpack slung over her shoulder.
She was surrounded by the arrogant children of the very executives who ruined her life.
She lowered her head, hiding her dead eyes, and put on the perfect mask of a timid, helpless charity case.
Undergrad was just a training ground, and these elite kids were just her practice dummies. The hunt was officially on.
9.5
He was born from the void between stars - a being of immense power, forged from cosmic origins.
For thousands of years, he walked among humanity, protecting them and keeping his true strength hidden. After losing the only family he had, grief led him to seek his own end... only to wake up in a world entirely unlike his own.
Here, cultivation is the main path to power. Those who master spirit qi gain superhuman strength, speed, and abilities that place them far above ordinary people. Four great sects rule the land, competing for resources, secrets, and dominance over each other.
Icaros joined the Li Sect, where he found companions he came to trust and care for: the capable and easygoing Li Han, the sharp and composed Su Yan, and the spirited Nelly. For a time, he felt he had found a place to belong, even as he kept his true nature hidden and wondered whether he could ever learn to cultivate like those around him.
Everything changed when their voyage was suddenly attacked. A powerful figure floating in the sky cut their ship apart with sharp, devastating energy strikes, leaving only destruction in his wake. Believing his friends had been lost in the disaster, Icaros chose to stop holding back any longer.
> "I am done hiding!"
He unleashed his full power: golden light blazed from his eyes, he flew at incredible speed, and he broke through every barrier and enemy in his way. On the shores ahead, he tore through hordes of powerful jade monsters, destroying them completely before flying deep into the interior of the island.
Meanwhile, survivors washed up scattered and alone. One young cultivator found himself on the shores of Jade Island - a place most cultivators avoid, as it holds no treasures or useful materials, only danger and endless deposits of ordinary jade. Yet despite the risks, ordinary people have built settlements here, finding safety from the conflicts and power struggles of the outside world.
This island works by different rules. Spirit qi is scarce and unstable, making cultivation far less effective than elsewhere. Instead, the people here rely on advanced technology - weapons and explosives that can injure or even defeat those with great physical strength. Here, skill and preparation can be just as powerful as raw strength, and even the strongest cultivators must move with caution.
Now, Icaros has vanished deep into the island. His companions are lost somewhere across this dangerous land. And the mysterious swordsman who destroyed their ship has already arrived here, searching for an ancient map said to lead to the legacy of a being from another world.
Will they find each other again? And can anyone survive in a place where the usual rules of power no longer hold true?
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