Too Late For Regret: The Surgeon's Comeback
I was just a struggling actress in Hollywood, desperate for a chance to prove myself.
But the people I trusted most pushed me into hell. My boyfriend, Kole, and my best friend, Brittny, drugged me and handed my hotel room key to an abusive, greasy producer.
They traded my body just so Kole could secure a movie role.
As the producer pinned me to the bed and tore at my clothes, the original me died of sheer, paralyzing terror.
I saw the text message on his phone, a gloating confirmation of my ruin.
"She's all mine. You'll get your part."
I realized the two people I loved most had treated me like a cheap bargaining chip. While I was being assaulted, they were probably celebrating, building their future fame on my absolute destruction.
I didn't understand why they would do this. I gave them all my love and loyalty, only to be betrayed and discarded like trash.
The sickening mix of love, betrayal, and paralyzing fear should have been the end of my pathetic, helpless life.
But instead of breaking, a cold, calculating consciousness awakened inside me.
The soul of "Reaper," a legendary underground doctor and ruthless operative, took over this fragile body.
I snapped the producer's wrist, collected my blackmail evidence, and walked out into the cold Los Angeles night.
This new life is a war, and it's time to make them pay.
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Chapter 8
The lawyer's office was all dark wood and leather, designed to project an aura of power and stability. Arely placed a cashier's check on the polished mahogany desk.
"That's the full penalty for breaking my contract with my agency," she said. "I want it terminated. Today."
The lawyer, a man named Mr. Davies, looked from the check to her, his expression troubled. "Ms. Wallace, with all due respect, this is the worst possible time. Kole Bowman is holding a press conference as we speak. If you terminate your contract now, it will look like an admission of guilt."
Arely simply took out her phone and placed it on the desk, the live stream of the press conference already playing.
Kole was at a podium, his eyes red-rimmed, a single tear tracing a path down his cheek. He was a master performer.
"...a victim of silent abuse," he was saying, his voice thick with emotion. "Arely's moods were... violent. Her paranoia, her jealousy... I was walking on eggshells for years. I made a mistake with Brittny, yes. But I was driven to it. I was desperate for a moment of peace."
Brittny, sitting beside him, nodded and dabbed at her eyes, playing the part of a fellow survivor.
The live chat was exploding. The tide of public opinion, so firmly against him hours ago, was beginning to turn.
Wow, I never knew. She always seemed a bit off.
So he's the real victim here?
Classic crazy ex-girlfriend story.
Mr. Davies paled. "Do you have anything to refute this?"
A cold smile touched Arely's lips. She opened Twitter. She didn't write a single word of defense. She just uploaded the audio file.
She attached a simple caption: The Truth.
The first clip was Kole's voice, slick and arrogant. "That idiot will give me anything I want. A few sweet words and her bank account is mine. As soon as I land this Marvel role, I'm dumping her."
The second clip was more graphic. It was Kole, his voice unmistakable, negotiating a weekend with a married studio executive in exchange for an audition.
The third thing became the final straw: Cole instructed Brittany on how to search through Arelly's belongings and find anything he could use to blackmail her later.
Twitter went into meltdown. The audio file spread like a digital wildfire.
On the live stream, Kole was still spinning his tale of woe, oblivious. Then, his publicist rushed onto the stage, her face ashen, and shoved a phone in his face.
Kole's eyes scanned the screen. The blood drained from his face. His legs gave out, and he crumpled behind the podium. Brittny let out a shriek and ran from the stage. The press conference descended into chaos.
Arely stopped the video. She looked at the stunned lawyer.
"Now," she said, her voice calm. "About that contract."
Mr. Davies swallowed hard and began stamping papers with a new, frantic energy.
When Arely walked out of the building, a small swarm of paparazzi was already waiting. She ignored their shouted questions, a serene smile on her face, and slid into her waiting car.
Inside, her phone buzzed. A text from Alfred Pemberton's number appeared, but the curt, direct language was clearly not his.
Well played.
It was Elsworth. He'd been watching.
She typed back a reply. That was just the interest. The principal is yet to come.
A moment later, another call came through. It was Alfred Pemberton from the Hall estate. His voice was tight with panic.
"Ms. Wallace! It's Mrs. Hall! Something's wrong!"
Arely's calm demeanor vanished, replaced by an icy focus. "What did Isadora do?"
"She changed the medication protocol while Mr. Hall was out. Mrs. Hall... she's slipped into a deep coma. Her vitals are crashing."
Arell slammed on the gas, and the car sped away. "Keep her steady. I'm on my way to the airport. Get me to the operating room immediately."
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She threw a massive check at his bare chest, treating the former prince of Wall Street like a cheap escort.
But Benton didn't take the charity.
Instead, he manipulated her anger, tricking her into signing an ironclad contract that surrendered absolute control of her entire trust fund to him.
When her abusive mother found out she had funded a penniless outcast, she slapped Alyssa across the face.
Her mother froze all her bank accounts, locked her inside her bedroom, and arranged to sell her off to a degenerate politician.
Desperate to escape, Alyssa climbed down her balcony, falling fifteen feet and shattering her ankle on the stones below.
Stripped of her money and freedom, she dragged her broken body to a VIP club just to publicly declare that Benton belonged to her.
She thought she was the boss, playing a rebellious game with a broken man.
But when Benton effortlessly carried her away from the club and locked her inside his rundown apartment, the terrifying calculation in his dark eyes shattered her illusion.
How could a man stripped of his entire empire still radiate such suffocating, violent power?
"You bought me," Benton whispered, his massive frame trapping her against the sofa. "That means I have to take care of you."
Physically trapped and completely broke, Alyssa stared into his consuming eyes, her mind racing to find a way to turn the tables.
8.9
Seventeen-year-old Nina Storm has spent her life running from her tragic past, her dormant wolf, and the dreams of a mysterious man she can't escape.
Raised by her protective father after her mother's death, she has never stayed in one place long enough to call it home. But everything changed when they return to their home, the Moonlight Pack.
Nina discovers that her mate is Zane, the pack's Alpha... a bond that defies werewolf laws and the pack's expectations. Their undeniable attraction is dangerous, and their bond threatens to disrupt the fragile balance of power within the pack.
When an attack on the pack shatters her world, Nina loses everything, including her life. But death isn't the end.
Reborn, her dormant wolf awakens giving her a newfound strength and powers, Nina must navigate a world of betrayal, love, and vengeance as she unravels the truth about her family, her mate bond, and the danger threatening to destroy everything she holds dear.
7.5
I was the adopted daughter of the wealthy Ruiz family, but the moment their true heir appeared, I was thrown away like trash.
Not long after being kicked out, my adoptive father and uncle hired a hitman to stage a fatal car crash on Mulholland Drive.
Pinned under an overturned Porsche with a shattered leg, I watched the hitman point a suppressed pistol between my eyes.
"The Ruiz family sends their regards."
Before this, my reputation had already been completely destroyed by a director, a pop idol, and a reality TV star, leaving me blacklisted and universally hated.
My adoptive family didn't just want me ruined; they wanted me permanently silenced to tie up loose ends.
The hitman pulled the trigger, and the original Alicia died in despair, tasting only rain and blood.
Until her last breath, she didn't understand.
Why did the family she loved treat her like a disposable object? Why did those three men maliciously frame her and turn the world against her?
Opening my eyes again, the fear was gone, replaced by an ancient, cosmic indifference.
I, the Arbiter, had taken over this deceased vessel.
Moving faster than the human eye, I crushed the hitman's steel gun with my bare hand and turned his soul into dust.
Looking at the memories of those who wronged this girl, I signed a contract for the very reality show they were starring in.
Since I borrowed this body, taking out the trash is a required courtesy.
9.2
For four years, I was the Silvercrest Pack's biggest joke—a scentless, wolfless Omega who somehow became the Alpha's Luna.
I thought I was just naturally defective, until our fourth anniversary, when I overheard my husband Adrian talking to his Beta.
"I’ve been having the kitchens slip a silver-based compound into her meals since the day I marked her."
He confessed the poison was meant to suppress my inner wolf and keep my womb permanently barren. He only married me as a power play to make his highborn mistress, Seraphina, jealous. While I wept over my empty cradle and apologized to his family for my broken body, he was using pack funds to buy her custom luxury goods, tossing me the leftover wrapping paper. When I finally confronted him about the silver and tried to leave, he flew into a feral rage. He violently smashed my head against the marble vanity, leaving me bleeding on the floor, and locked the bedroom door behind him.
I lay there in the cold, staring at the pool of my own blood. My entire life, my endless pain, and my unborn pups were nothing but a cruel, calculated joke to the man who was supposed to be my Mate.
But Adrian didn't know I wasn't just a brainless Omega.
I wiped the blood from my face, climbed down the balcony trellis into the freezing rain, and pulled out an encrypted burner phone.
"The cage is broken. Initiate Phase Two."
8.9
Aubree Hamilton was the top-tier executive assistant to Wall Street's most ruthless titan, Beck Franco. A month ago, she made a catastrophic mistake and spent the night in his bed.
Thinking she had erased the mistake with a morning-after pill, she panicked upon his return and lied about being engaged to push him away.
But Beck, a man who despised disloyalty above all else, immediately suspended her and ordered her escorted out of the building. Her nightmare only escalated when her toxic ex-boyfriend attacked her on the street, tearing her purse open and exposing the empty morning-after pill box to the public—and to Beck, who was watching from his penthouse. After having his security rescue her, Beck trapped her in his car, ruthlessly tearing apart her fake engagement. Later in her apartment, the suffocating tension between them almost ignited into a kiss, but a violent wave of nausea suddenly hit Aubree.
She shoved him away with all her strength and violently threw up in the bathroom.
Beck took it as the ultimate physical disgust. He walked out, deeply humiliated and dangerously obsessed, unleashing his resources to investigate her every move.
Left alone and trembling, Aubree finally checked the crushed white box. The pill she took had expired a month ago.
Staring at the two bright pink lines on the pregnancy test, she made a desperate vow: Beck Franco could never know she was carrying his child, and she had to disappear before he found out.
9.3
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