Married To My Ex-husband's Half-brother
Neriah's perfect life was a lie. Her husband's loyalty was a facade, shattered when she discovers his illicit affair with her own sister. The ultimate betrayal: her sister just gave birth to her husband’s child, a replica of the man she loved.
But that was only the beginning. A brutal accident nearly claims her life, and in the depths of her recovery, her husband's true intentions are revealed - a press conference announcing her death, a twisted attempt to erase her existence.
Consumed by a thirst for vengeance, Neriah finds an unlikely ally in Denver, her husband's sworn enemy and half-brother. A proposal is made: a contract marriage, a union of convenience, with one rule - DO NOT FALL IN LOVE. .
As the stakes rise, Neriah and Denver dance to the tune of vengeance, but they must confront the ultimate question: Will their hunger for revenge consume them, or will they succumb to the one thing they cannot afford— Love?
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Chapter: Epilogue DENVER'S POVThe world has stopped making sense since the day the bomb went off. That moment Ethan disappeared into that wall of fire for the woman I love. Neriah had collapsed into my arms that day, her body seizing with pain and fear and shock until she went into a forced labor. So much has happened in the past six months; Liam was sentenced to life imprisonment due to all the murders on his hands, Laura was sentenced to thirty five years for attempted murder and conspiracy and my Neriah slipped into a coma right after the emergency C-section that had to be carried out on her. I haven't even been to work in the past one month. After Ethan's funeral which held last month because of Neriah's situation, I took some of my important belongings and returned to Atlanta so I could be close to Neriah and my baby. My lips curl as I turn my mind's eye to his plump, suckling lips. He was placed in the incubator for three whole months after the
Last Updated: 2025-11-28
Chapter: CHAPTER 228NERIAH’S POVThe second Denver opens the car door, a whimper claws its way out of my throat.My whole body trembles violently, desperate, broken gasps slipping out of me as if my body is fighting against itself just to stay conscious.I can’t believe Laura did this to me. She strapped me to a real bomb with a fucking timer counting down to the end of my life. She truly meant to kill me and my baby in the most horrific way imaginable.Denver’s face swims into view, but he’s not as the man I've known. All the strength, fire, and all his impossible fury seems to be gone as soon as he sets eyes on the bomb. He collapses in front of me, demoralized, his eyes wide with this hollow, tortured disbelief as he stares at the bomb strapped to my torso.“Denver…” I try to speak but the gag muffles my voice. Tears slips down the sides of my face as he cups my face with his. I can see him struggling to keep his hands away from me, just so he doesn't tri
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Chapter: CHAPTER 227DENVER'S POV It's exactly two hours ten minutes to twelve hours. After speaking with Laura to assure her that I've met her demands, I called the sheriff. His voice still echoes in my head as I step out of the house, sliding my jacket on with trembling hands. My hands won't stay steady no matter how steady I try to force them."You'll drive there alone as she requested," he'd began, "Then you hand the car and cash over and let her leave without any suspicions. She’ll take the bait. We'll have the chopper ready to follow immediately after the exchange. The ground units will move in once she tries to drive out of Atlanta, she'll be completely boxed in."I just hope everything goes as smoothly as the sheriff is promising or else I'd tear Laura's head from her neck myself. Today I'll do whatever it takes to save my wife and baby. Ethan walks in at that exact moment, Eden in tow. The girl had barely had any rest and Ethan kept asking to take
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Chapter: CHAPTER 226LAURA'S POV Suddenly I’m twelve again, cross-legged on the living room floor, tearing open snack packs like a greedy little monster while she begged me to at least try to stay awake through arithmetic.God, I was terrible. And she was worse for allowing it.She'd always been like that...weak. Allowing herself to be a pushover just so I could get whatever I wanted. I can't believe she fucking wanted to help me after she released that video. What sane person exposes their enemy and then attempts to help them escape afterwards?A dry laugh escapes me before I can stop it. I remember the exact expression on her face the day I’d finally cajoled her into giving me her biscuits, juice boxes, those stupid little gummy worms she loved. I’d threatened not to read a single page of the literature text unless she promised a daily supply and she did it for eight. whole. months.I can still feel the triumph burning in my chest when she agreed. I can st
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Chapter: CHAPTER 225NERIAH'S POV "Fifty million?" I scoff as soon as the words leave her mouth. "How dare you, Laura?" "Shut up," she hisses at me. From the way her hands are trembling I know she doesn't have all of this figured out. If she does, then she must be extremely nervous, and Laura's not someone I've known to be the nervous type no matter the situation. "You know you're not leaving this state, right?" "I asked you to shut the hell up!" She snaps, turning back to me, her eyes glaring daggers. A smile curls on my lips. "You still don't understand what you just did to yourself, do you? You shouldn't have called Denver or let him know you're the one behind the kidnap. Now he's coming for you." Blood drains from her face but she quickly gathers herself, walking up and down the space that once used to be our dining room. Laura and I never cared to refurbish this house because neither of us needed the place. After our parents died
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Chapter: CHAPTER 224DENVER'S POV It's been four hours and no one has fucking heard anything from or about Neriah. "We have all our men stationed at strategic places," the sheriff is saying, "No one can successfully take her out without my men sighting such person. We already began a manhunt based on the description miss Eden gave so if she's still here in Atlanta, we'll be sure to find her."Words. That's all I've hearing for the past four hours. Eden and I have already undergone several interrogations, yet with all the information they have, they've been able to do nothing. "Who would want to kidnap your wife, and why?" The sheriff had asked but no reasonable answers have come to mind. Liam's stupid, but not stupid enough to attempt something like that when he's in the middle of a big trial. Laura's been missing for a couple of months now so she wouldn't suddenly resurface to do something this dangerous to her sister. Besides she's not bald.
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Chapter: Chapter 20FREYADamien found me on the back porch three days later, a deck of worn cards in one hand and a look on his face that told me he wasn’t taking no for an answer.“You’ve been moping,” he said, dropping into the chair across from me without waiting for an invitation. “It’s starting to bring down the whole property. My father mentioned it at breakfast. Said the house feels like a funeral.”“I haven’t been moping.”“You’ve rearranged the same three books on that shelf in the study twice this week. I checked. Freya, that’s a cry for help.” He started his mouth curved into a worried smile while he shuffled the cards with a practiced ease that suggested he’d spent more of his life doing this than most people spent learning anything useful. “Gin rummy. I’ll even let you win the first round so you don’t feel too bad about how badly I’m about to beat you after that.”“That’s generous of you.”“I’m a generous person. Ask anyone.” He dealt the cards out with quick, easy motions, and despite myse
Last Updated: 2026-07-21
Chapter: Chapter 19FREYAI didn’t leave my room for the rest of that day. I told Marta I was tired when she came to check on my feet, which wasn’t entirely a lie, and I told myself I wasn’t hiding, which was.By evening, hunger finally won out over pride, and I made my way down to the kitchen hoping to avoid running into anyone who might ask how I was doing. I found Damien instead, sitting at the long wooden table with a bowl of something that smelled better than it looked, and he glanced up when I came in with an expression that told me he already knew more than I wanted him to.“You look like someone ran you over,” he said.“Thank you.”“I meant it as a compliment. You’re still standing, which is more than most people manage after a conversation with my brother.” He nudged the empty chair across from him with his foot. “Sit. Eat something. You’ve been avoiding the kitchen since yesterday and I refuse to believe that’s a coincidence.”I sat, mostly because I didn’t have the energy left to argue, and le
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Chapter: Chapter 18FREYAI found him two days later, near the edge of the training yard where the tree line started, far enough from the main house that nobody would overhear if this went the way I expected it to. He was alone, sharpening something at a low bench, and he didn’t look up when I approached, though the set of his shoulders told me he’d heard me coming long before I got close.“We need to talk,” I said.“Do we.”Not a question. I stopped a few feet away, close enough to see the tension along his jaw, and waited for him to actually look at me. He didn’t, not for a long moment, his attention fixed on the blade in his hands like it mattered more than anything I might have to say.“You’ve been avoiding me since the courtyard,” I said. “Since before that, actually. Since the marker stones.”“I’ve had a lot to do.”“You carried me across a border and then vanished for two days.” I heard my own voice climbing and didn’t try to pull it back down. Two days of watching him disappear down hallways the
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Chapter: Chapter 17FREYAI didn’t move fast enough.I was still trying to find some version of a response, something that wouldn’t give her the satisfaction of watching me fold, when she stepped in again, closer this time, close enough that I could smell the sharp bite of whatever oil she used on her training leathers.“Not that I blame him for picking you up,” she said, tilting her head like she was studying a piece of furniture she was deciding whether to keep. “You clean up well enough, I suppose, if you like the sad look. Though I heard you cried through most of your own engagement dinner before you even got banished. Must be exhausting, being that fragile all the time.”A few more laughs from behind her, though thinner now, some of the warriors clearly less comfortable with where this had gone than they’d been a minute ago. I kept my chin up and said nothing, because I’d learned the hard way in the last day that giving people a reaction only fed whatever they were hungry for, and I didn’t have anyt
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Chapter: Chapter 16FREYAThe healer came by early afternoon, a quiet older woman named Marta who unwrapped the bandages on my feet with careful, practiced hands and didn’t ask a single question about how they’d gotten that way. Not where I’d come from, not why an Ashford was lying in an unfamiliar bed on Hamilton land, not anything at all beyond the occasional murmured instruction to hold still or point my toes. I found I was grateful for it in a way that surprised me. I’d had enough questions the night before to last a lifetime.She left me with fresh dressings, a pair of soft shoes two sizes too big, and instructions to stay off my feet for another full day. I ignored all three within the hour, because staying in that room any longer felt like it might swallow me whole. The walls had started to feel close around midday, the quiet turning from restful into something more like waiting, and I couldn’t sit inside it and do nothing but replay the sound of my father’s hand connecting with my face over and o
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Chapter: Chapter 15FREYAWhen I woke fully, the first thing I registered was the ceiling. Wood beams, dark and old, crossing overhead in a pattern nothing like the pale stone arches of the Ashford house. It took me a full minute of staring at them to remember why that mattered, and then the whole night came crashing back at once. My father’s hand across my face. The walk out of that hall with nobody following. Damien’s voice telling me there was no back to go to.I sat up too fast and regretted it immediately, my head swimming, my bandaged feet aching under a blanket that wasn’t mine, in a room that wasn’t mine, in a bed I had no memory of being placed in.“Careful.” The voice came from a chair near the window, and I turned to find Alpha Kendrick Hamilton sitting there like he’d been waiting for exactly this moment, one leg crossed over the other, watching me with the same unreadable expression he’d worn the night before. Or whenever it was. I’d lost track of how much time had passed since the marker st
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