Chapter: Chapter 53LEON.She walked in on her own two feet.That was the part I kept circling back to as I watched her cross the room—no one dragging her, no one's hand around her arm, just Billie, spine straight, chin up. Duchess trailed a step behind, twisting her hands together like she was rehearsing an apology she hadn't been asked for yet. Ella stayed close enough to Billie's shoulder that the two of them might as well have been one silhouette in the doorway.Billie was afraid. I could see it in the tight line of her jaw, the way her fingers curled slightly at her sides like she was fighting the urge to fold her arms across her chest and armor up. But she wasn't on her knees the way half the people who walked into this room eventually ended up.That, more than anything, told me exactly who I was dealing with now."Don't touch them," she said, before anyone had said a single word to her. "Duchess and Ella. Whatever you're planning, it's not theirs to answer for."Law leaned back against the wall,
Last Updated: 2026-09-19
Chapter: Chapter 52Billie. The gunfire stopped, but none of us moved.We stayed pressed into the corner of the basement long after the silence had gone on too long to trust. Duchess had her hand flat against the door like she could feel through it whether it was safe. Ella's grip on my arm hadn't loosened once."We can't stay down here forever," I finally whispered."We're not going up until I know," Duchess said, unsure how long that would take.It was another twenty minutes before she eased the door open.The house upstairs looked like something out of a nightmare. Glass everywhere,the kitchen window gone entirely, curtains shredded and hanging in strips. The smell of gunpowder still hung thick in the air and sharp enough to make my eyes water.There were bodies, near the back door. Three of them filled with holes and from the way they were stacked on top of each other. I knew immediately this wasn't the work of whoever had been shooting at us."Duchess."I said in a shaky voice. She stepped past
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Chapter: Chapter 51Billie.“Are they brothers?”Duchess glanced at me over the rim of her glass. “Who?”“The three of them.”She gave a short laugh. “No. Not by blood.”I frowned. “Then how are they so…”“Attached?” She finished for me.I nodded.Duchess leaned back in her chair. “They grew up together in the same orphanage. They were three boys with no families and nowhere to go.”“All three?”“They were practically a package deal.”I couldn’t help a small smile. “And someone adopted all three?”She nodded. “A married couple. They couldn’t have children of their own, so they took the boys in.”She took a sip of the wine. “Were they good parents?” I asked.Duchess snorted. “Their mother was… unconventional.”I raised an eyebrow.“Let’s just say she had very few boundaries and an impressive collection of things children should never have known existed.”I stared at her.“Their father wasn’t much better,” she continued. “Mob business. He wasn’t interested in raising innocent boys. He raised three succ
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Chapter: Chapter 50Law.Two days.Two fucking days and we still couldn’t find her. She hadn’t taken a single bag, not even a change of clothes. That was what kept circling in my head. How the fuck did she walk out of this house with nothing?Silas had the surveillance footage running on the main screen. Leon stood off to the side, phone pressed to his ear. “Stop,” I said.Silas froze the frame. In the far corner of the exterior camera, almost lost in the shadows, a blurry figure slipped into a dark car. The headlights never came on. The vehicle simply rolled forward and disappeared.“Replay it.”He did. I wrote down the plate number the second it became clear enough. Running it took less than a minute. The car was registered to a private company out of Toronto.Strange.Silas slammed his fist against the keyboard hard enough to make the desk rattle. “She’s gone. Just fucking gone.”He scrubbed the timeline backward until the kitchen feed filled the screen. Billie stood at the counter eating pizza, hum
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Chapter: Chapter 49Billie.I woke up to a man standing over me.He was glaring down at me. A small towel hung from his hand. I let out a sharp shriek and scrambled back against the headboard.“Morning,” Duchess’s voice came from the doorway. She walked in looking completely unbothered. “That’s James. He was cleaning you up.”James gave me a brief, professional smile, then left the room with the towel.I pressed a hand to my chest, trying to slow my heart. “How long was I out?”“The whole night,” Duchess said. “You’re fine. The men hardly ever come near this place.”I sat up carefully. My body still ached, but the panic from yesterday felt a little further away. “Thank you… for helping me.”“You’re welcome.”I couldn’t help noticing what she was wearing — a short, almost see-through lace dress that showed off a body most people would kill for. Before I could say anything else, the shy maid from Judy Sierra’s funeral rushed into the room and straight toward me.“Ella,” Duchess called, “be gentle. She stil
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Chapter: Chapter 48Billie.I slipped out through the pathway exactly as the message said. The black Toyota was waiting in the shadows with the engine already running. I threw myself into the driver’s seat and pulled away from the estate without looking back.For the first few minutes the road stayed empty. Then headlights appeared in my rearview mirror — a black sedan, closing the distance fast.My phone buzzed.“Where are you?” Duchess’s voice came.“Someone’s following me, it's a black sedan.”“Take the next right, then stay on the service road that runs along the old industrial park. Lose it. ”I did as she said and pushed the accelerator harder. The sedan stayed glued to my bumper. A sharp crack split the air. Something punched into the rear of the car. Another shot. The whole vehicle lurched hard to the right as one of the back tires blew out.I fought the wheel, trying to keep the car from spinning while more shots sparked off the trunk. The sedan pulled up beside me, trying to force me off the r
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Divorced By My Ex, Married To A Billionaire.
Alexis thought she had it all: a thriving career, a charming husband, and a Pinterest-worthy life. That was before she walked in on Kevin and Stephanie, her cousin sleeping together. Without an ounce of shame, Kevin files for divorce from her and takes her company as his draining all her accounts.
Left with nothing but a broken heart and empty savings, she’s forced to start from scratch. Desperate to pay a loan shark and too broke , she lands a cleaning job at the Carter Penthouse. It’s not ideal—but it’s a paycheck. And the perfect place to plot her revenge.
There she meets Pierce Carter a cold billionaire and devilishly handsome—and unfortunately, her new boss.
He’s arrogant. She’s petty. He’s got issues. She’s got bills. When Pierce makes a ridiculous bet with his best friend that he can last a week without firing her, Alexis sees an opportunity: get fired, walk away with a small fortune.
But just when they think they’ve rid themselves of each other, fate has other plans. Pierce needs a wife to claim his inheritance from his late father, and Alexis needs the ultimate revenge: showing up married to a billionaire hotter than Kevin could ever dream of. It’s the perfect solution… until real feelings start to get in the way.
A fake marriage is born. The rule is simple: You can look but you can't touch. No love. But who will break it first?
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Chapter: Chapter 79AlexisI stirred the porridge slowly, the thick mixture bubbling as Sierra leaned on the counter, munching an apple and watching me with a smile.“You seem so happy. Looks like Pierce’s pheromones must’ve done wonders,”she said.I chuckled, shaking my head. “It’s not that. I’m just happy he smiled. Last night, he ate like he hadn’t touched food in days.” I paused, feeling a soft warmth bloom in my chest. “He’s grieving, but to see him slowly coming back to himself it’s special. He’s learning to love himself again.”“You’re an amazing person, Lexi. You know that, right?”She quipped. I added a squeeze of lemon juice into the pot, letting the tart scent lift as the porridge simmered. Stepping back, I wiped my hands and turned to her. “How did it go with Cassie?”I asked. Sierra bit into her apple. “Oh, she freaked. She totally lost it when someone sent her Wayne’s head and his little dick taped on his
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Chapter: Chapter 78 Pierce.I stared at the fresh graves. I didn’t care about them. I walked past my mother’s and uncle’s resting places without a glance.Instead, I made my way to my father’s and grandfather’s graves.I didn’t want my men near me. I just wanted to sit here and feel nothing.The marble was cold beneath me as I traced the golden letters. Sir Daniel Carter.The man my uncle murdered by crashing his plane. The same way I took his life by shooting his plane down without blinking. An eye for an eye.I warned him when I told him I wasn’t my father who, was way too forgiving. He thought I was bluffing. The clouds groaned overhead before the rain fell, pounding and drenching me to the bone. But I didn’t feel it.I spoke to the man beneath me or maybe to myself.“I’m the only Carter left, Dad. I did it. I got rid of them. Both of them.” I flicked my eyes toward my mother’s grave.“I don’t know if I shoul
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Chapter: Chapter 77Alexis I wanted to restart my life.Not because I wasn’t grateful for what I’d been given. But I needed something that was mine. Like my own business.Practice law, no thanks. After what happened with my last relationship. I couldn’t stand the thought of stepping back into that world.Maybe something simple that would make me happy.A café with Sierra sounded perfect.We’d been scouting locations all week. A cozy little spot facing a calm, busy neighborhood. The kind of place where people lingered over coffee and gossip.“What about this place? It looks so cozy,” Sierra grinned as we sat at dinner, scrolling through listings.I glanced at the screen. It had big windows, decent foot traffic, and a cute little patio.“I like it. Find out what the rent is. We’ll take it.”I said. “Yay,” she squealed excitedly. While she went to shower, I did the dishes, humming to myself.The doorbell rang, my heart skipped. Every time it went off, I hoped it was him.The house was massive, maybe too b
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Chapter: Chapter 76Alexis.The funeral was too formal.Media cameras clicked everywhere, flashing like this was some goddamn red carpet. Strangers hovered around, whispering and sobbing. Some woman I didn’t recognize bawled harder than anyone.I didn’t care because I wasn’t here to mourn that b!tch. I was here to look fashionably happy she's dead. My black Alexander McQueen dress fit perfectly. It had a high neck and long sleeves. The Christian Louboutins clicked softly as I walked. Sierra went with a simple pencil skirt, fitting dark top and Ray-Bans that gave her that, don’t mess with me edge.Paparazzi lenses flicked toward us. They better get my angles right. Flashes came in one after the other, you'd think it's the MET with Sierra and I as the guests.Inside the chapel, people already settled. At the front, two caskets rested side by side. One black and the other brown, both closed. Photos of Marissa and Luciano framed them. T
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Chapter: Chapter 75Alexis.When I came to, everything was blurry.My nose and mouth is covered with an oxygen mask. The ambulance rocks beneath me, sirens wailing somewhere in the distance. A nun leans over me, gently buckling the straps across my aching body. Her touch is gentle but every nerve screams in protest.I blink hard, trying to clear my vision.Outside the open ambulance doors I see Pierce .He’s standing a few feet away, lifting something small and round almost like a soccer ball by its hair. There's Maxwell, wait a damn minute is that a samurai sword?! I squint my open eye, but can't make out much. My eye flutters, and the pull of exhaustion drags me back under.Nero’s face comes into focus as he leans over me.“Hey, you’re awake. How’re you holding up?”His voice is soft. “Like I got hit by a bus. Twice,” I rasp. My throat feels like sandpaper.I shift, pain jolting through every inch of me.
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Chapter: Chapter 74Pierce. We split the second we storm into the compound. Nero, Zane, and I take the east side. Juarez, Max, and Leo sweep the west. The place has massive rooms, halls, and more doors than I can count. But I don’t care. I’m not here to clear rooms but to kill. Anyone in my way breathing that doesn’t belong to us gets a bullet. I don’t aim to wound. I aim to end them, painfully slow. Nero kicks one door after another. Zane covering his back. My blood’s boiling, my vision is pulsing. Nero slams his foot into the last door harder than the others. It flies open. The sight inside freezes me to the fucking ground. Luna is standing on a chair, her tiny arms holding up Alexis’s limp body. Her head tilted, skin pale, face so swollen and bruised I barely recognize her. Sierra lies on the floor unconscious. Fuck No! “Help us…” Luna sobs, tears s
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