The Billionaire’s Broken Contract
"My daughter needs heart surgery," Riley whispered, clutching four-year-old Lily to her chest. "I'll do anything."
Brett Graham's steel-gray eyes never left hers. "Anything?"
"Yes."
"Then you'll be mine. Completely. For six months."
Riley Plia is homeless with a dying daughter when ruthless billionaire Brett Graham offers her a deal: pose as his girlfriend for six months and earn $500,000 for her child's heart surgery.
She thinks she's found salvation. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a contract written in cruelty.
Brett treats her like property—controlling her meals, her words, even when she can see her daughter. He humiliates her at galas, dismisses her tears, and uses her desperation as a weapon.
But beneath his ice-cold exterior lies a man terrified of abandonment, testing her loyalty through suffering because everyone he's ever loved has left him.
As Riley endures his torment to save Lily, she discovers an inner strength that refuses to break. And Brett finds himself addicted to the one woman who won't shatter under his worst behavior.
In a world where love is the ultimate luxury, can two damaged souls heal each other's wounds—or will Brett's need for control destroy the only real thing he's ever found?
When the contract ends, will she stay... or will she finally run?
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Chapter: Chapter 143: EpilogueRiley pov Then he closed the space between us with a growl, his fingers ripping my skirt up my thighs and yanking my soaked panties aside in one brutal tug. The fabric tearing with a sharp rip that echoed in the locked room, before he freed his throbbing cock from his pants—thick, veined, and slick with pre-cum and lined it up against my dripping entrance. The head nudging my swollen folds apart as he surged forward in one merciless thrust, spearing me open inch by searing inch until he bottomed out balls-deep in my clenching heat.The sudden stretch ripping a wail from my throat that shattered into a raw “oh fuck, yes” as my walls fluttered and gripped him like a vise, milking the invasion while stars burst behind my eyesHis hands gripped my hips as his mouth devoured every sound I made and the table beneath us shuddered with the force of him pounding into me. He pulled back almost to the tip with a slick drag that made me sob, then slammed home again harder and deeper, the wet
Last Updated: 2025-09-21
Chapter: Chapter 142: The New Beginning Riley's POVSix weeks later, I stand in the Graham Foundation's restored boardroom, watching Brett address the same people who tried to destroy us. The media circus has died down, the FBI investigation closed, and our reputation is slowly rebuilding."The Sterling-Jamson conspiracy cost us significant donors and public trust," Brett says, his voice steady. "But it also showed us who our real allies are."Patricia Wells shifts uncomfortably in her chair. She's been notably quiet since being forced to publicly apologize for her hasty actions."What's our current funding status?" asks Kim, who at least had the decency to look ashamed during Brett's reinstatement."Better than expected." I stand, pulling up financial reports on the wall display. "Our crisis response actually attracted new donors who believe in our mission."Brett's eyes catch mine across the room, warm with pride."Ms. Plia will be taking over as Chief Operations Officer effective immediately," Brett announces.The room g
Last Updated: 2025-09-21
Chapter: Chapter 141: The Truth Revealed Riley's POVThe parking garage beneath our building feels like a war bunker as Brett and I huddle around his laptop, analyzing the doctored photo that might save our lives."The metadata doesn't lie." Brett's fingers fly across the keyboard. "This image was created three days before we met, but Jamson's claiming it shows our first encounter.""Which means he's been planning this for months." I lean closer to the screen, studying the technical details. "But why use a fake photo when he could have gotten real ones?"Brett goes very still. "Because he never had access to real surveillance from that day.""What do you mean?""The area where we actually met." Brett pulls up building schematics on his phone. "It doesn't have security cameras. I chose it specifically for privacy."My heart starts racing. "So he had to fabricate evidence of our first meeting.""And he got sloppy." Brett screenshots the metadata. "This is enough to discredit his entire case."I grab his arm. "We need to call D
Last Updated: 2025-09-21
Chapter: Chapter 140: The Counter-Attack Riley's POVThe Graham Foundation boardroom feels like a courtroom as twelve faces stare at Brett across the mahogany table. I sit beside him, ignoring the disapproving glances from board members who clearly think I don't belong here."The situation is untenable," announces Patricia Wells, the Red haired board chair. "Channel 7's exposé has already cost us three major donors."Brett's jaw tightens. "The allegations are false.""That may be," Patricia continues coldly, "but perception is reality in our business. We need you to step down temporarily while this investigation proceeds.""No." My voice cuts through the tension.Every head turns toward me as Patricia's eyes narrow dangerously. "Excuse me, Ms. Plia?"I stand slowly, feeling Brett's surprise beside me. "I said no. You're not removing him from the foundation he built.""And you are?" Board member Kim's tone drips condescension."I'm the woman who's spent the last eight months learning every aspect of this foundation's operatio
Last Updated: 2025-09-21
Chapter: Chapter 139: The Investigation Begins Riley's POVDetective Doris badge catches the light as she steps into our penthouse, her eyes scanning everything like she's already building a case. Behind her, two uniformed officers wait by the elevator."Mr. Graham, Ms. Plia." Doris voice is professional. "We need to discuss some serious allegations."Brett moves protectively in front of me, his body language shifting from vulnerable fiancé to guarded CEO in seconds. "What kind of allegations?""The kind that could put you in federal prison for twenty years." Doris settles into our white leather sofa without invitation. "Corporate espionage, fraud, racketeering."My stomach drops. Beside me, Brett's hands clench into fists."Riley, take Lily upstairs." His voice goes cold and commanding. "Now.""No." The word comes out stronger than I feel. "We handle this together."Brett's gray eyes flash with something between anger and fear. "This isn't a discussion.""Actually, it is." I step beside him,"I'm not running anymore."Doris watch
Last Updated: 2025-09-20
Chapter: Chapter 138: The Engagement Riley's POVThe notification on Brett's phone glows ominously in the romantic lighting. I catch a glimpse of the sender's name before Brett quickly turns it face down."Who was that?" I ask, trying to keep my voice light.Brett's jaw tightens. "Nobody important.""On our engagement night?" I step closer, the emerald on my finger catching the light. "Brett, what aren't you telling me?""Riley, please." He reaches for me, but I step back. "Tonight is about us.""And us includes honesty." I cross my arms. "Who is Jamson?"The color drains from Brett's face. Behind us, Lily's laughter echoes from inside where she's celebrating with Emma, completely oblivious to the tension crackling between her parents."How do you know that name?" Brett's voice drops to a dangerous whisper."Because I saw the message preview." My heart pounds. "Something about 'the truth coming out' and 'consequences.'"Brett runs his hands through his hair, the gesture so familiar it breaks my heart. "It's complicated."
Last Updated: 2025-09-20
Chapter: Chapter 198: Epilogue— Few Months LaterJolie pov She has a sweet potato on her forehead, both cheeks, and somehow on the back of her neck.Ember sits in her high chair with the expressions of an artist at work, her silver-blonde pigtails escaping the ties Mara put them in this morning, her eyes glowing faintly with the warm pleasure of someone who has found sweet potato and correctly identified it as one of the best things that has ever happened.Ryder tries to wipe her face but she seizes his finger with both hands and the grip that stopped my heart the night she was born, which has only become more formidable in six months, and she laughs—a real, full, delighted baby laugh that carries through the whole cabin."She's definitely yours," I say from the doorway."She's got your power," he says, extricating his finger with some effort. He's trying very hard not to smile and failing completely."And your stubbornness.""Those are the same thing."Through the window, Knox is in the training yard with a group of young wolves—t
Last Updated: 2026-03-04
Chapter: Chapter 197 – The Last WatchRyder POV Phoenix finds the thread on a Tuesday. He's been pulling at it for three months — since the night before Ember was born, when I gave him one instruction while the compound was preparing for labor and everyone else's attention was pointed at the healing center: keep tracing. Don't stop. Don't let the lockdown protocols make us comfortable. Find the end of the line.He finds it on a Tuesday while Ember is asleep and Jolie is in the healing center reviewing Celeste's prenatal notes and the compound smells like woodsmoke.He comes to me directly, not over comms. That's how I know before he opens his mouth. "Sit down," he says, which Phoenix never says to me, and then catches himself and amends it to: "I mean — I have the trace. All of it. You're going to want to be sitting."I stay standing. "Show me."He lays it out on the command room table, printed pages, because Phoenix understands that some intelligence needs to exist in physical form that can be handed to people and point
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Chapter: Chapter 196:He leans down and kisses the top of Ember's head, very briefly, and then straightens up and becomes more stoic than he was a moment ago, which is his way of managing emotion in front of witnesses.Luna hands Ember back to me and takes Gio's arm, and the look she gives him is the kind of look that holds everything two people have built together.The afternoon is ours. Visitors gone, just the three of us in the quiet healing center, golden light through the windows, the compound settling into its afternoon rhythm outside. Ryder sits close while Ember and I work out breastfeeding for the first time—awkward and careful and eventually successful, and when she latches and the tiny spark of connection moves between us, mother to daughter, it doesn't feel like milk or biology. It feels like the mate bond when it first fully forms. Like something being completed."She's going to be powerful," Ryder says, watching."And loved," I say. "That's what matters."He's quiet for a moment. "Both.""Bot
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Chapter: Chapter 195 – New BeginningsJolie POV I wake from the first real sleep I've had in what feels like weeks and my eyes go straight to the rocking chair before I'm fully conscious.He's there. Of course he's there. Ryder sits in Knox's chair with Ember against his chest, one massive tattooed hand curved around her entire back, and he's watching her sleep with an expression I don't have a name for yet—something between wonder and vigilance, like he can't fully believe she's real and he's not willing to look away long enough for her to become less so.He hasn't put her down. I realize, counting backward, that he hasn't put her down since Doc placed her in his arms."You should sleep," I say, my voice rough and new."I can't." He doesn't look away from her. "What if I miss something?""She's sleeping.""She might stop sleeping."I watch him for a moment—this man who has terrified wolves twice his size, who led a pack of exiles through wars and losses and the dissolution of the most powerful governing body in our regi
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Chapter: Chapter 194 – Ember RisingRyder POV 6:23 AMThe cry cuts through everything. Through the blown-out light fixtures and the cracked windows and the brightness that's been burning in my eyes for hours. Through Shadow's frantic pacing inside me and the sound of my own blood and the grip of Jolie's hand so tight the bones have been grinding for the last hour. Through every terrifying moment of the last nine months and the years before that.One sound. Small and furious and utterly, completely alive. My daughter's voice and for the first time I heard it.Doc is moving—calm and quick, the way Doc does everything—and Jolie is still gasping and crying and laughing all at once, and I can't look away from the small, squirming, silver-tinged thing that Doc places on Jolie's chest with careful, certain hands."Healthy baby girl," he says, and his voice is thick in a way I've never heard from Doc, which tells me more than the words do.She's tiny. She's impossibly, terrifyingly small, fitting against Jolie's chest with roo
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Chapter: Chapter 193 – Into the FireJolie POV 2:47 AM — Full MoonThe water breaks with light. Not a slow seep—an explosion of light that floods the room and blazes through the cabin windows and wakes the compound faster than any alarm could. I hear it before I fully process what's happening: the sound of wolves rousing, voices, boots on the path outside. The full moon overhead and the moonfire inside me responding to each other in a way they haven't yet, frequency matching frequency, and somewhere in my chest my daughter announces herself.Ryder has the bag. I don't know when he grabbed it—sometime in the three seconds between my water breaking and us being in motion. His arm is around me, his voice against my hair: "I've got you," low and steady, and under the steadiness is everything he's been carrying for weeks and I love him for not letting it show.We make it two steps into the path and the next contraction arrives and I grip his arm and breathe and the moonfire cracks outward from my hands.Knox comes out of the
Last Updated: 2026-03-03
Rejected By My Hockey Alpha
Timothy Blackthorn has it all. Alpha heir to the most powerful pack, hockey captain with a god-tier body, and a reputation for breaking hearts as easily as he breaks records. When the Moon Goddess reveals quiet, overlooked Penelope Hale as his destined mate, Timothy does the unthinkable: he rejects her. Publicly. Brutally. In front of thousands.
Big mistake.
Exiled and humiliated, Penelope finds refuge with the rival Bloodfang Pack, where she discovers two things that will change everything: she's a hockey prodigy with a killer instinct, and her "lowly" bloodline hides noble secrets that could topple kingdoms.
Now she's back on the ice, leading Bloodfang to victory after victory, while Timothy's perfect life crumbles around him. His wolf is going feral without their mate. His team is losing. And the girl he threw away? She's become the most dangerous player in the league.
But when pack politics turn deadly and silver daggers flash in the moonlight, Timothy and Penelope must face the truth: some bonds can't be broken, even by pride. Some love is worth fighting for. And sometimes, the mate you reject is the only one who can save you.
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Chapter: Chapter 135:The Work No One Wants to DoLiam pov "It's not," Isla says. "It's just hard, it requires actually examining your motives, admitting your flaws, changing your behavior. Most people aren't willing to do that work.""Are you?" I ask, curious despite my misery."I'm working on it," Isla says honestly. "I enabled a lot of your behavior with Penelope. I knew you were manipulating her but didn't speak up because I didn't want a pack drama. That makes me complicit.""You're speaking up now," I point out."Because she's gone and I don't have to worry about losing her friendship," Isla says. "Which is cowardly. I should have said something months ago.""Would I have listened?" I ask."Probably not," Isla admits. "But I should have tried."We sit in silence for a moment. Downstairs, the party continues. Music, laughter, the pack celebrating their strength."The pack's been asking about you," Isla says finally. "Wondering why you're not at the party.""Tell them I'm sick," I say. "Not feeling social.""Tell them yourself,"
Last Updated: 2026-02-03
Chapter: Chapter 134 - Rock Bottom and ReflectionLiam's POVThe whiskey tastes terrible but I pour another glass anyway, sitting alone in my apartment while the pack house buzzes with activity below. Someone's throwing a party, celebrating our latest hockey win. I should be down there, leading the celebration like a good Alpha heir.Instead, I'm up here, drinking and thinking about Penelope.My phone lights up with another news alert. Timothy Blackthorn's divorce finalized. Alpha Blackthorn removed from power. Investigation reveals multiple false accusations.I scroll through the article, seeing Penelope's name mentioned repeatedly. Her father's exoneration, her role in exposing the corruption, her completed mate bond with Timothy.I should be happy for her. She got everything she wanted—justice for her family, her true mate, respect from the pack.Instead, I just feel empty.A knock on my door interrupts my pity party. "Go away," I call out."Not a chance," Isla's voice comes through. "Open up, Liam. We need to talk."I consider ig
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Chapter: Chapter 133: The Courage to StandPenelope pov "Don't diminish it," my father says. "Standing up to an Alpha, especially your own father, takes strength most wolves don't have. Be proud of that."Timothy looks uncomfortable with the praise but nods."So what's the plan?" Daniel asks. "For the trial, I mean. How do we coordinate?""We'll each give our testimony," my father says. "Tell our stories honestly, completely. Show the pattern of false accusations, the systematic destruction of families who threatened his power.""The prosecutors will prep us," Rebecca adds. "They'll ask questions, guide the narrative. But the core story is ours.""And afterward?" James asks. "After the trial? What happens to the pack?""That depends on the outcome," Timothy says. "If my father's convicted, he'll go to prison. Ethan will likely remain as temporary Alpha until a proper challenge can be arranged.""Will you challenge?" Catherine asks. "You're the heir. The pack expects it.""I don't know," Timothy admits. "Part of me wants to. I
Last Updated: 2026-02-02
Chapter: Chapter 132: Unexpected AlliesPenelope's POVThe Reed family's house is bigger than I expected, a sprawling ranch-style home on the outskirts of Frostfang territory. Cars fill the driveway when Timothy and I arrive—we're the last ones here."Are you ready for this?" Timothy asks, cutting the engine."Not really," I admit. "Meeting three families your father destroyed? Hearing their stories? That sounds awful.""It is awful," Timothy says, taking my hand. "But necessary. We need to stand together if we're going to take him down properly.""I know," I squeeze his hand. "Let's go."Catherine Reed opens the door before we can knock. She's a small woman in her fifties with kind eyes and graying hair pulled back in a bun."Timothy, Penelope," she says warmly. "Come in. Everyone's in the living room."We follow her inside. The living room is packed—my parents on one couch, a couple I don't recognize on another, and three more people in chairs. All eyes turn to us when we enter."Everyone," Catherine says. "This is Timoth
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Chapter: Chapter 131: The Alpha’s House of LiesTimothy pov "Son of a bitch," I breathe, taking the report from her. The evidence is right there in black and white—forged signatures, planted evidence, paid witnesses. "He destroyed all those families?""Systematically," Mr Hale says, his voice hard. "Over fifteen years. We weren't the first and we weren't the last. He just got better at covering his tracks.""This changes everything," I say, my mind racing. "It's not just embezzlement anymore. It's conspiracy, fraud, abuse of power on a massive scale.""Which means stronger charges," Penelope says. "Longer prison time. And now more families have reasons to want him gone.""The pack can't ignore this," Marina adds. "Even his loyalists will have trouble defending multiple frame-ups. One family, they can write off as political maneuvering. Four families is a pattern of corruption.""We need to reach out," I say, already planning. "Contact the other families, unite them. Present a united front against him.""Already done," Mr Hale says
Last Updated: 2026-02-02
Chapter: Chapter 130 - Choosing FreedomTimothy's POVThe divorce papers feel heavier than they should when I pick them up from my lawyer's office. Three weeks of negotiations, arguments, and threats from the Wintermoon brothers, all condensed into twenty pages of legal language that end my marriage."You're sure about this?" James Carr asks from behind his desk. He's been our family lawyer for twenty years, knew me when I was a kid. "Once you sign, there's no going back.""I've never been more sure of anything," I say, grabbing the pen he offers. "Where do I sign?"He shows me. I sign my name six times, each signature feeling like breaking chains. When I finish, I push the papers back across the desk."Done," I say. "Now what?""Now we file with the court," James says, organizing the pages. "Sophia already signed her copy. Since it's uncontested, the judge should approve it within the week. Then you're officially divorced.""Good," I lean back in the chair. "What about the Wintermoon brothers? Can they still cause problems
Last Updated: 2026-01-31
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