The Woman He Never Chose
At 23, Emilia Jones signed a contract that made her Billionaire Steven Riorsorn’s secret mistress because she was blinded by a teenage crush and had the hope that one day she would be more than a secret.
Then his ex-girlfriend returned, and Steven ended everything with barely a goodbye.
Heartbroken and pregnant, Emilia disappears to rebuild her life. She won't be anyone's second choice ever again.
Two years later, she's a rising force in the business world, with a daughter Steven doesn't know exists. But when their paths cross at a corporate event, the past comes crashing back.
Steven wants answers. His ex wants him back. And a dangerous enemy wants to destroy them all.
This time, Emilia isn’t fighting for love. She is fighting for her daughter, her future and the woman she had worked hard to become.
But what happens when the man who broke her heart finally realises what he lost?
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Chapter: 48.EMILIA“Emi?” Someone shook me awake. “Come on, we need to check out. I can’t believe you are still sleeping. I told you to go to bed early because we have a lot to do today,” Anna complained while prying the covers off my body.I groaned and rolled to the side. “Come on, Anna. Five more minutes,” I said, blindly reaching for the covers, but I was met with the smack of a hand.“Sorry, missy, but I’ve never allowed you to sleep longer, and I’m not going to start today.” She said and forced me up.I opened my eyes to glare at her, but she only smiled. “Next time, when I say sleep early, you’ll sleep early because I am always right” she said.She pointed towards the clock on the bedstand. “Checkout is in thirty, so that’s how long you have to turn yourself from this mess to a powerful CEO,” She grinned.I rolled my eyes and climbed down the bed. “Aspiring?” I scoffed. “We don’t even have up to 30 employees.” I reminded her.“24, but who’s counting?” She smiled. “By the time we complete M
Last Updated: 2026-10-10
Chapter: 47.BIANCAI closed the bedroom door with a loud slam behind me. I paced the room, my head and heart pounding erratically.I paused at the door and listened to footsteps. For a second, I wished Steven would follow and apologize. I wished he would soothe my worries and promised me that nothing would change, but I knew better.As clearly as I knew that he would not sleep in our bed tonight like he hadn’t slept in it for over three years now.I shook my head for waiting pathetically and walked towards the dressing mirror to grab my phone. My fingers worked faster than my brain, and I was back at the site with the headlines that had bothered me all evening since I saw it.I remembered the chill that spread through my bones when I saw the face of the woman who had almost ruined my plans.She was back in the city like she never left.No.She was back better than she was.She left the city a beggar and a pathetic mistress, but now she owned a company.I glared at the picture of her smiling. “So,
Last Updated: 2026-10-09
Chapter: 46.STEVENI was reading through the business news when a name stopped me before I could turn to the next one.Jones Consulting Group had been appointed by Pierce Holdings to lead Northstar Living's nine-month strategic restructuring project.I read it multiple times to be sure that I wasn’t reading the wrong thing, but the same words remained on the page no matter how many times I did.It was real.Emilia was staying in New York for nine months, and I had Margaret Pierce to thank for that.It should have meant nothing to me. I should have taken it as simple as a detail from a business article about a company that had no connection to me or the Riorson Group.Instead, relief came first.It was immediate and ugly enough that I hated myself for it.She would be close.Then guilt followed just as quickly.She was not staying for me.The sound of a file landing on my desk pulled me from the screen. Alexander stood across from me, his expression unreadable as always.“I was about to inform you
Last Updated: 2026-10-08
Chapter: 45.EMILIATommy startled me a little, and I almost dropped my phone. My grip on the phone tightened.“Is that Tommy?” Sunny’s voice perked up. “I’m sure he was as happy as well when he heard the news. Can I say hi?”My mouth tightened. “Sunny, I’ll have to call you back,” I said and ended the call before she could protest.Tommy’s eyes remained on me. “What was that all about?” he asked, pointing at the phone.“You didn’t knock,” I said instead, ignoring his question. What if I had been naked?” I told him, my voice a thin line from snapping.Surprise crossed his features. “I’m sorry. I should have knocked.” He replied. “But you are avoiding my question."Tommy remained in the doorway, and I noticed he had his travel bag packed. His eyes went behind me and his frown deepened.“Where are your bags? And Anna? We need to leave,” he said when he saw I wasn’t going to answer his question.“I am not going back with you,” I told him.He cocked his head and stepped further into the room. “What do
Last Updated: 2026-10-07
Chapter: 44.EMILIAI sat on the edge of my bed in the hotel room, staring at my phone while trying to summon the courage for the news I was about to break.Anna had left earlier to start house hunting. If we were going to stay in New York for another nine months, we couldn’t afford living in hotel rooms for the duration of the stay.The agreement for the deal sat in my bag on the table across me, but somehow, those papers felt heavy against the small table.Nine months in New York. Nine months with Pierce Holdings. Nine months of leading the largest project Jones Consulting had ever touched.I should have felt only proud. Magaret had made it clear that she had chosen us because she believed in our work. She had not offered me charity, a favour, or a seat at someone else's table. She had offered me a chance to prove that Jones Consulting belonged in rooms like that one.But every time I looked at the number nine, all I could think about was Lily.I had told Magaret I needed an evening to make fina
Last Updated: 2026-10-07
Chapter: 43.EMILIAPierce Holdings was located at the top three floors of a skyscraper building on Park Avenue that made Jones Consulting Group’s office look like a very ambitious idea that was still a work in progress on paper.I shook the thought out of my head. I was not going to let the marble lobby or the immaculate reception put down all the efforts I had made to get to where I was today.Anna walked beside me with her fingers curled tightly around the strap of her laptop bag. She wore a tight expression. It was the familiar face when she tried to project confidence she did not feel, and if I wasn’t as nervous as she was, I would have laughed.I was far from calm, but my expression did not betray the loud thumping of my heart or how my hands were trembling.The receptionist greeted us with a genuine smile, which was rare when you worked in high-rise buildings in NY, except your boss was a sweetheart, which Margaret appeared to be judging from our interaction at the conference.The reception
Last Updated: 2026-09-11
Alpha of Her Ruin
I wasn’t born to be Luna but the bargain made me one. They told me I would be his second mate because he lost the first, but they didn’t tell me that the bond would feel like war.
Nalani was born with the ancient power that could save lives with the cost of a fragment of hers, which forced her to live in hiding, under the forced protection of her parents.
Samael Calgrave lost his first mate and with her, his heart. When duty forces him into a political marriage with Nalani Halden, a healer protected by her small pack, he swears she will never replace the woman who was taken from him.
But words were never made to decide the future. As they are forced to share a new future together, Samael finds himself consumed by her – her fire, her touch and her courage.
The bond consumes them, growing stronger with every stolen glance, every heated confrontation, and every connection they can’t control.
As enemies lurk in the shadows and dark magic rears its ugly head, their passion becomes their weapon, their weakness and the only thing that can save them.
Because when obsession ignites, love consumes everything.
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Chapter: 23.NALANIThe library doors closed behind me and I let out a sigh of relief. The whispers and murmurs that followed me everywhere had become worse. Every corner I turned, there was a pack member glaring at me like I was a bad omen.My stomach twisted as I took a seat at the corner of the library and pulled my knee to my chest.“That didn’t last at all” I whispered to myself as I remembered the gratitude they had felt barely a week ago. “People are so weak when it comes to feelings and decisions."I felt my wolf move. “When are you going to come out?” I whispered.Everyone believed it was too late. My father said it didn’t matter that I felt her. What mattered was that I didn’t shift, and at 18, and now, I was 20, and my wolf still wouldn’t come out. We had sought out solutions, and none knew why my wolf had refused to show.She reacted. She moved. She was there. But she had never spoken or reached out to me.My mother believed it was because of my healing powers. It took too much from me
Last Updated: 2026-09-11
Chapter: 22.SAMAELMy hands remained clenched as I walked outside the house and towards the garden.“Are you tormenting yourself because you defended our mate?” My wolf asked.“Shouldn’t I?” I muttered. “What if they think I care? And she is not our mate. Amara is,”Rhaegar grunted in disapproval. “I loved Amara, but she is gone. The goddess has given us someone new. Nalani is our mate, and you cannot continue to fight it," he argued.I pushed him to the back of my mind because I wasn’t ready to argue with him about that topic or remind him that for reasons still unknown to me, Nalani wasn’t aware we were mates.It made everything easier.The garden smelled wrong when I stepped inside. The smell of herbs and plants had disappeared, and instead, it was filled with the stink of ash, old smoke, and something dark I couldn’t identify.“Anything yet?” I asked Adler as he approached, and he shook his head.“We’ve gone through all the beds, and this was the only one." He pointed at the charm Nalani had
Last Updated: 2026-09-07
Chapter: 21.NALANIMy injury had cooled by the time I reached the packhouse doors.Whatever was wrong with my injury had faded, and now only the faded throbbing reminder that an injury lay under the bandage was left. I pressed my hand against my side and kept walking.I couldn’t tell anyone what I had just experienced.What would I have said? That a charm of black thread and tiny bones had made my injury flare like a warning? I was barely starting to get liked. I didn’t want them to turn around and call me crazy.No one knew what my blood could do, and they could never find out. Samael may have been willing to keep it a secret, but how many of them would ignore and not hunt me down like a wild animal?I went back to my room briefly to change and went in search of Mabel. I knew she would be upset.I found her in her bedroom. She sat by the window overlooking the garden, looking down at it.She heard me come in, but she didn’t turn around. I walked towards the window and looked down.Some pack warr
Last Updated: 2026-09-04
Chapter: 20.NALANISamael’s strides were large and almost impossible for me to keep up with. He took a turn and entered an empty hallway.“Samael!” I screamed at the top of my lungs, letting my anger and frustration bleed into my voice.I didn’t even know why I was chasing him, but I hated how he was treating me like I was invincible.He stopped, but did not turn.“Are you finally going to stop running?” I wheezed sarcastically, anger bleeding through my words.He looked over his shoulders with a cold expression. “What?” he demanded harshly.I caught up with him and walked around him so we were facing each other. “You don’t get to act cold to me when you were the one watching me earlier,” I crossed my arms over my chest to hide how hard I was breathing from playing chase with him.“I wasn’t watching you. I was on my way to a meeting,”“Liar,” The words were out before I could stop them and his eyes narrowed. “You were standing there for a while. I could feel your eyes on me,” I accused.“What mak
Last Updated: 2026-09-02
Chapter: 19.NALANIThe first thing I noticed when I woke up was that the ache in my bones had finally dulled enough for me to move without feeling like I was breaking apart.It had been three days since the rogue attack, three days since I had pressed my bleeding palm to Sera’s lips and prayed that the Goddess would not take her from her parents.The pack doctor had continued to visit every morning to check my progress. I couldn’t tell him he didn’t need to without revealing why, so I kept quiet and let him do his work.This morning, he studied me for a long moment before sighing. “I still don’t know what caused the sudden weakness in your body, but you must refrain from doing any difficult task for now,” he said.“Okay,”He gave me a look that suggested that he didn’t believe me and then left.As soon as the door closed behind him, I pushed the covers off me and changed into a simple cream dress. I braided my hair over one shoulder. My hand was still wrapped in a clean bandage, and the wound ben
Last Updated: 2026-09-01
Chapter: 18.SAMAELI needed to get out of the pack house. It was infuriating the way her smell clung to me after I carried her back to her room. I had taken a shower to get rid of the scent, but it did nothing.The packhouse felt suffocating, so I left. My legs carried me deep into the forest until I was where I needed to be.Vharos’s large body lounged nonchalantly beside the large rock, hiding his body like a predator as he blended into the night. I knew he was there because we shared a bond else someone else would have missed him.His golden eyes tracked me as I took a seat beside him.“Don’t look at me like that,” I muttered with a small grunt.Vharos didn’t speak or move. He just watched me with eyes that felt like they could see through whatever lie I tried to make myself believe was the truth.What lie?It wasn’t a lie. It was the truth. There was nothing to force myself to believe.“It was nothing,” I said flatly. “The only reason I bothered to carry her to her room was because she fainte
Last Updated: 2026-08-02
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