The Billion Dollar Bet
Grace Monroe was a supermodel who walked away from the runway to build something real… her own sustainable fashion line. When billionaire hedge fund manager Carter Vaughn pursued her relentlessly, she believed she'd found a partner who saw beyond her face. Three years into their marriage, she discovers sex videos of Carter with multiple women, including her former best friend Stella. But the real devastation comes when she finds a contract: Carter married her as part of a bet with his elite boys' club… the first to stay married to a "perfect 10" for three years wins fifty million dollars. She was never a wife. She was a wager.
Grace takes the scorched-earth divorce settlement and disappears. What Carter doesn't know: she's pregnant with twins.
Grace returns as the founder of GRACE, a feminist fashion empire built on her viral campaign exposing "trophy culture." She's on magazine covers with her twin boys, August and James, refusing to name their father. She's wealthy, powerful, and untouchable. Carter's reputation is destroyed, his boys' club dissolved in scandal, and his fortune is crumbling from boycotts and bad investments.
But when Carter discovers the twins are his… through a morally questionable secret DNA test—everything changes. He's not the man who made that bet anymore. Prison time for securities fraud, the loss of everything he valued, and watching Grace become the woman he prevented her from being has broken and rebuilt him. Now he wants his family back.
Can a man who treated her as a commodity learn to truly love? Can she risk her sons' hearts on the father who didn't know they existed? And when Carter's former friends try to destroy Grace's empire to punish Carter, will she let him fight beside her or will she prove she never needed saving?
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Chapter: Chapter 270GRACE'S POV We ended up in my home office an hour later, champagne glasses forgotten on the kitchen counter. Carter had pulled up something on his laptop about Marcus's pending charges and I'd disagreed with his interpretation of the legal consequences. A completely trivial argument about details t
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Chapter: Chapter 269GRACE'S POV The detective called back two hours later. I listened to Carter's side of the conversation, watched his expression change from worried to confused to relieved. "You're sure?" Carter was gripping his phone. "The SEC reviewed my access logs and confirmed everything was obtained legally t
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Chapter: Chapter 268"This is good." Grace finalized the document at noon. "This is really good. Marcus won't see it coming." "Neither will his lenders or the board or anyone." I saved everything to an encrypted drive. "Grace, once we do this, there's no taking it back. Marcus will know we're behind it. He'll retaliate
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Chapter: Chapter 267CARTER'S POV I woke up at six to find Grace already in the office with coffee and financial documents spread across her desk. She'd changed out of yesterday's clothes, looked put together despite the late night, and was deep in analysis of something on her screen. "You're up early." I came in carr
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Chapter: Chapter 266GRACE'S POV We set up in my home office Tuesday night after the twins were asleep. Carter brought his laptop and files on Marcus's business dealings. I pulled up GRACE's contracts and investor lists. David joined us remotely, video call from his home office looking skeptical about this whole arrang
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Chapter: Chapter 265"That's manipulation. That's fighting dirty." I pulled my hand back. "Carter, I built GRACE on being better than them. On not playing their games." "And Marcus is destroying what you built because you won't fight dirty." Carter's voice was firm. "Grace, I'm not saying become like them. I'm saying l
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HIS BIGGEST MISTAKE
Elara Reed has endured years of abuse as her pack's omega—the lowest rank, treated as less than nothing. When the arrogant Alpha heir Kai Thornwood discovers she's his fated mate, he's revolted. In front of the entire pack, he publicly rejects and humiliates her, then marks another she-wolf as his chosen Luna to solidify his disgust.
But Kai made one fatal mistake: underestimating Elara.
During the rejection, Elara's wolf breaks free, revealing what was hidden her entire life—she carries True Alpha bloodline, a power thought extinct for centuries. That night, she vanishes without a trace.
Three years later, Alpha Kai's world is crumbling. His pack is failing, his chosen Luna is barren and bitter, and mysterious enemies are picking off his wolves one by one. Desperate, he tracks down the one person who might save them: Elara.
But the broken omega he rejected is gone. In her place stands Alpha Elara Reed—confident, powerful, and leader of the fastest-growing pack in the territories. She's thriving, happy, and definitely not interested in helping the man who destroyed her.
Oh, and she has three-year-old twins. His twins. With Alpha powers that shouldn't be possible at their age.
Now Kai must grovel, fight, and prove he's worthy of a second chance—while enemies close in on Elara's rare bloodline, traitors sabotage from within, and a rival Alpha offers Elara everything Kai failed to give her: respect, partnership, and love.
The clock is ticking. The bond may be severed, but the danger is just beginning. And Elara holds all the power now.
His biggest mistake might cost him everything—including his life.
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Chapter: Chapter 257"Daddy rejected you." Luna said bluntly. "We know that part. We've heard whispers. We want to know what happened after." I took a breath. Told them. Told them about the rejection ceremony. About fleeing into the blizzard. About nearly dying. About finding Marcus. About building Shadow Creek while p
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Chapter: Chapter 256This was our pack family. Extended. Chosen. Built through years of showing up for each other. Built through surviving together. Built through choosing each other continuously. Marcus and Zara had finally mated two years ago. After years of dancing around their feelings. After Marcus had gotten over
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Chapter: Chapter 255Aurora was five. She was extraordinary in ways that still shocked me. The power Dr. Chen had predicted was accurate. Aurora was the strongest True Alpha born in centuries. Her control was perfect. Her awareness was unprecedented. Her abilities were developing faster than anyone could track. She coul
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Chapter: Chapter 254KAI POV Five years. Five years since the anniversary ceremony where we'd rewritten our history. Five years since Elara had chosen me again in front of everyone. Five years of building something that felt permanent instead of fragile. Five years of actually living instead of just surviving. I was s
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Chapter: Chapter 253"The Moon Goddess is pleased." She said. "Pleased with your healing. Pleased with your choice. Pleased with what you've built. And she has one more gift for you both." "Another gift?" Kai looked wary. "We already have everything. We're mated. We have our children. We have our pack. What else could
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Chapter: Chapter 252His tears were falling freely now. So were mine. So were half the pack's. We were all crying. All feeling the weight of this moment. All understanding what it meant to choose love after devastation. To choose hope after despair. To choose each other after everything that had tried to keep us apart.
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Bred for Betrayal
Nora Ashford thought she was giving a desperate couple the gift of life. Instead, she became a pawn in a cruel game. Contracted as a surrogate for billionaire CEO Marcus Wolfe and his fiancée Jade Rivers…. Nora's former best friend…. she endures nine months of isolation, control, and cold indifference. But when she gives birth, Marcus rips the baby from her arms and discards her like trash, invoking a contract clause she never saw coming: zero custody, zero rights, zero compensation beyond medical costs.
Broken and alone, Nora discovers the devastating truth…. Jade was never infertile. The surrogacy was a lie to avoid "ruining her body." Worse, Marcus isn't just ruthless; he's the man who had her father killed five years ago to steal his groundbreaking tech company.
Enter Elias Moretti… a dangerous nightclub owner with mafia ties and a smile that promises violence. He saves Nora from rock bottom and offers her something irresistible: revenge. He'll help her destroy Marcus and reclaim her daughter. But Elias has secrets of his own. He orchestrated their meeting. He's been watching her for years. And the baby Nora carried? The fertility clinic switched the sample. Elias is the biological father.
Caught between two ruthless men…. one who discarded her, one who's obsessed with her…. Nora must become the player instead of the pawn. As Marcus realizes what he's lost and begins a terrifying pursuit to win her back, and Elias's true motives unravel, Nora faces an impossible choice: revenge or redemption, safety or passion, the monster she knows or the devil she's falling for.
In a world where everyone has an agenda, Nora must fight for her daughter, her identity, and her survival.
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Chapter: Chapter 6Nora's POVI'm halfway to the police station when I realize I left my jacket at the shelter. The one with my documents in the pockets. Everything important. My ID. My copy of the surrogacy contract. The photo of the baby.I turn around and head back. The shelter is only six blocks but my body is screaming at me to stop moving. Three days postpartum and I've been on my feet for hours. Blood is soaking through the pad again. I need to rest but there's no time.When I get back to the shelter, there are two men standing outside. The same ones from ten months ago. Cheap suits. Dead eyes. Debt collectors.My stomach drops.They see me before I can turn around. The tall one smiles. "Miss Ashford. We've been looking for you.""I don't live here," I say. "I'm just staying temporarily.""We know. We've been to your old apartment. Building management said you were kicked out. Gave us this address." He pulls out a tablet. "You owe forty-nine thousand, two hundred and seventeen dollars. Plus late
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Chapter: Chapter 5Nora's POVThe police station smells like burnt coffee and sweat. Detective Chen meets me at the front desk, leads me back to a small interview room with a table and two chairs. She closes the door behind us."You look terrible," she says."Thanks.""When's the last time you ate?"I try to remember. Yesterday? The day before? "I'm fine."She leaves and comes back with a sandwich from the vending machine and a bottle of water. Sets them in front of me. I want to refuse but my stomach is eating itself so I take them."Eat," she says. "Then we'll talk."The sandwich is stale but I finish it in four bites. The water helps. My head clears a little.Chen spreads files across the table. Documents. Photos. Printouts. "I went through everything in your father's box. Found correspondence between him and Marcus Wolfe. Threats, mostly veiled as business negotiations. But there's one email that's interesting."She slides a printout toward me. I read it.It's from Marcus to my father. Dated three w
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Chapter: Chapter 4Nora's POVI spend the night at the shelter. Four hours of sleep on a cot that smells like bleach and desperation. My body is wrecked. Bleeding through the pads they give postpartum women. Breasts leaking. Everything hurts.But I drag myself up at seven because I need to meet Detective Chen at ten and get Dad's box before they throw it away.The shower at the shelter is lukewarm and the water pressure is terrible but I stand under it anyway, watching blood and milk circle the drain. This is what I've become. Two days postpartum and homeless.I put on the cleanest clothes I have left. Jeans that barely stay up because my body is different now. A t-shirt that hides the leaking. A jacket that's too warm for the weather but has pockets deep enough for all my important documents.The coffee shop Detective Chen suggested is one of those chains that tries to look local but isn't. I get there fifteen minutes early and order black coffee I can't afford. Sit in the corner with my back to the wa
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Chapter: Chapter 3Nora's POVThe apartment smells like mildew and old takeout. I drop my bag by the door and the sound echoes in the empty space. Almost empty. I still have my mattress on the floor, a folding chair, and a lamp. Everything else got sold months ago to make rent.I should lie down. My body is screaming at me to rest. But I can't stop moving. Can't stop thinking about what the lawyer said.Moral breach. Adjusted payment. Nothing.I dig through my bag until I find the contract. The original one I signed ten months ago. Fifty-three pages of legal language that I skimmed because I was desperate and stupid and thought Jade was still my friend.I sink onto the mattress and start reading. Really reading this time.The first twenty pages are standard. Surrogacy terms. Medical procedures. Pregnancy requirements. I followed all of these. Every single one. No alcohol. No smoking. All the appointments. All the vitamins. Every restriction they demanded.Page twenty-one. Compensation terms. There it is
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Chapter: Chapter 2Nora's POVI wake up to sunlight cutting through the blinds and immediately wish I hadn't.My body feels like it's been hit by a truck. Everything aches. My stomach is cramping, my breasts are rock-hard and leaking through the hospital gown, and between my legs, there's a dull, constant throb that the pain medication can't quite touch.But the physical pain is nothing compared to the emptiness.I shift in the bed, trying to find a position that doesn't hurt. The IV in my arm tugs. I've been alone all night. Nobody came to check on me after the lawyer left. No nurses asking how I'm doing. No doctor checking my recovery.I guess when you're just the surrogate, you don't get the same care as the actual mother.The door opens and a nurse walks in. Not the kind one from yesterday. This one is younger, all business, checking the chart at the foot of my bed without really looking at me."How's your pain level?" she asks."Fine.""Bleeding?""Normal, I think."She makes a note. "Doctor will b
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Chapter: Chapter 1Nora's POV"Push, Miss Ashford. One more push."The doctor's voice sounds like it's coming from underwater. Everything hurts. My body doesn't feel like mine anymore. It hasn't for nine months, but right now, it feels like I'm being split in half.I grip the hospital bed rails and push. A scream tears out of my throat."Good, good. I can see the head. Keep going."The fluorescent lights above me are too bright. I squeeze my eyes shut and push again. Somewhere to my left, I hear Jade's voice. High-pitched. Fake-crying."Oh my God, Marcus. Our baby. Our baby is almost here."Our baby. The words make my stomach turn, but I don't have time to think about it because another contraction rips through me and I'm pushing again, harder this time, and then suddenly there's release. Pressure gone. Emptiness.A baby's cry fills the room.My baby.No. Not mine. Never mine.I open my eyes, trying to catch my breath. The doctor moves quickly, holding a tiny, wriggling thing covered in blood and white
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