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 300GRACE'S POV We got married on a Saturday in my backyard with thirty people watching. Small and intimate and nothing like our first wedding that had been all performance. This time everything was real. August and James were ring bearers, five years old and serious about their responsibilities. Li
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Chapter: Chapter 299CARTER'S POV Hope went to the NICU for observation because she was early. Standard protocol for thirty-five weekers the doctors said. Grace was exhausted but stable and I sat with her while nurses worked on our daughter in the next room. "I want to see her." Grace was trying to sit up. "Carter,
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Chapter: Chapter 298GRACE'S POV I called Carter Sunday morning with my conditions. "I read your letter five times. I believe you know me. But Carter, knowing someone and staying with someone are different things." I was sitting on my porch while the twins played inside with my mom. "I need you to prove you'll stay
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Chapter: Chapter 297CARTER'S POV I spent three days writing the letter. Not because I couldn't think of things to say but because I kept deleting what I wrote. Kept falling into old patterns of what sounded good instead of what was true. Dr. Chen told me to stop performing and just write honestly about why I loved Gr
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Chapter: Chapter 296CARTER'S POV The full reality hit me about thirty seconds after Grace told me. I was going to be a father again. Was going to have another chance at the beginning I'd missed with August and James. Was going to be there from the first moment if Grace let me. I sat down hard in her office chair be
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Chapter: Chapter 295GRACE'S POV I'd been nauseous for a week. Blamed it on stress from the press conferences and therapy and trying to figure out if Carter and I were actually doing this. My mom noticed first. "Grace, you look green. When did you last eat?" She was watching me push food around my plate at Sunday di
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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 32POV: Nora Sera Ashford. My father's sister. Dead before I was born, according to every family conversation I had ever half-heard as a child, a name that existed only as a brief sadness my father would close off quickly whenever it surfaced. I had never questioned it because the grief around it had always felt genuine and finished, the kind that has been processed and put somewhere specific. Not dead. Hidden. And looking for me since he died. I had approximately four hours to sit with that information before Elias moved us into the next phase, because the Syndicate's acceleration changed the timeline and waiting was no longer an option we could afford. He explained it with the particular efficiency of someone who had been planning for this contingency and needed me functional rather than processing. I was functional. I filed Sera in the same place I'd filed everything else that was too large to fully absorb in real time, and I got ready. Marcus's office building had a security ro
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Chapter: Chapter 31POV: Nora I found out about the PI on a Wednesday. Elias told me over the kitchen table with the same tone he used for everything operational, level and direct, no softening around the edges. He'd identified the tail three days earlier, a man who had been appearing in the same radius as my movements with the particular patience of someone being paid by the hour. He'd run the face through his contacts and traced it back to a private firm that Jade had used once before, eighteen months ago, for a different matter he hadn't yet fully sourced. "She hired him the morning after the gala," Elias said. "She saw me talk to Marcus on the terrace." "She saw you walk out of the building looking like that after forty minutes inside." He kept his voice neutral. "She didn't need to hear the conversation to draw conclusions." I thought about Jade on the terrace before Marcus appeared. The way she'd almost let something real show before the door opened. The calculation that had replaced it immed
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Chapter: Chapter 30POV: Marcus He stayed on the terrace for eleven minutes after she left. He knew the exact count because he had checked his watch when the door closed behind her and checked it again when he finally moved, and the gap between those two moments was something he had no clean explanation for. Eleven minutes standing at a railing looking at a city he owned pieces of, thinking about a woman who had just walked through a room full of people who didn't know her name. She had donated to get in. That was the part that kept returning. Not the hair, not the dress, not the way she'd said Jade's name in that particular tone that had landed like a key turning in a lock he hadn't known was there. The donation. The deliberate, resourced, unhurried act of a person who had found a door and walked through it on her own terms. He had built a picture of Nora Ashford over the months of their arrangement. Practical, contained, intelligent enough to ask the right questions but not positioned to do anythin
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Chapter: Chapter 29POV: Nora Jade left. Not dramatically, not with words. She simply looked at Marcus standing in the doorway, then at me, then made the calculation that whatever was about to happen was not a conversation she needed to be part of. She picked up her bag from the terrace railing, said nothing to either of us, and walked past Marcus through the door without touching him. He watched her go. Then he looked back at me. The shock was still present in his face, not fully processed, the particular expression of someone whose controlled environment has just produced something they didn't account for. I had planned for this moment across three days of preparation. I knew what I wanted from it and I knew how to move through it. The wire was warm against my ribs and Chen was somewhere in a car two streets away listening to every word. I let him look. The hair was darker, a professional job done four days ago, close enough to my natural color to seem intentional rather than disguised. The makeu
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Chapter: Chapter 28POV: Nora The watch had a false back. I had owned it for two years, had held it a hundred times, and had never known. The back panel released with pressure applied at a specific point along the lower edge, and inside the shallow space behind the mechanism was a folded square of paper so thin it had clearly been cut to fit. A twelve-digit number. Nothing else. I had stared at it for a long time before photographing it and putting it back. An account number was my first thought, but the format was wrong for any standard banking structure I recognized. I sent the photograph to the email address that had contacted me and got no response. Whatever it unlocked, I wasn't meant to access it alone. I hadn't told Elias about the watch's interior. I was still deciding how much that said about the current state of things between us. The gala was on a Friday. Elias had sourced the ticket three weeks before the event, a donation-level entry under the name Claire Marsh, a persona with enough
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Chapter: Chapter 27POV: Nora I sat with what she'd said about Elias for a long moment. Twice as a witness. Once as a suspect. I didn't let it show on my face because I had been practicing not letting things show on my face for months and I was getting competent at it. But underneath the practiced neutrality I was doing the rapid, uncomfortable work of reassessing a foundation I had built a significant amount of weight on. "Tell me about the suspect angle," I said. Chen's expression didn't change. She'd expected the question. "Elias Vance was connected to your father professionally for over a decade. When William died, Elias was one of the last people to have contact with him. Phone records show a call between them the night before the death, forty minutes long." She kept her voice level. "He was interviewed once, briefly, before the case was closed. His answers were cooperative and vague in equal measure. The kind of vague that's hard to challenge directly." "That makes him a person of interest, n
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