Divorced By My Cold Husband, I Returned As A CEO
I was abandoned, betrayed, and forced to leave everything behind… including the man I once loved.
Divorced by a cold, unfeeling husband, I vanished from his life, only to return five years later, stronger, smarter, and unstoppable.
Now, I’m the CEO of a company, and our paths are destined to cross again.
He thinks I’m gone. He thinks he can move on. But what happens when the man who broke my heart discovers that the child he never knew existed is his own?
Revenge, regret, and forbidden love collide in a story of betrayal and redemption.
Will he fight for what he lost… or will I finally walk away?
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Chapter: Chapter 72His Heartbeat“Are you okay?”Elara turned when she heard it — that sound. The one she had learned to recognize before she could name it. That particular struggle for air that lived in her memory like an alarm.Victor was beside her but something was wrong. His breathing had changed — labored, pulled tight, each breath costing more than it should. His face had gone pale in the way that meant something was happening inside his chest that his body couldn’t manage alone.She panicked.She ran back to her bag before she’d finished thinking — and there it was, right at the bottom where she’d packed it without registering it. Daniel’s new inhaler. Still in its packaging. Still unused.She ran back to him.She lowered herself to the ground and lifted his head carefully, settling it into her lap. He was heavy and warm and already weakening — she could feel it in the way he didn’t resist, the way he simply went where she put him.She opened the packaging with shaking hands.“Breathe, Victor.”
Last Updated: 2026-05-07
Chapter: Chapter 70“We just came to check on you quickly,” Elara said, with the polite firmness of someone who has already decided the shape of the visit. “We need to leave soon.”Hellen’s face fell. “You can’t come all this way and just go like that. It’s not right.” She was already moving toward the kitchen with the purposeful energy of someone who has decided hospitality is non-negotiable. “Let me at least prepare something—”Mark appeared from the back room, taking in the scene with the easy grin of someone who has no particular place to be. “Why are you keeping them outside? Come in, come in — staying out here isn’t right.” He looked at Hellen warmly. “Let them sit properly.”They settled into the small chairs of the sitting room — modest, worn smooth with use, the particular comfort of furniture that has been lived with for a long time. Elara sat across from Victor and told herself the visit would be brief and uneventful.Then the sky made its decision.The clouds had been building without anyone
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Chapter: Chapter 69By the time the van rolled to a stop, Elara was pale.Victor noticed before she could compose herself — the slight tightness around her eyes, the way she was holding herself just a fraction more carefully than usual.“Are you okay?”“I’m fine.” She pressed a small smile into place. “Just tired.”“Elara—”“I said I’m fine, Victor.” She reached for the door handle. “Let’s go.”He didn’t push. He got out and came around and they stood together at the edge of the site — and then the village came alive around them.“Mrs. Zara!”Children first, running from between the huts, followed by women with their capulanas bright in the morning sun, followed by the older men who walked more slowly but smiled just as widely.“You came back!”“Are you here to stay?”“Come, come — look at what has changed—”Elara laughed — the real kind, surprised out of her by the warmth of it — and let herself be surrounded. Victor stood slightly behind her and watched, and the expression on his face was one he wasn’t
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Chapter: Chapter 68The JourneyVictor was already outside when her front door opened.He was standing by his car in the early morning quiet, hands in his pockets, and when he saw her he raised one hand in a small wave.She waved back. Something small and natural. A smile she hadn’t planned.“How are you?” he asked, as she came down the path.“I’m okay.” She looked at him. “You?”“Good.” He nodded toward the car. “I’ll drive and leave my car at the company lot. We can go from there.”She nodded. “That works.”They moved toward the car.The front door opened again behind them.“Bye, Mum! Bye, Daddy!”Victor turned.Daniel was in the doorway in his pajamas, barefoot on the front step, waving with his entire arm. Victor’s face opened completely — the involuntary brightness that belonged entirely to this child and no one else — and he spread his arms wide.Daniel came at a full run.Victor caught him and swung him once, then held on.“I thought you weren’t well, buddy,” he said into Daniel’s hair. “I didn’t
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Chapter: Chapter 67She woke before her alarm.The tiredness from the previous night sat behind her eyes in the pleasant, manageable way of someone who had experienced more than expected and hadn’t yet fully processed it. She lay still for a moment, listening to the house — Maya moving quietly in the kitchen, Daniel still deeply asleep, the particular morning quiet of a day that hadn’t decided what it was yet.She had to tell Victor about the project.She got up, dressed quickly, checked on Daniel — one arm still flung dramatically over the side of the bed, undisturbed — and went downstairs and out the front door before she could overthink it.She crossed the road.She raised her hand to knock.The door opened before her knuckles reached it.Victor stood in the frame, slightly breathless, as though he’d moved quickly to get there. She lowered her hand and looked at him.“How did you know I was coming?”“I saw you through the window.” He leaned against the doorframe. “I didn’t want you to have to knock. S
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Chapter: Chapter 66“What are you talking about?” Serene’s voice came out controlled, but only just. She looked at Victor with the expression of someone who has prepared for many outcomes and is scrambling to locate this one. “She owns a company,” Victor said simply. “That’s what I’m talking about.” He looked at her with the particular calm of a man who has run out of patience so completely that anger is no longer necessary. “Stop sizing people up the moment they walk into a room. It’s not a good look and it’s not okay.” He turned away from Serene. Stepped to Elara’s side. “And she is the mother of my son,” he said, to the room as much as to Serene. Clearly. Without hesitation. “I won’t sit quietly while anyone disrespects her. Not here. Not anywhere.” The room absorbed this in collective silence. Then the murmuring began — low and immediate, the sound of a crowd processing something they hadn’t expected. His son. Mother of his son. Elara stood very still beside him, aware of every eye in the ro
Last Updated: 2026-04-26
SAVED BY MY BROTHERS
Zara grew up with nothing but resilience and ambition. Raised in an orphanage, she fought her way into the corporate world, believing education would be her salvation and love her reward. When she married Dante, a powerful CEO, she thought she had finally found both.
She was wrong.
Behind closed doors, Zara’s marriage became a nightmare of cruelty, betrayal, and calculated malice. Stripped of her career, manipulated through her own child, and nearly killed by the very family she married into, Zara is forced to face a devastating truth: she was never meant to survive.
When she walks away from everything with no money, no protection, and only her dignity Zara makes one promise: she will return.
What she doesn’t expect is to uncover a shocking secret about her past one that reveals she was stolen as a child, her life destroyed by a conspiracy rooted in greed and revenge. Reclaimed by her real family and armed with power she never knew was hers, Zara rises from the ashes stronger than ever.
This time, she isn’t fighting for love.
She’s fighting for justice.
And revenge will be delicious.
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Chapter: Chapter 144Outside in the garden, Marcus reached for another piece of meat off the grill and said, almost as an afterthought: “Oh — and apparently the footage they found shows someone in a mask and specific gloves. That’s all they have.” Mrs. Ashford waved her hand. “Marcus, please. Don’t ruin a perfectly good meal with that. Let them find whoever they need to find. That’s their job.” Marcus shrugged and let it go. The barbecue continued. In the bedroom, Zara looked at the two men standing in the middle of her floor and let the silence sit for a moment before she spoke. “Your mother,” she said to Mark, “thought she was being clever. Paying someone to poison my food.” She tilted her head slightly. “But the girl she chose told me everything. Every word of it.” She paused. “So I returned the favour. A simple gas leak. I made sure you and your father were out of the house first — made sure you were safe. Your mother was alone because that was her own choice that evening.” She looked at Mark
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Chapter: Chapter 143 Lilly screamed until her throat hurt and the sound bounced off the warehouse walls and went nowhere useful. The masked figure stopped. Reached up. Pulled the mask away. Mark. He was smiling — the particular smile of someone who has been planning something for long enough that the execution of it feels like relief. He reached into his bag and produced the knife, holding it loosely, not threatening yet but making the possibility very clear. “I came to your school for you,” he said. “I want to ruin you the way your mother ruined us.” Lilly stared at him. “What are you talking about?” “Your mother.” His voice hardened. “She took my father’s marriage. She destroyed my family. If she hadn’t interfered, everything would have been different—” “Are you serious?” Lilly’s fear had not gone but something else had arrived alongside it — the particular fury of someone who has grown up knowing exactly what the truth is. “Your mother is the one who destroyed my family. She helped a man try to
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Chapter: Chapter 142After Bella died, Mark started to live with Henry.It was not a gentle upbringing.Henry’s new apartment was the same shabby, defeated place it had always been — the same bottles, the same smell, the same television flickering at nobody. The difference now was that there was a boy in it, growing up inside all of that, absorbing it the way children absorb everything around them whether anyone intends them to or not.Henry was a thief. He had always been a thief — small jobs, opportunistic crimes, the particular moral flexibility of a man who had decided long ago that the world owed him something and had been collecting informally ever since. He drank too much and worked too little and loved his son in the only way he knew how, which was imperfectly and with conditions attached.But there was one thing Henry planted in Mark with complete consistency, watered every day, tended with more care than he gave anything else in his life.Hatred.Zara Ashford, he told him. The woman who called
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Chapter: Chapter 141The packing was quiet and methodical — clothes folded, boxes sealed, a life condensed into luggage with the particular efficiency of people who have learned not to be sentimental about objects.The rest of the family had already gone to their respective places. It was just the two of them now, moving through the house that had held them all for so long, carrying things to the car in small loads.Mrs. Ashford was in the sitting room when they came down for the last time.She was pretending to read something. She was not reading it.“My baby.” She looked up at Zara with a brightness that was working very hard to cover something else entirely. “Where exactly is this new house?”“Close, Mum. Very close. I’ll be coming to see you all the time.” Zara crossed the room and held her — properly, for a long moment. “You won’t even have time to miss me.”Mrs. Ashford hugged Lilly next, pulling her in tight, pressing her lips to her hair. “Take care of my grandchild,” she murmured. Then, to Lilly:
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Chapter: Chapter 140They all sat down.Ann looked around the room — at each face in turn, measuring the weight of what she was about to say against the silence that was already pressing in from every direction.“I never expected,” she began, “that I would ever find myself here. In your family’s home. About to marry into it.” She folded her hands in her lap. “So before anything else is said, I want to tell you everything myself.”Nobody spoke.“I was cruel to Zara,” she said. “As cruel as the rest of them. I treated her badly and I treated Lilly badly and I have no excuse for it that would satisfy anyone in this room, including myself.” She paused. “I was part of that world and I behaved like it.”Julian had gone very still beside her. Marcus looked at the table. Victor’s jaw was tight.Mrs. Ashford reached across and took Zara’s hand quietly.“But there was a day,” Ann continued, “when everything changed for me. The accident — the one Dante and Margaret arranged for Zara and Lilly. When I found out what
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Chapter: Chapter 139Life after Dante was quieter than Zara had known how to imagine while she was still fighting for it.She slowed down. Not from exhaustion but from choice — the deliberate, conscious decision to be present in the life she had worked so hard to reclaim. She went to the office when she wanted to and came home early when she didn’t. She took Lilly to school herself in the mornings. She sat through homework sessions and bedtime stories and the small, ordinary complaints of a child who is healthy and safe and has enough peace in her life to be bored sometimes.It was, she thought, the most beautiful thing she had ever experienced.Dante’s name was not spoken in the house. Not because it was forbidden — simply because it had ceased to be relevant. He existed somewhere else now, in a world that no longer overlapped with theirs, and they had all made a quiet collective decision to leave him there.Mrs. Ashford appeared in the kitchen doorway one morning with the particular brightness of someon
Last Updated: 2026-04-25
Ice Between Rivals
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Ava Carter has one dream: play elite hockey. But the Falcons Academy doesn’t recruit girls. So when her twin brother Noah walks away from his scholarship, Ava makes a reckless choice.
She steals his identity, his jersey, his future.
Now she’s living as Noah Carter, training, competing, and sleeping in the same dorm as Kai Bennett, her brother’s ruthless rival. Kai has spent years trying to defeat Noah. Now they’re roommates. And Kai is starting to notice something is wrong. The way Noah moves. The way he looks at him. The way his pulse changes when they collide on the ice.
Then there’s Liam Brooks, captain of the Eagles. Noah’s best friend. The boy who knows her better than anyone. And the only one who might recognize the truth.
Caught between her brother’s rival and her brother’s best friend, Ava is playing the most dangerous game of her life. Because the more she wins on the ice, the closer she gets to losing everything: her dream, her secret, her heart.
And when her helmet falls in front of a packed arena and her hair spills free… The silence is louder than any crowd. Now the whole world is watching. And no one feels more betrayed than the two boys staring at her from opposite ends of the ice.
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Chapter: Chapter 96On the way back to the academy the cab was quiet.Not the comfortable quiet we had found between us over the past weeks — the easy, settled kind that didn’t need filling. This was different. Kai sat beside me and looked out the window and said nothing, and the nothing had a quality to it that I recognised.I looked at him. “Do you like her?”He turned. “Does it matter, Noah?”“Of course it matters.”“No,” he said. Flat. Final. “It doesn’t.”He looked back out the window and the set of his jaw told me the conversation was finished whether I agreed or not. I let it be. I wanted to tell him what I had found on my phone — the photo, my cousin, the pieces fitting together — but I needed to be certain first. A photo was not proof. A tagged post was not a confession. I needed something solid.I said nothing.The journey finished in the same quiet it had started in.At the academy gates I stopped. “Go ahead. I’ll find you there.”He looked at me for half a second — something moving behind his
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Chapter: Chapter 95“What are you doing here?”Kai’s voice came out flat with shock rather than coldness. He stood in the doorway looking at her like someone who has opened a door expecting one thing and found something categorically different.“I came to see you,” she said. Her voice was soft, her eyes softer — the specific quality of someone who knows the effect they have and has decided to use it. She crossed the room and wrapped her arms around him before he’d finished processing her presence, pulling him into the hug with the easy confidence of someone who considers this their right.Kai extracted himself carefully. “How did you know my dorm?”She smiled. “Kai. You know I always find what I want.” She tilted her head. “I spoke to your coach personally. He said you’re allowed out with me. It’s been so long — we need to catch up properly.” Her eyes moved past him to me, briefly. “I already met your roommate. I don’t know his name.”“He’s not just my roommate,” Kai said. “He’s my brother.”She blinked.
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Chapter: Chapter 94 “No way.” “Come on.” I kept my voice reasonable. “I’m not going to hurt you. I just — you smell good. I want to know what it is.” “No.” “It’s not like you’ve never hugged me before—” “If you bring that up one more time,” he said, with complete evenness, “you’re going back to your own bed right now.” “I’m sorry.” I said it immediately. “I won’t mention it again.” “Good.” A pause. “So why won’t you go back to your own bed?” “I’m getting more from here. The light is better and I’m in the middle of something.” He sighed the long-suffering sigh of someone who has made a decision they know they’re going to regret. “Fine, Kai.” I stretched out properly. He lay down on my back — just like that, with the casual ease of someone who has assessed the available space and made a practical decision about it. “Why—” “Because you’re on my bed,” he said into my shoulder. “So face it.” I faced it. I read. The room got quieter as the building settled into night. The words on the page were
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Chapter: Chapter 93Kai’ POV When I finally came back to myself, Noah was on his bed. Turned toward the wall. Quiet in the deliberate, effortful way that isn’t actually sleep — the stillness of someone who has decided to be unreachable. “Noah.” I kept my voice soft. “Hey.” Nothing. I reached for my phone to check the time. Hanna’s message was on the screen. Please can you talk to me babe? Are you busy? Something moved in my chest before I’d finished reading it. A small, involuntary skip — the particular response of a heart that hasn’t fully finished with something it thought it had put down. I looked at the message for a moment. Then I put the phone face down on the table. Quickly. Deliberately. I looked at Noah’s back instead. “Noah, come on. Talk to me. Are you okay?” I leaned forward. “You didn’t eat. Come on — come and eat with me, both of us together—” “Why are you focused on me?” His voice came out muffled, aimed at the wall. “Go and reply to your babe and eat your food.”
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Chapter: Chapter 92 “Does brotherly love disgust you that much?” I watched his face move through something — discomfort, or something wearing discomfort’s shape — and raised an eyebrow. He looked away, which told me everything I needed to know about what was actually happening behind that expression. Weird guy, I thought, with a warmth I didn’t fully examine. But I meant what I’d said. I did love him more — more than Liam, more than I had expected to, more than made any straightforward sense given the history between us. Liam had Noah. He had always had Noah. And somewhere in the last few weeks, without announcement, without anyone’s permission, I had found that I had Kai. It was only fair, really. I looked at his hands — treated, bandaged, the bruises already deepening. He had gone to his friends for me. Had stood in a locker room and said things I doubted came easily, with his knuckles split open, and then come back and apologised. Not everyone did that. Not many people did that. “You’re
Last Updated: 2026-05-06
Chapter: Chapter 91 Mark was laughing when I found them. That was the first thing — the easy, unbothered laughter of someone who considers what he’s done a reasonable afternoon. He was leaning against the lockers with the others around him, and when he saw me his face opened into the familiar grin. “There he is. Where have you been, man? We’ve barely seen you—” I slammed him into the locker. The sound of it went through the room and everything stopped. Mark looked at me — not afraid, not yet, but reassessing. “What—” “Why did you hurt Noah.” It didn’t come out as a question. He laughed. Short, disbelieving. “That chicken? He told you? We were just talking, man — having a conversation—” “You beat him.” I looked at him directly. “Did you.” He shrugged. The smirk was still there, smaller now but present. “You always said you hated him. You were the one who told us he was the enemy. So what changed? What’s wrong with you?” I hit him. Clean, hard, the full weight of everything I was ca
Last Updated: 2026-05-06
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