Chapter: Just Drive!"You're supposed to be in bed." Norman said blocking my way."Good morning to you too, Norman.""I'm serious.""So am I." I pulled my coat off the hook by the door, bag already on my shoulder, keys already in my hand. "Move."He didn't move. He stood at the end of the hallway with a mug of coffee."Sarah.""Norman.""The doctor said one week.""The doctor said rest. I rested." I pulled the door open and the cold morning air came in sharp and immediate. "All night. Horizontally. Like a person. I feel fantastic.""You look—""Fantastic," I said. "I look fantastic. Thank you for noticing."I walked out.He followed. Of course he followed. I had lived in this house for five months and I had yet to successfully leave a room without this man showing up somewhere.I was already at the truck when I heard his boots on the gravel."You're not driving," he said."Watch me." I held up the keys."Sarah—""Two options." I turned to face him. "I drive myself, or you drive me. Those are the only opti
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Chapter: Deal From The PastThe doctor said stress induced like it was simple.Like stress was something you could decide to have less of. Like I hadn't spent the last five months rebuilding a life from nothing, alone, and pregnant, with a man who had almost run me over as my closest ally and a vineyard that had needed everything I had and then asked for more.Stress induced. Right."The baby is fine," he added, which was the only sentence in the room that actually mattered, and I let out a breath so long and so ragged that Rosa reached over from her chair and put her hand over mine without saying anything."You need to significantly reduce your activity."The doctor looked at me over his glasses. "Rest properly. Not the kind where you sit for twenty minutes and then go plug grapes.""I don't do that," I said.Rosa made a sound from the chair in the corner."She does that," Alice confirmed, from the doorway, in the serene tone of a woman presenting evidence."I have a vineyard to run," I said."You have a baby t
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Chapter: Lucky CharmBig Elijah said we hadn't seen a season like this in twenty years.He said it the way he said everything — quietly, standing at the stable fence with his arms folded, looking out at the vineyard the way a man looked at something he loved and had been worried about for a long time.Then he looked at me and said "you're our lucky charm, Miss Sarah"And I thought immediately, involuntarily, about Tyler's father at that dinner three years ago, his voice not quite lowered enough across the table as he told everyone that carer to listen."The woman is bad luck. She can't even hold a child."I pressed my hand against the mare's neck and said nothing."You're early," Elijah continues, turning from the fence to look at me properly. Taking in the oversized coat over my pyjamas, the mug of ginger tea that had gone cold thirty minutes ago. "Windy days are rest days. Everyone resumes late." He nodded toward the estate. "You should be in bed.""Couldn't sleep," I said.It was the truth, if not the
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Chapter: A Breath Of Fresh Air = Bankruptcy[Tyler’s POV]For three years, entering this front door had felt like stepping into a tomb—a quiet prison where Sarah would be waiting with that look of expectation on her face."How was your day, Darling?" she would ask, her voice a soft, dull hum that made my skin crawl.Now, the air smelled like expensive Oud and Lucy’s French perfume. It smelled like life.I poured myself a glass of aged scotch, the amber liquid catching the morning sun. I felt ten years younger. It was as if a heavy, rusted anchor had finally been cut from my neck, allowing me to float. No more walking on eggshells around Sarah’s fragile "feelings." No more lying in bed next to a log of wood that stared at the ceiling as if sex were a chore she was barely enduring.I thought back to the other night. Lucy was fire and spice. She didn't just lie there like Sarah did, Lucy made me feel like a man who actually had blood in his veins. The sex had been so explosive, so transformative, that I’d already scheduled an imp
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Chapter: Welcome Home, Sarah."Who is in my room? answer me! Who is there?". I asked again.Silence.I stood in the bathroom doorway dripping onto the wooden floor, both hands gripping the doorframe, heart going so fast I could feel it behind my eyes. The darkness was total and absolute and something was in my room and I could not see a single thing.My survival instinct kicked in before my brain did.I spun back into the bathroom and roamed my hands across every surface I could reach — until my fingers closed around the towel I'd seen hanging earlier. I wrapped it around my body, tight and fast, and then my hand found the toilet brush in its holder by the base of the sink.I picked it up.It was a toilet brush. I was aware of that. It was not a weapon, but I was also a woman alone in a dark room in a house in the middle of nowhere, with a stranger on the other side of this door, and I was not going down without a fight.I drew a breath. And launched myself out of the bathroom in one move, the brush raised above m
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Chapter: Who's in My Room?Norman almost left me behind.I had one leg in the truck and one still on the pavement when he started the engine, and the look he gave me in the rear-view mirror when I finally yanked the door shut was the look of a man who had already decided I'd exceeded his patience and we hadn't even left the city yet.Two hours. Not a single word. "Do you talk?" I finally asked, somewhere past the first hour.His eyes didn't move from the road. "When there's something worth saying."I turned back to the window. "Wonderful," I said quietly. "An entire year of this."I folded my hands in my lap and watched New York dissolve into highway and highway dissolve into greener and older and unfamiliar lands.I hadn't prepared myself for the beautiful view that caught my eye three hours later. My chest had already cracked open before I could stop it.Norman pulled up on the gravel, killed the engine, and had my bags out of the boot before I reached the back of the truck. Two cases and a holdall — everyth
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My Stepbrother's Secret Obsession
Inés never wanted to be saved.
When her mother married a dying billionaire, it came with a price: living under the same roof as Miguel Alvarez, the cold, arrogant heir who treats her like she's dirt on his expensive shoes.
But her mother's new marriage isn't about love. It's about survival. Because back in their old life, they owe dangerous people dangerous money. And those people don't forget.
So every night while everyone thinks she's at the library, Inés dances under red lights at P-Valley, the city's most exclusive strip club. Behind a mask and a wig, she's not the boring stepsister. She's Red, untouchable, mysterious and free.
Until the night Miguel walks in.
He doesn't recognize her. But he can't stop watching and wanting her. At home, he ignores her. At the club, he's obsessed with her.
Inés knows she should run before he discovers the truth. But she doesn't because as much as she hates him, her body betrays her every time he's near.
But secrets buried in the dark always come to light. And when Miguel discovers that the girl he craves and the stepsister he despises are the same person, it won't just shatter them, it'll burn down everything they thought they knew.
Baca
Chapter: Loving Husband vs Shady BusinessBy the third day, the world outside their building had become a living thing.Inés stood at the edge of the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, careful not to get close enough to be seen, and watched the media circus that had taken root on the sidewalk below. Photographers with long lenses pointed upward like rifles. A cluster of reporters in neat blazers rehearsing their stand-ups for the camera.She stepped back from the window."You should eat something." Carlos appeared in the doorway of the living room. He was working from home, he'd said. He wasn't going to leave her side during something like this."I'm not hungry.""Inés." His tone carried the gentle, firm quality of a man being very patient with someone who was being unreasonable. "You haven't eaten since yesterday morning. Starving yourself won't make the photos disappear."She turned to look at him. "I know that.""Then come eat."She followed him to the kitchen because it was easier than arguing, and because she wa
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Chapter: Lines In The SandMiguel called that he was coming, but he didn't mention he was coming with Maria.Of course, she just had to tag along. Inés kept her face neutral Maria air-kissed Carlos on both cheeks and made a small comment about the whole dreadful situation, and then she turned to Inés with eyes that were warm on the surface and something else entirely underneath."Inés." She took both her hands. Squeezed them. "You poor thing. You must be absolutely devastated.""I'm managing," Inés said."Of course you are." Maria's smile was the kind that required a second look to identify what was wrong with it. "You're so strong."Miguel hadn't said anything yet. He was standing just inside the living room, and he was looking at Inés with an expression she felt in the center of her chest."You look tired," he said finally. It was not a criticism. It was the most honest thing anyone had said to her in two days."I haven't been sleeping."He nodded once, slowly. "That's going to change."It was a simple state
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Chapter: Going ViralThe first thing Inés heard when she woke up was an silence. The kind that feels wrong.She lay there for a moment, staring at the ceiling of the bedroom she shared with Carlos, watching the pale morning light stretch across the room. Carlos's side of the bed was already empty and cold, which wasn't unusual. He was always up before her, already showered and dressed.She reached for her phone out of habit. And that's when the silence ended.Notifications flooded in faster than she could process them — Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, email, missed calls — the numbers climbing so fast they blurred together.*247 missed calls.**1,842 unread messages.**Instagram: You have been mentioned in 3,291 posts.*Inés sat up slowly, her heart beginning to beat too fast, knocking against her ribs like it was trying to escape.She opened Instagram first because her brain chose the familiar over the unknown, and what she found made the air leave her lungs in one silent, devastating exhale.Photos. Her p
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Chapter: The SetupThe bar was the kind of place men like Carlos usually avoided—dimly lit, slightly shabby around the edges, but that was exactly why Carlos had chosen it. No one from his world would ever think to look for him here.He sat in a back corner booth with three men whose names didn't matter because they weren't the kind of people who existed in his real life. "Well, well," one of them said, a heavyset man with a scar running down his left cheek and hands that looked like they'd done significant damage over the years. "Look who finally remembers he's got friends that aren't CEOs and country club members. What's it been, Carlos? Six months? A year?" "I've been busy," Carlos said, his tone clipped and distracted as he scrolled through his phone with barely concealed disgust. "Getting married tends to consume a lot of time and energy." "Right, the wedding." A second man—with eyes that never stopped moving leaned forward with interest. "We saw the pictures in the society pages. Very fancy. Y
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Chapter: Lame AccusationsInés had made it exactly three steps down the hallway before Maria's voice stopped her."Well, well, well. Did you enjoy the show?"The words were delivered with such casual cruelty that Inés felt them like a physical blow. She stopped walking but didn't turn around, her hands clenched into fists at her sides, her entire body rigid with humiliation and rage."I'm talking to you, Inés." Maria's heels clicked against the marble floor as she approached, the sound sharp and deliberate. "It's rude to walk away when someone's speaking to you. Didn't your mother teach you better manners?"Inés turned slowly, forcing herself to meet Maria's eyes even though everything in her wanted to run. Maria stood there looking perfectly composed, not a hair out of place, her lipstick still immaculate despite what she'd just been doing."What do you want?" Inés managed to get the words out, though her voice was rougher than she intended."I want to know if you enjoyed what you saw." Maria tilted her head,
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Chapter: One WitnessShe needed answers, and Miguel was the only person who might have them.The executive floor was quiet at this hour—most of the staff had already left for the day, leaving just the dedicated workaholics and senior management who treated the office like a second home.As Inés approached his offiice, she noticed his door was slightly ajar, a sliver of light spilling out into the darkened corridor. She raised her hand to knock, her knuckles hovering inches from the wood. When she heard a sound that made her freeze mid-motion, her breath catching in her throat.A female gasp.Inés's hand dropped to her side. She should leave. Should turn around and walk away and pretend she'd never come here, but her feet wouldn't move.Another sound. Lower this time. Miguel's voice, rough and commanding in a tone that sent unwanted heat through Inés's body because she recognized it, knew exactly what it meant, had heard it directed at her in moments she'd been trying desperately to forget.Through the gap
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Sixty Days To Love My Enemy
What if you fell in love with one person you've sworn to destroy?
On her wedding night, Lara makes a vow not to love her husband, but to destroy him.
After her parents’ brutal assassination, she loses everything — their billion-dollar empire, their legacy, and her place in the world to London’s most feared billionaire, Amiir Blackwood. He forces her into marriage to claim her inheritance, and strips her of all power.
Now the former heiress serves coffee in her own father’s company while her husband rules from the top floor, untouchable.
When she refuses to spend the night as husband and wife, he gives her sixty days to submit—or lose everything she has left.
As she plots revenge, secrets surface that threaten to rewrite the past. The truth behind her parents’ deaths isn’t simple… and neither is the man she married.
In a world where power is currency and love is a weakness, she must choose: Will she become the weapon that destroys her husband…
Or the woman who changes the fate of an empire?
Baca
Chapter: ~ The Jellyfish Wife ~I'm frozen in the entryway, my heart hammering so hard I'm sure he can hear it. "I was just—""Just what?" He doesn't move from his position by the window, but his stillness is more terrifying than any movement could be. "Having drinks with a colleague? With Edward Martinez?"How does he know Edward's full name? How does he know anything about tonight?"He's just a friend," I manage to say, my voice barely above a whisper. "A colleague from work.""A friend." Amiir repeats the word like it's something distasteful. "Since when do I allow you to have friends, Lara? Did I give you permission to make friends? Did I say you could go out drinking with strange men?"I feel anger flare through my fear. "Since when did you care about anything I do? You're never here. You're always out doing whatever—whoever—you want. But God forbid I have one drink with a coworker after the longest week of my life."The words are out before I can stop them, months of resentment spilling over."And besides," I
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Chapter: ~ Past Curfew ~[Lara's POV]"Did you just..." I stare at Edward, my heart still pounding from what just happened. "Did you just talk back to Amiir Blackwood?"Edward's calmly wiping coffee stains off my dress with paper towels, completely unbothered by the fact that he just committed what most people in this building would consider career suicide. Did he just defend me? The words come out as a whisper because no one has ever done that. Not since my parents died. Not once in this entire nightmare. "Edward, you don't understand what you've done—" "I understand perfectly." He tosses the stained towels in the trash and looks at me with those warm brown eyes that seem incapable of fear. "What I don't understand is how a gorgeous, intelligent woman like yourself ended up married to a man like that. It doesn't make any sense." "Nothing in my life makes sense anymore."The words slip out before I can stop them, and I immediately regret the vulnerability. But Edward just smiles—not with pity, but with so
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Chapter: ~ The New Hire ~It's been unusually quiet in the house lately.No tantrums from Lara, even when I've deliberately provoked her. Even her cooking has become shockingly edible after that salt disaster three weeks ago. It's as if she's finally accepted her fate, resigned herself to this marriage.And I can't stop waiting for the moment she'll finally crawl into my bed.We don't have all the time in the world. Every day that passes without her carrying my child is another day closer to them questioning the marriage's validity.But I can't shake this feeling that something's wrong.Lara's been glowing lately, and I know damn well I haven't contributed to that development in any way. I've checked the CCTV footage from the penthouse obsessively. Nothing unusual. She goes to the office, comes home, eats dinner in silence, locks herself in her bedroom.So where is this new lightness coming from? This brightness in her eyes that wasn't there before?... "Sir? Are you listening?"Cordelia's voice cuts through
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Chapter: ~ Clean Up The Mess ~ "Amiir, my man, you shouldn't be doing this. Please listen to me. I was forced, man. You know I would never go against you."I watch Michael squirm under the grip of my men, his face already swelling on one side, blood trickling from his split lip. He looks pathetic. They always do when the consequences finally catch up with them. "You knew the consequences of going against me," I say, my voice flat and cold. "But you agreed to it anyway. That means you're a big man, Michael. So now you should be able to handle a big man's punishment. Shut the hell up and take this spanking like the fucking man you claim to be."I spit to the side as my tobacco stick burns dangerously low between my fingers. Klein's call ripped me away from Henry's warmth barely an hour ago, dragged me from the one place where I can pretend to be human for a few stolen moments. Now I'm standing in this freezing warehouse in East London, watching a man I trusted betray me.And I am going to fully unleash every ounc
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Chapter: ~ Cans of Worms ~Amiir's POVI ring the bell for the third time, my patience wearing dangerously thin. My heart hammers against my ribs—not from fear, but from need. I've driven two hours through late evening traffic to get here, to the only place in London where I can breathe without the weight of a thousand expectations crushing my chest.Just as I lean forward to ring again, the door swings open.Henry stands there, shirtless and beautiful in the golden lamplight spilling from inside. My breath catches despite myself. But he's blocking the doorway, arms crossed over his chest, that stern look on his face that I've come to know too well. "You should be at home with your wife, Blackwood." His voice is cool, controlled. "What are you doing all the way out here in the Brooks, outside your safe city?"A small smile tugs at my lips. "I missed you too, Henry."I know this game. He does this angry-hurt routine whenever too much time passes between visits, and every single time, it's adorable in a way tha
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Chapter: ~ His Pathetic Little Prisoner ~My hand trembled on the doorknob to Amiir's room. I'd been standing in the hallway for ten minutes, working up the courage, the kitchen knife heavy in my other hand.I turned the knob slowly, grateful when it moved without sound. I slipped inside, my bare feet silent on the plush carpet.The room was dark except for moonlight filtering through the curtains. I could make out the shape of him in the bed, a large form under the duvet, completely still. Sleeping peacefully.My heart hammered so hard I was sure it would wake him. I forced myself to breathe slowly, quietly, as I crept across the room toward the bed.This was insane. But what choice did I have? I was the crazy and delusional wife after all. So now he's going to see what real crazy looks like.I reached the bedside, raising the knife with both hands. The blade caught a sliver of moonlight.Do it. Just do it quickly. I brought the knife down hard.The duvet gave way too easily. No resistance. No sound except fabric tearing.I
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