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R E Joice
R E Joice
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The Paralyzed Billionaire and his nurse: A love story

The Paralyzed Billionaire and his nurse: A love story

Nathaniel King once ruled the world from the clouds, powerful enough to topple industries with a whisper. But one tragic night stripped him of everything his mobility, his trust, and the future he believed was his. Betrayed by those closest to him, he locked himself inside a mansion that became his prison, determined to fade into the silence. Then Ava Bennett walked in. She arrived for the paycheck, not the man. A fighter masking her own exhaustion with stubborn resilience, she didn't just tolerate his fury she challenged it. She cared when he swore he was beyond saving. And slowly, she became the warmth he never thought he’d feel again. But love didn’t just heal the pieces of him he tried to bury it exposed the deadly truth behind the “accident” that shattered his life. Someone wants the King dead. Now, as enemies step from the shadows and lies unravel, Nathaniel must fight not only for his life but for the woman who taught him how to live it. And Ava must decide: run from the danger, or stand with the man who became her home. He lost his world. She became his salvation. Together, they will rise and the throne will never fall again.
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Chapter: Fire, brimstone and real estate
AVA​The central precinct of the Dubai police headquarters was a monument to clinical, high-tech law enforcement. Polished white granite floors reflected the bright, sterile overhead halogen grids, and the quiet, rhythmic hum of heavy industrial air conditioning did absolutely nothing to soften the thick, suffocating tension hanging in the air.​Justice sat beside me on a sleek leather bench in the primary administrative lobby, his long legs crossed, his posture entirely relaxed. He had changed into the black sweatshirt and sweatpants I brought him, and though the thick white bandage on his left forearm was a visible reminder of his struggle, his expression was completely unreadable. He looked like an apex predator resting between hunts, not a traumatized teenager who had just been rescued from an underground bunker.​In a private, high-security holding room down the hall, guarded by four of my personal operators, Blake and Brooke were sleeping safely in their travel crates. I had a f
Last Updated: 2026-06-24
Chapter: Reconstruction of Dignity
AVA​The sirens of the Dubai tactical police units were entirely silent, their flashing blue and red lights painting the cracked concrete of the abandoned construction site in erratic, bleeding hues. I stood beside the lead captain, my leather coat buttoned tight over the twin baby carriers against my chest. Blake and Brooke were completely safe, insulated inside the armored chassis of the Maybach behind our perimeter line, guarded by three of my elite personal operators.​I had located the subterranean access hatch using the localized Foxdragon telemetry map within ten minutes of landing. But I wasn't an amateur. I didn't burst through the door like a reckless vigilante. I called in the local authorities, handing them an untraceable, encrypted data packet detailing a high-profile kidnapping of an international student.​"Breaching now," the tactical captain signaled, nodding to his men.​The heavy iron door of the bunker was hit with a pneumatic ram, buckling inward with a deafening,
Last Updated: 2026-06-24
Chapter: A sloppy signal
AVA​The private jet sliced through the midnight sky over the Persian Gulf like a needle through silk. My fingers were white as they gripped the handles of the twin carriers. Blake and Brooke were finally asleep, their small, rhythmic breathing a strange, jarring contrast to the absolute vortex of terror inside my head.​Twelve hours. Twelve hours since the grid went dark.​I stood in the cabin, staring out the window at the glittering, neon sprawl of Dubai. It looked like the same city I had built my empire in, but to me, it now looked like a jagged, unlit tomb. Every light was a potential hiding place for the people who had taken my brother.​The moment the wheels hit the tarmac, the transformation was instantaneous. The soft, protective mother vanished, and Foxdragon emerged—cold, lethal, and entirely focused on blood.​"The security convoy is waiting," Justice’s former combat instructor whispered, meeting me at the base of the air-stairs. "The Vanguard has been scrambled. We have
Last Updated: 2026-06-24
Chapter: The blind horizon
AVA​The morning light broke over the Philadelphia hills like a pale, bloodless blade, but it brought absolutely no warmth to the stone walls of the estate.​I sat at the central terminal in my study, my eyes burning from a complete lack of sleep. My fingers hovered over the mechanical keyboard, waiting for the familiar, rhythmic chime of an incoming satellite transmission.​Nothing.​Twenty-four hours had passed since Justice’s cryptic text message from the dark Dubai alleyway. Tell Ava the blade is officially tempered. That was the last footprint he left on the global grid. He was supposed to have boarded his private return transport twelve hours ago. He hadn't checked in at the international terminal. He hadn't accessed his remote academic servers. He had simply vanished into the dry, desert air.​"He’s just running late," I whispered to the empty room, my voice sounding hollow, desperate, and entirely unconvincing to my own ears. "He’s finalizing the calendar."​But by the time th
Last Updated: 2026-06-24
Chapter: Cornered by thugs
JUSTICE​A month in the fortified safety of the Pennsylvania estate had felt like a beautiful, artificial dream. But reality had a brutal way of dragging you back to earth.​The air in Dubai was exactly as I remembered it—thick, heavy with heat, and smelling faintly of sea salt and jet fuel. I stood in the central administrative courtyard of the international academy, a thick stack of custom academic exemption forms gripped tightly in my hand. My peers were rushing past me toward the laboratories, laughing and stressing over upcoming midterms, completely unaware that I was living an entirely different life on the other side of the Atlantic.​It had taken me three days of relentless meetings with the dean of admissions to finalize a highly complex, remote academic calendar. Because I wouldn't be physically present in the UAE anymore, my curriculum had been restructured into a rigorous, independent online track. I had spent the morning coordinating with my decathlon team captain, organi
Last Updated: 2026-06-24
Chapter: 5-months sanctuary
AVA​From the high-arched glass windows of my third-story study, the world looked deceptively peaceful. Below, the manicured lawns of our new Philadelphia estate stretched out toward a private, heavily wooded park line.​Through the glass, I watched a sight that brought a rare, genuine warmth to my eyes.​Justice was jogging across the grass, pushing our custom-engineered, double-armored stroller with effortless grace. Blake was awake, his tiny hands waving wildly in the air as he babbled at a passing butterfly, while Brooke was soundly asleep, her head resting against the plush lining. Justice stopped near a cluster of oak trees, kneeling down to adjust Blake’s sun hat with a tenderness that completely defied the lethal training he carried in his muscle memory.​I smiled, letting out a breath I felt like I’d been holding for years. I trusted my brother implicitly. In Dubai, when the world was collapsing around us, he had become my anchor. Now, on American soil, that trust was absolut
Last Updated: 2026-06-24
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