ONE NIGHT STAND WITH MY STEPBROTHER
It was supposed to be one reckless night to be forgotten by morning.
For Yubi, it was an escape from a broken home, a mother who never loved her, and a past haunted by guilt and loss. She gave her innocence to a stranger in a club, walked away before dawn, and told herself it meant nothing.
Four weeks later, her world collapses.
A positive pregnancy test.
A new marriage.
And the man she can’t forget introduced to her as her Stepbrother.
Trey De Luca is everything Yubi should stay away from, arrogant, dangerous, and heir to a powerful empire built on money and secrets. He doesn’t believe in love, doesn’t want children, and doesn’t remember the girl he once held like she was everything.
Until the truth explodes between them.
Pregnant with her stepbrother’s child, Yubi is forced into impossible choices, between survival and desire, shame and longing, silence and scandal. When a violent accident leaves Trey fighting for his future, lines blur even further, and secrets buried inside the De Luca family begin to surface.
Power, betrayal, obsession, and love collide in a world where nothing is clean not family, not loyalty, not desire.
قراءة
Chapter: Chapter Forty ThreeYubi.I don’t even wait for the dust from Trey’s tires to settle before the feeling hits me, something is definitely wrong. Not the usual wrong, the tense silence wrong, the unspoken feelings wrong, the we are dancing around each other wrong. This is deeper. He didn’t look angry when he drove off. He looked hunted. Like someone had just lit a fuse inside him and he was racing against it burning down.I stand there in the driveway for two seconds too long, Chanel shifting against my chest, my heart pounding so hard it makes my ears ring.He lied, I know he did.And whatever he is running toward is dangerous.I turn on my heel and rush back into the house.The living room is quiet, almost eerily so. Michael isn’t here. That realization lands heavy, confirming the dread curling tighter in my stomach. Kiari is in the kitchen, pacing slowly with her phone in her hand, worry etched across her face in a way I’ve never seen before.“Kiari,” I say breathlessly.She looks up, startled. “Yubi?
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Chapter: Chapter Forty TwoTrey.The call comes when I’m least expecting it, I am in the den, staring at absolutely nothing, my mind looping uselessly over everything that’s gone wrong in the past twenty four hours Yubi’s face at the hospital, the way her voice cracked even when she tried to sound calm, the detective’s words echoing in my head like a bad song I can’t turn off.My phone buzzes on the coffee table, it's an Unknown number.I almost ignore it but Something tells me not to.“Hello?” I answer, already standing without realizing it.“Trey,” a familiar voice says, clipped, professional, uneasy. “This is Andrew. Your family’s financial advisor.”My stomach tightens instantly.“Is everything okay?” I ask, even though every nerve in my body is already screaming that it isn’t.There is a pause on the other end. Papers shuffling. The kind of pause that comes before bad news.“I am calling to verify a transaction,” Andrew says carefully. “A very large withdrawal was made today from one of your father’s accou
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Chapter: Chapter Forty OneMichael. I don’t tell anyone, not Trey, not Kiari, not even Yubi, especially not Yubi.I sit alone in my study long after the house has gone quiet, the echo of Abel’s voice still ringing in my ears, the image burned behind my eyelids no matter how many times I blink. Ten seconds. That’s all he gave me. Ten seconds of Naomi tied to a chair, her hair matted, her face thinner than I remember, her eyes God her eyes still fighting even through the grainy video.I close my laptop slowly, deliberately, as if that might lock the image inside it instead of my head.If I tell them, I will give them hope.And hope is dangerous.Hope makes people careless. Hope makes people talk. Hope makes people call the police when they shouldn’t. And if Abel is bluffing if that video was old, if Naomi is already, I can’t even finish that thought then I will not drag the children through that kind of whiplash.And if she is alive, if she is still breathing somewhere, waiting for me to do the right thing then
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Chapter: Chapter FortyMichaelThe house feels wrong after the police leave, it's too quiet despite the baby sounds coming from Chanel. Even with people still inside it, the walls feel hollow, like they are holding onto their breath, waiting for something worse to happen.I stand in the living room long after the last patrol car disappears down the street. Kiari retreats upstairs. Trey follows Yubi outside, and for once, I don’t stop him. I don’t have the energy to manage emotions right now, not theirs, not mine.Because the moment the front door closes, something inside me hardens.I have played by the rules long enough, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands to get results.I walk into my study and shut the door behind me, locking it out of habit even though I know no one is going to interrupt me. I sit behind my desk, staring at the phone in my hand like it’s a loaded weapon.Abel.A name I thought I would never hear, a ghost from Naomi’s past that should have stayed dead.The police hav
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty NineYubi.The moment the words leave my mouth, Did you find my mom? the room seems to freeze around me. No one breathes. No one moves. It’s like the entire house is holding its breath, waiting for the detectives to either save me or destroy me.The female detective exchanges a look with her partner. Not a good look. Not a hopeful look.Something cold enough to numb bone spreads slowly through my chest.“Ms. Yubi,” the female detective begins gently, “we are going to walk you through everything we discovered. And we understand this is going to be difficult to hear.”My lungs burn but I nod once.Or maybe I don’t. I can’t even tell if my body is responding or if I’m just imagining it.The male detective adjusts the folder in front of him. “Earlier today, we tracked Abel’s movements to an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of the city.”My hands curl so tightly around the edge of the couch my nails dig into the fabric. My heartbeat floods my ears loud, sharp, fast like my body already know
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty EightTreyThe moment I step through the front doors, I can feel the energy in the house before I even see anyone. It’s heavy, thick like the air itself knows something is wrong. Kiari is the first person I spot. She is pacing near the staircase, wringing her hands together, her face pale. The second her eyes land on me, she rushes forward.“Trey!” she cries, throwing her arms around me. The hug is so tight it nearly knocks the wind out of me. “Oh my God, I am so glad you are here.”I stiffen a little, not because of her, but because everything in me is pulled like a magnet in another direction. I hug her back briefly, then ease her off me.“What’s going on?” I ask, my voice steady even though my heart is hammering. “Kiari what happened?”“I’m not sure,” she stammers, shaking her head. “The detectives are, they are talking to your dad right now. They said they want to meet all of us in the living room.”Detectives. Plural.My chest tightens. My mind goes straight to one place, Yubi.I nod
آخر تحديث: 2026-02-19
BILLIONAIRE'S PREGNANT MISTRESS
When Naila wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of her past, she is told two shocking truths, she is five months pregnant and she is engaged to billionaire hotel heir Toby Anetakis.
Toby claims to be her fiance, but yet he keeps her at arm’s length, his golden eyes filled with suspicion and restraint. He says she betrayed him, stole from him and lied to him.
But Naila remembers none of it.
As he takes her to his private island in Greece for recovery, buried emotions begin to surface with familiar touches, stolen kisses, and a dangerous chemistry her body remembers even if her mind does not.
Yet the deeper truth is far more terrifying.
Because Naila’s abduction was no accident.
Now trapped between forgotten love, hidden enemies, and a baby that binds them forever, Naila must uncover the truth before her past returns to claim her.
But when her memories finally return, will Toby still choose her?
Or will the truth break them beyond repair?
قراءة
Chapter: Chapter TwentyTobyThe engines of my Gulfstream G700 hummed steadily as the aircraft taxied toward the runway and I stood at the bottom of the staircase, one hand resting on the polished railing while my security team loaded the last of our luggage.Stavros approached quietly."The perimeter has been cleared sir, we are ready for take off""No suspicious activity?" I asked looking around, He shook his head. "Nothing sir."That should have reassured me but it didn't.Whoever had left that photograph on my doorstep hadn't made a single mistake. They were disciplined and patient. People like that didn't simply disappear."They are ready, sir."I looked toward the black SUV that had just pulled onto the tarmac, the rear door opened first and Maria climbed out before turning to help Naila.She accepted the offered hand carefully, one palm instinctively cradling her stomach as she stepped onto the pavement.The morning breeze lifted strands of her dark curls around her face and for a moment, she simply s
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Chapter: Chapter NineteenNailaThe room became unnaturally quiet, I looked down at the sketchbook resting in my hands, then back up at Toby.His face had gone completely still, he didn't seem mad, he seemed calm, too calm given everything we had just found out. "What is it?" I asked again.My fingers instinctively tightened around the sketchbook."You know this drawing, don't you."He didn't answer immediately.Instead, he walked toward me and slowly sat beside me on the edge of the bed."May I see it?"His voice was calm, almost too calm and I handed him the sketchbook. He turned back to the page I had stopped on that was titled Project Iris.His thumb brushed over the handwritten title."You drew this," he said quietly "I remember seeing you work on it.""I don't remember." A wave of frustration washed over me "I don't remember drawing any of these."I looked at the pages in disbelief. "They are actually really good." A faint smile touched his lips."They are more than good. You were one of the most talen
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Chapter: Chapter EighteenTobyI stood in front of the floor to ceiling windows of my office long after everyone had gone to bed.The lights of Manhattan glittered below, but my attention remained fixed on the security monitor mounted on the wall.One screen showed the lobby, the second one showed the private elevator and the third showed the hallway outside Naila's bedroom.She was asleep or at least pretending to be sleeping, but I knew she wasn't. Every few minutes she shifted beneath the blankets, her restless movements a reminder that sleep offered her little peace, I could tell she was still being haunted by everything that had happened to her. A knock interrupted my thoughts."Come in."Stavros entered first, followed by the head of my security team in Greece, Nikos, who had joined the meeting via video call."Everything is ready on the island, sir," Nikos reported. "The main villa has been swept twice, all the staff have been vetted again, and we have restricted access to the harbor.""Good.""I have
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Chapter: Chapter SeventeenNaila"No!"The scream tore from my throat before I even realized I was awake. I sat upright in bed, my chest heaving as panic clawed through me.For one terrifying second, I didn't know where I was, the room was unfamiliar, silk curtains, cream colored walls, the expensive furniture. Then the bedroom door flew open."Naila."Toby crossed the room in seconds, dropping to his knees beside the bed."My love."His hands hovered uncertainly over my shoulders."Can you hear me?"I couldn't answer, my entire body was shaking, there had been a little girl, i knew there had been, she had been crying.I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to hold onto the memory before it disappeared."Please" I whispered "Don't make me forget again."Toby's expression changed immediately."What did you remember Naila?""There was "I swallowed against the lump in my throat "A child."His brows drew together in confusions, "A child?"I nodded frantically "A little girl. She couldn't have been older than six. I think"
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Chapter: Chapter SixteenTobyThe apartment fell silent and no one moved or spoke for a few seconds. The words "We have found a witness" seemed to echo through every room.The detective standing in my foyer removed his cap before stepping inside."Mr. Anetakis." His gaze swept over everyone gathered in the living room before settling briefly on Naila."I'm Detective Marcus Hale."Naila offered him a hesitant smile."Have we met before?"Something flickered across his face."Only briefly, you were unconscious."She nodded, looking almost relieved that she hadn't forgotten another important person."I understand this isn't the best time," he continued, addressing me, "but this couldn't wait."I gestured toward my office."We will talk in private.""No." Naila's voice stopped both of us as she slowly rose from the sofa."I want to hear whatever he has to say.""Naila" I crossed the room instinctively "You have had enough excitement for one day.""I'm tired of everyone deciding what I can and cannot handle Toby.
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Chapter: Chapter FifteenNailaThe room began to spin, I did not hear him right. I looked from the younger man to Toby, searching desperately for someone to tell me I had misunderstood what he had just said but no one did. "What did you just say?"My voice sounded distant, almost as if someone else had spoken.The younger man Piers didn't look the least bit apologetic by what he had just said to me."I said that's enough." Toby's voice cracked through the room like a whip but Piers didn't even flinch."No." He folded his arms across his chest. "I'm done pretending this never happened and it needs to be addressed before it happens again. Naila deserves to know who everyone believes she is and we deserve to know what happened, who she was working for, for all we know she might still be working with them""I said stop it!" Toby's voice thundered through the room once more. I turned slowly toward Toby, "Is it true?" He didn't answer immediately but his silence was answer enough.My pulse began pounding inside my
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