Reborn as the True Billionaire
Dark RomanceFinanceGirl PowerHeir/HeirnessHidden IdentityMedical GeniusContract MarriageRebornRevenge
Morana Greene died loving the wrong man. She built Lancaster Pharmaceuticals beside Xavier, trusted him, defended him, loved him and gave him everything including her blood, her genius and five years of her life.
Then she found out the truth. The marriage was fake and the blood he’d been extracting was funding an empire built on illegal trials. When she stopped being useful, he told the doctor to continue anyway and watched the machines drain the last of her life while she lay on a hospital bed.
Reborn one month before her death, Morana remembers everything.
This time she won’t beg for love and she won’t forgive. Xavier thinks she still belongs to him. He has no idea she’s already planning his downfall.
And when the ruthless industry titan Tristan Rothschild offers her a cold contractual marriage to reclaim her stolen empire?
Morana doesn’t believe in coincidence anymore. But she’ll use every weapon she has including a billionaire who wants nothing to do with feelings to burn her enemies to the ground.
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Chapter: 116Morana’s POVThe text came through at 11pm from a number I didn’t recognize.“I need to see you. Alone. It’s about your mother.”I stared at it for a long moment sitting on the couch with my laptop still open to a board report I’d stopped reading twenty minutes ago. My thumb hovered over the delete option. This was exactly the kind of message that could be a trap, could be Iris fishing for something, could be nothing at all.I almost deleted it. Then I read it again. About your mother. Nobody outside my immediate circle knew Mira existed. We’d kept it contained deliberately, Felix and Theodore and the small legal team handling the facility paperwork. If Iris knew, it meant either she’d had access to something we didn’t know about or Xavier had told her before everything collapsed. Either way I needed to know which.I showed Tristan the phone. He read it once, jaw setting in that particular way and reached for his own phone before he’d even set mine back down.“I’ll have Reid pull a t
最終更新日: 2026-07-19
Chapter: 115Morana’s POVTristan looked at Gerald. Gerald looked at Tristan with the unbothered energy of an animal that had no concept of reputation management.“Put him down”“He seems comfortable.”“You’re comfortable” I said. “You’re standing in a chicken pen holding Gerald because you don’t want to admit you looked up how to do it and now you’re committed.”He set Gerald down with the same carefully. Gerald wandered away immediately with absolutely no acknowledgment of what had just happened.We spent the next hour and a half doing things I had never done in my life and would not have predicted doing at any point in the last decade. Tristan had apparently watched three videos about property maintenance before we arrived because he knew things about the barn that he definitely hadn’t known before this week and was presenting them as general knowledge.I found actual eggs in the nesting boxes which was somehow both obvious and completely shocking. I stood holding two eggs and stared at them li
最終更新日: 2026-07-18
Chapter: 114Morana’s POVI want it on record that I said no to the farm. Repeatedly with reasons. Documented reasons that I had laid out clearly over dinner three weeks ago when Tristan had looked at real estate listings in upstate New York with the energy he usually reserved for pharmaceutical acquisitions. I told him that I was a PhD with a company to run and had no opinions about soil. He bought it anyway.Not a huge farm. That was apparently his argument for why this was reasonable. Just land like a house. Some chickens that came with the property because the previous owners had left them and Tristan had called this a bonus feature like chickens were something a person wanted to inherit.We drove up on a Saturday because he said I needed air. I said Manhattan had air and he said not this kind. I said that was extremely pretentious and got in the car.The property was beautiful. I was not going to tell him that immediately but it was. Rolling land and old trees and a house that had been built
最終更新日: 2026-07-18
Chapter: 113Morana’s POVReid sent the notification at 8:23am and Tristan showed me his phone across the breakfast table without saying anything. Just turned the screen toward me and watched my face.-Xavier Lancaster taken into federal custody. Processing underway. Arraignment scheduled 11 AM.“I want to be there,” I said.“I know,” Tristan said.“Is that—”“Yes.” He was already standing.I had forty minutes. I went to the closet and stood in front of it for thirty seconds and then reached for the Valentino. The black one with sharp shoulders. That cut that meant business in a way that left no room for interpretation. Heels that added three inches and clicked against marble like punctuation.I did my makeup in twelve minutes. The version that said I had arrived somewhere intentionally and understood the weight of the moment. Dark liner with red lip. The diamond earrings from the Mortaine vault because my father built something that had survived everything including him. I was going to stand in a
最終更新日: 2026-07-17
Chapter: 112Xavier’s POVThe warrant came on a Wednesday morning. With two federal agents at the door of the Brooklyn apartment at 7 AM with the particular quiet efficiency of people who’d done this enough times to understand that restraint was more effective than force.Xavier had been awake already. He’d been awake since four because sleep had become something that happened to other people over the last three weeks. He was sitting at the small table with coffee he’d made himself and his phone face down in front of him and the whiteboard on the wall behind him still covered in a plan that had stopped being relevant approximately ten days ago.He heard the knock and understood immediately what it was. Because he’d been waiting for it. That was the thing nobody understood about Xavier Lancaster. He always knew when something was coming. He’d built his entire career on anticipating movements before they happened. He’d seen Morana’s return coming six months before she walked into that gala. He’d s
最終更新日: 2026-07-16
Chapter: 111Tristan’s POVIt was raining today in manhattan since morning and showed no intention of stopping. The kind that made the city sound different. Like everything outside had agreed to lower its voice for the day.Ive been working since seven. The calls were done and files were reviewed. Reid had gone home at four because I’d told him to and he’d looked surprised enough that I felt briefly self conscious about it. Morana was on the couch.She’s been there for two hours with her legs tucked under her and a book open in her lap that she’d been reading. She made tea an hour ago and forgotten to drink it. I could see the cup on the table going cold from where I sat.I wasn’t working anymore. I was watching the rain on the windows and occasionally watching her and not examining either of those activities too closely.“You’re not reading” I said.She looked up. “You’re not working.”“I finished.”“So did I.”“You’re on the same page you were forty minutes ago.”She looked at the book sheepishl
最終更新日: 2026-07-15
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