Reborn: Married to Your Greatest Enemy
“If I touch you tonight, don't mistake it for anything else, it’s because I’m a hot-blooded man taking exactly what he wants. I will burn you so hard I'll ruin you for any other man.” His deep, gravelly voice dropped into a rough growl that sent a shiver straight down my spine.
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Raya Sinclair wakes up in her old bedroom, gasping for air and clutching a throat that should be full of blood.
Just moments ago, she was trapped in a mangled car, listening to her sister and her fiancé plan her murder over speakerphone while her adoptive mother used her dying hands to ink a fingerprint onto a fraud confession. She gave all her life to the Sinclair dynasty, only to be butchered like an outsider.
Except… death didn't take. Raya has just been reborn fourteen months into the past.
They think she is still the naive, blind shield they can use to protect their dirty corporate secrets. They have no idea she remembers every single detail of her murder or that she is about to strip them of everything they love.
But to watch the Sinclairs burn, Raya needs a monster on her side.
Xavier Locke.
He is the city's most ruthless, untouchable billionaire, a dangerous predator with a jawline that could kill, and the only man her family genuinely fears.
With revenge in mind, Raya goes to the dominant CEO.
Raya thinks she can handle a temporary arrangement to bleed her family dry.
Except Xavier isn't playing savior. He’s the devil himself, he’s completely obsessed, and he's determined to make her his in every single way.
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Chapter: Chapter 26: RemovalRAYAThe stylus felt surprisingly heavy in my hand as I pressed it against the cold glass screen.My signature bloomed in clean, dark ink across the bottom line of the proxy transfer. With one final tap, my mother's voting power, my father's legacy, and Victor's stolen authority officially shifted into Xavier's hands.The screen flashed green once, confirming the transaction, before fading back into dark glass.It was done.Xavier didn't pull back immediately. His hand remained resting against the small of my back, broad and heavy, his chest barely an inch from mine as his eyes stayed locked onto the screen. I could feel the steady thud of his heart against my shoulder, the faint heat radiating off him cutting through the cool night air in the kitchen."That's it," I whispered. "He can't touch the board tomorrow.""He can't even enter the building," Xavier corrected softly, his voice a low rumble right beside my ear.He straightened up slowly, his hand sliding away from my back, thoug
Última atualização: 2026-08-27
Chapter: Chapter 25: Right Here, Mrs. LockeRAYADinner was served in the small breakfast alcove off the main kitchen, a quiet, low-lit space with a curved bay window looking out over the rain-slicked courtyard.The estate staff had slipped in and out while we were in the projection room, leaving a spread of roasted chicken, seared vegetables, and a bottle of dark red wine on the table before disappearing back into the service wing.Xavier pulled out my chair without a word, his hand brushing briefly against the back of my shoulder as I sat down. The touch was quick, almost accidental, but the heat of it lingered long after he walked around to sit opposite me.He poured two glasses of wine, setting one down beside my plate."So that movie," I said, picking up my fork. "You told me it was a classic. It had a man talking to a volleyball for forty minutes.""It's considered a classic.""By whom?""People with better taste than you, apparently.""I have excellent taste. I picked you, didn't I." I said it lightly, mostly to see what
Última atualização: 2026-08-26
Chapter: 24RAYAThe rain started back up just after four, a steady, gray drizzle tapping against the high study windows and washing out what was left of the afternoon light.The estate was completely still. No security radios crackling in the hallway, no phones buzzing on the dark mahogany desk. Just the low, steady hum of the central heating and the occasional rustle of paper whenever Xavier turned a page across the room.I was curled up on the corner of the leather sofa with a heavy hardcover I’d pulled off his shelves, holding a cup of tea that had long since gone cold. After the morning we’d shared—the rubbery eggs, the burnt toast, the rain-soaked walk around the overgrown maze in the back—the air in the house felt entirely different.The sharp, defensive tension that usually sat between us had dulled into something heavy, quiet, and grounded."You're not reading," Xavier said softly.He didn't look up from the document he was annotating, his pen moving in smooth, practiced strokes a
Última atualização: 2026-08-25
Chapter: Chapter 23: A Normal MorningRAYAXavier didn't have a proper kitchen staff at the estate the way he did at the penthouse, which meant we ended up in the actual kitchen, standing on opposite sides of an island counter like two people who had never once cooked anything in their lives."I can make eggs," I said, eyeing the pan he'd set out. "I'm not promising they'll be good eggs.""Lower the bar further. I can make toast." He said it completely straight-faced, which somehow made it funnier. "That's the extent of it.""A billionaire who can't cook. Groundbreaking.""I've had people for that.""Not today, apparently."He almost smiled at that, cracking an egg into the pan with more confidence than the situation probably warranted. It hit the surface wrong and half of it ran straight for the burner.I laughed before I could stop myself."Don't," he said, not looking up."I didn't say anything.""You were about to.""I was absolutely about to."He scraped the mess into the trash with the same flat focus he gave contra
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Chapter: Chapter 22: What's Left of HimRAYAI woke up on the study sofa a little after nine, a blanket over me that I didn't remember pulling up myself, and the smell of coffee somewhere close.Xavier was at the desk, already showered, already dressed, scrolling through something on his laptop with the particular stillness he got when he was reading news coverage instead of a spreadsheet."Morning," I said, my voice rough with sleep.He glanced up. "There's coffee. You'll want to see this before you drink it."He turned the laptop around.The headline took up half the screen. SINCLAIR EMPIRE IN RUINS: THREE PROPERTIES DESTROYED IN OVERNIGHT BLAZE. Underneath it, aerial photos of the warehouse, smoke still curling off the wreckage in the gray morning light, and a smaller photo beside it of Victor, caught by some photographer at dawn, standing in front of the vault with his tie loosened and his face doing something I'd genuinely never seen it do before.He looked old. He looked like a man who understood, for the first time,
Última atualização: 2026-08-23
Chapter: Chapter 21: Fire for FireRAYAThe SUV didn't slow down turning onto the driveway. Rain hit the windows hard, tires spraying gravel as we came through the gates.Two security cars were already parked across the courtyard, lights flashing red and blue against the stone.My heart was pounding. "Xavier—""Stay in the car.""Like hell I am," I said, grabbing his arm.He looked back at me, and whatever he saw on my face made him stop arguing. He took my hand instead and pulled me out into the rain with him.Vance met us halfway to the door, soaked through."Someone got onto the grounds," he said. "We caught it on camera, chased them off before they reached the house. But they left something on the porch."A single sheet of paper sat weighted down by a stone. No box, no theater. Xavier picked it up, read it, and handed it to me without a word.You took everything today. Enjoy it while it lasts.No signature. It didn't need one."Victor," I said."He's got nothing left to protect," Xavier said. "That's when men like
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