My Ex Called Me Fat, Now His Father-in-Law Wants Me
Five years ago, I gave up everything for the man I loved.
My family. My fortune. My identity.
I worked three jobs and skipped meals to support Beckett Rhodes while he chased his dream of becoming a professional hockey player.
Then I caught him in bed with another woman.
He humiliated me in front of everyone, calling me poor, useless, and too fat to ever be the woman of a famous athlete.
So when his new lover challenged me to kiss the next man who walked through the door, I did.
I kissed her father.
Nikolai Valmont.
The richest and most feared Alpha in New York.
I thought it would be the perfect revenge.
I was wrong.
The next morning, Nikolai came to collect the promise I made that night. Instead of punishing me, he took me to his mansion and made me tutor his troubled nine-year-old son for three months.
I agreed for one reason.
Nikolai owns the hockey team that made Beckett famous.
My plan was simple: make the billionaire Alpha fall for me, use his power to destroy Beckett's career, then walk away.
But living under Nikolai's roof changes everything.
His possessive wolf wants me.
His spoiled daughter hates me.
My ex suddenly wants me back.
My cruel arranged fiancé has come to claim me.
Then my biggest secret is exposed.
I am not the poor girl Beckett threw away.
I am Odette Sinclair, the lost heiress of the most powerful billionaire pack in the country.
Now everyone wants something from me.
My ex wants my fortune. My fiancé wants my family's empire. My enemies want me dead.
And Nikolai?
He doesn't want my money.
He wants me.
I wanted revenge.
I never expected to fall for the one man powerful enough to destroy everyone for me.
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Chapter: Two FrontsChapter 86: Two FrontsPOV: OdetteI heard the car before I heard the knock, tires loud on wet gravel, headlights sweeping bright across my bedroom ceiling through the gap in the curtains.I knew the sound of that engine. I'd know it anywhere now."No," I said out loud to the empty room, already moving for the door, bare feet cold against the hardwood. "No, no, no."By the time I made it to the top of the stairs, the front door was already open, rain and cold air gusting across the marble. Nikolai stood framed in the doorway, rain-damp, his jacket crooked on one shoulder like he hadn't bothered straightening it since he'd left the car. Water dripped from his hair down the side of his jaw, and he didn't wipe it away.My father stood a few feet behind him in the foyer, and whatever I expected from his face, it wasn't the particular stillness he wore now. Something caught between fury and calculation. His hands hung loose at his sides in a way that somehow looked more dangerous than fist
Last Updated: 2026-10-03
Chapter: No Protocol Left to FollowChapter 85: No Protocol Left to FollowPOV: NikolaiA council contact called mid-morning, ostensibly about a shipping dispute, and dropped it near the end almost casually, the way men in my position drop things specifically to watch other man's reaction while they say it. I could hear him smiling through the phone."Quite the merger the Sinclairs are putting together. Thorne territory and Sinclair holdings, combined. Should settle a lot of nerves on the council.""When was this announced?""This morning. You hadn't heard?"I ended the call badly. I don't remember what I said, only that it was short, that the word I used wasn't one I'd normally use with a council contact, and that my hand was shaking slightly by the time I set the phone down on the desk.I pulled up the announcement myself. My own reflection hung faint in the dark screen before the page loaded, and I didn't like the look of it, my jaw already tight.The photograph loaded. Odette beside Julian Thorne, her face arranged
Last Updated: 2026-10-03
Chapter: The Date's Already SetChapter 84: The Date's Already SetPOV: OdetteI printed everything that night, standing over the machine in my father's own office while it churned out page after page, the whir of it the only sound in the house. Every sealed settlement, the cached forum post, the dropped police report Maya had somehow pulled before dawn. The paper tray was still warm when I finally gathered it all into a stack.I brought it down the next morning while he was still at breakfast, before he could vanish into meetings for the day. The dining room smelled of toast and coffee, ordinary, like nothing was wrong at all.He didn't look up when I set the folder beside his plate."I need you to read this.""I'm eating.""This can't wait." I pulled out a chair and sat across from him, uninvited, something I'd never done at this table in eighteen years, and watched a flicker of actual surprise cross his face before he set his coffee down, the cup rattling faintly against the saucer."Fine. What.""Evidence. About
Last Updated: 2026-10-02
Chapter: A PatternChapter 83: A PatternPOV: OdetteI started researching on Julian the same night, laptop balanced on my knees, the ring still sitting untouched downstairs wherever my mother had stored it until I "came around."His public face was spotless. Clean photos, a seat on two charity boards, some business magazine praising how he'd grown the family's shipping arm. Nothing in any of it hinted at the man who had gripped my wrist hard enough to bruise before I disappeared five years ago.I kept digging anyway.It took almost an hour to find the first thread, buried four pages into a search, a short item about a settlement paid out eight years back by a firm representing the Thornes. Details sealed. Plaintiff unnamed. Twenty minutes after that I found a second one. Different woman. Different year. Same quiet, expensive silence bought before the story could finish forming.I texted Maya a little after eleven....Need your help with something. Can you call?...She called back in under a minute. "Wh
Last Updated: 2026-10-02
Chapter: A Leash Dressed Up as an HeirloomChapter 82: A Leash Dressed Up as an HeirloomPOV: OdetteMy phone buzzed the third time before I even bothered looking at it.Congrats girl!! Didn't know u were now engaged?I stared at the words until the screen went dark on its own. Rain slid crooked down the window, and outside the city blurred into smears of gold and red. I typed what are you talking about and hit send before I'd even finished the thought.A link came back as the reply.Sinclair Heiress to Wed Thorne Heir.My stomach dropped, the way it does off the top of a rollercoaster, except nothing waited at the bottom to make it worth it. The photo was from the draft party, months old, cropped so I looked softer than I remembered feeling that night, my hand tucked somewhere it had never actually been.More texts piled in fast, people I hadn't spoken to since orientation, suddenly very invested in my love life. I flipped the phone face-down against my knee. It kept lighting up anyway, a pale glow leaking through the case wi
Last Updated: 2026-10-01
Chapter: Another LieChapter 81: Another LiePOV: ClaraI practiced the crying in the car mirror three blocks away.Not fake tears, exactly. I just let myself feel the sting of the last hour again, the mute button clicking, Beckett's face going careful and distant, and by the time the gates came into view my eyes were actually wet. That part was easy. The same way I did, when I lied that Odette hit me. The hard part was walking through the front doors slow enough that my mascara had time to run.I didn't knock on the study door. I just pushed it open and stood there, letting my dad see me."Clara." He set his pen down so fast it rolled off the desk and clattered onto the floor somewhere he didn't bother chasing. "What happened?""Beckett left me." My voice came out cracked, thin, exactly the way it always did when I actually meant something, which was the whole trick of it, using the real thing to sell the fake one. "This morning. Out of nowhere. He just showed up and ended it.""I'm sorry."He crossed th
Last Updated: 2026-10-01
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