Divorced at Midnight, Desired by Dawn
Five years of a loveless marriage. One divorce that changes everything.
To the world, Chloe and Marcus Vance are the perfect billionaire power couple. Behind closed doors, they are strangers bound by a cold contract and a mountain of resentment. Marcus has always believed Chloe trapped him into marriage after a drunken mistake, and Chloe has never bothered to correct him.
Everything shatters when Vanessa—Marcus's first love—returns claiming she's pregnant with his child. Determined to build a family with the woman he truly loves, Marcus thrusts divorce papers into Chloe's hands.
But Chloe refuses to leave quietly.
As the brilliant corporate strategist behind Marcus's empire, she uncovers a devastating conspiracy: Vanessa's pregnancy is a lie, and her return is part of a ruthless plot to destroy Vance Enterprises from within.
Forcing a 90-day delay before the divorce, Chloe brings the mistress into their penthouse, turning their home into a battlefield of secrets, manipulation, and revenge. As enemies close in and betrayals surface, Marcus begins to see the woman he ignored for five years—and realizes he may have made the biggest mistake of his life.
When the truth finally comes out, will they destroy each other... or become the most dangerous power couple alive?
A gripping billionaire romance filled with betrayal, revenge, obsession, and a love worth fighting for.
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Chapter: Chapter 39 The VoteThe formal notice arrived at 9:03 a.m. in a sealed envelope delivered by a junior associate who would not meet Chloe’s eyes.She opened it at the kitchen island while Marcus stood on the other side of the room, phone pressed to his ear, listening to someone from legal. The language was clean, bloodless, and final.Per Board Resolution 47-B, all residual system access, advisory credentials, building clearances, and internal communications privileges previously held by Chloe Vance are hereby suspended pending the conclusion of the ongoing security investigation and market stabilization review. Review scheduled in thirty days. Effective immediately.Thirty days.Chloe read it twice. The paper did not change.Marcus ended his call. The silence that followed was louder than any argument they had thrown at each other the night before.“You knew this was coming,” she said.“I knew they would formalize it.” His voice was carefully level. “I did not know they would push it through this quickly
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Chapter: Chapter :38 MidnightThe penthouse was dark except for the city light spilling through the windows.Chloe sat on the edge of the low sofa, elbows on her knees, staring at the black screen of the restricted phone. It was past midnight. Marcus had been in the study for hours, the low murmur of calls bleeding under the door until even that had gone quiet. She had not slept. Every time she closed her eyes she saw the roof, Charlie’s easy smile, and the way Marcus had stepped between them like a man claiming territory he no longer trusted.The study door opened.Marcus walked out in shirtsleeves, the top two buttons undone, hair pushed back as if he had been running his hands through it for hours. He stopped when he saw her still awake.“You should be in bed.”“So should you.”He moved to the sideboard and poured two fingers of whiskey he did not drink. The silence stretched, thick with everything they had not said since the roof.“Charlie Higgins,” Marcus said finally, voice low. “How long has he been contact
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Chapter: Chapter 37 The ApproachChloe did not expect the message to arrive on the restricted phone.It came through as a blank text from an unknown number at 2:17 p.m., while Marcus was on a secure call in the study and the penthouse had settled into its usual tense quiet. She almost deleted it. Then the second message followed.Roof garden. Twenty minutes. Come alone. I have something on Arthur that you need.No name. No signature. But the phrasing carried an old familiarity she had not heard in years.Charlie Higgins.She stared at the screen until the words blurred. Charlie had been Marcus’s college roommate, then an early investor, then a man who drifted to the edges of their world when the money got serious. He smiled too easily. He remembered every favor and every slight. The last time she had seen him was at a charity gala eighteen months ago, watching Vanessa with an expression Chloe had never been able to read.This could be a trap. It almost certainly was.She looked toward the closed study door. Marcus’s
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Chapter: Chapter 36 :Old RecordsThe penthouse remained silent long after the muted television went dark.Chloe stood at the window until the clinic footage stopped looping on every channel. Then she turned away from the glass and the city that had already accepted the new story. Marcus would return eventually. Security would rotate. The world would keep spinning on the version of events Vanessa had just cemented on the clinic steps.She had no intention of waiting quietly for any of it.The second bedroom had a small desk and a laptop the staff had provided—clean, restricted, supposedly safe. Chloe sat down, rolled the sleeves of the oversized shirt higher, and bypassed the guest login with an old administrative credential she had never surrendered. It should have been dead after the board resolution. It was not. Someone in IT had been careless, or loyal, or both.The Vance International internal archive opened like a door that had only been pretending to lock.She started with ownership filings. Incorporation docum
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Chapter: Chapter 35: Medical UpdatesThe call came at 7:14 a.m.Marcus stood in the penthouse kitchen with a cup of untouched coffee, watching the city shake itself awake through the rain-streaked glass. Chloe had not come out of the second bedroom. The door remained closed, the silence behind it deliberate. He had spent most of the night in the chair opposite that door, listening for any sound that might mean she needed something—or that someone had tried to reach her again.His phone vibrated against the counter. Vanessa’s name lit the screen.He almost let it go to voicemail. Almost.“Marcus.” Her voice was soft, carefully fragile. “I didn’t want to bother you so early, but the doctor just called. There’s an update.”He closed his eyes. “What kind of update.”“They want me to come in for additional monitoring. The stress from the hospital incident… they said it might have affected things. They’re concerned about elevated levels. I—I didn’t know who else to call.” A small, shaky breath. “I know things are complicated r
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Chapter: Chapter 34 The PenthouseThe penthouse was too quiet.Chloe stood in the center of the living room with her arms crossed, still wearing the soft gray lounge clothes the hospital had provided. The private elevator had delivered her twenty minutes earlier under heavy security. No press. No cameras. Just the soft hiss of the doors and the knowledge that every exit was now controlled by the man standing across from her.Marcus had taken off his jacket and tie. The top button of his shirt was open, sleeves rolled to the elbows. He looked like he had fought a war in a boardroom and refused to admit he was bleeding.“Sit down,” he said.“I’d rather stand.”He dragged a hand through his hair, the first visible crack. “You were discharged against medical advice.”“I was discharged because the board just erased what little access I had left. There was no reason to occupy a private suite when I’ve been formally declared a liability.” Her voice stayed even. “Congratulations, by the way. I heard the resolution passed clea
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Too late to want me Alpha
“Please... don't take my baby.”
Those were the last words Chloe Ravenwood screamed before her newborn son was ripped from her arms.
For years, Chloe endured life as a wolfless omega, surviving cruelty, humiliation, and endless servitude. The only light in her darkness was Ethan Blackwood—the Alpha heir who swore he loved her.
Then he destroyed her.
On the night she revealed her pregnancy, Ethan publicly rejected their fated bond, chose another woman, and condemned Chloe as a mad murderer after she was framed for her own child's death.
Broken, bleeding, and grieving, Chloe is sold to the most feared monster in the realm—the Lycan King.
Kael Draven is known as the Butcher King, a ruthless ruler whose enemies tremble at the sound of his name. But when Chloe arrives at his court, he doesn't see a slave.
He sees his mate.
As forbidden desire ignites between them, Chloe discovers a mysterious feral child hidden within Kael's castle—a boy whose haunting eyes feel strangely familiar.
Then the truth explodes.
Her son is alive.
The child she mourned for years was stolen, sold, and forced to survive unimaginable horrors while the people she trusted built their kingdom on lies.
Now Chloe is no longer the broken omega they discarded.
She is a force of vengeance wrapped in silver fury.
But when the man who betrayed her returns desperate for forgiveness and willing to wage war to reclaim his family, will Chloe choose revenge or mercy? And when saving her son's life requires tethering her soul to Ethan once more, will she risk losing Kael forever?
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Chapter: Chapter 5: The Velvet DungeonThe eastern tower of the Shadow Moon packhouse was a cruel joke of a prison. It was a guest room once, decades ago, before the dampness of the surrounding swamps seeped into the stone and rotted the wood. Faded, mold-dusted velvet drapes hung heavily over the narrow, barred window, blocking out what little sunlight managed to pierce the thick forest canopy. A rusted iron bedframe sat in the corner, its mattress thin and smelling of mildew.They called it a sanctuary for my recovery. In reality, it was my velvet dungeon.I lay curled on the cold, damp mattress, my arms locked securely around my abdomen. Three days had passed since the coronation. Three days since Ethan had torn our fated bond to pieces in front of the entire pack. Down below, the distant, muffled echoes of drunken howling and celebratory drums had finally faded, leaving only a suffocating, heavy silence in their wake.Ethan was the Alpha now. He had his crown, his pack, and his perfect, high-born future. He hadn't come
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Chapter: Chapter 4: The Shattered BondTwo days passed in a blur of agonizing dread. Two days of hiding my morning sickness behind the heavy, steam-filled vats of the packhouse laundry, of forcing down Healer Maureen’s bitter vitamins in the dead of night, praying they would keep my fragile body strong enough to hold onto my baby.But tonight, there was no hiding.The Great Hall of the Shadow Moon Pack was suffocatingly hot, packed shoulder-to-shoulder with hundreds of wolves. The air was thick with the scent of cheap ale, roasted meat, and the oppressive, suffocating weight of raw dominance. Tonight was the Alpha transition ceremony. Ethan was to be crowned.And, as always, I was forced to work.My hands trembled under the weight of a massive silver platter piled high with roasted meats. Sweat slicked my brow, and the rich, greasy smell of the food made my stomach twist violently, but I swallowed the bile down, forcing myself to blend into the shadows of the stone pillars. I had to be invisible. I had to protect the secre
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Chapter: Chapter 3: The Secret in the ShadowsI ran. I didn't look back to see if Ethan was watching me, and I didn't stop when the cold, damp air of the lower packhouse corridors bit into my skin. My feet, clad in thin, worn-out shoes, slapped against the stone floor in a frantic, desperate rhythm. I kept my head down, my long hair falling forward like a curtain to shield my tear-stained face from the high-ranking wolves who passed me by. To them, I was just a ghost in the hallway, a wolfless omega rushing to complete another demeaning chore. They had no idea that my entire universe had just been reduced to ashes.I need a Queen, not a maid.The words repeated in my mind, a cruel, mocking loop that played over and over until it felt like a physical brand on my soul. Every promise Ethan had ever whispered into my ear during the dead of night, every tender touch beneath the safety of the weeping willow tree—all of it had been a lie. He had looked at me with the eyes of a stranger, completely indifferent to the agonizing pain fract
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Chapter: Chapter 2 :BetrayalI didn't know when I stopped breathing.The air simply vanished from my lungs, leaving a hollow, aching vacuum in my chest. The small glass vial of prenatal vitamins Healer Maureen had just given me slipped from my suddenly numb fingers. It hit the stone floor with a heavy, sickening thud—a sound that echoed like a gunshot in the sterile, suffocating quiet of the hallway."Ethan."I didn't mean to say it. It wasn't a demand, nor an accusation. It was a breathless, shattered plea that just slipped past my trembling lips on its own accord.The soft murmurs inside the clinic room ceased instantly. The silence that followed was heavy, thick and pressing down on my shoulders like a physical weight. Slowly, agonizingly, Ethan turned his head toward the half-open door.The look on his face when his eyes locked onto mine told me everything I needed to know. It wasn't confusion. It wasn't innocence. It was raw, unmistakable guilt. It painted his sharp features, widening his eyes and draining t
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Chapter: Chapter 1: The Discovery"Congratulations, Chloe. You are pregnant."Hearing those words from Healer Maureen caused a wide, unrestrained smile to spread across my face.I sat there on the crinkling paper of the examination table for a few minutes, just staring at the older woman. My hands were trembling so violently from the sudden rush of excitement that I had to press them flat against my thighs so she wouldn't notice. A baby. A tiny, fragile life growing inside of me."Are you alright?" Healer Maureen asked, her voice laced with careful concern as she peered over her reading glasses."Yes," I nodded quickly, swallowing the lump of pure joy in my throat. "Yes, I'm fine."She smiled at me softly, though her eyes held a trace of pity that I was all too used to seeing. "You are six weeks pregnant. It is still very early, so you will need to come back in two weeks' time so I can monitor the pup's heartbeat and growth properly." She turned to the small counter, her pen scratching against her thick record book. S
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