CONTRACTED TO MY EX-HUSBAND’S ENEMY
She’s a ticking time bomb, but this second chance at life came with with a life-bound contract.
When Zoe Beckett married Emery Landon, she believed she was building a future.
What she was actually doing was funding his dynasty, tolerating his mistresses, and swallowing her grief in the name of love and title of Mrs.
But the day he handed their son to a quack doctor to use his bone marrow - without asking or warning - to save the child of his mistress, and her son died on the operating table, Zoe finally challenged him.
That challenge of hers though? It was the reflection of her downfall.
His family took his side and hers had been long gone driven out of power by him.
Her husband's sister sold her to a brothel and she was passed from one set of cruel hands to the next, Zoe made the only choice she had left. She ended her life with her own hands.
Then she woke up.
Two weeks before she was to marry him.
This time, she vows she won’t let history repeat itself.
She walks straight to Nathaniel Quest - Emery's most dangerous rival, a man who has spent years looking for the right weapon to destroy Emery and offers him a tempting offer.
She expected a transaction and she got one, but she certainly did not bargain for the way Nathaniel looks at her - like he has been waiting, not for a weapon, but for her specifically.
Now that she's reborn, she'll marry his rival on the same wedding date and crush him before he can say her name!
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Chapter: 13 DAYS TO CHANGE THE MAN 13 DAYS TO GET MARRIED RUMORS TRAVEL FASTER THAN THE TRUTHThe room went even quieter.Nathaniel looked at her for a moment without speaking. His expression did not change in any dramatic way. His lips did not tilt in amusement and his mouth did not open to tease her like the way he did the past minute.He simply looked at her, and Zoe had to bite her the tip of her tongue to keep herself from squirming.She met his gaze head-on, half surprised that someone who did not grow up with the knowledge of managing people could make her compelled to want to reveal all of her secrets."That is very interesting."Those were the four words that left his mouth surprising Zoe."Yes." her ramrod back stood even straighter, an evidence of her etiquette classes as an old-money raised child.“I do not own an entertainment --er, what do they call that --”Zoe watched him cautiously, if this man refused to become her weapon, she would have to beat him into submission else she’d have revealed all her cards to a potential enemy for no reason.“Do you mean a soc
Última actualización: 2026-08-22
Chapter: THE MAN WHO KNEELS FOR EVERYONE AND NO ONEZoe had been in boardrooms most of her adult life, first as her father's daughter, then as Emery's wife. She knew what money was comfortable with, was fertilized it and what stunted its growth.Her eyes held fire and she stood, smoothed her bouncy dress, and followed the woman to the elevator.The grief would wait, the exhaustion could wait, the fear should disappear. The image of Chizaram's face that had surfaced three times already this morning would wait.Right now she needed to be sharp. She needed to be the version of herself she had not been in years, the one that existed before she spent years making herself smaller to fit inside Emery's life.The elevator opened on the fourteenth floor.His office was at the end of a quiet and long corridor. His assistant who met her at the elevator, a young man with a polite smile, knocked once, opened the door, and stepped aside.Zoe walked in, her shoulders straight, head raised looking every inch of a socialite.Nathaniel Quest did not lo
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Chapter: MAKE HIM A WEAPONThe smile on Chloe’s face stiffened, then disappeared completely.She fisted the heavy dress into a ball and hurled it at Zoe watching the dress fall short of even touching the bed.“Fine! Eat it! You have so many clothes that you can’t even give me one! I hope Emery knows he’s marrying a selfish queen!” She yelled slamming the door on her way out.Zoe sat on the bed for a long moment, breathing, pressing her hand against her sternum like she was still checking for the constant pain there.She reached for her phone on the nightstand and looked at the date.She read it twice her mouth gaping open that was unlike the wealthy socialite her parent raised.Then she sat very still for a long time and ugly cried.Fourteen days before her wedding.And there was the name Chloe had mentioned.EmeryEmery Landon - her fiancee turned husband whose entire family plotted to kill hers.The cold that had come with her from where Brooke had sent her to had been settled somewhere behind her eyes, like
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Chapter: MAMAThe first thing she felt was sharp bitter cold.Not the cold of concrete or cold blood, instead it was like sharp winter cold specifically for the North pole.‘Is Hell cold?’‘Wasn’t hell supposed to be hot?’ Zoe wondered.Then she heard a sound she knew so well it lived in her chest. ‘Mama.’ Zoe’s eyes flew open.Pale yellow walls hit her eyes causing her to shrink instinctively.But this yellow was different. No, it wasn’t the peeling color in the room where she was being brutally molested a second ago, it felt weirdly familiar.Zoe had not seen this color in a room in years.This was the same color in her parents' estate house, the pale yellow walls she had complained about at seventeen and quietly loved every year after. The curtain was the old one, cream with small embroidered birds her grandmother had chosen. Morning light came through it, soft on her face.What the ----Zoe bolted upright, her head spinning as a massive headache slammed into her.“Ow” she winced and then her
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Chapter: NO ONE WILL SAVE HER. HER HUSBAND MADE SURE OF IT"Please."The word left her mouth before she could stop it. It wasn’t something the old Zoe would have said without meaning it, yet the one who said it now only realised that people had no limits to how cruel they could be.The man above her, his penis half-dangling over her face laughed.There’d been five others like him just that week and Zoe had stopped counting how many there had been in total. Her body had gone somewhere else, somewhere quiet and far away, leaving only the parts that could still register pain behind … and there was a lot of pain. The ribs on her left side felt flaming hot, like hot oil was splattered all over it. Her lip had split so many times it no longer bled properly, just a dull, sticky warmth that replicated her bleak morning down her chin.The room smelled like cheap heavy fragrance struggling to mask the smell of mildew and cigarette smoke the visitors seem to bring in.She turned her face to the side and looked at the wall. There was a wet crack running
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