LOGINFor seven years, Elena Laurent lived as the unwanted daughter in her own family. Then one night, she overhears her parents discussing her arranged marriage as if she were nothing more than a business deal. When she confronts them, their cruel words finally break the last piece of her heart. So Elena walks away into the rain. That same night, she meets a mysterious billionaire in a hotel. Two lonely strangers make one reckless decision and become legally married overnight. By morning, he is gone. Eight years later, Elena returns to New York as the secret founder of a multibillion-dollar tech empire. She is no longer the discarded daughter. This time, she holds her family's failing business in the palm of her hand. Her family thinks she has returned to save them. Her sister thinks she is about to marry billionaire Adrian Blackwood. They don't know the powerful investor taking over their company is Elena. And Adrian doesn't know the woman challenging him in the boardroom is the wife he has spent years searching for—or that her eight-year-old son has his eyes. When the truth comes out, Adrian refuses to lose her twice. But Elena returned for revenge, not love. Can she destroy the people who broke her without losing her heart to the man she was forced to leave behind?
View MoreAdrian had been staring at the photograph for so long that the afternoon light had changed across his office.The thin brown envelope still lay open beside his laptop, exactly where his assistant had left it earlier. There was no sender's name, no explanation, and no message apart from the few words written on the back of the photograph.St. Regis Hotel — Seven years ago.He picked it up again.The photograph showed a young woman standing outside the hotel beside a man in a dark suit. Her face was partly turned away, making it impossible to identify her properly, but there was something about the image that had bothered Adrian from the moment he saw it.The eyes.They reminded him of Elena.Not enough to prove anything.Not enough to even justify the thought.But enough to make him uncomfortable.He placed the photograph down and leaned back in his chair.For the past several days, he had tried to ignore the strange familiarity he felt whenever Elena was near him. At first, he had bla
Adrian did not sleep that night.He had spent years learning how to control his thoughts, how to separate emotion from business, and how to make decisions without allowing uncertainty to interfere with his judgment. Yet after leaving the conversation with Elena, that discipline had begun to fail him. He had returned to the Blackwood mansion long after everyone else had gone to bed, but instead of going upstairs, he had walked straight into his private study and closed the door behind him.The room was quiet, lit only by the warm lamp on the desk and the faint glow of the city beyond the tall windows. Adrian stood beside the desk for several minutes without moving, his mind returning to the same conversation no matter how many times he tried to push it away. Elena had not lied when she spoke about her husband. He had seen it in the way she had answered him, in the brief change in her expression when he asked where the man was. There had been no performance in her voice, no attempt to g
The celebration continued long after Elena had finished speaking with her family. Soft music played through the room while guests moved from one conversation to another, laughing over glasses of champagne and discussing the upcoming wedding. Elena stayed for a while longer, but she eventually stepped away from the center of the gathering and found a quieter place near the tall windows. Her fingers instinctively reached for the chain around her neck, and beneath the fabric of her dress, she could feel the familiar weight of the heirloom ring she had carried with her for seven years.She had grown so accustomed to wearing the ring that she rarely thought about it anymore. It had become part of her, a quiet reminder of a night she could never completely remember and a marriage that had somehow existed even though the man she married had disappeared before she could understand what had happened.She had stopped searching for him years ago. Life had given her Leo, Nova Global, and a stren
The engagement celebration was held at the Blackwood family mansion two evenings later.It was not a large party, but it was important enough to bring both families together. The Blackwoods had invited a few close relatives and business associates, while the Laurents arrived with the quiet pride of a family that believed the marriage would strengthen their position in both social and business circles.Elena arrived later than the others.She had spent most of the afternoon at Laurent Corporation reviewing contracts with the legal department, and she had no intention of allowing the engagement to interfere with the work she had finally begun. When she stepped into the mansion, she carried a small black gift box in one hand and a larger cream-colored box in the other.She had not come because she wanted to see Adrian.She had come because, despite everything that had happened between her and her family, Isabella was still her sister.And Isabella was getting married.Elena paused briefl
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