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The Substitute Heiress

The Substitute Heiress

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last updateLast Updated : 2026-02-27
By:  Liora HavenOngoing
Language: English
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Contemporary

Heir/Heirness

Contract Marriage

Second Chance

Substitute

He wanted a replacement. I was the original. For three years, I was Evie, a woman with no past, saved from a tragic accident by the devastatingly powerful Nathaniel Blackwood. He gave me a name, a home, and a purpose as his contract lover. I thought it was love. The night he proposed in a shower of gardenias, I believed my fairy tale had come true. Until she walked back into his life. Serena Sterling. His missing first love. The woman whose face is my mirror image. In a single moment, my world shatters. I discover I’m not his beloved, I’m her gilded substitute. Every detail of my life, from my perfume to my smile, was curated to match her. And now that the original has returned, the copy is discarded. Heartbroken and betrayed, I vanish from his penthouse with nothing but the clothes I wore when I woke up in the hospital three years ago. But my escape uncovers a truth more dangerous than his deception. I am not a nobody. I am Alessandra Vanderbilt, the missing heiress to a billion-dollar empire. The accident that stole my memory wasn’t random, it was an attempt on my life. And the woman who shares my face may have been the one who ordered the hit. Now, I have two battles to fight: reclaiming my legacy from the aunt who wants me gone, and resisting Nathaniel Blackwood, who has realized too late that the woman he threw away is the only one he truly craves. He’s using every resource from ruthless business deals, public grand gestures, and soul-baring groveling to win me back. But how do you trust a man who loved you only as a reflection of another?

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42 Chapters
Chapter 1
EvieThe smell of gardenias was so strong I could taste it in the back of my throat. They were everywhere, choking the rooftop terrace. My favourite, Nathaniel had said.He had picked out this dress too. White silk, Zac Posen design. He laid it on the bed himself, a gesture he pulled off most times I have to dress up.“Wear this tonight. You know you love Zac Pose.” I don’t. And if I did, I didn’t remember. But I trusted him. I always trusted him with everything, because three years ago, I woke up with no memory of who I was. It was a miracle I survived and I owe him for that.I still remember the blur of hospital lights and then his face, calm and reassuring, like he was the only one who ever cared for me in my lifetime. He met me with a smile, telling me he had taken care of everything, he had saved me from a gastric accident that claimed the life of my driver.He took me to his mansion. He fed me, clothed me, and taught me what good wine tasted like. It was the perfect life any wo
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Chapter 2
EvieThree days later, she moved in.Nathaniel brought her in himself, one hand carrying her suitcase, the other resting at her waist like she might collapse if he let go. She was wrapped in my cream cashmere robe, the one he bought for me in Paris because he said it made my skin glow, and I stood there watching her cross the foyer like she had every right to be there.“It’s cold in here,” she murmured, tucking herself closer into his side.“I know,” he murmured, adjusting the robe around her shoulders without thinking, then he looked at me.“Evie,” he said carefully. “Serena will be staying with us for a while in the guest suite.”Serena lifted her head and looked straight at me, assessing me, Then she turned back to Nathaniel and her voice became softer.“Thank you, Nate,” she whispered.Nate.Nathaniel stiffened when she called him that, just for a second, then something in him gave way. His hand tightened at her back, his expression was gentle.That was the first day.The next mor
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Chapter 3
EvieHe stepped out of the SUV, opened the back door, and looked at me like he had already made the decision.“Get in.”“No,” I choked out, stumbling back. “Who are you? Get away from me!”He moved fast. A hand on my arm, not rough but impossible to break. He guided me into the back seat like I was luggage. The door slammed, then the locks thudded down.“Please,” I whispered, pressing myself against the door. “I don’t have any money.”He got into the driver’s seat and started the engine. He looked at me in the rearview mirror. “I’ve been looking for you for three years, Miss Vanderbilt.”The name didn’t ring a bell or fit.“My name is Evie.”He reached the passenger seat, picked up a tablet, and handed it back to me without looking.On the screen was a grainy photo, taken outside Mount Sinai Hospital. I, in my dress, hair a mess, face pale with shock stared at the hospital doors. I was a blur in the background of a news shot about a charity wing. This was from the day I traced Damien
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Chapter 4
Nathaniel It was the fourth day she had left.I woke up with Serena’s arm clamped around my chest, her face mashed into my shoulder like she was trying to crawl inside my skin. Her breathing was too loud. I had never gotten used to it. Evie slept quietly, a soft rhythm you could barely hear. I peeled her arm off gently. She made a small sound but didn’t wake. I slid out of bed and stood there for a second, looking at her, still pale and fragile, I never asked her what had happened to her in the past three years that made her disappear. But here she was, in flash and blood. Oh how long I have waited for a moment like this, but now that she was here, it still feels like something was missing.The hallway outside the master suite was so quiet it hummed. I walked down it, my bare feet cold on the floor. I stopped at the guest room door. I hadn’t gone in since she left.I pushed it open.It was clean. All the clothes I had bought her were well arranged. The dresses, the cashmere sweater
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Chapter 5
The room was quiet.I stood near the tall windows, barefoot on a thick rug that felt familiar in a way I could not explain. Pale curtains shifted with the ocean air. Somewhere below, waves met rock in a steady rhythm. The sound reached the room softened by distance and glass.This was meant to be my room.It did not feel like I was intruding. The bed was made the way someone makes it when they expect to return. A navy throw rested at the foot, folded once. Books sat on the nightstand with creased spines and bent corners. A faint scent hung in the air, clean and warm, the kind you notice only when you stop moving.I felt calm like I was standing beside my own life and looking in.On the low table by the window, several photo albums were stacked neatly. Leather covers, worn at the edges. The kind people keep because throwing them away would feel wrong.I sat on the bed and pulled the top album closer.My name was written inside.Alessandra.The first page held a photograph of a littl
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Chapter 6
I left my room with my shoulders tight and my steps slow. The hallway felt longer than before. My own breathing sounded too loud in my ears. I kept telling myself this was simple. A man I once dated. A familiar face I could not place. That was all. Fear arrived before reason. The living room opened wide and bright, sunlight spilling across polished floors. A man stood near the center of the room, his back to me, one hand resting on the arm of a chair as if he had been waiting there for a while. Then he turned, I saw the flash cross his face instantly. He crossed the room in three long steps and wrapped his arms around me. The hug stopped everything. It was solid. The kind of hold that does not ask permission because it has never needed to. His chin rested briefly against the top of my head. His hand pressed flat between my shoulder blades, warm. My body reacted before my thoughts could catch up. I stiffened, then softened. I was shocked at first, and the ease followed unexpe
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Chapter 7
When the call ended, I was still on the bed.The phone rested against my ear for a moment longer than necessary, as if I expected Rowan’s voice to return on its own, to soften what he had just said, or to take it back entirely. When nothing happened, I lowered my hand and stared at the screen until it went dark.“You loved him very much.” It echoed in my head again.The words did not sting. That was the strange part. They did not echo with grief or longing or the faint ache of what was lost, they settled in my chest quietly, like a statement that expected a response I could not provide.Surprise came first, followed by something close to anticipation. My body leaned forward into the idea before my mind could catch up. Anxiety followed soon after, wrapped carefully in what felt almost like hope.If I loved him, I would feel something.I would wait for it.I waited for a change in my breathing, for heat under my skin, for a sudden sadness I could not explain. I waited for my chest to ti
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Chapter 8
Alessa’s POVLucius had already gone by the time the house fell quiet again.We had spoken calmly. I told him the truth without hiding. I told him I did not remember him, or our history, or the life that had existed before the accident. He listened without interrupting, without tightening his grip on my hands or pushing for reassurance I could not give.He accepted it.Not eagerly, but patiently, as if time were something he believed would work in his favor if he simply allowed it to pass.We exchanged numbers again, as though doing it twice might anchor it more firmly in the present. He kissed my forehead before he left and told me there was no rush. That I could take all the time I needed.I watched him walk away without resistance in my chest, without sadness, without relief.That absence unsettled me more than fear would have.Later, alone in my room, sleep refused to come.I lay still beneath the covers, listening to the sea beyond the windows, watching shadows drift across the c
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Chapter 9
Nathaniel’s POVAdam sat across from me, shoulders squared, hands resting on his knees instead of the chair arms. He had learned early that I noticed things like that. The office was dimmed in the evening sunlight. I focused directly on the folder between us.Evie’s folder.It lay open with pages that said very little. A handful of photographs. Hospital intake notes. A blood group written in red ink by a doctor who had not known how important it would become.“How soon,” I asked, “can you find her.”Adam did not answer immediately. He never did when the truth was not clean.“There’s no digital trail,” he said finally. “No credit card. No ID records. No social presence. We need to start looking for all these records.”I leaned back slightly. “And the photo.”“That helps,” he said. “The blood group helps more. But without a starting identity, it’s a wide search. It will take time.”“How much.”He met my eyes. “Weeks, if she’s staying put. Longer if she’s moving.”I nodded once.Adam sto
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Chapter 10
GENERAL POVSilas sat alone in his private office, his glasses resting low on his nose, his gaze fixed on a section of wall that held nothing of interest. He had been sitting there for some time. Long enough for the quiet to settle into his bones, long enough for his thoughts to strip themselves of pretense.The room was insulated against the world by design. Thick walls muted sound. Heavy doors sealed space. Even the sea, which could be heard from most parts of the estate, did not reach him here. This office was not a place of comfort. It was a place of command. Nothing soft had ever been allowed to take root within it.Silas had never needed comfort.He breathed slowly, evenly, his hands folded on the desk in front of him. Stillness had become one of his most effective tools over the years. People mistook it for calm. They mistook it for patience. In truth, it was discipline.The door opened after a soft knock.Marcus entered and closed it behind him, his movements soundless. He did
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