THE DAY EVERYTHING SCATTERS

ELENA'S POVThree hours into my shift at Viv's House Restaurant and I'd already dealt with two entitled customers who'd sent their steaks back three times, because wasn't bloody enough.But I knew that I had to work, the other option was ending up on the street, so I plastered a smile on my face as I approached table twelve, the strawberry milkshake balanced perfectly on my tray.After three years as a waitress, my fake smile looked real. My makeup hid the dark circles under my eyes. Dark circles that came from morning shifts at the diner, late nights doing online data entry until two a.m., and sleeping less than four hours for weeks."Here's your straw…" I started saying but the words died in my throat and the smile evaporated from my face.David Chen, my boyfriend of 5 years and fiancé for 1 year, sat in the corner booth of table twelve, and he was not alone. A woman in a dress that looks like it cost more than my monthly rent was pressed against his side, her manicured hand on his

Last Updated : 2026-01-10

BLOOD IN THE ALLEY

ELENA'S POVI stood on the sidewalk outside the penthouse building, staring at my phone like it held answers to questions I didn't know how to ask.Seven missed calls. All from the same unknown number. I deleted them without listening to the voicemails. Whatever they wanted, I couldn't handle it. Not today.I just needed to get back home, take a bathe and start looking for a job.My reflection stared back at me from a shop window as I walked—disheveled hair, yesterday's makeup smudged under my eyes… and my clothes, they smelled like him. What the hell had I done?I'd slept with a stranger. A man whose name I didn't even know. A man who'd knocked someone unconscious with a helmet and then taken me to his penthouse like it was the most natural thing in the world.And I'd let him.God, I'd more than let him. I'd begged him to kiss me. I'd wrapped myself around him like he was the only thing keeping me from drowning.My chest tightened. The memory of David's face swam before my eyes agai

Last Updated : 2026-01-10

COLD SHEETS AND A NAME

CHAPTER THREERYDER POVMy hand reached across the bed automatically, searching for warmth, for her, and found nothing but cold sheets.She was gone.I sat up slowly, running a hand through my hair, and looked around the bedroom. Her clothes were gone. The bathroom door stood open but there was no sound of water running, no hint of movement anywhere in the penthouse.She'd left. I should've expected it. Girls like her… the genuine ones, the ones who kissed like they were drowning and looked at you like you were the only thing keeping them afloat, they always ran. Especially the morning after, when reality came crashing back and they realized they'd spent the night with a stranger.But damn if it didn't sting a little.I leaned back against the headboard, staring at the ceiling, and let myself replay last night. The way she'd looked in that bar, devastated and defiant all at once. The way she'd kissed me like she was trying to erase someone else. The way she'd fallen apart in my arm

Last Updated : 2026-01-10

PRICE OF SAFETY

ELENA'S POVThe guest room smelled like cedar and expensive detergent.I stood in the center of it for a long moment after Dante's housekeeper, a woman who'd introduced herself as Rosa and smiled at me like she'd been instructed, then closed the door behind her. The room was bigger than my entire Queens apartment. The bed was also bigger than my entire Queens apartment. A blue duvet sat unrumpled. The cleanness showed that it was the kind of blue that had never met a takeout container or a midnight cry session.I sat on the edge of the mattress."You're going to stay here," Dante had said it like it was already decided. Like my opinion was a formality the situation couldn't afford.And the terrifying part, the part that kept my heart racing and my body glistening with sweat, was that he hadn't been wrong. I had nowhere else to go. My apartment was compromised. My job was gone. David had apparently signed my name to a debt he never intended to pay, and somewhere in this city, a man nam

Last Updated : 2026-02-21

THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM

ELENA'S POVBy the second morning, I had a routine.Not by choice. Routines, I was discovering, were something Dante Moretti imposed on a space the way gravity imposed itself on objects.I was absolutely falling into it.The house was also very quiet. I knew he had security around the house but it was like there were invisible because I never saw any of them. And I also discovered that he was rarely at work. I expected that they were time that he was going to be at work so I had more time to go through his house. "You need clothes," Dante said that morning, not looking up from his laptop.I looked down at the jeans I'd now worn for two days. They weren't wrong. "I have clothes."He turned a page. "Rosa will take you.""I don't need you to buy me clothes," I replied.“You know that it wouldn't cost me anything to let Rosa take you to get as many clothes as you need,” Dante said. “Going back to your apartment is not safe.”He pulled cards from his pocket and handed it to me without ch

Last Updated : 2026-02-21

All Chapters of WANTED BY THREE BILLIONAIRES: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

THE DAY EVERYTHING SCATTERS

BLOOD IN THE ALLEY

COLD SHEETS AND A NAME

PRICE OF SAFETY

THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM