All Chapters of Two Can Play: I Became My Ex's Mother-in-law : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Clarissa ​My husband of seven years is getting married to a younger girl in four weeks, and I'm accidentally finding out through the wedding card he hid in our bedroom. My hands trembled as I stood there reading the bold embroidered letters. *Drake and Brittany,* it reads in an elegant, looping script. Together with their families, invite you to celebrate… As those words blurred my vision, I felt a strange, cold numbness wash over me, starting from my toes and crawling up to my chest until it stole the air right out of my throat. We were still married. We shared a bed—or at least, we shared the same mattress while he turned his back to me all night. ​I had spent five years of our seven-year marriage trying to save us. I had endured the hormone injections that made my hair thin and my moods swing like a pendulum. I had suffered through six miscarriages, each one taking a piece of my soul with it, leaving me hollow and exhausted. I had endured the doctor's hopeless fertility ap

Clarissa Returning to the Hudson mansion was the last thing I wanted.Ever since things ended with Valentine, I've been living with this constant pit of shame. The words I said to him still made my stomach twist. I wasn't some bold seductress; I was a desperate wife who had crossed a line I never thought I'd attempt.​It felt cheap. Disgusting.​Then, my sister's face flashed in my mind. Pale. Weak. Hooked up to life support in that hospital bed.​That image crushed whatever pride I had left. Shame wouldn't pay her medical bills. Regret wouldn't keep her breathing.​I had already slept with a billionaire almost twice my age. Was that all I was to him? ​No.​A plan finally clicked. I didn't need to become his plaything. I needed to be someone of value to him so that he wouldn't see me as a passing temptation.I couldn't turn my brain off until exhaustion finally dragged me under, right there in the guest room Drake had forced me into.Just as dawn was breaking, I was already awake an

Clarissa​I had signed Drake's divorce papers and finalized my marriage with Valentine.But defying Drake came with a price. Yesterday, when he finally realized I wasn't going to crawl back, he made his next move. He hired another quant to imitate the work I had spent years building and withdrew my twin sister’s medical support. For three weeks after my resignation, he had kept her bills paid—not out of kindness, but as a bargaining chip, hoping the fear of losing her would force me back under his control. But he was wrong.Even the air smelled like victory, but I was just getting started. When he realizes I am Mrs. Gaston, there will be nothing he can do to stop me from protecting my sister anymore.But victory came with its own complications. Maybe including a ‘no sex, no love and no feelings’ clause with Valentine was the right call after all. The first night was a mistake born from anger but a marriage built on desire would be another cage. Aside from that, I was terrified—not jus

ClarissaDrake's thumb crushed against my wrist bone. The dull, thumping ache radiated straight up my forearm, but I dug my heels into the concrete terrace, locking my knees, refusing to budge an inch."Let go," I growled."Did you seduce a rich man just to make me jealous?" His breath stank of whiskey and sweat, his bloodshot eyes darting over my silk dress like he wanted to rip it off. "You think my father-in-law gives a damn about a washed-up, barren ghost like you? You're playing with fire, Clarissa!""I said, let go… you're thinking too highly of yourself if you think this is to make you jealous. You didn't think it was to actually ruin you?"His fingers tightened, turning my skin white. Five years I let this weak excuse for a man walk all over me. Five years I mistook his rage for strength. Now he just looked small. A terrified boy throwing a tantrum because his shiny toy got taken away.A broad shadow fell over us, shutting out the terrace lights.The temperature dropped instan

Valentine The door slammed back against the frame, bouncing off the wall with a sharp bang as Brittany barged into the room. Black mascara streaked down her red cheeks in jagged lines while she gasped, her coat swinging open as her heels dug into the hardwood floor.She slammed both palms onto the edge of my desk, rattling the pen holder."Dad!" she screamed, her voice cracking. "You have to throw that gold-digging whore out right now! She’s ruining my life! She robbed Drake in court today, and now she’s living in our house like she owns the place!"I kept my pen moving across the paper, signing my name on the bottom line of an offshore investment transfer.I capped the fountain pen, rested it on the blotter, and raised my eyes to hers.She flinched, her lips wobbling as she took half a step back and clutched her pearl necklace."You're calling your mother all that in my presence?” I said, keeping my tone flat."Dad, you don't understand—""I understand that you came into my office w