The story Mr. Harlow, Don’t Rush to Make It Official is no longer available here

For five years, Stella Shaw endured a sham marriage filled with coldness, betrayal, and manipulation. When her husband’s cruelty costs their daughter her life, she finally has enough and walks away for good. But her scumbag husband refused to let her go. “Be a good girl and stay as my mistress. “Our daughter’s gone. We can always have another.” Determined to make him pay, Stella turns to his best friend, Eric Harlow, and deliberately seduces him. To her, it’s a deal. She needs him for her revenge. What she doesn’t know is that Eric has wanted her for far longer than she realizes. With him at her side, Stella becomes unstoppable. Armed with an extraordinary eye for antiques and rare treasures, she takes down her cheating husband and his scheming mistress one move at a time, transforming herself from the woman everyone despised into a legend in the appraisal world. Then, during a nationally televised antique appraisal show, her husband finally realizes just how badly he screwed up. Full of regret, he throws away his pride and begs her to come back. “Stella, come back to me. I’ll give you my love. I’ll even give you my life.” Stella only smiles. “Why would I want that kind of bad luck?” ...... Everyone in Ravenwood fears Eric Harlow, the notoriously ruthless second son of the powerful Harlow family. But when it comes to Stella, he willingly lets himself be used. And once he falls for her, he falls hard. In public, he keeps his distance and pretends there’s nothing between them. Behind closed doors, he pulls her close by the waist every night and calls her baby. “Baby, other men want way too much. “Me? I just want to be your man.”