Contemporary Romance のウェブ小説 & Level up ストーリー

They took her baby and drained her blood. Now she’s marrying the one man they can’t touch. Dorcas Starling believed she was giving birth to her own child. She was wrong. In one hospital room, within minutes, she learns that her fiancé, Isaiah, and her best friend, Emily, planned every part of it. The baby was never hers. The illness she kept bleeding for was never real. She was a body they used and a donor they drained, and now that the baby is born, they are finished with her. When she dares to accuse Isaiah of cheating, he answers with a slap that sends her crashing to the floor. Stripped of her child, her fiancé, her friend and a family that cares only about money, Dorcas has nowhere left to go, until Desmond Allen offers her a way out. The grieving billionaire must marry quickly or lose his empire. She needs protection. The deal is simple: six months, public smiles, separate lives, no feelings. But the Allen name has enemies who smile across the boardroom table, and Dorcas begins to suspect that her mother’s death was no accident. Someone wants the Allen family destroyed, and that someone may be closer to Dorcas than she knows. They betrayed the wrong woman. Now Dorcas is about to become Mrs. Allen.

Lydia Brown thought she had won in life. Years ago, she and Ronan started with nothing. When they were struggling to build their company, Lydia mortgaged the house her late father left her, helped secure their first major clients and stood beside Ronan through every difficult stage of their journey. Then their daughter, Evelyn, was born and Lydia chose her family. She stepped away from her career and handed the company she helped build entirely to her husband. Years later, Ronan became a successful businessman, and Lydia became the devoted wife everyone envied. She thought her sacrifice had been worth it. Until a business trip exposed something she wasn't supposed to see. Ronan was with another woman but he had an explanation. Of course he did. And every suspicious message, unexplained expense, strange property, unfamiliar key and secretive phone call had an explanation. But then Lydia discovers something that makes her blood run cold. She has to find out if Ronan truly has a mistress. Why does Ronan have a woman hiding behind another name? And why does she suddenly feel as though the life she helped build is slowly slipping out of her hands? Instead of confronting her husband, Lydia decides to watch, listen and to pretend she still trusts him. Because if Ronan is hiding something from her, she wants to know exactly what it is. But the deeper Lydia digs, the more she realizes that the woman threatening her marriage may not be her only problem.