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They threw her into the rain—pregnant, bleeding, powerless. Her husband watched. Her best friend smiled. His family laughed. They called her worthless, barren and useless. They were wrong. Serena lost everything that night: her baby, her dignity, her life as she knew it. But from the ashes of that betrayal, she rose as someone they never saw coming, the secret heiress to a billionaire empire, now the most powerful woman in the country. Marcus begged for the contract that would save his failing company. He got it along with a new boss. His ex-wife. Now she owns everything he has. His business. His assets. His future. Marcus is begging for mercy. His mother is ruined. His sister is in prison. Sarah is forgotten. And Serena? She's just getting started. With Ethan Ashford, the most dangerous billionaire who caught her when she fell and refuses to let her go—at her side, Serena is untouchable. The Wellingtons destroyed the wrong woman. Now she'll take everything they love, piece by piece.

I've always lived in the shadow of my husband's ex because he is still in love with her. Things get to a head when he divorces me without warning not long after she comes back into his life and he gets her pregnant. Heartbroken, I decide to put myself first for once in my life, but not long after I make that decision, I find that I'm pregnant with his child as well. Five years later, our paths cross again, and this time around, the tables have turned. Not long after, secrets from five years ago begin to unravel themselves and I find out that things are not what they seemed back then after all.

“What! The groom has changed!” The crowd started murmuring, as they looked at the couple walking down the aisle. ‘The groom should be changed, if needed’ I mulled in my head as I walked down the aisle with my Ex's uncle. *********** Michelle prepared for her upcoming wedding, she was happy to leave the bondage of her family, and she wanted to get married to the man she loved, but her hope of survival was a trap. She caught her husband-to-be cheating on her with her stepsister the night before her wedding, but she refused to stop the wedding. She made a contract to marry his fiance's uncle, and changed the groom on the wedding morning. But Michelle has no idea about the contract clauses, neither did she about the man she signed the contract with. Did you think Michelle can survive in the same household?

“You FUCKING WHORE! That’s what you are. Got pregnant for him and now trying to pin it on me. Sign the divorce papers, that bastard isn’t mine!”   His words cut deeper than the wounds on my skin as I lay out in the cold. What happens when the man you love becomes your punishment? When your husband’s fists replace his vows, And the cousin you grew up calling sister takes your place in his bed? You don’t break. You survive. They left you for dead. But when you rise again, you’re not the same broken woman they buried You’re the storm they can’t escape.   Now there’s another man, one who’d burn the city to protect you. And when your ex crawls back, whispering, “Forgive me, Emily … I made a mistake,” You just smile and say, “You’re right. You were, now you’re just a memory from my past.

Vera Andres gave up everything including her inheritance and her arranged marriage in order to marry her husband Francis Coleman. And on the night of their third year anniversary, he betrays her and frames her up to get arrested. He also drops the bump of their divorce on her face, abandoning her alone in jail to face the consequences of his actions. However, she gets released the next day with the help of her arranged fiance whom she had eloped from three years ago. Now, she is bound to get revenge on Francis with the help of Raymond Anderson, her fiance, who proposes marriage immediately after her release, and offers to help her get back her inheritance from her scheming stepsister and mother.

Lila was devastated when Seth King, her husband, broke the news of his affair to her on their anniversary. The night she was going to tell him she was expecting his child, he did not only humiliate her in front of the entire guests and family, but also handed to her the divorce papers. He was in love with her best friend and cousin. Lila runs away and had a horrific car accident that was planned by a loved one, leaving her devastated and enraged. Five years later a changed Lila reappears stronger than ever and with a lethal revenge plot. She had married his filthy rich cousin for revenge. But Seth makes a valiant effort to win her back, will she is accept him back just to have her revenge or give him another chance at love?

Cora Watson held onto her husband’s promise from three years ago and did whatever she could to please him. She loved him dearly even if he, himself forgot about his promise and shattered her heart, ruthlessly. Now, she’s had enough! She would get divorced from him and would never let him or anyone trample over her ever again! *** I watched as she bent her head and kissed his lips while gyrating her hips at the same time. She seemed to be on cloud nine as she rode him faster and harder. My breath was stuck in my throat. Though I could only see his side view I couldn’t miss the shirt on his body. He was still clad in a shirt though the lower half of his body was exposed. It was a shirt I had specially picked for my husband this morning. A custom-made shirt that I had gotten for him on his last birthday and he was currently on it while being fucked by another woman.

Hindi lubos akalain ni Lyndsey na ang kaniyang asawa na si Ezekiel Hussein ay may ibang babae sa labas. Aksidente niyang nalaman na buntis ang kabit nito kaya napagdesisyon niyang hiwalayan na ang kaniyang asawa nang tuluyan. Humingi siya ng tulong sa kaibigan ng kaniyang kuya na isang abogado para ayusin ang kanilang divorce paper. Pero nang malaman ni Ezekiel na nakikipagkita ang kaniyang asawa sa ibang lalaki ay nagalit ito, ngunit hindi nagpatinag si Lyndsey. Desidido siyang hiwalayan ang asawa. Sa kabilang banda, gumagawa nang paraan si Aerah, ang kabit ni Ezekiel, para tuluyang masira si Lyndsey hindi lang kay Ezekiel kung hindi pati na rin sa buong pamilya nila. At dahil buntis siya, mabilis niyang napaniwala ang lahat na naging dahilan ng galit nila kay Lyndsey. Sa sobrang pang-aapi at pagkapuot na naramdaman ni Lyndsey, pumasok sa isipan niya ang maghiganti. Ginawa niya ang lahat upang akitin ang dating asawa at pagtaksilan ang kapatid niya gaya ng ginawa nito sa kaniya noon. Ngunit hindi nakayanan ni Aerah ang ginawa ni Lyndsey at Ezekiel kaya nakunan ito. Ang gusto lang ni Lyndsey ay maramdaman ni Aerah ang ginawa niya sa kaniya noon, ngunit hindi niya ginustong mawala ang batang dinadala nito. Sa sobrang guilty niya, naisipan niya na lamang magpakalayo-layo ngunit hindi niya inaasahan na ang pagtataksil nila ng dati niyang asawa sa kaniyang kapatid ay magbubunga.

The image of him being happy and loving with my best friend felt like betrayal. It felt like he had launched a knife into my heart while I was struggling to breathe. How could he betray me this way? How could he betray me with my best friend? I felt cold. "You said you loved me." I cried out and brushed the tears running down my face away. He stared at me, and the coldness in his eyes mirrored the one his mother always had for me. "That was my greatest mistake." ... Once Imela believed love was enough, now not anymore. Love was just another lie that the weak believed in to keep them from seeing the truth.

Rita gave up her life of luxury for love, hiding her billionaire roots to marry James, a humble farmer. But her fairy-tale romance soon turned into a nightmare of betrayal, abuse, and heartbreak. Forced to sign divorce papers, she vanished, taking with her a secret that could have changed everything. James thought he had moved on with the governor’s daughter, but his dream life crumbled when the truth about Linnet's past emerged. Stricken by regret, he discovers the shocking reality: Rita wasn’t the burden he believed her to be, she was the blessing he let slip away. Now, armed with newfound determination and desperation, James is chasing the woman he wronged, only to find Rita reborn as a powerful and untouchable force. As she thrives with the son he never knew, James must confront his failures and fight for the chance to rewrite their story. Can a shattered love be pieced back together, or is James too late to reclaim the life he destroyed?