A Father's Betrayal: The Marrow

After years of marriage, Adrian Foster still only spoke to me in bed. The moment he got out of it, the warmth vanished, replaced by cold indifference. I, Nora Bennett, had endured it all in silence, hoping that if I stayed obedient, he might show our daughter, Nina Foster, a little more care. Yet in his eyes, Sophia Graham was his one and only-the woman he put on a pedestal, shielding and indulging her at every turn. For her child, he had even taken my daughter's bone marrow. In that moment, I finally understood. I was nothing more than a pawn in his battle with the woman he truly loved. So I stopped holding on. I took my daughter and left without hesitation.

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Seeing my expression darken, something long buried in Adrian's memory slowly resurfaced.

Back then, he had deliberately tampered with the condom. That was how Nina came to be.

He had known exactly how soft-hearted I was. Once there was a life, I would never walk away from it.

"You're this upset because of Nina, aren't you? Before, when there was no match, you were anxious all the time. Now that there is one, you're probably worried about whether the surgery will go smoothly."

His tone softened. He tapped on his phone, then held it out to me.

"I've already told my assistant. Once Nina's surgery date is confirmed, just inform her. She'll arrange my schedule. I'll go to the hospital with her. I'll personally walk her into the operating room. I won't leave during the surgery. I'll stay until she comes out."

I let out a bitter laugh. After taking a few steadying breaths, just as I was about to speak, a sharp ringtone cut through the air.

The screen lit up with the name—Sophia.

Adrian picked up immediately. After only a few words, he hurried to change his clothes.

"Mia has a sudden high fever. I need to go to the hospital. We're done talking about Nina. If anything urgent comes up, contact my assistant."

Watching his car disappear into the night, I realized just how wrong I had been.

If Adrian didn't love me, why would he ever care about my daughter?

All it took was one sentence—"Nina's bone marrow match was given to someone else"—and after an entire day, he still didn't know.

The cold wind on the balcony cut straight through me, clearing my mind completely.

I had once been afraid that divorcing Adrian would hurt Nina. But now I understood—no matter how much I endured in this marriage, she would only suffer more.

If that was the case, then this marriage had lost even its last shred of meaning.

I sat back down at the vanity and took out the jewelry I had hidden at the very bottom of my box.

The gemstones burned with brilliance, dazzling and bold—just like I used to be.

I opened my email and found the invitation again, accepting it without hesitation.

It was from the president of one of the top jewelry design companies in the industry.

I had hesitated when I first saw it yesterday. Now, there was no doubt left.

At the hospital, Sophia leaned against Adrian's shoulder, wiping her tears.

"I'm sorry, Adrian. I know I shouldn't have called you so late… but I didn't have anyone reliable by my side. I was just so scared."

Adrian pulled her into his arms, gently stroking her back.

"Don't apologize to me. The doctor said it's just a reaction to the medication. Nothing serious. I'll stay here with you tonight. Don't worry."

Sophia lifted her head, agreeing softly.

Her breath brushed against his throat, warm and teasing.

Adrian lowered his head. Her lips were right there—one step closer, and he could kiss her.

The air between them thickened, heating rapidly. Just as Sophia was about to lean in, Mia woke up.

"Mr. Foster, you came to stay with me!" Mia's voice was weak from the fever, yet still carried a soft, coaxing sweetness. "I knew it! You like me the most—and you like Mom too!"

Adrian let go of Sophia, a strange feeling creeping in.

For a split second just now, when he looked at her, Nora's face had flashed through his mind.

He shook the thought away, pushing aside the impulse, and walked over to tuck Mia in.

"You clever little thing. You're absolutely right."

Behind him, Sophia watched the scene, the brief flicker of regret from earlier already gone.

Back then, Adrian had hidden his status too well. That was why she had married someone else.

But now, he clearly cared most about her and her daughter. Being with him was only a matter of time.

At the Foster Estate.

By the time I finished packing everything, the first light of dawn had begun to break.

Once Nina woke up and I packed the rest of her things, we could finally leave this cage I had lived in for five years.

At the thought of this, my emotions tangled together. I sat there in silence, unmoving, until sunlight flooded the balcony.

"Mom, where are we going?"

Seeing me stuffing all her favorite toys into the suitcase, Nina looked confused.

"Where's Dad? I waited so long last night, but he never came back. Why isn't he here this morning either? Mom… are you and Dad unhappy because of me?"

Her string of questions left me so overwhelmed with sorrow that I didn't know how to answer.

"Nina, if from now on you live with me, and can only see your dad once in a while… would you be okay with that?"

"Mom… hasn't it always been like that? Mom, I like being with you."

She put down the toy in her hands and threw herself into my arms. My tears fell instantly.

I took her hand, pulled the suitcase along, and sent Adrian a message to inform him.

"Let's get a divorce."

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Six years ago, my adoptive family framed me for commercial espionage, stripped me of my identity, and threw me out. Now, I finally returned to the Solis estate as a commercial pilot to take back what was mine. But the first thing my adoptive mother did was threaten me with that forged evidence again. She demanded I take my sister Kiana's place in a marriage contract with a disabled man, simply because Kiana refused to marry him. When I refused, Kiana ambushed me at the airport with a mob of reporters. She cried for the cameras, publicly accusing me of causing our father's and brother's deaths. She painted me as a ruthless monster who bankrupted the company and ruined the family. The crowd instantly turned on me, screaming that I was a murderer and a gold-digger. Kiana wanted to completely destroy my reputation so I would have no choice but to submit to her arrangement. I looked at her fake tears, feeling a cold, absolute fury. How dare she use the tragic deaths of the only family members who actually loved me as a prop for her sick show? They had ruined my life once, and now they wanted to bury me alive. I didn't hesitate. I slapped her hard across the face right in front of the flashing cameras. "That was for my father and brother." Then, my real fiancé, a decorated Delta Force commander, rolled through the crowd in his wheelchair. He tossed a classified Pentagon file to the reporters, completely clearing my name and exposing Kiana's lies. I married him to start my revenge, but as I stepped into his heavily secured penthouse that night, I realized my powerful new husband had been preparing for me for a very long time.

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8.4

Rising From Ashes: The Architect's Comeback

8.4

I woke up in a sterile hospital room with no memory of the lethal-looking man pacing outside the glass. My friend told me he was Dante Moretti, the Underboss of Chicago, and the fiancé I had supposedly worshipped for seven years. But the truth shattered me faster than the crash did. When our convoy was ambushed and the car caught fire, Dante didn't pull me out. He chose to save Valeria—the widow of a soldier he felt guilty about—leaving me to burn in the backseat. He called it a "tactical decision." I called it a death sentence. I thought losing my memory was a curse, but it was a gift. It stripped away the delusion of love. I saw a man who treated me like a useful piece of furniture. I saw a rival in Valeria who smirked while taking my job and my place. When she set a room on fire to frame me, Dante saved her again, leaving me to choke on the smoke. He even branded me a thief in front of the entire Commission to protect her lies. He thought I would always be there, the obedient statue waiting for his scraps. He was wrong. I fled to New York and walked straight into the arms of his sworn enemy, Enzo Falcone. A man who didn't just promise to protect me, but walked through fire to do it. Months later, when Dante finally realized the truth and crawled back to me in the rain, begging for a second chance, I looked him dead in the eye. "Forgetting you was the only peace I ever knew." I took Enzo’s hand, letting Dante see exactly what he had lost. "Remembering you just confirmed that you are a mistake I will never make again."

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9.6

Tamed by my Ruthless Biker

9.6

Chloe Decker has spent her whole life trying to stay out of trouble especially the kind that rides a motorcycle, wears a leather jacket, and smirks like the world belongs to him. Unfortunately, that trouble has a name: Alfie. They go to the same school, live in the same town, and hate each other with a passion that could burn down the world. He's the arrogant son of the Black Fangs MC President, while she's the quiet girl who wants nothing to do with the club or its reckless members. But when a cruel prank, a dangerous secret, and one unexpected night throw them together, Chloe's world begins to unravel. Alfie isn't just the ruthless biker everyone fears he's also the boy who can't stop looking at her like she's the only thing keeping him alive. Every fight between them feels like a spark. Every touch feels like a threat. And soon, their hate turns into something much darker and much harder to control. In a world filled with roaring engines, loyalty, and betrayal, love was never supposed to happen especially not between enemies. But fate has other plans, and Chloe will soon discover that sometimes, the most dangerous hearts are the ones that were meant for you all along.

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8.1

The Blood of The Hollow Moon

8.1

In a fractured world where emotion fuels magic and silence seals fate, Seren-Threadless and unclaimed-awakens a power long forgotten. When the Crimson Court attacks and the Maw begins to stir, she must navigate dominions ruled by wolves, witches, vampires, and Keepers, each bound by ancient threads of memory and grief. But Seren is no ordinary girl. She carries a crystal of bound silence, survives the Trial of the Moonbound, and becomes Driftbound-able to weave emotion itself. As war looms and Umbros, the sealed god of silence, begins to awaken, Seren must choose: destroy what remains of the world, or become the thread that binds it. Epic, lyrical, and haunting, Blood of the Hollow Moon is a tale of fractured magic, forgotten memory, and the courage to become more than fate intended.

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8.7

The Ghost Heiress: My Dangerous Double Life

8.7

I spent ten years living in a rusted trailer in Upstate New York, enduring the stench of stale cigarettes and the Millers' constant abuse. They called me a useless leech and a parasite, never realizing I was simply a top-tier operative known as "Ghost" waiting for the signal to return to my real life. The breaking point came when the Millers threw my muddy duffel bag into the dirt and shrieked at me to get out. As I walked away, a massive explosion leveled their home behind me, and a black Rolls-Royce Phantom pulled up to the curb. A man in white gloves opened the door and addressed me as "Miss Vance," announcing that my billionaire parents were finally waiting for me. But my homecoming was far from a fairytale. My biological mother was dying of heart failure, and my cousin Victoria publicly humiliated me, calling me "trailer trash" and mocking my lack of education. To make matters worse, I was forced into an engagement with Julian Sterling, a ruthless CEO who despised the idea of marrying a "charity case" like me. No one knew that the "meek" girl they pitied was leading a double life. While Victoria tried to shame me at dinner parties, I was busy infiltrating elite clubs in tactical bodysuits and stealing encrypted drives from Russian arms dealers. I had to play the role of the helpless, boring daughter while my own fiancé hunted the mysterious thief who had pinned him against a wall and kissed him breathless in the shadows. I thought my cover was perfect until Julian's grandmother collapsed on Fifth Avenue in full cardiac arrest. While the crowd stood paralyzed, I broke protocol and used a forbidden "Ghost Needle" technique to bring her back from the dead before vanishing into the crowd. That evening, Julian watched the viral footage of the miracle rescue, his eyes narrowing as he recognized the "uneducated" girl he was forced to marry. He realized the boring woman sitting across from him at dinner was the same dangerous operative who had outsmarted him at the club, and the hunt for the truth had finally hit home.

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9.6

The Oracle's Revenge: My Purchased Marriage

9.6

I’m the girl from the trailer park who married the coldest billionaire on Wall Street. To the world, I’m a lucky gold-digger. To Gustavus English, I’m just a $2 million "service fee" and a human shield to keep his board of directors from tearing him apart. The morning after he treated our intimacy like a cold business transaction, he threw a check at my face and called me a mistake. He didn't know that behind my "frightened doe" act, I was a finance genius at Columbia secretly shorting his company’s stock to destroy him from the inside. The humiliation was relentless. He forced me into expensive suits that made me look like a pathetic doll and paraded me in front of paparazzi to boost his stock price. Then his brother, Caspian, arrived—the man who laughed while bulldozing the orphanage of my childhood. Caspian recognized me, whispering threats of exposure while his eyes stripped me bare. "Don't method act with me, hillbilly. You aren't my wife," Gustavus hissed, pinning me against a marble wall. I felt the burning injustice of being a bought asset, trapped between a husband who despised me and a brother-in-law who wanted to break me. I was a victim playing a dangerous game, waiting for the right moment to strike. But at a high-stakes family dinner, the power struggle turned lethal. To stop his family from seizing his billions, Gustavus dropped a bomb that shattered my plans. "We are already working on an heir," he announced, activating a legal clause that froze the entire family trust. He dragged me into the shadows, his voice a dark command. "Now you have no choice. You get pregnant, or we lose everything. Don't make me regret this." He wanted a legacy to save his empire, but I was about to give him the most expensive mistake of his life.

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A Father's Betrayal: The Marrow

Chapter 3

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