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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For Nina's sake, I rented an apartment near the hospital.

Over the years, even though caring for a sick child left me with little time, I still made delicate jewelry pieces and sold them online.

Over time, I built up a group of loyal customers and managed to save a decent amount—enough to support basic living expenses.

As for Nina's future medical expenses, I would naturally ask Adrian for them.

As her father, that was his responsibility.

"Mom, I kind of miss Dad. He never used to stay away this long without coming to see me." At the dining table, Nina looked down, her voice low. "Does Dad not like me anymore? Is he really going to be someone else's dad?"

It had been a week since we moved. Aside from the call he missed on the first day, Adrian hadn't contacted us at all.

"No, that's not it. Dad's just been busy trying to find ways to treat your illness. Next week, I'll take you to see him, okay?"

I didn't want to see her upset.

Besides, once I finalized the details of the collaboration, it would be time to meet Adrian and move forward with the divorce procedures.

At the same time, Adrian had just left the hospital.

Mia's surgery had gone smoothly. Only then did he feel at ease enough to come look for me.

While waiting at a red light, Adrian lit a cigarette out of habit. As he rolled down the window, his pupils suddenly tightened.

In a café not far away, I was discussing plans to establish my own jewelry brand with a business partner, completely unaware of Adrian's call.

When I got home, Adrian was already standing at the door.

"I brought your favorite seafood salad. Let's talk inside."

Thinking of Nina, I silently took it and let him in.

In truth, I hadn't been able to eat seafood for a long time. After giving birth, I developed a severe allergy to it.

Even the cleaning staff at the Foster Estate knew that.

"You came at the right time. Let's settle the divorce today. I know you've always loved Sophia. I'm willing to step aside for her. I only have two conditions—Nina's custody must go to me, and three hundred million dollars in cash. I'll spend every cent of that on Nina. No matter what, you're still her father. She cares about you a lot, so I hope you'll come see her when you have time."

"Nora, when did I ever say I wanted a divorce?" Adrian dropped his usual impatience, his voice turning gentle. "If you leave me, what will you rely on to survive? The outside world isn't what it used to be."

He glanced around the 150-square-meter apartment before continuing, "How much money can those little things you make even bring in? It'd be hard just to cover the rent for this place. Nora, I just neglected you for a while. You've made your point. Come back home with me."

Adrian raised his hand to touch my head, but I stepped back and avoided him.

"It wasn't neglect. Adrian, you never cared about me at all."

But what about Nina?" I demanded, my eyes red. "She's your biological daughter! Do you even know her life-saving bone marrow is gone?"

The words that had been choking me finally burst out. My emotions broke loose completely, and I sobbed uncontrollably.

"I know. I know." A flicker of guilt passed through Adrian's eyes as he pulled me into his arms. "Nora, didn't you say before… that if it came to it, we could have another child? That way, we can definitely save Nina."

My heart wavered.

I had mentioned it before. But Adrian also knew that after giving birth to Nina, my body was no longer the same. Another pregnancy might be more than I could endure.

But now that he brought it up himself, it probably meant there were no other options left.

"Dad! You're here!"

Nina ran out, still half-asleep. After the initial excitement, she puffed up her cheeks and turned her face away.

Adrian knew exactly why she was upset. He had already prepared her favorite doll.

"Nina, I bought this just for you. Forgive me, okay? And I've decided—over the next three days, I'll take you and Mom to a hot spring resort. I'll stay with you the whole time. I won't leave at all!"

Nina's eyes lit up. Adrian lifted her into his arms and shot me a glance.

I was still hesitating when Nina looked at me eagerly, "Mom! Mom! I want to go!"

Nina hadn't been this happy in days. I didn't want to disappoint her, so I nodded in agreement.

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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 5

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