Ex-wife Revenge

Sign the papers and disappear. You were never one of us." Those were the last words Seraphina Cole heard before the Ashford dynasty erased her existence. They took her marriage. They stole her unborn child with lies and cruelty. They branded her unstable, unworthy, disposable, then dumped her into the shadows with nothing but grief and shame. The Ashfords thought she broke. They never bothered to check if she survived. Three years later, Seraphina returns under a new name Rina Vale, silent partner of the Vale Consortium, a trillion-naira global empire that controls shipping lanes, tech patents, and political favors. Cold. Calculated. Untouchable. This time, she isn't asking for love. She's collecting debts. Her ex-husband wants forgiveness when he realizes who she is? She'll bankrupt his legacy. Her former mother-in-law prays for mercy? Rina will expose the secrets buried beneath her charity foundations. The family that murdered her child with negligence and lies? She'll tear them apart boardroom by boardroom. And standing beside her is Lucien Drake, a dangerous, brilliant billionaire with his own vendetta against the elite. He doesn't want to save her. He wants to help her burn them all. She didn't come back to heal. She came back to conquer.

I stepped out of the bedroom, sleep having abandoned me. I needed something-anything-to silence the noise inside me. But I wasn't alone. He was there. Standing in the dark, by the window... The top buttons of his shirt undone, a glass of whiskey between his fingers. He turned to me slowly. "Couldn't sleep?" I nodded, my voice barely a whisper. "I don't want to sleep." He took a step. Then another. Until he was right in front of me-close enough for the heat of his body to kiss my skin. He said, "You know you're playing with fire, don't you?" I looked into his eyes-those eyes that shattered all my defenses. And I whispered, voice trembling, "I'd rather burn... than stay this cold." I don't know who moved first. All I know is that suddenly, I was in his arms. Surrounded by his breath. And in that moment-I forgot my name, my marriage... everything. He leaned in, his breath rough against my ear. "I'm your husband's father... this is wrong." Then after a beat, "But I want it to happen." --- I married him to escape the pain. But my heart only beat for one man-his father. I thought marriage would bring peace. A shelter from a bleeding past. But I didn't realize I was stepping straight into the storm. A storm named Leonardo Ricardo. A man who knows no mercy. A man who never accepts defeat. And worst of all? He's my husband's father. His eyes trap me. His voice chains me. And his touch... His touch brands me with sin. What happens when a woman shifts from obedient wife to prey caught between two flames? One gave her his name. The other stole her soul. Forbidden Romance · Age Gap · Family Drama · Steamy · Dark Passion

Valeria was just a wife on paper. Three years of a hellish marriage with the only man she had ever loved but it ended in divorce one rainy night. "Sign them. I can no longer stand to see your face or pretend like I don't want to strangle you with my bare hands everytime I lay eyes on you." He barked coldly, throwing the papers on the table in front of her. She couldn't say it was unexpected. It had always been a matter of time. Once childhood friends, everything had gone to hell because of one woman, Isis Whittaker, Luka's late fianceé. An unfortunate accident. An incriminating message. Somehow, Luka came to believe Valeria was responsible for the death of the woman he loved and took it upon himself to punish her personally. Three years of torment and being labelled a murderer. She'd never thought the ending would be so...cathartic. Her hand lightly grazed her stomach as she signed the papers. Terrified of how she would explain she was pregnant from a night of passion he didn't even remember, she no longer needed to tell him. She would make sure he was never going to find out that she was carrying his son, the heir to the Thorne Empire. But then again, things never quite go as planned, she should have realized this by now...

She loved the wrong brother... and married the one who would never let her go. After her father's death, Zara Williams's life slowly begins to fall apart. Her family's company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and everything her father worked for is slipping away. The night she discovered her childhood crush, Adrian Wright, making love to her best friend, Dahlia. The betrayal shatters her completely. Heartbroken and desperate to save her father's company, Zara agrees to an arranged marriage with Dante Wright-Adrian's older brother, the man she least expected to marry. Dante is everything she never knew she needed-calm, protective, and dangerously sincere. But life in the Wright mansion is far from peaceful. Between a vengeful ex, deep family secrets, and hidden truths that threaten to destroy them both. Zara's heart is caught between love and survival. Can Zara survive the family she's married into? Can she trust the man she was forced to marry-or the best friend who ruined everything she believed in? When the final secret about her father is revealed, will their love survive the fallout-or will it end in heartbreak? Discover what happens as passion, betrayal, and truth collide in ways no one saw coming. *****

The story centers on Aria Vale, a 24 years old, petite but striking, with storm-gray eyes and long chestnut hair, she keeps tucked behind hoodies and hats. She's a woman who moves like a shadow: gentle, quiet, graceful, yet always bracing for danger. She works as a barista under a fake name, blending into the background. She's attractive not because she tries, but because she's a mystery wrapped in sorrow. She carries a secret that once destroyed her life, and will again if she's found. Her composure is soft, kind, withdrawn, she never raises her voice, yet her silence screams that she's been broken before. She believes love is a luxury she'll never taste again, she doesn't know that her greatest danger is no longer her past, but the man determined to uncover it. Damian Blackwell is a 32 years old 6'3", sharply sculpted, cold-eyed billionaire CEO of Blackwell Industries, a global investigative-security empire with jet-black hair, steel-blue eyes, tailored suits worth more than Aria's entire life savings. He is composed, controlled, and unreadable. A man who never smiles unless he's already won. Attractive for his dominance, his power, his unbending presence. One look from him feels like he sees everything you've ever tried to hide. Net worth: $48 billion Known as "The Ghost Hunter" in elite circles because he can find anyone, anywhere. But for the first time, he encounters someone who doesn't want to be found and that makes him obsessed. When Damian meets Aria, he notices something instantly, her fear. Not fear of him, but fear of being seen. He wasn't meant to notice her. He wasn't meant to care. He definitely wasn't meant to protect her. But when Aria is attacked outside her apartment, Damian steps in and realizes the men were not strangers. They were hunting her. And Aria knows exactly why. Now Damian wants answers. Aria wants escape. But danger wants her dead. She changed her name. She erased her past. She made herself invisible. Yet she captured the attention of the one man in the world who was never supposed to find her. And Damian? He's willing to burn entire empires just to keep her.

Aria Carter died betrayed. Her husband ignored her. Her best friend stabbed her in the back. Her family sold her off like a pawn. When she opened her eyes again three years earlier, on the night of her arranged marriage to the city's coldest CEO she swore this life would be different. No more weakness. No more blind love. No more kneeling. Damian Cross, the ruthless billionaire everyone fears, expected a docile wife to decorate his mansion. Instead, he got a woman who met his icy stare with fire of her own. Society sneers at her as the "Cold Wife." Her family calls her a disgrace. Her enemies plot her downfall. But this time, Aria isn't here to beg for scraps she's here to flip the board. Every betrayal will be repaid. Every secret will be exposed. And the husband who once ignored her? He's falling, dangerously, obsessively, in love. Yet beneath the glittering empire lies the truth of her first death... and if Aria isn't careful, the crown she claims may cost her heart all over again.