Left At The Altar, She Became The Bride Of His Arch-Nemesis
Since returning to her family, Evelyn had never truly been accepted or treated as their own daughter.
On her wedding day, her parents chose her adopted sister over her, and the man she was supposed to marry abandoned her on the highway for his true love without even looking back once.
Heartbroken but resolute, she tore off her veil and stood before his rival. "I dare you to steal the bride."
Shane met her gaze. "Why wouldn't I?"
Their impulsive marriage shocked everyone. Her ex later begged, "Give me another chance."
Shane pulled her close, his voice cold. "Too late. She's my wife now."
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Chapter 7
One of Cole's friends stepped forward at once, his tone filled with anger. "Cole's been the one handling the Sterling Reach project from the start. Everyone knows he and Shane don't get along, so what you're doing right now is humiliating him!"
With reddened eyes, Kendra spoke softly, as if trying to smooth things over. "Ms. Fowler, I understand why you're upset about today. If you need someone to blame, then put it on me. Please don't take it out on Cole. He only left because he was worried about me."
A crease formed on Cole's forehead as his grip on Evelyn's hand tightened. "You're just acting out right now, so I'll ignore it this time. Besides, the contract is already secured. Bring it over tomorrow, and apologize to my mother."
Even at this point, he still believed she was only making a scene and that the Sterling Reach contract would eventually land in his hands.
Evelyn looked at him, and a hint of mockery flickered in her eyes. "Don't worry. I'll be visiting your family tomorrow."
And she would make sure everything changed.
With a sharp motion, she pulled her hand free and spoke without emotion. "I have something else to deal with."
Without sparing them another glance, she walked past them and left.
The following day, as Evelyn followed the butler into the Bennett family's living room, Sharon's voice reached her ears before she even stepped fully inside.
"You've spoiled her too much! She actually ran off on her wedding day. She's turned our family into a joke!"
Cole remained seated on the sofa, saying nothing.
Seated beside Sharon, Olivia Bennett, Cole's young sister, let out a mocking laugh. "If you ask me, Cole should've chosen Kendra from the start. With someone like Evelyn as my soon-to-be sister-in-law, I can't even hold my head up in Slomery."
She added, "Let's be honest, if Kendra didn't have heart disease and could have children, Evelyn would never have had a chance at becoming Cole's wife."
Turning sharply toward her son, Sharon didn't hold back. "And you're no better! If you had gotten Evelyn pregnant earlier, would she even dare act like this now?"
A shadow passed over Cole's face, yet he said nothing in return.
Outside the doorway, Evelyn let out a quiet, cold laugh. In all the time she had spent with him, even something as simple as an embrace had barely happened.
After everything she had seen, she understood one thing clearly. His restraint had never been about her. It had always been for Kendra.
Without paying attention to the butler's uneasy look, Evelyn stepped inside.
The moment Cole saw her, he rose to his feet. "Evie, you made it."
"Looks like I arrived at the wrong moment." Evelyn's gaze swept across the room before settling on him. "I interrupted your discussion about me."
For a brief second, Cole's expression faltered, but he quickly moved closer. "You've got it wrong. We've been waiting for you."
While speaking, he extended his hand toward her. "Where's the contract? My father is upstairs. I'll bring it to him, and once everything checks out, the wedding will proceed."
"The wedding will proceed? That's not gonna happen!" A harsh sound rang out as Sharon slammed her cup onto the table. Her eyes locked onto Evelyn, filled with open hostility. "She's dragged our family's name through the mud! Everyone in Slomery is laughing at us now! If she still wants to marry you, that's fine!"
Her gaze dropped lower, lingering with clear intent. "But forget any ceremony. She already embarrassed us at the wedding yesterday. If she wants to be part of this family, then wait until she's carrying your child. Only then will we consider making it official. Otherwise, she can give up that idea entirely!"
A quiet laugh slipped from Olivia as she covered her mouth. "Mom, she's still a Fowler. Do you really think she'd agree to have my brother's child without a proper marriage?"
Disdain showed plainly on Sharon's face. "A Fowler? Don't make me laugh. She's nothing more than a woman from the countryside. Letting her step into this house was already more than she deserved."
Cole shifted slightly, unease flashing across his face, though his focus stayed elsewhere. "Mom, can we stop this already?"
All he cared about was getting the contract in hand. Everything else could be handled later.
With that in mind, he turned toward Evelyn, his tone softening. "Evie, don't take what my mother said seriously."
"It doesn't matter," she responded, and a faint smile curved on her lips as she cut in. Her eyes held a calm certainty as she continued. "To be honest, I never intended to marry you from the beginning."
For a second, Cole froze, caught off guard. He had always believed she wouldn't walk away from him, that she would even accept his mother's conditions without hesitation. Relief crept into his voice. "Evie, don't worry. Once we have a child, I'll make sure we get married right away."
Evelyn said nothing at first and simply watched them, the hint of a cold smile slowly forming.
"I won't be marrying you. Because..." With deliberate movement, she reached into her handbag and pulled out a document.
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7.3
Seven years ago, my fiancé, Don Dante Moretti, sent me to prison to take the fall for my adopted sister, Chiara. He called it a gift-a way to protect me from a worse fate.
Today, he picked me up from prison only to abandon me at my family's estate. His reason? Chiara was having another one of her "episodes."
My parents then informed me I'd be staying in the third-floor storage room, so as not to disturb the fragile girl who stole my life.
They celebrated her "recovery" with a lavish dinner party, while I was treated like a ghost. When I refused to join, my mother hissed that I was ungrateful, and my father called me jealous.
They assumed I couldn't understand their venomous whispers. But prison was my university. I learned Spanish. I understood every word.
It was then I realized I wasn't just a sacrifice; I was disposable. The love I once felt for all of them had turned to ash.
That night, in the dusty storage room, I logged onto an encrypted channel I'd set up years ago. A single message was waiting: "The offer stands. Do you accept?" My hands, scarred and steady, typed back, "I accept."
7.6
To pay for her father's life support, Haleigh sold herself into a marriage with Fabian Blackburn, a ruthless billionaire in a deep coma.
But on her wedding day, she caught her boyfriend cheating with her stepsister, laughing about how they would steal the inheritance the second Fabian stopped breathing. Cornered and desperate, Haleigh secretly underwent IVF using her comatose husband's frozen sperm to secure the family trust.
Weeks later, a miracle happened. Fabian woke up.
But instead of gratitude, he treated her like trash. He threw annulment papers at her face, completely disgusted by the arranged marriage.
"If you try any dirty tricks to get pregnant, I will personally drag you to a clinic and have that bastard scraped out of you."
Terrified, Haleigh hid her positive pregnancy test and desperately tried to hack her way to enough cash to escape. But while using his computer, she accidentally opened a highly classified folder.
Inside was a medical file and a photo of a severely disabled girl who looked exactly like Fabian.
Before she could process it, Fabian walked in. Seeing the screen, his cold mask shattered into pure, unhinged madness. He lunged across the room, lifting her off the floor by her throat, completely ignoring her desperate gasps for air.
"Lock her in the basement," he roared to his guards. "No food. No water."
Curled on the freezing concrete, clutching her newly pregnant belly, Haleigh didn't understand what she had just seen that turned him into a murderous monster.
But she knew one thing: if she didn't escape this terrifying estate, both she and his unborn heir would die in the dark.
9.5
Xander Savage plays with footballs.
Freya Woods plays with hearts.
The other plays to win, one plays for fun.
Xander is the campus football champion, gentle, gorgeous, misunderstood. Everyone thinks he's a player, but he's actually the only good boy in school.
Freya is the campus play girl, bold, wild.
When fate throws them together, sparks fly...Neither knows their souls have met before...long ago, in another life, where they loved passionately and broke disastrously. But this time? They're destined to rewrite their ending...can they actually re write the stars?
LOVE ME LIKE A CHAMPION is a reincarnation campus romance about a boy who loves too deeply and a girl who's terrified to be loved.
9.5
Janet woke up gasping, the phantom fire of a deadly explosion still scorching her lungs. She had been reborn three years in the past, on the exact day her mother forced her into a marriage contract with Gaylord Bradford, a paralyzed and severely disfigured billionaire.
Before she could even process her second chance, her cousin Kandy kicked the bedroom door open, flaunting a massive diamond ring. Kandy, who had also been reborn, smugly announced she had stolen Janet's Wall Street golden boy fiancé, Jax Adler.
"You're going to marry that paralyzed monster," Kandy spat, gloating that she would build a billionaire dynasty with Jax while Janet wiped drool off a rotting corpse. Kandy expected Janet to have a complete mental collapse, completely unaware that Gaylord's own medical team was secretly injecting him with lethal neurotoxins to finish him off.
But Janet only felt a cold, clinical pity. Kandy's "prophetic" memories were a polluted lie. Jax was actually sterile and dying of irreversible kidney failure, while Gaylord wasn't a dying freak—he was a dormant god whose body was merely in a high-dimensional hibernation. Why would Janet mourn losing a doomed fraud?
Leaving her delusional cousin behind, Janet packed her bags and headed straight to Gaylord's maximum-security military cell. She physically tackled his corrupt doctor, drove three bio-electric silver needles into the crippled king's spine to awaken his deadened nerves, and looked him dead in his glacial blue eye.
"Sign the marriage contract," Janet whispered. "I will make you walk again, and we will take back everything."
9.0
Eileen woke up in a trashed hotel room, her head pounding with the pathetic memories of a despised Hollywood actress.
Outside the window, paparazzi were already screaming about her manufactured cheating scandal, but the real nightmare was waiting at her door.
Her paralyzed, billionaire husband, Carlisle Vinson, looked at her with pure disgust while his butler shoved a divorce settlement at her chest.
"Mr. Vinson is offering a severance package of fifty million dollars, provided you sign immediately and vacate the premises."
The original owner had left her an absolute mess.
Her trusted assistant had sold her room number to the press to frame her, and a playboy had scammed her out of her entire two million dollar life savings.
If she signed those papers and lost the Vinson family's protection, the breach of contract fees and her enemies in the industry would swallow her alive in days.
Eileen felt a cold fury override the original owner's lingering panic.
Why should she take the fall and be thrown out on the streets while the parasites who set her up lived out their wealthy fantasies?
She had died once, and she wasn't about to waste her second chance playing the victim.
Eileen slammed the heavy divorce folder shut right against the butler's chest.
"I'm not signing," she said with a terrifying, absolute calm.
She stepped behind her husband's wheelchair, ready to shield him from the cameras, secretly cure his dead legs, and make everyone who betrayed her bleed.
9.5
How far are you willing to go for your family's company?
Eloise Jane Lopez is the one true child of the Lopezes, and due to her sick father's wish, she needs to marry a man she doesn't know to keep the company her parents manage in order. And the man she will marry is none other than Cosmo Dominguez, a multi-billionaire, whose supposed fiancée was Eloise's step-sister but got pregnant, leaving Eloise with no choice but to be the substitute bride.
After the wedding, Cosmo laid out another agreement with Eloise, that the marriage would only be temporary, and that they would have to separate after two years.
Can they uphold the signed agreement until the end, or can they stop the feelings forming between them?