The Billionaire's Secret Blood Sacrifice Bride
Cora thought she was the luckiest woman alive, married to a devoted tech billionaire who showered her with custom haute couture and obsessive care.
But his "protection" involved locking her inside their San Francisco estate, forcing her to swallow foul neon-green supplements, and drawing her blood with highly classified veterinary needles.
She thought it was just his extreme paranoia, until a cynical doctor cornered her at a charity gala.
"Kendrick isn't raising a wife. He's curating a very rare, very fragile medical specimen. You're his personal pharmacy."
Terrified, Cora broke into Kendrick's hidden safe and found a medical report approving her total bone marrow and stem cell depletion.
Kendrick wasn't a doting husband. He was raising her as a human bloodbag to save his terminally ill cousin.
When she nearly uncovered the truth, Kendrick cried fake tears, claiming he only needed her antibodies.
"Tomorrow, we are going to my private island in the Caribbean. Just the two of us. No internet. No guards. Just peace."
Cora almost believed his vulnerable act, deeply confused by how a man who kissed her so tenderly could plan to slaughter her in cold blood.
Then, while packing for the trip, she dropped a wooden box, revealing a hidden flight manifesto.
Kendrick's return date was listed. Hers was completely blank.
Stapled to the back was a clinical schedule: Intensive Marrow Harvesting - Final Stage. Patient will not require return transport.
Hearing his heavy footsteps echoing in the hallway, Cora gripped the sharp edges of the broken box.
She was not going to be a slaughtered lamb on that island.
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Chapter 10
The black SUV tore through the gates of the San Francisco estate. Cora looked out the window and felt her stomach drop. The security detail had doubled. Men with earpieces and tactical vests stood at every corner of the property.
The guards pulled her out of the car and marched her straight into the grand living room.
Kendrick was supposed to be in Europe. Instead, he was sitting on the center sofa. He wasn't wearing a suit. He wore a black dress shirt, the sleeves rolled up, radiating a dark, suffocating energy.
On the glass coffee table in front of him sat the manila envelope from the safe.
Cora's heart stopped beating. Her knees buckled, and she barely caught herself on the edge of an armchair. This was it. He was going to kill her.
Kendrick slowly looked up. There was no rage in his eyes. Instead, they were bloodshot, filled with deep, agonizing exhaustion.
He stood up, walked over to her, and pulled her stiff, terrified body into a crushing embrace.
"Why didn't you just ask me, Cora?" Kendrick whispered, his voice cracking with emotion. "Why did you have to go sneaking around and break my heart like this?"
Cora froze. She pushed back slightly, staring at him in total confusion. "Are... are you dying, Kendrick?"
Kendrick let out a bitter, broken laugh. He led her to the sofa and forced her to sit. He reached into the manila envelope and pulled out a second file-one Cora hadn't seen.
He placed it in front of her. It was a medical profile with a photo of a frail, sickly teenage girl. The name read: Isabela Yates - Cousin.
"She has a rare, terminal bone marrow disease," Kendrick said, a single tear slipping down his cheek. "She is the sole heir to my mother's side of the family, the Yates Consortium. If she dies, the entire corporate empire falls into the hands of ruthless board members who will tear our legacy apart. I've been desperately trying to find a match."
He took Cora's hands in his. "I was drawing your blood to see if your unique antibodies could be used in an experimental drug trial for her. I didn't tell you because I didn't want to burden you with my family's curse."
Cora stared at the photo of the dying girl.
"And the pills?" she whispered, her voice trembling.
"Expensive immune boosters," Kendrick said, wiping his eyes. "I just wanted to keep you healthy. I'm so sorry I forced them on you. I was just so stressed."
The perfectly forged medical file and the raw vulnerability in his tears shattered Cora's defenses. A massive wave of guilt crashed over her. She had thought her husband was a monster, when he was actually a desperate man trying to save a child.
She threw her arms around his neck, burying her face in his shoulder, sobbing apologies.
Kendrick rested his chin on the top of her head. Where Cora couldn't see, his eyes turned completely dead. There was no sadness. Only cold, calculating triumph.
He stroked her back gently. "The media, the family... it's all too much. I canceled the Europe trip. Tomorrow, we are going to my private island in the Caribbean. Just the two of us. No internet. No guards. Just peace."
Cora, drowning in relief and fake love, nodded eagerly against his chest.
Late that night, Cora stood in the massive walk-in closet, packing her suitcase for the island. She felt lighter than she had in weeks.
She reached for the rosewood aromatherapy box Karen had given her. As she lifted it, it slipped from her fingers and hit the hardwood floor.
The impact popped the velvet lining on the bottom of the box loose.
Cora knelt to pick it up. As she reached for the velvet, her fingers brushed against a hidden compartment built directly into the base of the wood. Inside lay a tightly folded piece of paper and a small, unmarked glass vial.
She pulled the paper out and unfolded it under the closet lights. It was a private aviation flight manifesto for the trip tomorrow. Kendrick's name was listed with a return date for next week. Next to her name, the return date column was completely blank. Stapled to the back of the manifesto was a clinical schedule bearing Kendrick's signature: 'Intensive Marrow Harvesting - Final Stage. Patient will not require return transport.'
The smile vanished from Cora's face. The blood drained from her head so fast she swayed on her knees. Kendrick had used his sweet, unsuspecting aunt's gift box to hide his darkest secrets, knowing Cora would never suspect a present from Karen.
The gentle aunt. The crying husband. The isolated island with no internet.
The puzzle pieces violently slammed together. It wasn't a romantic getaway. It was a slaughterhouse.
Footsteps echoed in the hallway.
Cora clutched the wooden box so hard her fingernails dug into her palms.
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Chandler was the secret wife of Avery Osborn, a powerful media heir who kept their marriage hidden to avoid the scandal of her illegitimate birth.
After catching him openly flirting with a rival at a gala, Avery mocked her low status and told her she was nothing without his money.
Instead of crying, Chandler immediately signed a zero-payout divorce agreement, left her wedding ring on his glass table, and walked out.
To numb the pain of her shattered life, she went to a notorious underground club.
Drugged by a bartender, she lost her mind and ended up having a wild night with a handsome stranger she mistook for a high-end male escort.
Panicking the next morning, Chandler transferred her entire life savings of $50,000 to the man to buy his silence, then fled to her corporate job.
But at the afternoon executive meeting, her blood ran cold.
The man she had paid off was standing at the head of the boardroom table. He wasn't a gigolo. He was Brennan George, the ruthless new COO of her company.
Cornering her in the women's restroom, Brennan held up a printed copy of her $50,000 wire transfer.
"Wiring a massive sum of cash to your direct superior after a night together is classified as commercial bribery and solicitation," he whispered dangerously.
Chandler was terrified, realizing she had handed him the exact evidence needed to destroy her career and sue her into bankruptcy.
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Elise thought her life was finally falling into place. She turned down her father's company to work as executive assistant to Marcus Grey-the boy she's loved since childhood, now the powerful CEO she's devoted her life to.
But when Marcus proposes to another woman, Elise's world crumbles. Enter Sebastian Deluca-Marcus's tattooed, ruthless, long-estranged brother. He's everything Marcus isn't: dangerous, magnetic, and determined to take back his place in New York.
But, there's something odd about him.
Something changed since he arrived.
Bound by family secrets and a mutual desire to expose Marcus's fiancée, Elise and Sebastian form an uneasy alliance. But as sparks ignite between them, Elise must choose: remain loyal to the boy she thought she loved, or risk everything for the man who sees her as more than a shadow.
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7.4
Evelina Barrett was the legitimate daughter, yet she was framed for a disgusting sex scandal, expelled from the Ivy League, and locked out of her late mother's massive trust fund.
While she was thrown out to rot on the streets with a jagged, hideous red scar covering half her face, her father and step-family were throwing a lavish charity gala to celebrate her total ruin.
They laughed as they officially published her disownment notice in the Times to cut her off forever.
"Without the school halo, that ugly freak will be begging on the streets by tomorrow," her sister Aspen sneered.
Her stepmother Annabella toasted to taking out the trash, perfectly happy to steal Evelina's inheritance while ignoring the fact that Evelina knew exactly how they had murdered her mother.
For years, Evelina had been locked in a dark basement, abused by bodyguards, and treated worse than a stray dog.
Why should she, the true heir, suffer in the gutter while the leeches who destroyed her life enjoyed the wealth that rightfully belonged to her?
She refused to be their victim anymore.
Washing away her fake scar to reveal her true, breathtaking face, Evelina blackmailed New York's most lethal billionaire into marriage to secure the ultimate shield.
Then, she put on a black mourning dress, ordered a dark web ghost crew, and climbed into a heavy semi-truck.
At exactly 6:00 PM, she smashed through the iron gates of her family's elegant gala, delivering three pure black coffins directly to the lawn.
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I was a top cardiac surgeon, trapped in a dead marriage with a ruthless billionaire.
One afternoon, he brought his mistress to my hospital, ordering me to perform her high-risk heart surgery.
When I refused and handed him our divorce papers, he violently tore them up and threatened to erase my name from the medical community.
Worse, I discovered they had a five-year-old surrogate son—bought and born the exact same year I bled out on an operating table, losing our baby.
The mistress mocked my trauma, calling me a barren piece of trash who couldn't give him an heir.
I slapped her across the face.
The next morning, the NYPD publicly handcuffed me in my own hospital.
She had framed me for attempted murder, claiming I injected her IV with a lethal dose of potassium.
My husband cornered me in the interrogation room.
"Just confess to me. I will throw enough money at the DA to make this entirely disappear."
I looked into his dark eyes and saw nothing but raw, unfiltered suspicion.
He actually believed I was a jealous murderer.
I swore I would rather rot in a concrete cell for the rest of my life than bow down to them.
Just as my childhood savior miraculously appeared to bail me out, my phone rang.
The mistress had gone into full cardiac arrest.
Only I had the surgical skill to save her.
I turned around, deciding whether to let the woman who ruined my life die, or pick up my scalpel.
9.4
I was the Thornton Pack's brilliant but "wolfless" assistant, a defect they treated like a charity case.
After years of letting the Alpha, Caleb, control me to prove my worth, he publicly humiliated and discarded me for a pure-blooded pack princess.
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I woke up to find out I had drunkenly claimed Damien Blackwood—a ruthless billionaire and the apex Lycan King of the werewolf world.
To prevent a pack war over the claiming mark, Damien trapped me in a two-year contract marriage, treating me like a convenient political tool.
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