Trapped In His Cruel Six Year Contract

Essie sold herself to ruthless billionaire Kieran Cortez on a six-year contract just to pay for her paralyzed brother's staggering medical bills. But the morning Kieran’s face was plastered on the front page announcing his engagement to a wealthy heiress, he violently refused to let Essie go. When she quietly asked if their contract was over, he trapped her against the marble counter. "You don't have the right to call this off. It would be a shame if Charles lost his spot in the medical trial." Trapped, Essie endured his brutal, punishing kisses in hidden corners, terrified of being discovered by his new fiancée, who worked as a doctor at her hospital. But the ultimate betrayal came from home. When her brother saw the dark, violent bruises Kieran had deliberately left on her neck, he didn't care about her sacrifices. He threw scalding coffee on her burned hand. "You disgusting whore! I would rather die than use the dirty money you make spreading your legs!" Even Kieran's fiancée investigated her finances, cornering her to smugly warn her to know her place as a lowly sugar baby. Essie had sacrificed her dignity, her body, and her soul to keep her brother alive, only to be treated like disposable trash by the man who owned her and despised by the family she saved. Why did her endless sacrifices only buy her a suffocating, inescapable hell? Staring at the phone screen flashing with Kieran’s demand to be at his penthouse by eight, a dead calmness finally washed over her. She held down the power button until the screen went black. Even if his wrath destroyed her tomorrow, tonight, she was taking her life back.

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The evening shift ended. Essie stood in front of her metal locker in the cramped changing room, peeling off her scrubs that smelled faintly of bleach and rubbing alcohol.

The head nurse pushed the door open. Her tone left no room for argument. "Essie, tonight is the department dinner. The hospital's primary investor, Mr. Cortez, will be there to discuss next quarter's budget. Everyone must attend to make a good impression."

Essie gripped her locker door. "I really don't feel well," she started to say.

"If you skip team building, I'm docking your monthly bonus," the head nurse snapped, shutting the door.

Essie took the subway from the hospital and walked to a dimly lit, absurdly expensive French restaurant in Midtown Manhattan.

She pushed open the heavy oak door of the private dining room. The space was already packed with her laughing, drinking coworkers.

Essie was wearing a cheap, faded black sweater. She kept her head down and walked straight to the empty chair at the very end of the long dining table.

The second she pulled out her chair and sat down, she heard Maureen and Denise whispering loudly next to her.

"How do you think she affords her brother's medical bills?" Maureen whispered, her voice dripping with malice.

Denise covered her mouth and giggled. "Where does she get the money for his treatments? Look at her clothes, she's not from our world. It's definitely not from a clean source."

Essie's fingers clamped around her glass water goblet. She squeezed it so hard her joints ached, but she kept her eyes glued to the tablecloth, pretending she was deaf.

The oak door was respectfully pushed open by a waiter.

Adelle walked in, her arm looped through Kieran's. She was glowing.

The entire room went silent. Everyone stood up and started clapping.

Kieran handed his cashmere overcoat to the waiter. His dark eyes swept the room and landed with pinpoint accuracy on Essie, huddled in the corner.

He walked to the head of the long table and sat down. Adelle sat pressed against his side. They looked like a king and queen surveying their subjects.

The waiters began serving the food. Tiny, expensive escargot and bottles of vintage red wine were placed on the table.

Adelle raised her crystal wine glass. She elegantly thanked everyone for their wishes and started talking about the massive wedding they were planning in the Hamptons.

Essie kept her head bowed. She mechanically pushed the food around her porcelain plate with her fork. Her stomach was tied in knots; she couldn't swallow a single bite.

Maureen, desperate to kiss up to Adelle, leaned forward and loudly asked Kieran what he thought of the wedding venue.

Kieran leaned back in his chair. He crossed his long legs. He didn't look at Maureen. His eyes stared straight down the length of the table, burning holes into Essie.

Essie felt the crushing weight of his stare. She panicked and jerked her head up, crashing straight into his bottomless, pitch-black eyes.

Kieran's gaze was filled with a lethal warning and a sickening, possessive rage.

Essie's hand jerked violently. The heavy silver fork slipped from her fingers and slammed against the ceramic plate with a loud, piercing clatter.

Every single pair of eyes in the room snapped to Essie. Adelle's perfect eyebrows pulled together in a frown.

Essie frantically snatched the fork off the table. "I'm sorry," she mumbled, her face burning hot.

Kieran let out a sudden, cold laugh. He shoved his chair back and stood up abruptly.

The wooden chair legs scraped harshly against the marble floor. The entire room froze in dead silence.

"I have a cross-border video conference to take," Kieran said coldly. He didn't spare anyone a second glance as he turned and walked toward the door.

Adelle's face stiffened. She reached out to stop him, but Kieran didn't even turn his head. He pulled the door open and walked out.

The atmosphere in the room plummeted below freezing. Suddenly, Essie felt a short, sharp vibration against her thigh. Her phone.

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Billionaire Modern Mystery

7.6

Married To The Ruthless Disgraced Billionaire

7.6

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Billionaire Modern Romance

7.0

My Coldhearted Ex-Husband Demands A Remarriage

7.0

Erika was a disgraced ex-wife, struggling to survive in a freezing Brooklyn slum to raise her five-year-old son. But her billionaire ex-husband, Doyle Morgan, wasn't done destroying her. He orchestrated a cruel trap, forcing her to deliver a custom sapphire brooch to his new mistress, just to watch her get humiliated and severely burned by scalding coffee. When Erika fought back and refused to beg, Doyle's punishment was swift. He demoted her to scrubbing executive toilets with raw, bleeding hands. Starved, exhausted, and pushed to the absolute brink of organ failure, she finally collapsed lifelessly in front of him in Central Park. For five years, she had endured his relentless torment and the world's mockery just to keep her child safe. Doyle despised her, convinced her son was the filthy proof of her cheating with another man. He didn't know the boy was actually the child of his deceased older brother, conceived in a dark, drugged hotel room. Why couldn't he just leave them alone to suffer in peace? But when Erika woke up in the VIP hospital ward, the nightmare took a terrifying turn. Doyle pinned her weak wrists to the mattress, his eyes burning with a dark, possessive obsession. He had figured out the truth about the boy's bloodline. "He's a Morgan. He has my family's blood in his veins, and I will not allow my nephew to be raised in a slum. If you can't care for him, I will. From this moment on, you and that boy belong to me. And you are never leaving my sight again."

Billionaire Modern Romance

9.5

Rejected Heiress And The Ruthless CEO

9.5

For twenty years, Krista lived as the perfect daughter of the wealthy Cain family. But a single DNA report shattered her entire world. Her adoptive parents coldly declared she was just a mistake and immediately replaced her with the true bloodline. Desperate, she ran through the freezing rain to find her fiancé, only to hear him laughing with his friends. "Marry a fake? I don't collect the Cain family's second-hand trash." She slapped him, threw her diamond ring at his chest, and stumbled into a jazz lounge to drown her pain. Drunk and heartbroken, she accidentally crashed into a stranger, clinging to him like a lifeline, which ended in a wild night in a luxury penthouse. When she woke up, she realized the man she had ravaged was Jasper Stone, the most ruthless, cold-blooded billionaire on Wall Street. At the same time, her phone lit up with notifications. Her bank accounts were frozen, and the Cain family had just released a brutal public statement permanently cutting her off. She was completely abandoned, stripped of her home, her family, and her dignity in a single night. Why was twenty years of loyalty erased so easily? But instead of kicking her out, Jasper tossed a prenuptial agreement onto the bed. "Pay off your debt with marriage. Stay, and you are the untouchable Mrs. Stone." Looking at the contract, Krista wiped her tears, put on bold red lipstick, and signed her name.

Billionaire Modern Romance

8.2

The Fake Blind Heiress's Sweet Revenge

8.2

After an accident left me blind, I spent six months trapped in darkness, relying entirely on my devoted fiancé and my caring adoptive sister. But when my vision miraculously returned one morning, the first thing I saw was the two of them tangled in my guest room bed. "As soon as that blind bitch signs the marriage proxy, the money defaults to my control." I kept my eyes unfocused and played the fool. I watched as they forged my signature to drain my thirty-million-dollar trust fund. My adoptive parents even demanded I surrender my company shares because a disabled woman was a liability. When I refused, they went completely insane. Under the guise of a family dinner, they locked me in a VIP room with a grotesque Wall Street vulture, planning to sell my body to save their bankrupt business. I had given this family everything, yet they were dissecting my life like vultures, convinced I was just a helpless, blind toy they could easily throw away. But they had no idea I had already hired a supposedly homeless man to be my proxy husband to protect my assets. And they certainly didn't know this "beggar" was actually the ruthless, hidden billionaire heir of the Sweeney family. Gripping the hidden knife inside my dress, I dropped the blind act. It was time to burn them all to the ground.

Action Billionaire Modern

8.4

The Jilted Heiress In Blood Red

8.4

Harlene was locked out of her own family's estate in a freezing blizzard, still trembling from a severe panic attack. Her mother delivered a cold ultimatum through a security screen: attend her golden-child sister Estella's award gala, or lose her medical funds. To make it worse, her ex-fiancé, Dennis, had chimed in to call her embarrassing and pathetic. At the gala, Harlene was treated like a diseased outcast. Dennis fiercely protected his new lover, Jailyn—the very woman who had stolen Harlene's designs. But the ultimate betrayal came when Estella flaunted a silver-embroidered antique dress. It was Harlene's grandmother's dress, her only pure memory of love, handed over to the enemy as a trophy. When Harlene demanded answers, her own father slapped her across the face in front of the press, just to protect their pristine image. They had stolen her career, her fiancé, and her inheritance, all while branding her the crazy, unstable daughter. The sheer hypocrisy and cruelty finally severed the last thread of her sanity. Why should she play the silent victim while they played the perfect family? Instead of crying, Harlene smiled. She drew a hidden dagger, slashed the antique dress to ribbons, and dragged Estella and Jailyn to the center stage. Standing under the blinding spotlight with a bloody blade, she looked out at the terrified crowd. "The Beaumont family is done hiding," she declared into the microphone. "Tonight, the curtain falls."

Billionaire Modern Romance

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