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Reborn, I Ruined Their Perfect Life
Mafia I spent five years laundering my family's wealth and buying military-grade weapons to crown my husband, Alistair, the Don of the Chicago Mafia.
But the night before his coronation, he drove an Italian stiletto into my stomach.
He sneered that a Don needed a true Mafia Queen, and that was always meant to be his "fragile" friend, Kylie.
As I bled out on the Persian rug, he revealed the sickening truth.
The night I was found in a rival Irish boss's bed two years ago wasn't a setup by our enemies. Alistair had ordered his own mother and sister to drug and frame me.
He just needed me terrified enough to sign over my merchant trust fund to prove my loyalty.
My entire marriage, my sacrifices, and my stolen wealth were just stepping stones for him and his mistress.
I had bled for him and won him the city, only to be slaughtered like a sacrificial lamb so he could hand my empire to another woman.
Before the flames I started consumed us both, I swore I'd drag his entire family to hell.
Opening my eyes again, the suffocating smoke was gone, replaced by the scent of lavender and the bitter taste of chloral hydrate.
I was back on the exact night of the frame-up two years ago.
Outside the door, my sister-in-law was whispering, waiting for the Irish boss to arrive so they could ruin me.
This time, I was going to make sure she was the one in that bed. His Secret Son, Her Public Shame
Modern I was Aliana Donovan, a resident physician, finally reunited with the wealthy family I' d been lost from as a child. I had loving parents and a handsome, successful fiancé. I was safe. I was loved. It was a perfect, fragile lie.
The lie shattered on a Tuesday when I discovered my fiancé, Ivan, wasn't at a board meeting but at a sprawling mansion with Kiera Reese, the woman I was told had a mental breakdown five years ago after trying to frame me.
She wasn' t disgraced; she was radiant, holding a little boy, Leo, who giggled in Ivan' s arms.
I overheard their conversation: Leo was their son, and I was merely a "placeholder," a means to an end until Ivan no longer needed my family's connections. My parents, the Donovans, were in on it, funding Kiera' s lavish life and their secret family.
My entire reality-the loving parents, the devoted fiancé, the security I thought I' d found-was a carefully constructed stage, and I was the fool playing the lead role. The casual lie Ivan texted me, "Just got out of the meeting. So exhausting. I miss you. See you at home," while he stood beside his real family, was the final blow.
They thought I was pathetic. They thought I was a fool. They were about to find out just how wrong they were. His Deceit, My Vengeance
Romance I stood at the awards ceremony, basking in the success of my firm, Miller Thompson, and eagerly anticipating my fiancé David Chen' s arrival. He' d texted that he was in a last-minute investor meeting, brimming with pride for me.
Then I saw the ring. On another woman' s hand. The Möbius strip engagement ring I had designed for David, the one he claimed he' d lost six months ago in Singapore. And then I heard her on the phone, cooing to "David" about their child, Leo, and him laughing in the background.
My world shattered. David, my loving fiancé who talked about our future, was secretly a husband and father living a parallel life-a life I was unknowingly funding. All those late nights, "tech conferences," and tearful stories about "lost" rings were elaborate lies designed to extract my money and trust. My heart pounded with the sickening realization: I was his chief investor, not his partner in love.
How could I have been so blind? He was the architect of my dreams, or so he said. He was everyone' s favorite, my parents adored him. All the while, he was building another life with someone else, using my money, my network, and my love as his foundation. Every memory we shared, every promise he made, turned into a grotesque parody of the truth.
The fury that replaced my shock solidified my resolve. I dropped the phone on his name and typed two words: "Call me." This was no longer about heartbroken despair; it was about cold, calculating vengeance. He had stolen my future, my money, and my trust. Now, I would make him pay. Love Forged in Flames of Hate
Young Adult The fire consumed everything.
It wasn' t an accident. I lit it myself, watching the flames devour the apartment where I' d cried for so many nights, wiping away the misery.
Across the room, Tiffany Chen, my former roommate and so-called friend, was tied to a chair, her eyes wide with terror, her expensive clothes torn and dirty.
She was the one who lured me, a naive college kid struggling with tuition and rent, into her family' s predatory online loan scheme.
She promised quick cash, easy approval, a solution to all my problems.
Instead, the money never materialized, the interest rates ballooned to illegal levels, and the "online loan" turned into a hundred-thousand-dollar nightmare.
When I couldn't pay, she forced me into her family' s "club" -a hellhole where rich men paid to do whatever they wanted, and I was just another girl forced to endure their hands.
But that wasn't enough. She released photos and videos of me online, sending them to my university and my quiet hometown.
The shame broke my parents; my father died of a heart attack, and my mother drowned herself a week later.
With nothing left to lose, I found Tiffany, doused her apartment in gasoline, and watched her scream as the flames reached her.
Then, a blinding light, a jolt, and I gasped awake, not in a burning apartment, but in my old dorm room.
Tiffany Chen sat at her desk, putting on makeup, looking young, happy, and completely innocent.
"Bad dream?" she asked, with the same smile that started my nightmare.
The date on her digital clock confirmed it: I was back at the very beginning.
This time, I was ready to play a different game. The Man She Had To Hide
LGBT+ Today was my 18th birthday, the day I was supposed to inherit a fortune and officially become the man my family expected.
But all I wanted was to be the woman I truly was, especially for Chris, my best friend.
Then, at my birthday party, I suddenly heard it – Chris' s thoughts, loud and clear.
He loved me. Not as his male best friend, Alex, but with a fierce, forbidden passion that surprised even him.
He was willing to throw away his wealthy fiancée, his family' s expectations, and his entire future, all for "Alex."
It was the most incredible, terrifying revelation.
How could I possibly tell him the truth – that the "man" he loved was actually Alexandra, a woman forced to pretend for 18 years?
My carefully laid plans to confess shattered, replaced by the terrifying realization that my truth might break the man who loved me more than anything.
I knew then: I had to secure my family' s future, then, and only then, could I reveal the real me, and pray his love was as strong as his thoughts proclaimed. The Path Less Traveled
Romance The heavy champagne glass felt wrong in my hand; I was thirty-six, not sixteen, moments from my life imploding.
But here I was, back at my sweet sixteen party, the terrifying start of two decades of hell.
My step-sister, Chloe, just offered me a spiked drink, the same one that had once drugged me, leading to a staged scandal that branded me a gold-digger and forced me into a loveless marriage with Liam, my cold, manipulative fiancé.
I remembered every agonizing detail: the public humiliation, Liam' s family discarding me like trash after I' d bled myself dry saving their failing business, and my eventual lonely death in a hospital bed.
I clutched my glass, a spark igniting in the darkness of my memories-I knew the script this time, and I was going to burn it to the ground. The Twin They Tried To Erase: My Mother's Million-Dollar Lie
Modern My final ballet scholarship audition was supposed to be my destiny.
Instead, I found myself in a police interrogation room, accused of stealing from a sick girl.
My own mother sat beside me, dabbing fake tears, whispering for me to confess to a "moment of weakness" while orchestrating my ruin.
They showed me a security photo of a girl who looked exactly like me stuffing cash from a donation box.
I denied it, but the overwhelming evidence, coupled with my mother' s performance, painted me as a desperate thief, shattering my ballet dreams and reputation.
I couldn' t understand why my mother, the one person who should have supported me, was so determined to destroy my life.
For years, she had subtly sabotaged my auditions-a slippery substance on my pointe shoes causing a career-ending injury, a powerful laxative in my "power smoothie" making me miss another crucial tryout.
Now, she was pushing me to confess to a crime I didn't commit, driving me to the brink of suicide.
Lying in a hospital bed after a desperate overdose, a chilling truth clicked into place: my grandmother' s multi-million dollar trust fund, accessible at 21 or upon "significant professional success," would go to my mother if I died or was deemed incompetent.
It was never about my ballet; it was about the inheritance, and every "accident" was a calculated attempt to break me.
In that moment, I knew I had to fight back, not as a victim, but with every fiber of my being. The Silent Liberator
Modern The Hugheses' estate shimmered with white roses and sunlight, a picture-perfect setting for Caleb' s wedding.
I stood at the edge of the manicured lawn, a single dark spot in a sea of pastel suits.
He was marrying a kind schoolteacher named Nicole, a carefully chosen part of the gilded cage his adoptive parents had built around him.
I just looked past them, toward the white tent where Caleb stood, a stranger in his expensive tuxedo.
He looked like the town' s beloved veterinarian, the perfect son.
But I knew the real Caleb, the boy who hid under flimsy beds in the foster home, the one who dreamed of the ocean.
As he cut the cake, I slipped through the guests, a quiet shadow.
I leaned in close, lips beside his ear.
"It' s okay to be you."
For a terrifying second, nothing happened.
Then, his entire body went rigid.
The polite smile shattered like porcelain.
He snatched the cake knife and lunged, stabbing Nicole repeatedly.
Blood bloomed across her white dress, turning the perfect wedding into a scene of horror.
They took Caleb, catatonic, and me, silent.
Detective Stevens looked at me, weary and cynical.
"You whispered something in his ear, and he butchered his new bride. What did you say?"
I stayed silent.
They called me a witch, a puppet master, a monster.
I watched Nicole' s parents weep on TV, calling for my arrest, and felt a deep, hollow ache for them, for her.
No one understood.
Five years later, the Hugheses announced Caleb' s "recovery" and a grand welcome-home party, on the anniversary of the wedding.
They were putting him back in his cage, this time with reinforced bars.
I knew it was time.
I pulled out the navy dress. A Year To Find Forever
Romance My husband, Ethan, had been by my side for ten years, treating me with unwavering devotion, a quiet chef supporting my empire.
I was Jocelyn Anderson, COO of a hospitality giant, a Wharton graduate, and frankly, too busy to notice. I saw him as steady, uncomplicated-a strategic move to keep my family off my back, nothing more.
Then, he served me divorce papers. Not with a shout, but with a flat, hollow voice that cut deeper than any anger. He'd found an old email, a careless confession I'd sent before our wedding: I' d called him "safe," a "placeholder."
He was gone.
His things vanished from our silent condo, his number blocked. My family sneered, relieved the "gold-digger" was gone. But for the first time, seeing his absence, hearing their cruel words, I felt a panic I couldn't explain. I saw the empty space he left, the quiet support I'd taken for granted.
A friend' s blunt truth hit me: "You'll wear him out."
And I had. He wasn't just a husband; he was the anchor I never knew I needed. Now, he was free, pursuing his dreams without me. The thought alone was a punch to the gut.
I chased him across the country, from Wyoming to Seattle, desperate to apologize, to explain, to salvage what I finally realized was precious. But he was cold, detached, a stranger.
"You're just not used to me being gone," he said. "This isn' t love, it' s habit."
Then came his ultimate challenge: "Hike the Skyline Trail to Panorama Point in six hours.
If you make it, we' ll talk." I stood at the mountain's base, in designer loafers and a business suit, facing the impossible. I accepted. Wife Undisclosed: The Ultimate Power Play
Romance My manager Brenda was hounding me for content to revive my flat music career. To get her off my back, I casually posted a mirror selfie wearing my husband, NFL superstar Liam O' Connell' s, custom varsity jacket.
Within an hour, my phone exploded. The internet went wild, declaring I was faking it for clout, trying to ride the coattails of a man I supposedly didn' t know. Then pop star Ashley Vance, who' d been aggressively pushing a fake "power couple" narrative with Liam, jumped in. She posted a picture of herself in a cheap knockoff, publicly accusing me of being "fake talent with fake everything."
Her millions of fans, the "Vance Vipers," swarmed my social media, tearing me apart. They called me a clout-chasing wannabe, comparing me to Ashley and saying she wore it better. It was a vicious online assault, fueled by lies and jealousy.
The absurdity of it all burned me. How could something so innocent twist into this public circus, all while the truth – that Liam was my husband – remained a secret? Was I supposed to just take it?
My answer came in the form of a reality TV show offer. "Paradise Match" wanted me. And Ashley Vance was already on the cast list. I accepted. Game on. Reborn to Reject: The Heiress's Final Choice
Modern Ava Vanderbilt, heiress to an old-money fortune, was born into a gilded cage.
Twice before, she'd lived this life, destined to marry one of the "Golden Trio" – Ethan, Liam, or Noah.
But in every lifetime, their hearts, and all their sacrifices, belonged to Isabella "Izzy" Rossi, the conniving estate manager's daughter.
Izzy, a master manipulator, always played the innocent victim, while Ava endured public humiliation, neglect, and the painful ruin of her husbands.
Now, reborn a third time, Ava faced the same suffocating expectations.
She refused to repeat the past, rejecting the trio and choosing Julian Mercer, a sharp-minded tech mogul, for a marriage of strategic stability.
But Izzy wouldn't release her hold.
At Ava's engagement party, Izzy unleashed a public spectacle, portraying herself as a tragic martyr and manipulating the trio into abandoning Ava yet again.
They stormed off, pledging their devotion to Izzy, leaving Ava to face a ballroom full of shocked onlookers.
How could these powerful men be so utterly blind, so completely enthralled by such transparent deceit?
The bitter taste of repeated betrayal, and the sheer audacity of Izzy's endless drama, ignited a cold fury within Ava.
This time, Ava Vanderbilt would not just escape her fate; she would dismantle the masquerade entirely.
With Julian's unexpected and unwavering support, she vowed to expose Izzy, free herself from her past tormentors, and forge a life undeniably her own. Beyond the Stuntman
Modern Jack Riley, a top Hollywood stunt coordinator and a discreet civilian specialist for the Department of Defense, was heading to a classified flight.
After six critical months away on a secret vehicle testing project, he' d left his multi-million dollar company, Riley's Precision Stunts, and his personal finances in the seemingly capable hands of his longtime fiancée, Brenda.
He thought he could trust her with everything.
However, his composure shattered on the freeway when a bright orange McLaren recklessly swerved, brake-checked him, and caused a violent collision.
The driver, Kyle "King Kyle" Peterson, a preening social media pest, immediately started boasting about his "sugar mama" buying his six-figure supercar.
The cold truth hit Jack: it was the exact McLaren Brenda had cooed about wanting for an anniversary gift – a gift he' d wisely refused.
Then came the deeper blow: Kyle called Brenda, and her sickeningly sweet voice confirmed she was his "baby," mocking Jack and his truck, declaring it "worthless."
She then shockingly attempted to have him "fired" from his own company, even bringing her imposing "assistants" to underscore her authority.
Outsiders watched, openly judging Jack, thinking he was just some old, pathetic man.
The sheer audacity of her betrayal churned in Jack' s gut.
How could the woman he' d loved, the woman he' d empowered and trusted with his entire life' s work and fortune, not only be cheating but actively plundering his company and brazenly siding with a narcissistic opportunist against him, all while he' d been serving his country?
The injustice was a suffocating weight.
But Jack Riley was no ordinary man.
A master of strategic thinking and quiet resilience, he decided then and there, amidst the chaos.
He would play their twisted game, allowing them to dig their own graves.
He' d meticulously expose every layer of deceit, beginning his calculated, devastating counter-attack that would reclaim everything they thought they' d stolen from him. Reborn to Heal: A Doctor's Revenge
Modern I was Dr. Evelyn Hayes, a surgeon at the top of my game, fresh off a miracle save – Jake Riley, his body shattered from an industrial accident.
My innovative techniques, honed under Colonel Miller, had snatched him from the brink of death.
But then, the whispers started.
Whispers from my ambitious junior, Dr. Chad Becker, and my beloved fiancé, Leo Maxwell.
They fed doubts to Jake's parents, leading them to disregard my strict post-op plan.
Predictably, tragically, Jake developed a fatal complication.
Mrs. Riley, consumed by grief, screamed I had killed her son, accused me of experimenting.
Leo, the man who promised me forever, stood by Chad, leaking falsified records to the press.
Headlines screamed, "Surgeon's ambition kills patient!"
Jake's father, a broken man, found me near the parking garage.
His grief-fueled rage left me bleeding, the world turning to darkness.
Chad stood over me, his voice chillingly smooth: "This department needs a leader who doesn't take wild risks. Leo helped show everyone the 'truth.'"
The vicious smear campaign, the monstrous online hate – it all killed my elderly parents, one after the other.
My life, my reputation, my family – all destroyed by betrayal and lies.
How could the man I loved conspire with my rival to ruin everything?
The searing pain, the immense injustice, the burning question of why consumed my last breath.
Then, blinding light.
I gasped, feeling for bruises that were eerily absent.
The ER monitor displayed the date: the very day Jake Riley was first admitted.
I was back.
This time, armed with foresight, things would be terrifyingly, powerfully different. You might like
Rejected by the Son, I Chose the Don
Rabbit On my wedding day, my father sold me to the Chicago Outfit to pay his debts. I was supposed to marry Alex Moreno, the heir to the city's most powerful crime family. But he couldn't even be bothered to show up.
As I stood alone at the altar, humiliated, my best friend delivered the final blow. Alex hadn't just stood me up; he had run off to California with his mistress.
The whispers in the cathedral turned me into a joke. I was damaged goods, the rejected bride. His family knew the whole time and let me take the public fall, offering me his cousins as pathetic replacements-a brute who hated me or a coward who couldn't protect me.
The humiliation burned away my fear, leaving only cold rage. My life was already over, so I decided to set the whole game on fire myself. The marriage pact only said a Carlson had to marry a Moreno; it never said which one.
With nothing left to lose, I looked past the pathetic boys they offered.
I chose the one man they never expected.
I chose his father, the Don himself.
My Husband's Brother Owns My Secret
Rabbit My marriage to Joshua Caldwell was a prison sentence. I was a Hartman trophy, sold to the powerful family who had destroyed mine.
Then I discovered he was cheating. His mistress was pregnant with the child he denied me, and he was stealing my secret song lyrics to build her career. When I confronted him, he called me a spineless liability and threatened to destroy what was left of my family.
To make matters worse, a one-night stand with a stranger turned out to be with my husband's brother, Anthony Caldwell-the Don of the city. He knew all of Joshua's secrets and used them to trap me in a twisted game, seeing me as nothing more than an asset.
They both thought I was a broken doll they could control.
I wrote a song for his mistress, a beautiful execution with a single, impossible note I knew would destroy her voice.
She sang it, and now her career is over.
Now the Don has summoned me to Chicago, not knowing the woman he thinks is his asset is the one who just burned his brother's world to the ground. Burned by Poison, Saved by the Devil
Gale Kaaya My cousin Hailey paid a dock worker to assault me just to ruin my engagement.
To survive the military-grade aphrodisiac she poisoned me with, I stumbled into a walk-in freezer and threw myself onto the only source of cold I could find-a man paralyzed by unnatural hypothermia.
It was a desperate, primal exchange of my heat for his ice just to keep my heart from stopping.
But when Hailey threw open the heavy iron door, leading my fiancé and the entire Bolton family to witness my "shame," her triumphant grin instantly vanished.
She hadn't caught me with a low-life thug.
She had caught me straddling Demetrius Maddox, the ruthless Iron King of Chicago.
The air in the room dropped to absolute zero. My grandmother screamed in horror, and my father turned the color of ash.
Hailey, blinded by jealousy, tried to double down. She pointed a manicured finger at the deadliest man in the city and called him a "nameless muscle" I picked up to defile the family name.
She didn't realize she had just signed her own death warrant.
I didn't cower. I realized this was the only chance to survive the family that wanted me dead.
I walked up to the Devil himself, my body still humming with the poison, and looked him in the eye.
"Kill me, and the cold inside you wins," I whispered, knowing he was dying from the inverse of my own poison. "I am the only doctor who knows how to cure you."
Demetrius tightened his hand around my throat, his dark eyes assessing my worth.
"Prove it," he growled.
I turned back to my trembling cousin and signaled the enforcer to hand me the whip. To Ruin Him, I Married His Rival
Rabbit Andrew Hebert, the man who promised to protect me, stood on a stage and announced his engagement to my tormentor. It wasn't just heartbreak; it was a business deal. He was selling me to a creditor to cover his gambling debts.
The applause of the powerful families was a death sentence, each clap sealing my fate as collateral. Andrew had paraded me here just to show everyone I was an asset to be liquidated, while his new fiancée smirked at me from the stage.
I was trapped, with no money and no one to turn to. The man I loved was leading me to the slaughter.
But as I fled into the library, a voice emerged from the shadows, deep and dangerous.
Damien Maddox. The Dark Don. The only man Andrew feared.
He offered me a different kind of cage, one with the power to burn Andrew's world to the ground.
With nothing left to lose, I looked the devil in the eyes.
"Take me with you." Betrayed, I Married the Feared Cripple
Hu Minxue Three days after my fiancé publicly dumped me for my stepsister, the Supreme Don issued a command that silenced the entire estate.
I wasn't being cast aside. I was being sold to Damien Russo.
The "Broken Don." A crippled, scarred monster rumored to have murdered his last two wives.
My adoptive mother, Elena, didn't cry for me. She smirked.
To her, I was finally being disposed of.
She was so confident I was walking to my death that she decided to loot my corpse before I even left.
She forged documents to steal my entire inheritance—my biological mother’s trust fund—to pay for my stepsister’s lavish wedding to my ex.
"She won't need money where she's going," my stepsister laughed, wearing a dress bought with my stolen funds.
They thought they were sending a lamb to the slaughter.
They thought I was too weak, too stupid, and too afraid of the monster to fight back.
But they made a fatal mistake.
With my aunt’s help, I didn't just find the proof of their embezzlement; I found a weapon.
I’m not running from the monster. I’m going to marry him.
And when I hand him the evidence that the Herrera family stole from his bride, he won't be my executioner.
He will be my vengeance. Contract With The Devil: Love In Shackles
Dorine Koestler I watched my husband sign the papers that would end our marriage while he was busy texting the woman he actually loved.
He didn't even glance at the header. He just scribbled the sharp, jagged signature that had signed death warrants for half of New York, tossed the file onto the passenger seat, and tapped his screen again.
"Done," he said, his voice devoid of emotion.
That was Dante Moretti. The Underboss. A man who could smell a lie from a mile away but couldn't see that his wife had just handed him an annulment decree disguised beneath a stack of mundane logistics reports.
For three years, I scrubbed his blood out of his shirts. I saved his family's alliance when his ex, Sofia, ran off with a civilian.
In return, he treated me like furniture.
He left me in the rain to save Sofia from a broken nail. He left me alone on my birthday to drink champagne on a yacht with her. He even handed me a glass of whiskey—her favorite drink—forgetting that I despised the taste.
I was merely a placeholder. A ghost in my own home.
So, I stopped waiting. I burned our wedding portrait in the fireplace, left my platinum ring in the ashes, and boarded a one-way flight to San Francisco.
I thought I was finally free. I thought I had escaped the cage.
But I underestimated Dante.
When he finally opened that file weeks later and realized he had signed away his wife without looking, the Reaper didn't accept defeat.
He burned down the world to find me, obsessed with reclaiming the woman he had already thrown away. Reborn, I Wed the Untamed Playboy
Bone Possolo On my wedding day to Julian Moretti, the future Mafia Don, I was deliberately sent to the wrong penthouse.
My half-sister Sofia had crawled into my fiancé's bed, leaving me to be discovered by the family's exiled, alcoholic cousin.
In my past life, I was shattered by this orchestrated betrayal. I cried and begged when Julian publicly humiliated me, choosing his illegitimate mistress over his rightful bride.
I played the perfect, dignified Mafia wife for years. I swallowed his insults, ignored his infidelities, and accepted my ruined reputation to keep the peace.
But my blind obedience only paved the way for my murder. Julian discarded me, and I was poisoned to death so Sofia could steal my crown as the Mafia Queen.
Until my agonizing last breath, I didn't understand. I had honored our families' blood alliance flawlessly.
Why was I the sacrificial lamb while they were rewarded for their treason?
Opening my eyes again, I was back on the dark leather sofa, suffocating in my heavy silk wedding dress.
This time, I didn't shed a single tear.
I grabbed a heavy brass letter opener, marched straight into the Don's main study, and slapped the Underboss across the face in front of the entire family.
"A Valdez woman does not share her husband," I declared coldly. "To honor the alliance, I will marry Dante."
If they wanted to make my humiliation a fact, I was going to make it a funeral. My Cold Heart: Rejecting The Mafia Boss
Jia Zhong My husband, the Outfit’s most feared Consigliere, stood up and buttoned his suit jacket.
He had just convinced a jury that Sofia Moretti was innocent.
But we both knew the truth: Sofia had poisoned my mother over a spilled martini on her Valentino dress.
Instead of comforting me, Dante looked at me with cold, dead eyes.
"If you make a scene," he whispered, gripping my arm until it bruised, "I will bury you in a psychiatric ward so deep even God won't find you."
To protect the Family alliance, he sacrificed his wife.
When I tried to fight back, he drugged me at a gala.
He let a private investigator take photos of me, naked and unconscious, just to have leverage to keep me silent.
He paraded Sofia around our penthouse, letting her wear my dead mother’s shawl while I was banished to the staff quarters.
He thought he had broken me.
He thought I was just a nurse’s daughter he could manage.
But he made a fatal error.
He didn't read the "committal forms" I handed him to sign.
They were divorce papers, transferring his assets to me.
And the night of the yacht party, while he toasted to his victory with my mother's killer, I left my wedding ring on the deck.
I didn't jump to die.
I jumped to be reborn.
And when I resurfaced, I made sure Dante Russo burned for every sin. The Bastard Bride's Vow of Mafia Vengeance
Anywho My father arranged a marriage for my half-sister, Emmalee, with Don Damian Griffith, the ruthless "King of New York." But Emmalee, in love with a penniless lawyer, refused and, weeping, pointed at me, the illegitimate daughter, offering me as the sacrifice.
My stepmother packed cheap plastic pearls and copper chains, and my father coldly told me to "bleed quietly" if the Don decided to cut me.
"Don't think you've won, Isabell," Emmalee hissed, handing me a shimmering emerald gown, the signature color of the Don's volatile mistress-a clear death trap. Why did my own family want me dead?
As the armored car pulled away, I dumped the green silk, put on a dress of pure ivory, and fastened our family's stolen midnight-blue sapphires around my neck. They thought they were sending a lamb to the slaughter, but I was walking into the lion's den with a hidden blade.
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