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The Stand-In Wife's Spectacular Comeback

Chapter 4 

Word Count: 842    |    Released on: Today at 18:07

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stead, she pulled her phone from her pocket, hit reco

and walked tow

on to the details Evert ignored. Her fingers flew across the keyboard. She navigated to the Apex Club's VIP client portal and typed in the universal backend override

s. The footage from 11:00 PM to 11:15 PM w

ameras. At 2:00 AM, the footage showed Jax Kade storming out o

t angry at 2:00 AM, he wasn't the man in th

ed down on her lungs. She glanced at the calendar

a trench coat, and put on a pair of

Manhattan. She kept her head down, handed the cashier a

he foil open. She swallowed the pill dry. It scraped

t into a tight ball, shoved it into her c

e adrenaline crash hit her. The room spu

ut of the shallow pocket and fell silently onto the thick c

e collapsed onto the bed in her clothes

eech of tires tore

oke up in the hotel and saw Cherie next to him, a wave of intense physical repulsion had hit

at a time and shoved

rt walked toward her, intending to

er black turtleneck. The fabric was slightly bunche

k, violen

roar filled his ears. The rational

olently yanked the col

overed in fresh, aggressi

rabbing her arm and haulin

in terror. She thrashed against his g

emonic growl. His fingers dug into her biceps.

no words came out. She could

ack, his expensive leather shoe caught the edge of

rumpled receipt lay e

paper. The bold black letters screamed

threw the receipt directly at her face. I

"You break the loyalty clause of our contract, a

e-" Clarine started

m his pocket and dialed his legal team. His eye

the phone. "Invoke the infidelity clause. She gets n

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The Stand-In Wife's Spectacular Comeback
The Stand-In Wife's Spectacular Comeback
“For three years, I was nothing but a ghost in my marriage, a pathetic stand-in forced to dress exactly like my billionaire husband's dead fiancée. On our third anniversary, he left me to face armed intruders in our remote estate alone. When I called him begging for help, he mocked me for faking a home invasion for attention and hung up to comfort his mistress. The nightmare only got worse. The next night, my stepmother and half-sister drugged me at a family gala, trying to ruin me by handing me over to a sleazy producer. I escaped into a pitch-black hotel suite, only to be overpowered by a drugged stranger in the dark. Traumatized and covered in bruises, I secretly took an emergency contraceptive pill. When my husband found the crumpled receipt on the floor, he didn't ask if I was hurt or where the violent marks on my neck came from. "You cheap whore. You broke the loyalty contract." He drafted the divorce papers immediately, stripping me of every penny, and ordered me thrown onto the street. He thought without his wealth, I wouldn't survive a day in New York and would come crawling back to him like a dog. I didn't shed a single tear. I calmly signed the papers, dropped my diamond ring on his glass table, and walked out. What my arrogant ex-husband didn't know was that before I became his obedient shadow, I was "Lan"-the legendary, anonymous fashion designer the entire world was desperately looking for. Now, I was taking back my empire.”