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Reclaiming Her Crown: The CEO's Sudden Bride

Chapter 4 

Word Count: 889    |    Released on: 11/05/2026

her retinas. The sharp, sterile smell of bleach and rubbing alcohol fi

IV tube taped to her skin, dripping clear saline into her vein. Her

he edge of the mattress, her eyes darting around the small emer

wooden door of the room was violently shoved open.

oes squeaked aggressively against the linoleum flo

hair were damp from the rain, making her look slightly u

inches from Karli's nose. He screamed, demanding to know what she thought she was doi

r spine hitting the cold metal of the bed's headboard. Her hands gra

arli's hands and reached out, her manicured claws ai

in the hallway. It was the sound of

corridor. Darnell stood in the doorway. His hands were shoved deep into

in the unbranded clothes and the scuffed boots. He sneered, yelling

piercing gaze bypassed the angry parents entirely and lo

rate surge of survival instinct flood

dle in her arm and ripped it out. A stream of dark red blood i

stumbled forward, pushing past Myra's outst

ms around him, her hands desperately gripping the rough fabri

n at the woman burying her face in his chest. His jaw

king finger at the two of them, screaming that Karli

stance in three long strides. He raised his right hand high, aimin

ssed her face deeper into Darnell's c

ckening crunch of bone grinding ag

He had simply raised one hand and caught Warren's de

black and lethal. The air in the room seemed to drop ten de

ed, guttural groan. Sweat instantly beaded on the older man's for

e that vibrated through Karli's chest. He told Warren ne

th, forcing her voice to stay steady. She looked Warren dead in

g her head frantically, screaming that it

egal adult, the certificate was signed and stamped, and the Le

ack, his eyes darting between Karli's defiant face and Darnell's imposing f

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Reclaiming Her Crown: The CEO's Sudden Bride
Reclaiming Her Crown: The CEO's Sudden Bride
“Stepping out of the women's correctional center, Karli took her first breath of freedom in three years. But the luxury SUV waiting for her didn't bring her home. Instead, her adoptive parents tossed a prenuptial agreement onto her lap. They demanded she marry a violently unhinged, disfigured man so their company could secure a massive commercial deal. When she refused, her adoptive mother slapped her hard across the face. The blow brought back the suffocating nightmare from three years ago-how they had drugged her, framed her for a crime she didn't commit, and sent her to prison just so her stepsister could steal her fiancé. Now, to break her again, her adoptive father ordered his bodyguards to drag her into the estate's freezing, pitch-black basement. "You can rot in the dark without food or water until you sign that paper!" Sitting on the damp cement, bleeding and shivering, a white-hot fury burned away Karli's panic. They had stolen her youth, her reputation, and her grandfather's inheritance. She would rather die than be their sacrificial lamb again. She smashed the basement window with a hammer, dragged her bleeding body through the shattered glass, and sprinted blindly into the stormy night. Under the flickering neon sign of a convenience store, she grabbed the sleeve of a terrifyingly cold stranger. "Are you single? Marry me right now." She just needed a legal marriage to escape her family, entirely unaware she had just proposed to the most ruthless billionaire in Chicago.”