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His Unwanted Wife, The Billionaire's Obsession

Author: Marnie Nomura

Chapter 1

Word Count: 1097 | Released on: 02/09/2026

. She had been dead for three days, and th

en called. He didn't know she was

ce hated most. Blaise Haw

thorne Group logo. The price of burying her dau

Her parents told her to go back and apologize. The funeral home gave

last because going to him meant admitting she had nothing-and beca

s waiting.

d cost her. She only knew it was the one

he hospital pillow flashed through her mind. The cold

the check and put it into

l slung low around his waist. Blaise Hawthorne. His dark hair was still wet, his

ed her gaze to the floor. She had to leave-lea

e said, her voice hoarse, as if s

ike a verdict-on Ja

f ice against glass the only sound in the room. He poured a

skin, as if something had been worn there. She had not noticed when he had taken it-p

d, his voice low and amused.

bit down hard on her lower

lutching the edge of her coat, and walked toward th

e doorknob when his voice ca

rgot so

fused and t

nd forefinger. A silver bracelet, one of

lunged for it, a desperate, clumsy movement. It was the las

it out of her reach

pped the bracelet into the pocket of his jeans.

cket buzzed violently. The screen

and stabbed the decline button, her whole body

nt disappeared, replaced by something deeper and more calcul

uldn't speak. Ellery could only glare at him, th

she collapsed against the cold metal wall. Her le

vaged face. On her neck, fingerprint-s

d a single hot tear tra

e inside, where a delicate, swirling "E" was engraved. The image of a girl in a un

nto Jace Landry's recent financials. And... ever

ing window and looked down at

jolted her awake, clearing a little of the fog in her head. She clutc

e golden cage of the Landry

. The funeral home was waiting.

he machine, her phone vibra

home tomorrow. We need to discu

losing around her heart, squeez

. He was still using their dead daughter to control her-an

he machine whirred, and the new balance flas

and walked aimlessly down

as clear: from the moment she took that check, only reckoning rem

was going to use Blaise Hawthorne to tear Jace apart from the inside o

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“I sold myself to a stranger for fifty thousand dollars just to pay for my daughter's funeral. When I returned to my gilded cage of a home, my husband, Jace, was already moving his mistress in. He didn't even know our daughter was dead, still using her medical bills to threaten me into perfect obedience. "Don't forget, Lily is still waiting for a bone marrow match. Are you sure you want to make me angry?" To escape him, I lied and told him I caught an STD from the man I slept with. Disgusted, Jace threw me out into the freezing Chicago night. My own parents shut their doors on me, terrified of losing his financial backing. Homeless and broken, I was suddenly picked up by the very man who bought me-Blaise Hawthorne, my husband's most dangerous billionaire rival, who saw the bruises on my neck and took me in. But Jace's fragile, narcissistic ego couldn't handle his property walking away. He tracked me down, refusing to sign the divorce papers unless I agreed to one final humiliation: serving as a lowly assistant to his mistress at a prestigious antiquities gala. He thought this public degradation would finally break me. Instead, I calmly accepted his deal, stepping onto that glittering stage to expose his true love as a complete fraud in front of the city's elite, officially beginning my revenge.”