The Poisoned Vow: Tempting My Ex's Dying Billionaire Uncle

Chapter 4

Word Count: 1068 | Released on: 26/10/2026

e St. Regis in midtown Manhattan blazed with crystal chandeliers. Gordon Caldwell adju

e thought back to the cold warning he had given Re

mother's disputed shares to Sloane," he had told her. "Once the Caldwell-Vaughn merger closes, the original records fro

ed daughter had left to offer the family company. Reyna had merely looked at him

a powerful man to rescue her. The medical records and authorization documents attached to the agreement had revealed tha

tire arrangement directly within her reach. If Reyna could keep Conrad alive and persuade him to use his veto, she could st

latives in a single transaction. Reyna intended to

, his face beaming as he announced the deep strategic all

's arm, tilting her chin up to soak in the c

neck-right where Reyna's fingers had dug into her skin hours earlier. Within

s, angry, swollen red hives broke out across her neck

as her fingernails raked violently across her

arm out of her grasp, stepped back half a pace, and turned to walk briskly out the side exit whi

st the windshield of the ordinary black SUV stoppe

d his knuckles hard against the rear w

Conrad is in critical condition

slapped the court-stamped marriage ce

hrough the wind. "I am Conrad Vaughn's legal wif

egistration. Sneering, he pressed the transmitter on his belt to roll the iron

rad hasn't opened his eyes in four days. The house do

feur, rolling the window stra

stopped before a looming Gothic manor. Only a single

s. The grand entrance hall stood completely empty; a few maids lingered in the dark sh

heading straight for the closed double doors of the master suite at the end of the hall. H

wait for the

cold gaze locking onto him until

edroom door open. A thick, nauseating stench of rubbing al

ze concealed the burned left side of his face, while an IV line disappeared beneath the sleeve of his black pajama shirt.

far above the dosage recorded on the medication chart. A half-empty syringe lay uncap

ession s

ion running. Conrad was not simply dying. Someone

ed toward Conrad's throat to check his carotid pulse when the hand

ak-but unmistak

ises that should have been clouded and unresp

closer. When he spoke, his voice was s

hem sent you to

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“They stole her research, her inheritance, and her fiancé. Then they sent her to prison for a crime they committed. After three years in federal prison and two years of clandestine toxicology training across Europe, Reyna Caldwell returns to New York with no fortune and no powerful family backing her-only deadly expertise, a handful of experimental compounds, and one loyal assistant. Waiting for her is a live broadcast of her stepsister, Sloane, wearing Reyna's engagement ring, clinging to Reyna's former fiancé, and taking public credit for the clinical research that once belonged to her. But Reyna's father has one final trap prepared. Marry Conrad Vaughn-her ex-fiancé's disfigured, paralyzed uncle-or lose the disputed shares her late mother left behind. Once the Caldwell-Vaughn merger closes in thirty days, the original trial records that could prove Reyna's innocence will be sealed away forever. Conrad is no ordinary invalid. He is the former chairman of Vaughn Global, the true controller of the Vaughn family trust, and the only man with enough voting power to stop the merger and force an independent investigation. The two families expect their unwanted heirs to disappear quietly together. Instead, they have just placed Reyna's most powerful weapon within her reach. At the Vaughn estate, the servants call her a desperate ex-convict and leave Conrad rotting behind locked doors. His body is covered in infected wounds. His medical staff are drugging him into a coma. And the slow-acting neurotoxin destroying his nerves carries the same chemical backbone as the falsified compound that sent Reyna to prison. The people who ruined her life are also trying to murder her new husband. Now Reyna will tear apart Sloane's perfect engagement, expose the family that stole her mother's legacy, and drag Conrad back from the edge of death. "I don't need him to survive. But I need him alive to win this war." As Reyna reaches for Conrad's pulse, his hand suddenly locks around her wrist. The supposedly unconscious man opens a pair of lethal blue eyes. "Which one of them sent you to finish the job?" She must cure a husband who trusts no one. He must decide whether his new wife is his salvation-or the most dangerous enemy ever sent into his bedroom. If Reyna succeeds, she will reclaim everything they stole. And once Conrad rises from his wheelchair, he has no intention of ever letting the woman who brought him back to life leave his side.”