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The Billionaire's Captive Flower

Chapter 3 A Toast to Single Life

Word Count: 1096    |    Released on: 03/11/2026

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d of expensive perf

After I spoke to her hours earlier, I decided to surprise her by coming back a day e

ss. I had shopped for her in Italy before driving straight to her resid

moaning at the top of their lungs. I pushed the door open, and there they

er scrambled to pull up his pants, stammer

ow punches. I took the crystal vase and smashed

ell out of

e with her using the duvet to cover her body. Sheena wep

ess. A cheat, tha

o hear anything. You have twenty-four ho

wn the betrayal in heavy pours of whiskey. I sat alone in the room, staring throug

s walked in, moving into my bed, looking completely disoriented and innocent. In my drunken state of heartbreak

ts, reignited every ounce of anger in me. I looked at her with disgust. I assumed she was just another cheap woman who used my situation to trap me. I cursed her, called the h

the office. I have better things to do than to think

eslie Restaurant, oil and gas, and real estate. My woman w

nference room where my partners were already waiting. We needed to finalize the blu

erations director, said, sliding a thick folder across the mahogany table. "Constructi

leaning back in my leather chair, my mind still heavy and cold. "I want no delays on

into the architectural la

, staring at my desk. That strange encounter from

dialed the hotel number, a

go, first Saturday in July. I want e

e manager rep

age popped up on my pho

hallway together with two other girls. As the other two girls peeled off toward different rooms, it was c

ther easy woman out looking for a hookup, probably hoping to trap a man to sponso

at woman had messed with the wrong man. I was just wai

mpact, but I ignored the pai

us, and we met up at the Onyx Lounge

against the booth. "All because of that cheating b*tch Shee

*ng someone you didn't even know?

stranger is a stranger, man. B

my glass. "I'll never marry again. If I ever want

ith the stranger anyway?"

I don't even want

bitterness in my chest. Around us, the lounge speakers played a slow, crushing ballad-Morgan Wallen's "Sand

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“Raised within the safe, pious walls of St. Louis Orphanage under the loving care of Father Campbell and Mother Thess, Ivy was the definition of purity. Treasured as the orphanage flower, she guarded her innocence fiercely-until a malicious trap set by jealous peers changed everything. Drugged and disoriented, she stumbled into the wrong room, walking right into the path of a storm. ​Roland is a ruthless, cynical billionaire nursing a shattered heart. After catching his treacherous ex-girlfriend in the arms of a politician, he has vowed never to let a woman near him again. When a tipsy, breathtaking stranger wanders into his private suite, the heat of a single night shatters his defenses. But morning brings cold paranoia: Roland is convinced Ivy is a calculated gold-digger sent to trap him. ​A month later, a hospital visit shatters Ivy's world all over again-she is pregnant. ​When the truth reaches the orphanage, Father Campbell and Mother Thess are heartbroken, but they stand by her, tracking down the powerful father. Enter Mrs. Addo, the billionaire's formidable mother and a devoted benefactor of St. Louis, who issues an uncompromisable ultimatum: Marry her. ​Bound by a loveless marriage born out of hatred and suspicion, Ivy must survive in a luxury mansion with a man who despises her existence, believing she orchestrated every single second of his downfall. But as the dark secrets of the orphanage begin to surface and the fire between them refuses to extinguish, Roland will discover that the woman he hates might just be the only one who can heal him. ​Can a forced marriage built on pure resentment turn into an unbreakable obsession before the truth destroys them both?”