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Jilted Girlfriend? I Am The Tycoon's Wife
Cara Lewis sat quietly as her boyfriend of three years pushed a plate of dessert across the table, wearing a rehearsed mask of sorrow. He claimed he had to break up with her for her own good, blaming his lack of connections on Wall Street and insisting he couldn't give her the life she deserved. He acted like a martyr making a tragic sacrifice, waiting for her desperate tears and trembling denial. Instead, Cara calmly pulled out a stack of glossy photos and an elegant engagement invitation. She exposed his secret affair with the wealthy Hailie Lewis, completely dismantling his hypocritical social climb. Leaving the cheating narcissist pale and humiliated, Cara paid the bill and walked out, thinking the trash had finally been taken out. But her newly single evening took a chaotic turn when a teenage gaming partner called in a panic. He begged her to crash his elite prep school and pose as his aunt to save him from expulsion. Cara agreed, flawlessly playing the role of the secret new wife to his uncle, a notoriously ruthless Wall Street titan. She was thoroughly dominating the snobby school board when the office doors suddenly swung open. The real billionaire uncle, Beck Greer, walked into the room. Cara's heart dropped into her stomach as his glacial eyes locked onto her, knowing her social existence in New York was about to end. Caught in a terrifying, inescapable lie, Cara made an insane calculation. She stepped forward, firmly hooked her arm through the billionaire's, and smiled sweetly. "Honey, what took you so long? Julian and I were being bullied." She waited for the executioner's axe to fall, but the untouchable tycoon simply covered her hand with his and played along.Across the white tablecloth of Serafina, Bradyn Hubbard—Cara Lewis's boyfriend of three years—set his wine down and leaned forward. He pulled a thick, cream-colored envelope from his jacket and slid it across the table until it rested in front of her.
Cara looked down. The gold foil lettering was fresh from the press.
Engagement Gala
Groom: Bradyn Hubbard
Bride: Hailie Lewis
Venue: The Lewis Estate, Long Island. Next Saturday.
"Cara, let's be realistic," Bradyn said, his voice dropping into a conspiratorial whisper. "Hailie is my ticket to the top. Marrying her is the only shortcut for a guy like me to get a seat on the board. I don't love her—she's just the ladder I have to climb for my career."
Cara stared at the card, then lifted her cold amber eyes to meet his. "So you're proposing what, exactly?"
Bradyn gave a smug, self-satisfied smile.
"We break up publicly. But in private? Nothing has to change. You funded my MBA and paid my rent for three years—I haven't forgotten that. Stay quiet, be my little secret on the side, and once I secure the Lewis assets, I'll make sure you're taken care of in luxury."
Cara stared at his shameless face, her voice dropping into a dangerous, silky calm. "You sold yourself as a kept man to my stepsister, and you expect me to be your dirty little secret?"
"Don't make it sound so ugly, Cara," Bradyn scoffed, waving a dismissive hand. "That's how men get ahead in Manhattan. Be realistic, Cara. You're broke and you have no one. Who else is going to take care of you? Don't be stupid. Just take the deal."
Cara looked at him for one quiet second, her lips curving into a razor-sharp smile.
"In your wildest dreams, Bradyn."
Without a second's hesitation, Cara picked up her crystal tumbler and threw the cold bourbon and ice straight into his face.
The freezing liquor drenched his styled hair and soaked the collar of his designer shirt. Bradyn gasped, shooting up from the velvet booth in sheer shock, frantically wiping his stinging eyes.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" he snarled, glaring at her as neighboring tables turned to stare.
Cara set the empty glass down with a quiet, deliberate tap.
Without breaking eye contact, she reached into her Saint Laurent bag, pulled out a thick manila folder, and dropped it heavily onto his soaked lap.
"Open it, parasite," Cara said calmly.
Bradyn's hands shook as he ripped the folder open.
A thick stack of forensic-grade photographs spilled across the table. His breath caught in his throat—the photos showed him and Hailie completely naked, tangled in the satin sheets of a suite at the Baccarat Hotel.
Taped right behind the prints was a notarized invoice.
Columbia MBA Tuition & Fees: $186,000.00
Tribeca Penthouse Lease Subsidies: $94,000.00
Bespoke Wardrobe & Networking Tabs: $62,000.00
TOTAL REIMBURSEMENT DUE: $342,000.00
Bradyn's face turned an ashen, sickly gray. "You... you tracked me?"
"Three hundred and forty-two grand," Cara said, tapping the total with a manicured nail. "Wire it back to my account by Monday morning. If you don't, these photos go directly to Hailie's father and the Lewis board."
The shock on Bradyn's face instantly curdled into ugly fury. He slammed both hands on the table, leaning in with a desperate hiss. "You crazy bitch! You gave me that money willingly—that was trust money! You can't sue me for gifts!"
"I invested in a partner, Bradyn, not a freeloader," Cara said coldly. "You lived off my money for three years just to become my stepsister's leashed lapdog. Pay back every cent by Monday, or wear the collar in public."
"You fucking bitch—" Bradyn lunged forward, grabbing for her wrist.
Cara smoothly stepped back, out of his reach. She stood tall, smoothing the front of her tailored coat, looking down at him with absolute disgust.
Slowly, deliberately, she raised her hand and flipped him a clean, effortless middle finger.
"Congratulations on the engagement, Bradyn," Cara said softly. "You and Hailie deserve each other."
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Bitter Love
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Neglected Wife's Bitter Sweet Revenge
I was the perfect wife to my producer husband, Braden, enduring his coldness and affairs for one reason: his promise to release my late father's priceless songbook. Then, at a crowded industry party, I watched him kiss his starlet mistress, Destany, for all to see. The humiliation made me collapse,/0/85781/coverorgin.jpg?v=c7323e137e9e7920c3a740b5c54b83b3&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Lost Love, Bitter Victory
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Happy Together
“We'll be married for only a month. After that, we'll get divorced immediately.” Even though their marriage had been arranged by their great-grandfathers before they were born, he believed that such a rude and noisy woman like her didn’t deserve to be his wife. Little did they know then that t/0/85022/coverorgin.jpg?v=d54ee61e22e334fa0363cf851489a4cd&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Love, Loss, And A Bitter Recipe
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Sweet Love ❤
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Poisoned Love, Bitter Justice
My mother, a nurse who spent forty years caring for others, was poisoned and left for dead after a charity gala. The woman responsible, Keyla Dixon, stood in court, a mask of tearful innocence, claiming self-defense. The real horror? My husband, Garrison Gardner, the city's top lawyer, was defendin/1/103574/coverorgin.jpg?v=f7fac4e4ead781f4959f48c3269fe8d5&imageMogr2/format/webp)
My Guardian's Kiss, A Bitter Sweet Goodbye
For ten years, I lived with my guardian, Cole, secretly loving him. He was my late brother's best friend, the man I had worshipped since I was eight. On my eighteenth birthday, I confessed my love with a painting. He ripped it to shreds, roaring, "I am your guardian, for God's sake!" He called my l/0/81845/coverorgin.jpg?v=913db1aceca6abbc86e480876609b057&imageMogr2/format/webp)
No Sweet Sixteen Only Bitter Betrayal
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Sweet Love (Psycho love)
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The Bitter Ends Of Love
I DIED TODAY, OR MAYBE YESTERDAY; I CAN’T BE SURE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU KNEW THE EXACT MOMENT YOU WOULD DIE? FACED WITH SO MANY TURNS AND HEARTBREAKING CHALLENGES, CELINE SET FOR A JOURNEY AWAY FROM FAMILY, SHE GOT INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT WHICH LED HER INTO COMA, BACK TO SQUARE ONE AND IN A MOR/0/61085/coverorgin.jpg?v=ec04916fa616b521adbc99d6ebd81db0&imageMogr2/format/webp)
My Sweet Love
Malinda Kristen is an orphan who lost her parents when she was young in a car accident, she was sent to an orphanage home where she grew up, she later left the orphanage home in search of a job and got a job as a maid in a wealthy man mansion, since she had no other qualifications to get a better jo/0/38156/coverorgin.jpg?v=d1a1786c95bc43e3cbdce33b11d0d16d&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Sweet Love, Deep Kiss
After a dirty contract was signed, she was caught back to his side and became the noble Mrs. Quan. The next morning, she held her wrist, “Excuse me, Master Quan, are you an electrical man?” “Aren’t you clear about it?” He was an emperor in the business world but loved her to an extreme degree. W/0/25724/coverorgin.jpg?v=b432737550cfc6b9f8f22ad1128e6b47&imageMogr2/format/webp)
CEO's Sweet Love
Since five years ago, Melissa had been suffering from a painful incident due to which all her emotion, feelings were also lost with that incident. She only had a great attachment towards her book which was very precious more than her life, which holds a very precious memory of her life./0/89119/coverorgin.jpg?v=0498dda6bd1ec10704a7b78eba3f0514&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Poisoned Love, Sweet Vengeance
My brother died because we couldn't come up with the fifty-thousand-dollar surgery fee that could have saved him. My boyfriend of five years, Holden, told me we were broke. But at the exact moment my brother took his last breath, Holden was buying a two-hundred-thousand-dollar Porsche for his high/0/88519/coverorgin.jpg?v=e185a71dbc2216623b65a45b694d44d1&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Divorce, Rebirth, and Sweet Success
The last thing I remembered was the blinding pain behind my eyes, then darkness. When I opened them again, I was back in my bed, twenty-five years younger, before my life became a hollow marriage to August Savage, a U.S. Senator who saw me as nothing more than a political asset. A painful memory su/0/27679/coverorgin.jpg?v=8ad05c26c876e381d16b6eab7a4810d0&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Piper's Sweet and Sensual Revenge
Beautiful, kind and loyal. Who would have thought this would happen to her? When Piper steps in to help a friend, she would never expect she would land in serious trouble. Abused, broken and used as a pawn in a conspiracy to bring down her best friend’s husband’s company, her life takes on a sudden/0/47173/coverorgin.jpg?v=779165456d55d890333dd802bc3e8593&imageMogr2/format/webp)
Live is not as sweet as sugar and not as bitter as coffee
A girl who has to struggle to meet her family's needs alone while her two older siblings are very pampered by her mother, since her father had an accident the family's burden has been carried by her. her mother really hated her and thought her daughter was bad luck for her family. Will he be able to/0/37880/coverorgin.jpg?v=f3f1da3c02f7019ad19b9e2dbe3ad3a3&imageMogr2/format/webp)
CEO's Sweet Love: Arranged Marriage
After 3 years, he came back and I heard him talking about divorce. Even after he took my innocence before he left, he didn't say a word. I was deeply hurt, he never gave me a chance to be a wife to him and yet he wanted to divorce me. It's not that I love him, it's just that I thought I had been loy/0/21438/coverorgin.jpg?v=78840b512d32e6cbad68872226a799ea&imageMogr2/format/webp)
