When I was discharged from the psychiatric hospital, my brother and sister-in-law personally came to bring me home. They treated me like the most precious person in the world, sacrificing everything for my happiness. My nephew adored me, my sister-in-law spoiled me, and my brother trusted me without question. To outsiders, we were the definition of a perfect family. But months later, after every property, every dollar, and every dream they owned had been transferred into my hands, I destroyed them one by one. During a nationwide livestream, I proudly confessed to every crime. Everyone believed I was an ungrateful monster. No one knew that if I hadn't betrayed them first... I would have been the one buried.
I grew up abroad. My mother feared I might marry a foreign man, so she arranged an engagement for me with a talented and handsome man in Flodon. She insisted that I return home to get engaged.
I came back and started shopping for an engagement dress at a luxury boutique. I selected an off-white strapless gown and decided to try it on.
Suddenly, a woman nearby glanced at the dress in my hand and told the saleswoman, "That's a unique design. Let me try it."
The saleswoman immediately yanked it out of my hands.
I protested indignantly, "Excuse me, I was here first. Don't you understand the principle of 'first come, first served'? Or do you just not care about common decency?"
The woman scoffed and retorted, "This dress costs $188,000. Do you really think a broke nobody like you can even afford it?
"I'm Lucas Goodwin's sister in all but blood. He's the chairman of Goodwin Group. In Flodon, the Goodwin family sets the rules."
What a coincidence! Lucas Goodwin was my fiancé!
I immediately called him and said, "Hey, your 'sister in all but blood' just stole my engagement dress. Do something about it."
I'm a top healer at the Neutral Territory Sanctuary. The full moon watch had been draining. I'd barely stepped out the Sanctuary's grand doors when my phone blew up. It was the trauma wing. "Cora, get back here. Now. A patient just came in, severe wolfsbane poisoning. The Head Elder wants you leading the team!" My healer's instinct took over. I turned without a second thought. But then, a string of bizarre, floating red words appeared before my eyes—a fatal warning. 【DON'T YOU DARE STEP INTO THE ADVANCED HEALING ROOM! DON'T JOIN THIS RESCUE!】 【THE LUNA IS ALREADY DEAD. IF YOU GO IN NOW, YOU'RE JUST A SCAPEGOAT FOR THE ELDER'S DAUGHTER!】 【THIS PATIENT IS THE IRONCLAW PACK'S LUNA. THE ENRAGED ALPHA WILL TEAR YOU TO SHREDS. YOUR MATE AND FAMILY WILL BE DRAGGED DOWN WITH YOU!】 My feet froze to the spot. After a few seconds of dead silence, panic and a raw will to survive squeezed my heart. I decided to bet my life on those red lines. I was going all in. My Lycan vision scanned the dark street. My eyes locked onto it—an abandoned wolf trap at the corner of the street. The metal grate was gone, leaving it exposed. I clenched my jaw, squeezed my eyes shut, and without a second of hesitation, I leaped into that bottomless black hole.
When the yacht was sinking, and only one spot was left on the lifeboat, Hendrix Zuckerman chose me. I was rescued, but Yana Bridgeton didn’t make it. She couldn’t wait for the second lifeboat and drowned in the ocean, her body lost forever. Hendrix pretended not to care and went through with our wedding as planned. For five years after our marriage, he trampled me into the dirt, blaming me for Yana's death. When I couldn't take it any longer and wanted a divorce, he decided to die with me. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day the yacht accident happened. This time, I’ve decided to give the chance to survive to the one he loves most.
Callum Merrick once begged Maren to protect herself by storing her rare blood for emergencies. But when another woman’s daughter needed a transfusion, he secretly used seven years of Maren’s life-saving blood without her consent. Pregnant with twins and already suffering from severe anemia, Maren realized just how little her future husband valued her. When Callum chose Brielle and her daughter over her again and again, Maren made a painful decision: end the pregnancy, leave the man she loved, and start over. But when Callum finally realizes what he has lost, it may already be too late. How far will he go to beg for the love he threw away?
Aurora spent nine years loving Cole, the boy she grew up with, believing he would always protect her. But everything changes when Cole slaps her in front of the entire class to defend Amber, a girl who has spent months humiliating her. Heartbroken but finally awake, Aurora cuts Cole out of her life completely. As Cole realizes too late what he has lost, Aurora begins building a life where she no longer needs his protection—or his love. But walking away is only the beginning, because some people don't realize your worth until you are gone forever.
When Rowan’s mother steals her grandmother’s wedding veil and gives it to her pregnant stepsister, Rowan is expected to smile and be understanding—as she always has been. But the betrayal doesn’t stop there. Her fiancé secretly gives away their wedding savings, their venue, and the future she thought they were building together. Realizing that everyone around her sees her sacrifices as something they are entitled to, Rowan quietly walks away. This time, she isn’t fighting for their approval. She’s taking back her life.
My fiancé was moving to Boston with my best friend, and he had kindly arranged for me to spend the rest of my life in Iowa, taking care of his father. At their moving party, I discovered two boxes—one containing my belongings, destined for his father's house, and another holding their things, headed to Boston.
Grant called it a practical arrangement. Tessa called it family. But when I found a spreadsheet detailing my care schedule, living expenses, and even how often I was allowed to visit him, I finally understood the truth: they hadn't planned a future with me. They had assigned me a role in theirs.
So while they celebrated their new life together, I enrolled in a school in another city, secured my finances, and disappeared from the future they had designed for me. They thought I was going to Iowa.
They were wrong. And by the time Grant realized I had stopped following his plan, I was already building a life no one else could control.
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