"I'm very sorry. We couldn't save the baby." I lay bleeding on the operating table—alone—while my husband built snowmen in Aspen with his dead brother's widow and our daughter. When I called him, desperate and dying, my own child's voice cut through the phone: "Daddy, hang up! I want a picture with Mama Sienna!" I was never his wife. I was a placeholder. A living doll he dressed to look like *her*—the woman he truly wanted but couldn't have while his brother lived. I gave up my career as a lead scientist to play secretary in his company. I handed him my patented research that made him millions. I endured his mother's cruelty and watched my daughter learn to call another woman "Mommy." The miscarriage should have broken me. Instead, it freed me. Now I'm suing my ex-husband's company into the ground, reclaiming the patents that built his empire. And the cold, untouchable billionaire everyone fears? He's watching me with an intensity that should terrify me—but doesn't. Jasper thought I'd come crawling back, pregnant and desperate. He's about to learn the truth: there is no baby. There is no mercy. And the woman he threw away? She's the nightmare he never saw coming. When I appear again, he will find that my identity has changed. I am no longer the Cinderella he abandoned; he will have to call me Aunt Aurora.

They had loved each other fiercely through four years of college, only to divorce after a mere two years of marriage. Adrian asked, "Just because I was gone for a few days and you couldn't find me, you want a divorce?" Aria replied, "Because I don't love you anymore. I'm bored. And you're too poor." In the end, they really did part ways, each going their own direction. Four years later, Adrian returned in full force, now worth billions. He acquired the company Aria worked for and became her immediate boss. On the surface, he seemed to be settling old scores, constantly mocking and provoking her. Yet behind the scenes, he dressed her up like the most elegant princess. Aria thought he wanted revenge. Instead, he quietly shielded her from every hidden danger in the workplace. She thought all he would do was sneer at her, but he secretly fulfilled every unfinished wish she once had. She believed her heart had long gone still, yet under his relentless, domineering pursuit, it began to race out of control once again. When she agreed with him to remain nothing more than casual lovers, he broke all the rules and went straight for something far more binding; he wanted her to bear his child and tie her to him for life. This ex-husband clearly had his own dangerous agenda.