Blood Silk and Shattered Vows
By @john1208
I held my grandfather's hand on his deathbed as he whispered the terrifying truth: the treaty protecting my life would expire in exactly one hundred days. That same night, an assassin's poison triggered a miscarriage. Bleeding and alone in the hospital, I begged my husband, Teodoro, to come to my side. He refused, claiming his weeping ex-girlfriend needed him more. My tears dried. My heart turned to ice. I signed the divorce papers, abandoned my pathetic disguise as a submissive housewife, and reclaimed my true identity as the world-renowned fashion designer behind the billionaire empire Seta di Sangue. I have ninety-nine days to build an untouchable syndicate and forge an alliance with Zeno Caccini - a ruthless mafia boss who slaughters my enemies but treats me like fragile glass. But as bullets fly at my runway shows and Zeno's lethal devotion deepens, Teodoro makes a devastating discovery. Unearthing my hidden diaries beneath the floorboards, he realizes the sheer agony I endured in silence. Now, my arrogant ex-husband is desperately groveling to win back a woman who no longer exists. With the deadline looming, will I survive long enough to wear the crown?
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Measurements of Malice
By @john1208
For five years, Cynara Gault played the role of the dowdy, unpaid servant-wife to the arrogant Rhoden Brelis. But at his esteemed uncle's funeral, Cynara casually drops signed divorce papers onto the mahogany casket and struts away to reclaim her true identity: the anonymous, world-renowned visionary behind the Maison Gault fashion empire. While Rhoden is busy discovering her old 'diaries of silent suffering' - which are actually just her highly melodramatic brainstorming notes for a Gothic winter collection - and sobbing over the delicate flower he ruined, Cynara is coldly executing his destruction. Aided by Kaspar Vant, a ruthless litigation attorney who fills the 'new love interest' quota despite their relationship consisting entirely of platonic, sociopathic high-fives over court rulings, Cynara methodically dismantles Rhoden's life. But there is a catch she hasn't mentioned: her family's inheritance trust mandates she must completely liquidate Rhoden's textile empire within exactly twenty-eight days, or lose her billions to a tropical parrot sanctuary. With the clock ticking and a flamboyant former rival now eager to help her stir the pot, can Cynara bankrupt her aggressively groveling ex before he finishes reading chapter four of her fake diary?
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