Shattered Vows: The Unwanted Wife Returns

I married into the billionaire Carlisle family, not for love, but because my rare genetic markers were the only cure to their dynasty's hidden curse.

But my husband, Julian, despised me. He believed I had blackmailed his family to drive away his true love, and in a drunken rage, he shoved my heavily pregnant body down a flight of marble stairs.

"Maybe it's for the best. This child should never have existed."

He sneered coldly, walking away as I miscarried one of our twins in a pool of blood. Five years later, I secretly raised our surviving daughter and became his ruthless corporate shield. When a massive cheating scandal involving his new mistress threatened the company, I orchestrated a flawless PR miracle to save his empire. In return, I swallowed my pride and begged him for just one hour to attend our daughter's school play. Instead, he mocked my "imaginary child", hit me with his car, and left me bleeding on the concrete floor.

Sitting alone in the dark with my bruised knees, I listened to the dial tone after he cruelly threatened to terminate our marriage. I had given him the cure to his bloodline and shielded his legacy, yet he couldn't spare a single ounce of humanity.

The last faint ember of hope I held for my daughter's father was completely extinguished. I wiped away my tears, finally ready to tear down the empire I had protected.