The Ultimate Checkmate: Marrying My Ex's Billionaire Rival

Three years ago, Tristan Vance mocked Chloe Hayes in front of their friends, calling her a desperate puppy dog. Humiliated, she tumbled down a flight of concrete stairs and shattered her knee, requiring surgeries and physical therapy that left permanent joint damage. Now she returns to the city and, at a college alumni dinner, hands out wedding invitations. Tristan sneers that she has no nerve to marry another man, while Lindsey Cole, once Chloe's best friend, reveals she is marrying Tristan herself. What no one knows is that the groom is Sebastian Sterling, the untouchable campus god turned phantom billionaire, who sits across the table watching in absolute calm. The invitation reads Bastian Sterling, a name few recognize. Sebastian and Chloe have a quiet arrangement: he needs a fiancée to get his family off his back, and she agreed. When a storm strands the alumni at a hotel, Tristan and Lindsey's room sits right beside Chloe's, and their cruel provocations pierce the thin walls. Then her door clicks open, and Sebastian steps in from the rain.