Reese

After six years of loving Julian Grayson and literally keeping him alive with her rare blood donations, Hazel Ashworth is just three days away from becoming his wife when he calls to cancel their wedding. 
The reason? Her half-sister Ivy has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and her dying wish is to marry Julian instead. Hazel watches in horror as Julian takes her handcrafted wedding dress to Ivy, who plans to wear it while stealing not just Hazel's fiancé, but her entire wedding—same venue, same date, even the same cake flavor. 
It's a devastating replay of their childhood, where Ivy's mother Eleanor destroyed Hazel's family by seducing her father and driving her mother to suicide, then spent years pushing Hazel out while Ivy took everything that was once hers. 
But this time, Hazel refuses to break like her mother did. She demands Julian's entire company and two million dollars as compensation, then shows up at the hospital to deliver Ivy's "wedding gift" in the most explosive way possible.
As Ivy plays the perfect dying victim and Julian remains blind to her manipulation, Hazel begins to suspect that her half-sister's illness might not be as terminal as everyone believes. When Ivy has the audacity to ask Hazel to witness her wedding to Julian, the gloves come off completely. 
Now Hazel must decide how far she's willing to go to expose the truth and reclaim what's rightfully hers, even if it means destroying the man she once loved in the process.

The Billionaire Backs Me Up

Chapter 104 - A Stepmother's Debt, A Daughter's Design


I caught Eleanor's wrist before her bracelet could connect with my face, my reflexes surprising even me.


"That's enough," I said, my voice deadly calm. "You've already assaulted one of my employees today."


Eleanor yanked her arm away, her face contorted with rage and something else—desperation, I realized. Her designer blouse was wrinkled, her makeup slightly smudged. The elegant facade she'd maintained for years was crumbling before my eyes.


"You ruined everything!" she hissed. "My life is falling apart because of you!"


I stepped back, maintaining a safe distance between us. "Your life is falling apart because Harrison committed crimes and got caught. That's not my doing."


"You planned it all! Getting close to that Sterling man, using his influence to destroy us!"


I almost laughed at the irony. Eleanor had spent years treating me like an unwelcome intruder in my own home, and now here she was, the intruder in my company.
