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 61 - An Unexpected Invitation and a Healing Touch


"Hazel?" Damien's deep voice came through the phone, sending an inexplicable warmth through me despite the mundane greeting.


"Hey," I replied, trying to sound casual while quickly saving the design sketch I'd been working on. "How are you?"


"I just got back from my business trip," he said. "Are you free for lunch? I'm near your office."


My heart leapt. "You're back already? I thought you'd be gone until Friday."


"I wrapped things up early," he explained, his tone neutral but somehow still making me feel like I was the reason he'd rushed back. "There's a rooftop garden restaurant across from your building. I can meet you there in fifteen minutes."


The rooftop garden? That was where we'd had our first meal together, where everything between us had begun to shift. The significance wasn't lost on me.
