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 25 - The Sterling Gift and a Rival's Shocking Collapse


The crowd was still buzzing with excitement after Damien Sterling's jaw-dropping bid. Three hundred million yuan—a number so astronomical that it had silenced even Ivy's venom-laced protests. I sat frozen in my seat, emotions colliding inside me like warring armies. Relief that Julian and Ivy didn't get the bracelet warred with disappointment that I hadn't secured my mother's legacy myself.


But more than anything, confusion reigned. Why had Damien Sterling intervened? What would he do with a feminine jade bracelet? And what would he expect from me in return?


The auction continued around me, but I barely registered the other items being presented. My eyes kept drifting up to the VIP suite where his silhouette had now disappeared from view. The absence only amplified my questions.
