From His Fake Wife to Billionaire Heiress

On the night before their anniversary, Riley Harper stumbled onto something that turned her world upside down. She discovered that Lucas Ashford, the man she thought was her husband, had been lying to her for five years—their marriage license was completely fake. Behind her back, he had already married his adopted sister, and they had a family together. For four years, without her knowledge, he had been putting birth control in her food to make sure she never got pregnant. That was when it finally hit her: she had only ever been a cover for their relationship, a convenient excuse to throw everyone off. Once she knew the truth, Riley didn't hesitate. She reached out to her family, cutting ties with Havenbrook on the spot, and agreed to her brother's plan to come home and enter into an arranged marriage. Lucas, meanwhile, brushed it off. He figured she was just throwing a tantrum and would come crawling back once she realized she had nowhere else to go. After all, she was just an orphan with no safety net. But the next time he saw her, she wasn't the same woman. She was standing tall as the daughter of the Harper family—one of the most powerful dynasties in the country—with the heir to an elite fortune on her arm. She had money, status, and the kind of power Lucas could only dream of. Regret finally hit him like a ton of bricks. Red-eyed and desperate, he begged her to give him another chance. She didn't even look his way. "Aren't you already married with a kid?" she said coolly. "A guy on his second marriage? Please. Even a stray wouldn't touch that."