The Auctions Piece Sold to Him

No Longer Mrs. Cooley: The Architect's Return

Xiao Xiaosu

I went to the City Clerk’s office for a routine copy of my marriage license to finalize a trust fund audit. I expected a simple piece of paper, but the clerk’s pitying look told me my entire life was a lie. "The license was never finalized, Ms. Oliver. In the eyes of the state, you are single." The three-hundred-guest wedding at the Plaza and the Vogue features meant nothing. My husband, Gray Cooley, had intentionally filed the documents with a "procedural defect" so he could discard me without a legal divorce. Moments later, an iCloud invite titled "Our Little Secret" popped up on my screen. It was a photo of my best friend, Brylee, holding a positive pregnancy test at our Hamptons estate. Gray’s text to her was the final blow: "Happy anniversary, babe. This baby is the best gift. Once the trust unlocks today, we’re done with the charade." I soon discovered they were even stealing my career, reassigning my architectural masterpiece to Brylee while preparing my eviction notice. Gray's mother called me a "barren mule" in a leaked recording, mocking the infertility I suffered after saving Gray’s life in a construction accident. I wasn't a wife; I was a three-year placeholder used to secure his inheritance. How could the man I bled for treat me like a disposable prop? How could my best friend carry his child while pretending to comfort me through my darkest moments? The betrayal burned until it turned into a cold, hard stone of fury. I didn't cry. Instead, I walked into the penthouse of the Barretts, the Cooleys' most powerful rivals. I signed a marriage contract with Kane Barrett, the man the tabloids called the "Beast of Wall Street." "I want a wedding," I told his father, my voice steady and lethal. "Bigger than the one I had with Gray." If they wanted me gone, they would have to watch me become the woman who owns their world.

Modern Revenge Divorce

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Sarah

Papa, Mama, wake up, please!

Tears stung my eyes as my parents laid helplessly on the ground, we were just returning from the casillias ranch at Costra Nostra, when our car got in the middle of a shoot out between two different cartels, we shrieked in fear,as papa slowed down the car, and turned the steering wheel to revise.

Then we heard a loud sound from our car, it was from one of the tyres, which had just been deflated by a fired bullet.

We panicked,and let out a helpless cry, papa held his grip firmly to the steering wheel and stepped on the brakes, immediately it let a screeching sound as it moved in full speed, he clenched his hands on the steering wheel as he tried to gain control, we reached a speed bump and he tried to slow down but the car screeched to a halt, causing a tyre to roll off and immediately,the car rolled over_well that's all i can remember.

I shrieked in fear, my eyes all welled up in tears, I crawled to my parents who were lying still on the ground, their bodies all bruised up and covered with blood

__ ,"open your eyes please".Tears rolled down my eyes,I tied to stand but I couldn't move from the bruises on me,I turned to our car, it was all wrecked up an d covered with smoke, my face was covered with blood from the injury on my head side, I looked around quickly to get help but dizziness struck me and I collapse right to the ground.

I opened my eyes slowly and saw a pair of white eyes staring at me.

I looked around in shock.

"Where am i?" I asked and winced as a sharp pain short through my head.

"You're in the hospital" a voice replied.

I looked up to the person, it was uncle Delvin.

He looked at me with scrutinizing eyes, as I tried to sit up straight.

I remembered my parents

I gasped

"Papa, Mama, where are they?" I asked with teary eyes.

He didn't reply.

_dove sono i mie genitori?_ "where are my parents?" I asked again,my heart thudding widely against my chest.

He huffed and closed his eyes.

"What happened?" I blurted with a sob.

Sighs

"You need to rest" he replied and leaves the room.

Immediately tears clouded my eyes,my thoughts became foggy and perplexing as i was filled with so much curiosity about my parents,i tried to stand,but my legs;

They were stiffened.

A lady walked into the room, by her appearance I could tell she was a nurse.

"How are you feeling?" she asked with a smile.

"I want to see my parents" I blurted staring at her with teary eyes.

She lowered her gaze to the floor and sighed, she raised her head and looked at me, her face filled with pity.

Smiles

"You're recovering quick" she said trying to wave it off.

"What happened?," I cut, "please tell me" I begged anxious to know.

She budge

"It's alright" she replied, by her tone, I could tell something was wrong and I got fed up with the wavery.

"Where are my parents?" I yelled anxiously, I could hear heart beating loudly and faster against my chest.

"They're dead" uncle Delvin replied standing at the door.

He drifted into the room

"They didn't survive the accident" he added and stopped.

"WHAT!"

A grin plastered my face,"No" I muffled and immediately tears started rolling down my cheeks.

"NO, Papa, Mama"

I was sobbing hard now, the top of my blouse was drenched with tears, immediately uncle Delvin and the nurse lady excuse themselves and leaves the room.

"Why?," "it can't be"

"NO"

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