Act for that Billionaire

While I Was Bleeding Out, He Lit Lanterns For Her

Katie Oettgen

As I lay on the floor of our manor, bleeding out from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, I used my last ounce of strength to call my husband, Cole. I begged him for help, my vision blurring. But the only thing I heard was the clinking of champagne glasses and his mistress's giggle in the background. "Stop the drama, June," Cole snapped, his voice cold. "We're about to go on stage. Don't call again." He hung up, leaving me to die alone on the Persian rug while he accepted an award with another woman on his arm. I woke up in the hospital days later. My baby was gone. They had removed my fallopian tube. Cole finally arrived, smelling of expensive scotch and his mistress's perfume. He didn't hug me. He didn't cry. Instead, he leaned over my hospital bed, pressing his knee into the mattress until my fresh stitches tore open and bled. "You embarrassed me by calling an ambulance," he hissed. "My mistress, Alycia, says you're faking it. Clean yourself up." He left me bleeding again to go announce a $10 million donation to Alycia's "groundbreaking" medical research. I stared at the TV screen, numb. The research Alycia was taking credit for? It was mine. I wrote that patent years ago under a pseudonym. They thought I was just a poor, orphan housewife who needed Cole's money to survive. They had no idea I was actually a billionaire scientist hiding my identity. I pulled the IV needle out of my arm. A drop of blood fell onto the divorce papers I had been hiding. I didn't wipe it off. I signed my name right over it. Then I walked into the bank, reactivated my dormant account with $128 million, and bought the penthouse directly overlooking Cole's house. The mourning widow is dead. The avenger is born.

Romance Crime Revenge Pregnancy Enemies to Lovers Pregnancy Personal Growth

Download the Book on the App

Author’s POV

Naomi never believed in coincidences. What she believes is everything has been designed and arranged by the Almighty to meet each other or stay away from each other. Time goes on and the wheel of life keeps turning. Nothing can reverse a time because the Almighty alone is in control of life.

And now she was confronted by a dashing man who was sitting in front of his door. He seemed to be gasping for breath with such a fast breath. The petite girl drew closer to the sharp-eyed man's figure and looked at him from above and below, an appearance that brought her back to her high school days.

He had not yet raised his head, but Naomi already knew who the man was. Seeing a pair of feet that were walking towards him, he lifted his head and was surprised when he saw the little girl was looking at him flatly and coldly,

That man was Alexander Louis, a good-looking man in Naomi's high school as well as a man who once held the highest position in Naomi's heart. The familiar look still carried when their brown eyes met. It felt exactly like this is the first time the two met together after few years apart. No one expected that man would suddenly enter that girl's house with a gasping breath as if someone was chasing him.

She stared at him coldly as if he had just been splashed with cold water, so cold and untouchable... that man barely knew her for a while.

"Nao-mi?" called that man, opening the conversation between the two for the first time in a long time the two of them had not seen each other,

"What are you doing here?" asked her coldly. There isn’t any warmness within her eyes, she just stared at him as cold as her heart.

"I don't know this is your house."

“He doesn’t know?” inner her wondering.

“Get out from my house,” she ordered as he shook his head.

"Not for now, Naomi. I'm afraid they're still around here,” he said as he peeked behind the door. Naomi furrowed her brow, what did he mean and what exactly was going on?

"I said get out," as she point the door,

That man shook his head, "Please, please... I'm begging you,"

That girl could not completely reject him because she still had a sense of worry about what was happening with that man. She hid her worries and she closed it tightly with the intention of wanting to forget him who had hurt her in the past,

“Where the hell is him right now?” wondering some men out there,

Alex gasped as soon as he heard the baritone voice that sounded very close to him. That girl could see that Alex looked panicked. And that man's panic was even more apparent when someone knocked on Naomi's door with a baritone voice saying 'excuse me' to the owner of the house, Naomi.

Intrigued by what was happening, she stepped up and grabbed the doorknob, intending to open the door for the baritone voice. Alex grabbed her leg and shook his head quickly, but Naomi deliberately stomped her foot until Alex almost fell down. Naomi actually opened the door for that baritone voice and Alex was gave up to beg her pity. As soon as she opened the door, she found two well-dressed sissies waiting for her to speak,

"Excuse me, have you seen a man in the black suit?" asked one of the sissies politely,

“Black suit? They are looking for Alex?”

She nodded, "I saw him running there," she said, pointing to a hallway across from her house. The two sissies nodded in understanding and thanked to her.

Read Now