The Unwanted Substitute's Desperate Runaway

“Amara prepared a perfect anniversary dinner to tell her billionaire boyfriend, Eliot, that she was pregnant. Instead of joy, Eliot coldly looked at the sonogram and told her she was merely a substitute for his true love, Stella. "A substitute doesn't get to have delusions of grandeur, and certainly doesn't get to have my child." When Amara refused to abort the baby and walked out, Eliot systematically destroyed her life. Within days, her photography studio was shut down, her clients blacklisted her, and she was evicted from her apartment. His corporate empire erased her entire career, and he demanded she return as his obedient, disposable mistress if she wanted her life back. Cornered and stripped of everything, she went to his office to negotiate. When she sarcastically suggested he marry her, he violently grabbed her jaw, his eyes burning with terrifying rage as he warned her never to forget her place. She was suffocating in his invisible cage, unable to understand why he was so ruthless. Just as she thought he might break her, a frantic call came from her mother's sanitarium. Eliot drove her there, but when her deranged mother hurled a heavy glass pitcher at Amara's head, the monster who had just tormented her suddenly pulled her into his chest, taking the shattering blow and bleeding for her instead.”