The Billionaire's Runaway Substitute Bride

Chapter 4

Word Count: 846 | Released on: 20/07/2026

a few plain sets of clothes, and a slim, black garment bag tucked into a hidden compartment-something that had

al anatomy textbook with its spine taped back together; and a rare, cloth-bound catalog from a Geneva auction house, its

w professionally bandaged by the family doctor, was on the

nd, Melinda Ashford. "She attacked me like some ki

Kara grew up with no breeding. I'm so worried she'

e circles. Everyone was eager to see the Sexton f

veway. Charles Sexton, the patriarch, finally made an a

ara, not even bothering to ask what happened. "I

ave a cold,

k her father's arm and shot Kara a triumpha

d the black garment bag and quietly got into the

el. The grand ballroom glitter

cé, Preston Vaughn, and a crowd of friends, all "concerned" about

ice entrance. The driver, an old man who had once served her mother, gave her a sil

a Sexton daughter was never meant to own, let alone recognize. Yet Kara handled the fabric with

y a very few people in the world could call in-and the Sextons would never believe she was one of them. She typed back

sylvania?" Melinda Ashford said loudly. "She pro

ittered wit

t at the Sexton table was fi

ith each passing minute. He

was about to begin his speech, th

died. Every

silhouetted aga

she wa

ot the girl in the

thousands of tiny, sewn-in diamonds, as if she had draped herself in the Milky Wa

welry, save for a pair of small sapphire studs that matched her dress. Her makeup wa

room was

Belt bumpkin. T

acidic, burned in her throat. That dress... it was a

hford's ja

is daughter for the first time. He ne

moved with an unhurried grace, her heels clicki

triking fear into the hearts of ever

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“Kara Sexton was the illegitimate daughter of the Sexton family, forced into a PR marriage with the disabled Benton heir as a disposable placeholder. But on the night before she was supposed to sign the divorce papers, her stepmother drugged her. She woke up in a stranger's hotel bed, stripped of her dignity and her late mother's precious silver locket. Terrified, she fled back to her toxic family, only to face their relentless cruelty. Her stepsister, Emilia-who had secretly refused the marriage because of the groom's injured leg-conspired to publicly humiliate Kara at their grandmother's birthday banquet. They framed her with a counterfeit designer gown and accused her of selling her body to a sugar daddy to afford her stunning appearance. "Where did you get that kind of money? Dare you deny that some old man gave you these things to show off with tonight?" Her own father and grandmother watched with cold disdain, ready to cast her out like garbage. Kara looked at these blood relatives who had stolen her dowry, pushed her into a loveless marriage, and were now trying to destroy her reputation. They thought she was just a weak, uneducated girl from the countryside who would silently swallow their abuse. They were wrong. Kara calmly summoned the original designer to expose her sister's fake dress, tossed a thirty-million-dollar priceless emerald on the table, and publicly ripped away the family's hypocritical mask. She didn't need their charity, and she was done playing the victim. And as she walked away from the ruined Sexton family, Domenick Benton-the billionaire stranger from that night-finally locked onto his target.”