The Divorced Heiress’s Revenge

Bella caught Jace off guard. In an instant, she had already torn open his collar, exposing his defined shoulder.

She was searching for a birthmark the size of a coin on his left shoulder. Hugh had a birthmark there; it was a faint pink mark that she remembered vividly.

The hope Bella had allowed herself to feel was quickly extinguished.

Instead of a birthmark, she was met with a long and vicious scar, two fingers wide, that snaked down his left shoulder.

The scar stood out starkly against his fair skin. It was gruesome.

As a former doctor for Doctors Without Borders, Bella had seen her fair share of injuries on the battlefield. Yet the severity of this scar sent a shiver down her spine. This was not an ordinary knife wound.

It looked like the aftermath of an explosion, a wound so severe it was as if he had been torn apart and stitched back together, skin and muscle pieced back like a grotesque puzzle. Could it be possible that...

"Ugh-!"

couch by Jace before she could process what was

Jace hovered over her, his jaw clenched tight and his eyes blazing with

coursed through her body. "Why do you

mind like a bullet, causing a wave

recesses of

sobbed softly, tears streaming down

her hand to touch his face, but Jace abruptly released

not even Christopher

with a cold warning

room, the door tightly behind him. He leaned heavily against the door closed his