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-!"

could process what was happening. His powerful grip locked

have a death wish?" Jace hovered over her, his jaw

body. "Why do you have such terrible wounds? Was it from the

a bullet,

voice echoed from the deepest recesses of his distant memories, like a

softly, tears streaming

lifted her hand to touch his face, but

not even Christopher will

a cold warning before

behind him. He leaned heavily against the door closed his eyes, and shook his head. Bella's