REBORN AS THE BILLIONAIRE’s Surrogate
Three miscarriages destroyed Amelia Hart’s marriage, but the truth destroys her life. Betrayed by her husband, her step-sister, and her ruthless mother-in-law, Amelia uncovers a horrifying conspiracy behind her unborn children’s deaths, only to be murdered before exposing it. Fate grants her a second chance when she awakens two years in the past in the body of Celeste Monroe, the woman destined to become the Vale family’s surrogate. This time, Amelia won’t beg for love, she'll make them pay. But the deeper she digs, the more she realizes her death was only the beginning… In a world where bloodlines decide everything, who is truly the rightful heir?
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Chapter: Chapter 15: Morning After GuiltCeleste’s pov I read the text three times before my hands stopped shaking enough to put the phone down. Enjoy tonight. It’s the last peaceful one you’ll get before everyone in that house finds out exactly who you really are.I didn’t sleep. By the time morning light crept through my window, I’d convinced myself the board session would be the least of my problems.I found Gregory in the hallway outside the dining room, dressed sharp for the meeting, his face already carrying the exhaustion of a man who hadn’t slept either, he looked up when I approached, and something in his expression made my stomach drop before he even spoke.“Gregory.”“Celeste.” He said my name flat, distant, nothing like the way he’d whispered it against my lips hours earlier. “I need to talk to you.”“Okay.”“About last night.” He glanced down the hallway, checking for anyone listening, then lowered his voice further. “It shouldn’t have happened.”The warmth from the night before drained out of my chest all at o
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Chapter: Chapter 14 : The first kissCeleste’s pov “Helena Whitman,” I repeated, staring at the name on the page. “Any relation to Dr. Whitman?” “I don’t know yet.” Gregory’s hands were still shaking. “But it can’t be a coincidence. My mother’s maiden name matches the doctor who’s been running that clinic for thirty years.” “Family,” I said slowly. “Maybe a brother, cousin.” “Which would explain why he’s been so loyal to her for decades.” Gregory closed the folder, pressing his palm flat against it like he could keep the contents contained through sheer will. “I need to know how deep this goes before Thursday.” “I might be able to help with that.” He looked at me sharply. “How?” “I have a contact who’s been investigating the clinic independently, someone with access I don’t have.” I chose my words carefully, protecting Robert’s name until I knew how much I could trust Gregory with. “Let me talk to them first, bring you something concrete instead of more questions.” “Celeste.” He caught my wrist gently. “W
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Chapter: Chapter 13 : Helena locked DrawerCeleste’s pov Helena’s face went through several emotions at once, shock, fury, and something colder underneath both. “Where did you get access to my personal accounts?” “That’s not the point, Mother.” Gregory’s voice shook with barely contained anger, why were you paying Dr. Whitman three years before I married Amelia?” “You’ve been going through my private records?” “Answer the question.” Helena’s jaw tightened, her composure cracking at the edges for the first time since I’d known her. “It was a donation. To the clinic’s research fund, nothing more.” “A donation.” Gregory’s voice went flat with disbelief. “To a fertility clinic, Three years before your future daughter-in-law ever needed one.” “I don’t have to explain every financial decision I’ve made over the past decade.” “You do when it looks like you were setting something up before Amelia even entered this family.” He stepped closer, phone still raised. “What did you do, Mother?” “I protected this family,”
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Chapter: Chapter 12 : The uncle’s UltimatumCeleste’s pov The lighthouse stood dark against the evening sky, waves crashing against rocks below in a rhythm that made my chest tighten with memory. I parked and walked the path toward the old stone tower, the wind pulling at my hair, and found Gregory already waiting near the base, jacket collar turned up. “You came,” he said. “You said it was important.” “It is.” He studied me for a long moment, something unreadable behind his eyes. “I keep trying to figure out what it is about you that feels this familiar, and every answer I come up with sounds insane.” “Try me.” “Sometimes you move the way she used to move.” His voice dropped, rough. “My wife. Amelia. She used to press her hand flat against her stomach when she was nervous, exactly like you do.” My hand had been resting there without my noticing. I dropped it fast. “That’s probably just a coincidence.” “Probably.” He didn’t sound convinced. “I brought you here to tell you something. About the night she died.”
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Chapter: Chapter 11: The sealed birth recordWe ran.The grandfather moved faster than his cane should have allowed, and I kept pace beside him, my heart hammering from the garden conversation and now this, the staff member led us through the side entrance into the main hall, where a small crowd had already gathered outside Helena’s study.“What happened?” the grandfather demanded.“She collapsed, sir. One of the maids found her on the floor.”I pushed through the doorway before I could think better of it Helena lay on the chaise near her desk, pale, one hand pressed to her chest, Gregory already kneeling beside her, his face tight with something I hadn’t seen on him before, fear.“Mother, can you hear me?”“I’m fine,” Helena rasped, though her voice shook. “Stop hovering.”“You collapsed.”“I got dizzy.” She tried to sit up, and Gregory’s hand pressed gently against her shoulder, holding her still.“Someone call the doctor,” he snapped, not looking away from her.“Already on the way,” a staff member answered from the doorway.
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Chapter: Chapter Ten: The grandfather warningCeleste’s pov The garden behind the east wing sat quiet in the fading light, and I found him there exactly where the text said he’d be, an old man on a stone bench, a cane resting against his knee.“You came,” he said without looking up.“Your message was hard to ignore.”“Sit.” He patted the space beside him.I hesitated, then sat, the cool stone seeping through my dress. For a long moment, neither of us spoke, the garden settling into the kind of silence that only old houses seemed to hold onto.“You’ve caused quite a stir in this house,” he said finally, still watching the sky instead of me. “Two days, and already my grandson can’t stop finding reasons to be near you.”“I don’t know what you mean.”“You know exactly what I mean.” He turned, and his eyes, sharp despite his age, studied my face with an intensity that made my skin crawl. “I’ve lived in this family for seventy years, Celeste. I know what it looks like when a Vale man starts falling for the wrong woman. I watched it ha
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Chapter: Chapter Thirteen: What Selena knowsEileen’s pov Alpha, with respect, that isn’t your decision to make alone. Pack law requires—”“Pack law also grants me final authority over my mate’s standing within these walls, and I am invoking that authority now, before this entire council.” His jaw was iron. “I will hold to it regardless of what any of you believe you’ve heard.”The eldest elder finally nodded, slow and reluctant. “As you wish, Alpha. Though I hope your confidence proves well placed.”The chamber began to empty, and only once it had fully cleared did Alaric turn to face me, exhaustion and something far more dangerous burning behind his eyes.“I just staked my authority on you in front of the entire council,” he said quietly. “Every enemy I have will use this against me the moment they sense a crack in it.”“Why would you do that.”“Because I meant every word, and because some part of me is still furious that I meant it so easily.” His hand rose to my jaw. “I need you to understand, I can’t protect you from what
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Chapter: Chapter Twelve : Confrontation SetupEileen’s pov“Empty,” Alaric repeated. “Since when.”“Since before the guard checked the corridor an hour ago.” He glanced at me, then quickly away. “Her maid says she left dressed for travel and never returned to collect anything else.”“Search the east tower. Every room, top to bottom.”“Already done, Alpha. Nothing.” He hesitated. “There’s more. She’s called for a formal hunt at dawn. Sent word to the entire court an hour past. Says it’s tradition, to honor the new Luna before the moon cycle turns.”My stomach dropped straight through the floor. “She’s never spoken to me about any hunt in three days.”“She didn’t ask permission,” he said. “She simply announced it. Half the court’s already preparing horses.”I felt Alaric’s jaw tighten beside me. “She’s making a move in front of witnesses she thinks I can’t refuse without looking weak in front of the whole council.”“What do we do.”“We attend, and we don’t let her set the terms of it.” He turned to face me fully, gold still simmeri
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Chapter: Chapter Eleven: Alaric’s pastAlaric’s povI found her waiting in my study when I finally escaped the elders’ endless questions about the rogue wolf, and the moment I saw her face I knew whatever she’d found had cost her more than she was letting show on the surface.“You look like you’ve seen something you can’t unsee,” I said, shutting the door behind me.“I have.” She held out her palm, and the crescent pendant caught the firelight, identical to the one Selena wore like a trophy at her throat. “I found it hidden in the storage room. There’s a list. Three names, and mine underneath them. She was planning to remove me before this wedding ever happened.”Something cold settled low in my chest, old and familiar, a feeling I’d spent years building walls around specifically so it couldn’t get back out again.“Sit,” I said, because I needed a moment before I could say the rest of it out loud, and I still wasn’t entirely certain I was ready to hand it to her.She sat and watched me with a patience that made it harder,
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Chapter: Chapter Ten : The Second PendantEileen’s pov Wren found me in the small library off the east wing, still dressed in the gown from the corridor, and the look on her face told me she already knew about the wolf before I said a single word about it. “You’re not hurt,” she said, more statement than question, her eyes sweeping over me anyway to confirm it herself. “I’m fine. Alaric took the worst of it.” My hands still hadn’t fully stopped shaking, faint tremors running through my fingers that I kept curling into fists to hide. “The whole palace is already talking about it. They’re saying you healed him with your bare hands. They’re saying Selena saw the whole thing happen.” “She did. And before she left, she told me she finally understood how to make me use it until there’s nothing left of me at all.” Wren’s face went bloodless, the color draining out of her the way water drains from a cracked basin. “Then we’ve run out of time to be careful about any of this.” “I know.” I pressed my palms flat against the
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Chapter: Chapter 9: Alice’s fearAlice’s povThe carriage rocked over uneven stone, and I pressed my palm flat against the window, watching the North Pack’s border wall shrink smaller behind us until it disappeared into the treeline entirely.“You’re quiet,” Lucian said, not looking up from the papers in his lap.“I’m thinking.”“About the necklace.”My hand went to my bare throat before I could stop it, the absence of the chain suddenly unbearable, a phantom weight where the metal used to sit. “About a lot of things.”He finally looked up, something unreadable behind his eyes. “The Luna knew that chain on sight. You saw her face when she asked about it.”“I saw a woman making trouble at her own wedding feast, nothing more.”“That’s not what I saw.” He set the papers down slowly, deliberately, giving me the full weight of his attention, which had never once in three years felt like comfort. “Did she remind you of anyone, Alice.”My mouth went dry, my tongue suddenly too large for it. “I don’t know what you mean.”“Th
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Chapter: Chapter Eight : The Bond DeepensEileen’s pov The guard didn’t wait to see if we followed. He turned and ran back the way he’d come, and Alaric’s hand closed around my wrist, pulling me into a pace that left no room for questions. “Stay behind me,” he said. “Alaric, what’s happening.” “I don’t know yet. That’s what worries me.” The west corridor came into view ahead, torches burning low, servants pressed back against the stone, several with their hands over their mouths. The air changed the closer we got, thick and wrong, copper on the back of my tongue before I understood why. “Get back,” Alaric said, pushing me behind him with one arm. I looked past his shoulder anyway. Three guards lay sprawled near the storage room door, none of them moving, claw marks raked deep into the stone above their heads. “Rogue wolf,” one surviving guard said, voice shaking, pointing toward the shadows pooled at the far end. “Came out of nowhere. Still in there.” Alaric’s whole body went rigid, gold flaring violent. “
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