LOGINAna Lancaster loses everything in a single day. Her boyfriend marries her pregnant best friend, then leaves her with the cruel reminder that no man would ever want a poor and plus-size girl like her. Now, Ana is nothing more than a servant in the Leon mansion, home to the most powerful business family in the city. Her life is filled with orders, humiliation, and degrading stares until three dangerous men begin paying attention to her. Leon, the cold and dominant man who looks at Ana as if she already belongs to him. Adrian, the mature and composed man who slowly makes Ana feel desired. Sebastian, the wild and seductive man who never hides his obsession with teasing her body and mind. When her late mother's hospital debt threatens to destroy her life, Ana becomes trapped in a secret arrangement with three men who are too rich, too powerful, and too obsessive to refuse. One decision pulls Ana into a world filled with money, desire, and dangerous games between three best friends who slowly begin destroying each other because of her. Behind expensive dresses, heated touches, and sinful whispers, Ana slowly realizes one thing: They don't just want her body. They want to own her completely.
View MoreAna's Pov.
I sat on one of the wooden pews in this church. My hands tightly gripped the edge of my dress until the fabric wrinkled. My boyfriend, Max, stood there in his neat black suit. Beside him was Sasha, my best friend since the first day I arrived in this city two years ago. Sasha's stomach was already swollen beneath her white wedding dress.
Two months ago, Sasha came to my apartment, kneeling on the floor while sobbing.
"Ana, I'm pregnant, and this baby is Max's. Please don't be mad."
I didn't cry back then. I just stayed silent.
I didn't know who I should be angry at. At Max, who said he was busy with work? Or at Sasha, who drank coffee with me every morning while talking about the guys who flirted with her?
Now they were getting married, and they kissed at the altar. Everyone applauded. Max's family, Sasha's family, friends who knew me only as "Sasha's good friend." No one even looked at me.
I slowly stood up and walked out through the side door.
Outside, my phone vibrated hard inside my pocket.
"Hey fatty! Come to the mall right now!"
I immediately hurried to the mall, and it took me twenty minutes. I was out of breath because of my excessive weight. By the time I arrived, Clara was already waiting.
"Oh my God, you took forever," Clara complained while shoving three large shopping bags into my hands. "Carry these."
I lifted all the bags. Their weight dragged my shoulders down. She walked in front of me with the relaxed steps of her expensive heels while talking about last night's party at a nightclub I had never stepped into because one entrance f*e there could pay for my meals for an entire week.
I simply followed her, occasionally adjusting the bags that kept slipping from my shoulders, occasionally lowering my head to avoid the stares of people watching a curly-haired girl carrying piles of luxury shopping bags in broad daylight.
When we reached the front of the mall, Clara stopped at the drop-off area. I placed the bags on the stone pavement while catching my breath. My arms felt like they were about to fall off.
A few moments later, three luxury cars stopped right in front of us. Bodyguards stepped out from the cars in the front and back. They opened the doors swiftly, and middle-aged men stepped out wearing neat suits, polished shoes, and wrinkle-free faces. One of them was Clara's father.
"Oh, I almost forgot, Ana," Clara turned around and pulled out several euro bills, twenties, fifties, and tens, before throwing them at me. The money hit my left cheek before falling to the ground.
She had repeated this humiliation hundreds of times over the past two years. Back then, it used to hurt me, but now nothing could hurt more than what I'd already experienced this morning when I saw my boyfriend marrying my best friend.
I lowered my head. I picked up the euro bills one by one and slipped them into my jacket pocket without counting them.
When I stood up again and brushed the dust off my knees, Clara was already inside the car. But before the car door closed, I saw something that made my breath stop for a second.
From the back seats of each car, those men were staring at me.
I couldn't move, then the car doors closed one by one. The three cars drove away together, leaving me standing alone on the sidewalk with dirty money in my pocket and the smell of exhaust smoke filling my nose.
Then I returned to the mansion. Of course, it wasn't my mansion. I worked there, at Clara's father's house.
When I got there, I unlocked the door to my room with a rusty key, then I cried for the first time that day.
I had just calmed myself down when my phone vibrated again. I thought it was another message from Clara, but it was actually from Max.
"I know you were at the church earlier. You saw it yourself, right? Sasha is beautiful, but you? Try looking at yourself for once. Your boyfriend chose another girl, and you still don't realize why? You can't even take care of yourself properly. You're just an ugly fat girl! After this, no man will ever want a fat girl like you!"
I read it once, then twice.
Not an apology, not regret. Just insults from the man who used to be my boyfriend.
I wanted to reply. I wanted to pour out all the pain that had built up over the last two months, but my hand stopped.
There was no need because he was no longer my problem.
I pressed on his name and blocked him, but less than a minute later, another message came in from Clara.
"Hey fatty! Come to the swimming pool now!"
After Rena's embrace with her mother subsided, Sebastian stepped closer to his father-in-law who was still standing silently with a hard expression. The old man seemed to still be trying to process everything that had happened—his estranged daughter returning, married to a handsome, wealthy man, and pregnant out of wedlock."May I speak with you for a moment? Somewhere more private?" Sebastian asked.Rena's father looked at Sebastian suspiciously, but finally nodded. "Follow me to my study."They walked through the hallway of the house toward a small room at the back. The room was filled with religious books, a cross on the wall, and an old wooden desk. Rena's father sat behind the desk, looking at Sebastian with a sharp gaze."Sit down," he said, his voice still cold.Sebastian sat in the chair across from him. "Sir, I want to know something. I want to know the main conflict between you and Rena. Why did you really kick her out?"Rena's father was silent for a few moments. His hand r
The next morning, Sebastian woke up with a new determination. He had made a promise to Rena, a promise to be a better husband, to protect her, to be someone who cared about her, and part of that promise was helping Rena make peace with her past."I want to take you to your parents' house," Sebastian said.Rena almost choked on her coffee. "What?""I want you to make peace with them. You can't keep living with past wounds. You need to face them."Rena looked down, her hands trembling. "I can't. I'm scared. They'll say terrible things to me. They'll make me feel small again.""You've been through so much, and I'll be by your side. I won't let them hurt you," Sebastian said.Rena looked at Sebastian, seeing the sincerity in his eyes. She took a deep breath, then nodded slowly.^^^The journey to Rena's parents' house took about two hours. Rena sat in the passenger seat with her body stiff, her hands fidgeting with the hem of her clothes. She occasionally stole glances at Sebastian, but q
Sebastian stared at Rena with a surprised expression. All this time he had thought Rena was truly alone—no family, no one at all. But now Rena was saying that she still had parents."You still have a father and mother? But all this time you said you were alone. You said no one cared about you," Sebastian said.Rena looked down, tears beginning to stream down her cheeks. "I lied to everyone.""Why did you lie?" Sebastian asked."Because my parents, they never wanted to know about me. They kicked me out of the house when I was eighteen years old. They said I was a disgrace to the family. I was too fat, too ugly, too worthless."Sebastian was silent, listening carefully."My father is a pastor. My mother is a woman who cares a lot about appearance. They wanted a perfect daughter—thin, beautiful, and obedient. But I could never be what they wanted," she said."So they kicked you out?" Sebastian asked.Rena nodded. "They said I was no longer their child. They said I had chosen my own path.
Sebastian fell silent hearing Adrian's words. He sipped his wine, trying to calm himself."What do you mean by that?""I'm saying it's a stupid move. You married Rena because you felt guilty. And now you're going to divorce her when she's pregnant and fighting cancer? That's not just stupid—it's cruel," Adrian said.Sebastian let out a frustrated sigh. "I never wanted this marriage. You know that. You and Leon forced me to marry her!""Leon and I forced you?" Adrian laughed cynically on the other end. "Sebastian, we only gave advice. You were the one who decided to marry her. You were the one who chose to take responsibility. Don't blame us for your own decisions.""I'm not blaming anyone, but you have to understand, I never wanted to get married again after Irene. I've had enough with one failed marriage. And now you forced me to marry a woman I don't even know!""Rena is the woman you raped. You can't escape responsibility by saying you didn't want this marriage. You made a huge mis
A few months later.The first contraction came while I was sleeping.The clock showed three in the morning. I woke up with a strange pain in my lower abdomen, not the usual kind of pain, but a pain that spread from my back to my waist, then to my stomach, then all over my body.I sat on the edge of
I fell silent.Marriage. I'd never imagined getting married, especially not to a man as rich and as mysterious as Mr. Leon. I was just a plain, fat girl who spent her life cleaning up other people's dirt."Why me?" I asked.Mr. Leon was still crouching in front of me, his eyes staring at me without
Two days passed.I tried to avoid Mr. Leon and his guests. I worked harder than usual. I cleaned every corner of the mansion, washed Clara's clothes until they smelled fresh, and even swept parts of the yard I had never touched before. I hoped that if I worked hard enough, everything would go back
I stopped walking.My body turned stiff like a statue. Mr. Leon's words pierced me from behind, sharp and cold, like the edge of a knife pressed against my neck."Who taught you to be so rude?"I didn't dare turn around. My eyes burned. Tears gathered at the corners, but I held them back with all m
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