BRED FOR REVENGE: THE SURGEON'S RECKONING
In a world where power is bought with blood and babies, Dr. Elena Castellano was once a naive virgin bride—sacrificed to secure her bankrupt family's survival through marriage to the ruthless Dominic Voltaire, billionaire by day, mafia king by night.
She came to him with trembling hands and foolish hope, believing arranged marriage could bloom into love. Instead, he destroyed her on their wedding night with clinical brutality, treating her body like a transaction. When she discovered her pregnancy, she clung to the delusion that their child might soften his frozen heart.
Then she found the contract—black ink on white paper, detailing exactly how her womb had been purchased. Clause 7: "Upon successful live birth of male heir, compensation of $10 million to Castellano family. Maternal rights negotiable." She wasn't his wife. She was livestock. A breeding vessel to produce the "genetically suitable" heir his empire demanded and his bloodline required.
Heart shattered but survival instincts screaming, Elena made the impossible choice: she terminated her family's payout, faked a miscarriage during a deliberately staged car accident, and vanished into the night—still pregnant, now utterly alone.
Five years later, Dr. Elena Castellano returns to the city as an internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon, breathtaking in her transformation with sharp elegance, lethal competence, and a four-year-old son named Adrian hidden in plain sight. She's no longer the trembling girl Dominic discarded. She's the woman every hospital fights to recruit, every man desires to possess, and every secret he buried now threatens to expose.
But Dominic Voltaire doesn't stay buried either. The man who never wanted her now can't stop hunting her. His empire is crumbling from a mysterious neurological epidemic targeting his elite associates—and only Elena possesses the surgical skill to save them. Forced into proximity by crisis and conspiracy, the predator who once consumed her now finds himself the prey, circling a woman who holds his destruction in her scalpel-steady hands.
As Dominic slowly uncovers the truth—that the "miscarriage" was a lie, that his son exists, that every cold calculation cost him the only real thing he ever had—Elena must decide: Will she let him crawl back into her life, or will she finally perform the surgery he deserves—cutting him out completely?