Bitter Sweet Love with My Stepbrother CEO Novel

Yvette Matthews enjoyed a blissful childhood, filled with love and luxury thanks to her parents' successful culinary careers. This idyllic life shattered when her parents died in a car accident, leaving her orphaned at six. A friend of her parents, a wealthy hotel CEO, adopted Yvette with his ten-year-old son, Joseph Hamilton. Yvette thrived, maintaining her humility and pursuing her parents' passion for cooking, while secretly harboring romantic feelings for Joseph. Tragedy struck again when her stepfather died. His will bequeathed seventy percent of his fortune and control of the Hamilton hotels to Yvette, with Joseph receiving thirty percent. A clause stipulated Joseph could become CEO only if he married Yvette and they produced an heir. Joseph, forced to abandon his girlfriend, married Yvette, his affection turning to coldness and disgust. Yvette found solace only in their son. When she discovered Joseph was seeing his ex-girlfriend again, a confrontation on a high-rise balcony led to a tragic fall. Awakening on the day the will was to be read, Yvette vowed to alter her destiny and escape a loveless marriage to her stepbrother.