Broken Vows: Abandoned at the Altar, Pregnant, and Trapped by a Possessive Billionaire (Promises at the Altar)
He left her humiliated in front of every witness to what should have been her happiest day. She left carrying his child, and a silence he would spend years trying to break. Lívia Salvatierra had spent most of her life being overlooked, pushed to the margins by her own family and dismissed by the world at large. Cael Ferraz de Monteluce, formidable and feared, seemed to change all of that. Beneath his iron composure, something genuine flickered. Something worth believing in. Worth walking down an aisle for. Then he destroys her publicly, mid-ceremony, accusing her of the worst betrayal imaginable and rejecting both her and the child she carries in front of their families, their guests, and rolling cameras. It's brutal. It's swift. And it is, as he'll come to learn far too late, built entirely on a lie. Lívia doesn't crumble. She vanishes. She strips back every luxury, every connection to the Monteluce name, and quietly rebuilds herself somewhere he cannot reach her. When Cael eventually tracks her down, he finds a woman who no longer aches for his approval, raising a daughter with his eyes and a composure that makes his guilt all the heavier. This is a story about the cost of pride and the particular difficulty of earning back what arrogance threw away. Cael's road to redemption isn't tidy. It requires confronting his own failures, dismantling those who manipulated him, and accepting that this time, love won't look like ownership. It'll look like patience. Like proof. Like showing up repeatedly until it means something. Tess Mitchel writes Lívia with real backbone, and it's her quiet transformation, rather than Cael's dramatic pursuit, that gives the novel its emotional weight.
- Author: Tess Mitchel
- Genre: Lifestyle & Wellness
- ISBN: B0GX31C6QB
- Pages: 428 pages