My Pick-Me Mother Tried to Seduce My Fiancé

Chloe has spent her life competing with her own mother. Vanessa, a woman who must always be the center of male attention, has turned every room into a contest—posing beside her daughter in photos, asking Richard to rank their beauty, and playing the fragile victim whenever she wants to be chosen. Chloe learned long ago to stay quiet, do the chores, and never expect her father to take her side.

Then Chloe brings her fiancé, Adrian, to dinner. Vanessa slides into the booth beside him, flirts, and invents old boyfriends to embarrass her daughter. Adrian sees through it, and his promise of a home of their own gives Chloe hope. But at home, Richard demands she break up with Adrian and kneel before her mother—or lose her family. Chloe refuses, and her father's rage returns with a violence she remembers from childhood.