Three-Years Contract Marriage with the Billionaire
"Sign the contract, or lose everything."
I stared at the papers that would seal my fate—a three-year marriage to Julian Blackwood, the ruthless billionaire they call the Ice King.
My family didn't ask. They demanded. My father's company was drowning, my stepsister's engagement had exploded, and I was the replacement bride they could sacrifice. Just another transaction.
Julian made it clear on our wedding day: "Don't expect affection. Don't expect companionship. Certainly don't expect love."
He refused to kiss me at the altar. He gave me a bedroom down the hall and told me to stay out of his way. I was Mrs. Blackwood in name only—a contract, a convenience, a means to an end.
I accepted it. I had survived twelve years of abuse in my own home. I could survive three years of indifference in his.
But then Nate, Julian's best friend, showed me kindness, and suddenly my cold husband became possessive. When my sister attacked me, he became protective.
Now the man who promised me nothing is fighting his own father to keep me. The marriage that was supposed to be fake is becoming terrifyingly real and the secrets about my mother's death are threatening to destroy everything.
They said Julian Blackwood destroys everything he touches. What they didn't tell me... is that sometimes destruction is exactly what you need to be reborn.
With a pregnancy involved, how was I going to end this three-year marriage peacefully?
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Chapter: CHAPTER 45: THE BRIDGETJulianI was looking at Bridget Carter.I had been looking at her for the duration of her speech with the same quality of attention I brought to every opponent I'd faced across a table in the past decade, complete, precise, nothing missed. I watched her pacing, her word choices, the specific placement of that pause before may be void. The warmth she maintained throughout. The way her eyes moved to her three friends at the crucial moment, the almost imperceptible signal that said: you're seeing this, you're hearing this, I want you to remember I handled it graciously.She had been planning this for long enough to prepare thoroughly.The friends were here as witnesses to a version of events, a concerned stepmother delivering difficult news kindly, in a family setting, giving her stepdaughter the courtesy of hearing it personally rather than through lawyers. Whatever came next, Bridget would have three women who could confirm she'd been nothing but warm.I looked at Lena.She was looking
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Chapter: CHAPTER 44 : The Carter Dinner From HellLenaThe invitation came by text.8 for as Bridget released me and stepped back and turned to Julian with the full warmth."And Julian." The smile adjusted slightly for him. Warmer. More careful. The specific calibration of a woman who understood that this man saw through performances and was choosing to perform anyway because the alternative was showing him something she didn't want him to see. "We're so glad you could join us.""We're glad to be here," Julian said.He was doing the thing. The Julian Blackwood in a room thing, where the surface was impeccable and the interior was completely unavailable and the specific combination produced something in the atmosphere that was not quite warmth and not quite threat but occupied the register between them, the register that made people behave carefully without entirely knowing why.Bridget felt it.I saw her register it in the fractional adjustment of her smile."Come in, come in," she said. "Let me introduce everyone."JulianI had atte
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Chapter: CHAPTER 43: CHOOSING TO SAYLena"I think," he said carefully, "he decided you were choosing to stay."I absorbed that.Choosing to stay.Not staying because I had nowhere to go, which was also true. Not staying because the contract required it or because my father had liquidated my trust fund and I had no resources to leave with, both of which were also true.Choosing to stay.I thought about the morning three weeks in when I'd woken up and walked to the garden and stood among my mother's roses with coffee and realized that the anxiety of the first two weeks, the constant low-grade alarm of a person in an unfamiliar territory, had reduced to something quieter. Not gone. But quieter.I thought about the first time I'd pushed back on something Julian said, a minor disagreement about the charity beneficiary categories, a small moment that shouldn't have mattered, and how he'd stopped and listened and then said: you're right without any of the complicated machinery of a man whose ego required management.I thought
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Chapter: CHAPTER 42: Marcus Reveals SomethingLenaThe car had been moving for eleven minutes before Marcus said anything.I knew it was eleven minutes because I'd been watching the city go by in that particular unfocused way you watched things when your mind was somewhere else entirely, and I'd noticed the clock when we pulled out of the building's garage and I'd noticed it again when we stopped at the light on 58th, and the gap between those two numbers was eleven minutes of Marcus being precisely what he always was in the car, present, professional, navigating Manhattan's mid-morning traffic with the calm efficiency of someone who had made peace with the fact that this city would never actually cooperate with any schedule.Marcus did not make small talk.This was one of the things I had come to appreciate about him over three months of being driven places. He was not a man who filled silence because silence made him uncomfortable. He was a man who occupied space quietly and thoroughly, and the silence in his car was not awkwar
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Chapter: CHAPTER 41: THE TABLEAcross the table, Julian scrolled through emails with the focused efficiency that characterized everything he did, occasionally pausing on something that required more attention, once typing a brief response with the rapid economy of a man who said exactly what needed to be said and nothing else.He hadn't asked about the spreadsheet.He hadn't asked about the gala or the donor list or how the meeting with Diana had gone that afternoon or any of the dozen things that a person who was making conversation would have used to fill the silence.He was just there.At the table.In his coat that he still hadn't taken off because he'd come directly here and reheated the food and sat down and apparently hadn't gotten to the coat yet, which was a detail that did something I wasn't examining closely to the part of my chest that had been slowly, cautiously, learning to notice things.I finished the chicken.Started on the rice.The solid-ification of the rice was actually fine once you were eatin
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Chapter: CHAPTER 40: Unexpected SoftnessLenaThe donor spreadsheet had stopped making sense twenty minutes ago.Not because it was complicated, it wasn't, relatively speaking. Names, giving histories, areas of philanthropic interest, notes about who knew whom and who should be seated near which speaker for maximum emotional resonance. I'd built it myself over the past two weeks from the materials Nate had given me and the research I'd done independently, and it was good work, organized work, the kind of spreadsheet that had a logic to it that felt satisfying when you followed it through.But it was nine o'clock on a Monday night and I'd been at the kitchen table since six and somewhere around the two-and-a-half-hour mark my eyes had started doing the thing where the numbers looked right but wouldn't connect to anything meaningful in my brain, and I'd been staring at the same column for twenty minutes making notes that I would probably have to redo in the morning.The penthouse was quiet.Mrs. Billy had left at seven-thirty.
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THE ALPHA I HATE
Daisy Storm spent her entire existence as an outcast, ridiculed for being a vampire werewolf-half But nothing hurt more than when her mate, Alpha Scott, rejected her publicly, shattering any chance she had of belonging.
When brutal vampire slayer Alpha Noah claims her as his second-chance mate, Daisy is conflicted in a maelstrom of emotions. She blames Noah for killing her mother and vows never to forgive him. But Noah has a secret of his own, he's loved Daisy long before destiny ever bound them together.
Torn between hate and irrefutable passion, Daisy is compelled to find the truth of her previous existence while battling the temptation of the mate bond. But with her lethal enemies lurking in the shadows, she realizes the biggest threat is not the vampire-werewolf war.
It's the darkness brewing inside her.
Will Daisy embrace her true self, or will she let her past destroy her second chance at love?
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Chapter: Chapter Five: THE Vampire slayer Noah’s POVI pushed myself off the ground, sweat dripping from my brow as I finished my last set of push-ups. My muscles burned, but the pain kept me focused.The door swung open, and Jason, my Beta, stepped inside.“Did I come at a bad time?” he asked, raising an eyebrow.I grabbed a towel, wiping my face. “Your report, Beta?”Jason sighed. “Last scouting party just came back. No reported sign of vampire activity outside the West perimeter.”I frowned, tossing the towel onto a nearby chair. “Keep looking. They’re hiding somewhere.” I walked over to the map pinned on the wall, my fingers trailing over the marked locations. “Look, when we took those files six months ago, it proved that Eastwind was at least talking to those bloodsuckers before we took over.”Jason crossed his arms. “Noah, come on. It’s been months since the last sighting. Even if they were planning something, they don’t have the numbers. You know they’re dying out.”I clenched my jaw. “Do you know what happened last ti
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Chapter: Chapter Four: The Ran Away DAISY'S POV My heart started pounding. “W-what is it?”He hesitated, then finally spoke.“Your father… he wasn’t a werewolf.”My body went still.“What?”“He was a vampire.”The air left my lungs.A vampire?No. No, that wasn’t possible. My mom was a werewolf. My pack was full of werewolves. I had spent my entire life waiting for my wolf….But I had never shifted.I stared at my grandpa, shaking my head. “That…. that can’t be true.”He sighed. “I wish it wasn’t. But your mother came back to us pregnant, with you. She never told us who your father was. But I found out later. He wasn’t just any vampire, Daisy.”I swallowed hard. “Then who… who was he?”Grandpa’s face darkened. “He was one of the most dangerous vampires in existence. And if he finds out that your vampire side is awakening…”The hairs on my arms stood up.“He’ll come for you.”A chill ran through my body.Before I could even process his words, something slammed against the cabin door.A deep, inhuman growl echoed through
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Chapter: Chapter Three: The Pain Of RejectionNOAH'S POV The night was supposed to be simple.I had come here for one thing, an investigation. Nothing more. The same building where this pack was celebrating a birthday was also hiding secrets I needed to uncover. And I had just finished my work, ready to leave when… I had.Help me.I froze.The voice wasn’t spoken. It echoed in my head, raw and desperate, full of pain. But no one around me had spoken.Then, I saw her.A girl came running down the hall, her body trembling, her dress soaked in something that smells rancid. Tears streamed down her face, but what hit me the hardest was the emptiness in her eyes, like she had just lost everything.She didn’t see me.She was running too fast, blinded by her grief, until she crashed straight into me.I caught her before she could hit the floor, my hands gripping her arms, steadying her. The moment my skin touched hers….Electricity.It burned through me like wildfire, my whole body reacting to her as if she was meant to be in my arms.I
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Chapter: Chapter Two: The Painful RejectionDAISY'S POV A cruel laugh echoed from the side. One of Mila’s friends, Jenna, leaned against the dresser, arms crossed, eyes gleaming with amusement. “Goddess, how did you go six months without knowing your boyfriend was screwing someone else?”I felt like the air had been knocked out of me. My knees wobbled. My hands clenched into fists at my sides.Six months?I turned back to Scott, searching his face for any sign that this was a lie, a cruel joke. But he wouldn’t meet my eyes.Mila, still wrapped around him, tilted her head, a mocking pout on her lips. “Oops, looks like the secret’s out.” She trailed her fingers down Scott’s chest. “I guess I don’t have to pretend anymore.”My stomach twisted, nausea rising in my throat. “Scott… Tell me what’s going on.” My voice was barely a whisper.Scott finally looked at me, but there was no regret in his eyes, only cold detachment. “Daisy,” he sighed. “Mila is my mate.”Mila pouted dramatically, tracing her fingers over Scott’s chest. “Oh, b
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Chapter: Chapter One: The Rejection DAISY'S POVI walked through the crowded hallway of Eastwind High, gripping my books tightly. I could feel their eyes on me, watching, judging, whispering. It was always the same.I kept my head down, focusing on getting to my locker. The moment I opened it, my books were knocked from my hands.I froze, already knowing who it was before I even turned around.Mila.She stood over me, arms crossed, a smirk playing on her lips. "Oops," she said, voice dripping with fake innocence.I sighed and bent down to pick up my books, but before I could, Mila stepped on one, pressing her heel against it."Seriously?" I asked, trying to keep my voice calm.She gasped dramatically. "Oh? Defect Daisy can talk?" A cruel laugh left her lips as she flipped her hair. "Talk to me again when you can actually shift. I only speak to real wolves."Her words stung, but I refused to let her see it. I had heard it all before.Then, a deep voice cut through the tension."Be nice, Mila."My breath hitched. I looked
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