Only His On Paper
Ava Reynolds is broke, desperate, and watching her little sister die slowly in a hospital bed. She’s out of options, until a cold, powerful billionaire offers her a lifeline: marry him for one year, and he’ll pay for everything.
No love. No intimacy. Just a contract.
Damian Kingsley needs a wife to save his empire. Ava is a nobody, and that’s exactly what he wants. What he doesn’t expect is the fire behind her quiet eyes or the way she makes his cold world start to crack.
But Ava isn’t walking into this marriage blind. She knows she’s just a tool to him. And she swears she’ll never fall for a man who treats love like a business deal.
Until one mistake rips her life apart.
Betrayed. Humiliated. Thrown out like trash.
She leaves, broken, but not defeated.
And when Damian finally realizes the truth, it’s too late. The girl he once used is gone. In her place stands a woman he can’t control. A woman he can’t live without.
Now he wants her back. But Ava doesn’t want an apology.
She wants him to burn
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Chapter: Chapter Eight — “Truth in the Quiet”Days passed.Outside, life went on, but inside, I felt trapped. The headline burned in my mind: Billionaire Kingsley’s Wife Linked to Scandal with Ex-Felon. The words played over and over, like a harsh echo I couldn’t stop.The penthouse was quiet. Damian moved like a ghost, no words, just cold silence. The space between us felt icy. His last words stayed with me: “Don’t give them another reason to question me, Ava.”I wanted to shout. To break the silence. To say I was more than a contract, more than a pawn.—FlashbackThe hospital smelled sharp and clean. Hope and fear hung in the air.“Where does the money come from, Ava?” Lily’s weak hand held mine. Her voice was soft but serious.I forced a smile, hiding the pain. “From my job, Lil. I’m working hard for you.”She smiled, relief in her eyes. “I’m proud of you.”But the lie weighed on me like a stone. I couldn’t tell her about Damian, the contract, the trap.—Back in the present, my phone buzzed with a message from Lily. I stared
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Chapter: Chapter Seven — “The Ex-Factor”“She’s disposable. She knows that.”I didn’t breathe.I didn’t move.The words sank into the quiet like a knife, clean and sharp, and somehow louder than they were spoken. I stood frozen just outside his office door, the cracked frame casting light onto the hall carpet like it was trying to spit me out.My throat closed.So that’s what I was. Not his wife. Not a woman standing beside him in a ballroom filled with board members. It's just a placeholder. An object with an expiration date stamped in invisible ink.Disposable.I took one step back, then another, and fled down the hall barefoot. I didn’t care if Naomi saw. I didn’t care if the cameras saw. Let them. Let them see the girl who got dressed in diamonds just to be told she was furniture.I shut the guest room door behind me like it was the only line I could draw.I pressed my back to it, fists clenched, heart in pieces, and still—still—my phone buzzed again.Ethan.A new message lit the screen like a curse.“He talks just like
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Chapter: Chapter Six — “The Enemy Arrives” He didn’t speak to me again.Not when we got back to the penthouse. Not when Naomi met us at the door, her mouth drawn tight as she’d already read the headlines. Not even when Mark handed Damian a folder marked Urgent and whispered something I couldn’t catch.Damian just disappeared into his office, the door shutting behind him like a gate slamming closed.I stood in the entryway, still wearing Naomi’s coat, damp from the morning air and too big in the sleeves. I didn’t belong here. Not really. It's just a shadow in someone else’s life.Naomi looked at me like she wanted to say something, maybe comfort, maybe scold. Instead, she said,“You’ll need to be ready by six. Black tie. Formal. It’s the annual board gala. Damian insists you appear officially.”My stomach twisted. “Why now?”“Because the board needs to see you’re not a liability. And the press definitely will be watching.”She turned and walked away, heels clicking like a countdown.—The dress was… not mine.Fitted to perfecti
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Chapter: Chapter Five — “She Won’t Last”I didn’t sleep.Not really.Just curled into the corner of that perfect bed, listening to the walls breathe. Marble doesn’t creak like old floorboards whisper like it’s trying to warn you without making a sound.By morning, I was done pretending. I needed to see Lily. I didn’t care if it broke every clause in the contract.I crept out before sunrise. No, Naomi. No staff. No Mark.Only silence.The city was still wet with night. I stole a coat from the hall, one of Naomi’s probably, and left the house like a ghost. Flagged down a cab with trembling fingers and gave the driver the address I’d memorized from the hospital bracelet tucked in my pocket.Lily’s new ward was on the eighth floor. Private. Cold. Too quiet.She looked smaller. Paler. Her eyes fluttered open when I walked in, and for a second, the fear broke me in two.“Ava?” she croaked, her voice barely more than a breath. “You came?”I sank beside her and kissed her forehead. “Of course, I came.”Her hand in mine was too light
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Chapter: Chapter Four — “The Stranger in the Mirror”The silence in the mansion had a sound of its own. I’d only been here one night, but already it felt like I was being watched not by cameras, but by the walls themselves. Like they had eyes.I didn’t sleep. Not really. Not after what happened in that room.The woman in the photo haunted me. Blonde. Smiling. Familiar in a way that gnawed at me. I couldn’t ask Naomi. And Damian… I was sure asking him would cost me more than I could afford.I kept hearing his voice in my head.“Every room you enter in this house says something.”Then why did that room scream?⸻FlashbackYesterday.The courthouse smelled like old ink and broken promises.I wore a simple black dress. Damian wore navy because of course, he did classic, calculated, untouchable. There were no flowers. No smiles. No vows. Just cold signatures in a colder room with an even colder judge.“Do you, Damian Kingsley, agree to enter into this legal union with Miss Ava Reynolds as detailed in this contract?”His answer: “Yes.”Like h
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Chapter: Chapter Three — “Terms and Conditions”The car waited outside Kingsley Headquarters like a shadow. Black. Polished. Intimidating.The driver didn’t say a word. Just opened the door and nodded.I slid in, gripping my coat tighter even though the car was warm. I didn’t speak. I couldn’t.Because I’d just sold a year of my life.No. I’d traded it, for Lily.The city blurred past the window. Cold gray sky. Angry taxis. My face staring back at me in the glass. Pale. Hollow. A stranger.In my lap sat the folder.The contract. Signed. Sealed.Too late to run.When we reached the mansion, I had to tilt my head to see the top. All glass and stone. The kind of place that made you feel small before you even stepped inside.Naomi was already waiting at the door. Arms crossed. Lips pressed into a line so sharp it could cut.“Miss Reynolds,” she said. Not warm. Not kind. Not even curious. “Follow me.”The inside of the house was silent. Marble floors, spotless walls. It smelled like expensive polish and rules.I used to dream of homes l
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