Signed to Be His Sin
Seraphina Vale signs a marriage contract she never planned to survive.
Crushed by debt and desperate to save her family, she agrees to become the wife of Lucien Blackwood—a cold, powerful billionaire CEO who treats love like a weakness and marriage like a business transaction.
Their deal is simple: a public marriage, a private arrangement, and absolutely no emotions involved.
But living under the same roof exposes cracks neither of them expected. Lucien’s control begins to slip as desire turns possessive, and Seraphina finds herself drawn to a man who was never meant to feel anything at all.
When the truth behind their contract threatens to destroy her reputation and his empire, Seraphina must choose between her dignity and the man who owns her signature—but not her heart.
And Lucien must decide whether power is worth more than the one woman who became his greatest temptation.
What started as a contract becomes a dangerous emotional trap—because some deals are signed in ink, and others are sealed in sin.
She wasn’t hired to be his wife.
She was signed to be his sin.
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty-Six: The Cost of Being SeenThe first headline dropped at 6:17 a.m.Lucien saw it before he even finished his coffee.BLACKWOOD HEIR GOES PUBLIC — WHO IS THE WOMAN AT HIS SIDE?He didn’t flinch. He had expected it. What he hadn’t expected was how quickly the world would sharpen its teeth.By the time the second headline appeared, the city was already buzzing.MYSTERY WOMAN LINKED TO BLACKWOOD EMPIRE — POWER PLAY OR PERSONAL WEAKNESS?Lucien closed his tablet slowly.Across the room, Seraphina stood near the window, phone in hand, her face unreadable. She hadn’t slept. Neither of them had. Going public had been her idea, but Lucien knew better than to think that made it easier.“Are you okay?” he asked.She didn’t answer right away. Instead, she turned the phone screen toward him.A photo. Taken from a distance. The two of them leaving the penthouse the night before. His hand at her back. Her head tilted slightly toward him.Intimate. Unmistakable.“They’re not asking who I am,” Seraphina said quietly. “They’re d
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty-Five: When the Masks SlipLucien didn’t go home that night.He stayed in his office, the lights dimmed, the city stretched below him like a restless animal. The building was quiet in the way only powerful places became after midnight—no noise, no witnesses, just consequences waiting to be claimed.He replayed Jonathan’s words in his mind, not the ones spoken in the boardroom, but the ones unsaid. The calm confidence. The certainty. Jonathan hadn’t been guessing. He’d been measuring.Lucien hated that.At three in the morning, Elias knocked once and entered. “We traced the burner phone,” he said, placing a folder on the desk. “It’s clean. Too clean. Whoever handled it knew how to erase footprints.”Lucien leaned back in his chair. “But?”“But the signal bounced through a shell server connected to one of our subsidiaries,” Elias continued. “A company Jonathan helped set up five years ago.”Lucien’s mouth curved into something sharp. “He’s sloppy.”“No,” Elias corrected gently. “He’s arrogant.”Lucien nodded. “Ar
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty-Four: The Cost of ProtectionThe first thing Lucien did the next morning was cancel his schedule.Every meeting. Every appearance. Every obligation that required him to be predictable.The second thing he did was move Seraphina.She didn’t argue when he told her. She didn’t ask where or how long. She only paused long enough to grab her coat and phone before following him out of the penthouse, her heels echoing softly against the marble floor.“You’re relocating me,” she said calmly as they entered the private elevator.“Yes.”“Without asking.”“Yes.”Her eyes lifted to his. Not angry. Measuring. “Then this is worse than you’re letting on.”Lucien didn’t deny it. “They know too much.”The elevator doors closed, sealing them inside a narrow silence.The safe house was understated—no visible guards, no luxury that would draw attention. Just a clean, quiet residence tucked into a part of the city no one thought to watch. The kind of place people passed without seeing.Seraphina stepped inside and took in the space. “
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty-Three: Shadows at NoonThe morning light poured into the office, but Lucien felt none of its warmth. The penthouse looked calm from the outside, as if the city had no idea of the storm that still lingered inside these walls. Yet he knew better. Every corner, every silent monitor, every quiet footstep could hold a threat.Seraphina appeared at the doorway, hair slightly mussed from sleep, eyes still sharp as ever. She carried a tablet, tapping through emails with methodical precision. “You need to see this,” she said without preamble, her voice calm but taut.Lucien didn’t wait. He stepped closer, taking the tablet. The message was short. Just a line:We know who you love. Make the wrong move, and she pays.The screen felt heavier than steel in his hands. Lucien’s jaw tightened. He didn’t speak. He didn’t have to. Seraphina understood immediately. Her lips pressed together, but she didn’t flinch.“They’ve crossed the line,” she said.He nodded once. “Then we respond.”By noon, they were at the company headqu
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty-Two: Fault LinesThe calm didn’t last.Lucien felt it before anything happened—the subtle shift beneath stability, like a fault line moving deep underground. Empires didn’t collapse loudly at first. They cracked in silence.He was halfway through reviewing a restructuring proposal when his phone vibrated on the desk. Not a call. A message. One line from his head of security.We have a problem. It’s not Crane. It’s internal.Lucien didn’t respond immediately. He leaned back in his chair, eyes lifting to the glass wall of his office. Below him, the city moved in obedient patterns, unaware that order was already being questioned above it.Internal was worse than external. Enemies you could see were predictable. Betrayal never was.He stood, slipping on his jacket. “Seraphina,” he called.She appeared from the adjoining office almost instantly, tablet in hand, eyes sharp. “You felt it too,” she said, not asking.“Yes.” He picked up his phone. “We’re not going home tonight.”She nodded once. No complaint.
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Chapter: Chapter Thirty-One: After the StormMorning came slow, almost deliberately. The city outside the penthouse seemed unchanged, unaware of the upheaval that had struck the Blackwood empire the night before. Yet inside, everything felt different. The air was thick with decisions made, truths spoken, and a sense of precarious balance.Lucien sat at the edge of the living room sofa, sleeves rolled up, tie loosened. His hands gripped the tablet in front of him, scrolling through the coverage: headlines, analyst commentary, social media chatter. Every piece was dissecting last night’s public declaration, some praising his integrity, others questioning his judgment. None had fully understood the weight behind his words, and he didn’t want them to.“Still awake?” Seraphina’s voice broke through his focus. She stood near the balcony, cup of coffee in hand, sunlight catching the edges of her hair. She looked like she always did—composed, calm, capable—but he could see the small tension in her shoulders, the kind that came from carr
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