Divorce Clause: Heir Included
"Sign the papers, Zack. Three years was the deal. I’m done being your sanctuary."
Zack stared at the man who had dragged him out of the dirt and taught him how to breathe again. Nathan Durand, the crown prince of the Cocolink syndicate, stood like a monolith of ice, his silver eyes devoid of the heat that usually scorched Zack’s skin in the dark.
"Is it because of her?" Zack’s voice was a jagged glass fragment. "Because Madeline is back?"
"It’s because you’re a liability," Nathan snapped, his jaw tight enough to crack bone. "I need a partner who carries a blade, not a ghost who jumps at shadows."
THE BLURB
Broken. Sold. Silent.
Zackary Moreau spent a decade rotting in a basement, a secret prisoner of a man who used his rare bloodline as a laboratory experiment. When he finally breaks free, he doesn’t find liberty—he finds Nathan Durand. The lethal heir to the Cocolink mafia empire is everything Zack should fear: possessive, violent, and cold. But Nathan offers a bargain Zack can’t refuse: three years of marriage in exchange for a name that keeps the world at bay.
Saved. Owned. Obsessed.
For three years, they lived a lie that felt dangerously like a life. Nathan turned the shivering boy into a man of the syndicate, protecting him with a brutality that bordered on madness. But as the contract’s end date looms, the shadows return. Rival bosses want Zack’s blood, and a woman from Nathan’s past is back to claim the throne.
On the eve of their anniversary, Nathan delivers the final blow: he wants a divorce.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 12Nathan didn't say a word. He didn't have to. The door to the mountain retreat hadn't just been opened; it had been deleted from its hinges. He stood in the frame, a silhouette of jagged muscle and drenched wool, the silver light of the storm turning his eyes into polished coins.Zack scrambled back, his spine hitting the stone of the cold fireplace. "Get out." His voice was a pathetic thimble of sound against the roar of the wind.Nathan stepped inside. He didn't stalk; he simply occupied the space, heavy and inevitable. He kicked a piece of the shattered door aside. His chest was heaving, the expensive fabric of his shirt plastered to his skin, mapping the tension in his frame. He looked down at Zack—shaking, pale, smelling of old terror and fresh rain.The predatory stillness in Nathan broke. He didn't lunge. He crossed the room in three heavy strides and dropped. The sofa groaned under his mass as he forced himself into the small space between Zack and the wall."Don't touch me," Z
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Chapter: CHAPTER 11Madeline was a crumpled heap of white silk and broken promises at the base of the stairs. Her wails grated against the silence of the private wing like a serrated blade on bone. From the landing, the angles of her legs looked wrong—fractured, jagged, a mess of expensive stockings and ruined skin. She was young, a Winters; she’d heal, but the agony was a hell of a price for a performance.I stood paralyzed at the top of the flight. My heart felt like it was trying to punch through my ribs. One second I was trying to bargain for my life and the life of my kid, and the next, Madeline was trying to toss me into a marble abyss because I was "in the way.""Why, Zack? Why would you do it?" her voice rose in a shrill, tremulous howl that brought nurses sprinting from every direction.They swarmed her. Shouted orders. Stained the floor with trauma kits. Nobody looked up. I was a ghost in a hospital gown, watching the scene through a fog of pure, unadulterated shock. It was her word against min
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Chapter: CHAPTER 10The sterile white walls of the Havenfall private clinic burned under the harsh fluorescent lights. Zack’s eyes drifted open, the rhythmic, mechanical ping of a heart monitor echoing the throbbing behind his skull. Plastic tubes snaked from his inner elbow, tethering him to a chrome stand.Nathan sat in a high-backed leather chair by the bed, his dark suit wrinkled, his jaw dusted with shadows."What happened?" Zack’s voice was a dry rasp."High fever. Dehydration," Nathan said, his voice like grinding stones. He reached out, his thumb grazing Zack’s cheek before he pulled back as if burned. "You fought me like a feral cat in that bathroom. You ended up putting your head through the vanity mirror."Zack’s pulse spiked. The monitor betrayed him with a rapid, frantic beat. He remembered the struggle—the desperate need to keep Nathan away from the truth. Nathan stared at the screen, his eyes narrowing."Relax. The scans didn't show any permanent damage," Nathan muttered. "Just a concussio
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Chapter: CHAPTER 9"Spit it out, Madeline. What kind of game is Julian playing?"Zack leaned back in the vinyl booth of the cafe, his mismatched eyes—one sapphire, one violet—fixed on the woman across from him. Madeline Winters didn't look like a mobster’s daughter today. She looked like a widow in white, her fingers trembling as she gripped a porcelain cup."Julian Wright isn't the savior you think he is, Zack," Madeline whispered. Her voice was thin, reedy, like wind through a graveyard. "You’ve been in that penthouse for three years. I’ve known that man since I was in diapers. The Julian the world sees and the man who runs the Cocolink syndicate are two different monsters."She took a jagged swallow of coffee, the liquid sloshing over the rim."He killed his own brother to take the throne. You think he'd hesitate to pave the road with your bones if it got him what he wanted?"Zack’s jaw tightened. "His brother was a rat. He tried to sell the syndicate to Ethan Cole. Julian did what he had to for the
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Chapter: CHAPTER 8“You’re really going to just sit there and not touch me?” Zack’s voice was a jagged edge in the dark of the bedroom.Nathan didn’t answer with words. He moved. The heavy, expensive fabric of his suit jacket hit the floor with a dull thud. He loomed over the bed, a wall of pure, terrifying muscle that blotted out the city lights bleeding through the windows of the Havenfall penthouse. His fingers, calloused and smelling of expensive bourbon, snapped around Zack’s wrists. He pinned them to the headboard.“Don’t push me, Zack,” Nathan growled. The silver in his eyes wasn't a glow; it was a cold, metallic hunger.Zack didn't flinch. He arched his back, the silk sheets sliding against his skin as he sought the crushing weight of the man above him. Nathan’s mouth slammed onto his. It wasn't a kiss; it was a claim. It tasted of smoke and high-stakes desperation. Zack opened for him, his tongue tangling with Nathan’s in a messy, frantic rhythm.Ten days. Ten days until the contract was void.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 7Zack’s hand shook as he hit the ‘end call’ button. The high, jagged laugh of Madeline Winters still echoed in the silent bedroom, a sharp contrast to the low, rumbling hum of Nathan’s voice in the background."Bella, would you behave for once?" Nathan’s voice, rough and familiar, had sliced through the speaker."Only if you make me," she’d purred. Then, the wet, unmistakable sound of a kiss.Zack doubled over, his stomach rolling. It was their three-year anniversary. He was supposed to be celebrating. He was supposed to tell Nathan about the heartbeat he’d seen on the ultrasound. Instead, he was listening to his husband trade spit with the woman he was "supposed" to marry before the Durand family needed Zack’s bloodline to solidify a treaty.The rejection was coming in ten days. Zack knew the contract. He knew Nathan had sacrificed three years of his life playing bodyguard and husband to a broken ghost from a basement.He doesn't owe you anything, Zack reminded himself, his fingers di
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