Married to the Cold Billionaire After Betraying Him
Amelia Hart never imagined her life would change with a single signature.
Drowning in debt, desperate to save her dying mother, and hunted by ruthless loan sharks, Amelia is offered a deal that sounds more like a punishment than salvation marry Damian Blackwood, the coldest billionaire in New York, for one year.
Powerful. Dangerous. Untouchable.
Damian is a man feared by the business world and desired by every woman, but behind his perfect face lies a dark obsession fueled by revenge. Amelia doesn’t know that years ago, she unknowingly destroyed the Blackwood family’s reputation… and Damian has spent years waiting for the perfect moment to make her pay.
Their marriage is supposed to be nothing more than a cruel arrangement built on hatred and secrets.
But the closer Amelia gets to the man behind the icy mask, the more she discovers a broken soul hiding beneath his ruthless control. And the more Damian tries to ruin her, the harder he falls for the one woman he should never love.
In a world of wealth, betrayal, passion, and dangerous enemies, love may become their greatest weakness… or the only thing powerful enough to save them both.
Basahin
Chapter: Chapter 9: An Invitation from VictorThe call came on a Tuesday evening, right as Amelia and Damian were finishing dinner, and Amelia knew something had shifted the moment she saw the name light up on his phone."Victor Blackwood," the screen read, and Damian's whole posture changed before he even answered his shoulders squaring, his jaw tightening, the easy warmth of the last hour draining out of him like water through a cracked glass."Excuse me," he said quietly, standing and walking toward the balcony to take the call.Amelia stayed at the table, pretending to busy herself with her plate, though she couldn't help straining to catch pieces of the conversation drifting in through the open door. She couldn't make out words, only tone Damian's voice clipped and formal, nothing like the man who'd carried sunflowers through a farmers market a week earlier.When he came back inside, his expression had settled into something carefully blank, the mask she remembered from their very first meeting in his office."Everything oka
Huling Na-update: 2026-08-09
Chapter: Chapter 8: BoundariesTwo weeks into their new rhythm, Amelia learned that Damian's calm exterior had limits she just hadn't known where they were yet.It started small. She'd offered to help him prepare for an upcoming board meeting, reading through a set of quarterly reports left open on the dining table one evening while he was in the shower. She wasn't trying to pry. She was trying to be useful, to understand more of the world he lived in every day so she could hold up her end of things better at events.He came out to find her flipping through the pages, and something in his face closed instantly, like a door slamming somewhere behind his eyes."Those aren't for you," he said, his voice sharper than she'd heard it in weeks.Amelia set the folder down, startled. "I wasn't trying to snoop, Damian. I just wanted to understand what you're dealing with. I thought it might help me ask better questions when people bring up the company at these events.""It doesn't work that way." He gathered the papers quick
Huling Na-update: 2026-08-09
Chapter: Chapter 7: Small KindnessesThe rhythm of the household began to shift after that night on the balcony, small and quiet at first, the way seasons change without anyone quite noticing the exact day summer became autumn.Amelia started leaving little things around the penthouse without thinking too hard about it a book she thought Damian might like on the table by his favorite chair, a note on the mirror reminding him to eat lunch on the days she knew his schedule was brutal. He never mentioned them directly, but she noticed the book had moved from the table to his nightstand within a week, its spine cracked in a way that meant he'd actually read it.He started doing the same for her, in his own careful way. A driver waiting outside whenever she had an appointment across town, so she'd never have to worry about a cab in the rain again. Fresh flowers on her dresser every few days, never with a note, like he wanted her to have them more than he wanted credit for them."You don't have to keep doing that," she told hi
Huling Na-update: 2026-08-07
Chapter: Chapter 6: Settling In By the end of her first week as Mrs. Blackwood, Amelia had started to notice something she hadn't expected she was smiling more than she used to. It caught her off guard the first few times. She'd be standing in the kitchen watching Rosa plate something delicious for breakfast, or looking out over the park from the balcony with a cup of coffee that tasted better than any she'd ever bought herself, and she'd realize, almost guiltily, that she was happy. Not pretending. Not performing for cameras or board members. Actually happy. Her mother's medical bills were gone. Not reduced, not restructured gone, paid in full, the account Damian had set up already covering the next round of treatment without Amelia having to lie awake calculating anything. Ferris hadn't called once since the wedding. For the first time in three years, Amelia woke up without a knot in her stomach. It was strange, how quickly a person could get used to feeling safe. "You're humming," Damian said one morning, l
Huling Na-update: 2026-08-07
Chapter: Chapter 5: The First EventThe invitation arrived on a Tuesday, delivered by one of Damian's assistants in a cream envelope so heavy it felt like it belonged to another century. Amelia turned it over in her hands at the kitchen table, reading the elegant script twice before she fully understood what she was looking at.*The Blackwood Foundation Annual Gala. Formal attire requested.*"This is in four days," she said when Damian walked in that evening, holding the card up like evidence. "You couldn't have mentioned this sooner?""It's been on the calendar I gave you." He loosened his tie, dropping his bag by the door with the same tired motion she was starting to recognize as routine. "Page six, I believe.""I didn't memorize the calendar, Damian.""You should start." He said it without malice, more matter-of-fact than anything, but it still made her bristle. "This one matters. Board members, major donors, half the city's press. It's the first time we'll be seen together publicly as a married couple. People will
Huling Na-update: 2026-08-02
Chapter: Chapter 4: Rules of the HouseAmelia woke up the next morning in a bed too large for one person, in a room that still smelled faintly of new paint and fresh linen, and for a few seconds she forgot where she was.Then it came back to her all at once the dress hanging in the closet, the ring on her finger, the quiet strangeness of the apartment around her and she lay there for a long moment just breathing, letting herself feel the full weight of what she'd done.She was married. To a man she'd known for exactly nine days.When she finally got up and made her way to the kitchen, she found it already occupied. A woman in her fifties stood at the stove, gray hair pulled back neatly, humming something under her breath while she worked."Oh." The woman turned, startled, then smiled warmly. "Mrs. Blackwood. I didn't hear you come in."Amelia froze at the name. It would take her weeks to stop flinching every time someone used it."Please, call me Amelia.""Rosa," the woman said, wiping her hands on her apron before extendi
Huling Na-update: 2026-08-02
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