BOUGHT BY THE COLD BILLIONAIRE
Three years ago, Olivia Hart married billionaire Mark Sinclair in a contract marriage arranged by their families. They never met, never lived together, and barely knew each other's names. To Mark, the marriage was nothing more than a family obligation that would end when the contract expired.
With only a few months left before their divorce, Olivia's family falls into another financial crisis. Forced to seek help from the Sinclair family once again, Olivia visits Mark’s mansion before her father arrives.
But fate has other plans.
Drugged and unable to control himself, Mark mistakes Olivia for a stranger and spends a passionate night with her, never knowing she is actually his wife. The next morning, Olivia overhears his cold and disrespectful words about her family and leaves in humiliation before revealing her identity.
When Mark returns and discovers the mysterious woman has vanished, he becomes obsessed with finding her.
What happens when the woman he's desperately searching for turns out to be the wife he never wanted?
Will it end in heartbreak or will they fall in love?
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Chapter: Chapter Twenty FourThe study was the one room in that house she had not gone back into.She had walked past the door eleven or twelve times in three weeks, and she had never once put her hand on the handle, and Mark had noticed that and had never once mentioned it, and by the third week in January it had become a thing they were both being careful about.She went in on a Thursday morning at the end of January because Priya Raman needed the insurance schedule for the Carlisle Street lease, and Mark had left it on the desk, and he was in the city until seven.Olivia opened the door and stood in the doorway for a moment.Dark wood walls and a fireplace and books on every shelf. A desk with a lamp on it. The chair she had sat in on the tenth of September with her heart going and a folder of her father's company reports in a bag on her knees.There had been a glass of whiskey on the desk that afternoon, and she had looked at it for twenty minutes.She went in and got the insurance schedule, and it was exactl
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Chapter: Chapter Twenty ThreeThey left Ashgrove on the second of January in the dark, at half past six in the morning, because Olivia did not want anybody on Marsh Lane watching her go.She said goodbye to Ethan Cole in the back office of the clinic on the last day of December, and it took about four minutes, and both of them were extremely careful about it."Your notes are going to Coleby under your real name, and I have already sent the referral," he said. "You will have a midwife by the middle of January, and the number is written on the front page. If anybody in that hospital gives you any difficulty at all about the gap in the record, you telephone this clinic and I will write them a letter that will end the conversation.""You have been very good to me, and I do not know how to say it properly," she said."Then do not say it at all, because I will handle it badly," Ethan said.He gave her an envelope with six weeks of wages in it, which was more than six weeks of wages, and she looked at the amount and look
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Chapter: Chapter Twenty TwoEthan found her at twenty past twelve when he came back from Coleby, and he did not ask her one single question. He locked the front door, put the "closed" sign up, made her sweet tea that she did not want, and made her drink it anyway, and then he sat on the floor of the back office beside her with his back against the filing cabinet until she stopped shaking.Then he telephoned the flat above the launderette, and he did it without asking her permission, and it was the only time in their entire acquaintance that he ever went over her head.Mark was in a meeting on the twenty second floor of a building he no longer had a seat in, presenting to a shipping firm that had known his mother.He walked out of it at the fourth slide.He drove the three hours in two hours and twenty minutes, and Daniel, who was in the passenger seat and who had got in without being asked, spent the entire journey saying nothing at all in a very loud way.The clinic door was locked when he got there, and the si
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Chapter: Chapter Twenty OneVictor Sinclair came to Ashgrove on the twenty second of December, and he came on a Tuesday, and he came at eleven in the morning because he had established that his son was on Carlisle Street on Tuesdays.He did not bring nine men with him. He brought one car, one driver, and one lawyer named Coombes, who had worked for the family for twenty six years and who carried a leather folder under his arm and looked as though he would rather have been anywhere else in the world.They found her at the clinic, because a man who has spent eleven weeks looking will eventually find anything.Ethan was out on a house call in Coleby when the bell over the door went, and Olivia was at the front desk covering the telephone for an hour, which she had not done since November, and she looked up and knew exactly who he was before he had said one word.He had Mark's height and Mark's shoulders and none of Mark's face at all."Good morning to you, Mrs. Sinclair," Victor said.The waiting room had two peopl
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Chapter: Chapter TwentyChaMark took the flat above the launderette on Marsh Lane on the Monday morning, and he paid six months in advance in cash because the man who owned it wanted references and Mark did not have any that he could give in that town.It was two rooms and a bathroom with a window that did not shut properly. There was a hob with two rings on it, which he was aware was exactly one more ring than his wife had, and there was a boiler in the corner that came on at unpredictable hours of the night with a sound like somebody being hit.It was forty one feet from her door, and he had counted it, and he had not told her that he had counted it.Daniel came down on the Tuesday with two boxes of files and stood in the middle of the front room and looked around it for some time."May I say something completely out of turn, sir?" he said."You may say it, and you may as well sit down while you do.""There is nowhere to sit down.""There is a box by the window, and it has got books in it," Mark said.Dani
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Chapter: Chapter NineteenThe room above the shop was eleven feet by nine feet, and Mark Sinclair stood in the middle of it and did not know what to do with his hands.There was a bed with a grey blanket folded at the end of it. There was a chair, a chest of drawers with three handles and one missing, and a shelf with a kettle and two cups and a small blue tin on it. There was a sink in the corner and a gas ring beside the sink, and a window over the lane with the curtain still drawn across it.Everything in that room was clean, and everything in it was arranged, and there was not one single object anywhere that was not necessary."You can sit down on the chair, because the bed is the only other thing," Olivia said.He sat down on the chair.She filled the kettle at the sink with her back to him, and he watched her do it, and neither of them said anything until it had boiled and she had made two cups of tea and handed him one.There was only one chair, so she sat on the end of the bed with her cup held in both
Last Updated: 2026-09-01
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