After the Happy Three
“Sign the contract, Lena. One year of pretending to be my wife, and I’ll restore every part of the empire your family lost.”
Adrian Vale was once the man I thought I knew. At least, that’s what I believed. Now, he is a powerful billionaire with a brilliant legal mind, lethal charm, and secrets buried beneath everything he has built.
When my family’s empire is put up for auction, Adrian offers me a deal I can’t refuse: one year as his wife in exchange for the inheritance that rightfully belongs to me.
But I’m hiding a secret that could destroy our agreement before the year is over.
I’m pregnant, but the father isn’t the man I just married.
Keeping my pregnancy a secret should have been the hardest part of becoming Mrs. Adrian Vale.
Yet the more time I spend within the cold walls of his mansion, the more I discover that the man behind his charming smile isn’t who I thought he was. Then there’s Jeffrey, Adrian’s stepbrother, whose presence awakens an unsettling familiarity I can’t explain and a fear I can’t escape.
The golden mask of the Vale family begins to crack, revealing a hidden inheritance, a mind systematically destroyed, and a truth someone would kill to keep buried.
Now, with my unborn child’s life at stake, I must uncover the truth.
Because in this house, nothing is what it seems.
I signed the contract to save my past.
But I may have to reduce the Vale empire to ashes to save my future.
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Chapter: Chapter FourLENA “Nooooooo!” “Noooooooooo!!” That was the only word that escaped my mouth. Before I knew it, my knees gave way, and I collapsed to the ground, clutching my chest as if I could somehow stop the pain tearing through it. I didn't care who was watching. I didn't care that I was lying in the middle of the hospital hallway because nothing mattered anymore. “God, please! No!” I screamed at the ceiling, my voice cracked with exhaustion. “You can punish me any other way, but not like this. Not my mother!” I felt Aunt Vivian's hands on my shoulders, trying to help me to my feet, but my body refused to move. I just knelt there, drenched in my rain-soaked scrubs, my mind too numb to process what I'd just heard. Through the blur of tears and the strands of hair stuck to my face, I saw the ICU doors slowly swing open. Two hospital porters pushed a stretcher into the hallway, It was covered with a white sheet as they moved towards us. I found a surge of strength I didn't know I had. I s
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Chapter: Chapter ThreeLENA I felt a splash of water on my face. I flinched, gasping as I staggered to my feet. I stared at him for a moment. Even through the darkness of the night, I could see that he belonged to a world very different from mine. I was still staring at him when his voice cut through my thoughts. "Wait, seriously?" He let out a mocking laugh, his eyes narrowing as they landed on the badge pinned to my chest. "A nurse? You've got to be kidding me.” "People trust you with their lives, yet you're sitting in the middle of the road waiting to become roadkill? If you can’t take care of yourself, how do you expect to take care of a patient?" I stared at him without uttering a single word. I couldn't find the strength to answer him. "Now get the hell out of my way," he barked, the pity in his voice replaced by pure arrogance. He didn't offer a hand. He didn't ask if I was okay. He simply climbed back into his sleek black car and sped off, the tires splashing a fresh wave of dirty puddle wat
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Chapter: Chapter TwoLENA “Wife-to… to… be?” The words echoed in my head over and over again, mocking me with every repetition. I couldn't process them. I stood there, drenched from the London rain, my nursing scrubs clinging to my skin. I'd come straight from work after Aunt Vivian called to tell me my mum had been rushed to the hospital. Now my mind was a blur of the doctor's words—twenty-four hours—and the sight of this woman standing in my pale blue towel. I waited for the punchline. I waited for her to laugh and say it was a prank. But then I heard the voice. The anchor that had held me together for five years. “Darling? Did you find the wine? I think there’s a bottle of Chablis in the back of the fridge.” Killian walked into the hallway, bare-chested and damp from a shower. He looked relaxed. He looked happy. When his eyes met mine, he didn't run to me. He didn't ask about my day. He didn't even look guilty. “Lena?” His voice was flat. “You’re back so soon? I wasn't expecting you this
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Chapter: Chapter One LENA “Her condition is very critical,” he said, and the words felt like a physical blows to my stomach. “Her organs are failing. The years of alcohol abuse and chronic stress have finally caught up with her. The sheer stress on her cardiovascular system have finally caught up. We’ll keep her under observation for the next twenty-four hours, but I have to be blunt.” “She has a very slim chance of making it through this time, Lena. If you have things to say, say them now. The doctor's words settled over the room like a heavy blanket. For a moment, I thought I'd heard him wrong. Twenty-four hours? No. No, he couldn't mean that. I stared at the file in his hands instead of looking at his face. The words on the pages blurred until they became meaningless black lines. If I looked into his eyes and saw pity, I knew I would break. There had to be another treatment. Another surgery. Another specialist. Something. Just something. "Doctor..." My voice barely came out. "Are you sa
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