Secrets of a Hidden Marriage
ContemporaryArrogantCEOAge GapBetrayalLove after Marriage
"This is my first time... it hurts... oh, it’s bleeding..." Allie winced as a cut from the kitchen knife throbbed on her finger. Liam glanced at her, his face full of concern, and applied the medicine with a sharp, almost angry tone: "I’ve told you not to go near the kitchen! Just tell me what you want to eat, and I’ll make it for you!"
For Allie, her 20th birthday gift was discovering her boyfriend's betrayal with her best friend in bed. Furious, she turned her back on Nick and married Liam Hart, the city’s most influential and untouchable man. From that moment, she faced endless challenges: Nick’s constant manipulations, Liam’s family scheming against her, and the toxic people in their lives. Everyone sees Liam as the perfect, doting husband—no one knows the price she pays for his love.
Exhausted, Allie faced Liam one night, her voice trembling with frustration: "Liam Hart, you are a monster in disguise."
Liam, looking hurt, replied with a soft grin, “You wound me, darling. How could I possibly be a monster when I’m the one who’s supposed to protect you?”
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Chapter: Chapter 209: She Buttoned His Collar — Vivian Saw EverythingWe're getting dressed when the knock comes.I open the door.Vivian.She's in a silk robe, hair perfectly arranged for someone who claims to have just woken up, eyes doing a rapid sweep of the room the moment I step back. Her gaze lands on Liam — buttoning his cuffs, unhurried, in the middle of my childhood bedroom at seven-thirty on a Sunday — and something moves across her face before she locks it down."Brother-in-law." Her voice is warm enough to frost glass. "Mom made fish soup noodles. She wants you both downstairs for breakfast."Liam walks toward the door.He stops beside me."Can you—" He tips his chin toward his collar, where the top button has come loose. "I can never get that one."I turn.He's already done everything else — the shirt perfectly pressed from Secretary Fang, the jacket ready on the chair. Just the collar. Just this one button.I reach up and do it.It takes
最終更新日: 2026-06-10
Chapter: Chapter 208: He Had His Secretary Bring Clothes. She'd Washed His Shirt for Nothing.The shirt never fully dries.I know it the moment I walk into the bathroom the next morning, still warm from sleep, and pick it up from where it ended up in the sink — crumpled and slightly damp and deeply, irreversibly wrinkled — and I stand there holding it with the specific expression of a woman reconstructing the sequence of events that led to this outcome.The sequence is: I was washing the shirt. Liam came in. The shirt went into the sink.The rest of the sequence is not relevant to the shirt."It's ruined," I say, when I walk back into the bedroom.Liam is sitting up against the headboard, the quilt pooled at his waist, watching me with the unhurried contentment of a man who slept well and is in no particular rush to begin the morning. There is something criminally unfair about how he looks right now — the morning light through the curtains, the particular dishevelment that happens when someone sleeps hard — and I hav
最終更新日: 2026-06-09
Chapter: Chapter 207: 2 AM — She Was Washing His Shirt with a HairdryerHe is shameless.I realize it the exact moment the pain evaporates from his face and the triumphant smile takes its place — slow, deliberate, aimed directly at me — and I stand there for a full three seconds with my concern evaporating into something hotter."You faked it," I say.He stretches out on my childhood bed like he owns it."I needed to know how worried you'd get." His voice is warm. Easy. The voice of a man who has won something and is comfortable letting you see it."I nearly had a heart attack.""You went white as a sheet.""Because I thought I had—" I stop. Take a breath. "You are the most—"I step on his stomach.Not hard. Enough. He makes an extremely satisfying sound.Then I crawl back under the quilt, turn my back to him, and pull it over my head.He lifts it."Are you angry?""Go away.""You're not angry. You're embarrassed that you cared.""Go. Away."He doesn't go away, but he does, eventually, stop talking. The mattress shifts as he gets up. I hear the bathroom d
最終更新日: 2026-06-08
Chapter: Chapter 206: She Kicked Him. Then She Panicked. Then He Laughed."Let me go."She doesn't scream it. She says it low and tight, pressed against the mattress with Liam's weight above her and his mouth at her throat and two weeks of distance and fury and missed meals and sleepless nights colliding in the space between them with nowhere to go."Liam—"He kisses her instead. A deep, claiming kiss that isn't asking anything, that is only saying — you are mine, you were always mine, I have been miserable without you every single day — and for a moment she goes completely still because it lands everywhere at once, through her chest and her stomach and the stupid, traitorous parts of her that missed him the way you miss sunlight in a cold house.Then she gets her head back."I will scream," she says against his mouth."Your father's house," he says. "That would be embarrassing for both of us.""I will absolutely scream.""Allie." His voice is rough. He pulls back just enough to look at her — and she sees it, sees all the things he hasn't said. Two weeks of
最終更新日: 2026-06-07
Chapter: Chapter 205: I Locked the Door for a Reason — He Didn't Care"That's not his shirt."Allie says it without thinking — the words just come out, automatic, the way you correct a small wrong when your brain is running on tired and you've lost the energy to calculate every sentence before it leaves your mouth.Liam goes very still."You still remember what he wears," he says. Flat. Not a question."I said the shirt isn't his. Nick doesn't wear blue dress shirts—""So you've inventoried his wardrobe.""Liam."He turns away, jaw tight, and she watches him discard the shirt back on the chair with the disgust of a man who has decided this particular piece of clothing is personally offensive to him. Which, given everything, it probably is.She grabs clothes from her closet — the same impulse she's had since she was seventeen, when this room was a refuge and the first rule was always when overwhelmed, shower — and heads for the bathroom.Sh
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Chapter: Chapter 204: Your Ex-Boyfriend Has Terrible Taste"If you don't believe me," Liam says, "ask him."The sentence lands like something dropped from a building.Allie looks at his face — really looks — searching for the tell that this is overprotection, irrational jealousy, a man spiraling past the evidence. But Liam Hart doesn't spiral. He doesn't say things he doesn't mean. He doesn't build accusations out of nothing.His face is completely, devastatingly serious.She thinks about Adam in the hospital — head lowered, flushed, saying the porridge was good like it cost him his whole composure. The camera sessions, how his eyes kept finding her when he wasn't monitoring them. The balcony Liam won't explain but clearly cannot unsee.He likes you. The way a man likes a woman."That's—" she starts.A knock at the door.Both of them go still.It gets louder.Liam releases a breath through his nose, crosses the room, turns the han
最終更新日: 2026-06-03
My New Boss Is the Man I Had a One-Night Stand With
ContemporaryDramaSteamyCEOHidden IdentityPossessiveBetrayalForgivenessHate to Love
Six Secrets. One Devastating Truth. Zero Escape.
One heartbroken night. One reckless stranger. One decision that changed everything.
Three years ago, Sloane Carter walked into a Chicago bar to forget the man who destroyed her. She walked out carrying a secret that would define the rest of her life — six of them, actually. Because the devastatingly handsome stranger she gave herself to that night didn't just break through her walls.
He left her with sextuplets she's been raising alone, loving fiercely, and hiding from the world ever
since.
She never got his name.
She never needed to.
Until now.
When a desperate job search lands Sloane inside PIERCE Tower — Chicago's most powerful corporation — she comes face to face with the one man she never thought she'd see again. Declan
Pierce. Billionaire. CEO. Ruthless. Magnetic. And the father of her six children, who have his jaw, his eyes, and absolutely no idea he exists.
Now Sloane is trapped — forty-two floors up, steps from his office, dodging his questions, outrunning his memory, and fighting a pull between them that three years and six babies haven't dulled one single degree. Declan Pierce didn't build an empire by missing details. And the more time she spends in his orbit, the more she can feel him circling the truth — patient, dangerous, inevitable.
She has one rule: he cannot find out.
He has one certainty: he's seen her before.
And somewhere between the boardroom power plays, the jealous relatives, and six toddlers who look exactly like their father — the clock is running out on the biggest secret in Chicago.
Because Declan Pierce never loses. And he's already decided that Sloane Carter is something he's not willing to let go.
The only question is what happens when he finds out why.
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Chapter: Chapter 25: Don't Look"I'm not playing games." Sloane pressed herself against the car door, voice rising with desperate urgency. "You told me to leave. You suspended me. You can't just—"His mouth came down on hers.The words died.Everything died — sound, thought, the ability to remember why any of this was a terrible idea. His kiss wasn't gentle. It wasn't asking permission. It was the kiss of a man who had decided something and was done waiting for her to agree, warm and relentless and tasting faintly of whiskey, and Sloane's entire body went rigid with shock before it did something far more treacherous.It kissed him back.No. The thought was distant and small and completely ineffective. No, no, absolutely—She shoved against his chest. Both hands. Everything she had.He didn't move.Not an inch. His hand found her waist — firm, certain — and the kiss deepened, and the small desperate soun
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Chapter: Chapter 24: One Step From The Sky"Pull over."Kai Torres stopped mid-sentence — quarterly projections dissolving into irrelevance — and the driver eased the Phantom to the curb without question.Kai followed Declan's line of sight through the tinted glass.And blinked.Sloane Carter was crouched beside a public recycling bin in a hoodie and dark jeans, fishing a plastic water bottle out of the bushes with gloved hands and dropping it into a canvas bag with the focused efficiency of a woman running numbers in her head.She's collecting bottles.Kai stared. Blinked again. Still Sloane. Still bottles.He turned this over rapidly. The woman who had loudly implied an affair with the CEO of PIERCE Group to get herself fired — fired, so she'd be free — was now, hours later, collecting recyclables on a residential street at midnight for deposit money.Either she's the most reckless genius he'd ever encountered, or—
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Chapter: Chapter 23: Picking Up the PiecesBack in the lobby of PIERCE Tower, the women who had been mentally drafting their own Mrs. Pierce acceptance speeches went pale the moment word spread.Sloane Carter got suspended.The gossip machine reversed itself in under twenty minutes — see, we knew it, obviously nothing was going on, obviously Mr. Pierce doesn't date employees, obviously— and every woman who had briefly allowed herself to hope quietly dismantled that hope and went back to work.Sloane didn't hear any of it.She was already gone.✦✦✦✦✦She spent the afternoon doing what she always did when the ground shifted under her feet: she moved. Job boards. Walk-in inquiries. Three applications submitted from her phone on the Brown Line. A staffing agency on Michigan Avenue that promised to call within a week, which meant two weeks, which meant she needed a backup.By the time the sky went amber and the streetlights blinked on, she'd covered ha
最終更新日: 2026-07-01
Chapter: Chapter 22: Fire Me AlreadyThe gossip spread the way all good gossip does — faster than facts, louder than truth, and straight into exactly the ears Sloane needed it to reach.By ten a.m., she'd heard three separate variations of her own words echoing through the forty-second floor like a game of telephone played by people with nothing to lose.She said she wanted to be Mrs. Pierce.She said Kai Torres's job looked interesting.She said men prefer mature women.That last one she hadn't actually said, but she appreciated the creative addition.✦✦✦✦✦Kai Torres summoned her at ten-fifteen.His office was smaller than Declan's and twice as organized — everything at right angles, nothing out of place, the desk of a man who controlled chaos by refusing to let it through the door. He looked at her for a full five seconds before he spoke."You're aware," he said carefully, "of what's been circulating through the com
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Chapter: Chapter 21: Don't Make Me Say It TwiceThe air between them was suffocating.Declan's thumb pressed under Sloane's chin, tilting her face up, and those black eyes burned into hers with an intensity that made her feel like she was dissolving from the inside out. She could feel her pulse in her throat. In her fingertips. In every place his gaze landed.Do something, she told herself desperately. Say something. Right now. Before he takes one more step and you forget every reason this is a catastrophic idea."Mr. Pierce." Her voice came out steadier than she deserved. "If you touch me — are you prepared to marry me?"The silence that followed was the most specific silence she'd ever experienced.Declan's hand stilled under her chin."What?""You heard me." She held his gaze, heart detonating, chin lifted with a confidence she was absolutely faking. "I don't do casual. If you want me, you'd have to put a ring on it. Those are my terms."T
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Chapter: Chapter 20: You Smell Like ThemTwo o'clock. Not a second late. Not a second early.Sloane stood outside Declan Pierce's office door and gave herself exactly three seconds to fall apart — the racing pulse, the cold hands, the very specific terror of a woman hiding six children from the most powerful man in Chicago — and then she knocked."Come in."Two words. Low, magnetic, inevitable. She felt them in her sternum.She pushed the door open.The office was vast — all dark wood and floor-to-ceiling glass, the Chicago skyline spreading out behind him like a kingdom he'd personally arranged. Declan stood with his back to her, hands clasped, silhouetted against the light in a way that made him look less like a man and more like something carved from the city itself.The air felt thick. Pressurized. Like walking into a room where a decision had already been made.Sloane walked forward until she reached a reasonable distance from his desk. Stoppe
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