The Price of Being Mrs Knight
Arabella Montgomery has spent her entire life learning how to survive among the wealthy. As the daughter of one of Westhaven’s most powerful families, she knows that reputation is everything, secrets are currency, and love is supposed to be the one thing money cannot buy.
She is engaged to the perfect man, surrounded by people she trusts, and preparing for a future she believes she has chosen for herself.
Then everything begins to fall apart.
A growing financial scandal threatens to destroy the Montgomery empire. The man she intends to marry may not be who she believes he is, and the betrayal that cuts deepest comes from someone she has loved like a sister.
But just as Arabella’s world begins to crumble, Adrian Knight, the cold and dangerously powerful man her family has every reason to fear, makes her an offer she can hardly afford to refuse.
He has spent years rebuilding his family’s fortune and has never forgotten what the Montgomery family allegedly did to his own. Now, he wants something only Arabella can give him: marriage.
For Adrian, the marriage is business, revenge, and a means to secure what he needs. For Arabella, it may be the only way to save what remains of her family.
But becoming Mrs Knight means entering a world where every promise has a price, every alliance hides a motive, and the man she despises may be the only person standing between her and the truth.
Arabella thought the marriage would be her greatest sacrifice.
She has yet to discover what Adrian Knight is really after—and what it will cost her to find out.
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Chapter: Chapter 10 - The Comfort of Familiar LiesArabella let Sebastian’s call ring twice before answering.“Hello.”“Finally.” His voice carried its familiar warmth. “I was beginning to think you’d decided to avoid me.”“I told you I was busy.”“You also said you’d call when you could.”“And here I am.”He laughed softly. “You make it sound like a business appointment.”“Would you prefer I send you a calendar invitation?”“Only if it comes with dinner.”Despite herself, Arabella smiled. It was the sort of exchange they had shared for years, easy and familiar. Sebastian had always known how to coax a laugh out of her, even when she was determined not to give him one.That was what made the uncertainty so uncomfortable. She knew the sound of his laughter, the little pause before he teased her, and the way he remembered insignificant details about her day. She did not know what he had been doing with a document connected to a twenty-year-old financial scandal.“Are we still on for dinner?” he asked.Arabella glanced at the time. “Wher
Last Updated: 2026-10-29
Chapter: Chapter 9 - The Man She Couldn’t ReadArabella left her father’s house with more questions than she had brought with her.The morning air felt sharp against her skin, but it did little to clear her thoughts. Richard had confirmed that the old records were unreliable. He had admitted that the waterfront project had collapsed amid suspicious transactions. Yet he still seemed more afraid of what she might discover than of what had already happened to Montgomery Holdings.And he had told her not to show the document to Adrian.Naturally, Adrian was the first person she thought of.She slid into the back seat of her car and took out her phone. His number sat in her recent calls, a reminder of their last conversation and the way he had looked at her as though he could see every question she was trying to hide.She could call him. She could demand an explanation for why he had been so certain the past mattered.Instead, she locked her phone.She would not let either man decide what she should know.By the time she reached Montgo
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Chapter: Chapter 8 - What Her Father FearedWhat Her Father FearedArabella arrived at her father’s house the following morning, carrying the folder in her handbag.She had barely slept. Every time she closed her eyes, she remembered the silence that had followed her words the previous evening.I have a document connected to the project.Richard’s reaction had been immediate. The document had frightened him, and that frightened her more.She found him in his study, standing beside the window. A cup of untouched coffee sat on the table behind him. He wore a pale blue shirt and dark trousers, but shadows beneath his eyes made him look older than usual.“You came early,” he said.“You told me to come in the morning.”“I did.”Arabella closed the door. “Are we going to talk, or are you going to spend the morning finding reasons not to?”His mouth tightened. “You have become very impatient.”“And you have become very secretive.”“Arabella—”“No, Daddy.” Her voice softened at the familiar title, but she refused to retreat. “I know th
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Chapter: Chapter 7 - The Questions He Wouldn’t AnswerThe room felt different after Vanessa left.Not quieter, exactly. The house had settled into its usual afternoon sounds: the low hum of the air conditioner, the faint clink of dishes somewhere downstairs, the distant murmur of traffic beyond the gates. But Arabella could no longer pretend the afternoon was ordinary.The folded paper lay on her bed where she had placed it. She had looked at it twice already, and each time the same details caught her attention: the names of Montgomery Holdings and Knight Enterprises, figures beside transaction references, and the heading that connected everything to the old waterfront development.It looked official enough to matter. It was also incomplete enough to be useless.There were no explanations, no signatures she recognised, and no clear indication of who had moved what money—or why. The repeated reference number bothered her most. Vanessa had said she found the paper in Sebastian’s car three days ago. If it was merely an old business record,
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Chapter: Chapter 6 - The Friend Who Knew Too MuchVanessa arrived at the Montgomery residence twenty minutes later.Arabella found her pacing beside the sitting-room windows, her phone clutched tightly in one hand. Her usually composed friend looked unusually nervous.“What’s wrong?” Arabella asked.Vanessa slipped her phone into her handbag. “I need to tell you something.”“That much I gathered from your message.”“Arabella, I’m serious.”“So am I. You’re pacing around my sitting room like someone has threatened to bury a body in the garden.”Vanessa managed a brief smile, but it quickly disappeared.“Have you spoken to Sebastian today?”“Yes. We had lunch.”“How did it go?”“Strange. He admitted he knew about my father’s financial problems before I told him, but he claims he didn’t know how serious they were.”Vanessa looked away.Arabella noticed.“Why are you avoiding my eyes?”“I’m not.”“And you’re twisting your bracelet. You only do that when you’re nervous.”Vanessa stopped moving her fingers.“I think you need to be careful
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Chapter: Chapter 5 - A Perfectly Timed LiSebastian chose a quiet restaurant overlooking the Westhaven marina, the sort of place where businesspeople could speak in low voices without worrying about being overheard.Arabella arrived ten minutes early. She chose a table near the window and watched yachts drift across the water while she rehearsed what she wanted to ask.When Sebastian finally walked in, he wore his usual easy smile and carried a small bouquet of white roses.“For you,” he said, leaning down to kiss her cheek.She looked at the flowers before accepting them. “You didn’t have to.”“I wanted to.” He sat opposite her. “You sounded upset on the phone.”“My father told me about the old dispute between the Montgomerys and the Knights.”For the first time since he arrived, Sebastian’s smile faltered.Only for a second. Then he reached for the menu.“That old story? I thought your family had put it behind them.”“Apparently, Adrian hasn’t.”“Adrian has never been interested in letting anything go if he thinks it gives
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