Bound By The CEO's Contract
Natalie Harper leads a simple life. A trained professional secretary, she had always been diligent, organized, and committed to staying out of trouble. Her uneventful life is upended when her gruff boss, Alexander Hayes-a wealthy CEO-makes her an offer she can't refuse: a marriage contract.
Alexander needs a fiancée to save his reputation and to get that crucial business contract, and Natalie fits perfectly. From the beginning, it would seem pretty easy: she gets financial security, and he saves his company. But getting into Alexander's glittering world is far from simple.
Thrown into a whirlwind of lavish parties, prying socialites, and Alexander's guarded past, Natalie quickly realizes she is in over her head. Things get even more complicated when Alexander's ex-fiancée resurfaces, determined to wreak havoc. As old secrets start to unravel, Natalie begins to question everything-especially her own feelings.
The more time she spends by Alexander's side, the more impossible it is not to feel the emotions she was so determined to keep out of their deal.
Is this a game he is playing, or is there really something genuine behind those cold and remote eyes? Can Natalie navigate his world of deceit and power, or will she lose herself in the process?
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Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY NINEPOV: AlexanderI wasn't really certain when it happened, but sometime during the dark nights and endless mornings, Natalie and I had come closer together than I ever would have thought.It was supposed to be an arrangement. A contract. A performance for the world to see. But most of the time now, there were moments where I forgot to pretend. When I would get carried away by her laughter, not because anyone was watching, but because I wanted to. I found myself reaching for her hand in public, not as a show, but because it felt right.The longer we were together, the more I realized she had slipped into the cracks of my life, the cracks I once thought could never be filled.It was at that moment that it struck me. The thought that changed everything.I wanted to introduce her to my parents.It wasn't intentional. It wasn't part of the package. But one night we were both in the living room, and the words just flowed out of me before I knew what was happening.″Natalie,” I said to her, a
Last Updated: 2025-08-27
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY EIGHTPOV: AlexanderI never thought things would change this way.When Natalie and I had agreed to start living together, I had thought of it only as an agreement. Something practical. Something necessary. A facade for the world. But as each day passed by, as nights grew softer, as silence turned into quiet companionship, I began to realize something unsettling, none of it felt fake anymore.It began small.The nights with her in my bedroom ended the nightmares. I slept for the first time in a long time, I slept without waking up in a cold sweat, without shouting names that tore my chest apart. I found myself growing addicted to the calmness of her presence. I never told her this, of course, but I knew it. She was the light which chased the shadows away.Even in the daytime, everything had changed. At breakfast, I would wait for her before I served myself and ate my food. At the office, I would find myself looking when she smiled, when her eyebrows furrowed, when her hand brushed a file ac
Last Updated: 2025-08-26
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY SEVENPOV: NatalieThe mansion had been holding its breath for days. Each night was no different, cries through the silence, the name “Eleanor” echoing down the walls like a ghost refusing to leave. I had promised myself that I would endure it, to hold on to the agreement we had made never to enter each other's rooms. But that night, I simply couldn’t stay put.His voice was distinctive.It wasn't yelling anymore. It was breaking.“Eleanor!” His shout was uttered, anguished, desperate. Then it dropped into a sound I had never heard from him before, one of tears.I froze initially, my hand on the side of my bed, my heart racing. Alexander….crying? The man who carried himself like stone? The man who never let anyone close enough to see his cracks?I couldn't sit any longer. I tossed the blanket aside and rose and ran out of my bedroom, my ice-cold feet on the exceedingly high-polished floor. I didn’t even stop to think about the agreement this time. His agony was louder than any promise.When
Last Updated: 2025-08-20
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY SIX (POV: Alexander)The nights were now my punishment.I tried closing my eyes in order to sleep, but my body betrayed me every time. Sleep slipped in like a thief, and with it came the voice, the face, the memory that I had hidden for years."Eleanor!"I shouted the name again last night. I knew. Even in my trance, I could sense the pain bursting out of me, the shame that I would never be able to confess, the weight that had saddled my back from childhood. I woke up drenched in sweat, the sheets twisted, my throat burning from the scream. The glass of water I had set on the bedside table had spilled on the floor, broken. My chest heaved and sank with a heavy rhythm as I sat in the blackness, looking at nothing.I laid my hands on my face. Why now? Why again?I had suppressed it for years, stilled the nightmares, acted as if the past only lived as a shadow. But with Victor’s constant presence, his smug face, his relentless rivalry, the memories dug their way back, and now Eleanor has hau
Last Updated: 2025-08-19
Chapter: CHAPTER FORTY FIVEPOV: NatalieIt would never be easy living with Alexander, I had told myself that long before we moved into the mansion. Two obstinate people in the same house was already a challenge, but with the rules and the distance between us, that was another thing entirely. I thought I was ready for the silence, for the coldness, for the walls he built so effortlessly. But nothing could have prepared me for the night.The mansion at night was mostly quiet, the kind of silence that made the tick-tock of the clock in the hallway so loud like it was a drum. I was lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, trying to sleep. That's when I heard it.“Eleanor!”When I heard it, I froze in my bed. My heart pounded because it reminded me of the night I had discovered him drunk and broken. Back then, I had assumed that it had been an instance of weakness, a rare slip for a man who lived in control. But now, hearing him cry out in his sleep again, it was obvious that whatever had haunted him had roots far deep
Last Updated: 2025-08-18
Chapter: Chapter Forty FourThe rain started immediately after midnight.It didn't descend gently. It came in tiny bursts of fury, slamming against the balcony doors like angry fists.I fidgeted uncomfortably in bed and I was agitated. Sleep hadn’t come easily since I arrived at the estate, and tonight was worse. The storm made the shadows on the walls shift and stir. Every creak in the floorboards sounded like a footstep.I continued telling myself that I was imagining things.Until I heard it again.A creaking in the distance right outside my door. A soft, deliberate click, the sound of a lock turning.I swung my legs over the bed and reached for the nearest object, there was a little lamp on the nightstand. My heart was beating like crazy in my head.The handle shifted.I froze.Then…..nothing.The disturbance stopped, and whoever had caused it walked away quickly. I remained there for quite some time, holding onto the lamp, before I was finally brave enough to move. I walked across the room, closed the balco
Last Updated: 2025-08-15
CONTRACT OF FATE
Billionaire heir Alexander Sterling is tired of his mother’s relentless matchmaking with spoiled socialites. In a desperate move to escape, he proposes a contract marriage to Elena Carter, a struggling waitress he met on a drunken night at a restaurant. She sees it as a golden ticket to cover her mom's medical bills, unaware she’s stepping into a life of cold indifference and relentless torment. Bound for three years, their marriage is filled with icy glares and unspoken pain. But in their second year, a mistake leads to an unexpected pregnancy. Fearful of his wrath and threats of Eleanor, Elena hides the truth, enduring his cruelty in silence. As time passes, Alexander begins to feel something he never expected. But pride keeps him from showing it.
On the verge of the third year, unable to bear the suffering any longer, Elena disappears, presumed dead. Devastated, Alexander is haunted by regret, not knowing she has survived and given birth to their twins. Years later, fate brings them back together this time, as equals.
Wealthy. Independent. A mother of two. Elena is no longer the fragile woman he once controlled. But their reunion is complicated by the arrival of Matteo De Luca, a ruthless Italian billionaire with a vendetta against Alexander and an interest in Elena. With enemies on all sides and unresolved emotions between them, will love conquer all? Or will the past destroy any chance of redemption?
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Chapter: Chapter 29(Elena's POV) The scent of the hospital was as fresh as ever, but today it was more viscous, almost as if it sensed the turmoil in my heart. I held the bunch of daisies more firmly, trying to cling with the dainty, flower scent. Sophie beside me carried a dented tin box filled with daisies' favorite chin-chin, my mum's favorite snack that we used to take home and make from scratch when everything in life was still simple. Behind me, Selena trailed along with a thermos of hot tea and an serene face that would always make me believe I wasn't dissolving, even when I was.I couldn't shake Alexander. Try as I might, the images came back, stronger, darker, and more painful. I did something else, instead. I went to see my mum, not by myself this time. I craved warmth. Familiarity. I needed to inhale something real again."I suppose she's better today," Sophie grumbled as we turned the corner to Room 209. "I brought her that disgusting magazine she's so fond of.""She'll love it," I put a br
Last Updated: 2025-06-01
Chapter: Chapter 29(Elena's POV)There’s an art to moving quietly. I’ve learned that now.Not the quiet of silence, but the tactical sort, the softer breathing, quicker thinking, and longer pretending than any human ever ought. I walk these halls like a specter, gliding by cold walls and colder gazes, always careful never to remain in one place too long.I will be leaving in three weeks.Three weeks, and this house, this prison dressed as a mansion, will be nothing more than a fading shadow in my rearview mirror. I don’t know exactly where I’ll go. But I know I won’t be here. I won’t raise my child within these gilded chains.I slide open the drawer beside my bed and reach beneath the stack of folded scarves. My fingers brush against cool metal, the zipper of the small travel bag I’ve kept hidden for weeks. It's not much. A few clothes, my late mother's rosary, some cash I’ve scraped together. I’ve been hiding money the way a starving woman hides crumbs: desperately, secretly, clinging to hope.I keep t
Last Updated: 2025-05-05
Chapter: Chapter 27Elena’s POVI stood in the shower, motionless as the water hits my skin, each drop a reminder of my thoughts. How did I let this happen?The night keeps replaying in my head like a broken video player. His touch, His lips. The look in his eyes when he took me to the room and entered me. I wasn't in control, He was. We were both in our right state of mind not under alcohol influence but just two people wanting to feel each other. I can still remember the way my heart fluttered under his stare or the way I pleaded with him to feel him inside me.I lean forward, resting my forehead on the arm, water dripping from my chin. At that moment, I thought there was hope for us, for me and just maybe he would finally accept me but then he shut me down as usual. I slept in his arms, he held on to me throughout the night and just like That, he shattered my heart in less than a second.I didn't say anything or try to fight against what he said. I accepted it because he was right, it didn't mean an
Last Updated: 2025-04-19
Chapter: Chapter 26Alexander’s POVThe sun filtered in through the curtains, pulling me out of my dream.Then reality came crashing back.I blinked slowly, adjusting to the light. The weight against my chest moved. Her hand. Small, warm. Her leg still tangled with mine under the blanket.Elena.The memories from the night before rushed to me like a wave I hadn’t prepared for. The way she had kissed me. The softness of her lips. The way her body had responded to every touch. Her eyes wide, tear-streaked, and somehow still full of trust.What the hell was I doing?I shouldn’t have touched her.And yet I had. Over and over. With so much desperation than I cared to admit.My hands on her body, feeling and touching every inch of her. It wasn’t supposed to happen. None of it.I was tired. Vulnerable. I let my guard slip. For a moment, just one damn moment, I allowed myself to feel something. And I let her in.Which was Stupid of me.Now I had made a big mistake.I slowly shifted, trying not to wake her. Her
Last Updated: 2025-04-18
Chapter: Chapter 25Elena’s POVThe lights, the laughter, the music, It had all gone blurry the moment Victoria poured that drink on me. It hadn't just ruined my dress, it exposed me, made me feel small and vulnerable.I knew she did it on purpose.It wasn't just the embarrassment. It was the humiliation I felt. The fact that no one stepped in. Not even my own husband, Alexnader tried to stand up for me. At least If Sophie was here, She would have stood up for me.I ran without looking back, I didn't know where I was running to but I just had to leave that place and so I ran.my heart was pounding, my face burned with heat as I pushed open the guesthouse door and slammed it behind me. It was the closest door to me.I sank to the floor, the torn fabric if my dress packed around my legs. My arms still clutching it to my body to keep what little dignity I had left. I felt small, so small and ashamed. I was alone in that moment.I buried my face in my hands and let the tears fall freely.This wasn't a life. T
Last Updated: 2025-04-18
Chapter: Chapter 24Alexander’s POVToday is the day of the annual ball which we hold once every year. It was a big event for the sterling empire, a celebration of how far we have come. Reymond started this tradition but after he was gone, it lived on.Eleanor always made sure she decorated everything to her satisfaction. The Sterling mansion had never looked more expensive.That wasn't a compliment. All the chandeliers were polished and sparkling, the staircase was wrapped in golden vines, and roses, white and red lined every inch of the hall like it was a royal coronation. The place was glowing. Eleanor outdid herself. Again.Last time, She was the one that planned it and it was exquisite. After the gala, people talked about how organised and fancy everything was from the decorations to the food. Eleanor lived for all those talks, that was why she made sure she was the one to decorate every year.I stood at the top of the staircase, watching the staff as they rushed to do one thing or the other. S
Last Updated: 2025-04-16
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