Married to my Ex-Fiance's Boss
‘He was going to reject me.’
My stomach twisted violently. Why had I thought this was a good idea? My palms grew clammy around the ring, my mind screaming at me to retreat, to salvage what little dignity I had left.
‘What kind of person pulls a stunt like this?!’ My own voice taunted me mercilessly. ‘This is it, Claire. Game over.’
But instead of the anticipated rejection, Giancarlo reached out—his hand brushing mine, sending a jolt up my arm as he plucked the ring from my fingers. The motion was fluid, deliberate, like he’d done it before—and then…
“I do,” he said simply, his voice steady as he slid the ring onto his finger yh with mad confidence.
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Claire Bennett’s perfect Valentine’s Day proposal ends in a disaster when she catches her boyfriend with another woman. In a fit of rage, she forces an engagement ring onto the finger of the first man she sees—a suave and mysterious passerby who shocks her by playing along.
But Claire’s spur-of-the-moment fiancé isn’t just anyone. He’s Giancarlo Fiore Caruso—her ex’s boss and the ruthless CEO of her company. A fake engagement, a trip to the Maldives, and an undeniable connection soon turn her spur-of-the-moment decision into something she can’t control.
Sparks of desire fly despite their stark differences, and attraction simmers just beneath the layers of deception. But will Claire’s impulsive decision mark the beginning of something real—or a recipe for heartbreak?
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Chapter: Chapter 157Elizabeth.I felt a woozing feeling deep inside my stomach, swirling like a hurricane and causing the content in my stomach to fall forward to my throat, as I headed to Claire's room to check on her. She wasn't picking her calls and it was really frustrating me and killing me with worry. Every part of my body was feeling chills from her silence, especially my upper body area. It felt so numb even with all the woozing in it. It wasn't quite unusual for her to ignore my calls, but this one, especially this time that my head was running with wild thoughts and my heart beating with the intuition that she was in danger and urgently needed my help. Yes, we hadn't been exactly close this few weeks and we had our differences. I still hadn't forgiven her for embarrassing me on my engagement day but the link between us was still strong so I could hear her even when I had been disappointed in her.I mean, what was there in just giving a speech? She should've at least said two words. Or, congr
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Chapter: Chapter 156Giancarlo.As we prepared for the journey, with me sitting rather trap-like in grandpa's convoy, my head reeled with many thoughts and my heart thumped with the velocity and hardness of my uneasiness.The uneasiness that went from my skull down to my spinal cord and back again to where it came from. It was a particular feeling that was very unexplainable. I just couldn't put a hand to it.Something just didn't feel right. I felt it in the pit of my stomach and God help me, it felt like something dangerous was about to happen, something as bad as death.Goosebumps sprouted from my skin, more from the thought than the car air conditioner that made even breathing, very difficult.“Was everything right? Could my intuition be taking seriously? Or should I ignore them?” I thought inwardly as I felt a nagging in my chest that wouldn't go away nor dull in its ache. It was so strong in its hit that I could bet that I had heard its giant bruck thud inside of me.I didn't feel like myself. My mo
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Chapter: Chapter 155Claire.I was yet to understand what was wrong with my eyes. Why was Theodore, standing before me, holding a bouquet of flowers? I looked him up and down and then out to the hallway to check if I had perchance made any mistakes.Was I dreaming? I touched my cheeks to confirm again. After the brief confirmation, I fell into surprise?What in heaven's name gave him the audacity to come visiting after what he had done to me? After the punishable crime he had committed against me?He was even lucky that the deeds of that unfortunate night, I had kept it to myself and had felt no need to discuss it with Carlo or anyone other person, not that they would’ve taken my words against his.The main reason, of course, was due to the fact that we had other pressing matters and needs that needed to be tended to and as such speaking about that had surprisingly, scarcely crossed my mind.I looked at him again, he was still standing before me, wearing a smile that I immediately recognized as cocky.Wh
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-05-23
Chapter: Chapter 154Claire.Feeling very bored and lonely, I picked up my phone to call Penny again, for her to keep me company and out me up to date with her useful and spicy gists.Since our call had been drastically disrupted by Carlo then, we, or rather I, had not had the chance to call and apologize for my rudeness. Not that it was something so blown-out-of-proportion that I needed to die for in apology nor was it something she was sure to keep in her heart against me.It was just a burden I had to bear; my responsibility to apologize. It was all on me even when she had not even made any effort to call back or ask what the issue had been.With the thought, came another one that was painful to even entertain in my head. The thought that she could have discarded our friendship and not counted me as someone important again.That would explain the long silence between us and everything. But still, I, too, had not played a good part in it as I had not regarded, God knows, I had totally forgotten about Pe
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Chapter: Chapter 153Giancarlo.My head buzzed with million thoughts, fighting hard with my mind, succeeding in weakening it greatly and taking full control of it.Most of them were angry thoughts and words that were stored too long in my head and that had begun to gather mould and some, decaying.I had not even finished dealing with Claire and her attitude, Sophia had come to add fuel to my anger and adding more percentage to my mental drain than normal.Just that action of hers was enough to disorganize me as I had no opportunity to bash her to my satisfaction and at the same time influence the negative news that was already cooking.How dare she? Balls of fire rolled in my chest hitting my heart and arteries and pushing forward to my lungs as grandpa chatted away, his voice annoyingly low and menacing, never stopping to take in air.What was he even saying? I wondered in frustration, throwing the question to my raging mind; not patient enough to wait for an answer as my ears were very uncooperative in
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Chapter: Chapter 152Claire.It was only after a while that I realized the enormosity of what I had done and how urgent ig was for me to take back my words and place everything in their right position.Why had I been so rash? I pondered heavily, my heart racing and head aching with the remembrance of my cold, unfeeling words to Carlo. I was sure he meant no harm, I confirmed sadly and embarrassingly, feeling ice cubes of regret temporarily block my air pipe.Why then had I been so worked up about everything? I shouldn't have been that quick, I felt the regret shift from my air pipe down to my stomach, sending shocks of pain upwards to my heart.I should've at least reasoned with him and resolve the issues amicably. That way I would still be with him how, and not feel very hollow and empty with his absence.Yes, my anger towards him an his grandfather was justified, but I shouldn't have taken things that far especially when I knew I was going to marry into his family and how much dear he was to me.Lettin
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