ログインI just got my billionaire husband to sign our divorce papers. He thinks it’s another business document. Our marriage was a business transaction. I was his secretary by day, his invisible wife by night. He got a CEO title and a rebellion against his mother; I got the money to save mine. The only rule? Don’t fall in love. I broke it. He didn’t. So I’m cashing out. Thirty days from now, I’m gone. But now he’s noticing me. Touching me. Claiming me. The same man who flaunts his mistresses is suddenly burning down a nightclub because another man insulted me. He says he’ll never let me go. But he has no idea I’m already halfway out the door. How far will a billionaire go to keep a wife he never wanted until she tried to leave?
もっと見るI stood in the doorway and looked at what had become of the room.The overturned lamp, the armchair with one leg at an angle that suggested it had been used as a battering ram, the curtain rod hanging at forty-five degrees from a single bracket. The French window had been boarded over two days ago after Helen had put a chair through it. The bathroom door was still intact, but only because Cameron had fitted a secondary lock on the outside.Helen sat on the edge of the bed with her arms crossed and her jaw set, watching me with defiance and calculation.‘Come to gloat?’ she said.‘No.’ I stepped into the room. ‘Come to let you go.’She stared at me.‘You can leave,’ I said. ‘Now, if you want. The men at the door have been told to stand down. You can walk out, get in a cab, and do whatever you intended to do when you first came to London.’‘You’re bluffing.’‘I’m not.’‘You said you’d keep me here.’‘I changed my mind.’She was very still for a moment, then she looked hard behind me, lik
‘Your daughter is fine,’ Cameron said.The man stared at him. ‘But the photo… I couldn’t reach her…’‘Soraya had just come back to London. She didn’t have the resources to take anyone.’ Cameron was already dialling. ‘She staged it. Your daughter has been at a friend’s flat the entire time.’ He held out his phone. ‘That’s her. Talk to her.’I didn’t wait to hear what was said.Lochlan came with me. We stood in the hospital hallway. I looked at the wall opposite and tried to locate myself in the sequence of events that had led me here.‘Thank you,’ I said eventually. ‘For bringing me.’‘You deserved to know.’‘I know.’ I pressed my lips together. ‘I know she was my mother. I know this is supposed to feel like something – closure, or justice, or – I don’t know what it’s supposed to feel like.’ I paused. ‘Mostly I just feel numb. Like I’m sitting in the audience watching someone else’s story and waiting to feel the thing I’m supposed to feel about it.’Lochlan said nothing. He found my han
I barely made it to the bathroom.Afterwards, I sat on the cold tile floor for a moment, forehead against the cabinet door, letting the world settle back into place.Morning sickness had a particular quality of indignity to it – the complete absence of warning, the complete absence of mercy, the way it arrived on its own schedule with no interest whatsoever in yours.I got up, rinsed my mouth, splashed cold water on my face, and came out to find Lochlan standing in the bedroom holding a glass of warm water.I took it, drank slowly, exhaled.‘We can see the doctor today,’ he said.‘I’m fine.’ I looked at his face. ‘But apparently you’re not. What’s wrong?’‘What makes you think –’‘It’s twenty past five in the morning. I know what woke me up.’ I lowered the glass. ‘What woke you up?’A pause. He took the glass from me and set it down on the bedside table.‘My men have been talking to the driver,’ he said. ‘Through the night.’‘He confessed?’‘Yes.’I pressed my palms together. ‘Please t
Four days of pub-crawling in the service of a sting operation, and what I had to show for it was a comprehensive knowledge of which establishments on the Marylebone-to-Paddington corridor served the best sparkling water and which barmen were least likely to notice you weren’t actually drinking the wine they’d poured you.I’d been nursing drinks mostly. Swapping them when no one was looking. Sitting in corners with the carefully arranged posture of a woman who had been badly let down by a man and was doing something about it one glass at a time.The performance was, I felt, reasonably convincing.The tabloids seemed to think so, anyway.The baby thought so too, in the sense that the baby appeared entirely indifferent to the ambient lighting and sad background music of Marylebone’s hospitality sector and continued going about its business regardless.Lochlan’s team had given me an earpiece on the first day. A tiny thing, nearly invisible, with a range that meant someone from the team cou
My phone buzzed against my palm.Declan.‘Miss Galloway.’ His voice was tight. ‘Thank God, signal’s back. Where are you?’‘Garden. South side, I think. There’s a long run of box hedge — I’m behind it. Somewhere near what might be a stone birdbath, though it’s too dark to be certain.’‘Stay there. Do
I shot upright in the bath, water sloshing over the sides.Jaclyn Lemon. The former head of Velos Singapore. The woman was so spectacularly bad at her job, Lochlan had fired her right in front of me. The last I’d heard, she’d retreated to London to lick her considerable wounds.What in the name of a
Lochlan was sitting on my parents’ slightly sagging floral sofa, looking completely at ease.Dad, as per usual, was nowhere to be seen, probably seeking solace with his beleaguered rose bushes.My mother rose from her armchair, her hands fluttering. ‘I’ll just go and put the kettle on. Make some pro
The private lift went up to the executive floor.Lochlan walked ahead of us. He didn’t break stride as he spoke, tossing the words over his shoulder. ‘Kai, you and Hyacinth will switch duties today.’Then he was gone, vanishing into his office and leaving Kai and me standing in the hushed corridor l






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