LOGIN“Let’s skip the formalities. I have something very important to discuss with you,” he said. I stared at the server serving the food while mentally preparing to deal with whatever he had to say. “I need a wife,” he said calmly, like it was the most normal request in the world. I rolled my eyes and muttered, “Not this again.” “Allow me to be your—” “No!” I interrupted. “I’m married, remember? That little detail that keeps slipping from your head?” ************* Celine’s picture-perfect life comes crumbling down when she discovers her husband’s infidelity. Left with nothing but heartbreak and debt, she swears never to trust again—until Christopher Sterling, a powerful CEO, offers her a deal that changes everything. He’ll protect her. He’ll claim her. And he’ll make everyone who hurt her pay. What starts as a simple contract soon becomes something much deeper. As Celine tries to guard her heart, she realizes that love can be more dangerous than betrayal. Her past broke her. Her future might save her. But love was never part of the deal.
View MoreThird Person Pov Months laterThe contractions started at 3am.Celine woke up and lay still for a moment in the dark. Breathing. Counting. Waiting to see if it was real or if her body was practicing again the way it had done twice in the last two weeks.It was real.She turned over slowly.“Christopher.”He was awake before she finished saying his name.“Is it time,” he said.“I think so.”He was out of the bed before she had finished the sentence. Moving around the room. Finding clot. Looking for the bag that had been packed and ready by the door for three weeks.“Christopher.”“I have the bag. I am getting the bag. Where are my keys. I left my keys on the—”“Christopher.”He stopped.Looked at her.She was sitting on the edge of the bed with her hand on her stomach and she was smiling.“Breathe,” she said.He exhaled.Came to her.Crouched down in front of her and took both her hands.“Okay,” he said. “Okay. Are you ready.”She looked at him.This man who had driven too fast to a b
Third Person Pov After Nathaniel walked out of that corridor Cassia stood alone for a long time.The venue was still loud behind her. Still chaotic. She could hear voices and movement and someone crying and she stood in that small corridor with her hand on her stomach and stared at the wall.She had planned everything so carefully.Every single step.And it had all come apart in one afternoon.She found Nicholas later that evening.He was standing outside the venue near the cars. Smoking. Looking like a man who had watched a fire and was glad it was not his house.Cassia walked up to him.“I need somewhere to stay tonight,” she said.Nicholas looked at her. Then at her stomach. Then back at her face.“You are serious,” he said.“Your brother just walked out on me.”“Can you blame him.”“Nicholas—”“Cassia.” He dropped the cigarette. “You pinned another man’s pregnancy on my brother. You announced it to his entire workplace. You embarrassed his family. His parents fainted today. His m
Third Person Pov The room was still holding its breath.Cassia stood on that stage with the photographs in her hand and looked at the woman in them and her brain was doing something slow and strange. Like it was trying to protect her from what her eyes were already seeing.She knew that woman.She knew that hair. That birthmark just above the left collarbone. That specific way of tilting the head when laughing.She knew her.“No,” Cassia said.It came out quiet. Almost to herself.She looked up at Nathaniel.“Nathaniel.” Her voice was different now. Something had gone out of it. “Who is she.”Nathaniel said nothing.His silence was its own answer.“Who is she.” Louder this time.Someone in the crowd shifted. Someone else whispered something to the person beside them.Nathaniel looked at the floor.Cassia’s hand was shaking now. The photographs trembling slightly in her grip.“That is Caroline,” she said.Still quiet. Still almost like she was talking to herself.“That is my sister.”
Third Person Pov “You are not going,” Christopher said.“I am going,” Celine said softlyThey were standing in the bedroom. Celine was already dressed. A loose flowy top that concealed everything. Comfortable trousers. She was looking at herself in the mirror and Christopher was standing behind her with the expression of a man who already knew he was losing this argument but was not ready to accept it yet.“Celine. That woman wants nothing but the worse for you”“That woman is having a baby that did nothing to me.” Celine’s motherly in nsticnt kicked in “I am not talking about the baby.”“I am.” She turned from the mirror. “The baby is innocent Christopher. I am not going to boycott a child’s celebration because I do not like its mother.”“You are pregnant.”“I am aware.”“You are supposed to be resting.” He said in a worried tone “I have been resting for three months. I am going.” She picked up her bag from the bed. “You can come with me or you can stay here.”He looked at the cei
Third Person Pov The Sterling corporations moved next.Every partnership between the Sterling group and Alcott Limited was reviewed. Every contract examined. Every joint venture assessed.Then quietly and completely they were all cut.When the Alcott lawyers called they were told the decision was f
Celine Pov I thought about Cassia walking through that office with her hand on her belly and that smile on her face. Mocking her. Mocking me in front of people. Using my pain as something to stand on.I thought about every person who had ever looked at her with that specific kind of pity. Or worse
Third Person Pov “Mixed up,” she repeated.“There was another couple seen on the same day. The files…” he exhaled. “The results were swapped. It was an administrative error. A terrible, terrible error and I am…” he shook his head. “I am so sorry. I cannot tell you how sorry I am.”Celine said noth
Third Person Pov It did not take much.She had come prepared.She moved quickly and quietly, her plan was to burn Celine out of this world so Christopher can finally look at her and so when the fire started it started fast the way she knew it would.She stepped back outside and stood on the pavemen












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