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Chapter 45: The First Trial
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Contracts of Desire: The Billionaire Romance Collection Chapter 48: I Know Who You Are.
Kierian-“Absolutely fucking not.”Tanya stared at me from across my desk. Her mouth dropped open.“What! Why not?!”“You heard me.” I leaned back in my chair. “You've worked here for what? Two months?”“Almost three.”“Congratulations. Should I buy you a cake?”Her eyes narrowed.“I'm getting married.”“And?”“And people generally take honeymoons after they get married!”“Take a weekend.”Her jaw dropped.“A weekend?!”“Friday through Sunday. I'll even let you leave early Thursday.”“You are such an asshole.”“And yet you're still standing in my office asking me for favors.”Tanya folded her arms.“I need three weeks.”I laughed. Actually laughed. The expression on her face became murderous.“Three weeks?! You're my assistant, Pierce, not the fucking Prime Minister.”“I'm entitled to vacation!”“Not when you haven't even been here ninety days.”She slammed both hands onto my desk.“I already booked the trip!”“Sounds like poor planning.”“Kierian!”“Tanya!”Silence crashed through th
Contracts of Desire: The Billionaire Romance Collection Chapter 47: Ethan’s Plea.
Nova-I stared at Ethan Adams through the glass wall of the conference room and wondered when exactly he'd become a stranger.Maybe that wasn't fair. Strangers didn't come with memories. Strangers didn't carry pieces of your childhood inside them. And Ethan had far too many of mine.“Ms. Moreau?” I glanced toward Angela, one of the executive assistants. “Mr. Adams is here for his two o'clock meeting.”“I know.”She hesitated.“Would you like me to stay nearby?”A laugh almost escaped me. Apparently, marrying Nicolai had made half of OmniCore believe I required armed protection whenever a Pierce—or Pierce-adjacent person—walked into the building.“No. I'm fine.”“Alright.”She disappeared. I exhaled before entering the conference room.Nicolai was in Clarton City with Aaron reviewing sites for OmniCore's facility expansion, which was probably the only reason Ethan had chosen today to request this meeting.Coward. Some things really didn't change. Ethan stood when I entered.“Nova.”“Mr
Contracts of Desire: The Billionaire Romance Collection Chapter 46: The Many Lies of Tanya Pierce.
Tanya—I was fucked. Completely. Utterly.Fucked.I paced across the living room of our condo, chewing the edge of my thumbnail until pain shot through my finger.“Shit!”I snatched my hand away. Think, Tanya. There had to be a way out of this. There was always a way out. For years, I'd survived by understanding one simple truth: people believed what you gave them a reason to believe.Tears made people sympathetic. A trembling voice made people protective. And pregnancy? Pregnancy made men feel responsible. At least, it had worked on Ethan. My stomach twisted. Until last night.____The Previous Evening“I hope everyone likes the roast.”I placed the platter onto the dining table with my sweetest smile. Ethan's mother, Victoria Adams, stared at it.“Lovely.”One word.No smile. After all the money I spent on this dinner! Of course I lied and said I cooked it, but so what! Beside her, her husband, Edward, lifted his wineglass.“Smells good.”“Thank you, Mr. Adams.”“Edward is fine.”Vi
Contracts of Desire: The Billionaire Romance Collection Chapter 45: The First Trial
Rosewood Medical CenterThe operating room was silent except for the steady rhythm of the monitors.Behind the observation glass, Nova stood beside Claudia and the Nano development team, her attention fixed on the patient below.Months.Months of late nights, failed simulations, recalibrations, rewritten software, toxicity studies, tissue mapping, and enough data to fill an entire server.Today, it all came down to one procedure. A thirty-six-year-old woman. One benign cyst buried inside her upper arm. And the first Nano-operated surgery in history.“Vitals stable,” a nurse announced.Gabriel Castillo stood at the operating table.“Begin Nano administration.”Nova stopped breathing. The suspension entered the patient's bloodstream. Five seconds. Ten. Twenty.Then…TARGET DETECTED.A three-dimensional image appeared across the monitors. Healthy tissue illuminated blue. The cyst glowed brilliant gold. Claudia grabbed Nova's hand.“It found it.”Nova's eyes filled.“It found it.”Below t
Contracts of Desire: The Billionaire Romance Collection Chapter 44: The Summit Announcement
Kierian-BREAKING NEWS: Medical tech company OMNICORE Announces Global Medical Innovation Summit — Company to unveil revolutionary medical development! Summit set to begin in just three months!Three months.I stared at the headline glowing across my computer screen. Three fucking months. My pulse throbbed against my temples as I reread the article.OmniCore was hosting one of the largest medical innovation summits in the world. Executives. Physicians. Scientists. Government officials. Investors. Every powerful bastard with a stake in medicine and technology would be there.And apparently, Nicolai Moreau planned to reveal the newest development from OmniCore’s secretive medical research division.Nova’s Nano project.My jaw clenched. Of course it was. Everything eventually came back to Nova fucking Pierce. A woman my father had once practically placed into my hands.Now…she belonged to Moreau. And according to my father, I had exactly three months to fix that.My office door opened.“
Contracts of Desire: The Billionaire Romance Collection Chapter 43: A Weekend For Two
Nova-“So…are you ever going to tell me where we’re going?”I lowered my book and looked across the private jet at my husband.“No.”Nicolai stared at me as my lips curled.“You know,” he said as he inched closer towards my face. “I don’t think I’ve ever had someone tell me no before.”My smile grew.“Oh, I know.”And then…he did the cutest pout. It almost made me cave.“It’s my birthday.”“Exactly. Which means you’re supposed to sit there, look handsome, and let your wife spoil you.”One dark brow rose.“Well…that too will be a first.”“What will be another first?”“Being spoiled by someone other than my family.”My breath hitched as my heart beat. My husband no idea…I planned on spoiling him for the rest of my life.Over the past few months, the nano project had consumed nearly every waking moment of our lives. I spent twelve, sometimes fourteen hours at the new facility while Nicolai bounced between OmniCore, investors, hospital partners, and project development meetings.Neither o
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