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Chapter 13- The Contract

Penulis: Ghost & Ink
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Elena’s POV

The honeymoon suite looked like it came straight out of a billionaire Pinterest board.

I stood there in my wedding dress still suffocating…..while Adrian Blackthorne poured himself a drink like he hadn’t just ruined my life in front of a thousand people.

He didn’t look tired….or nervous….or even remotely human.

He looked…Like every move was part of a bigger plan I hadn’t been allowed to read yet.

“Take a seat,” he said finally, voice low but commanding.

I crossed my arms. “If this is where you tell me I’ve been sold to a sex cult, at least let me drink first.”

He didn’t smile. “It’s not that kind of contract.”

He set a black leather folder on the glass table between us. The damn thing looked heavier than any of my dad's ledger back at home.

“Of course there’s a contract,” I muttered, sitting anyway. “You probably have one for breathing too.”

“Only when it involves someone I don’t trust.”

He opened the folder, flipping through pages of neat, lawyerly print. “Clause one: thi
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