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Elara Hayes had no idea that one night her life would end. Elara is forced into a contract marriage with Alessandro De Luca, the cold, ruthless CEO of a global empire, after being betrayed by her fiancé, burdened by the crushing debts of her family, and cornered by circumstances she can no longer escape. Their marriage is a calculated alliance to the outside world. Alessandro views it as a business arrangement designed to safeguard his position and silence internal threats. It is a cage that Elara never asked to enter. Elara is obligated to learn how to survive in Alessandro's perilous world, which is ruled by power, secrets, and enemies hidden behind polished smiles, and is bound by a contract with strict rules and an even stricter expiration date. She discovers that the man she married is far more complicated than his icy reputation suggests as she struggles to protect her family and maintain her independence. Despite the fact that Alessandro is in charge, guarded, and emotionally untouchable, his focus on Elara grows dangerously intense. What initially appears to be forced proximity gradually develops into an unspoken tension that neither of them is willing to admit. However, secrets do not remain hidden forever. Elara is forced to reevaluate everything, including her marriage, her own heart, and her safety, as resurfaced betrayals and hidden enemies draw near. Additionally, she must make a decision when she discovers information that could cost her everything and bring down Alessandro's empire: When the contract expires, will she terminate it? or put her heart at risk for a man she never intended to love? There are rules in the contract. However, love was not one of them.
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MARRIED TO THE CEO BY CONTRACT Chapter 35—When Silence Is Treated as Strategy
The moment arrived without ceremony.No warning.No buildup.Just an alert—sharp, insistent—on Elara’s phone as she stood in the hallway outside her office.URGENT PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT — TODAY 18:00 GMTSubject: Governance, Accountability, and Emerging Power StructuresHer name was listed.So was Alessandro’s.Elara stared at the screen for a long second longer than necessary.This was not an invitation.It was containment.Isabelle found her minutes later, breath tight but controlled.“They’ve moved the timeline,” she said. “This was supposed to be next month.”“They want a reaction,” Elara replied calmly.“Yes,” Isabelle said. “And they want contrast.”Elara nodded.Contrast required definition.Definition required simplification.Neither served the truth.“They’ll push us to clarify,” Isabelle continued. “To deny or confirm influence. To define each other.”Elara finally looked up.“We won’t,” she said.Isabelle studied her. “Then you need to be prepared for what silence will be inte
Última actualización : 2026-02-03MARRIED TO THE CEO BY CONTRACT Chapter 34—When Refusal Makes Noise
Elara did not announce her decision.She simply acted.The Global Ethics Forum released their statement at noon, polished and carefully neutral. It praised her “principled engagement” and expressed “mutual respect” for her choice to remain independent.What it did not mention was the rotating council.What it did not mention was decentralisation.By evening, interpretation had already begun.Headlines softened the truth into something more digestible.ELARA VOSS DECLINES PERMANENT ROLE — FUTURE COLLABORATION UNCLEARINDEPENDENT THINKER OR MISSED OPPORTUNITY?Elara read none of them.She felt the shift instead.It arrived in the tone of emails that grew slightly cooler. In invitations that arrived with caveats. In conversations that paused just long enough for her to notice the recalibration.This was the cost of refusing consolidation.You remained visible but unprotected.At the institute, Isabelle watched the numbers quietly.“They’re testing you,” she said. “Waiting to see if you’l
Última actualización : 2026-02-02MARRIED TO THE CEO BY CONTRACT Chapter 33—When Leadership Has No Name
The gathering Margaret Hale convened did not repeat itself.That, Elara realised quickly, was intentional.No follow-up emails.No proposed dates.No shared documents.Whatever had happened in that room was meant to stand on its own—contained, unreplicable, unleveraged.Yet its aftereffects arrived quietly.Two days later, Elara received an inquiry from a regulatory body that had previously dismissed her institute as “conceptual”. A request for consultation followed, narrow in scope but real.The day after that, a university ethics council asked whether she would consider serving as an external advisor.No branding.No funding.Just trust—tentative, but offered.She began to understand what Margaret Hale had meant by alignment.It wasn’t about building something new.It was about revealing who had already been waiting.Elara worked late into the night, drafting frameworks that resisted simplification. She refused slogans. She refused urgency where none existed.When Isabelle cautioned
Última actualización : 2026-02-02MARRIED TO THE CEO BY CONTRACT Chapter 32—The Exit That Leaves No Debris
Alessandro’s exit was announced on Thursday.Not the end of the week.Not the end of the quarter.Just early enough to control the narrative and late enough to prevent discussion.Elara was in Berlin when the notification came through. She was walking between buildings, coat pulled tight against the wind, when her phone vibrated once. She stopped without thinking, standing just off the kerb as bicycles rushed past her.De Luca Holdings Confirms Leadership TransitionShe didn’t open it immediately.She already knew how it would read.Following a period of strategic review, Alessandro de Luca has mutually agreed to step down as CEO, effective immediately. The board thanks him for his years of service and wishes him success in future endeavours.Mutually agreed.The phrase felt almost tender in its dishonesty.Elara crossed the street and entered the café she’d been heading toward anyway. She ordered coffee she didn’t want and sat near the window, hands wrapped around the cup, eyes unfoc
Última actualización : 2026-02-01
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