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CHAPTER 7: THE HEADLINE
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2026-08-17 18:36:49
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Married to the Billionaire's Lie CHAPTER 8: THE CONFRONTATION
Mira didn't sleep.She lay in the dark, replaying the text until the words stopped making sense. Until it stopped becoming words at all.Ask him what HRW stands for. Ask him before it's too late.She read the text so many times. To the point that she could recite it without even looking at it. This was at four in the morning.She was dressed by five.She was already outside his building by six. An untouched coffee in her hand, getting ready to go inside.Mira didn't bother to call ahead. She didn't even text.Her gut told her that giving him a warning would only give him time to prepare an answer instead of the truth.Adrian was already in the lobby as soon as she went in. Like he'd been expecting her."You got a text," he said. It was not a question."How did you know that?""Because I've been waiting for three days for you to get one."Mira felt cold; her stomach turned. "You knew this was going to happen.""I had my suspicions." Adrian guided Mira toward a private elevator, away fr
Married to the Billionaire's Lie CHAPTER 7: THE HEADLINE
Adrian called at seven the next morning. His voice sounded rough in a way that didn't have anything to do with sleep."I need to talk to you. I need to tell you something before you see it online."Mira's stomach dropped at this early news. She didn't sleep well because her brain went into overdrive, thinking about their canceled dinner and the silence that followed that night. Her mind went over things that may have gone wrong, what she may have said or how she may have said it.None of the scenarios she conjured prepared her for what came next."See what?" she asked."There's a photo that someone got. Where we were on the terrace, not the press release photo from the gala...""Someone got close enough to catch the kiss... Now it's already everywhere." He explained as softly as possible.She got up immediately, forgetting she needed coffee, and opened her laptop. The headline was glaring even before the image finished loading.Calloway's Ice-Cold CEO Caught KISSING His "Fake" Date —
Married to the Billionaire's Lie CHAPTER 6: THE MORNING AFTER
Mira woke up. She could still taste the champagne she didn't finish last night.And the kiss she very much had.She laid in bed for a full ten minutes, trying not to think about last night and failing miserably. She remembered the charity dinner. The string quartet.Most of all, she remembers Adrian's hand finding hers under the countdown of music neither of them realized.On the way home, she kept telling herself it was adrenaline. The dangers of being so near each other.She didn't believe herself one bit.She started to make coffee, but her phone buzzing beat her to the punch. It was Adrian, a single line:"Are you alright?"He didn't ask are we okay. Not even what does this mean.It was Adrian asking her, just her. First, before anything else."I'm fine." She started typing it into her phone but decided to delete it. She then typed:"I'm still deciding if we broke clause nine or completely obliterated it..."His reply came in so fast that she could imagine him smiling at his phone
Married to the Billionaire's Lie CHAPTER 5: THE ALMOST
Their photo ran everywhere by Monday.COLE'S HEART (AND HIS STOCK) ARE BOTH RISING — Insiders Say This Wedding Planner Has Him Completely SmittenMira choked on her coffee while reading the headline. Bea called her within the hour."Congratulations, you're famous.""I'm a contractor.""Not according to T*****r."Adrian's stock climbed four points by noon. This was more than the entire "engineered gala" planned to recover in the first place.Because of this, Adrian's PR team wanted a second appearance. A charity dinner. In two weeks.Adrian called Mira that night. His tone and voice were careful, a little too careful."It worked. Much better than anyone expected.""Congratulations. Your stock is recovering. And apparently I'm your girlfriend according to three different gossip sites.""I noticed. I'm sorry.""Don't be. It's the job," Mira said. A little too fast, and they both heard it."Is it?" Adrian paused longer than usual. "That moment on the terrace, Mira, it didn't feel like a jo
Married to the Billionaire's Lie CHAPTER 4: THE GALA
The gala felt like hitting a wall with all the noise, lights and a hundred eyes doing the math as soon as she and Adrian entered."Smile. Don't stay too long at the bar. Don't let your glass go empty or else someone will refill that with more champagne and their opinion about the evening."This was Mira's mental note that she kept repeating for the evening."You're really good at that, you know?" Adrian murmured against her ear. His hand was warm at the small of her back."Good at what?""Reading the room. Like you already know where everyone should be seated and grouped.""Sorry, force of habit."Mira saw a board member intently watching them from across the room. The way he stared at them was how someone would be doing the math to a contract deal."That one thinks I'm after your money.""He's not often wrong."Adrian moved with Mira in the direction of the man instead of steering away."Harold," Adrian addressed the man. "This is Mira Santos, she's the reason why I have not unravele
Married to the Billionaire's Lie CHAPTER 3: THE CONTRACT
The courier brought the contract the next day, thick as a novel and twice as humorless.Clause 4: No discussing past relationshipsClause 7: Pre-approved dinner topics attached in Appendix C.Clause 8: Forty-eight hours exit clause. No penalty, no explanation required.Mira was glad that clause was in the contract. She had to read that twice, it oddly gave her a sense of relief. That she had an out even though she had no plans of using it.Clause 9 ……..Mira read that clause three times…Hand-holding is permitted for photographic purposes only. No other contact may ensue without separate written consent.Mira called Adrian."Clause nine," she immediately said the second he picked up the phone."Problem already with the terms?""You have a legal clause about hand-holding?""I have a legal clause about everything.""That wasn't a no.""It wasn't a yes, either." There was a pause on the line, the sound of slow pacing could be heard on his end of the line."Is it excessive?""It's thoroug
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