LOGINEmma Walker spent three years as the forgotten contract wife of Noah Walker, the billionaire heir of a powerful family. Their marriage was never about love. It was a transaction. But Emma gave Noah everything she had. She endured his family’s humiliation and the loneliness of loving a man who saw her only as an obligation. Until the night she discovered his betrayal with the woman he once loved. Heartbroken and done, Emma decided she would leave Noah Walker behind forever. But before she could walk away, Eleanor Walker, the powerful matriarch, made a decision that shocked everyone. Bypassing her own greedy relatives, she left Emma a multi-billion-dollar inheritance, turning the discarded wife into one of the most powerful women overnight. But Emma wants none of it. She does not want their wealth or empire. She only wants to end the contract and be free. Except Eleanor had already planned for that. Hidden inside the inheritance was a condition that binds Emma to the Walker family for five years before leaving. Five years beside Noah Walker. Five years for the man who never saw her to watch the woman he ignored become unreachable. Because the more Emma pulls away, the more Noah realizes the truth he spent years refusing to accept. The quiet wife he dismissed was the only person who truly loved him. Now Noah must fight for the woman he pushed away. But Emma has already learned the hardest lesson of all: Loving Noah Walker almost destroyed her, and she will not let it happen again. "I never wanted your family's empire," Emma said. Noah looked at the woman standing before him, no longer the wife he knew. "But now that it belongs to you," he said, "I don't know how to let you go"
View MoreNoah barely noticed the people who stepped out of his path as he stormed through the executive corridor.The leather folder was clenched tightly in his hand, his knuckles pale from the force of his grip. He was angry yes, far more angry than the situation warranted, he knew that much. But beneath the anger was something else, something he refused to examine too closely.He reached the doors to her suite and pushed them open without knocking. His jaw was set, his shoulders squared, prepared for anything.He had expected her to be pacing. He had expected to find Emma standing by the windows, fraught with anxiety, overwhelmed by the looming presence of the press outside, or perhaps quietly unraveling under the immense weight of what she had done on that staircase. He expected a woman who, deep down, was desperate for him to take the reins and fix the disaster.Instead, the room was remarkably still.Emma was seated behind the massive dark mahogany desk, the very desk that had belonged to
Helen pressed the phone to her ear, leaning against the shelves as her jaw set into a terrifying sneer.The call connected on the second ring."Veronica," Helen whispered, her voice low and menacing,"Listen to me very carefully. Emma and Eleanor are setting a trap for you. If you don't call a press conference right now and tell them Emma didn't push you, you're going to prison."There was a sharp, frantic gasp on the other end of the line. "What?! Helen, have you lost your mind? Everyone thinks she pushed me! That was the whole point! If I say she didn't—""Shut up and listen to me!" Helen snapped, her voice dropping into a sharp whisper that cut straight through Veronica's rising panic. "Eleanor has the security footage, Veronica. The raw, unedited footage. And who knows when she is going to release it to the entire board and every major news outlet in the country. They will see you throw yourself down those stairs. They will see that Emma didn't lay a single finger on you."Silence
Helen stood watching the closed door, long after Noah had gone, and in a sudden fit of violent rage, she reached out and violently backhanded a crystal paperweight off Jillian’s former desk. It shattered against the marble floor with a deafening crash, sharp glass shards exploding across the rug.Her chest heaved as she leaned against the polished wood, her hands shaking, her breath coming in ragged, ugly gasps. The calm, composed secretary was completely gone, replaced by a desperate, cornered animal.She hated Noah Walker. She hated his arrogance, his unyielding tone, and the way he treated her like a glorified errand girl. It was satisfying to know he was walking straight into a brutal confrontation with Emma, something that would hopefully tear them both down, but still it did nothing to fix the immediate problem surrounding her now.Her phone vibrated in her blazer pocket, sending a sharp jolt of panic straight through her veins.She yanked the device out, expecting another threa
Noah stood near the floor-to-ceiling windows of Jillian’s old office his hands resting loosely in the pockets of his trousers as he looked down at the resort grounds below. The office didn’t have the view of the sea but it was positioned high enough that the sprawling resort grounds stretched beneath it.It had belonged to Jillian for years, and there was traces of her everywhere. Her awards and certificates. Pictures of her deceased husband and Maya, there was even one of him when he had been much younger, perhaps ten or eleven, standing beside Jillian with an awkward smile on his face while she rested a hand proudly on his shoulder.Just as he was reminiscing about the day that the picture was taken, the heavy double doors were pushed open, and then the rhythmic sound of heels echoed against the marble floor.“Mr Walker,” Helen called out hesitantly, and he frowned immediately at the tone. He turned to her, his eyes narrowing as he took in her stiff posture and the tense expression












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