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One Year as Mrs.Carusso

One Year as Mrs.Carusso

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last updateLast Updated : 2026-09-28
By:  LollipopOngoing
Language: English
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First-Person POV

Heir/Heirness

Contract Marriage

Megan Valtz has spent her whole life paying for a debt that isn't even hers -one tied to her father's death. One that never seems to shrink no matter how much she and her mother sacrifice. When debt collectors show up at their small shop threatening arrest, and the shock sends her mother collapsing to the floor, a cold, a powerful stranger is the only reason it doesn't end in tragedy. She doesn't even catch his name, just his credit card, left behind in the chaos - and when her mother needs emergency surgery she can't afford, Megan makes a decision she can't take back. The card belongs to Arian Carussa, billionaire CEO of Z Corporation, and using it without permission is fraud. He has every right to destroy her for it. Instead, he makes her an offer: marry him for one year, and the debt, the fraud and the mess her life has become all disappear. In exchange, she becomes the wife the board needs to see, before he is forced out of the company. It's supposed to be paper work, nothing more. But a shared roof, a rushed wedding, and secrets neither of them saw coming have a way of turning "fake" into something neither of them can walk away from - especially when they discover the people who ruined Megan's family were never who they thought they were.

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13 Chapters
CHAPTER 1
Megan's POVThe shop was my mother's dream long before it became our only chance of surviving. Three plastic tables, a counter that had seen better days, and a sign hanging above the door still reading Vanessa's Kitchen in peeling paint made for the perfect setup. We made sandwiches, coffee, whatever the people needed to get them through their journey to work — being right on the road leading up to Z Corporation ensured that we never ran out of customers. Suits came by every morning like clockwork, phones to their ears, not even looking up as they ordered and dropped exact change onto the counter, and it wasn't much, but it was ours, and most mornings, it was enough.I was behind the counter that morning, wiping a mug clean, somewhat listening to my mother hum as she flipped bread onto the small grill it had been set up on, when the bell above the door rang, harder than it should have.Two men walked in like they owned the place, and I recognized one of them immediately — the taller o
last updateLast Updated : 2026-09-07
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CHAPTER TWO
Arian's POVI was ten minutes late by the time I returned to my car.The chaos of the shop — the screams, the woman on the floor, the two men who regarded me as if I'd just wandered into an intimate conversation — lingered long enough in my mind that I almost expected to see them waiting when I returned. I didn't know why I'd stopped. My car had been caught in the commotion, true, but I could have waited it out from the back seat. It was what I'd done countless times before for other inconveniences of the city. Instead, I had gotten out.I told myself it was efficiency. A blocked street wasted time, and I hated wasting time. It was the only explanation I could think of, one I repeated to myself over and over again on the drive to the office until I almost believed it. And yet, somehow, the image of her, on her knees, shaking, refusing to give in to the two burly men towering over her, haunted the recesses of my mind every time the road ahead required me to slow down.By the time I wal
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CHAPTER 3
Megan's POVThe hospital wasted no time informing us of the news that we already feared. My mother needed surgery; her heart, the doctors said, had a blockage that had been building for years, waiting for precisely the type of shock that she had been put through that morning to finally announce itself.I sat in the hallway outside her room for a long while after they told me, staring at nothing, running the math in my head over and over again, no matter how many times it came out the same. We didn't have it. Not close to it. Every last coin we had ever managed to find was swallowed up by a debt that seemed to never shrink no matter how much we fed it.I don't remember deciding to reach into my bag. I remember only that my fingers found the card first — the one I'd shoved in there absentmindedly, still meaning to return it to whoever it belonged to once things had settled down.Mr. Arian Carusso.I turned it over twice, reading his name printed there in neat, embossed letters, feeling
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CHAPTER FOUR
Arian's POVShe arrived at precisely nine in the morning the following day, which I acknowledged with an unusual degree of satisfaction. Whatever else Megan Valtz was, she wasn't a waste of time.I heard her story before I saw her. Killian gave me a call from the floor below, his voice a mixture of amusement and caution."There's a young woman at the reception requesting to meet with you," he said. "The security was not going to let it pass through the front desk — she did not look like she belonged there, for starters, and she did not give up the company's name or reference an appointment.""Let her up," I said. "Now."There was a pause on the other end of the phone, as if he wanted to ask something and then changed his mind. "Understood."A few minutes later, my office door opened, and I watched Megan Valtz stroll in, dismissing a visibly confused assistant who hadn't been told more than to let her pass. She didn't look the part of a successful businesswoman — jeans and a jacket tha
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CHAPTER FIVE
Megan's POVI had two days to prepare for a wedding, which meant I had no time to process that I was getting married.The two days passed in a strange, quick and slow manner both. Arian's assistant, a brisk, unreadable woman called Priya, handled everything. The venue, a small private hall attached to one of the Carusso family's properties. The dress, handed to us at the shop the morning it arrived, still in its garment bag, my mother running her hands over the fabric like she was barely believing it was real. The guest list, which Priya informed me would be "immediate family and essential witnesses only," which I learned meant precisely six people.I spent most of those two days lying awake at night, staring at my ceiling, going through everything that had happened since the morning those men walked into our shop — my mother collapsing, the ambulance, the credit card, the confrontation, the contract, and now this. It didn't feel real. None of it felt real, not even now, with the dres
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CHAPTER SIX
Megan's POVThe mansion was larger than any of the residences we had passed, and somehow that made it feel less like home, and more the place where the Carusso family kept their prized personal collection."Your room is this way, ma'am," one of the maids said, leading me down another long corridor, which ended in a door. She opened it to reveal a large bedroom, the size of which was at least double that of our apartment back in London, with one lone bed occupying the center. "If you need anything, you just call for Dorothy," she said, gesturing to herself. "That is me." She left before I could respond, and I stood in the doorway, staring at the lone bed until Arian's voice came from behind me."There is only one bed," I said, turning to face him. "We agreed to have separate rooms. It is written in the contract.""I am aware of the terms of our agreement," Said Arian, unperturbed, as he loosened his tie. "The staff here is under the impression that married couples share a bed. I did no
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CHAPTER SEVEN
Arian's POVThe boardroom was already filled with people when I got there with Megan by my side, and the look on their faces when we entered told me everything. The conversations stopped, the chairs were all angled forward, and a dozen pairs of eyes were doing the math as to exactly how soon I managed to find a wife."Everyone," I said, taking my usual seat at the head of the table. "This is my wife, Megan."We got the polite greetings out of the way. Megan sat down next to me, her spine straight and hands clasped together. It was the same calm expression I'd seen on her face the day she sat across my desk and calmly laid out her own terms before she agreed to sign anything.The meeting started off fine for the first twenty minutes - reports, projections, the same business I could talk about in my sleep while Killian presented, and I interjected every time a discussion took a wrong turn. For a while, it was almost business as usual, with the only difference being that Megan was sittin
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CHAPTER EIGHT
Megan's POVI found the place by accident, three days into a life that was starting to feel less like mine with every passing hour.It was a small community kitchen tucked between a laundromat and a flower shop, the kind of place that rented out counter space and ovens by the hour to anyone who needed them. I'd wandered in on a whim, restless after another silent dinner and another night alone in a bed too big for one person, aching for something that felt like it belonged to me instead of to the Carusso name.Baking had always done that for me. Flour on my hands, something rising in an oven, the particular quiet of measuring and waiting — it was the one thing that still felt exactly the same as it had before any of this happened.I was elbow-deep in dough when I noticed the woman at the station beside mine, humming quietly to herself over a tray of what looked like cinnamon rolls, flour dusted across one cheek like she hadn't noticed it was there.She was already elbow-deep in her ow
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CHAPTER NINE
Megan's POVThe house had been different all day, and I felt it before anyone said a word to me about why.The staff moved faster than usual, polishing surfaces that were already spotless, arranging flowers in the dining room with the kind of care I hadn't seen them give anything since the wedding itself. Dorothy kept glancing at me throughout the afternoon with something that looked uncomfortably close to pity, though every time I caught her at it, she busied herself with something else before I could ask why.It was Arian who finally told me, an hour before dinner, standing stiffly in the doorway of my room like the words cost him something to say."Chloe's joining us tonight," he said. "I should have told you sooner. I'm telling you now."I already knew the name. I'd heard it in a hallway weeks ago, hushed and careful, a name the staff weren't supposed to say out loud. Hearing it now, finally attached to a face I hadn't seen yet, made my stomach drop in a way I wasn't prepared for.
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CHAPTER TEN
Arian's POVChloe's hand didn't move from my chest even after I made it clear I wanted it gone."You can stop performing now," she said quietly, once Megan had disappeared back toward the dining room. "I know this marriage isn't real, Arian. Did you really think you could hide something like that from me?"I kept my voice even, though something cold was already settling into my chest. "I don't know what you think you know.""Please." She let out a short laugh, stepping back just enough to study my face, clearly enjoying whatever she saw there. "A contract wife, married within a week of some sudden emergency, the board suddenly satisfied overnight? You've never once in your life done anything that fast unless you were solving a problem, not falling in love." She tilted her head, smiling in a way that used to almost work on me, years ago, before I'd learned exactly what was underneath it. "I know you, Arian. Better than you'd like."I thought about denying it outright, running through t
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