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THE CEO'S DEFIANT BRIDE

THE CEO'S DEFIANT BRIDE

Romance
last updateTerakhir Diperbarui : 2023-10-01
Oleh:  Queen jasmineOngoing
Bahasa: English
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Sinopsis

Naya is twenty one and is waiting for her twenty second birthday where she gets her trust fund left by her grandmother, grandma Millie, so she can finally leave her authoritarian father and start her life without him dictating it. but to her greatest shock her father wants her married as a way to seal a merger deal with the Carters, she wants to leave but her father threatens to expose her alcoholic mother, so she has to marry the asshole and wait until she's twenty two which is in eight months, get her trust funds, divorce him and take her mother away and live her life the way she wants it. William James Carter is the CEO of the Carter shipping empire and Is listed as one of Forbes most eligible bachelor, but when his grandfather tells him he is to marry Naya, a girl he's never heard about and no pictures of her whatsoever, he refuses because he has a girlfriend Suzanne Pierce, who his grandfather finds lacking and now his grandfather threatens to disinherit him and give the CEO position to his cousin if he refuses to marry Naya Carrington, he has to agree, now he is saddled with a wife who hates him for ruining her plans. But when romance blooms between the two of them, they both fight the dangers, lies and betrayals that surrounded them.

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Flower spirit
Flower spirit
Great story so far, I hope updates will be constant. ...
2023-07-21 13:31:25
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Anggel
Anggel
so awesome I love this
2023-06-29 00:03:38
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Favour Wright
Favour Wright
okay just a little bit of editing and it'll be perfect. Very interesting book. waiting for more updates
2023-07-21 21:08:00
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Fee Fee
Fee Fee
has potential! Gave it nine because of the punctuation
2023-07-20 02:51:14
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Phoenix God
Phoenix God
This is so good. Quite thrilling if you ask me. Good job author
2023-07-22 02:41:46
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Chapter One
CHAPTER ONE NAYA'S POV Two knocks distract me from the game I was playing, I remove my headset as Lita the head maid of my family walked in to my room "Miss Carrington, dinner's ready" I smile and nodded "Oh, thank you Lita" I turned off the computer and was about to follow her out but she stops me "Won't you change Miss?" I rolled my eyes at her "Why should I ?, I'm having dinner in my home, or is there any guest coming over?" She shook her head, "No Miss, but your father's home, and you know how he is...," She trailed off But I smiled, she knew better, that this was one of the little ways I rebel against him and his ways of living like a perfect family, like we are in a reality show. "That's every reason I should go like this don't you agree ?" I smirked and she smiled back at me. We walked down to the dinning room and the aroma of different delicacies filled my nostrils, the maids scampared around putting all what the head cook prepared on the table, my mother was se
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Chapter Two
CHAPTER TWOWILLIAM'S POVThe echoes of my steps as I walked filled the hallway that leads to my grandfather's study, he had invited me over earlier today asking me to come over, it may seem strange but ever since I took over as CEO, James Carter senior rarely asked for a private meeting, yes we have our grandfather and grandson time whenever I come over for dinner, where we have a chat over his expensive collection of whiskey, but that's mostly business talk and also his secretary gives him his weekly reports and I always send him mails also.A single knock on the thick mahogany door and a gruff come in from inside.I pushed the door open and he was seated across the table on his vintage swivel chair, his shiny silver hair snatching my attention for a minute, although his eyes were bright and gleaming, one cannot miss the wrinkles that had formed on the eyelids and his wrist, but I'm sure he was beaming with energy, at seventy six, he does what most men his age would have given up on
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Chapter Three
WILLIAM'S POVI stared at the information my PI had gotten about her, 'She's just twenty one ' I mused, I'm sure she's a spoiled brat who gets everything she wants, grandpa outdone himself, he wants me to get married to a brat.Once again I glance at the files sprawled out on my desk, I took the photo which was in one of the files, sunset orange hair cascaded down her head,with freckles scattered all over her nose and around her face, and full lips put in a smirk but one thing that caught my attention was her eyes, emerald green eyes, as green as a forest, stare right back at me, even in this photo you could see the defiance in them.I kept the photo and glanced over the Information again, but this time I was impressed with the amount of information the PI could get about my soon to be wife, seeing that she's not always in the public eye, and I wonder why, her father, the man who insists that for the merger to go on, I must marry his daughter, was in every tabloid news as a lousy bu
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Chapter Four
NAYA'S POVI am so angry, I was stood up, I was stood up by that fuvking asshole, does he thinks I want this, to be married to him.I knew today would be eventful because this morning I woke up to many notifications from my Facebook, most of which were my highschool classmates friends request and most of these were people who never said a word to me at all in school, they were now been too sweet and friendly which was nauseating and that's when I knew something was off, I could only confirm when Aliyah called me to tell me that some bloggers announced my engagement with the CEO of Carter incorporated and boy was I shocked, It was just two days ago I heard about this, she sent me the link to the bloggers page and the most viewed blog was about my engagement, but it was the caption that got me.*CEO of Carter incorporated engaged to the heiress of Carrington's winery* who is the heiress?, Me?, My father would rather give out the company to strangers than name me as his heiress, and why
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Chapter Five
NAYA'S POVI may be doing this just to satisfy my love for vengeance, but honestly, he deserves this.William Carter is an asshole, he wants to apologize but why is he acting like he was forced to, he wants us to meet, but his secretary was the one who emailed me the venue, and when he would arrive and how many hours the date should take as he was a busy man and he has other businesses to attend to. What a snobThis pissed me off, why do I need to fit into his schedule, if he was so busy why ask us to meet even.I may have decided to take my sweet time in dressing up, well that was because I didn't know what to wear, and there was no stylist to help me, but I had Penny and Merry helped me, They were Lita's daughters and were my friends since there were the only two closer to my age, after rummaging through my wardrobe we finally came up with something, a black sanquine Balenciaga's off the shoulder body con dress that fit tightly, and an Alexander McQueen knee high boot, Merry was goo
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Chapter Six
NAYA'S POVLooking out the window , inhaling deeply, the sweet smell of cinnamons and jasmine filled my nostrils, I just couldn't help but smile 'its not everyday one gets married, to a total stranger at most 'The room was filling up, the hair stylist was done with my hair and the wedding planner was scolding the makeup artist for being one minute late and that was because she missed the venue, and for one I'm grateful, that one full minute got me to think if I was doing the right thing, if I shouldn't just make a run out of this jumbo madness, I could just put on a mask and leave this place, after today I will be spending the rest of my life with a man I only know through the info that was given by Aliyah, but I couldn't do it, If I do so my mother will suffer the consequences, and with the situation now I can't take her away."It's less than a year, just eight months from now" I muttered to myselfThis has been my source of motivation to do this, if I get married I'm not under my
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Chapter Seven
CHAPTER SEVENWILLIAM'S POVIt was a long night indeed. I've been awake for four hours now, firstly it's my body clock, secondly because of this red head whose body is sprawled over mine, her walls she had put together had been thrown away by her in the middle of the night in her sleep. I stare at her bare face, I realized Naya was one lovely girl, yesterday at the wedding she looked like an angel walking on clouds as she walked very slow down the aisle with her father, and when her father placed her hands on mine, she glared at me that I'm sure the officiating priest felt the extent of her ire, but I didn't care, I've come this far so we got to finish it and know what else fate got in stock for us, then it was time to repeat our vows and I swear I could swear she repeated a different vow, because with each words her eyes was flickering, then I repeated my own vows and it was time to kiss the bride, she glared furiously and even ask me not to dare, I guess she said the wrong word ca
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Chapter Eight
NAYA'S POVThe driver drove into the Carter estate and I couldn't believe how big it was. As we drove past the gates we passed a stable and an orchard, not to mention the main building, it looked magnificent.As we came down, his grandmother was waiting for us, she looked so young and beautiful with her silver hair and wide smile and she was very nice, She welcomed me with a warm smile and a hug, and then introduced me to everyone, his Aunt Lucia and her husband, his cousin Ezekiel who was really creepy, instead of the normal handshake, he kissed my hands, that was so gross, I wiped it off on my pants, and then there was William's sister, Sarah, I swore I could have mistaken her glare as passing, but not the way she responded to me curtly.have we met before, why so rude.Although I met this people briefly at the wedding yesterday, but I never had any kind of conversation with them, it was just my father who interacted with them.My mouth watered and I swallowed when the maids brought
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Chapter Nine
WILLIAM'S POVI was jet lagged and exhausted from the flight, from the wedding and today I've not had a full day rest. I wasn't really excited about this but I couldn't say the same for Naya, she was bustling with energy, like she wasn't forced to be in a plane for twelve hours coming here, throughout the flight she kept herself busy with her laptop and when she got bored, she forced me to play a game of chess with her, I consider myself to be good at chess, but she definitely is a grandmaster, out of the nine times we played, I only won once, and with the gleam in her eyes, I knew she just let me win so I should continue playing, it was humiliating.At the car, Naya watched everything go by like a child excited about her first camping trip, she was awed and fascinated with everything she saw and kept on asking questions. Finally we arrived at the beach house, the housekeeper who has kept the place running for years, Mrs Korinthos, welcomed us."Para Kalos, young master" she greete
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Chapter Ten
NAYA'S POVThe beauty of Athens was incomparable to the pictures I had seen and to what I've heard about it.William had everything organized, we first went for a tour around Acropolis, then we visited the food market, where we tasted so many different dishes and I so love Greek foods now, next we visited the museum, at the museum William explained every story of each of the gods statue we saw, the tour guide got embarrassed at that, because William had so much knowledge, and then frowned at him because he was ruining his job, after that we visited Olympus, and I've been excited to see the place since the tour started, it was the cherry on top, there was a room where we dressed like the ancient Greeks and took pictures too, I had so much fun and so did William, in all the pictures we took he had a beautiful smile in them.I didn't want to leave Athens, but it was time to go back and I was sulking in the flight back to Santorini."Don't worry, the fun hasn't end yet" Williams voice s
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