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The lobby of DuarteTech smelled of fresh coffee and something more subtle, almost electric: the fervor of creativity in motion. As she crossed the automatic glass doors, Helena Duarte felt the residual tension from the previous day's event begin to dissipate, replaced by the familiar urgency of her own routine. She didn't use the private entrance. She liked to feel the pulse of the company, to hear the sound of keyboards and the murmur of technical discussions that were the true heart of what s
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  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 4

    Caio Moretti was not a man of temperamental outbursts; he was a man of algorithms and asphyxiation. The day after the meeting at the Jockey Club, the office of Moretti Capital became the command center for an operation that aimed not at profit, but at isolation. Caio sat in front of his screens, observing the map of DuarteTech's connections like a general surveying the supplies of a besieged city. He knew that to bring down Helena, he didn't need a frontal attack - which she had already proven capable of repelling with her rhetoric of integrity — but an invisible siege that would remove the financial oxygen from her operation.The first move was silent. Caio made three phone calls to the commercial directors of the country's largest cloud infrastructure providers. There were no explicit threats, just cordial reminders about the volume of business that Moretti Capital intended to bring to these companies in the next quarter, under the condition of a technical exclusivity that, by pure

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 3

    The private lounge of the Jockey Club of São Paulo exuded a timeless luxury: the smell of English leather, the aroma of aged tobacco, and the clink of ice in crystal glasses that cost more than the annual salary of a mid-level intern. Caio Moretti entered the room with the expression of someone carrying the weight of a crown of golden thorns. He needed that environment. He needed to be among his own, in the Iron Circle, the elite group that understood the language of conquest and the taste of hegemony.Seated around a massive oak table, his three closest friends were already waiting for him. Each of them represented a different facet of masculine power in that asphalt jungle. There was André, the heir to an agribusiness lineage who treated the country like his personal farm; Rodrigo, the financial market shark who viewed life in volatility charts; and Gustavo, the heir to a hospital network who masked his coldness with calculated philanthropy."Look who's here, the man of the hour," s

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 2

    The lobby of DuarteTech smelled of fresh coffee and something more subtle, almost electric: the fervor of creativity in motion. As she crossed the automatic glass doors, Helena Duarte felt the residual tension from the previous day's event begin to dissipate, replaced by the familiar urgency of her own routine. She didn't use the private entrance. She liked to feel the pulse of the company, to hear the sound of keyboards and the murmur of technical discussions that were the true heart of what she had built. However, that morning, the silence that followed her passage was different. It was a silence laden with expectation and, in some corners, an undisguised fear.She went up to the mezzanine, where the development team and the board of directors were already waiting for her. The environment was open, far from the oak and marble rooms of Caio Moretti's empire. Here, transparency wasn't just a word in an institutional brochure; it was the architecture of the place. Helena stopped in fro

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 1

    The reflection in the smoked glass of the fiftieth floor on Avenida Faria Lima showed not just a man, but a monument to efficiency. Caio Moretti adjusted the knot of his Italian silk tie with the precision of a surgeon. For him, São Paulo was not a city; it was a chessboard where the pieces were made of asphalt, steel, and ambition. The limited-edition watch on his wrist kept time with the metropolis below—a human anthill that he, from the heights of his empire, believed he controlled with a simple snap of his fingers or a nine-figure bank transfer. He saw himself as the architect of other people’s destinies, a man who had learned early that the world was divided between those who gave orders and those who received them for lack of financial breath.The morning had begun with performance reports that would make any investor weep with gratitude. The Moretti Group was in its most aggressive phase, spreading its tentacles across sectors ranging from logistics to data intelligence. The mi

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Chapter 30

    Milan maintained its frenetic pulse as the capital of steel and fashion, but for Lorenzo and Sofia Moretti, the city now operated on a frequency they themselves had composed. One year after the “eternal yes” on the waters of Lake Como, the Moretti Tower had ceased to be a monument to one man’s isolation and had become the epicenter of a new industrial and cultural era. The thirtieth floor, once an opaque glass bunker, now reflected the light of a partnership that Milan had learned to respect—and secretly envy.The balance of power was evident in the new configuration of the executive office. There was no longer a single ebony desk dominating the space, but two, integrated by a shared consultation area where the projects of the Holding and the restorations of the Foundation merged in perfect symmetry. Leading together, they had proven that efficiency did not need to be sterile. Lorenzo maintained his implacable discipline, but now it was tempered by Sofia’s humanistic vision. Under the

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Chapter 29

    The waters of Lake Como reflected such a deep blue that they seemed to merge with the sky over Lombardy, creating a setting of almost unreal serenity for the event Milan had awaited for months. At Villa d'Este, where European aristocracy and financial power gathered beneath stone terraces and hanging gardens, the air was filled with the scent of thousands of white gardenias and the soft sound of a chamber orchestra drifting on the breeze. That afternoon, there was no sharp edge of corporate strategy or the shadow of ironclad clauses. What the European elite witnessed was the canonization of a passion that had survived fire and betrayal to become the new law of the Moretti empire.Sofia Duarte Moretti gazed at her reflection in the gold-framed mirror of the bridal suite. The dress, a haute couture masterpiece in Calais lace and pure silk, embraced her body like a second skin, its train extending across the floor like a promise of eternity. Unlike the first “yes,” spoken in a cold offic

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