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Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 7

Author: Janne Vellamour
last update publish date: 2026-03-04 02:47:31

Caio Moretti’s office, plunged into the dimness of the early São Paulo morning, was the perfect setting for the ghosts he tried to bury beneath stacks of financial reports. He swiveled his chair toward the window, gazing at the wet asphalt below, but his mind was not in the present. The scent of the whiskey in his glass—a expensive, smoky single malt—suddenly transported him to an oak-paneled library nearly thirty years earlier. The smell of old paper and the muffled sound of an argument in the
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  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 24

    The frenetic noise of the auditorium, with its blinding lights and the muffled voices of investors, seemed to silence instantly when the door to Helena's private dressing room closed. She was facing away, still feeling the adrenaline from the panel pulsing under her skin, when she heard the soft sound of Caio's breathing in the hallway. She didn't need to turn around to know he was there; his presence now had a different signature, less like a military siege and more like a contained gravity."Helena," his voice sounded low, stripped of any oratorical artifice. "Do you have a minute for the man who didn't come to propose a merger?"She turned slowly. Caio remained at the threshold of the door, his hands in the pockets of his jacket, maintaining a distance that not only respected her physical space but acknowledged the emotional boundary he himself had helped to build. He seemed vulnerable, a word Helena never thought she would associate with the CEO of Moretti Capital. It wasn't the v

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 23

    The Grand Auditorium of the WTC in São Paulo pulsed with the metallic vibration of an ecosystem renewing itself. Months had passed since the names of Caio Moretti and Helena Duarte had made headlines for diametrically opposite reasons: he, the protagonist of an unprecedented corporate purge; she, the phoenix who had vanished into the shadows only to reemerge with a technology that was rendering half of the continent’s security infrastructure obsolete. The International Forum on Cybersecurity was the perfect stage for the closing of a cycle of silence.Helena stood backstage, adjusting her lapel microphone. She wore a sharply tailored suit in deep gunmetal gray, and her hair fell loose in natural waves that softened the severity of her expression. She was no longer the cornered CEO defending a building in Vila Olímpia; she was the architect of Duarte Phoenix, a woman who had learned to operate without the weight of traditional structures. Her time in Minas had left her with a calmer ga

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 22

    In the following weeks, the headquarters of Moretti Capital became the epicenter of a purge that the financial market watched with a mixture of astonishment and dread. Caio Moretti, the man who had always been the architect of aggressive expansion, had transformed into the executioner of his own structure. He didn’t schedule meetings; he carried out sentences. The “Power Cleanse,” as it came to be called in the whispers of the corridors, began in the Special Operations and Strategic Partnerships sector. Armed with the evidence that Helena had, ironically, helped him see without knowing it, Caio sat at the head of the boardroom table with the coldness of a judge who no longer sought explanations, only the enforcement of the sentence.“André, you have five minutes to gather what’s left of your dignity and get out of this building,” Caio said, his voice stripped of the usual warmth of their boisterous friendship. “Your accounts have been frozen preventively for auditing. Every fake invoi

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 21

    The silence that followed his friends’ departure didn’t bring the intended peace, but an oppressive weight that seemed to pulse against the glass walls of Moretti Capital. Caio was alone, confronted with the residue of his own immaturity, but the real fall was still to come. He sought refuge in work, diving into the internal audit logs of the Special Operations division—the operational arm he had authorized to “be aggressive” with DuarteTech. In his mind, he expected to find market-pressure spreadsheets, records of bank lobbying, and legal strangulation maneuvers. What he found instead was the stench of a cursed empire.Seated at the high-priority security terminal, Caio began deciphering a series of encrypted communications that should never have been there. They were messages exchanged between his logistics director and a network of shadowy customs brokers operating out of the Port of Santos. As the lines of code translated into words, Caio’s stomach churned. His subordinates hadn’t

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 20

    The silence in the penthouse on Avenida Faria Lima was absolute, broken only by the metallic clink of ice cubes against the walls of a crystal glass. Caio Moretti sat in his leather armchair, but he wasn’t watching the financial indicators flashing on his monitors. His eyes were fixed on the trash in the room, where the torn pieces of the merger contract—the document he had believed would be the final link in his victory—lay like confetti from a funeral. He had sent flowers, sent billions in guarantees, and finally sent his lawyers. Nothing had worked. Helena Duarte had simply vanished from the map, leaving behind an empty corporate skeleton and a void in Caio’s chest that no acquisition could fill.He felt like a king in a sandcastle that the tide had begun to lap at. Money, his master tool, had proven useless against absence. He could buy every server DuarteTech owned, bribe every supplier, but he could not buy the sound of Helena’s voice challenging his authority. The loneliness he

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 19

    The asphalt of the Rodovia dos Bandeirantes looked like a river of rubber under the headlights of Helena’s SUV as it sliced through the early morning hours toward the interior. In the rearview mirror, the skyline of São Paulo—that jumble of glass towers and inflated egos—shrank until it became nothing more than a faint glow on the horizon. Behind her she left what remained of DuarteTech: an office with the lights turned off, servers running at their limits, and a team she herself had dismissed with the pain of someone amputating their own arm to save the rest of the body. Caio Moretti’s siege, after the rejection of the merger contract, had turned into scorched-earth bombardment. In less than forty-eight hours, credit lines had been pulverized, patents blocked by aggressive injunctions, and government contracts suspended under baseless suspicions of technical irregularities.Helena felt the weight of ashes on her shoulders. She had watched her life dismantled with a surgical efficienc

  • 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 isol

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-28

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Chapter 24

    The emotional conflict unleashed by Alberto's betrayal had left a residual electricity in the penthouse, a tension that conventional methods of comfort could not dissipate. For Lorenzo and Sofia, power had never been merely a tool of work; it was the language they both spoke with absolute fluency.

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-25

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Chapter 26

    The sterile environment of the San Raffaele Hospital, with its antiseptic air and fluorescent lights that never dimmed, had become Lorenzo Moretti’s new headquarters. But for the first time in his career, productivity reports and international mergers no longer crossed his desk. In fact, Lorenzo ha

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-26

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Chapter 25

    The day in Milan had begun under the sign of celebration, but fate, indifferent to human triumphs, had reserved a twist stained in scarlet. The ceremony awarding the Prize for Excellence in Restoration, held in the white marble foyer of the foundation’s new headquarters, marked the pinnacle of Sofi

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-26
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