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The Measure of a Touch:from the CEO's contractual wife
Última actualización : 2026-04-07
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Piper McDowell never planned to marry a stranger, or become a mother overnight. But when a desperate contract throws her into the cold, controlled world of billionaire Thomas Anderson, she has no choice but to play by his rules. No intimacy. No expectations. No feelings. Yet loving his children and challenging his walls, Piper begins to melt the ice around Thomas’s heart—without even trying. Someone is watching. Someone who won’t let her belong. And they'll do whatever it takes to get her out from the Anderson's residence. Secrets, lies, and dangerous jealousy threaten to destroy everything she’s fighting for. In a house built on grief, trust is fragile, and one wrong move could change everything. Piper must decide whether to fight for the family she’s grown to love, while enduring toture, or protect herself from the shadows closing in
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The Measure of a Touch:from the CEO's contractual wife Just For Tonight
Leo was already asleep.The boys Nanny met them at the door before they were fully inside, hands clasped, voice low. "He fought it until eight. I think he exhausted himself crying."Thomas said nothing.Piper pressed her lips together and looked away.Toby went up without much argument.The kind of quiet that only followed a child who had scared himself badly enough to want the safety of his own walls. Piper took him up, pulled the covers to his chin, and did the voices for exactly four pages of Where the Wild Things Are before his eyes gave out completely.She sat with him a moment longer than necessary.Her hand rested on his back, rising and falling with his breath.I missed you every single day, she thought.She pressed one quiet kiss to his temple, turned off the lamp, and slipped out.Thomas was at the table when she came downstairs.He'd put something together — garnished pasta, two glasses of water. Nothing elaborate. She sat.He sat across from her.The clock on the wall rea
Última actualización : 2026-04-07The Measure of a Touch:from the CEO's contractual wife The Journey Home
Piper’s hand was already yanking her jacket off the hook before Thomas finished speaking.“I’m coming with you.”“Piper—”“I’m coming.” Her voice cracked like a whip. “Don’t you dare argue.”She was through the door and halfway down the hall before he could draw another breath.They made it back to Beverly Hills in thirty-eight minutes.Thomas drove like the devil was riding shotgun—swerving between cars, slamming through yellow lights, knuckles white on the wheel. Piper sat bolt upright beside him, phone crushed to her ear, her free hand gripping the edge of the seat so hard her nails left crescents in the leather.“Nana, I need you to check the bus routes near the Anderson estate,” she said, words sharp and fast. “Toby, recently turned five. He has a backpack and money. Where would a scared little boy go?”Thomas barely registered her voice. His mind kept flashing the same brutal pictures:Toby lost in the dark.Toby hurt.Toby snatched by some stranger who spotted a rich man’s kid
Última actualización : 2026-03-30The Measure of a Touch:from the CEO's contractual wife The Explosion
Thomas gripped the steering wheel of his car so hard the leather groaned. Every mile marker flashing past on the way to Oakland felt like a lash against his conscience. He couldn't shake the images Martin had shown him in the quiet light of his study. The flickering blue glow of the security monitors was burned into his retinas, a looping nightmare of his own failure.10:43 p.m.He’d watched Paige move through his home like a ghost with a knife. He saw her slip into his study, shoulders hunched, eyes darting toward the hallway. She looked like a stranger—not the woman he had shared his life with, but a predator marking its territory.On the screen, she had been coordinating with Daniel Cross, a digital mercenary whose only loyalty was to a paycheck.Ninety seconds.That was all it took for her to ruin Piper’s life. She slid the diamond-encrusted weight into Piper’s handbag while she was in the nursery putting the kids to bed with the quiet grace that had come to define his home
Última actualización : 2026-03-28The Measure of a Touch:from the CEO's contractual wife Prove It
Thomas stood in the hallway long after Paige's footsteps faded. Her words echoed in the silence. 'I loved you. I stayed when anyone else would have left. I tried to help with your sons even though they hated me. I put my entire life on hold for you.' He pressed his palms against his eyes. Had he been unfair? She had stayed. Through the worst of his grief, through the custody battle preparation, through nights when he'd been so buried in work he'd barely acknowledged her presence. She'd reorganized his household staff, handled the boys' schedules when he couldn't, showed up to functions on his arm when he needed someone presentable beside him. And he'd given her nothing but money in return. No love. No future. No promise of anything beyond the hollow arrangement they'd fallen into after Claire died. Thomas dropped his hands, staring at the empty hallway. Maybe Piper had been the excuse he'd been looking for. A reason to end something that should have ended months ago.
Última actualización : 2026-02-24The Measure of a Touch:from the CEO's contractual wife Nana's Apartment
Piper was not crying when the Uber rolled to the curb.Her eyes burned, dry and aching, like they had forgotten how to do anything else. The kind of pain that came from holding yourself together too long, from refusing to let your face tell the truth before you were ready.The app chimed softly.Tr
The Measure of a Touch:from the CEO's contractual wife The Bracelet
Thomas’s voice tore through the house, rough and explosive, cracking against the walls with an urgency that stopped everything in its path.“Piper!”The sound hit hard enough to make Leo flinch. Toby froze mid-roar, plastic dinosaur clenched in his fist, mouth still open like he’d been caught doing
The Measure of a Touch:from the CEO's contractual wife Final Hearing...
“Piper! Look! My bow tie is straight!” Toby shouted from the bedroom doorway, nearly tripping over the back of his own pants. Four-year-old drama, with a face half-smudged in the hurry of excitement and nerves.Piper walked over, crouching to his level. She smoothed the crooked bow tie with careful
The Measure of a Touch:from the CEO's contractual wife Discrepancies
“Mrs. Anderson? This is urgent,” the principal's voice crackled over the Anderson's home line the next morning.Piper's chest tightened at the tone. “Is there a problem Mrs. Hamilton?”“Yes—well—” the voice on the other end hesitated, clearing its throat. “I received a call this morning. If you don
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