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Chapter 75: Sixty Thousand Strings
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The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 76: Married To A Monster
AIDEN'S POV I threw the blanket off and sat up, quickly pulling on my underwear. “Sweetheart, let’s not act like I care enough to have you followed. Daniel follows Herold, and he saw you going in and out of his house.” “Daniel’s a jerk.” She jumped off the bed like she touched something hot. I pulled a v neck shirt over my head and didn’t care about her yelling. “What Daniel is or isn’t doesn’t matter to me. I’m not married to him. You, on the other hand, are breaking the contract you signed. The part that says you can’t help my enemies. You went and talked to Herold like a fool, telling him we keep our money separate. Now Herold will use your job in court to show that I’m a bad, cold husband.” “You are a cold husband.” She threw up her hands and laughed with no joy. “Love wasn’t part of the deal.” “Screw your deal!” she shouted, losing her usual calm. “Why? Screwing you is way more fun.” I was already heading to my room. I felt proud for not letting us sleep in the same bed
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AIDEN'S POV It was already hard enough for me to say the word "divorce." Now I had to stand here and listen to her tell me we were in a serious, monogamous relationship. My life really went downhill after we started sleeping together. "You will never find what we have with anyone else," she said angrily. "And you’re the dumbest smart man if you think you can." "Are you done being dramatic?" I leaned against her bedroom doorframe, crossing my arms like a tired dad. "Are you done being heartless?" she replied back. “No. Which brings us to the only reason you’re still here but not pregnant yet.” "Did you ever think I might not be able to have kids at all?" She started getting dressed. Underwear first, then a big shirt. "I did," I said. "When I made this plan, I wrote down the good things, the bad things, and the problems that could happen. Not being able to have kids was the first bad thing on the list." "And?" "And everyone can be replaced." She froze. She didn’t move at all
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2025-04-24The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 78: Promises And Betrayals
AIDEN'S POV “Cut the crap, King. Where’s my money?” He tried to grab my shirt collar, leaning over my desk, but I was faster. I pushed back in my chair, making him fall face first onto my desk, his eyes landing on the tempting numbers from the monthly report. I stood up and buttoned my suit. “What’s money in the big picture, Herold, my friend? You have the Arctic to save.” “You won’t be so smug when I go to the FBI and tell them how much money you stole from me.” He quickly got up, fixing his tie. “Let me know when you do that, so I can visit the IRS and tell them you’ve been hiding millions in offshore accounts. That’ll end your nonprofit career faster than a fish out of water.” He froze, knowing I had a point. Herold would have to pay for it. No one was supposed to know he was hiding millions where no one could find it. He glared at me. “You think I care?” he spat. “You think that’ll stop me from sending Tinder and Tree to Evon? To give them all the things your family stole f
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2025-04-24The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 79: The Calm Before The Storm
AIDEN'S POV My heart was racing now. I could feel the tension and pressure around my neck, and for the first time in years, I knew they were going to win.Being rejected by my wife wasn’t even one of the worst things that happened to me this month, but the fact she turned me down made me want to rip off my skin and throw it all over Daniel’s house.It was his idea to make me push my weight around with her. Now, not only did I have Landon as a problem, but I also had a wife who refused to get pregnant.I turned around, storming down the hallway, speeding past the master bedroom like a storm, going all the way to the farthest room on the second floor. My fingers itched. My eyes twitched. I couldn’t hold it in anymore.I couldn’t keep it under control. For the first time in years, I was going to let the anger come out. I threw the door open. It was an old study room I converted into a spa. Whatever bullshit excuse I could give the builders to soundproof the room and fill it with soft, u
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2025-04-24The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 80: You're Spying On Me?
AIDEN'S POV Raindrops dotted her face and lips like little diamonds, a clear sign of the rain outside. The weather has been nicer lately, but this week, it was raining a lot. The scene reminded me of when Aurora said yes to my proposal in front of my friends. It made me feel good and I smiled, watching her with a look of amusement. Finally, she’d come to her senses. My wife stopped. By the time I realized she was holding something in her clenched fist, she threw it at my chest. A soaked, heavy cloth slid down my shirt. I could almost hear Daniel’s, Sterling’s, and Henry’s jaws drop in surprise. “You’ve been following me!” Aurora slammed her open hands on the table and, in one movement, wiped it clean of cards, glasses, and ashtrays. The stuff flew to the floor. “I saw your stupid guys waiting by my car when I left Mrs. Reynolds’ nursing home, so I decided to chase them and Got one guy’s jacket. The other was too fast.” “Which one did you catch?” Daniel asked casually. “So
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2025-04-25The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 81: Goodbye
AIDEN'S POV Three hours later, my friends were finally gone. I climbed up the stairs, taking them quickly. I was forty five thousand dollars richer and a lot more likely to punch Daniel Sterling in the face for his bad advice. Why did I put surveillance on my wife? I already knew she was going to do whatever she wanted. And what did Daniel know about women anyway? He hated the idea of them, unless they were his stepmother and sister. I didn’t bother with pretending to get ready for bed. I went straight to Aurora's room and knocked on her door. After knocking three times and getting no answer, I pushed the door open a little. The room was empty. “Petar!” I yelled so loud my throat hurt and probably broke the windows. My estate manager was there in seconds, clearly surprised to hear me yell. I was searching through her closet, trying to see if she left any of her important things. The things she cared about most. She hadn’t. Damn it! “Sir, do you need anything?” Petar asked f
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2025-04-26The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 82: The Secret Behind The Ring
AURORA'S POV “I’m going to kill my brother,” Sandy announced. She stood in the middle of Annabelle’s studio, holding her baby bump. My sister, Ariella, and I were curled up on the couch under a big blanket, drinking wine from huge glasses. I had called the girls for an emergency meeting right after I left my house. My husband’s house. Our marriage wasn’t real, and neither was our partnership. Right now, both felt like they might not survive the newest problem. “You’ll take care of Daniel, I’ll take care of Aiden,” Annabelle said to Sandy, rubbing my arm softly. “I’m thinking about hurting him really badly and letting him suffer. Not quickly. I want it to be slow and painful.” “From a medical point of view, I don’t think there’s a way to do that without a lot of pain,” Ariella said quietly into her wine glass, looking at me. “Was it really that bad?” “Yes, it was,” Sandy answered before I could speak. “You know Aurora, she would never say anything bad about someone, even if her
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2025-04-27The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 83: Stay Or Leave Him For Good?
AURORA'S POV I grabbed the cheap bottle of wine, was it our fourth or fifth?. I can't even remember as I poured a big amount into my glass. “The worst part is that I still love him. I have always loved him. The first time I saw him at that charity party Sandy made us go because she didn’t want to be alone with Henry, and from the day I laid eyes on Aiden I knew he was the one for me. I also knew one day he would take my heart, burn it, and walk all over the ashes when he was done. I’d known it the moment I stared at him while he was looking at Annabelle from across the room. He was lost in my sister, but I found everything I wanted in him.” “Aiden never looks straight at what he wants,” Ariella said, squeezing my hand. “He says wanting something is a weakness and If he really wanted Annabelle, he wouldn’t have looked at her.” “I don’t know what to do.” I dropped my head to my knees and sighed. “I told him I want a divorce after the Green Living case is over. I have to leave. Lea
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The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 106: Time Out
AIDEN'S POV Aurora raised an eyebrow, looking at me with eyes so intense, if I had a heart, it would have broken for her. She clearly wanted me to care. “And you, what would you have done if Herold did something to me?” she asked softly. A cold shiver ran through me as I remembered the torture, burns , beatings and being locked in a dark church for hours, only with my demons to keep me company. Coming back to him, asking him for more. To pay for my father’s sins. To mourn our friendship. To numb my feelings and just like that, I remembered who I was. Who Herold Landon had made me. Who my father, my whole family wanted me to be. A sad smile twisted my face. I leaned down, my lips near my wife’s ear, my hot breath in her pale hair. “And I wish he’d finished what he started, Aurora, so I could finally marry someone better than you. You were a mistake. A stupid, careless mistake. I can’t wait for the divorce.” I felt, but didn’t see, her step back and that’s when I realized I
The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 105: Finally Admitting The Truth
AIDEN'S POV She walked quickly toward me. “I kicked him out the night he came. You would’ve known that if you had answered any of my calls. Or if you had let me see you when I came to your house.” Your house. Of course, it was mine. Why would it be ours? I had taken her from the plain apartment I put her in, moved her into a guest room, and thought she would…what? Feel anything for the place? “Do you want a prize for staying loyal?. " She stopped right in front of me and her smell filled the room, making it hard to think. I wanted to grab her, shake her, push her out, kiss her, sleep with her, yell at her. All those things showed feelings and no control. “Daniel told you, didn’t he?” She tilted her head, watching me. She meant Herold Landon’s laptop. She must have seen the videos. “He works for me.” “So does the rest of the city.” “You too. So stop digging into my business before I cut you off.” “We both know I’m not here for the money. I want to talk about what I f
The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 104: Confronting My Husband
AURORA'S POV The third time I ran to the bathroom to throw up, I gave up. I shut my laptop and hid it under my bed, like the videos could still hurt me. I couldn’t watch my husband back when he was just a teenager being hurt, beaten, stuttering, crying, laughing, losing control and getting it back anymore. I wanted to hurt Herold Landon with my own hands and I knew, deep down, that I really could do it if I ever got the chance. Herold’s face wasn’t in the videos. But his voice was. You could hear why he did what he did. At six thirty in the morning, I got up and went to the shower. My eyes were swollen from crying all night. I knew two things for sure: One, I was going to make sure Landon paid for what he did, even if it was the last thing I ever did. Two, Aiden didn’t know how to feel anything after all he’d been through. But even someone who doesn’t feel love still deserves love. He still deserved peace, a place to belong, and a real home. From now on, I was going to give my
The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 103: Beating All Odds
AIDEN'S POV After weeks of not seeing or hearing from Herold at Evon, I finally saw him at the main chapel. I felt both happy and scared. I waved at him from across the chapel. There were lots of students between us, and we all wore the same uniform. Herold saw me and looked away. A sharp pain hit my chest. That scared me. I couldn’t feel anything. Feelings would cause more nerve attacks, and nerve attacks would make Father kick me out. I did like baby Henry, but I didn’t want him to take the oldest son’s spot as heir to King Royal Pipelines and Father, Mother, and Henry were the only family I had left now. Herold probably hated me. After Sunday Mass, I walked across the lawn with my hands behind my back, looking at the grass and frowning. I didn’t care much that I had Tourette’s. It was annoying, yes but after reading a few books and medical papers about it, I had made a decision. I would beat it before I finished school and went to college. And when I make a decision, I always
The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 102: A Solution
AIDEN'S POV "Well,I guess it's because I have something called Tourette's syndrome." I leaned back in the chair, looking at all the white around me. It felt calm, and that made me feel better. There was a long silence from the other side of the window. "How long have you known?" "About a week." I heard pages turning on a clipboard from the other side. I smiled sadly. Usually, it's the patient who doesn’t know. "How can that be? It says here your tic attack happened two days ago," another voice said. It was a middle aged woman's voice. Both doctors had accents. One sounded Italian, and the other probably Swiss from the French side. "Yes," I said slowly, giving them time to write. "But I felt the attack coming in the days before, so I looked it up." "So you knew it was going to happen?" the Swiss doctor asked, surprised. "The attack." I nodded. She gasped. "Poor thing," she said. It wasn’t very doctor-like. "Well that's a new one. I’ve never been called that before,"
The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 101: A Trip Down Memory Lane
AIDEN'S POV THE PAST The first time I went to a juvenile treatment clinic was when I was fourteen. Earlier that week, I hurt myself so badly that I was still bleeding and had lost some teeth. My face was so swollen that it took three people to recognize me when they found me on the library floor. My mother went with me to the clinic in Switzerland. She didn’t want to go. I wore a coat, hat, and sunglasses to hide my bruises, like a celebrity trying to stay unnoticed. My mother didn’t say much on the flight from England to Zurich, except for one quiet sentence after the flight attendants had passed by. “Your father can’t know.” That was the first thing she said. Not asking how I was. Not asking how it happened. “Your father can’t know.” I didn’t say anything. She was right. Father couldn’t find out. And honestly, there was no way to explain what happened. One moment, I was sitting in the library studying hard to be first in my class like always, feeling a strange pressure i
The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 100: The Last And Final Warning
AURORA'S POV I couldn’t lie, so I gave a small smile and shrugged, trying to look confident. “Your secret is not really a secret anymore. That’s not good for someone who is the head of Green Living. Anyway, I’m here to tell you that was the last time you hit your son. I’m going to report this to Child Protective Services. I’ve done this before, so I’ll tell you what will happen. I’ll file a report, and CPS will come to your house within a day to check on the kids. They’ll see the bruises on Tinder and find other signs of abuse or neglect. When they do, they’ll take the kids to a foster home and charge you with a crime.” Morgana looked like she was going to choke. “I’ve worked with many schools and know some people at CPS. I can probably help Morgana get full custody, since she didn’t hurt the kids. Now, as for you” I looked at Morgana. She slid down the wall, crying hard on the floor and face was wet with tears. “You should always put your kids first.” “I did.” Morgana he
The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 99: Only One Wish
AURORA'S POV “I’m leaving after today, but things are going to change here. I wanted to tell you.” I sat Tinder down in front of the burnt cookies. We didn’t eat them. His big brown eyes looked at me like I was the only thing keeping him safe. “Change how?” he asked. “Your dad isn’t being nice to you. He’s doing bad things, and I can’t always be here to help you. One day, you’ll grow up and think about what I’m going to do. And even though there's a possibility that you might hate me, or thank me in the future.” I shook my head as my eyes started to fill with tears, but I didn’t let them fall because Tinder needed me to stay strong. He deserved more. He deserved everything. “No matter how you feel about me later, I’ll understand. I think your dad is going to get into big trouble soon because of me. But you will still have your mom and your brother. They are the ones I want you to think about, okay? They are what matter most.” He nodded slowly. It was a lot to hear. Even I didn’t
The Merciless Billionaire's Contract Marriage Chapter 98: Risking It All
AURORA'S POV When Daniel knocked on the door, I pulled him inside really fast. He was wearing a black shirt, jeans, and had his usual serious face. “His laptop will probably have a password,” I said, still holding the door, my heart beating fast. I never broke the law. Not for anything or anyone. I didn’t even cross the street when the light was red. My love for my husband was making me crazy. Daniel walked past the living room without looking at the boy and went up the stairs. I followed him and pointed at Herold’s office. Daniel put on some gloves, took a tool from his backpack, and opened the locked door easily. We both went inside. I kept thinking about Tinder, who was downstairs watching TV, waiting for me. I felt very bad. I was about to change his life forever. Even though I knew it was the right thing because of his bad father, I also knew Tinder might hate me for it. “So Aiden was right,” Daniel said with no feeling, turning on the laptop and sitting in Herold’s chair.
