ログインShe was his wife in every way that mattered. Except the one way that was real. Seven years. One document. Everything gone. June Cross walked away from her father's empire for a man who called her temporary from the start. Now she has nothing — except a secret, a suitcase, and one night she can't stop thinking about. She doesn't remember every detail. The bar. The bourbon. The stranger with quiet eyes and steady hands who looked at her like she was the only real thing in a room full of noise. She remembers enough. What she doesn't know — what she can't know yet — is that the stranger remembers everything. And he already knows her name. Dante Reyes doesn't do feelings. He does leverage, acquisitions, and victory — in that order. What he's offering isn't romance. It isn't rescue. It's a contract. She thinks it's temporary. He knows better. But what's coming for them both is something neither of them planned for — and not everyone is going to survive it intact. She thought the hardest thing was finding out her marriage was a lie. She had no idea what was still coming for her.
もっと見るJUNEWhen I returned home, my father didn’t say I told you so and that alone nearly broke me again. The moment I stepped through the gates with my suitcase in hand, he walked toward me without hesitation and pulled me into his arms.I cried like something inside me had finally shattered beyond repair. I knew I was only hanging by a single thread, but I didn't think this was all I needed to finally let it all loose.Sobs raked my entire being as tears slid down my cheeks, but he didn't pull away. Father simply held me tighter with one hand against the back of my head like he used to do when I was little.“It’s okay, darling” he said softly. “You’re home now, everything's okay.”For some strange reason, that made me cry harder, because nothing was okay. Not really. My life had just been shattered in the blink of an eye, and here he was, comforting me like I still had a tiny bit of hope to hold on to.I stayed locked inside my room for an entire week afterward, and my father let me.He
JUNEI pushed the front door open slowly and stepped inside the house that had once felt like the safest place in the world. Now it felt unfamiliar and cold, like I was walking through a stranger’s life.The silence pressed against my ears as I dropped my bag beside the couch and stood there staring blankly ahead.Memories hit me one after another so fast it hurt.I remembered Rick’s mother trembling with fever while I stayed awake for three nights straight taking care of her, his sister crying over anatomy textbooks while I sat beside her for hours tutoring her because she wanted to go into medicine too, and Angel curled against my chest after nightmares.I brought her lunches at school, did her laundry, and attended her doctor appointments, parent teacher meetings, birthdays, Christmases and even family dinners.Ten years. I'd spent ten years of giving and giving until I had nothing left of myself.A broken laugh escaped my throat when I finally understood why Rick never wanted anot
JUNEFate had to be mocking me. There was no other explanation for this kind of cruelty.My father had warned me from the very beginning, and somehow that made everything hurt worse.I gripped the steering wheel so tightly my fingers ached while tears blurred the road ahead of me.I could still hear my father’s voice from years ago. I tried to block it out, but all my efforts were beyond futile.You are at the peak of your career, June. Don’t throw your life away for a man you barely know.But I hadn’t listened. Back then, I thought he simply didn’t understand love. I thought he was being unreasonable and difficult, but now, I realized maybe he had understood it far better than I did.A sob climbed painfully up my throat as I remembered the first day I met Rick so clearly it made me sick.He had been brought into the emergency room covered in blood after a car accident. I’d performed his surgery myself. Six hours standing over his body while monitors beeped around us and nurses rushed
JUNEThe first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was Rick.He was asleep on his stomach, one arm stretched across my side of the bed like even in sleep he expected to find me there. Morning light spilled through the curtains, soft gold sliding over his bare shoulders, over the silver strands beginning to appear at his temples.I tried not to think about it, but I did so anyway.Ten years since we started with nothing but a tiny apartment, unpaid bills, and promises whispered against exhausted mouths at two in the morning.Now he was the CEO of a company people talked about on television. We lived in a house so big I still occasionally lost things inside it. Angel attended one of the best schools in the city. We had staff, investments, and stability.We had a life.And somehow, after all this time, I still loved watching him sleep. I smiled to myself and carefully slipped out of bed so I wouldn’t wake him.The floor was cold beneath my feet as I tied my robe around my waist and headed












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