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The billionaire's Paper Wife

The billionaire's Paper Wife

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last updateLast Updated : 2025-06-23
By:  MavisolieOngoing
Language: English
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Third-Person POV

Drama

Contemporary

CEO

Dominant

Contract Marriage

Face-Slapping

Misunderstanding

One desperate contract. One year to pretend. One chance to change the trajectory of her life. Amelia Davis never expected her past to collide with her present—it almost seemed like a soap opera. When her childhood friend, Dax Hughes, wakes from a three-year coma, and the Chairwoman of Kenzyl group, his mother demands the unthinkable: Amelia must pose as Dax’s wife to help him recover—else pay a staggering debt left off from ten years ago. Bound by obligation and driven by desperation Amelia steps into the world of wealth, lies, and manipulation. What began as strictly business quickly spirals into an undeniable web of lies and deceit. A thin line between pretense and reality is crossed too many times, as her heart is tested—Dax’s charm could not be denied, pulling her whilst he drew closer, igniting feelings and emotions she didn’t care to feel. But when Dax reclaims the life he'd forgotten, old love resurfaces and Amelia's resolve shatters. Can Amelia still go on playing the role of a wife? Or will this fake marriage break her, much more than her heart in ruins?

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22 Chapters
Chapter 1: Flying In The Clear Sky... So Free
Amelia's gaze never left the doctor’s as he continued to spill medical jargon, his voice fading in and out drowned by the sound of her own beating heart as her breath hitched in her throat. Cancer! Did he just say lung cancer? “Miss… Miss are you listening… Miss Amelia!” the doctor tapped his finger on the office table. A muscle twitched in the lid of Amelia’s eyes, and her gaze shifted to the tapping fingers, then back at the doctor. She blinked a couple of times ridding herself of the pain of her long stare. “I’m listening, doctor, please continue” The doctor retrieved his fingers, leaning forward instead, resting his hands on his office table. “Miss Amelia, I know this is hard for you,” he started his voice, kind and comforting “But do pay attention to what I say as it concerns the patient's life” The doctor rested his back down on his seat having made his point clear. A gentle warning, to her abated mind. “Okay... I understand doctor, how is my mother? Is there any other w
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Chapter 2: Where is My Wife?
The last thing she wanted was to look the way she did and go visit her mother and so she wiped the evidence, splashing cold water on her face then cleaning it with a paper towel. She leaves the restroom, going back to the reception area which seemed a lot more quiet than a few minutes ago when she’d been there. Amelia goes to her mother’s room, knocking softly before entering but who lay before her startled her. Instead of her mother, there was a man, plugged into an oxygen mask... Startled, she took a step back having entered the wrong room, she turned to leave but then paused at the sense of familiarity she could feel towards this person. Amelia walks to the man’s hospital bed, clearly seeing the face behind the oxygen mask. “Dax...” What was he doing here? She reached her palm to his forehead, her gaze fixated on him—His had grown more handsome over the years. She dragged her hand to his cheek, caressing it. The patient brow creased, and his eyes fluttered but rema
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Chapter 3: Confabulation?
Her hand was grabbed and pulled back behind her. “What are you trying to do?” Dylan muttered from behind her. Amelia’s heart went up her throat. “Hmph, you still think you have a choice?” Mike snapped. “If you knew your mother couldn't pay, maybe you shouldn’t have let her out of the house, you dare!” Mike moved forward to act but was held back by Dash. “Make up your mind already?” Drake moved in between her and Mike. Amelia instinctively stepped back leaning on Dylan, startled by her close proximity to him she took a hesitant step forward. “Look, tell your boss Bobby I’m still here, my mother is still here, I will not sell my body, and you can’t make me.” Dash frowned, her words sounded like a threat. The other laughed, not taking her seriously at all. Amelia lowered her gaze to the ground. Like a leech sucking at every fiber of her being. How could her mother borrow money from these people? She couldn't help but feel small, and ashamed in front of these people.
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Chapter 4: Take Responsibility
At first, she didn’t know where they were taking her. A few minutes earlier at her doorstep… “Are you Miss Amelia?” the man upfront asked. Amelia’s grip on the doorknob tightened. “Yes, I’m Amelia. Is there a problem?” She waged the door to block the men from seeing the inside of her house. “Come with us” The man reached for her arm not waiting for a response he forcefully dragged her out the door. Not waiting for a response, he held her by the arm and dragged her outside. Back to the present… Before she knew it, she was already in a car with two of the four men, while the other two flanked them, following from behind in another vehicle. Aside from those few words, they’d said nothing about who it was they worked for. At least she knew it wasn’t Bobby; these men weren’t cut from the same cloth as those bastards from yesterday. They seemed much more gentle, a lot more official than them, like a bodyguard. Amelia's gaze darted to the man beside her and then to
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Chapter 5: No Place To Escape At All
Amelia’s gaze widened, and her hands trembled as she read the figures—one billion! She flipped to one page, then another—her movement chaotic. Then her heart wrenched so much so she couldn’t breathe, once her gaze landed on the signature written at the end of the document. LIES they were all LIES. Her grip on the document tightened. “Back then, I forgave this debt. But as you rightly reminded me, our family has no relationship. It’s too much to ask that you pretend to be my son’s wife, just pay the debt and we will cut ties” “It's fake, isn’t it?” her voice trembled as she crumpled the sheet in her hand. “This has to be fake, a ruse to get what you want” She gazed at Mrs. Hughes, her eyes pleading. “I see your father never told you or your mother…” Mrs. Hughes poured herself another cup of tea “When his business was failing, he’d borrowed money from me to help keep it afloat, and it did for a while, but it failed in the end” Amelia watched as Mrs. Hughes took a sip
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Chapter 6: Public Humiliation 
Outside the diner, Amelia could barely hold herself straight as her stomach churned, with the overwhelming urge to puke. She squatted on the stone pavement near the diner, she was fired. Watching the many feet that walked past her, her mind zoned out with the world being out of place to her. Where would she go from here? They hadn’t even paid her a week's worth of salary, and her only means to provide for her and her sister was gone. What does she do about tonight's dinner? Was It not enough to have everything crumble around her? Her lips trembled and soon tears fell off her cheeks to the stone pavements. It felt like the world was waiting for her to fall apart, and honestly, she’d reached her limit. More tears flowed from her as her state became evident to most who walked by, with the way her shoulder trembled. A man's shoes came into her view, and Amelia wiped off her tears to check if she saw clearly, and yes, a man's shoes stood before her. She gazed up to see
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Chapter 7: Taking Her Own Counsel
Dax gazed outside his hospital window, watching the fading hues of the sun marking the end of the day. Whoossshhh… the cool evening breeze blew, and he closed his eyes, reminiscing in the tranquility that was the night.Yet a faint aura emanated from him, one that belied his fury—A mild breeze could not quench.It’s been a day now he’d been awake. Why wasn’t she here yet?The sound of the ticking clock, the nurse hovering and checking him, and the damn breeze that blew into his hospital room—they all got on his nerve.According to the doctor, he’d just woken up from a three-year-long coma, shouldn’t his wife be here with him?His last memory was of himself driving to the airport, and even now, he still felt the sense of urgency that propelled him as he drove on that day and then the accident when a truck crashed in on his car. What had happened and why he was in such a rush, Dax could not remember the details, and every time he tried to, there was a fog to his memories. The inner w
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Chapter 8: Bound Hands and Feet
After a mild discomfort, Amelia falls asleep. Her fever broke in the early hours of the morning…She rose from the bed in the late hours; her sunken eyes were bloodshot, and her skin pale white, she seemed to have lost weight over the night.As flashes of her fevered haze went through her mind, the image of her signing the document given to her snapped her out of her weary look.Turning to the bed, she saw the documents scattered on top, linking them to the image she’d seen.Her chest tightened as the feeling of dread filled her. Then she grabbed hold of the documents; her eyes shone as panic filled them, seeing her signature boldly written on one of them.She gazed at the top of the document. The heading was that of the contractual agreement to be Dax Hughes' pretend wife, and she’d signed it.Her gaze flew down, glaring fixedly at her signature. Her hands shook with force whilst gripping the document too tightly.She bit down hard on her lower lip, bruising it.What had made her do
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Chapter 9: He’d Missed Her
“What do you think you are doing?” she snapped, her teary gaze locked in on who forcibly held her.“Unhand me.” Her tone sharp as her gaze turned fiery.“Where do you think you are going?” his grip on her tightened, and Amelia struggled lightly, but it was no use.“It is the chairwoman’s wish that you proceed with this marriage”“This isn’t pretend, is it?” Amelia scoffed in disdain “The contract you gave me was a lie, wasn’t it; this isn’t what I signed up for. I do not wish to be more than a pretend wife.”“All will be explained to you soon for now, let’s go back to the hospital room,”“No!” she managed to pull her hands off the guard hold “I won’t go back; this is beyond me I cannot go through with this”“And why won’t you?”Startled, Amelia's chest tightened as she turned to Face Mrs. Hughes, who’d shown with a few entourage of guards.“Tell me, David, what was the young lady saying?” Mrs Hughes's tone was soft but unyielding.“She refuses to proceed with the marriage, ma’am”“And
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Chapter 10: Go, Ask For A Refund
Still at the hospital, Amelia came out of the restroom cubicle wearing her own clothes. Reaching for the faucet ahead of her, she scooped a load of water and splashed it on her face.Then her gaze caught in on the mirror, her exhaustion, a reflection... a deep-seated weariness, and she felt it to her bones.What now...She sighed, her hand moving to grab a paper towel, drying her face with it.Her mother's surgery was set in three days, Dax would be out in also three days, and she had to move in by the morrow. So much was still left undone… unsettled.Amelia sighed once more. The last thing she wanted was to confront both situations on the same day. But what do you know?She needed money, and she’d gotten it—like a magpie on a pipe, they’d played her tune.Such a solution as this... was like a double-edged sword… staying close to that family.But it was never up to her to decide. Not to mention her role in all of this.She sighedBut when life throws you lemons, you buy a lemonade
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