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The billionaire's unprepared marriage

The billionaire's unprepared marriage

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last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-29
By:  Abiola Completed
Language: English
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Action

Girl Power

Dominant

CEO

Intelligent

Contract Marriage

Forgiveness

Twisted

She was never meant to stand beside a billionaire. Now she is one. When Lura David accidentally spills coffee on a stranger’s thousand-dollar suit, she thinks it’s just another bad day. Broke, exhausted, and drowning in bills, she’s used to apologies that fix nothing. But the man she bumps into isn’t just anyone he’s Lord Xavier Blackwood, a ruthless billionaire with thirty days to fulfill a brutal condition: “Inherit this company, or your brother takes everything.” To claim his legacy, Xavier needs a wife. Love isn’t required just a signature on a contract. He never expected to choose Lura sharp-tongued, unimpressed, and utterly indifferent to his wealth. But that’s exactly why she’s perfect. One contract. Twelve months. Three million dollars. No emotions. No attachments. But Lura is not what she seems not the way she fights him, not the secrets she hides from him, and not the way she makes him feel. Xavier’s enemies are watching. Lura’s past is catching up. And the contract meant to save them… might destroy them both. When betrayal splits them apart, Lura disappears Only to return as something Xavier never saw coming: A billionaire. A CEO. Two enemies. Two empires. One love that was never supposed to survive. But after lies, heartbreak, and war… Will they still choose each other?

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Aremu Paul
Aremu Paul
interesting
2026-04-04 16:21:39
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Abiola
Abiola
Nice one Author a very fascinating book
2026-04-21 19:51:41
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60 Chapters
A single mistake
My name is David Lura. I am a tall and beautiful lady with long grey hair and sharp blue eyes. Presently, my life is a delicate balancing act, always on the edge of collapse.Recently, I had just been fired by from my old job where I worked as a personal assistant to my billionaire boss. Not long. Now, I had found a new job at a bar where I worked as a waitress. I have to work triple shifts to settle the endless pile of bills waiting for me every morning.My younger sister Catherine had been in a coma for about two years, and the heavy weight of medical her bills rested squarely on my tiny shoulders. That was the hard and unbearable reality I woke up to see every morning for at least the past five years, ever since my parents died. I lived in a cramped apartment here in Queens, one of the most crowded street in New York. The room was barely big enough for me.My life was never balanced under the weight of grief that overwhelmed me whenever I thought of my parents, who I lost in a ter
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The multi-million contract
My mind spun over and over as I stared at the business card lying on the counter.Marry me. Sign a contract.
Xavier’s words echoed in my head like both a warning and a promise.“Marry a man I barely know?” I whispered to myself silently, confusion knotting in my chest.My fingers trembled as I picked up the card again.Through the café window, I watched Xavier disappear into his multi-million-dollar car and vanish into traffic.The café felt suffocating, as it always did. The smell of coffee and the smell of roasted chicken mixed with the anxiety rising in my chest.I stood there, questioning myself.“Why me?” I muttered. “Why would a billionaire, one of the coldest and most ruthless men in the city choose my hand in a contract marriage? I wish I had a better option than this one.”Unable to bear the thoughts alone, my voice slipped out getting louder, quiet yet loud enough for me to hear.“A contract marriage.”I had seen it in movies and read about it in novels, but I never imagined
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A confused Lura
Tiredly, I dragged myself into my cramped apartment in Queens, every step heavy with exhaustion. I was extremely tired. I sat on the edge of my bed.The damp carpet faintly smelled of old coffee, and the only brightness in the room came from a thin beam of sunlight slipping through the tiny window.I pulled the contract papers from my bag and stared at them, studying them the way a coach would study his best player. focused, as if trying to see something unstoppable within them.Suddenly, my phone buzzed.The hospital was calling.“Hello, Miss Lura,” the doctor’s voice came through, low and heavy. I clutched the phone tightly.“Your sister, Catherine… her condition is worsening. We’ve done everything we can with the current treatment.”I pressed the phone harder to my ear. “Doctor, how bad is she now? What is the next solution?”“Very bad. We need to start the next procedure immediately. But we can’t continue without a deposit. You have to act fast, very fast.”I swallowed hard, my t
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Danger not pressure anymore
My mind spun desperately as I stared closely at the anonymous message blinking on my phone screen.You have twelve hours left.My hands trembled. My breath stalled.Who sent this?
Xavier? The hospital? Someone else?The number was unknown, nothing familiar, not even look like the one I had ever seen before. For the first time since the struggle, what I felt now wasn’t pressure again. It was a total danger. My chest tightened as confusion swallowed me whole.Before I could process anything or reply the message, a deep black jeep with tinted windows rolled gently to a stop beside me and parked.“Hello, miss Lura.”I froze.Who knows me here?“Get in inside the car. It’s me Xavier.”His voice made me freeze completely, like a fish trapped in snow. I stood on a point for several seconds like a lifeless man, breathing unevenly, on the edge of collapse.“Why are you sweating like a Christmas goat?” he asked, his tone unexpectedly soft and cut me off. “Lura, what’s wrong with you? Are you
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The dying point
My eyes were wide open. Sleep refused to come.I sat tiredly on the edge of my bed, staring at the business card like it was a symbol of life itself. My phone was clutched tightly in my trembling hands as I called and texted Xavier and his assistant again and again.Very Painfully.No reply.
No callback.
Nothing. Nothing.I was completely stranded between life and death.The digital clock glared at me.3 hours, 29 minutes left.“So fast,” I whispered in surprise.Every second struck my chest like a hammer.Now, Three hours left.
Two hours left.The moment the clock hit exactly 3:00 a.m., I shot to my feet. And give myself an energy of courage.“You need to move now,” I whispered hoarsely to myself. “I can’t wait anymore. Under any circumstances, I have to find Xavier… anywhere. Even one of his assistants.”I didn’t know where he lived. not even the street. I only know his office and that was the only option left for me.I stuffed the twenty dollars into my pocket, the contract papers
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Rescue for price
Nothing happened.
The world didn’t go black. There were no signs of the end. The sky didn’t fall.Surely, Catherine was already dying. Even though I wasn’t in the hospital to confirm it, but I knew it. A cruel bitter laugh escaped my lips. I had known it all along this was the end.I collapsed lifeless onto the cold floor, wishing for death for the entire world, when one of the security guards approached me and said harshly, “Madam, please you can’t sleep here. It’s against our safety rules here. Please find your way out of this boundary.”Truly, He was right. I had to leave. But where was I supposed to go? Where? Where was the next place for me? The next step was hidden from me and only visible to God.As I was about to walk away to an unknown direction, a car horn sounded from afar. My heart instantly leaped and jumped out. Who could that be? I could barely see clearly as I stood there, waiting for the car to come closer. God please I want a favor.Wow…It was Xavier’s assistant.S
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Lura feeling Xavier presence
Calmly, Xavier was driving down to the hospital. I sat in the front seat beside him like I was already his wife. The car’s air conditioner was on full blast, cooling the air, yet I still opened the window beside me. Morning cold air rushed violently inside, whipping against my face, but deep down, I couldn’t feel the cold at all. My body felt numb, yet my heart burned intensely, as if it were on fire. All my body was hot despite the cold.“Lura, please, can you close the window? The air conditioner is on,” Xavier said calmly, like I was his boss.I barely heard him. My mind wasn’t here in the car, drowning in stress, trapped inside a chaotic storm of fear and despair. I felt detached from myself, like I was no longer fully present.“Catherine… please, please don’t leave me yet. You are the only one I have left on earth,” I whispered silently, staring blankly ahead.Though I spoke to Catherine as if she were right here listening to me, Xavier looked at me like I was slowly getting mad.
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Catherine at the edge of surviving
Stranded and confused, I swallowed hard, unable to breathe well.
Xavier’s words continued echoing endlessly in my head like a ring of a bell.Your life belongs to me.If Catherine truly needed him to survive, then this was the bitter truth. It is that I will lose my own life for her. That was the clearest point of all, and that is how the case will be.But how could a dead person give their life to the living ones?
Because with those words Xavier said, I was already dead.Confused and frustrated, I stood frozen like a tree, my fingers trembling beyond my control. I didn’t know what next to do anymore.Xavier stood tall beside me with hope, waiting for me to say the words.I, Lura, from now henceforth, my life belongs entirely to Blackwood Xavier.But I delayed that, because once I said it, I would no longer belong to myself anymore.I couldn’t leave Catherine just like that.I bent down to her level again. Her condition depended only on money… and prayer. The steady beeping of the ma
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Your life belongs to me
Xavier and I walked side by side out of the hospital while he held my hand like we were already married. The car door opened automatically. We both got in, and the door shut with a heavy thud.
The sound of the door felt like the final nail sealing my fate with Xavier, the moment my life took its final turn.I sat in the passenger seat like I was his boss, though I was uncomfortable both physically and emotionally. I had to follow Xavier home tonight, not my small apartment in Queens again. I glanced through the tinted window of the car—people walking freely, cars moving, streets full of laughter and joy.
Life continued, while my own life had just ended.Xavier kept silent as he drove with the calm precision of a professional driver. I thought I noticed him glancing back at me from time to time like I was about to disappear, but I wasn’t too sure of that. The silence in the car was thick and suffocating.I also stole a glance at him, but very unfortunately he looked back at the same
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The contract is sealed
Sleep refused to come. Each time I tried to close my eyes, Xavier’s words re-echoed in my head calm, controlled, and inescapable.
“You belong to me.”Sunlight crept into the room through the glass window. Morning came too quickly, without any mercy. I stood up from the bed and moved to the balcony, staring at the city spread beneath me.After a few minutes, I went back inside the room. I thought it was about time to take my bath. The moment I entered the bathroom, I froze in surprise.
Wow.
What I saw was unreal. Unusual.The luxury and the expensive furniture in the bathroom alone could pay off all my parents’ debts. Even this bathroom was bigger than my old apartment. Yet, standing there, I felt smaller than I ever had in my life.Back in the room, while dressing, my phone buzzed.
A text message from Xavier.
Lura, meet me downstairs in thirty minutes.Immediately, I scoffed and decided not to reply or go. I was beginning to hate him already, slowly but surely. Instead of responding
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