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The billionaire's unwanted bride

The billionaire's unwanted bride

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last updateÚltima actualización : 2026-02-03
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Idioma: English
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Sinopsis

Sweet Love

First-Person POV

Contemporary

CEO

Heir/Heirness

Blind Date

Contract Marriage

First Love

Emma Chen's world shatters when her father delivers an impossible ultimatum: marry billionaire Alexander Knight, or watch her mother die from cancer. With experimental treatment in Switzerland as her mother's only hope, Emma has no choice but to agree to a contract marriage with a man she barely knows. Alexander Knight doesn't want love—he wants to save his CEO position. After a tabloid scandal threatens his company's reputation, his father demands he settle down or lose everything he's built. A marriage of convenience seems like the perfect solution: two years of pretending, then a quiet divorce. What starts as a cold business arrangement slowly transforms into something neither of them expected. Behind Alexander's icy exterior, Emma discovers a man haunted by loss and trapped by expectations. Behind Emma's defensive walls, Alexander finds a passionate, stubborn woman who challenges him at every turn. As they navigate charity galas, family dinners, and shared late-night conversations, the line between pretending and reality begins to blur. That kiss at their wedding wasn't supposed to mean anything. Living together wasn't supposed to feel natural. And falling for each other definitely wasn't part of the contract. But with a two-year expiration date looming over their heads, both Emma and Alexander must decide: do they protect their hearts and walk away when the time comes, or do they fight for something real? Can a marriage built on a lie become a love worth keeping? Sometimes the best love stories are the ones you never saw coming.

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The rain hammered against the windows of my father's study like it was trying to break through, which was exactly how I felt about this conversation. I stood there, my arms crossed, staring at the man who was supposed to protect me, not sell me off like some kind of business asset."Emma, you're being dramatic," my father said without even looking up from the contract he was reviewing. His reading glasses perched on his nose, gray hair perfectly combed back like always. Everything about Richard Chen was perfect, controlled, calculated."Dramatic? You're asking me to marry a complete stranger!" My voice came out higher than I wanted, but I didn't care anymore. This whole thing was insane.He finally looked up, his expression tired. "Alexander Knight is hardly a stranger. His father and I have been business partners for twenty years.""I've met him twice. Twice! Once at some charity gala where he barely said three words to me, and once at that dinner where he spent the entire time on his
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The Knight Industries building was everything I expected sleek, modern, intimidating. All glass and steel reaching up into the gray Seattle sky like it was trying to prove something. I guess when you're worth billions, you don't have to be subtle."You ready for this?" Jess asked from the driver's seat. I'd begged her to come with me, at least to the lobby. Moral support and all that."Absolutely not," I said, checking my reflection in the mirror one more time. I'd chosen a navy blue dress, professional but not too formal. My dark hair was pulled back in a neat bun, minimal makeup. I wanted to look like I had my life together, even though everything felt like it was falling apart."You know, if he's a total asshole, you can just walk away," Jess said. "Your dad can't actually force you to marry someone."I looked at her, my best friend since college, the only person who knew everything about this mess. "Can't he though? When Mom's life is literally on the line?"She reached over and sq
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Three weeks turned out to be both too long and not nearly enough time. I spent the first week in a blur of dress fittings, venue bookings, and trying to pretend this was a normal wedding. Jess was with me for most of it, playing the role of maid of honor and reality check."This dress makes you look like a cupcake," she said bluntly as I stood on the pedestal in the bridal boutique, drowning in layers of white tulle."Agreed." I turned to the consultant, who looked personally offended. "Can we see something simpler? More elegant, less... pastry?"The woman sniffed but disappeared to find other options. As soon as she was gone, Jess leaned in. "Have you talked to him since the meeting?""Alexander? No. His assistant emails me updates and coordinates schedules. Very efficient, very impersonal.""That's weird, right? You're marrying the guy in two weeks and you haven't even had a phone conversation?"It was weird. But also kind of fitting for whatever this arrangement was. We weren't a re
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The day of the wedding arrived with perfect weather, which felt like the universe was mocking me. Shouldn't it be raining? Shouldn't there be storm clouds and thunder to match the chaos I felt inside?Instead, it was beautiful. Sunny, warm, with a gentle breeze that made the flowers in the garden ceremony site sway gently. Everything was perfect, except for the fact that I was marrying someone for all the wrong reasons."Stop fidgeting," Jess said, adjusting my veil for the third time. "You look beautiful."I did look beautiful. The dress we'd finally chosen was simple but elegante ivory silk that hugged my curves before flowing into a subtle train. My hair was swept up with a few loose curls framing my face. I looked like a bride. A real bride, marrying for love.The irony wasn't lost on me."I can't do this," I whispered, staring at my reflection in the mirror. "Jess, I can't""Yes, you can." She took my hands, squeezing tight. "Your mom is on a plane to Switzerland right now because
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Moving into Alexander's penthouse was surreal. The place was massive three floors of modern luxury with floor-to-ceiling windows, a chef's kitchen I'd probably never use, and more space than one person could ever need. It felt more like a museum than a home."Your room is on the second floor," Alexander said, carrying one of my suitcases up the stairs. He'd insisted on helping despite having staff who could do it. "Master suite is on the third floor, so you'll have plenty of privacy."Privacy. Right. Because we were roommates, not a married couple."Thanks," I said, following him down a hallway lined with abstract art. "This place is... impressive.""It's too big," he admitted, pushing open a door. "I bought it because my publicist said a CEO should have an impressive residence. But honestly, I mostly just sleep here."The room he showed me was beautiful spacious, with its own bathroom and a view of the city that took my breath away. There was even a small sitting area with a couch and
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I woke up to sunlight streaming through unfamiliar windows and the immediate, crushing memory of last night's kiss. My fingers went to my lips automatically, like they could still feel the pressure of Alexander's mouth on mine, the way his hands had felt in my hair, the sound he'd made when I'd kissed him back.This was bad. This was so, so bad.I grabbed my phone from the nightstand. 6:47 AM. Alexander would already be awake, the man apparently ran on four hours of sleep and black coffee. Part of me wanted to hide in this room forever, avoid the inevitable awkward conversation about boundaries and mistakes and how we definitely couldn't let that happen again.The other part of me wanted to march upstairs and finish what we'd started.I chose the coward's option, shower, get dressed, and escape to the gallery before he could corner me for another one of those intense conversations that made my brain short-circuit.But when I crept downstairs twenty minutes later, dressed and ready to
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The jet's cabin was all cream leather and polished wood, luxury I still wasn't used to despite living in Alexander's world for weeks. I sat by the window, watching Seattle disappear beneath us, my phone clutched like a lifeline.No updates from my father yet. The surgery was supposed to take six hours. We were only two hours into the flight."You should eat something." Alexander appeared with a plate of fruit and pastries. When I shook my head, he sat down across from me. "Emma, you need to keep your strength up.""Please don't tell me what to do." The words came out sharper than intended. "I'm sorry. I just... I need her to be okay first."He nodded, setting the plate down. "I understand. But I'm here, okay? Whatever you need."What I needed was to rewind time. To not have kissed him last night. To not have these feelings complicating everything when my mother's life hung in the balance. To not be sitting here with a deleted text message burning a hole in my conscience."Alexander,"
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Rain started as I pulled up to Cafe Lucca. Seattle weather matching my mood dark, uncertain, ready to break.I gripped the steering wheel, telling myself to drive away. But Victoria's incomplete text haunted me, "Alexander Knight is not the man you think he is."Three days since Mom's successful surgery. Three days of Alexander being attentive, caring. Three days of wondering what Victoria knew.This morning, she'd called. "Meet me. One hour. If you care about the truth, come."I went inside.Victoria sat at a corner table, blonde hair pulled back. She'd been crying."Emma. Thank you for coming.""Ten minutes," I said."I know you think I'm the enemy." She wrapped her hands around her coffee. "I loved him. Really loved him. But he never felt the same. I was convenient, someone to keep his father quiet."I understood that feeling.She pulled out her phone. "Email exchange between Alexander and his father. Three months before you met."I read James Knight's message:"The board is impati
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I pulled my hands from his, stepping back until I hit the wall. "You can't just say you love me and expect everything to be fixed.""I'm not trying to fix anything. I'm telling you the truth.""Truth? Now you want truth?" I laughed bitterly."Falling for you wasn't part of any plan. It was the one thing I couldn't control."My phone buzzed again. The reporter. My father. Our lives imploding tomorrow."This is such a mess." I slid down the wall.Alexander sat across from me. "Then let's fix it together.""How? By tomorrow everyone knows our marriage is fake. Contract voids, merger collapse""I don't care about the company if it costs me you.""Easy to say now. But when everything disappears?" I met his eyes. "Will you still love me then?"Silence. "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't terrified of losing everything." At least he is honest."But I'm more terrified of losing you. Of never knowing what we could be."I wanted to believe him."I need to call my mother. She needs to know funding
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The cursor blinked on the blank document, mocking us. Alexander's hands hovered over the keyboard, but he didn't type."Start with how we met," I said quietly. "The real version."He nodded, fingers finally moving. "My father gave me an ultimatum: marry within three months or lose my position as CEO.""And my father sold me to save my mother's life," I added. The words tasted bitter.We wrote in silence, passing the laptop back and forth. Every ugly truth, every calculated decision, every moment we'd pretended for the cameras. But we also wrote about the moments that weren't fake, the conversations at three AM, the way he brought me coffee exactly how I liked it."How do we end it?" Alexander asked, reading over what we'd written."With the truth about now. That somewhere along the way, the pretending became real."He looked at me, those gray eyes searching mine. "Is it real for you?"My heart hammered. "I don't know. I thought I knew, but then Victoria happened, and the lies happened
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