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Vows of vengeance: His contract wife
Last Updated : 2026-10-21
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She was supposed to die quietly in a ditch off a coastal highway. Instead, Rhoswen Calloway crawled out of the wreckage of her old life with no fiancé, no inheritance, no family left who hadn't betrayed her and rebuilt herself into someone unrecognizable. Now she's back in Madrid with one purpose: burn every person who left her for dead to the ground. To do it, she needs the one man ruthless enough to help her Torin Blackwood, the most feared investor in the country, and her ex-fiancé's most hated rival. Rhoswen offers him a deal: her insider knowledge in exchange for the leverage to destroy her enemies' company from the inside. Torin agrees on one condition. She becomes his wife. Not in name only. In public, in private, completely his. Rhoswen tells herself it's just a contract. A means to an end. But as the empire she once loved collapses piece by piece, she starts to realize Torin isn't just playing along for a business advantage; he's been waiting years for the chance to claim her. And the person who orchestrated her downfall isn't the enemy she's hunting. It's someone she still calls family.
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Vows of vengeance: His contract wife Graham's Masterstroke
GrahamI have built my entire life on understanding that the most effective lies are the ones built almost entirely from the truth, and I spent the better part of a week constructing the finest one I've ever assembled, because it was, I understood even as I built it, likely to be my last.The woman had told me to come home, in her own careful way, three weeks ago. I had resisted the full meaning of it, the way I'd resisted so much of what she'd told me across thirty years, right up until the moment I no longer had the luxury of resistance. Torin Blackwood's half-truth in a car outside Ronda. A gallery conversation Rhoswen still didn't fully understand. An unopened envelope sitting in a floor safe, eighteen months unread, finally about to be read. The structure I had helped maintain for three decades was coming apart faster than even she had anticipated, and a structure coming apart that quickly required, I understood with the particular clarity of a man who has spent his life managin
Last Updated : 2026-10-21Vows of vengeance: His contract wife Suspicion Reignited
RhoswenI used to be good at this. Watching. Cataloguing. Noticing the half-second delay between a question and an answer that told you more than the answer itself ever would. I'd built an entire second life out of that particular skill, two years of surviving as nobody by paying very close attention to everybody, and I'd let it go soft these past months, folded away in a drawer somewhere alongside the rest of the careful armor I'd worn before Torin taught me, slowly, that I didn't need it with him.Three nights in the guest room had taught me things about my own house I hadn't noticed in four months of living in it properly: which stair creaked, which window let in the first grey edge of dawn, how loud silence could actually be when there was no one beside you to fill it.I took it back out on the third morning of his silence.It wasn't dramatic, the way I started watching him again. It was small, almost involuntary noticing which calls he took in the study with the door shut instea
Last Updated : 2026-10-21Vows of vengeance: His contract wife Torin's Distance
TorinShe asked me about the Clínica San Rafael the moment she walked through the door, before she'd even set down her bag, and I felt the question land like a hand closing around something I'd been carrying carefully, for weeks, trying not to drop."Why there," she said, standing in the hallway, her coat still on, her eyes fixed on mine with an intensity I recognized and dreaded in equal measure. "Why would your family have used a small private clinic in Marbella instead of anywhere in Madrid? You've never once explained that, Torin, and a woman today suggested the answer matters more than everything else we've been chasing."I should have told her everything right then. I understand that now, with the particular clarity regret always arrives with, too late to be useful for anything except punishing yourself properly. I had the whole truth sitting in my chest, had been circling it for weeks, had nearly said it twice already, once drunk, once on a bench by a pond before Marisol's call
Last Updated : 2026-10-20Vows of vengeance: His contract wife A Stranger's Visit
RhoswenWe didn't sleep that night, not properly, the two of us turning the word daughter over between us until it lost its shape entirely and became just a sound, familiar and strange at once, the way any word does when you repeat it too many times in the dark."It could mean either of us," I said, somewhere past three, Torin's hand still laced through mine on the study desk. "Me, or Delphine. If the swap happened the way Beatrix's mother described, there's a version of this where the woman at the window kept her own daughter and placed her somewhere she could watch grow up at a careful distance. That could be either of us, Torin. We still don't know which one of us she actually carried.""We need to tell Delphine.""Not yet." I surprised myself by saying it, and watched him turn to look at me properly. "She offered to go back into Graham's house, to listen, to find out what she can from the inside. If we tell her this now, before she's even had the chance to use that access, we migh
Last Updated : 2026-10-20
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