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Chapter 13
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2026-09-09 23:55:18
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Wife for Hire Chapter 13
RowanI was at the kitchen table working when I heard footsteps coming my way. Camila.I was up early at six today, as I had a meeting. I like to be prepared, even if that isn't what most CEOs do. They rely on someone to do their work; I like to do my work on my terms. I generally worked from my office but somehow walked to the dining table.Camila stopped in the doorway when she saw me. She looked a bit stunned but covered it quickly. Her shoulder squared, and she looked me in the eye. We held the contact for a second, and I went back to my papers."You're up early," she said. She was wearing a powder blue dress I hadn't seen yet, a bit worn but professional enough. The dress looked great on her. I ignored the thought and filed it away."So are you," I replied without looking up from the papers.She crossed to the fridge, pulled a bottle of water, gulped it, then came to the dining table. We occupied opposite ends of the kitchen in silence that had too much in it to be comfortable an
Wife for Hire Chapter 12
CamillaI fell asleep around 2 o'clock, still going through that conversation again and again, like a Ferris wheel going around with the same music. My alarm blared at five. I set it because it was the first day of my second job. My eyes blinked, coming to sense of my surroundings. Soon I remembered why this room felt too big, too unfamiliar, too not mine.Married. Contract. Nine days until a hearing that could determine the next several years of Luz's life. Rowan.I got up, and the weight of everything settled on my heart again.After getting ready, I walked into the kitchen, knowing it had come to life with Elsa running around and ordering the staff with only her eyes."Good morning, Mrs. Blackwood," Elsa greeted me with a slight surprise in her eyes. "Good morning, Elsa. Hmm... can you please wake Luz up in an hour or so just for today? I have an early shift at my second job and need to get there in like 10 minutes." I said, feeling guilty that she had to pick up my slack. "I wil
Wife for Hire Chapter 11
Rowan Why did you marry me? The real reason, please.I looked at her for a moment, unsure. I knew why, and I knew why not, and I had decided it since the day I saw those words. My jaw set, and I put my hands into fists so that I wouldn't burn the world for what happened to my family because...no.I saw my father's handwriting. Not the words themselves. Not at first, just the shape of them. The ends of his sentences would lean more angled towards the right when he was writing something he didn't want to write. I found the journal among his possessions three months after burying him, and I hadn't opened it for over a year. Touching it meant opening it, and opening it meant being able to do nothing because he was already gone.Marco sat across from me today. He lied to my face with the same composure he's used for six years.Camilla wasn't going to get the truth tonight. She wasn't going to get it for a long time. She will learn everything when I ruin her the way her father ruined my
Wife for Hire Chapter 10
CamillaLeaning back against the window, Danny slunk over and slid a plate towards me, with more of a flourish than necessary considering he'd only been asked for a burger joint."So." He cocked his head towards the window, then towards the car sitting half a block away, then back to me, too casually. "That story that was flying around... That article on all the sites: Billionaire, secret wedding, mystery bride. You don't suppose that mystery bride could be someone who just so happens to grill burgers a couple days a week at the grill line?""I don't know what you're talking about.""You're the world's worst liar, Reyes." He grinned, not pushing, just enjoying himself. "You could've told a guy you married into money instead of letting me find out from my mom's F******k feed. I'm not saying I know anything. I'm saying the math is doing a lot of interesting things in my head right now, and I'd hate for it to land somewhere embarrassing for both of us.""The math should stop doing things.
Wife for Hire Chapter 9
Rowan I didn't sleep well. That wasn't unusual on its own. I've run this company on five hours a night for most of the last decade, but the reason behind it was replaying a conversation I'd already had once in my head. Standing in that kitchen the night before, watching Camila's face go from anger to something colder and more controlled once I'd handed her a justification instead of an apology.Low-income family. Demonstrated pattern. I'd heard the words leave my mouth in real time and understood, even as I said them, that I was reaching for the nearest available weapon rather than saying anything close to what I actually meant. I don't know what I actually meant because I have thought exactly the same thing about her family for a decade. Then why did it bother me when I said the same to her? That's the part I hadn't managed to work out by the time I gave up trying to sleep around four.I hadn't gotten as far as fixing it before morning arrived instead.The dining room was already s
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CamillaThe black SUV was already idling half a block from the diner when I got there, the driver pretending to read a newspaper the way nobody actually does anymore. Rowan had been VERY clear I didn't get a say in this, a driver and a car to haul me around like I was something breakable. Plus a security guard shadowing my shifts, apparently, whether I liked it or not.Great. So much for my freedom."You can't park there," I told him before my shift even started, arms crossed against the cold. "Marge will think I'm being stalked.""I am, technically, watching you, Mrs. Blackwood." He didn't look up from the paper. "Discreetly. Mr. Blackwood's instructions."Mrs. Blackwood. That name still gave me chills. I couldn't get used to how most of Rowan's staff had already started calling me that."Discreetly means I shouldn't be able... to see you, you know that, right?""I'm parked half a block away in an unmarked vehicle. Also, there's an energy bar in the cup holder if you want it. Got two
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